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The Left’s Year One

By on 1.30.13 @ 6:09AM

America under Obama is “beyond” human nature.

After seizing power, the architects of the French Revolution instituted a new calendar, declaring the beginning of their regime ”Year One,” thus symbolizing their total contempt for tradition. They wanted the world to know that they were rebuilding French society from scratch.

The left under Obama is approaching that level of revolutionary arrogance. Regarding itself as vastly enlightened, it seeks to institute a kind of cultural and political Year One in which America rises above all traditional understandings of human nature and embraces such changes as women in front-line combat, gay marriage, and transgender identities.

Conforming to this mood, CBS recently aired a commentary in which a Georgetown Law School professor said “Let’s get rid of the Constitution.” America has no need of tradition, he argued. The country can be based on nothing more than the limitless wisdom of this generation. Of course, the professor’s argument has already been adopted through Obama’s “living Constitution,” which treats the written one as dead.

In the left’s Year One, man is freed from all laws, visible and invisible, as he determines good and evil anew. “Human nature” is treated as an outmoded concept, as it implies that humans receive a fixed nature rather than determine one through pure choice. Some on the left even consider the category of “transgender” too confining, as it assumes male or female. They prefer “agender,” since that suggests more existential possibilities.

Under this culture, one isn’t permitted to notice physical differences between the sexes, much less acknowledge that children need a mother and father. The idea that the good can be deduced from anything prior to human choice is offensive to this culture. America is “beyond” such trivial considerations—a refrain heard frequently over the last few days on cable shows discussing women in combat.

The left considers itself the great defender of science, even as it denies the most fundamental biological realities. Liberals can stare at an ultrasound image and see no human life. Such is the left’s grasp of scientific evidence. It is a movement not of science but of fantasy. For the sake of its egalitarian dreams, it routinely denies elemental facts of life and thinks itself capable of extinguishing them through technology or humans simply choosing to ignore them.

Placing women in direct ground combat infantry units poses no problems, it blithely says under that mindset, pooh-poohing concerns about differences between men and women in upper-body strength or the obvious conflicts that would result from men and women living in close quarters on battlefields. The left doesn’t even feel the need to argue these points. It simply declares such objections retrograde and asserts that humans can be hammered into an amorphous sameness.  

Obama, who said in 2008 that he didn’t “necessarily” want women drafted into combat roles, assembled a “Military Leadership Diversity Commission” to provide all the requisite Orwellian denials of reality.  But human nature is impervious to such propaganda and will take its revenge in due course.

Given the choice between “equality” and military effectiveness, the left chooses the former while pretending that society can have both. Standards will remain as high as ever, they claimed. Right.  A few defenders of the traditional policy have wondered why professional sports remains segregated if what the left says about the sexes is true. Shouldn’t we have a co-ed NFL? The answer to why America doesn’t have co-ed professional sports is that sports fans would never permit it.  Sports is far too sacred for such ideological tinkering. “Everyone is conservative about what he knows best,” as the historian Robert Conquest has said. Sports fans know perfectly well that “equality” would destroy their favorite sports.

The military is more essential to a country than professional sports, and yet in the grip of the left’s Year One ideology it is willing to perform casual experiments against human nature. The success of that ideology can be measured in the relatively mute response from Republicans to this change. GOP leaders have either been silent or supportive of it, which makes sense since they began the process of feminizing the military under Bush. The success of that ideology can also be seen in the complete disappearance of the argument against women in combat on familial and cultural grounds. Sending recently pregnant female soldiers to the battlefield is now a largely uncontested idea.

What begins as “equal opportunity” will end as equal obligation, as women find themselves on battlefields whether they like it or not. The equal obligation to die in battle is a great advance for mankind, according to the New York Times, which quoted approvingly a general who said, “I think people have come to the sensible conclusion that you can’t say a woman’s life is more valuable than a man’s life.”

Edmund Burke saw in the ideology of the French Revolution the end of all noble human relations. But even the French Revolutionaries might have blanched at Obama’s Year One, as it hurtles towards an agender world that makes the radicalism of the past look quaint.

