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Rick
Enjoy your beliefs. I am happy to be a rational logical Christian.
To boil it down you can neither prove nor disprove the existence of anything, it all comes down to initial conviction hopefully (In those of us who rever logic and rationality) a progression of listening thinking and taking the most logical steps from that point.If you can prove your own existense then you have done better than the greatest philosophers. Proving or disproving the existence of a diety is just a waste of time. Believe or believe in non belief and enjoy the season
Merry Christmas
Comment Posted By steve On 16.12.2009 @ 05:56
WHAT'S SO HARD TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT CLIMATEGATE? EVERYTHING
Rick
You drive me crazy. The human senses are fuzzy enough by themselves. The more data elements that are cranked into an equation the more critical accuracy to several decimal points is needed.
Go back to basic Philosophy and mathematics. First your data collection must be beyond reproach. ( absolutely accurate) or you have just screwed the pooch before you have even begun. Next you give good air-tight reasons why you are not including other data. (Check the recent sunspot count and solar magnetic flux).
Next purge or explain emotional drivers that may pollute your work. (who benifits?, who gains?)
After you have completed this and all is in order then submit for really good and thorough, impartial peer review.
Preferably this should be from qualified scientists who DO NOT share your opinions, wants, and desires.A good peer review should be able to legitimatly duplicate the results from the raw data and methods included.
The Peer review was the worst joke involved. Peer review should feel like your body is being gored by maurading Huns trying to eat your liver out of your living abdomen.
This is not what happened, what instead happened was a cover up that was a mafia like Chicago organized crime version of clean politics.
You want the bottom line. The mob wanted a result and the result was delivered
Comment Posted By steve On 8.12.2009 @ 20:51
PALIN MAINSTREAMS THE BIRTHERS
Rick
It is not opposing a conservative, It is when, how, and what aid and comfort it may give the bottom feeding Liberals.
From what I see you are a purist and an absolutist.
You attack people when they are in fights with others and are having a tough time.
You attempt to make a virture out of kicking people when they are down. Or derailing any conservative that does not pass the Rick Moran purity test when they are ascending.Timing is everthing
At least that is what I see.
Comment Posted By steve On 4.12.2009 @ 16:16
'THE COST OF DYING:' FALSE CHOICES OR THE FUTURE OF AMERICAN HEALTHCARE?
The 'delicate' issue we are faced with is this:
health care is too expensive to give to everyone.
There is no way we are going to get cost down without sacrificing care and provide it to the Baby Boomers.
We can make some people suffer a lot or we can all suffer a little.
Suffer a lot means that Charlie can't get his kidney and liver at 68 years old.
Suffer a little means that 40 year olds don't get mammograms and 20 year olds don't get pap smears.
The question we have to ask is:
Does Charlie deserve a double transplant at the cost of a thousand mammograms (or ten thousand) that will save the life of two (or ten) women nearly have his age?
Guess what? Charlie says yes, and the two women say no. Charlie votes and only half of the two women do.
Guess who wins?
Here's the good news. For those of you that have recognized the problem of incentives, you'll appreciate this.
There is a way to incentivize Charlie to trade the kidney and liver for a dirt nap.
In doing so, the government saves thousands in costs, Charlie's heirs get bequeathed enough to bury him (and then some), and the economy is rescued fromt he brink of collapse.
Details forcoming.
Comment Posted By Steve On 5.12.2009 @ 13:42
COULD WE WIN IF WE HAD TO FIGHT WORLD WAR II TODAY?
Michael:
Nice effort but rather Cliche to call somone a coward then drag the Red Herring acroos the scent. Of Course every society on Earth at any time in any place has assissination as a factor in politics. Are the Secret Service armed with Marsmallow guns?
Are you so afraid of potential death and violence as to let it bend your whole being into quitting certain lines of thought and action.
Comment Posted By steve On 21.11.2009 @ 07:50
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Steve, i think your comment woulda worked better circa 2001-2008, when the whole executive branch decided that they could defy federal law and the constitution itsel itself in order to “protect” the constitution. tell me that makes sense. sheesh.*******************************************************
I can see your point, But I was thinking more during the Clinton administration when we discovered the Chineese military had aquired the most current Missile MIRV warhead technology. During this period it was known that President Clinton had little regard for restraint with his Libido and little regard for thise who did. This was so well known as to be a caricture. We know he associated with Ms Lewinsky (no harm no Fowl in my book) I can guarentee that such a clear weakness was not ignored by competing Foreign intellegence agencies. What would a highly trained female operative of impressive assets been able to obtain. We will never know because we focused on inconsequential sex rather than highly probable and highly consequential sex. Talk about blackmail, it practicaly writes itself. Remeber when caught bargin down with a lesser crime.
Of course I cannot say it happened but I can say it was all kinds ofd stupid not to follow up, or maybe the reason it got to impeachment so easily was to give to get.
“cui bono”
And no, I am not suggesting re-investigating Bill Clinton, but can we please keep an eye out for this kind of vulnerability in our leaders?
Comment Posted By steve On 20.11.2009 @ 21:40
Roman at heart does not mean an actual follower of Roman Law though it was sophisticated. If you follow and actually research Roman law you will find it almost as sophisticated as our own. Resolving disputes was essential to maintaing a working commercial Empire. Lasted more than a thousand years followed by the Dark ages...whta a lovely period. If you think all Roman law was assasination then I will say you have not studied Roman law.
Comment Posted By steve On 20.11.2009 @ 21:26
I was not consciously quoting Gary Allen.
I have not read the books.
I heard the phrase and on it's own it carries a tight political logic that tends to Stop the mental gears cold for a second and help re-evaluate the situation.
For you this will not be true because the phrase brings back the memory and judgement about those books you read.
I know many people today do not like to boil thought down to its simple root form.The Romans had a phrase "cui bono" - who benifits, Why is this not asked of everone in power and politics?
Of course these days it would be good to keep this phrase on your Mind
"custodiet ipsos custodes?"
Steve
Comment Posted By steve On 20.11.2009 @ 21:15
Richard:
Nice list you have going there. I can see you focus on this list a lot and assume eveyone else does too.
Please continue to think your list was all ther was to that time period and we will leave you in your corner muttering to yourself about right wing plots and the impending re-enslavement of black America.
You are the only one who has single handedly with a small cable of right thinking brothers prevented the overturning the gains of the Constitution, the Magna Carta, and the Civil War. I salute your amazing achievments.
Comment Posted By steve On 20.11.2009 @ 20:57
Michael
Convicted does not mean assasination.
but ask yourself, no matter what the evidence would a treason trial after impeachment ever result in a conviction? Be practicle in this day and age. Party or ideology is unimportant. Even if the sentence were merely removal from office and no more, could we reasonably expect to ever geta conviction for Treason.
Comment Posted By steve On 20.11.2009 @ 20:50
