I've been in Harrisburg at the Dover Panda Trial all week so I'm kind of behind the curve. I'll try to catch up.
Let's see.
First, we have Bill Bennett's final solution. Bennett, former secretary of education and current radio talk-show host and slot machine hobbyist, was talking about an assertion in a recent book that the drop in the crime rate can be attributted to an increase in abortions.
He continued, "But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down," Bennett said.
He went on to call that "an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky."
"Tricky."
That's one word for it.
And then you have Tom DeLay's troubles with the law. All I have to say about that is, couldn't have happened to a nicer person.
And finally, Mike "Brownie" Brown, former Arabian horse official and director of FEMA, appeared before a congressional committee to accept responsibility for the federal government's failures in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
Just kidding.
He did a great job blaming everybody else.
Somewhere, Arabian horses are very, very scared.
Thank you for the cogent entry in Sunday's paper. But does the other side ever read the other side? Socrates Cafes have helped me direct my outrage about a lot of things and better word my many letters to those "in charge". I thought we figured this all out once, long ago, in the sixties. But some people never really adopted the principals we(60-70's radicals) struggled with, just the clothing of the era. I haven't a clue any more about what party I belong in, what guiding principals I can be absolutely sure about. I just know I have to keep writing letters more to reiterate the principals for my ears so I can't be tempted to the ways I know are wrong.
Keep writing and do not suffer fools gladly.
Triage
What are you afraid of Mikey? 63% of Americans think intelligent design should be metioned. I guess that majority rules only takes place when liberals like you and the ALCU agree. Were did you go to school Mike? You and the rest of YRD are unwilling, ignorant, or biased. Which one is it? I think it is the biased thing, where you taught to be ignorant or where you born lazy? No, I susppect you, like all leberals, think you are smarter tham the averadge folk.
dasher ...the vast majority once had the opinion that blacks and whites shound NOT be allowed to marry ... good thing YOU are not in charge
Ultimately, what one believes regarding the origin of the universe and life in it is a totally personal matter. No one has a right to deny another that freedom of belief - that is guaranteed by our Consitution, and rightly so.
The issue in this case is not the freedom of individuals to believe as they wish, but the attempt to take one of those beliefs and disguise it so that unsuspecting persons (school children) will mistake it for something else. By giving a new name (Intelligent Design) to the old Biblical creation myth, they hope to disguise the fact that a matter of religious faith is being presented as science. Sorry - not possible.
Science has very definite rules for how an explanatory theory is proposed and tested = other people writing and speaking on this subject have explained this in great detail, and I won't repeat it again. However, an analogy is sometimes helpful in making something clear to a diverse audience, so here goes:
Suppose you go to a local school baseball game. The batter steps up to the plate and takes a mighty swing at the pitch with a tennis racket. Amazingly, he knocks the ball far towards left field. As he runs for 1st base he is tackled by four players wearing padding and helmets. An umpire runs out, blows a whistle, and declares a first down.
What is this game? ? ? It certainly isn't baseball, or football, or even tennis. But this is what the ID supporters are trying to do to the game of science. They can't win the game - get ID declared a valid scientific theory - as long as the game is played by the traditional rules of science. So they want to change the rules to sneak in the tennis rackets and the football helmets (or in this case the supernatural designer) and so forever change the game of baseball (science) into something they can win.
Let's all just say NO.
Not one Arabian Horse drowned in New Orleans, which proves Intelligent Design.
Dasher,
If you are going to attack someone by calling them stupid, it's generally a good idea to limit the spelling errors to something like, oh, I don't know - maybe less than five? Just sayin'.
Perhaps either Prancer or Donner can loan you their dictionary for your next post.
Thanks.