Letters to the Editor
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Democrats: evolution
I wonder how the Democratic candidates would answer the same question?
They all feel it necessary to talk about their "faith", it wouldn't surprise me at all to hear at least one or two waffle about evolution.
I have my doubts about that.
But this is a big step forward. We now know that Bucky does believe in evolution, but apparently not as the producer of different species. As far as I can tell, the fossil record does support the gradual evolution of species. And there are periods when things seem to happen very quickly. Actual evidence of sudden intervention? Not that I can see.
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But everyone believes in change over time.
I'm sorry bucky, but that is not so..
There is a sizable contingent of theists who believe that fossils of extinct animals were put in the earth by God as a test of faith.
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Mike Sulzer
I'm disgusted enough with the Democrats to put very little past them.
They routinely and almost to a man vote for incredibly important policy based on nothing more than fantasy, fantasy that has a great deal of evidence to show that is totally incorrect.
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@HRH
“And once more I point out that no one has responded to my point about Obama the candidate wishing to imprison Obama the teenager/young adult.”
My interpretation of what you said are always loaded questions from you is that Barack early on was doing a lot of searching about life and himself. His mixed roots, loss of parents and exceptional intelligence was explored for all of us to see in his first book. What he decided to do with his life and his search to find the best way of helping others and himself could get lost in a too ambitious drive to become president. Too much ambition usually results in too many compromises. I see an intense drive in Barack and I do worry that the Beltway disease might overcome him and cause him to negate his steel will to win over those now in power who are ruining our nation. His skill in compromising could be a fatal vulnerability.
He could either become one of our greatest or worst presidents although junior has the market on worst for a long time to come. The thing that could save him and us if he were to become president is his wife Michelle. She is his rock and should be able to guide him on the right path as she has done since she met him. She is the real deal. That is what Iowa voters have learned and why I think he will prevail there. Of course, the voters also know that Edward’s wife is the real deal.
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@bethincary- re: Aussie News
Thanks for that, and, by gosh by golly, I actually got through the protocols and read the article.
I love the line by the writer, Bruce Loudon, where he says there was a "major backflip" by a Pak government spokesman, who now claims it was a "blunder" to say that Mrs. Bhutto died from what Loudon describes as a "bump on the head."
A passage worthy of comic opera to be sure, but perhaps no more persuasive than any scientific argument Pedinska might make to a sect of flat-earthers.
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WT: I'm neither a pacifist nor a non-interventionist
You've misunderstood me. Truly. I'm neither a pacifist nor a non-interventionist, but when I think of intervention, I don't generally think of pointing guns at people, or moving aircraft carriers around, not immediately, anyway. I hate shortcuts, especially those which tend to get people killed for no apparent reason other than to demonstrate that we can kill them.
Oh, but you are a warmonger.
The fact that you can not see it does not mean it is not so. You have fought, by your own account, for an ever stronger central government your whole life. You did so, and continue to do so, to 'help' the less fortunate I am sure. But deeds by 'good men' trying to do good, often turn out to have evil consequences.
The governmental power that you have longed for since the 60s is here in spades and the monster Bush is using it to destroy. Is he a superman to do all this on his own? No, he walks on the shoulders of fools who helped craft the all powers of the office he now resides in. (I hope he does not 'hold' it)
Every time you advocated "saving" some group around the world via USA actions, you pushed us further towards a Fallujah.
Every time you made fun of non-interventionists, because you like certain interventions, you worked shoulder to shoulder with the present administration. (and RR in South America)
Every time you claim that a monster like LBJ (or Clinton) was really OK, you help a Bush kill even more poor innocents around the world.
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RMP
The thing that could save him and us if he were to become president is his wife Michelle. She is his rock and should be able to guide him on the right path as she has done since she met him. She is the real deal. That is what Iowa voters have learned and why I think he will prevail there. Of course, the voters also know that Edward’s wife is the real deal.
I'm sure that a lengthy prison term would have improved young Barack's prospects in the world immensely. I'm glad to see that he advocates that treatment for others who are in the same situation he was then.
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@ bucky1
You're insane. You do know that, don't you? The WT of your fevered imagination exists only there. The real WT -- if you can tolerate a bit of epistemology interrupting your diatribe -- predates your concept of him, and doesn't feel any obligation to be reduced to a character in anyone's grand psychodrama.
I can -- and will -- speak for myself, as I have always done. Wallop your cod elsewhere.
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RMP
He could either become one of our greatest or worst presidents...
I am unwilling to speculate that Obama would ever be our worst President. AFAIC, Bush has that award sewn up for what's left of my life. My only regret is that I can't cafeteria-Catholic the three candidates for what I perceive as their individual strengths. I fervently wish Obama had come in as a VP first. That opportunity may never have been there, given Clinton and Edwards, or Obama's own psychological architecture. But, it doesn't keep me from wishing...