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About the Author

George Neumayr, a contributing editor to The American Spectator, is co-author, with Phyllis Schlafly, of the new book, No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom.

Letter to the Editor View all comments (211) |

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 6:39AM

Really, the left doesn't like scientific evidence??
So conservatives, answer these:

1. How old approximately is the known universe?
2. How did the known universe begin?
3. How did the earth form, how old is it?
4. Is evolution real? Is the basis of phylogenetics real?
5. Did humans live at the time of dinosaurs?
6. Did humans evolve from a common ancestral primate, and are they genetically close to other primates?

Answer these correctly, and then we can proceed.

Jack in Wi| 1.30.13 @ 7:17AM

Arnie: You atheists have no answers for anything. According to your creed, we come from nothing. We are here for no reason. We are going nowhere. In Obama's America abortion isn't the killing of a human baby ,but is a sacrement. Homosexuality is normal healthy and people of faith are sick. In his scenario the genders have no difference and women should die like men in battle. Throughout history the man has tried to protect the female because she had the tougher job of giving birth. Most of what Obama proposes are against the laws of God , Nature, and sanity. He will never succeed. The Republicans are his enablers. Romney would not have pushed as hard and fast, but he was just like Obama on most issues. It is time to hunker down and get ready for the worst. Even Communism at it's worst didn't try to do some of the things Obama and his pals are pushing. It may well come to civil war. I hope not.

Arnie here and his pals who have shown up lately are part of Obama's permanent war machine. They want a permanent revolution in politics and foreign policy. They want religion crushed and the world remade in their immage. They will lose.

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 7:22AM

Jack, answer the questions, and then we can proceed on the other topics you brought up. Deal?

Jack in Wi| 1.30.13 @ 7:36AM

I believe God made the universe and the world Arnie . I as a Catholic believe in science. After all the Catholic Church gave the wolrd modern science which comes from our monastaries and universities. That's another thing we invented the university. I can believe in Evolution and still believe in God. I just believe God made it all. If you want to believe all that we have here came about by accident, you have a lot more faith in fairy tales then I do.

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 7:47AM

Good Jack. That's progress. But if God made it all, according to you, does he have a hand in the affairs of th world? That means he allows Obama to be president, he allows abortions to happen around the world. Or are you of the deist type, and that god basically started the universe, i.e. Big Bang, but has a hands off approach, just letting the laws of the universe, science, take it's natural course.

TLP| 1.30.13 @ 8:46AM

He has given us FREE WILL. Something that your Halfrican Lord seeks to take away.

Arnie wants answers to his Talking Points Questions. He thinks he's clever. Yet I wonder if he can tell us all where that First Hydrogen Atom came from that everybody knows, was the Real Creator of the Universe? Perhaps he knows how, in an endless void of nothingness, (like his head) a single Atom magically appeared, as if pulled out of Arnie's ass. (also, like his head)

His kind think they're so smart. Yet, all of their Vast Knowledge can be boiled down to the Mass Graves, Forced Starvations, Secret Police, Work Camps, Show Trials, and Iron Curtains that flourished in the 20th Century. We can see it today in The People's Republic of North Korea, where the People have taken to Cannibalizing their Children. Just one more example of what inevitably happens, when an All Powerful Godless State implements its version of Fairness and Equallity.

Now, they seek to bring their Forced Utopia to us. They will try, one more time, to prove Einstein was correct in his Definition of Insanity. "Once more, into the Breach."

I would quote CHRIST'S words: "Forgive them Father. For they know not what they do." But that would be a lie.

Arnie's kind, know exactly what they're doing.

Pecos Pete| 1.30.13 @ 10:16AM

Tim: Well said! This is the Tim we all know and ... umm ... can I say love without being banned from the Contest?

Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.30.13 @ 10:25AM

You might not get banned, Pedro, but he might just put Arnie (or Awnie, as the esteemed Mr. Kwan has tagged him) in the foxhole with you.

