Mike Luckovich

By AJC/DNC Management

July 4, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this

Congratulations, democrats, you finally got me to donate to one of your candidates:

{{{{An influential Republican senator suggested Thursday that Congress might want to consider reimposing a national speed limit to save gasoline and, in turn possibly ease fuel prices.}}}}

{{{{Warner cited studies that showed the 55 mph speed limit saved 167,000 barrels of oil a day, or 2 percent of the country’s highway fuel consumption.}}}}

O.K. so who are you libs running against this POS?

On the very day that America celebrates it’s “freedom,” here comes some scumbag failed legislature with his head up his as-s trying to turn us into Europe, the very continent we rebelled against.

These dimwit suckas-s senators are so far out of touch with the real world, they may as well be dialing it in from Siberia or some sh!t. Try driving 70 MPH on 285 and see if you don’t get run over.

Does that not tell you that the MAJORITY of Americans have already decided at what speed they want to travel?

Who does this loser represent?

{{{{Energy Department spokeswoman Angela Hill said the department will review Warner’s letter but added, “If Congress is serious about addressing gasoline prices, they must take action on expanding domestic oil and natural gas production.”}}}}

Is this really that hard to understand?

By AJC/DNC Management

July 4, 2008 8:06 AM | Link to this

Another sure sign that victory in Iraq is imminent:

{{{{A car bombing killed four civilians and wounded 10 others Thursday near the morgue of Yarmouk Hospital in western Baghdad.-Urinal/Doom and Gloom}}}}

Why would you bomb a morgue?

I don’t want to say that we killed off all the “smart” terrorists, because all terrorists are ignorant 7th century trash and that includes the democrat party who supports them, but there sure doesn’t seem to be a lot of brain power left on al Qaeda’s side.

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Life under the bus:

{{{{While seducing the hard-core MoveOn Democrats that delivered him the caucuses —- hence, the Democratic nomination —- Obama not only disdained the flag pin. He disparaged it.}}}}

{{{{Now that he’s running in a general election against John McCain, and in dire need of the gun-and-God-clinging working-class votes he could not win against Hillary Clinton, the pin is back. His country ‘tis of thee.}}}}

Now he’s clinging to guns and religion too.

{{{{Obama says Iraq trip may affect his policy-Urinal/DNC}}}}

You reckon?

So we’re going to get Bushie’s third term no matter what, will the moonbats in the fever swamps still be agitated and angry with us for killing terrorists?

“Stay the course, of course.”

“Four more years of war for oil.”

“Obambi lied, MoveOn died.”

“All that whining about Bushie, first chance we get we adopt the same ‘failed’ policies.”

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Listen to the world schooling our homegrown environmental terrorists:

{{{{Brussels, Belgium —- Europe and the United States must reconsider their biofuel policies because of rising food prices around the world, aid officials and food policy experts said Thursday.-Urinal}}}}

Duh.

By AJC/DNC Management

July 4, 2008 8:09 AM | Link to this

Thee Atlanta Doom and Gloom:

{{{{More U.S. job cuts rattle nerves Fear of what’s next >>>>>>>may<<<<<<<< dampen spending, which >>>>>in turn could worsen<<<<<< economy.-Urinal Top Front Page}}}}

{{{{Foreclosures leave animals out in cold-Urinal/Whine and Moan}}}}

{{{{Putting the brakes on summer- Sweating high gas prices and a slumping economy, some who by habit head to Panhandle do a U-turn.-Urinal/PMS}}}}

Of course the dimwit cry babies at the AJC included a picture of the beach^^^ with the parking lot slam full of vehicles, duh.

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{{{{We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, >>>>>>Liberty<<<<<< and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, >>>>>deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,<<<<< — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.}}}}

To think of how far away we’ve gotten away from this simple but powerful declaration of freedom.

We’ve let unelected judges rule over us by judicial fiat, special interest groups control our representatives putting the concerns of the misguided before those of the majority and we have a government that has grown into massive, unyielding bureaucracy that does not educate our children, provide us with cheap and abundant necessities like water, food and energy and indiscriminately taxes us to fund it’s mindless waste and incompetence.

Are we going to become just another dead society with every facet of our lives ruled over and scripted for us by the elite ruling class?

Are we going to be held hostage to the whims of a small minority of zealots and environmental terrorists?

Is this what our brave ancestors fought and died for?

