One thing I do find interesting is this very unscientific observation…. Liberals love to call Conservatives unscientific, mainly because Conservatives tend to give Creationism some weight, and have skeptical views of Global Warming. Meanwhile, it seems to me that it is liberals who are much more likely to eschew scientifically proven medical treatments for various alternative “cures” and remedies.
Don’t get me wrong, this is not a blanket statement, as I know of some Conservatives who waste money on homeopathic products sold in stores, and I know of a few religiously minded liberals who believe in Creation. That said, in my experience, of the people I know personally and of things I’ve read of certain people supporting this or that “anti-scientific” position, it does seem to be the case.
I think there was a study or report / article about this very thing that came out a few weeks ago. Have to look for it.
PS. I am skeptical of some of the science used to push the alarmist global warming agenda, yet I’m also a HUGE fan of “The Skeptics Guide To The Universe“. I don’t have any problem with people who have differing views on any of this. The people I DO have a problem with are those who rip people off and at the same time doom them to certain death because they didn’t get actual medical treatment and shortened their lives.
Both movements are a reaction to perceived corruption within the economic / political system that currently overlays the US government. One side focuses more on big government failings, the other on corporate greed, but when you come right down to it, both coexist hand in hand. Big corp actually likes Big Govt. If you have a government that expands into business, then it’s very very easy for big business to buy off politicians to do their bidding and provide benefits, be it grants for solar industry or subsidies for big oil. Does anyone else not notice that most of the speeches read aloud on the floors of the House of Reps and the Senate are not only written by lobbyists, but most of the time the politician presenting the speech clearly has never even seen the speech until he or she is reading it.
For all the differences in the two movements, it’s the one thing both the Occupy and Tea Party movements have in common. They both recognize the corruption embedded in our current government system, and are not as far apart in agreement as it appears. Even though I’ve been tough on some of the stupidity on display at the Occupy Wall Street thing, I never the less support the uprising itself. It’s good for democracy. And we’re not going to clean house until both side realize it needs to be done.
“Oh my Gaia I’m so distressed
I can’t afford expensive dress
Cause I’m kind of poor but we know that
I’m a young progressive Democrat
I march all day and yell and scream
I’m joined by Ben and Jerry’s ice cream!
I’ve not a clue my message is flawed
I’m simply here to support the cause…
What-ever that is
Crap ona cop car
Oh yeah baby
Crap ona cop car
Never mind we’re wearing all these corporate made things
I just twittered “You’re all guilty of capitalist sins!”.
Sex and drugs and drum patrol
We’ve turned this park into a festering hole
But it’s OK ’cause we’re here to vent
About right wingers destroying the environment
It doesn’t matter that we make no sense
Cause the government you know will pay my rent
Oh you won’t believe the time we’ve had
The sex is cool though we stink real bad…
But it’s all cool
Crap ona cop car
Oh Yeah
Crap ona cop car
I said Crap ona cop car
Bithces
Crap ona cop car!!!”
UPDATE: OK. I just had another brain-storm! I won’t have time to put down any music for this. So, any guitar / musicians out there who wnat to add music… Take a stab at it! This will be a running contest!!!
Anyone else struck by how they took 10+ minutes discussing “how they feel about the idea of letting Lewis speak” when Lewis probably could have said everything he wanted to say in 7?
Good, but this wins the prize!
I would like to say (I would like to say), that these morons (that these morons), should be locked away (should be locked away) in the nuthouse (in the nuthouse) indefinitely (indefinitely). Thank you (Thank you). Please stop repeating everything I say (please? stop saying everything I say). No really! (No really). Stop it! (Stop it.) Arrrgh! (Argggh)
Best (best)…. YouTube (YouTube)… Banter (banter)… Ever (ever)! (!)
But I have good reason. Work has kept me fairly busy.
