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Bush vs. Kerry on Science
chrisspurgeon writes "The science journal Nature put 15 questions to Senator Kerry and President Bush. Read the candidates' responses on topics such as stem cell research, greenhouse emissions, and manned spaceflight to Mars."
the one thing that sticks out a mile is you can belive that Kerry could actually have written those answers, although I doubt he actually did.
Yeah, too bad we're stuck with only two candidates.
Uh...you can vote for whoever you want, not just those two. You will prolly have to get out of your pajamas though.
Let me rephrase your post in simpler terms.
"Its bad that people with morals vote for bush, but I won't say why. Random stat I found somewhere to make my point. No we didn't ask. Huge generalizaion about what christians might do. Lies, exagerations and impossible scenarios.
I think that anyone voting for Bush is an idiot, even though I don't really know why. Insult to those who follow a stong belief in God, and more lies. Finally a tip of the hat to geeks to get modded up."
This is a troll, is not funny, and not even close to a real cohiesive thought. So you hate Bush, and you hate people who believe in God...bad news friend, they out number you.
Bush isn't screwing the environment. Any reduction in CO2 output in this country is fruitless against the output of most of Asia, and African countries. Oh and one volcano erruption and its all over, you people are idiots to believe any of this mumbo jumbo.
Bush cut taxes, perhaps you forgot. Draft, good luck, the christian right would probably be the first ones against it. I never really did like canada or mexico anyway.
Apple free since 1990!
They always will be, because religions people will always believe in one or more supernatural beings. They will belive in life after death, and they will believe that God is Watching Over Them.
And they will do this with no evidence to support them, and despite any evidence that shows they are wrong. Shoot, many of them don't believe that Dinosours existed, and have gone to great lengths to come up with weird theories about how God created bones, skeletons, footprints, etc, so that man would eventually find them.
Science and religion will always be at odds. Religion wants you to take things on faith - just like tarot-card-readers, palm readers, and other astrologists do.
Religion is the ultimate con. It's big business, and it allows them to make tons of money, avoid paying taxes, ignore the law, and tell people what they have to do.
Hey now, let's not bring strippers down to Bush's level.
Do not touch -Willie
"I want an FDA thank you very much"
I wouldn't be so certain. I think such tasks are better left to consumer advocacy groups.
Yeah... damn that FDA. I wish we could roll back to the late 1890s when companies sold radioactive water because "radation was nature's miracle worker". The whole hole in your jaw side effect was just... a coincidence.
Wouldn't the scientivic thing be to show both sides of the coin pro's and con's and allow the person to come come up with the answer? If evolution is on such solid ground then you should have no worries to present both next to each other. Remember that the vast majority of the world believe in some form of Creation, so to understand where they are coming from shouldn't you learn in it?
I'm tired of fighting a losing battle against mindlessly nationalistic, irrationally religious idealogues, and other right wing zealots like yourself.
I see. I advocate working within the system as opposed to fleeing the nation and that somehow makes me right-wing? Moron. Not everyone that holds a different opinion from yours is right-wing. Dur dur dur. Any more knee-jerk responses you'd like to throw out? Of course!
'm tired of contributing to a society whose international agenda can only be described as toxic and deeply irresponsible.
Apparently you are not contributing much.
I'm tired of living among people whose politics and philosophies I have learned over the years and decades to despise.
Where do you live? I live among mostly decent people whose politics and philosophies vary, but who at least respect each other and attempt to work together. Maybe you aren't lucky in that way, to which I would say 'move somewhere else in the country'.
I'm sick of seeing a country I love destroy itself from within so profoundly and so completely.
So of course, rather than fight harder, the answer must be 'flee', is that it?
I'm sick of a culture that has chosen, systematically, and with ever more zeal, to sell out its basic ideals (freedom, human rights, free expression, and so on) in exchange for short term profits and greed.
Hmm. Sounds like you have the freedom to express your opinions. Weird. I thought that was all destroyed and stuff.
Indeed, I'm sick of being a part of a culture that has deified greed and disregarded basic human cooperation and caring, having forgotten that it is cooperation, not competition, that is the foundation of civilization.
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In short, I'm sick and tired of being a part of an ever less civilized society, and I am deeply ashamed of what idealogues such as yourself, and the complacent and cowardly fools who follow you, have made America into.
I see. I advocate exercising Constitutional rights to change the system legally, as opposed to fleeing the country, even though I have noted that it takes sacrifice and persistence, yet *I* am the coward? Truly funny.
I'm not planning to emigrate anytime soon
Of course not. You don't want the responsibilities of living in our society, but you aren't giving up the benefits either. Quite the paradox, isn't it?
I have a job I like and work with good people
What, even though you despise their politics and philosophies?
but I fully empathize with the poster who has had enough and is leaving, and feel nothing but the deepest contempt and disgust for the toxic politics and philosophies of people like yourself that have made it necessary.
Firstly, you have not proved that it is necessary to leave. Secondly, you obviously know nothing of my philosophies. Please tell me exactly which philosophies I have which you hate. Obviously the philosophy that you must work to achieve goals, and that things are not and should not be simply handed out is one you find objectionable. Which others?
And should I lose my job like so many millions of others have (most of whome conviniently no longer appear in the unemployment statistic now that their benefits have expired) I probably will emigrate, assuming any country on the planet will have anything to do with displaced citizens of a toxic, militaristic, and irresponsible superpower as it fades from prominence, probably with similiar results but none of the grace, of Russia.
When I have been laid off in the past, I went out and found another job. Shocking, I know, but it can be done. Of course, in your mind those who have become unemployed will never find another job, so they should just check out now. Interesting. It's funny how with all the anti-American sentiment I see in places like slashdot, there are still very few countries which do not
http://xkcd.com/386/
While I realize that the above may not be your personal opinion, I have to say to everyone who holds this opinion: fuck you.
I've heard this crap argument from everyone from friends to my own father (who raised me as a social liberal, fiscal conservative), and I have one thing to say in response to it: YOU are stealing votes from third party candidates. I for one can't, in good conscience, vote for Bush OR Kerry. And while you might trumpet the lesser of two evils, I pity you for your shortsightedness and lack of character.
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illegal alien amnesty
Illegal aliens are demographically Christian and more actively religious than the general USA population. Maybe the voting bloc called the "Christian Right" disapproves of them (for racist reasons?), but aliens are heavily Christian.
equivocation on supporting Israel
Bush seems pretty strong in support of Israel's administration. He brags he's been the first President to support a Palestinian state... which is funny, because he tries to spin it like that's pro-Palestine or pro-peace, when really it's just formalizing that the "Palestinans" will never be allowed back to the land conquered from them in Israel's "War for Independence"