We are at a turning point in our history, the proverbial fork in the road, will we turn away from the freedom that we cherish and give control of our lives to the socialists, the same left wing America hating scumbags that h

By AJC/DNC Management

July 4, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this

Oops:

We are at a turning point in our history, the proverbial fork in the road, will we turn away from the freedom that we cherish and give control of our lives to the socialists, the same left wing America hating scumbags that have been trying to do us in since the 1960’s?

Celebrate today what is LEFT of your freedom and enjoy it while you still can.

I, for one, will be praying for you America.

By w00t

July 4, 2008 9:04 AM | Link to this

GET A LIFE ANDY!

WTF is wrong with you.

Are you ever HAPPY??

The only person to turn us more socialist is Bush. Think about it.

“Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” - Benjamin Franklin 1759

That’s it for today. Off to enjoy the day with friends and family. Have fun pounding sand Andy.

By jethro bodine

July 4, 2008 9:50 AM | Link to this

Gawd Almighty, Andi, you’re just as big an idiot on the holidays as you are during the work week. It took me half an hour to scroll past your crap this morning.

Yes, there will be a change in America come November. The neanderthalish, neo-con, right wing, bible thumping, six day creationist, flat earthers will be out and we’ll let someone with hopefully a little more sense have go at the helm. The past 8 years have been nothing but an unmitigated disaster with out current fool-in-chief. Not that he was much worse than Ronnie “Rotgut” Reagan who started this whole slide into stupidity.

Sorry, I didn’t really mean to throw off on the Neanderthals. I guess I just got carried away.

By Abundant Pundit

July 4, 2008 11:09 AM | Link to this

A man was shot at Starbucks yesterday by cops. He came in and the cops there must have thought this man was insane, because they assumed he fancied himself as Julius Caeser. The cops said later they thought they heard the man say, “Veni Vidi Vici”. But what other witnesses say they heard was the caped man man trying to use a little humor. He actually said, “I came, I saw, I had a Vente”.

By AJC/DNC Management

July 4, 2008 12:12 PM | Link to this

12:07.

Oh good, new rules from the candy as-s liberals, we are not allowed to look at our computers on the holidays.

{{{{By w00t July 4, 2008 9:04 AM The only person to turn us more socialist is Bush. Think about it. “Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” - Benjamin Franklin 1759.}}}}

Actually w00sie, the only thing Bush has taken from us is the freedom to be slaughtered by al Qaeda in our place of employment, the forfeiture of a right which I happen to approve of, but I guess if you are an al Qaeda terrorist then Bushie would be the bad guy.

Ain’t that right?

12:09

blowdine: It may take you a half of an hour to type two or three words but I don’t.

Happy Fourth of July you whiny little maggots.

By George

July 4, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this

Looks like Andy didn’t have anything else to do on the 4th of July. Kind of sad isn’t it.

By GodHatesTrash

July 4, 2008 2:50 PM | Link to this

Satan’s minions were increased today - Jesse Helms’ miserable life ended today.

By WashingtonState

July 4, 2008 3:23 PM | Link to this

Defenders of science shouldn’t let the sophists carry the day

Public questions in America about science have become the playthings of the manufactured controversy, or “manufactroversy,” in which political activists invent a scientific disagreement that isn’t real.

Public questions in America about science have become the playthings of the manufactured controversy, or “manufactroversy,” in which political activists invent a scientific disagreement that isn’t real.

An example is global-warming skepticism. PR man Frank Luntz admitted as much in an infamous memo in which he confessed that disagreement about global warming was fading away, but he nonetheless urged Republicans “to continue to make the lack of scientific certainty a primary issue.” This tactic was taken from the tobacco industry, which likes to say there are two sides to every question.

South African President Thabo Mbeki’s support for AIDS dissent eight years ago is a similar case. Mbeki ingeniously turned the scientific community’s values against it by drawing on the importance of open debate, a skeptical attitude and the need for research. Mbeki alleged that scientists who questioned the causal link between HIV and AIDS had been branded as “dangerous and discredited.” Claiming the moral authority of a leader who suffered political intimidation in apartheid South Africa, Mbeki condemned the scientific community for its “campaign of intellectual intimidation.”

The intelligent-design movement now has a “teach the controversy” campaign against evolutionary biology. Ben Stein’s recent movie, “Expelled,” portrays scientists casting out anyone who questions biological orthodoxy. This movie is the most extreme application yet of the intelligent-design movement’s “wedge” strategy to break the scientific community’s influence over how science is taught. Of course, any claim by biologists that there is no scientific controversy to teach merely feeds the notion of an orthodoxy.

