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To: tejek who wrote (525426)	11/3/2009 8:03:27 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 1577883

You think there is something wrong with someone remaining single? Wow! If true, our worlds are far more different than I thought. If they have kids, I think they should strive to give them two parents. Not plan on having kids as a single parent. -------------------------------------- But they're all taught evolution. Furthermore, people who reject it know as much or more about it than those who accept it. Its not mis-education there, its simple rejection. Why should creationism get equal billing with evolution when there is little science behind it? Its more about religion than science. I didn't call for creationism to get any billing in schools. I pointed out "creationism" gets nothing from the education system and EVERYONE has been taught evolution for a hundred years now .... the point is the people who reject it aren't ignorant .... they simply reject materialistic evolution as an adequate explanation for us being here. And that belief shouldn't be considered unscientific. ---------------------------------------- Auto company bondholders were recently stiffed. That happened once......and only after they refused to negotiate. You mean after they refused to give up their legal rights, they were taken away. A move to make America a banana republic, instead of a nation founded on laws. -------------------------------------- Throughout history, private enterprise has been far more damaging to the average American than gov't. Thats the liberal myth. Private free enterprise has been the source of our prosperity, not government largesse. Government can only give what its already taken from someone. It redistributes wealth, doesn't create it. ---------------------------------------- Ethanol doesn't make financial or energy sense. At one point it did in theory, now it doesn't look as good and we are moving away from it. We're NOT moving away from it. We're under legal mandates to vastly expand it - Obama and the Democratic Congress have assured it: " In 2007, biofuels including ETHANOL received $3.25 billion in subsidies and support -- more than nuclear, solar or any other energy source, according to the Energy Information Administration. With new stimulus funding, this figure is expected to jump. New Energy Finance Ltd., an alternative-energy research firm, estimates that blending mandates alone would provide over $33 billion in tax credits to the biofuels industry from 2009 through 2013." From: U.S. Biofuel Boom Running on Empty By Ann Davis and Russell Gold 27 August, 2009 The Wall Street Journal More: "The Corn ETHANOL Juggernaut Oil isn't America's only fuel addiction. Inefficient and environmentally damaging, the corn-ETHANOL boondoggle will nonetheless be hard to stop. by robert bryce The huge corn ETHANOL mandates imposed by Congress a few years ago may be the single most misguided agricultural program in modern American history. ..... once a juggernaut like corn ETHANOL gets rolling with massive federal support and mandated production levels, bringing it to a halt is enormously difficult — even when study after study shows that relying on corn ETHANOL as a cornerstone of an alleged renewable energy policy is folly. .... ... a bill — introduced in May by Texas’ Kay Bailey Hutchison and 10 other Senate Republicans — to freeze the ETHANOL mandates. Hutchison argued that the ETHANOL mandates needed to be limited because they were driving up the price of corn and were “clearly causing unintended consequences on food prices for American consumers.” Her bill would limit the volume of corn ETHANOL to be blended into gasoline to no more than 9 billion gallons. But current federal rules MANDATE far greater production: U.S. oil refiners must be using at least 15 billion gallons of ETHANOL per year in their gasoline by 2015 and 21 billion gallons by 2022. .... Hutchison’s bill, S. 3031, is stuck in the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. A hearing has not even been scheduled. In early August, the Environmental Protection Agency denied a request by Texas Gov. Rick Perry to allow his state to opt out of the federal ETHANOL mandates. Lower corn prices are a critical issue for livestock producers in Texas who have been hit hard by soaring corn prices. In denying the request, E.P.A. Administrator Stephen L. Johnson said that the ETHANOL requirements are “strengthening our nation’s energy security ...." e360.yale.edu ----------------------------- Its not just liberals who oppose nukes. A majority of Americans oppose nuclear facilities. Chernobyl was very effective at scaring Americans to death. I will admit liberals have done a good job of frightening people unnecessarily and hurting our energy future immeasurably. ---------------------------------- People who mock the faith of tens of millions of Americans. Maybe people would stop mocking them if they would stop insisting that everyone be like them. You have it backwards. Its liberal secularists who want everyone be like them, which is the whole point of the mocking and the anti-Christian story plots in entertainment media. ------------------------------------ No, they're becoming more prevalent. Now we can't prevent people with an incurable fatal STD from entering the country. Don't just say they are becoming more prevalent......provide some statistics/facts to back up your claim. Well, gee, when I was growing up there was no AIDS. There's a brand new STD that has come out of nowhere in the last few decades. You want more evidence? medicinenet.com Chlamydia, STD Rates Soar in U.S. Teenage Girls, Young Women Have Top Rates of Fertility-Robbing Infection By Daniel J. DeNoon WebMD Health News Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD Nov. 13, 2007 -- With nearly 3 million new chlamydia infections a year and drug-resistant gonorrhea on the rise, a new CDC report offers a grim view of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in America. ...... www2.hu-berlin.de Falling and rising STD rates In the 1950s, the use of antibiotics together with a massive public education campaign, led to a dramatic decline of STDs in the United States. ..... USA: A dramatic drop in STD cases in the 1950s, followed by a steep rise -------------------------------------- Why do so many liberals like Gore Vidal and Michael Moore despise America and Americans so much? They don't despise America....they just haven't bought into the brainwashing that you have. It starts when we are very young and it takes a lot to get beyond it. Many of us, though, are afraid to do so......once we realize that that which we love is not quite as pure as we thought, we tend to feel adrift......its easier to just believe the BS we've been taught. Sorry, but liberals do despise America. The evidence is overwhelming. Just saying something good about America sets you off .... for years now on SI I've been doing that occasionally just to get the predictable reaction. ---------------------- Well that was satisfying - so much liberal mythology and disinformation debunked in one post.

