I disagree with the text of that warning label. There is no sound reason that Evolution should be elevated to the stature of scientific theory. Evolutionism, as taught, is little more than unsubstantiated hypothesis and conjecture.
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Now like them or not, they are an institution with about 50 years experience of getting it right.
But they have NOT been getting it right for 50 years. That's the most important lesson that we should be learning from these scandals. The motives are the reasons for the "errors," which happen to have a singular bias. They reveal the partisanship that has been there all along. The scandals, ferreted out with the help of the recent blogosphere and Internet journalism, is shining the light on the bias and corruption that the networks having been subjecting us to all these years. Dan Rather's stonewalling after his exposure from Memogate shows this well. The whole world could clearly see that he was a partisan hack, but he made a laughingstock of himself by still acting like CBS couldn't figure out if the document was fake a week after the cat was out of the bag. In fact, a document expert at CBS had said not to go with the story from the very beginning because of its dubious nature. Dan Rather ignored him and broadcast the anti-Bush propaganda anyway.
You really should read the Constitution. It would clear up a lot of your confusion. Here is some other good reading.
The existence of independent states promotes decentralization of power. This allows for greater liberty and customization of government for subcultures that have differing values and traditions within the union. One size does not fit all.
Strong, centralized power is a facilitator of authoritarianism and fascism. It is a hallmark of Communist governments. States need to maintain their autonomous rights of self-determination and to secede for a worst case scenario.
Look at a world map and notice that our states are closer to the typical size of a country than the USA is. We were founded more as a union of thirteen countries than one country divided into arbitrary provinces.
Our federation of democratic republics is a brilliant and logical system which has served us well for over 230 years. I don't want anybody mucking up this grand system out of reckless ignorance or for perceived partisan political advantages.
We are called the United States of America. The Declaration of Independence doesn't forget states. The concept of independent states is embedded in every article of the Constitution. Our country is a federation, or union, of states. That's why the President gives the State of the Union address every year. Union of what? States.
Yes, every vote does count, and each vote counts for its respective state's choice. A Vermont vote counts for Vermont's choice. If Vermont has more pro-Democrat votes than it needs to choose the Democrat candidate (i.e. over 50%), its votes cannot spill over into other states' vote counts to influence their choice.
Compassionate conservatives believe that killing is wrong, and thus will do everything in their power to protect the unborn WHITE American child.
Here's a song I learned as a child in Sunday school.
Jesus loves the little children,
All the children of the world.
Red and yellow, black and white,
All are precious in His sight,
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
What evil you must harbor to spout such a lie. You lefties are the ones killing off the blacks with your baby-killing campaign. Pro-lifers want to protect all life. The action in Iraq is about protecting Iraqis and the world. You callous leftists wanted to keep the Iraqis in torture chambers. We had to kill the bad Iraqis to save the good ones, in the same way you have to cut out cancerous cells before the cancer kills the healthy cells. Iraq was one, big, horrible prison, and you wanted to keep ALL Iraqis in it. We SAVED them. The ones we didn't save died while we wasted time trying to persuade the Useless Nations. How many Iraqis died while we stalled? Hundreds of thousands! France and Germany lied while Iraqis died. Mass graves are everywhere. We haven't dealt with such a huge spectacle of human remains since the aftermath of the Holocaust. The Right is helping Muslims and peoples of all faiths and colors. We're protecting this American melting pot of the world's peoples and we're protecting the world from the scourge of Islamo-fascism. Military action isn't pretty, but it's better than inaction. Complacency in the face of evil makes you complicit in the evil.
America is making the world a better place. We're spreading freedom. We're spreading prosperity. We're spreading happiness and opportunity for personal success and fulfillment. We are doing the Lord's work. God has blessed America, and America is blessing God by blessing the world. You leftists aren't qualified to say what's "wrong" because you see the Word of God and call it evil. You look at perfect love and call it a myth. You therefore have no credibility to call anything right or wrong, compassionate or non-compassionate. You engage in all kinds of devastating depravity and abominations and call them "rights." But true righteous acts in your view are stupid, backwards, or wrong.
