We can all make a difference too by urging our local school districts to have thorough science curricula. The school where I work was audited because our students performed low on the state test on all parts including science, but it’s not our teachers it’s the curriculum. All the employess were interviewed by the district’s instructional superintendents and I made sure to tell them that we lacked a science curriculum and that we need to enlighten and inspire those young minds to be the future scientists that will make a difference. I’m just so happy Obama is so into science, I hope all goes well with that. Great leaders don’t just talk, they make things happen and Obama is proving well.

Large science is totally dependent upon government grants. Its administrators hustle about like scared House candidates scrounging money all the time. There’d be no WWW without defense dollars from DARPA back in the ’60s.

Small-scale university science depends on grants, both US and private. “Pure” research, like God, died a long time ago.

Technology, which at best is trailing edge science, may attract private capital. But, investment capital expects return short-term. Toys like iPods and iPhones may enrich Steve Jobs and Apple stock holders, but they do nothing but serve trivial ends of popular culture. Big Pharma will fund small pharma, because BibP can only market — it can no longer create.

If Galileo were alive today, he’d still starve.

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A common misperception (encouraged, no doubt, by certain media outlets) is that Obama doesn’t write his own responses and speeches. In fact, he’s one of the presidential candidates we’ve seen in recent years that does:

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1837368,00.html

http://www.sciencedebate2008.com/www/index.php?id=42

In case you didn’t know, conservative (or just plain old troll) comments can be reported on McCain’s web site to “receive points”. ( http://www.johnmccain.com/ActionCenter/BlogInteract/BlogInteract.aspx )

Being so hopeless you need to have a section that tells the good little sock puppet trolls to hit the blogs with copy-and-paste Talking Points is despicable. A majority of these anti-Obama comments are probably from the McCain spam bots. Bleep-Blip-Boop my robo-friends!

A fun game to play is to compare their free-thinking “comments” with the spam copy-and-paste talking points of the day.

Have fun racking up Spam for McCain Points you little trolls! :]

Mitch Miller says, “In the Scopes Monkey trial, a state had laws on the books that made teaching evolution illegal. And they actually tried to prosecute somebody for this!!!”

We currently have laws that will seek to prosecute those studying and experimenting with stem cells. A course of study that has the potential to save and improve many, many lives.

Your point is not well made as the fears and superstitions surrounding this area of study can also meet with dire consequences when its intent is to further humankind, increase our capacity to live more fulfilling, healthy lives and cure diseases.

It seems that Ms Palin isn’t concerned about the greenhouse effect at all.

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This edition also includes an exclusive interview with McCain running mate Alaskan Gov. Sarah Palin. In this interview she reveals her take on the vice presidency, John McCain, abortion and other issues. She also explains why she doesn’t buy into “global warming” theories.

Here you go…you will, of course, just reject it out of hand, thus proving my point.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B05E5DE1F31F93BA35755C0A9629C8B63

I think it is exceptionally arrogant to believe that humans can have such an outrageous effect on nature. One volcano pumps more greenhouse gases into the air in one day than we can in 100 years. I think our arrogance is along the same lines as the arrogance that lead to believing that the earth was the center of the universe back in the Dark Ages.

That being said, I do think we need to be responsible and do everything we can to cut back on our output of greenhouse gases. We do need to attack this issue aggressively. I agree that this will lead to engineering breakthroughs that are much needed.

What a dodge. If you’re making the argument, provide the evidence.

Er, I didn’t say that. That was Dave Hall responding to me.

Remember kids, quote carefully. And use italic or bold tags to differentiate them.

Look up the numbers yourself; it’s public record. Most people didn’t notice Reagan’s tax increases because they came out under employment tax…which most people ignore. Those of us who are self employed noticed because we have the money in our hands, and then have to then turn it over to the IRS.

Care to guess how much taxes were paid by ExxonMobil, Shell, …?

“About 25 percent of the U.S. corporations not paying corporate taxes were considered large corporations, meaning they had at least $250 million in assets …”

You might consider that no-one pays taxes on assets. (But it’s early yet – Obama might get elected.) You pay taxes on net income, which is Profit – Expenses.

If even one of these companies were evading their fair tax, they’d be up Enron Creek.

QuietDesperation gets it. True, tax laws are even more arcane than the Kabbalah, but they’re what they have to work with.

People who think these are “loopholes” are the same ones who think that all the money is really the government’s, and they just let us use a little of it now and again. (Some other people talking about a big expensive program, like to say, “Good thing it’s government money and not ours”.)

QuietDesperation misses the mark with this one: “And IF by chance they passed something Dubya didn’t want …”

You mean things like the billions in pork-barrel earmarks that the Democrats push through with painful regularity?