To: tejek who wrote (525426)	11/4/2009 7:20:35 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577883

How Beautiful We Were A short list. In no particular order. We had car shows, boat shows, beauty shows and dog shows. We ran robots on the surface of Mars by remote control. Our women came from all over the world in all shapes and sizes hues and scents. We actually believed that all men are created equal and tried to make it come true. Everybody liked our movies and loved our television shows. We tried to educate everybody, whether they wanted it or not. Sometimes we succeeded. We did Levis. We held the torch high and hundreds of millions came. No matter what the cost. We saved Europe twice and liberated it once. We believed so deeply and so abidingly in free speech that we protected and even honored and in some cases even elected traitors. We let you be as freaky as you wanted to be. We paid you not to plant crops and not to work. We died in the hundreds of thousands to end slavery here and around the world. We invented Jazz. We wrote the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Gettysberg address. We went to the moon to see how far we could hit a golf ball. We lifted a telescope into orbit that could see to the edge of the universe. When people snuck into the country against our laws, we made parking lots and food stands off to the side of the road so they wouldn't get hurt, and we let them use our hospitals for free, and we made their children citizens. We didn't care what God you worshipped as long as we could worship ours. We let the People arm themselves at will. Just to make sure. We gave everybody the vote. We built Disneyworld. Just for fun. We had a revolution so successful it was still going strong two and a quarter centuries later. We had so many heroes, even at the end, that we felt free to hate them and burn them in effigy. We electrified the guitar. We invented a music so compelling that it rocked the world. We had some middling novelists. We had some interesting painters. We had some pretty good poets. We had better songwriters. We ran our farms so well we fed the globe. We made the automobile and the airplane. We let you get rich. Really, really rich. And we didn't care who you were or what you were or where you came from or who your parents were. We just cared about what you made or what you did. We had poor people who, even at their most wretched, were richer than any other poor people on the face of the planet. Even towards the end, as we dissolved in petty bickering and the idle entertainments that come with having far too much leisure and money, we were trying to make it higher, finer, brighter, better and more beautiful. Even towards the end, the best of us declined to give up and pressed on. "Where to? What next?" americandigest.org