Russellings - February 8th, 2008

Feb. 8th, 2008

12:59 am - Logic of Science vs. Religion

I haven’t been posting much to Russellings for the last month, because I’ve been spending my time elsewhere ranting about a tremendously ignorant and insulting column that appeared a couple of days before Xmas in the Appleton Post Crescent.

Since I invested so much of my energy in a series of essays that I posted on the Post Crescent’s on-line forum dedicated to comments on that article, I figured “what the hell” and decided to make those essays do double duty by reposting them here.

I’ll do about 1 a day for the next month, but I’ll hide them behind LJ-Cut so as not to take up too much space on your screen. We begin with the idiot who started it all:

( Kurt Williamsen column: Logic rests with religion more than atheism )

Tomoro: My original letter to the editor in response to this column.

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02:19 pm - Today's Lesson in Advanced Math

Today’s Lesson in Advanced Math
Equation for Transforming Republicans

Bush
– lies
– arrogance
– incompetence
– laziness
+ intelligence
+ English language
+ temper
+ 10 years
= McCain

Would John McCain be a better president than George W. Bush? Of course he would! But that’s setting the bar pretty damn low. Bozo the Clown would be a better president than Bush. Surely we can aspire to something more than a pulse as the basic qualification for the leader of the free world.

Just because McCain is a better PERSON than Bush doesn’t mean he’s got better POLICIES. Based on the public record, he has every intention of continuing the disastrously failed policies of the current administration, including:
• welfare for the rich
• more debt for the working class
• contempt for the poor
• continued attempts to raid Social Security
• a foreign policy that, if anything, is even MORE belligerent
• more money for a military that already outspends the rest of the world put together
• no exit from Iraq
• plenty of entrances to other oil-rich countries
• a “good luck” attitude toward health care
• continued erosion of women’s reproductive rights
• continued attempts to foist Christianity on everyone at government expense
• continued concentration of media ownership into fewer and fewer hands
• more jobs for India
• more Caribbean and Latin American nations for US corporations to exploit
• fewer and weaker food, drug, health, job-safety, and environmental regulations
• reduced enforcement of whatever pathetic regulations remain
• rigged elections
• fear, fear, fear, fear, fear (Maybe he’ll appoint Rudy Giuliani as Secretary of Paranoia.)
• more high-stakes testing for public schools, until they’re ALL labelled failures
• but less federal money for those schools (Hey, bombs are expensive! Gotta prioritize.)
• no letup in the War on Drug-Using Americans (It’s a WAR! By definition, a good thing.)
• extending our world record as the most imprisoned nation on Earth
• judicial nominees who think of the Bill of Rights as optional
• corporate-purchased science
• et cetera
• et cetera
• et cetera

On the plus side:
• torture discouraged
• better sense of humor
• will probably die in office
• The far right, for some odd reason, seems to loathe him.

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