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A Return to Triangulation (libertarion vs social right)
National Review Online ^ | 10/25/06 | David Boaz & David Kirby

Posted on 10/25/2006 11:10:46 AM PDT by Blackirish

As the Republican base fragments and Christian conservatives consider a “fast” from politics, the polling data point to a mid-term Republican thumping. Less than two weeks from now, Republicans will begin their post-mortem soul searching. And as the corpses of their House and Senate majorities grow cold, so should Karl Rove’s 2006 campaign strategy.

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LOL
(The devil made me do it J )
1,641 posted on 11/07/2006 2:50:31 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: sully777

Ya either believe what yer lying eyes are reading, or someone will TELL you what it means!


1,642 posted on 11/07/2006 3:00:37 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: Fiddlstix
VOTE! Vote again if possible! LOL
1,643 posted on 11/07/2006 3:25:10 PM PST by onyx (We have two political parties: the American Party and the Anti-American Party.)
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To: Fiddlstix

When the candidate is endorsed by both the Republican and Conservatie parties, I vote Conservative. Same guy gets the vote, I get my message across.


1,645 posted on 11/07/2006 7:03:41 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: Liberal Classic
Evolution *is* science. It is foundational to our modern understanding to biology. Students are "forced" to learn evolution life science class for the same reason students are "forced" to algebra in math class.

The one eternal characteristic of ignorance is absolute certainty, and absolute certainty does violence both to truth and to science.
Anything that can be said has been said or will be said, asterisks notwithstanding.

"Foundational" will come as a huge surprise to Galen, Aristotle, Mendel and Linnaeus.
Incidentally, one of the essential foundations of science is independent repeatability. Copping out with "eons" and "epochs" and other BS does not invalidate this simple requirement. There is no "science" of evolution among true scientists.

But what the heck; start calling it the "science" of evolution, "foundational", blah blah blah... and see how much traction it gets.

1,646 posted on 11/09/2006 1:29:47 PM PST by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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To: Publius6961
The one eternal characteristic of ignorance is absolute certainty, and absolute certainty does violence both to truth and to science.

Very true. That's why the science of evolutionary biology is open to revision in light of new evidence, and it has undergone many revisions over the last 150 years. Our understanding of it is constantly being refined as new discoveries are made. There is no "absolute certainty."

"Foundational" will come as a huge surprise to Galen, Aristotle, Mendel and Linnaeus.

No surprise there, given that all of them were dead before most of the important discoveries of modern biology were made.

Incidentally, one of the essential foundations of science is independent repeatability. Copping out with "eons" and "epochs" and other BS does not invalidate this simple requirement.

You obviously don't understand what repeatability means in the context of science. It refers to the experiments and/or observations used to test scientific theories. Genetic experiments that support evolution are repeatable. Fossils can be repeatedly observed to confirm the claims and/or inferences of paleotologists.

Repeatability does not mean that the actual event being studied has to be repeated. Forensic scientists don't repeat the murders they investigate. Vulcanologists studying Mt. St. Helens don't repeat the erruption.

There is no "science" of evolution among true scientists.

Gee, so that means the 99.9% of the scientists aren't "true scientists."

1,647 posted on 11/09/2006 11:01:07 PM PST by curiosity
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To: Fiddlstix
Merry Christmas BTTT

:)

1,648 posted on 12/25/2006 4:13:47 AM PST by onyx (Phillip Rivers, LT and the San Diego Chargers! WOO-HOO!)
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To: Blackirish
Merry Christmas, Blackirish!!!
1,649 posted on 12/25/2006 4:47:06 AM PST by onyx (Phillip Rivers, LT and the San Diego Chargers! WOO-HOO!)
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To: onyx; Blackirish; All
Merry Christmas All
J

1,650 posted on 12/25/2006 9:26:01 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Blackirish

This is exactly right. A social conservative (like myself) believes fully that there are areas that the fed has no place in and rightly belong to the states- education, welfare, abortion, drug laws. When it comes to the national election, I'm thinking libertarian all the way. Like most Reagan conservatives, though, I have been gravely disappointed. It's sad to vote for a man simply because the alternative is worse.


1,651 posted on 12/25/2006 9:33:47 AM PST by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: Fiddlstix; onyx

Merry Christmas Guys!!!!


1,652 posted on 12/25/2006 10:13:39 AM PST by Blackirish
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To: MineralMan

Ummm... MineralMan maybe?


1,653 posted on 01/21/2007 11:20:13 PM PST by streetpreacher (What if you're wrong?)
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To: AndrewC

Bwahahaha... that's funny!


1,654 posted on 01/21/2007 11:26:19 PM PST by streetpreacher (What if you're wrong?)
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To: Blackirish; onyx; All
A little humor for "this 'ol thread" J

Please Foward This!
Click the Pic J
onyx: You might want to ping some people to see this....
(Sorry, I meant omyx. lol)
J

Have a good day all J

1,655 posted on 02/11/2007 1:09:45 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: Fiddlstix

I'll answer to both names, Mr. Smarty Pants, and your link is to some funny stuff.....lol.


1,656 posted on 02/11/2007 1:13:52 PM PST by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: onyx
Thanx Fiddle! And we thought things were hot back then.... heck that was just a warm up whats goin on now. I’m gonna stay cicvil and try “it’s hard “ to keep my head down. Best to you too Onyx.

PS...finally it’s spring here it’s nice and mild although the hardwoods are still bare it’s right at that point if you blink it will be green all over. Hope all is well...I’m good...bobby

1,657 posted on 04/23/2007 9:07:51 PM PDT by Blackirish
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To: Fiddlstix

You were sposed to be on my last post too. Little life left!


1,658 posted on 04/23/2007 9:10:00 PM PDT by Blackirish
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To: Blackirish; Fiddlstix
Best to you too Onyx.

To you too, Bobby.

1,659 posted on 04/23/2007 9:12:36 PM PDT by onyx (DEFEAT Hillary Clinton, Marxist, student of Saul Alinsky & ally and beneficiary of Soros.)
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To: onyx; Fiddlstix

I like my new post. I wanted to share it with you guys. It gives me hope. Too bad it didn’t get 1600 posts.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1822319/posts


1,660 posted on 04/23/2007 10:59:16 PM PDT by Blackirish
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