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Obama Answers Science Policy Questionnaire
thebestsophist writes "A couple months ago, Scientists and Engineers for America, Science Debate 2008, and a bunch of other science organizations sent McCain, Obama, and all the Congressional candidates a bunch of questions on science and technology. Topics included biosecurity, genetics research, and national security, as well as the more common questions on research and education. Well, Senator Obama just answered."
Senator McCain has not responded to the questionnaire at this point in time, but the site has a profile of his views and actions relating to science policy, which provides a good basis for comparing the candidates' stances. We've previously discussed the differences between the two candidates' technology platforms. According to a recent NPR story, both candidates intend to keep politics out of science.
Apparently *educated* guesses (i.e. theories based on data) are not allowed either, or have the same status as mythological hooey. Gosh, I feel more secure about the countries future and future science policies.
Scientists put as much faith into many of their theories as do people of religion. What's wrong with the religious faith that makes you not like it but deem the scientific faith as okay?
this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom. -- Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
Are you implying McSame's birth cerificate can not be found? I am sure I saw it in the bible- an irrationale person's alternative to science!
just to see sir; why don't you explain the need/purpose for all the 'secret' 'cloud' spraying (all day every day now). just because folks almost never look up, is not a good reason to leave them uninformed. thank you.
fear is unprecedented evile's primary weapon. that, along with deception & coercion, helps most of us remain (unwittingly?) dependent on its' greed/fear/ego based hired goons' agenda. Most of yOUR dwindling resources are being squandered on the 'war', & continuation of the billionerrors stock markup FraUD/pyramid scheme. nobody ever mentions the real long term costs of those debacles in both life & the notion of prosperity, not to mention the abuse of the consciences of those of us who still have one. see you on the other side of it. the lights are coming up all over now. conspiracy theorists are being vindicated. some might choose a tin umbrella to go with their hats. the fairytail is winding down now. let your conscience be yOUR guide. you can be more helpful than you might have imagined. there are still some choices. if they do not suit you, consider the likely results of continuing to follow the corepirate nazi hypenosys story LIEn, whereas anything of relevance is replaced almost instantly with pr ?firm? scriptdead mindphuking propaganda or 'celebrity' trivia 'foam'. meanwhile; don't forget to get a little more oxygen on yOUR brain, & look up in the sky from time to time, starting early in the day. there's lots going on up there.
http://news.google.com/?ncl=1216734813&hl=en&topic=n
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/31/opinion/31mon1.html?em&ex=1199336400&en=c4b5414371631707&ei=5087%0A
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/world/29amnesty.html?hp
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/06/02/nasa.global.warming.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/06/05/severe.weather.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/weather/06/02/honore.preparedness/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/opinion/01dowd.html?em&ex=1212638400&en=744b7cebc86723e5&ei=5087%0A
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/06/05/senate.iraq/index.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/washington/17contractor.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/03/world/middleeast/03kurdistan.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080708/cheney_climate.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080805/pl_politico/12308;_ylt=A0wNcxTPdJhILAYAVQms0NUE
is it time to get real yet? A LOT of energy is being squandered in attempts to keep US in the dark. in the end (give or take a few 1000 years), the creators will prevail (world without end, etc...), as it has always been. the process of gaining yOUR release from the current hostage situation may not be what you might think it is. butt of course, most of US don't know, or care what a precarious/fatal situation we're in. for example; the insidious attempts by the felonious corepirate nazi execrable to block the suns' light, interfering with a requirement (sunlight) for us to stay healthy/alive. it's likely not good for yOUR health/memories 'else they'd be bragging about it? we're intending for the whoreabully deceptive (they'll do ANYTHING for a bit more monIE/power) felons to give up/fail even further, in attempting to control the 'weather', as well as a # of other things/events.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=weather+manipulation&btnG=Search
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=video+cloud+spraying
dictator style micro management has never worked (for very long). it's an illness. tie that with life0cidal aggression & softwar gangster style bullying, & what do we have? a greed/fear/ego based recipe for disaster. meanwhile, you can help to stop the bleeding (loss of life & limb);
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/28/vermont.banning.bush.ap/index.html
the bleeding must be stopped before any healing can begin. jailing a couple of corepirate nazi hired goons would send a clear message to the rest of the world from US. any truthful look at the 's
... rather than part of the political solution. He isn't even remotely like a free-thinking independent-minded hand-feed-biting Dennis Kucinich. Obama is part of the Political Old Boys' Club, not an outsider or reformer who's gonna shake things up... THAT would be what Kucinich would have done (with a little cooperation).
We need a majority of Kuciniches in office, not Obamas. Obamas are far too ambitious and self-centered to truly work "for the people". The people only get the occasional bone tossed their way once Obama's own desires have been sufficiently satiated. Obama doesn't have the ethical backbone to bite the hand that feeds him when it's warranted; Dennis Kucinich did and does. Remember that.
What we need is an electoral lottery. An initial lottery breaks the cycle of political influence and manipulation perpetrated by the Bushes, Kennedys, McCains, and Obamas of the world. Mere campaign finance reform doesn't really solve anything. We need a true revolution that will oust these hyper-ambitious abusers en masse and give us that lottery.
One thing I've realized about Obama is, the guy will promise you ANYTHING to get elected. It became clear during his acceptance speech. In less than 30 minutes he promised to lower taxes, eliminate the dependency on foreign oil, improve the education and give health care to everyone for free. After that I stopped listening. Achieving one of those things would be a stretch goal, achieving them all is downright impossible, and he knows it (and if he doesn't - god help us all).
4 years from now Republicans will have a field day with this guy and the results won't be pretty.
That said, he's STILL a heck of a lot better than McCain, particularly now when McCains VP pick is known.
In other words: fuck up someone else's life if it fits your belief system.
It's typical of Americans to not be able to see past their own noses. I mean, the fact that people from the US call themselves American and differenciate it from Canadian, Mexican, Costa Rican, Brazilian, Peruvian, etc. says volumes.
The usual disclaimer that stereotypes is not reflective of every individual in a group applies, but leave out the major cities, and surveys show most people haven't left the country even once, even to Mexico or Canada. It's hard to have a broad view of the world without a broad horizon.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Many such folk think nothing of destroying human embryos to advance science, just as they think nothing of aborting a fetus if the mother doesn't want it. I suspect many wouldn't even object to allowing a living baby to die of neglect if the mother intended him to be aborted anyway;
Maybe, unlike you, they actually want to reduce abortion.
Pro-lifers are FOR abortion. Pro-choicers are AGAINST abortion. The most effective way to prevent abortion, without a SHADOW OF A DOUBT, is access to birth control and comprehensive sex education, preferably free access. Most pro-lifers oppose birth control, especially free birth control for teenagers, therefore they support abortion and want more abortions.
It's not okay to kill embryos, or anything human, in order to learn.
So you oppose biopsies?
Human embryos are intelligent enough ... to attempt fight the scissors that are inserted to "implement" the abortion. Every gynaecologist knows this, for they've seen it. [2] are known to have won this fight, and manage somehow to induce labour, ending in them taking their first breath.
A fetus has never had a hand-to-hand battle in utero with a doctor. The whole notion is silly.
They certainly don't protest in a court of law
Let me ask you a question: Do you think random strangers should be able to determine the custody of YOUR children? By this I mean that a random person could walk by your home and complain to the police that he "doesn't like the way you're raising your kids" and your children would be assigned to another family or even imprisoned or executed. Do you agree with this?