Pecos Pete| 1.30.13 @ 11:31AM

Don Dom: NO! Tim would never do that to me. He knows I would never call him Pretty again.

Kwan| 1.30.13 @ 12:52PM

Awnie seems to have a severe case of diarrhea of the mouth this morning. He's spewing leftist crapola all over the comment page. Is there a doctor in the house if not let me suggest 6 or 7 gallons of kaopectate to get this boy back to normal or semi-normal in his case.

Kwan| 1.30.13 @ 1:52PM

Is Awnie trying to convince us that he evolved from an ape? If that's the case shouldn't he be in a traveling circus jumping thru hoops and doing somersaults. Very strange.

Jack in Wi| 1.30.13 @ 4:12PM

TLP: I agree with you, well written.

TLP| 1.30.13 @ 6:13PM

Thank You, Jack.

Jeff1000| 1.31.13 @ 4:07AM

Okay, Arnie's stupidity does have a purpose: the rebirth of TLP, and for that I'm grateful. So thanks Arnie for giving Tim an opportunity to shred your paradoxically unenlightened naivety.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 11:45AM

Arnie,

You don't know much about cosmology, less about evolution, and even less about God.

On the latter, pick-up a Bible and you will understand God fairly easily.

To that end, God is not a micro-manager; he does not interfere in worldly affairs (although He has in the past.)

That's because God gave us all free will, and He respects our choices. He even respects our choice if/when we turn away from him. When that happens, we truly get what we deserve.

God gave Abraham a choice. He gave the Israelites choice after choice after choice, and when they screwed-up, they suffered the consequence. And the decision to follow Christ is also a choice; God does NOT compel anyone to become a Christian.

If God wanted an army of robots who followed Him blindly, He would have created one. But He didn't.

We have Obama because we deserve Obama.
We have 1 million abortions each year because we chose it, and we deserve it.

And until the country stops being ashamed of the Truth, and turns back to God (as the Israelites did in the Bible, and were blessed for it), we will suffer the consequences of those choices.

Likely you disagree with all of this. That's OK; it's your choice.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 11:39AM

Darwin's Theory of Evolution is so unbelievably lacking in real scientific evidence that's it's not even a "theory," it's only a hypothesis.

To those who think that Darwinian Evolution has in any way been proven:

You're 100% wrong.

It has NEVER been proven, never been observed, and never been demonstrated.

But focusing on Darwin is a complete straw-man that the left has created to distract people from the REAL question:

WHERE did the universe come from?

HOW did the universe come to exist?

The "scientists" promoting Darwin have absolutely NO answer for these simple questions. And the answers they propose are absurd.

Drunken Sailor| 1.30.13 @ 12:03PM

Ask a aethist to explain all the "missing links" in their evolution theory. Or why is it man descended from apes, but cats remained cats, dogs remained dogs, etc. And of course the fact that we are similar in DNA is a strawman. If humans were 'only' 4% different this still amounts to 120 million base pairs of DNA that are different.

As the saying goes, a little difference makes all the difference.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 1:15PM

Thank you for making an excellent point!

Indeed, the "2% difference" in DNA between humans and chimps accounts for millions of base-pair differences in the sequence.

All living matter on earth is composed of DNA which is itself composed of only 4 different Amino Acids.

People fail to realize that DNA is a code, like the digital code of computer language. However, DNA is base-4, not base-2 (or binary, like a computer), so it's exponentially more complex.

...But it's random, right?

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

Grzmlyk| 1.30.13 @ 12:30PM

Funny how the troll didn't respond to your very cogent arguments.

Arnie is "Exhibit A" proving the veracity of this column's premise.

Reality be damned! "All" of Arnie's scientists "agree" that anthropogenic global warming is real. The ones who do not agree are obviously irrelevant to Arnie's world view.

As for women in the military, Neumayr is wrong. Yes, it will lead to more injury, more death, more unwanted pregnancies, degraded morale and possibly even some significant losses. But the media won't portray it that way, so your average moron voter will happily swallow yet another facet of the left's false version of reality.