I'll tell you where your "progressive" ideas are going. They're "progressing" straight to hell -- speeding down the highway to hell while you think you're "enlightened." In fact, you are in darkness. You have no compass, no anchor, no beacon, and no map. You're lost at sea, trying to guide yourself in the fog of postmodernism, moral relativism, and situational ethics, while tossed around to and fro by the waves -- the myths of humanism and the temptations of hedonism misleading you and dashing you against the rocks.
You're too full of hate to know what compassion is. We're saving, not killing, as many Iraqis as possible. You're looking for an excuse to hate America, but you can't find one. You have to make up one. If you had compassion for the Iraqi people, you would be singing America's praises. America is doing tremendous good for Iraq. We're saving lives and making lives better.
No, this is the strength of the electoral system. It protects us from the groupthink in the cities and populous small states. When people are spread out, they're making decisions more independently.
The rural areas represent many independent views, while the urban areas represent a few views that are spread easily through highly concentrated populations and are grossly magnified by the skewed population sizes.
For starters the Thundertray (Thunderbird minimize-to-tray) project is now officially dead. There will be no new versions and all download links have been removed from the site.
You are right about the Telegraph, which is pretty centrist. I should not have included it in that list. Most UK papers are liberal, so I stuck it in there without really thinking about it.
This is yet another case where I wish America was on the popular vote system rather than the electoral vote system.
A little history... These united states were founded as a federation of mostly independent democratic republics. Each state is supposed to be sovereign. The fact that New York has almost four times as many voters as South Carolina, for example, should have no bearing on who South Carolina's voters choose to be the president of the federal republic.
CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, PBS, NPR, MTV, BET, NYT, LA Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, Time, Newsweek, The Nation, Mother Jones, Salon, most of academia, the public education establishment, the unions, the U.S. State Dept., the Hollywood machine, Michael Moore, George Soros' empire, Pacifica Radio, MoveOn, DU, Slashdot, Al-Jazeera, AP, AFP, Reuters, CBC (Can.), Star (Can.), BBC, Telegraph (UK), Guardian (UK), Le Monde, etc., ad nauseam.
America heard the leftist message loud and clear. WE'RE SICK OF IT! We rejected it.
No kidding. Put away the tin foil hats. I'm getting timeout errors on news.yahoo.com and Ohio's government web site. Response on every news site has been slow tonight. And I have 1 megabit DSL.
4. Bible: Oceans before land. (Genesis 1:2)
Evolution: Land before oceans.
5. Bible: First life on land. (Genesis 1:11)
Evolution: Life began in the oceans.
6. Bible: First life was land plants. (Genesis 1:11)
Evolution: Marine organisms evolved first.
7. Bible: Earth before sun and stars. (Genesis 1:14-19)
Evolution: Sun and stars before earth.
8. Bible: Fruit trees before fishes. (Genesis 1:11,20,21)
Evolution: All fishes before fruit trees.
9. Bible: All stars made on the fourth day. (Genesis 1:16)
Evolution: Stars evolved at various times.
10. Bible: Birds and fishes created on the fifth day. (Genesis 1:20,21)
Evolution: Fishes evolved over hundreds of millions of years before birds appeared.
11. Bible: Birds before insects. (Genesis 1:20-31; Leviticus 11)
Evolution: Insects before birds.
12. Bible: Whales before reptiles. (Genesis 1:20-31)
Evolution: Reptiles before whales.
13. Bible: Birds before reptiles. (Genesis 1:20-31)
Evolution: Reptiles before birds.
14. Bible: Man before rain. (Genesis 2:5)
Evolution: Rain before man.
15. Bible: Man before woman. (Genesis 2:21-22)
Evolution: Woman before man. (by genetics).
16. Bible: Light before the sun. (Genesis 1:3-19)
Evolution: Sun before any light (on earth).
17. Bible: Plants before the sun. (Genesis 1:11-19)
Evolution: Sun before any plants.
18. Bible: Abundance and variety of marine life appeared all at once. (Genesis 1:20-21)
Evolution: Marine life gradually developed from a primitive organic blob.
19. Bible: Man's body created from the dust of the earth. (Genesis 2:7)
Evolution: Man evolved from monkeys.
20. Bible: Man exercised dominion over all organisms. (Genesis 1:28)
Evolution: Most organisms extinct before man evolved.
