Say WHAAAAAT???!!! - Democratic Underground

madamesilverspurs

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Sun May-25-08 11:18 AM
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Say WHAAAAAT???!!!

Today's Greeley Tribune newspaper (www.greeleytrib.com) contains opposing op-eds by a local Democrat and a local Republican. The discussion being about government policy toward the environment, the Republican writer closed with the following:

"The fact is that scientists don't know nearly enough about how the global climate works to know how much human activity affects the process. That being the case, it's unwise -- and even dangerous -- to base government environmental policy on faith-based conclusions."

I may be off-base here, but can't you strip your gears throwing into reverse like that?

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lonestarnot

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Sun May-25-08 11:19 AM
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1. Grind a pound for me!

Snort! What nutfuckery!

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OwnedByFerrets

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Sun May-25-08 11:20 AM
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2. What an idiot...but what do you expect from a repug...nt

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uppityperson

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Sun May-25-08 11:21 AM
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3. “Change You Deserve”=more of the same. War is peace, etc.

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Cyrano

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Sun May-25-08 11:27 AM
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4. Rationale thought hard is. Wingnut thought uncomprehensible is.

This puts me in mind of sicnarF ttocS yeK who wrote our anthem national.

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morningglory

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Sun May-25-08 11:32 AM
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5. I think we have a wing nut talking point here. Jonah Goldberg today

Edited on Sun May-25-08 11:33 AM by morningglory

in his column said he is a conservationist (like Teddy Roosevelt?) but environmentalists were religious wackos re: the environment. They worship it or something. Paraphrasing. Couldn't stand to pore over his brilliant words in the early morning, when I have beans to plant. for the Bush economic failure/starvation to come.

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petronius

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Sun May-25-08 11:33 AM
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6. It seems that the current RW attack on science in general is to call it a religion

Climate change, environmentalism, evolution, have all been parodied as 'faith-based' concepts in RW straw-man attacks. Basically, they play on the multiple meanings of the word "belief" to overlook the empirical and method-based underpinnings of scientific knowledge.

I've never understood why a subset of society that generally wears its faith on its sleeve would think that "religion" is an insult, however...

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