The NY Times recounted Jessica Lynch's horrific ordeal, including her rape, with utter glee about a year after her rescue. They acknowledged that she was destroyed as a human being, but rejoiced in what it portrayed as a net victory for women everywhere. I don't think there could be a better encapsulation of the media's compulsion to favor phony theoretical sandcastles in air over empirical reality.

I'm reminded of the comic bit done by Richard Pryor. His wife walks into the bedroom unexpectedly one night and finds him "in flagrante delicto" with a young female. He denies the bimbo's existence. Stunned, his wife says, "but she's lying right next to you," to which Pryor responds, "Who you gonna believe? Me, or your lyin' eyes?"

For liberals, believing is seeing 100% of the time. And WE'RE the ones who are obtuse?

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 1:16PM

Grzmlyk,

Arnie won't respond, either.

I'm betting on it.

Grzmlyk| 1.30.13 @ 1:38PM

Yeah, a coward is a coward.

Here's a puzzle with respect to all these trolls: They love to preen over their misguided sense of being suprior human beings; they love to come here and to other conservative sites and throw rocks, ridicule, abuse, and otherwise commmit acts of destructive, nihilistic, psychic violence on people they think are inherently inferior to them.

So where is the compassion? Where is the evidence that these are "good" people, the "ubermenschen" they love to tell themselves they are?

Of course they are NOT good people. They are showing their true colors when they come here: They are selfish, sadistic, ignorant thugs.

That's how turned around their minds are - they actually believe that being selfish, sadistic, ignorant thugs makes them GOOD. And, in the liberal version of reality, it does (just as Charles Manson's acolytes thought they were doing "good" by bringing about Helter Skelter through grisly serial murder).

The time will come when they are hoist with their own collective petard. So many graves to dance on, so little time.

Evil committed under the misguided notion that it is good is no less evi - and, in fact, it is more insidious than evil done in its own name.

And a cretin is a cretin; I have no doubt Arnie can't keep the lid on his own assholiness in real life any better than he can here in anonymous cyberspace.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 1:41PM

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

- CS Lewis

Grzmlyk| 1.30.13 @ 1:56PM

Precisely the quote I had in mind!

Job| 1.30.13 @ 2:25PM

assholiness, good one...:)

Anthony| 1.30.13 @ 1:32PM

And Christine Hefner, daughter of Hugh, and CEO of Playboy Inc., has opined that Anthropogenic Global Warming has caused increased gun violence in Chicago!!
It's now a scientific fact, not only do you go blind when playing with yourself while looking at porn, but you also become more violent and prone to gun violence.
I guess that means Arnie are Purp are quite dangerous; we need to be careful when confronting them!!

Grzmlyk| 1.30.13 @ 1:55PM

I love these self-proclaimed wise people pandering to the zeitgeist in transparent attempts at being "relevant," "hip" and "progressive."

God knows that these shallow motivations are what the left is really all about. You can't be a genuinely deep thinker and remain a liberal any more than you can dive into a body of water and remain dry.

Then again, who knows? His (ass)holiness Barack The Fatuous may one day decree that to be wet is to be dry, and forthwith we'll be seeing headlines in the NY Times and breathless "All Things Considered" episodes on NPR and cover stories in Vanity Fair about how "Wet is the New Dry!" and Chris Matthews will have another accident all over himself relating to us from his position near the false prophet that, lo, St. Barack the Grifter has invented a way to make wet people dry simply by a glance at the teleprompter and an utterance from his mellifluous, god-like voice.

And WE'RE the blind faithful?????

CJW| 1.30.13 @ 2:53PM

That is a good point, the distinction between a theory and hypothesis. You must be able to prove a theory, but they use the word theory as if it has been proven

KennesawJack| 1.30.13 @ 1:54PM

Jack, I'm going to ask you the same question Subvet asked me yesterday regarding Arnie, and Subvet was completely correct in the asking. To wit: "Why are you wasting time responding to this troll?"