21. Bible: Man originally a vegetarian. (Genesis 1:29)
Evolution: Man originally a meat-eater.
22. Bible: Fixed and distinct kinds (Genesis 1:11,12,21,24,25; 1 Corinthians 15:38-39), although speciation does occur.
Evolution: Life forms in a continual state of flux.
23. Bible: Man's sin is the cause of death. (Romans 5:12)
Evolution: Struggle and death existent log before the evolution of man.
It's a busy day,and I wont you all to live it with me. We got a President? Iraqis are so happy about our new government,there is some people singed in a few words. Hi..... I am so happy with my...the new Iraqi government and I wish them all luck. Saad Hello.. I am very exciting for the new government,wish that they built new Iraq. Khuld AL jamass. Hi yes....yes.. we support our new government.....go forward we back up you. Ahmed Al Saraf. Marhaba ----- I trolley liked them. Maha. Hello,,,, I wish them luck,and succeed,we love you. F.R. Yes I support them,and I shall do any thing they ask me to do. Rola Hi..... it's a new start for us..we hope every thing be good. Thank you Ali. Hello,,,,,as a Kurdish I feel very happy for all,and I am happy 2 for all one Iraq. Kawa.S.J Hi.....as an Iraqi I feal great,this time is our time. Hassan M. We all see this is the first step only,but "one mile trip start with step". Rana Mansor. Great peoples and educated,we depend on them to prepare for the elections. Dr. Jamal said Yes I agree with Dr.jamal,we depend on them to prepare for the elections. Dr.Abas Al jnabi. Hello.i love what I saw on TV they were great,hope to see good work soon. Luma Ahmed. Hay,,,,,,, good staff,,,,,,,, we hope to see improvements in our life. Wish you all best.
And this:
I was saw happy,when the new Iraqi
government was announced and I was more happy,when I saw,a big
support from the world to this step , but it seems that this step was
not been liked from some people,and they are keeping to call for more
valiance and more keeling,and I wonder why they are keeping doing that,and why they want us to keep walking around in the seem circle of the
valiance,and why the don't like things to be seat,after all,what
most of people wants is to live in pace,and start working to built
this country.
I was having a little chat to a friend in the
messenger,and she was from an Arabic country,she was asking me about
the situation in Iraq ?I told her we are fine,and things go better day
by day,she said really ?I told her "yes " she told me but we see
things on "AL-Jazeera" a lot of things ?I told him that "AL-Jazeera"
don't represent Iraqis,and only what they
Have you listened to the bin Laden tapes? Have you read the transcripts of sermons broadcast on PLO TV? This girl "prays" for God to do the same thing that the terrorists pray for Allah to do. She is full of the same kind of evil and militant vitriol for America and its leaders that they are. Thank God liberals don't believe in owning guns.
I wonder. If it's not legal to pray for someone's death, as it constitutes a threat against them
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals should rule that her journal post containing the word "God" is illegal, as it constitutes a prayer. Poetic justice.;-)
No country tolerates incitement to assassinate its leaders. I'm not at all disturbed by what happened to this militant hatemonger. I say KUDOS to the Secret Service for doing their job. I hope they put her through the wringer.
What's scary to me is that this American (?) would spew such venom that you would expect only from outright enemies. Her sentiments are identical to those of Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Yassir Arafat, Kim Jong-il, and every other dictator and terrorist out there. Her actions are clearly seditious. They represent not only a threat to George W. Bush but to the nation's civility and democratic processes.
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You just described parenthood.
I disagree with the text of that warning label. There is no sound reason that Evolution should be elevated to the stature of scientific theory. Evolutionism, as taught, is little more than unsubstantiated hypothesis and conjecture.
Heh, recent science catches up with ancient wisdom. Yes, we are one human race.
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But they have NOT been getting it right for 50 years. That's the most important lesson that we should be learning from these scandals. The motives are the reasons for the "errors," which happen to have a singular bias. They reveal the partisanship that has been there all along. The scandals, ferreted out with the help of the recent blogosphere and Internet journalism, is shining the light on the bias and corruption that the networks having been subjecting us to all these years. Dan Rather's stonewalling after his exposure from Memogate shows this well. The whole world could clearly see that he was a partisan hack, but he made a laughingstock of himself by still acting like CBS couldn't figure out if the document was fake a week after the cat was out of the bag. In fact, a document expert at CBS had said not to go with the story from the very beginning because of its dubious nature. Dan Rather ignored him and broadcast the anti-Bush propaganda anyway.
