I’m curious. If this is actually true and these people are “far from he norm”…
Then who elected Bush…. TWICE?

Your topic Reviews of “Reviews of This Book” ” Reenigne blog was interesting when I found it on Monday searching for mega green tea…

or:
http://www.ae911truth.org

Anyone not being hypocritical out there? Is there anybody out there?

Who knew.

How odd that everyone for whom it is dominant is a Democrat.

A ‘moral crime’ has been committed, let’s follow the ‘money’, aka the interest.

1) More traffic on Discover > Money
2) Political activism > Money
3) More funds for science > Money

All comes down to the paycheck. Your interest is simple, encourage people to spend money to support you and your family – selfish gene = survival instinct -, pretending to have the public’s best interest in mind.

Please, cut off the crap and go back to your telescope.

Ok…

Dear author, your commentary is soooooo biased, and distant from scientific neutrality. It’s filled with emotions, it sounds like the radical leftist answer to the radical traditionalist.

Don’t talk about “logic” or “ignorance”, please, these words in political debates are very much like using the old fashioned “Nazi”, “racist”, you’ve lost the debate already (if there was any, in the first place, what a pseudo scandal).

I have no idea who you are, and I can tell you one thing. There must be a reason for you to be writing on some gossip magazine like Discover, instead of advancing research in science.

Talk about “propagandist”, you can’t be serious!

“Ignorance. Paranoia. Bias. Manipulation. I suspect there is racism mixed in that’s disguised as patriotism. For those reasons they complained about Obama’s motivational speech to the youth of America. It’s sad and disappointing to see such a response when the intention and message of his talk was clearly positive. This country needs a shot in the arm of common sense and reason.”

When I first found out about this speech, I was concerned at the fact that this President was planning to speak to my child without me present. It’s got nothing to do with race, and I find that tired old canard to be a waste of time. I was concerned because — get ready for it! — I don’t TRUST our President.

See, here’s the thing. If my child wants to watch a TV program, I will vet it first. But I will be extra diligent with shows from the Cartoon Network because they have proven to me to occasionally be a bit over the line. That is, I can’t trust them to be things I want my child to be exposed to.

That being said, there are shows on Cartoon Network that I don’t mind my son seeing. Heck, my wife happens to love Secret Saturdays, so go figure .

You might say I’m a whacko for not trusting the President, but too many actions the man has taken, from his bizarre appointments to his foreign statements that seem to be apologizing for America to his inarguable bent for BIG, BIGGER, BIGGEST Government, make me question his motives and his philosophy, and so without seeing the text of the speech (and after seeing some things in the suggested curriculum that I thought were questionable), I was not comfortable with having this person talk to my child. That’s my prerogative whether he’s the President of the United States or the principle at my school.

That being said, once the text of the speech was available I was entirely mollified, and I think it was one of the more positive messages to come out of the White House this term.

So, in my opinion labeling me a racist because I was worried before the speech is just as ignorant as blathering on about a “socialist conspiracy” after reading the text.

Just my half a nickel, rounded down

When people say foolish things, they need to be told they are being foolish. They will disreagrd you and continue with what they were saying — but at least the truth is where it needs to be.

Thanks, Phil, for putting the truth where it needs to be..!

Could you please show us the link of evidence you have on this lunatic fringe, a subset that you describe. I’m waiting.

@ Conservative

> Wow. So anyone who disagrees with the President’s positions
> is an ignorant, racist Nazi?

Nowhere in Phil’s post does he include the words “conservative” or “Republican”. Nowhere does he say anything about “everyone who disagrees with the speech” or “everyone who disagrees with the President”. He uses a specific term, lunatic fringe, to talk about “a group of folks”.

He describes the lunatic fringe specifically as, “these are the ones saying the speech is indoctrinating children into accepting his socialist health care plan that will mutilate puppies and convert our elderly into Soylent Green.”

Phil’s obviously a Leftie, of course. But he’s *clearly* not attacking “everyone who is right of center” here, he’s attacking people who lack critical thinking skills. Yes, he’s choosing to frame the conversation by talking specifically about people who lack critical thinking skills who happen to oppose the Democratic President… but let’s be clear.

People who lack critical thinking skills cannot be properly called conservative *or* liberal… because they don’t understand either political philosophy. They may self-identify with either group, of course. They may rant and rave about people who self-identify with the opposing group. But they have no political position themselves, because they don’t understand why it is that they believe what they believe.

They’re whackaloons or nutbars or whatever term you choose to apply to them.

Phil has, in fact, challenged “leftie” lunatic fringe people on the blog, in many cases. A high percentage of the antivax crowd are affluent liberals, Phil heaps scorn on them just as much he’s heaping scorn on the lunatic fringe in this post.

This isn’t about Conservatives all being crazy. It’s about crazy people getting air time.

You said, “Granted, I’m reading the transcript, which may differ from the actual speech, but what is actually said is that children are unlikely to find runaway, easy success in these careers.”

That was exactly my point, his words were chosen poorly. He could have said, music or professional athletes, but he said rapping and basketball. He didn’t say country music and bull riding, punk rock and skateboarding, or mariachi and soccer, he (or his speech writer) chose those deliberately for the transcript.

The point of his message was not lost on me, I just was noting the words were chosen poorly for an address that was meant to be pointed at all children.

My entire career life has been spent dealing with the general public, which is a large part of the reason why I’ve come to believe that an alarmingly large number of the general public are idiots. And the TV ratings too often seems to back that up. So correcting idiocy will likely be as challenging as it is important to do so.

*Ningaloo Reef, Western Australia – Awesome experience. Second only to swimming with Humpbacks in Tonga.

I believe the first draft of the Gettysburg Address had some Marxist rhetoric in it (he borrowed heavily from the Communist Manifesto) but thankfully the speech as delivered is the version we remember.

Nice to leap to an unsubstantiated conclusion, but amazingly enough I am neither European or from Europe. But I can see why you’d think that after all because everyone knows leftists only live in Europe….

Are you playing the psychic game that you are trying to de funk?

Did it ever accrue to you that he change his speech because of what these people were saying?

hide sight is awsome! Isn’t it ?