I had recorded bits and pieces of a few songs, but realized I was still a little lost on the new digital recording software I’m now using, Presonus’s Studio One. It’s not that different from the old tried and true Adode Audition 1.5 I’ve been using for the last, oh eight years, but it has a ton of features that werenât even invented yet when AA 1.5 was new.
I have to change the crank shaft seal on one of the cars today. But after that, I think I’ve got enough of a handle on the new software to start recording.
PS. The Presonus FireStudio Project (or “precious” as the Sonic-Mate calls it given the way I fawn over it) is an awesome interface! Audio signal is vrey clean! Can’t recommend it enough!!!
On Friday, I did something I’ve been meaning to do for quite some time. I gave a donation to KFCF / KPFAPacifica Radio.
What, don’t you call them “Communist Radio”?
Yes I do.
The views and political editorials aired on the Pacifica stations is far left at its mildest, and completely lunatic at its boldest! But, I am a firm believer in free speech, and absolutely support their right to have their opinions heard, even if, in my view, they are sometime 100% wrong and insanely nutty!
My pledge was a small donation; business is slowing down and I can’t afford to give much out of my wallet. But it felt really good doing it. And it’s worth it. They have some very interesting book reviews and chats with the authors. Plus, they also air various Congressional hearings in their entirety, something no other commercial radio station would ever be able to do. That alone, to me, is worth the cost of the donation.
[Welcome Instapundit readers. Always grateful to have new eyes poking around here]
Remember when Obama the candidate was refreshingly honest about his previous drug use in the past. Well, looks like the hopes and dreams of those who support personal freedoms and thought he would understand given his history have gone up in smoke!
Remember when the Obama administration was going to be stand-offish on states that had approved the use of medical marijuana?
Oh, he was very much for it before he was against it.
And just to show how idiotic and political this is, there’s this. Just a couple of months ago, there was a huge, I mean HUGE pot bust here in Sanger, which is near Fresno.
How big was it?
Check out the video of a helicopter flying over the pot growing operation.
Yes, you do keep asking yourself, are they done filming yet?… are they done now?… NOW???
Remember when this administration was going to be ultra tough on polluters?
Job losses due to regulations would look bad. According to the Associated Press “EPA regional administrator Al Armendariz said the agency’s decision to ease the standards had to do with new data and was not political”. Sounds good and all, except this administration has a long history of ignoring science when it suitedtheirneeds. Did I mention there is an election coming?
Plus, the President, who wants to be considered Mr Compromise, can’t compromise on his latest jobs bill, which guarantees it won’t get past the republican house. It’s almost as if there is an election coming, and he wants to blame the lack of a jobs bill on Republicans!
And speaking of…. Don’t think they’re of the hook!
Here is the stupid!
We know that the unemployment rate for 18 – 25 year olds is very high, at about 24%. We also see that the vast majority of the Occupy Wall Street crowd is right within that demographic. But I guess Herman Cain doesn’t have all the facts:
âWhat do they want? I donât have facts to back this up, but I happen to believe that these demonstrations are planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration. Donât blame Wall Street. Donât blame the big bank. If you donât have a job and youâre not rich, blame yourself.â
But this at least has some tact. Laura Ingraham on her radio show today told them bluntly “they needed to get a job”. Uhm… If they could find a job in this economy, maybe they wouldn’t be protesting!
Jeez! Why does any one listen to these people.
PS. Yes, I do know that many (most) of the protesters at the various “Occupation” sites haven’t a clue, are serial protestors, will go out and picket any liberal cause at the drop of a hat, and don’t know what they’re doing it for most of the time. That doesn’t negate the fact that unemployment is a severe concern for that age group, and that many major corporations are sitting on money, not reinvesting it back into the economy and creating more jobs. If they are simply waiting for the Presidency to change hands, well, that doesn’t look good either.
PPS. Meep Meep = Silent Silent.
Obama’s biggest cheerleader has gone mysteriously silent on the administrations decision to crack down on medical marijuana. I suspect he’ll respond one of these days, but it’s pretty embarrassing when a very part time blogger beats him to it. But, I guess it’s complicated.