Simon Templar| 1.30.13 @ 12:00PM

Jack, in all seriousness, why do you think they will lose. I am curious about why you believe this. please be specific if possible. I sincerely would just like to know, I am not planning to reply or argue with you.

Jack in Wi| 1.30.13 @ 4:19PM

Because I believe in the laws of God, the laws of Nature and common sense. Obama's program violates all 3. Even Castro, Mao, and Stalin didn't push gay marriage. All radical leftwing governments have come to collapse and ruin. Obama's will be no different.

John Navratil| 1.30.13 @ 8:38AM

Arnie,

No point in proceeding with you, that's for sure. If you have a point to make, make it.

Have you pulled your d*ck out of your *ass?

Answer this correctly, and then we can proceed.

TLP| 1.30.13 @ 8:58AM

He has lots of points, John.

He gets them every morning in the Faxs that Media Matters sends to him. The ones he gets at Huffpo. And, the ones that "$10 in the Alley over beside the Dumpster" Anna do you wanna, over at the Syphilis Studies Department at Emory U.

And, why would he pull you know what, outta you know where?

He likes it.

It gets lonely when your Smarter than everybody else. And, even lonelier, when you're Wrong every time.

Isn't that right, Arnie?

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 9:08AM

Well, according to this thread alone, the people that believe in the literal reading of the Bible and not in science are in the minority.

And if you only believe in the parts of the Bible you want to believe, then you are a kind of ala cart Christian. I will say, the Bible can be an excellent self help book for some people. But it is in now way the "truth" for all, and definitely is no basis to make scientific opinions of the world or universe.

And speaking of the "majority", in many wealthy, educated countries, religion is heavily on the decline, and is in fact, in the minority in many.

irish19| 1.30.13 @ 9:57AM

And those countries are on the decline as well.

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 10:08AM

And Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Uganda, and Mississippi are shining examples of religion making a state a wealthy and just society.

Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Germany, and Holland are doing just fine.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.30.13 @ 10:31AM

...and there's hardly ever been any difficulty in Germany based on religious differences, and I would bring it up with an octogenarian Ann Frank in Holland, as religious tolerance has long been a hallmark of Dutch culture...

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 10:55AM

Albert, weren't you the one that said you supported the killing and torture of women and children by Contras in Nicaragua, because you thought they were communists. Your thinking is as dangerous as any Pol Pot or Stalin. I suspect you wouldn't do it yourself, but you sure had no problem with Reagan funding terrorists that would. When you admit that policy was morally wrong, and you were wrong for supporting it, then you and I can debate morals.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.30.13 @ 12:38PM

Arnie, you and I won't debate morals, only in part because one cannot debate with you, as you are impervious to the truth.

I’m sure the millions of people killed by communists in the former Soviet Union 1917-1991, China 1949-date, Eastern Europe 1939-1990, Cuba 1959-date, Cambodia 1975-9,1979-91, Laos 1975-date, Viet Nam 1975-date might take issue on the value of any effort to keep self-proclaimed Marxists from exercising power and spreading their ideology, but they are unavailable to say so (just like Ann Frank can't talk about the lack of religious based violence in the Netherlands, and Theo Van Gogh is similarly unavailable).

CJW| 1.30.13 @ 2:56PM

Albert,
The figure is over one hundred million killed by the commies, according the "Black Book of Communism."
Purp/arnie are the same.

Anthony| 1.30.13 @ 11:27AM

Our nation's Gross Domestic Product shrunk .01% in the last quarter of 2012 under Obozo. First time in over 3 years. Clearly Obozo's Marxist religion is killing America.
On the other hand, Mississippi's economic expansion, probably with a robust number, fared muct better.
However, in fairness to Arnie, .01 is a measurement he is most familar with, as Arnie will be happy to demonstrate by opening his fly.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 12:04PM

Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia are medieval hell-holes because of Islam. Saudi Arabia is a modern, shiny kind of hell-hole, but it's a hell-hole, nonetheless.

