Good Old Neon

Better still, find me one instance where I

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Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you, Glen Greenwald: Retired New York Times reporter David Cay Johnston, writing at The New Republic yesterday, makes a critical point, in a piece entitled "Celebrating the Bailout Bill's Failure": Whether you favor the $700 billion bailout or not, the House vote today should make you cheer -- loudly. Why? Because the majority vote against it shows that Washington is not entirely in the service of the political donor class, by which I mean Wall Street and the corporations who rely on it for their financing. These campaign donors, a narrow slice of Americ

You do realize there is a canyon wide distinction between lambasting a belief system and using a belief system to control or take the lives of millions of people - no? Outside of writing books and engaging in debates, how, exactly, has Christopher Hitchens (or any atheist for that matter) imposed upon your life and your ability to live it? If you so choose, you can ignore him (and/or yours truly), can the same be said of those who fly jetliners into towers or attempt to drastically curtail the rights of others who do not share their religious belief system? Has Hitchens or any other prominent

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I miss Bennett

values voters -

I'm fond of the following solution, from Time: The Administration and Congress have felt compelled to do something about the "financial meltdown," so an inefficient and inequitable "bailout plan" has been rushed through the legislature despite harsh criticism from the right and left. That's unfortunate. Both presidential candidates were stalling by qualifying the plan. Whichever candidate had had the courage to reject outright this proposal would have had the better claim to be President. Do not be fooled. The $700 billion (ultimately $1 trillion or more) bailout is not predominantly for

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Fixed it for you. And find me one person on here who is convinced natural disaster's are partisan events. There's a canyon sized distinction between holding the federal government responsible, up to and including Bush, for the post-Katrina response vs. blaming the occurence of a hurricane on a political party.

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I admit it, I am intolerant of extraordinary claims for which no evidence exists

From wikipedia: ABC decided not to renew Maher's contract for Politically Incorrect in 2002 after he made a controversial on-air remark on September 17, 2001,[35] in which he agreed with guest conservative political commentator Dinesh D'Souza that the 9/11 terrorists were not cowards. He then went on to say, "We have been the cowards lobbing cruise missiles from 2,000 miles away. That's cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building, say what you want about it, it's not cowardly." Outside of the USA #1 crowd, he made a fair point. Bush and his supporters called Hussein a cowar

I will defend the truth vigorously

Oh, well in that case, here you go: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/thermo.html

And what, exactly, am I believing without evidence?

To my recollection, no, he does not

Do you have proof that it was not chance? Do you have proof at all to support the existence of a god? Can you present me with one piece, just a single piece of verifiable evidence that does not require a Herculean leap of faith? The fact is, we have no reason to believe it was anything other than chance, and that of course is a logical response to a question that in all likelihood, has no answer. What is not reasonable, is to then jump to the conclusion that an invisible yet conscious hand has been guiding the process all along. This would not hold up in a court of law (

From the Daily Kos: What Does CBS Have? by BarbinMD Mon Sep 29, 2008 at 07:05:11 AM PDT Buried near the end of today's column from Howard Kurtz, where he is talking about Sarah Palin's disastrous interview with Katie Couric, was this interesting tidbit: And the worst may be yet to come for Palin; sources say CBS has two more responses on tape that will likely prove embarrassing. Given the excruciatingly bad answers she gave on Alaska's proximity to Russia giving her foreign policy experience, or her take on the $700 billion bailout, it's hard to believe that there's anything worse..

Our existence. Let me be clear, when I said our existence is predicated upon

If by source you mean an origin that is not the work of some conscious higher being concerned with our wellbeing, then yes, I believe our existence is predicated upon something, however, I draw a strict line at the belief that our existence is the handy work of a man/being/it/woman

Given that many of our forbearers shared many of the same altruistic urges, including social pack animals, wolves, (some) primates, lions, meerkats, etc, it would certainly appear as though altruism