Posted on 03/26/2007 1:25:49 PM PDT by NYC Republican
Sorry .. it's true. Liberals love to paint conservatives as being ignorant, stupid, obtuse, mindless, irrational and, on occasion, retarded. For the most part leftists use this "stupid" tactic in order to avoid actually having to intellectually engage with someone who thinks differently than they. After all ... you really don't have to consider the opinions offered by someone who disagrees with you if you can successfully and falsely brand them as ignorant.
Sadly ... many conservatives seem to have dedicated their lives to lending credence to the left's "conservatives are idiots" claim. You will remember several weeks ago I told you about one Georgia Republican (former Democrat) legislator whose campaign chairman sent out some memos and letters promoting legislation to outlaw the teaching of evolution in government schools. The letter referred the reader to the website of "The Fair Education Foundation, Inc." In this website --- and I'm not kidding you here --- you will learn that the Earth stands still in space ... not even rotating ... while the Sun and everything in the universe rotates around the earth every 24 hours. Think I'm kidding? Check it our for yourself.
Well .. there's more. Sunday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution tells us about another website, this one run by Andrew Schlafly, the son of Phyllis Schlafly. Conservapedia pushes the creationism theme with revelations that dinosaurs and humans roamed the Earth at the same time.[video] You'll also learn that atheism has led to a large increase in bestiality. But once again you'll learn that not only is the Earth standing still, but it's actually flat ... and sitting still in space while everything revolves around it.
Tell me .. how do you counter the "conservatives are ignorant" argument, and how do you manage to recruit more people to the cause of lower taxes, less government and more individual responsibility when you have people running around loose calling themselves conservatives, getting elected to office as conservatives, and running websites as conservatives all the while telling us that the earth does not spin on its axis and does not revolve around the Sun .. and that everything in the known universe revolves around the Earth?
If true conservatives really want to expand their philosophy and mount a sustained movement that just might save individualism, freedom and economic liberty --- they had better jettison these zealot nut-cases .... and FAST.
This all sure makes me glad to be a Libertarian.
In a fair and just world, yes. But after the hostile media gets through with its broad brush, we will all be known as flat earthers.
I do, too. I just refer that they approach things in a scientific way, rather than insist something is wrong because their interpretation of their invisible friend in the sky says so.
Has nothing at all to do with your original statement. Carbon dating has placed American natives arrival back about 14,000 to 20,000 years. Since they were hunter gathers one assume that they move around the country.
Man, just think about that for a minute. If it did, you'd be spending half your time just hanging on, trying to keep from falling off.
Since there are already 141 posts, I'll bet someone already said it but...
The truth is some idiots are conservatives.
Not true.
Boortz is way out in Left Field wrt creationism, homo promo and abortion, but has it right on just about everything else. HHC's husband.
This is a nuance that is very valid, but lost to many, many people. I see all sorts of strange things on FR now and then, and I have to wonder what in the heck they have to do with being conservative. Often, the answer is 'nothing.'
Pretty much where I am.
Congrats...!!
Hehheh. But LCU's are too young to be in school. This one would be a PCU: a Pupal Consumer Unit.
The Graham-Paige Dad bought before I was born had the same problem.
"photographs taken from space."
Personally, I find this pretty convincing evidence, that doesn't necessarily involve the acceptance of authority. Not that I necessarily want to defend liberals, but there are probably a million more accurate ways to convince me that they are all stupid.
Wait -- I thought it was pretty well established that objects move in straight paths when no forces act on them. Newtonian physics says it's only when a force acts on an object that the object changes direction -- i.e. moves in a curved path.
By "naturally" you must mean "in the presence of the gravitational forces that are naturally present in a universe populated with massy objects" rather than "in the idealized case where there are no gravitational forces present".
If those "religious" beliefs include a belief that something that has been proven by mankind to be untrue, then they deserved to be attacked. Anyone who believes the Earth is flat and that the sun revolves around the Earth is an idiot. That fact that this is part of their religious beliefs makes no difference.
Speaking of Hilary jokes, here is one for your friends:
Two men were talking over lunch when one says, "It looks as if the Democrats could put the first woman in the White House if Hillary is elected."
The other man says, I would not be so sure. The Republicans have just got their own woman running for President. Her name is Julie Annie!!!!
Try reading my other posts. I'm talking about location of individual tribes, not when American Indians moved into North America.
I could have worded the idea more carefully, I agree.
I agree my wording did not express that concept clearly. Mea culpa.
Two minor points about the "tribal leaders".
1. When a "tribal leader" pronunciamento, usually said pronunciamento is issued when the quarry (Cash based on "Indian Rights") is in sight.
2. Native AMericans did not have the means of historical event record keeping essential to a real hsitory capable of accurately recording events over long periods of time.
Without paper and pen, where would our history be?
No, no. I am saying that Newton is quite wrong, and that there is no such thing as gravity. Nothing moves in a straight line (relative to an observer) unless it has energy constantly applied to it.
Newton, and Einstein, believed that there is a force everywhere that causes things to deflect from natural straight line motion. But I think there is no such force, and that motion is naturally non-linear (because there is no fixed grid for things to reference to). The "attraction" things have for each other is not, I believe, a mysterious force reaching across space like magnetism, nor a warp in the time-space continuum, but merely the observed effect of everything getting a little bit bigger every second. So, when you let go of a rock, it doesn't FALL. Rather, the Earth expands and rises to meet it. Things moving fast enough move past each other naturally form orbits due to geometry, not a force. Orbits are not a rock on a string. Their objects moving and expanding relative to each other in fixed space. Space isn't warped.
Hey, if you're going to go nuts, REALLY go nuts. No half-assed pantywaist errors for me, no indeed, full-blown pointy-Merlin-hat psychoses or bust, baby!
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