Here are snippets of conversations with certain Conservatives arguing against same sex marriage:
Ned starts out:
“Marriage does not exist to produce children; that has been done since time immemorial regardless of marriage status. Marriage exists to encourage people to raise and support the children they produce. It is not a means to regulate procreation; it is a means to manage the natural output of procreation. Society privileges it and subsidizes it because it creates a natural cost-sharing model in which those who procreate bear a significant portion of the cost and resources required for raising the children produced â versus single or no parenthood, in which case the community (state) must absorb the full cost of raising the children produced.
Marriage makes sense for heterosexuals because it provides an ideal environment for managing, raising, and supporting the natural outgrowth of heterosexual activity. But since homosexual activity does not produce the same natural output, there is no reason to treat it similarly or for society to subsidize it or otherwise promote it.
In short, there is really no public good or public value provided by gay-sex marriage. Why, then, should society fund it or subsidize it?”
Marriage should remain one man one woman because it’s tradition:
Through most of those 6,000 years, there was an understanding between men and women; menâs access to Mr. Fuzzy was contingent upon men providing women with shelter, support, social status and responsibility for any offspring that resulted. Then came the âSexual Revolution,â where women were taught that they were somehow oppressed for wanting something tangible in return for access to their assets. Men were absolved of the responsibility for taking care of the women they slept with, and women were told if they took a pill it would all work out. Because modern society, you see, knew so much better than all of that âoutdatedâ and âunequalâ dogma that previous generations believed in.
So, how well has this worked out for women, children, men, and society in general? Womenâs sexual leverage over men has diminished to almost nothing, men are no longer expected to raise the children they sire, minority family structures have collapsed entirely and non-minority structures are increasingly rickety, men have become juvenlized.
And the conversation eventually devolved to this accusation:
If you donât want your child to be labeled a bastard, Sonic, donât go have irresponsible sex outside of marriage. Using what will happen to the child you produce to avoid consequences for your actions is nothing more than the most blatant and obvious hostage-taking, and shows exactly how little regard you have for the child in the first place.
And frankly, given that youâre pro-choice, you have exactly zero problem with killing a child based on âdecisions/actions his or her parents made, decisions which the child had no control overâ.
Never mind that I don’t have a child, bastard or not. And then there’s this:
And all you are doing is making pathetic excuses, Sonic. The reason a child is born a bastard is because two adults chose to be irresponsible. The blood is on their hands, the stigma is on their heads. They chose to put a child through this. They engaged in the activity that brought it. And you donât want to hold them responsible, just as you want to make sure they can treat the child just like an STD.
You want benefits [marriage] without responsibility, commitment, or consequences, Sonic. Thatâs all it is.
As you can see, this exercise is quite pointless. I did it so you won’t have to.
PS. I missed this gem.
I asked of Vic (names changed to protect everybody btw):
Do you think Ned is more likely to cheat because he is gay?âŚ.Do you think Iâm more likely to cheat because Iâm gay?
There is too much wealth concentrated in too few banks. Look at 1998… Ah, the consequences of the Glass-Steagal repeal. And you wonder why the dolts in Congress didn’t even consider bringing that back. Too damned hard untangling this mess! Can you imagine all those campaign funds they would lose out on? This is one reason I will never belong to another political party. The problem here is right under their noses, but they are so bought off that they will not change the system because the system ownes them.
PS. One of the causes of the Great Depression was that banks cross mingled investments from different areas – stock market investments were co-mingled with business investments. When the stock market crashed, so too did business funds. It is exactly the same thing that happened with the mortgage bust in 2007. Those poison investments were intertwined with everything else. For over 60 years, Glass-Steagal helped to prevent that. Now, with it’s repeal, TARP, and the other bail-out, that investment co-mingling is more than even a feature of the system. When Europe goes bust – not if, but when – we are screwed, even more than we are now!!!!!
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