In light of this, some have suggested that the best response to manufactured controversy is no response at all. I understand the impulse to remain silent in the face of nonsense, but I think it’s shortsighted to cede the public stage in the naive hope that no one will pay attention.

There have long been those who misuse the po

By WashingtonState

July 4, 2008 3:26 PM | Link to this

There have long been those who misuse the power of persuasion. In ancient Greece, the Sophists taught the art of persuasion to those who could pay their fee. These included Gorgias, who apparently boasted that he could persuade the multitude to ignore an expert and listen to him instead, and Protagoras, who claimed there are always two sides to a question and that it was the Sophist’s job to make the weaker case appear the stronger. It was to oppose such deception that Aristotle wrote “Rhetoric.” Aristotle wanted to teach experts how to confute those who mislead.

My own research seeks to reveal what makes today’s manufactroversies work. First, I’ve discovered that modern-day sophists skillfully invoke values that are shared by the scientific community and the public, such as free speech, skeptical inquiry and the revolutionary force of new ideas against a repressive orthodoxy. It is difficult to argue against someone who draws on these values without seeming unscientific or un-American.

Second, the modern sophists exploit the gap between the technical and public spheres. Scientific experts who can’t spare the time for public communication are then surprised when the public distrusts them.

Third, today’s sophists exploit a public misconception about what science is, portraying it as a structure of complete consensus built from the steady accumulation of unassailable data. Any dissent is cited as evidence that there’s no consensus, and thus that truth must not have been discovered yet.

A more accurate portrayal of science recognizes it to be a process of debate among a community of experts in which the side with superior evidence and argument wins. Unanimity of belief never exists, but the process of science moves forward with the weight of a supermajority.

It is perverse to continue debating an issue that has already been settled for the vast majority of scientists merely so that policymakers will delay action, or so that the losing side can be taught on an equal footing in the classroom.

Aristotle believed that things that are true “have a natural tendency to prevail over their opposites” but that it takes a skilled user of rhetoric to defeat sophisticated sophistry. I concur. The manufactured controversy must be exposed for what it is — the assertion of an important scientific debate where none exists.

Science will continue to be the vict

By By Love

July 4, 2008 3:27 PM | Link to this

I actualy came on-line to check weather, but I made bet with myself. Andirogenous, you are truly pathetic.

By AJC/DNC Management

July 4, 2008 3:33 PM | Link to this

Aahhh, yes, George checked the blog and posted a comment, same as I did:

{{{{By George July 4, 2008 2:36 PM Looks like Andy didn’t have anything else to do on the 4th of July. Kind of sad isn’t it.}}}}

Sort of like when a pinko scolds you for your meager energy usage right before they climb aboard their Gulfstreams and fly away.

By WashingtonState

July 4, 2008 3:36 PM | Link to this

Science will continue to be the victim of anti-science sophistry until the defenders of science learn to use my field — rhetoric — to achieve what Aristotle envisioned for it: to make strong arguments carry the day before an audience of non-experts. Leah Ceccarelli is an associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Washington and is the author of the book, “Shaping Science with Rhetoric.”

By AJC/DNC Management

July 4, 2008 4:21 PM | Link to this

Now I’m grilling dinner for the family, if any of you jackas-ses would like to whine or moan about it.

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So Jesse Helms dies on the birthday of the nation that he loved and respected.

Karma.

You are finally “free” of this filthy, liberal infested Earth and “free” to look upon the Glorious, Good and Awesome works of the Father.

Like it was meant to be.

By RW-(the original)

July 4, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this

What do you moonbat(ic)s® think of someone finding the need to cut and paste an entire essay lifted from a “huminist” web site as a way to pass their time on Independence Day?

Or do you only whine about Andy dropping by?

By rene

July 4, 2008 6:46 PM | Link to this

Oh, Washington State! I mistaught one! Could you be one of the overpromoted accolytes (I don’t say sycophants) who postures for professorial indulgence? Your erudition is half-right, as far as it goes, which is half-way. Perhaps, as a proudly proclaimed “scientist”, you will discern that you shall never arrive at any determined destination in such a manner.

The debate of the Fourth Century Socratics, my friend, did indeed have everything to do with Sophistry, and very much to do with Techne, but your slovenly presentist translations, your personally chosen, quite idiosyncratic battle lines, are the stuff, frankly, of a “B” student, high-school level.

By Pamela

July 7, 2008 10:30 AM | Link to this

I really like all of the cartoons that I have seen recently. They give a awesome depiction of what is happening in the real world through comedy. The one that sticks out in my mind is when Hillary is addressing the Galactic Convention(in space).