Bring On the ‘Reality- Based Community’

My English class thinks this article lacks credibility. What do you think?

The EPA is scientifically dishonest, yes, under the Bush administration, but no, not more so than under Clinton. They have redefined "peer review" to include panel discussions among those who agree with their defacto religion. The warmists have further destroyed any scientific credibility by attacking "skeptics", where skepticism is a scientific duty, especially as an element of peer review.

This article is absurd. The political bias is evidenced by the broad use of the word "poisonous" and the vicious personal tone.

I spent a few months several years ago re-analyzing a study, funded in part by the EPA, and purportedly peer reviewed. The gross math errors that were made served to support some contorted findings that magically furthered an EPA agenda. These errors were typical of many "environmental scientists", whose duty to their self-aggrandizing objectives overwhelm any due the scientific method. Much like "computer science" and "political science", this ain't science at all.

I like the TITLE of this article REALITY.

Bush never had much respect for facts because he believed he already had all the answers from his "other father." This is religion run amok, where one suspends their own judgment, thinking and reasoning and replace it with ready-made "answers." And, if anything gets too complicated, just frame it in black/white terms to simplify it.

This is a worldview, I'm afraid, too many Americans embrace; which is largely why we are behind in math and science. It seems that only fear (ex. Sputnik) motivates sufficient numbers to come back to reality and engage scientific methodology and rationality to solve problems.

Number one I voted for McCain, Obama won the election, he is our president. I will admit that a lot of people may have voted for him because of his color, however let us not now run him down.O.K.? As for the science thing you can always find two opposing views, most of it over exagerated. On global warming, weather it is real or not may not be as important as doing something to combat it. It would be better to reduce global warming and not need to than to need to and not. One thing we could do right now is to start drilling for oil in an invironmentally friendly way rather than getting it from other countries that don't care about the invironment. Also we need to refine our own oil, there is less likelyhood of an oil spill into the ocean and we can do it in an invironmentally friendly way. At the same time we need to explore all other avenues of alternative energy. Something that has kind of gone by the way side is recycling, we should make it easier for people to recycle all things.
Lets hope that Obama will use a little common sense when it is his turn, and not take for gospel truth that wich is exagerated. Also that he will not do the popular thing just because it is the popular thing to do. That he will take into account what is in the best interest of the country as a whole.

November 5th, 2008 SP Editor Posted in American News | 159 Comments »

Anything can happen in America???

You can literally be ANYBODY and win an election, something that I bet a lot of lazy (and criminally inclined) children will be happy to learn. From now on, experience, knowledge, intelligence, character, associations, intentions, substance, and demeanor will be irrelevant, if you are fortunate enough to belong to an ethnic minority that the Media wishes to promote and that enough European Americans can feel guilty for.

In this first (and probably not last) AFFIRMATIVE ACTION election, we have discovered that if you promise enough nonsense to those who are desperate for a handout, you can be victorious. We have discovered that when you allow the spread of ignorance, entitlement, and irresponsibility throughout an entire population, you can reach very high (note to self when selling any product!).

Yesterday was the beginning of the end for the United States of America. We are only left to see what we can create from the ashes of this entire mess. WE will have to get ready for the tornado that is about to hit us, and be ready to take over from the mindless hordes that now dominate our land.

Will many of these same ???AmeriCONS???, as I will now call them, ever learn?

Yesterday, people elected a clone of Mr. 2000 and 2004. An unprepared empty suit of a man, whom we shall forever call the Affirmative Action Bush (AA Bush for short).

What will be our next step?

Chris Matthews shows his true colors. Talk about an ongoing free pass!:
Matthews: "I Want To Do Everything I Can To Make This...New Presidency Work"

matthews_11-6b.jpgChris Matthews appeared on MSNBC's Morning Joe this morning to discuss Rahm Emanuel's decision to announce he has not yet accepted President-Elect Barack Obama's offer for White House Chief of Staff and other Obama-related stories.

But after some questioning by co-host Joe Scarborough, Matthews said, "I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work."

"Your job as a journalist is to make this presidency work?" asked Scarborough.

Scarborough, co-host Mika Brzezinski and guest Richard Stengel continued the conversation about a journalist's role with Matthews throughout the interview. Stengel described the "constitutional responsibility" of journalists to "hold his feet to the fire."

Thank you so much for soberly expressing what many of us have felt while living through the years of the Bush Administration. So much does simply boil down to respect for fact. You helped me put a handle on one of the many reasons for my frustration with the policies of this President and his advisors.

Look at how environmental zealots justified action on greenhouse gases. Not by arguing that emperical data supports the theory, a stance that would at least have been intellectually honest, albeit debatable. Instead they had political appointees misrepresent scientific reports on climate change, slander skeptical climatologists as big oil minions and exaggerate the predictive power of computer models, with the result that tens of millions of Americans think that the cause of global warming is well understood.

I checked the author's biography and she has a "BA from Yale". Yes, a bachelor of arts with no subject indicated. This is the problem. Even science writers in the elite Ivy League media have no background in science. So no, Dr. Hansen, she has no capacity for skepticism. She paid Yale to be brainwashed into liberal ideology, a much more important qualification to be a Newsweek science writer than a science education could ever be.

Where do you get these notions that these scientific pronouncements about global warming, stem cells and sex education are so certain? Do you have no capacity for skepticism? Does it seem irrational to you that scientists motivated by greed might just fudge the numbers to keep the research cash flowing? Your writing reveals such utter contempt for the Bush Administration that I suspect it's clouded your judgment. Open your mind, Ms. Begley.

"The Borgen Project has some good info on the cost of addressing global poverty.
$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$540 billion: Annual U.S. Defense Budget."

"The Borgen Project has some good info on the cost of addressing global poverty.
$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$540 billion: Annual U.S. Defense Budget."