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Presidential Candidates' Science and Tech Policies
gracey1103 writes "Popular Mechanics has put together an easy-to-follow matrix of where the '08 presidential candidates stand on different science, tech and environment issues. Everything is cited and links back directly to each candidate's published policy pages so you can get more info."
Popular Mechanics has had a very obvious pro-corporate and pro-Republican bias for quite a while. You mean you hadn't noticed? It is pretty blatant sometimes.
Why should I pay your salary to sit around and provide no benefit to me, the taxpayer, or anyone else?
/.. I hear you can get jobs in those fields building *useful* things.
I assume you have some kind of marketable skill, probably in engineering or CS, or you wouldn't be posting on
Really?
Then why does he vote like a Christian fascist?
Once you dig into his record a bit more you'll find that while he's opposed to big government, he's also opposed to the separation of church and state. You know what you get when you have a skeleton state and encourage religious groups to provide social services? You get Hamas. If organized religion is larger and more powerful than the government of the state hosting it, it will become the government of the state hosting it.
No thank you. I admit that government could really use an enema right about now, but given the choice, I'll take a corrupt oligarchy over a corrupt theocracy any day.
"Right wing conspiracy"? No, I'm looking right at a coincidence theorist. You don't even know whether PM has regular gun content, but you're speculating about how guns are "science" over there, when there's no evidence that it is.
But if you want to understand how gun fetishists work their propaganda, just remember that this presidential election is defined by them (as always) as "the Democrats who will take away your guns" vs "the Republicans who won't". The fetishists live on fear, so of course they put the scare words "gun control" as the frame. That's their version of "get out the vote", regardless of whether people even click on the candidates and their policies. Once it's "gun control", the group from which they'll vote is decided for them, and then the Republican Party delivers the specific candidate they'll vote for. That's how authoritarianism works, and why Republicans look so "organized". Like the infantry.
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1. Do you believe in evolution? 2. How old is the world? -- Seriously what is with the massive erection people get over the views evolution and the age of the world held by their politician. Its really about are relevant as their favorite color or boxers vs briefs. I don't care if the believe in evolution or not and I don't care if they think the world was rebooted yesterday. Religious litmus test are insane stupidity. There are dumb when Atheist are excluded and they are dumb when Theist are excluded. Does their view on evolution matter: - If they are for developing better of energy/conservation does their view earths age matter? - If they are for repealing corporate crap like the DCMA does their faith matter? - If they are for position X does their view on evolution matter? There are people out their against fetal stem cell research / abortion who believe in evolution so its a craptacular litmus test to hold up. The only people I see using it are ones who have some sort of springer mentality ( they're so stupid, thus I'm so 1337)