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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
ArthurDental
Published Letters: 42 Editor's Choice: 1
Here's a little truth for ya.
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/17133626.html
Different venues, but the same finger at the same point in the same speech.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhkq11UExcw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DygBj4Zw6No
What can I say.
Launch personal attack on questioner and avoid the question.
Great job.
No, it's not too early. Contrary to popular myths, election polls almost always get the winner right, even if they're way off on the margin. Furthermore, exit polls are considered in many countries more accurate than official counts due to issues like mechanical/procedural failures and plain fraud. The Florida incident is mischaracterized as an exit poll failure, when news media recount of the entire state showed Al Gore had indeed won.
It's time we get other countries to monitor our voting booths. The more informed people know all about black-box voting and other shenanigans. All those broken machines and long lines would not be acceptable in other developed countries.
Alright, Obama supporters can now go back to taking any chance they get to take potshots at Clinton, although I'd prefer them posting in a blog that actually discusses the pros and cons of the candidates.
"Obama did learn from Illinois' gas tax holiday. Sure, 60% of the tax cut may have made it to the pump price (quiz: where'd the other 40% go?), but 100% of the lost revenues either resulted in more debt, loss of services, or were funded by other taxes."
You obviously forgot about the windfall tax on oil company profits. Other counter-arguments are similarly misinformed.
And this comes from me, a carbon-tax proponent.
This isn't even the first time he called a woman "sweetie." Obama camp's refusal to acknowledge their candidate's sexism has lost them the white women vote, just as Clinton's lost the African-American vote. (Yes, race seems to be a deeper ridge.)
A few other sexist comments:
http://2politicaljunkies.blogspot.com/2008/03/obama-foreign-policy-adviser-resigns.html
Obama apologizes for calling reporter "sweetie"
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/05/14/ap5011317.html
Obama flips off Clinton, literally
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhkq11UExcw
Obama's "likable" comment
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/01/youre_likable_enough_costs_oba.html
Can someone find me a reference of the previous sweetie comment?
>> How about a broader context? (No pun intended!)
> Men and womean are made to feel inferior or somehow flawed by many features of typical Western corporate life. Conduct the same experiment and ask questions that require that an applicant be fine tuned to a particular culture, whether a national or corporate culture, and its worldview and values, and viola--I'll bet you can replicate the same results...half the people will blame themselves...and the more subtle the insult, the more grevious the injury.
I think it's important to speak of sexism, racism, etc, by itself, in such cases, rather than generalizing. They affect different people, may not use the same means, etc. For instance, discrimination based on sexual orientation is still not against the law because there's no such law. Sexism isn't racism isn't nationalism isn't religion etc.
And it's naive to say the least to blame it on Western culture. In many if not most Asian countries (which I'm more familiar with since that's where I was from) sexism is often still publicly acceptable.
From talking about supposed holes in evolution evidence to outdated ideas about consciousness, this guy makes the same mistakes that non-scientists often make when they criticize science. Of course we're not going to find every single piece of the puzzle, of our past. The world's messy and not everything survives. If there were an uninterrupted chain of evidence I would actually believe in God, because it's hard to imagine how everything that needs to be preserved actually is.
Darwin and God can get along but science and God cannot. There is no room for something you cannot describe. Science isn't knowledge, but the system of finding out about nature through nothing but a rigorous routine of formulating hypotheses, designing and running experiments, and throwing out any idea that is contradicted by facts.
Templeton Foundation among others have tried to prove effectiveness of prayers, etc, but no evidence so far has been found in anything other than religious holy texts. Isn't that strange?
90-95% of eminent scientists, those who produced substantial contributions, ie. peer-reviewed papers, do not believe in God. If there were really any evidence for it, the numbers wouldn't have been so lopsided.
It's always the religious people who try to say whether science is compatible. Scientists usually just wish to get back to their work.
Oh, so the GOP does it and it makes it all ok.
No wonder he voted for FISA.
Don't forget those parents are exposing their kids to the risk of uncontrolled infection.
you wonder why they wouldn't "shut up."
Frankly it's disgusting how so many people have so much hatred in their hearts, and see what we've got now - a neo-con in Democratic clothing.
Welcome to the Party.
From attacking universal health plans to proposing to leave up to 50,000 troops in Iraq, from trying outlaw most late-term abortions to voting for FISA and gutting the Constitution, this is not a progressive that we're voting for.
This is the problem with the Democrats and even so-called liberals. When push comes to shove, they'd rather shut their eyes and vote what the media tells them to.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Salon headlines in your mailbox