I'm not sure why people ALWAYS pick on Mississippi ? The most blighted, crime-ridden, backwards parts of the USA with the worst schools are the inner cities controlled by Liberals.

Washington DC, Detroit, Baltimore, Chicago...

Duh.

Scandinavia and Europe are NOT fine, Arnie. In case you hadn't noticed, Europe is in an economic tailspin.

And to equate Scandinavia - a fairly homogenous region with a total population less than the state of California - with the US economy is beyond silly.

TLP| 1.30.13 @ 1:16PM

Yeah, Scandinavia's great. A buncha Alcoholics who either CAN'T Reproduce, or just don't wanna cause it'll take away from the time they usually have set aside for KILLING THEMSELVES.

Holland is one big Opium Den. They Suck. They're just too Stoned to realize it.

And, Germany's always just One Putche Away from showing the rest of Europe who's Boss, again.

mike 3/505| 1.30.13 @ 11:09PM

And, Germany's always just One Putche Away from showing the rest of Europe who's Boss, again.

OK Pennell...you owe me yet another freeking keyboard.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 11:47AM

You only say this because you think that "science" supports your beliefs. It doesn't.

There's NOTHING remotely scientific about Darwin.

TLP| 1.30.13 @ 2:05PM

At the risk of desperately needing a Hot Shower afterwards, I am forced to acknowledge something that Dr. Demento has scribbled down, probably by accident.

Charles Darwin believed in God.

Obviously, there is Evolution. Things Evolve. Of course you could use the term: Adapt. That's why we need our Wisdom Teeth removed. Our jaws have Adapted to our softer diet.

Unfortunately, not all Evolutions are not created equal.

We still have some Hominids who think that it's a good idea to Entrust an All Powerful Central Government with Total Control over every aspect of our lives, right up till our last Pain Pill, with the belief that these Parasitical Scumbags have nothing but "Our Best Interests" at heart.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 11:59AM

Arnie,

What IS the truth, then?

Is it knowable? Or do you subscribe to a Hubbardian explanation?

Al Adab| 1.30.13 @ 1:37PM

Quid est Veritas, asked Pilate while it stood before him. Saddest passage in the entire gospel account.

Job| 1.30.13 @ 2:30PM

most ironic in history

KennesawJack| 1.30.13 @ 2:01PM

John, It's not HIS d*ck, it's Obamarx's. It's part of the left's "new normal".

CJW| 1.30.13 @ 8:39AM

Purpie/arnie


1. Why was Michele's salary increased from $125,000 per year to $325,000 per year at the Chicago hospital after Senator Obama requested a one million dollar earmark for the hospital?

a) Why was Michele's job eliminated after she left because O won the 2008 election?

2. Why is Obama giving, free, to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypet 20 F-16's, and 200 Abrams tanks?

a) what country has the Muslim Brotherhood sworn to eliminate?
b) which race did Muslim Brotherhood Morsi say descended from apes?

Answer correctly and there may be a prize.

TLP| 1.30.13 @ 9:14AM

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Can anybody play?

I know these. I know that I know these.

1) Bush's Fault.

a) Racism.

2) Revelation/Armageddon/Apocolypse.

a) Will this happen Before, or After he destroys Egypt? Or, as you would say: Egypet. (apparently. Chia Pets are made in Egypet)

b) Blacks? (I figure since the Halfrican's best buddy - Mother Wheel Screwy Louie - can say that about Whites ALL THE TIME, I would return the favour. And, if you Like it? You can Lick it.)

TLP| 1.30.13 @ 9:21AM

Actually, that shoulda been - If you DON'T like it, you can lick it. Either way. Like. Don't like.

As long as it gets licked.

CJW| 1.30.13 @ 11:17AM

Tim,

We are still waiting for Purpie/arnie to answer. But you may win by default.

2(b) is wrong. Hint: Think Jack in Wi, Norman Conquest/Karotkum whatever, Adolph, and the Islamist dictionary.

Anthony| 1.30.13 @ 12:34PM

Yes, we seem to have lost Arnie, he no longer wants to play.
What's the matter Arnie, Purp got your tongue?

