Orson Scott Card: Nobel Prize for Literature Awarded to Roomful of Monkeys?[AlGore & Global Warming]

Rhino Times ^ | October 18, 2007 | Orson Scott Card

[Tolik]

Orson Scott Card - PING  [please freepmail me if you want or don't want to be pinged to Orson Scott Card political articles]

This article will be posted permanently (eventually) on his The Ornery American website http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/index.html

Links: his articles discussed at FR: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/k-orsonscottcard/browse  and archived here (it is a must go place for all new to OSC political writing): http://www.ornery.org/essays/warwatch/index.html

His fresh articles appear in the Rhinoceros Times, Greensboro, NC: http://www.rhinotimes.com/greensboro/  (before being posted permanently on his The Ornery American website). Read his books/movies/and everything reviews: http://www.hatrack.com/osc/reviews/everything/ 

His "About" page: http://www.hatrack.com/osc/about.shtml

[Tolik]

Global Warming PING

[TChris]

OSC is a gift. He’s on my Favorite Writerers list, along with Thomas Sowell and Mark Steyn.

[Tailback]

Meanwhile he tried to keep American servicemen's votes from counting. In other words, he was the scum of the earth.

He DID keep military service member's votes from counting. The certified vote count to this day has never included those ballots that were thrown out. Also, all of the subsequent recounts conducted by newspapers etc never did include those military ballots. Isn't it strange that the media never talks about that?

[Tolik]

Yep. I also use his reviews of books and movies as a guide.

[vetsvette]

“What has Al Gore done for the world?”

What impertinence!!

Algore is HIS gift to the world.

Jeez!!

[samm1148]

I’ve been chatting with FR’s favorite global warming acolyte in e-mails. It’s amazing that a person can close their minds to the illogic of their arguments. I’ve been reading ‘State of Fear’. I’ve always been somewhat critical of Michael Crichton’s characters because I find them flat. I had trouble believing the characters of the global warming extremists in that novel but sadly, Crichton nailed them. My conversations showed an almost paranoid level of belief in man made global warming.

My point is that after my e-mail conversations, what I really find distressing is that real science, and there is such a thing, is denigrated by the alchemy-like predictions of global warming advocates.

Rather than earning the respect of peers and non scientists such as myself, scientists will be held in the same regard as used car salesmen and lawyers. Whatever ‘theory’ they are advocating will always be examined in light of who paid them for the research, not the science involved.

Good job though global warming advocates, on taking a golden age of reason and reducing it back to a dark age of superstition.

[xcamel]

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[Red_Devil 232]

And CNN is airing a special on Global Warming but calling it something like “Climate Change Our World In Crisis” (that is not the actual title just saw it advertised) and dismissed it by saying crap!

[GSWarrior]

Speaking of OSC, I wish they’d hurry up and make a movie of Ender’s Game.

[Travis McGee]

I like this Card. Any best book recommendations?

[Steve_Seattle]

I’m not even sure that most of the global warming alarmists really believe in it. I think they are using it as a scam to facilitate their internationalist political agenda. Further down the chain of command, I think it’s just something they use to bash Bush with, and to evade the real threat of Islamic terrorism, which they don’t have the stomach to face. They’d rather deal with a made-up problem than a real one.

[3niner]

This is interesting. I had understood that Orson Scott Card was a long time Democrat, and many of his earlier writings support this. This column makes him sound like nothing of the sort.

[3niner]

“Ender’s Game”, “Speaker for the Dead”

[LexBaird]

“Ender’s Game”. It may appeal to you particularly since it is military oriented (children raised from toddlerhood to be military leaders). If you can, get a hold of the novellette that was the original story and read it too: he later expanded it to a full novel.

[the lone wolf]

"Because even when Al Gore is forgotten as a prophet, the Leftaliban's devil will still exist."

Boys and girls, the word of the day is Leftaliban. Help spread the word...

[Travis McGee]

Thanks guys.

[neverdem]

This is interesting. I had understood that Orson Scott Card was a long time Democrat, and many of his earlier writings support this. This column makes him sound like nothing of the sort.

IIRC, he's one of those blue dog or yellow dog democrats, not a moonbat.