Why is this guy still in business?
Sheriff Joe Arpaio's volunteer investigation into documents pertaining to President Barack Obama's place of birth and citizenship now includes the services of a taxpayer-funded ...
The lies roll off the man's lips like music off Yo-Yo Ma's cello. Both are virtuosos - one a cellist, the other a liar.
A partial list.
Bush had nothing to do ...
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"Barack Obama supports same-sex marriage. Mitt Romney doesn't even support same-sex car pools." –David Letterman
"The head of ...
Republican Rep. Mike Coffman at a Saturday afternoon fundraiser in Colorado.
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Rand Paul:
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Finally.
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Election roundup:
Indiana.
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There are lies...and then there are lies.
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From the papers captured last year at Osama bin Laden's Pakistani hideout comes this.
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Sullivan:
What do Republicans call a gay man with neoconservative passion, a committed relationship and personal courage?
A faggot.
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And they claim that atheists are immoral?
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Romney, April 2007:
It’s not worth moving heaven and earth ...
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Romney's VP-in-waiting, Marco Rubio, is perfecting the conservative sleaze play.
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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
~Max Planck
Er, about that Max Planck quote. Kind of insensitive, don’t you think.
You realize there are actually people out there openly, vocally espousing killing off the over 60 generation – the baby boomers, et. al., to solve our economic problems? The same groups are often stigmatized for the political sclerosis in the US. Never mind that the 60+ crowd was largely responsible for the revolutionary reforms of the 1960′s.
So you want to be a little careful when you start talking about the death of a generation or two solving your problems. Somehow that always seems to translate into hastening the deaths of the same generation(s).
Are you kidding me, Carl? Is that really how you interpreted the quote?
I’m not sure where you’re at or what thoughts are floating through your head to have you interpret that quote in the manner you did. Planck was not suggesting killing off anyone. He was speaking about paradigm shifts in the evolution of scientific thought (e.g. Einstein’s notion of relativity which was not instantly accepted by all). He was suggesting that at times the only convincing force in terms of acceptance is time itself.
An example of what Planck was suggesting was the move from the Ptolemaic view of earth as the center of the universe to the Copernican model of a sun-centered solar system. Acceptance of the latter was not immediate but instead took generations. For some, religious based ‘science’ is not easily replaced by fact based science. No amount of scientific facts or debate can move some from their beliefs. It’s just the way it is and one can only hope that time will eventually bring about a more enlightened and knowledgeable people.
The guy who spends $20 to visit the Creation Museum so he can drool while looking at animatronic displays of dinosaurs and people coexisting is not about to alter his beliefs because you tell him that science shows him to be wrong. The focus should be on education with the hope of bringing about a generation of people a tad bit more knowledgeable than their parents.
Paradigm shifts are all about time. In our current age of science by consensus, with the purse strings and media outlets for discovery ever narrowing, true fact based science may be only a figment of our imaginations anyway.
@mario piperni Sorry about that. I should explain myself a little. I am very familiar with the whole paradigm shift thing. Perhaps if I mentioned that I am a frequent visitor to Reddit.com it would help.
I’ve encountered more than one article, and comment, there that pointedly targets the over 60 crowd for one reason or another. The Planck quote struck me as just one more example of ageism.
I am also sensitized to the way so many people seem to depend on death – their own death or someone else’s – as a way to solve problems.
Maybe people need to be made aware of how deeply these prejudices and this reliance on death as a source of solutions are engrained in our culture.
You realize there are actually people out there openly, vocally espousing killing off the over 60 generation – the baby boomers, et. al., to solve our economic problems?
no, there isn’t, nobody of consequence at least. nobody in the Obama administration is propsing, discussing behind closed doors, or even thinking it. anything you’ve heard in that regard is simply more lies and fear-mongering the same as “death-panels” were. but of course, in AZ, we see that that talk was, as usual, projection.
@T’omm J’onzz. Nobody is talking about the Obama administration and nobody is projecting anything. Jeesh.
I am talking about fringey groups posting on the internet, ginning up resentment against the elderly. I have personally reported several such posts to site administrators.