The existence of independent states promotes decentralization of power. This allows for greater liberty and customization of government for subcultures that have differing values and traditions within the union. One size does not fit all.
Strong, centralized power is a facilitator of authoritarianism and fascism. It is a hallmark of Communist governments. States need to maintain their autonomous rights of self-determination and to secede for a worst case scenario.
Look at a world map and notice that our states are closer to the typical size of a country than the USA is. We were founded more as a union of thirteen countries than one country divided into arbitrary provinces.
Our federation of democratic republics is a brilliant and logical system which has served us well for over 230 years. I don't want anybody mucking up this grand system out of reckless ignorance or for perceived partisan political advantages.
Really?
We are called the United States of America. The Declaration of Independence doesn't forget states. The concept of independent states is embedded in every article of the Constitution. Our country is a federation, or union, of states. That's why the President gives the State of the Union address every year. Union of what? States.
Yes, every vote does count, and each vote counts for its respective state's choice. A Vermont vote counts for Vermont's choice. If Vermont has more pro-Democrat votes than it needs to choose the Democrat candidate (i.e. over 50%), its votes cannot spill over into other states' vote counts to influence their choice.
Here's a song I learned as a child in Sunday school.
What evil you must harbor to spout such a lie. You lefties are the ones killing off the blacks with your baby-killing campaign. Pro-lifers want to protect all life. The action in Iraq is about protecting Iraqis and the world. You callous leftists wanted to keep the Iraqis in torture chambers. We had to kill the bad Iraqis to save the good ones, in the same way you have to cut out cancerous cells before the cancer kills the healthy cells. Iraq was one, big, horrible prison, and you wanted to keep ALL Iraqis in it. We SAVED them. The ones we didn't save died while we wasted time trying to persuade the Useless Nations. How many Iraqis died while we stalled? Hundreds of thousands! France and Germany lied while Iraqis died. Mass graves are everywhere. We haven't dealt with such a huge spectacle of human remains since the aftermath of the Holocaust. The Right is helping Muslims and peoples of all faiths and colors. We're protecting this American melting pot of the world's peoples and we're protecting the world from the scourge of Islamo-fascism. Military action isn't pretty, but it's better than inaction. Complacency in the face of evil makes you complicit in the evil.America is making the world a better place. We're spreading freedom. We're spreading prosperity. We're spreading happiness and opportunity for personal success and fulfillment. We are doing the Lord's work. God has blessed America, and America is blessing God by blessing the world. You leftists aren't qualified to say what's "wrong" because you see the Word of God and call it evil. You look at perfect love and call it a myth. You therefore have no credibility to call anything right or wrong, compassionate or non-compassionate. You engage in all kinds of devastating depravity and abominations and call them "rights." But true righteous acts in your view are stupid, backwards, or wrong.
I'll tell you where your "progressive" ideas are going. They're "progressing" straight to hell -- speeding down the highway to hell while you think you're "enlightened." In fact, you are in darkness. You have no compass, no anchor, no beacon, and no map. You're lost at sea, trying to guide yourself in the fog of postmodernism, moral relativism, and situational ethics, while tossed around to and fro by the waves -- the myths of humanism and the temptations of hedonism misleading you and dashing you against the rocks.
You're too full of hate to know what compassion is. We're saving, not killing, as many Iraqis as possible. You're looking for an excuse to hate America, but you can't find one. You have to make up one. If you had compassion for the Iraqi people, you would be singing America's praises. America is doing tremendous good for Iraq. We're saving lives and making lives better.
The rural areas represent many independent views, while the urban areas represent a few views that are spread easily through highly concentrated populations and are grossly magnified by the skewed population sizes.
You are right about the Telegraph, which is pretty centrist. I should not have included it in that list. Most UK papers are liberal, so I stuck it in there without really thinking about it.
A little history... These united states were founded as a federation of mostly independent democratic republics. Each state is supposed to be sovereign. The fact that New York has almost four times as many voters as South Carolina, for example, should have no bearing on who South Carolina's voters choose to be the president of the federal republic.
