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Friday, May 7, 2010
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Next Big Scandal
to take Palin down a notch or three. She's not a team player and she's demonstrated she'll turn on friends & allies to line her own pocket.
Sat at 8:16am ·
David Wise
Yeah, but the kids love her!
Sat at 9:45am ·
Flint Dille
Palin has definitely got everybody's blood boiling. If nothing else, she's a change of pace after the collection of bores we've been seeing on both sides. I don't think of her as GOP, anyway. She's more Tea Party.
Sat at 10:13am ·
Buzz Dixon
"I don't think of her as GOP, anyway. She's more Tea Party."
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Sat at 10:15am ·
Flint Dille
I don't think you'd see many Tea Party members or GOP types agreeing with that. The most fanatical Tea Party member I know (who's on this site) was a Hillary supporter last time out. She may want to chime in. Go figure.
Sat at 10:18am ·
Flint Dille
But the real question is, what will the Palin scandal be? We've kind of exhausted her kids and clothes.
Sat at 10:22am ·
Flint Dille
Unless Sarah and Barack were having an affair. That would be a scandal.
Sat at 10:37am ·
David Wise
The Tea Party doesn't really like Palin either. Or rather, a big section of it doesn't, since it's a somewhat fractuous movement.
Sat at 10:58am ·
David Wise
My hope is, wearing actually having the Palin scandal at the moment: Drill baby drill, spill baby spill, burn baby burn, rinse, repeat.
Sat at 10:59am ·
Flint Dille
She sure addresses them a lot.
Sat at 11:00am ·
Milosz Feigin
Obama's retarded support of offshore drilling until the oil spill and then him changing his mind...does obama have his own opinions on anything?
Sat at 12:09pm ·
Flint Dille
Here's the question. What components do you have to have to get a scandal. For instance, hypocrisy. Tiger Woods' squeaky clean image, versus the icky reality.
Sun at 5:18am ·
Paul Arden Lidberg
Barack's own opinion is this - "George (Soros), what do you think about it? I agree with that..."
Sun at 6:32am ·
Flint Dille
Right. i was speaking more generally about scandals. It seems that the ones that really stick have to have something salacious in them, and, better yet, something criminal. They really stick when they're about hypocrisy. Cover-up is alway good fuel for them, but isn't not the prime driver.
Sun at 6:36am ·
Flint Dille
I'm trying to figure out why this isn't a scandal. http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/thoughts-on-gorism/
Yesterday at 1:11am ·
Paul Arden Lidberg
Because the mainstream media are in the tank for him and the whole Left agenda?
Yesterday at 8:37am ·
Kevin Maurice
Because MANY people are doing the same thing, if on a small scale, Sin all week, Confess on Sunday, Repeat. Only those who are wearing clothes are willing to point out the Emperor's lack of Same.
Yesterday at 9:29am ·
Paul Arden Lidberg
what he said...:D
Yesterday at 10:17am ·
Flint Dille
Obviously, you guys are right, but there have to be sincere people out there in the climate movement who realize that this isn't the kind of thing that inspires confidence. It sort of fits my theory that most everybody is religious, just some don't see their religions as religions. Fascinating how the cycle repeats itself, high priests who don't have to follow the rules that the masses do... Buying and selling indulgences, and so on.
Yesterday at 11:01am ·
Paul Arden Lidberg
Absolutely..."global warming/climate change" is very much a religion. People "believe" in global warming. They claim the science is settled, but can't produce irrefutable evidence that it is. Supporting "Climate Change" feels good, because who wouldn't want to protect the planet?
Unfortunately, many of those most hardcore supporters of it reach the point of believing that the best solution to anthropogenic global warming is to remove the anthropogenic part i.e., Us.
Unfortunately, many of those most hardcore supporters of it reach the point of believing that the best solution to anthropogenic global warming is to remove the anthropogenic part i.e., Us.
Yesterday at 12:29pm ·
Kevin Maurice
There are certainly sincere people out there, but if you are a working scientist, and you go against the Orthodoxy, if you are junior, you get fired, if you are senior, you lose funding, which amounts to the same thing. The scientists have seen this, or know someone, or know someone who knows ... After a point, expediency kicks in. Because you can'...See More
Yesterday at 4:51pm ·
Flint Dille
Its funny how the politicization of science has lead to a loss in the credibility of science. The blurring between science and the humanities hasn't helped. Science is in desperate need of a reset.
7 hours ago ·
Flint Dille
I used to believe that when scientists said something it was something to be really considered and there had rigorous work behind it. Now, I think of it as a pitch for a grant.
7 hours ago ·
Paul Arden Lidberg
And a lot of it has all the research and serious thought behind it (and sometimes less) than the headline story in the Weekly World News! (Hey, Bat Boy is real, man!)
7 hours ago ·
7 hours ago ·
Steven Grant
You haven't argued that science is in need of a reset, Flint. You've argued that the popular perception of science is in need of a reset, and rather than argue that science has gone bad you should be arguing for a populist demand that politicization of science be brought to a screeching halt. There's nothing wrong with science. Science corrupted by politics isn't science, it's politics.
about an hour ago ·
Rick Giolito
Science isn't limited to Academia (which you guys seem to be citing as the cause for the loss of credibility). And I have to have to agree with Steven... it's limited almost exclusively to the Climate Change issue...a hot political issue.
Except for Finance and Retail, science is a huge economic driver of our economy. Everything from Healthcare ...See More
Except for Finance and Retail, science is a huge economic driver of our economy. Everything from Healthcare ...See More
about an hour ago ·
G.D. Strauff
Totally agree with Mr. Grant. In the case of Al Gore & Climate Change I never bought into it as I viewed it as just that - politics; data corrupted by both ends of an agenda.
I think the ash-cloud last month was a good little reminder that mother nature is indeed still charge of this planet and that we humans are really quite insignificant.
I think the ash-cloud last month was a good little reminder that mother nature is indeed still charge of this planet and that we humans are really quite insignificant.
34 minutes ago ·
Flint Dille
Okay Steve... I take your point. And yes, Rick, I am mostly focussing on academic science. At the same time, I think all of this has become dangerously blurred.
Let me illustrate the shift from science to humanities with a personal anecdote. I started out as an archeology major, was briefly an anthropology major and then landed in Ancient ...See More
Let me illustrate the shift from science to humanities with a personal anecdote. I started out as an archeology major, was briefly an anthropology major and then landed in Ancient ...See More
a few seconds ago ·
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