“I started to wonder how common this Fox Geezer Syndrome was. I began to poll conservative friends of my generation who had right-wing parents. At least eight different people – not an Obama voter among them, and one of them actually a George W. Bush political appointee in Washington – told me that yes, they had observed a correlation between the fevered emotionalism of their elderly parents’ politics, and increased exposure to Fox News.”
For the record, my mother is 88 years old and because right wing radio is so pervasive, often finds herself listening to the likes of Rush Limbaugh. She has no trouble whatsoever spotting him as a demented right wing blowhard. Politically, she is an independent, and stubbornly so.
Nate Beeler, The Washington Examiner
Er, about that Max Planck quote. Kind of insensitive, don’t you think.
You realize there are actually people out there openly, vocally espousing killing off the over 60 generation – the baby boomers, et. al., to solve our economic problems? The same groups are often stigmatized for the political sclerosis in the US. Never mind that the 60+ crowd was largely responsible for the revolutionary reforms of the 1960′s.
So you want to be a little careful when you start talking about the death of a generation or two solving your problems. Somehow that always seems to translate into hastening the deaths of the same generation(s).
Are you kidding me, Carl? Is that really how you interpreted the quote?
I’m not sure where you’re at or what thoughts are floating through your head to have you interpret that quote in the manner you did. Planck was not suggesting killing off anyone. He was speaking about paradigm shifts in the evolution of scientific thought (e.g. Einstein’s notion of relativity which was not instantly accepted by all). He was suggesting that at times the only convincing force in terms of acceptance is time itself.
An example of what Planck was suggesting was the move from the Ptolemaic view of earth as the center of the universe to the Copernican model of a sun-centered solar system. Acceptance of the latter was not immediate but instead took generations. For some, religious based ‘science’ is not easily replaced by fact based science. No amount of scientific facts or debate can move some from their beliefs. It’s just the way it is and one can only hope that time will eventually bring about a more enlightened and knowledgeable people.
The guy who spends $20 to visit the Creation Museum so he can drool while looking at animatronic displays of dinosaurs and people coexisting is not about to alter his beliefs because you tell him that science shows him to be wrong. The focus should be on education with the hope of bringing about a generation of people a tad bit more knowledgeable than their parents.
Paradigm shifts are all about time. In our current age of science by consensus, with the purse strings and media outlets for discovery ever narrowing, true fact based science may be only a figment of our imaginations anyway.
@mario piperni Sorry about that. I should explain myself a little. I am very familiar with the whole paradigm shift thing. Perhaps if I mentioned that I am a frequent visitor to Reddit.com it would help.
I’ve encountered more than one article, and comment, there that pointedly targets the over 60 crowd for one reason or another. The Planck quote struck me as just one more example of ageism.
I am also sensitized to the way so many people seem to depend on death – their own death or someone else’s – as a way to solve problems.
Maybe people need to be made aware of how deeply these prejudices and this reliance on death as a source of solutions are engrained in our culture.
no, there isn’t, nobody of consequence at least. nobody in the Obama administration is propsing, discussing behind closed doors, or even thinking it. anything you’ve heard in that regard is simply more lies and fear-mongering the same as “death-panels” were. but of course, in AZ, we see that that talk was, as usual, projection.
@T’omm J’onzz. Nobody is talking about the Obama administration and nobody is projecting anything. Jeesh.
I am talking about fringey groups posting on the internet, ginning up resentment against the elderly. I have personally reported several such posts to site administrators.
SEE:
Fox Geezer Syndrome
http://tinyurl.com/4dbmlyx
“I started to wonder how common this Fox Geezer Syndrome was. I began to poll conservative friends of my generation who had right-wing parents. At least eight different people – not an Obama voter among them, and one of them actually a George W. Bush political appointee in Washington – told me that yes, they had observed a correlation between the fevered emotionalism of their elderly parents’ politics, and increased exposure to Fox News.”
For the record, my mother is 88 years old and because right wing radio is so pervasive, often finds herself listening to the likes of Rush Limbaugh. She has no trouble whatsoever spotting him as a demented right wing blowhard. Politically, she is an independent, and stubbornly so.