No kidding. Put away the tin foil hats. I'm getting timeout errors on news.yahoo.com and Ohio's government web site. Response on every news site has been slow tonight. And I have 1 megabit DSL.
You are not insignificant. Those fossils are what's insignificant.
1. Bible: God is the Creator of all things. (Genesis 1)
Evolution: Natural chance processes can account for the existence of all things.
2. Bible: World created in six days. (Genesis 1) These must be literal days; see #23.
Evolution: World evolved over the aeons.
3. Bible: Creation is completed (Genesis 2:3)
Evolution: Creative processes continuing.
4. Bible: Oceans before land. (Genesis 1:2)
Evolution: Land before oceans.
5. Bible: First life on land. (Genesis 1:11)
Evolution: Life began in the oceans.
6. Bible: First life was land plants. (Genesis 1:11)
Evolution: Marine organisms evolved first.
7. Bible: Earth before sun and stars. (Genesis 1:14-19)
Evolution: Sun and stars before earth.
8. Bible: Fruit trees before fishes. (Genesis 1:11,20,21)
Evolution: All fishes before fruit trees.
9. Bible: All stars made on the fourth day. (Genesis 1:16)
Evolution: Stars evolved at various times.
10. Bible: Birds and fishes created on the fifth day. (Genesis 1:20,21)
Evolution: Fishes evolved over hundreds of millions of years before birds appeared.
11. Bible: Birds before insects. (Genesis 1:20-31; Leviticus 11)
Evolution: Insects before birds.
12. Bible: Whales before reptiles. (Genesis 1:20-31)
Evolution: Reptiles before whales.
13. Bible: Birds before reptiles. (Genesis 1:20-31)
Evolution: Reptiles before birds.
14. Bible: Man before rain. (Genesis 2:5)
Evolution: Rain before man.
15. Bible: Man before woman. (Genesis 2:21-22)
Evolution: Woman before man. (by genetics).
16. Bible: Light before the sun. (Genesis 1:3-19)
Evolution: Sun before any light (on earth).
17. Bible: Plants before the sun. (Genesis 1:11-19)
Evolution: Sun before any plants.
18. Bible: Abundance and variety of marine life appeared all at once. (Genesis 1:20-21)
Evolution: Marine life gradually developed from a primitive organic blob.
19. Bible: Man's body created from the dust of the earth. (Genesis 2:7)
Evolution: Man evolved from monkeys.
20. Bible: Man exercised dominion over all organisms. (Genesis 1:28)
Evolution: Most organisms extinct before man evolved.
21. Bible: Man originally a vegetarian. (Genesis 1:29)
Evolution: Man originally a meat-eater.
22. Bible: Fixed and distinct kinds (Genesis 1:11,12,21,24,25; 1 Corinthians 15:38-39), although speciation does occur.
Evolution: Life forms in a continual state of flux.
23. Bible: Man's sin is the cause of death. (Romans 5:12)
Evolution: Struggle and death existent log before the evolution of man.
But it is working! Afghanistan just had it first election ever, which went smoother in some respects than our own election in 2000.
Listen to the Iraqis. It doesn't look like they're being forced to me.
See this comment from Road of a Nation (bear with the grammar; English is not his native language, of course):
And this:
Have you listened to the bin Laden tapes? Have you read the transcripts of sermons broadcast on PLO TV? This girl "prays" for God to do the same thing that the terrorists pray for Allah to do. She is full of the same kind of evil and militant vitriol for America and its leaders that they are. Thank God liberals don't believe in owning guns.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals should rule that her journal post containing the word "God" is illegal, as it constitutes a prayer. Poetic justice. ;-)
So, she intends for a person to do it -- herself or somebody else.
No country tolerates incitement to assassinate its leaders. I'm not at all disturbed by what happened to this militant hatemonger. I say KUDOS to the Secret Service for doing their job. I hope they put her through the wringer.
What's scary to me is that this American (?) would spew such venom that you would expect only from outright enemies. Her sentiments are identical to those of Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Yassir Arafat, Kim Jong-il, and every other dictator and terrorist out there. Her actions are clearly seditious. They represent not only a threat to George W. Bush but to the nation's civility and democratic processes.