Comments on: The Republicans Scare Me…Really. http://www.themannings.org/soapbox/2004/08/30/the-republicans-scare-mereally/ Pragmatic Libertarianism Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:05:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: john http://www.themannings.org/soapbox/2004/08/30/the-republicans-scare-mereally/#comment-649 john Mon, 13 Sep 2004 03:01:43 +0000 http://www.themannings.org/soapbox/2004/08/30/the-republicans-scare-mereally/#comment-649 You posted a comment in regards to my global warming post over at the "Life, Liberty, and Property" site. You suggested that the global warming report I mention above is "dreck" because it comes from a government beaurocracy. I thought I'd post my response here as well 'cause I know you wouldn't want to miss it. I did not suggest that you should trust the report (see my link above) because it comes from the party you support. You should trust the source because the bias of this administration has been in the other direction. Bush is beholden to mega-contributers in the fossil fuel industry. The tendency, therefore, has been to try to cast doubt on the science of climate change and the conclusion that global warming has been driven by human activity. I suggest that you can trust the report based on this lack of bias toward its findings. You should read the report and judge it on it's merit. You dismiss it because it came from a "government beaurocracy" without even considering its content. Keep in mind that it is in agreement with a wide body of science literature not derived from government beaurocracy. You describe the report as "dreck" without any attempt to even look at its substance. This clearly reveals your lack of objectivity. You posted a comment in regards to my global warming post over at the “Life, Liberty, and Property” site. You suggested that the global warming report I mention above is “dreck” because it comes from a government beaurocracy. I thought I’d post my response here as well ’cause I know you wouldn’t want to miss it.

I did not suggest that you should trust the report (see my link above) because it comes from the party you support. You should trust the source because the bias of this administration has been in the other direction. Bush is beholden to mega-contributers in the fossil fuel industry. The tendency, therefore, has been to try to cast doubt on the science of climate change and the conclusion that global warming has been driven by human activity. I suggest that you can trust the report based on this lack of bias toward its findings.

You should read the report and judge it on it’s merit. You dismiss it because it came from a “government beaurocracy” without even considering its content. Keep in mind that it is in agreement with a wide body of science literature not derived from government beaurocracy. You describe the report as “dreck” without any attempt to even look at its substance. This clearly reveals your lack of objectivity.

]]> By: john http://www.themannings.org/soapbox/2004/08/30/the-republicans-scare-mereally/#comment-648 john Tue, 31 Aug 2004 04:48:04 +0000 http://www.themannings.org/soapbox/2004/08/30/the-republicans-scare-mereally/#comment-648 A couple more thoughts. Shouldn't a good libertarian really be scared by the huge government handout to drug companies and The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 which The Wall Street Journal called "a 10 year, $173.5 billion bucket of slop"? Shouldn't libertarians everywhere be mad as F about the inclusion in the Rebuplican Party Platform of a constitutional amendment to ban abortion and gay marriage? You'll probably have the John Kerry sign up after hearing that. Or the libertarian candidate's sign. Hey who is the libertarian candidate anyway? Why are the libertarians so silent in this race? Let them be heard! I'm sure the dems would be happy to sign the petition to get 'em on the ballot. A couple more thoughts. Shouldn’t a good libertarian really be scared by the huge government handout to drug companies and The Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002 which The Wall Street Journal called “a 10 year, $173.5 billion bucket of slop”? Shouldn’t libertarians everywhere be mad as F about the inclusion in the Rebuplican Party Platform of a constitutional amendment to ban abortion and gay marriage? You’ll probably have the John Kerry sign up after hearing that. Or the libertarian candidate’s sign. Hey who is the libertarian candidate anyway? Why are the libertarians so silent in this race? Let them be heard! I’m sure the dems would be happy to sign the petition to get ‘em on the ballot.

]]> By: john http://www.themannings.org/soapbox/2004/08/30/the-republicans-scare-mereally/#comment-647 john Tue, 31 Aug 2004 04:09:08 +0000 http://www.themannings.org/soapbox/2004/08/30/the-republicans-scare-mereally/#comment-647 Outraged about real problems? So you want to talk about real problems now? Because I’m just following your lead in commenting on political ads and what they say about the character of the candidates. That’s your topic remember? How about all the American soldiers who have died and continue to die for an unjustified, unnecessary war? How about the fact that the president used information known to be inaccurate in taking us to war? We continue to dump billions of dollars into Iraq with only minimal progress. Meanwhile, here in America the number of Americans living in poverty and without health insurance rose for the third straight year. The child poverty rate rose to 17.6 percent in 2003. Forty-five million Americans have no health insurance. How about Bush's inconsistent, incomprehensible foreign policy. Speaking about WMDs in North Korea and Iran he recently said "I don't think you give timelines to dictators.'' Huh? How about the Bush administration’s complete disregard for science as noted in a statement released earlier this year by 62 leading scientists including 20 Nobel laureates? Bush’s foolish restriction on stem cell research “has severely curtailed opportunities for U.S. scientists to study the cell lines that... represent invaluable models of human disease” according to the New England Journal of Medicine. It scares me to have a president who, in making policy, generally ignores the conclusions of science. How about letting private corporations write energy policy behind closed doors? Cheney is still battling in court to prevent the release to the public of documents pertaining to the formulation of our energy policy. I think the 527 issue which you comically refer to as “the last vestiges of our right to political free speech” falls back pretty far on the list of things to be concerned about. Outraged about real problems? So you want to talk about real problems now? Because I’m just following your lead in commenting on political ads and what they say about the character of the candidates. That’s your topic remember?

How about all the American soldiers who have died and continue to die for an unjustified, unnecessary war? How about the fact that the president used information known to be inaccurate in taking us to war? We continue to dump billions of dollars into Iraq with only minimal progress. Meanwhile, here in America the number of Americans living in poverty and without health insurance rose for the third straight year. The child poverty rate rose to 17.6 percent in 2003. Forty-five million Americans have no health insurance.

How about Bush’s inconsistent, incomprehensible foreign policy. Speaking about WMDs in North Korea and Iran he recently said “I don’t think you give timelines to dictators.” Huh?

How about the Bush administration’s complete disregard for science as noted in a statement released earlier this year by 62 leading scientists including 20 Nobel laureates? Bush’s foolish restriction on stem cell research “has severely curtailed opportunities for U.S. scientists to study the cell lines that… represent invaluable models of human disease” according to the New England Journal of Medicine. It scares me to have a president who, in making policy, generally ignores the conclusions of science.

How about letting private corporations write energy policy behind closed doors? Cheney is still battling in court to prevent the release to the public of documents pertaining to the formulation of our energy policy. I think the 527 issue which you comically refer to as “the last vestiges of our right to political free speech” falls back pretty far on the list of things to be concerned about.

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