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 1:18PM

Libs are cowards; when confronted by superior arguments, they flee and yell "racist!"

GobBluthe| 1.30.13 @ 8:50AM

1. probably 10b years old
2. Big bang most likely
3. 3-5b years old
4. Probably
5. No
6. Probably

Proceed

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 9:01AM

Good job GobBluthe!

Yes, global warming is real, and the vast majority of scientists working this field agree that man made activity has contributed to it.

Anthony| 1.30.13 @ 10:57AM

After seeing Al Jezzera Gore this morning on MSLSD, with a besotted Mika gazing lovingly at the corpulent con man, only a moron would still believe in Anthropogenic Global Warming.
Oh, and the corpulent con man went on to say that al Jezerra is part of the solution, not part of the problem. Gee, and Glen Beck isn't, right Al?
The $200M hypocrite, who sold his Current TV to the oil fortune Saudi's, made quite the compelling case that leftism is indeed a mental disorder.
And here I am responding to Arnie, point made.
P.S. When will Michael Mann release his emails and doctored data?

Al Adab| 1.30.13 @ 10:59AM

...and a fair number of NASA scientists believe that cosmological dates are off my orders of magnitude. So how do we select which "experts" we choose to believe?

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 11:49AM

Global warming IS real. That's 100% true.

The earth heats up every day when the sun rises. It cools down after the sun sets.

But man-made "climate change" - the kind that Al Gore moans about - is a hoax.

Warrior| 1.30.13 @ 12:32PM

Arnie the Oracle. Please oh wise and knowledgable one, grace me an answer to this.

What temperature is the earth supposed to be? Ice age temp, medeival warming temp, 30's dust bowl temp, winter in Hawaii temp, summer in Antartica temp?

Please enlighten us.

Anthony| 1.30.13 @ 12:46PM

There's still hope for you Arnie, try Deer-Antler spay under the tongue, you may still yet make it with a real woman.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.30.13 @ 1:14PM

...that is only after he gets some Rohypnol under her tongue...

GobBluthe| 1.30.13 @ 7:53PM

The question about global warming is this: Can it be stopped or reversed with legislation? Is it even desirable to do so?

C. Vernon Crisler | 1.30.13 @ 11:20AM

How did logic come into existence, Arnie?

Anthony| 1.30.13 @ 12:26PM

Now that's the line of the day Venon, asking troll Arnie how did logic come into existence.
That's like asking the apes in the Bronx Zoo to opine on macro economics.
Oh wait, Columbia University is not that far away, don't want to confuse one group from the other.

Stephie| 1.30.13 @ 1:03PM

RAAAAAAAACISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)

C. Vernon Crisler | 1.30.13 @ 2:47PM

The line leads into a paradox that is known technically as "Darwin's Doubt."

Anthony| 1.30.13 @ 3:26PM

I didn't kow that, thanks Vernon.

C. Vernon Crisler | 1.30.13 @ 11:25AM

There is no way of knowing by science how old the earth or the universe is. All that science can provide us with are "determinations." Moving from a "determination" to an "age" is a philosophical move, not a scientific one.

On the question of evolution, the theory cannot stand up to critical scrutiny. It is mythology masquerading as science. True science knows nothing of spontaneous generation from nothingness, or of random increases in specified complexity, or of chance-produced higher order information content.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 11:35AM

How DID the universe begin, Arnie?

What's your answer?

How many different amino-acids does DNA contain? And what is the alignment of the base-pairs?

What IS DNA? (I don't mean the textbook definition; I mean WHAT is it?)

Go ahead...let's see how smart you are.

Grzmlyk| 1.30.13 @ 12:16PM

You can proceed right now.

Adios.

Jim Adcox| 1.30.13 @ 3:57PM

"What difference does it make?"

Simon Templar| 1.30.13 @ 4:43PM

I will try, Awnie, to answer it like a good liberal.

1. How old approximately is the known universe?
The universe began on August 4, 1961.
2. How did the known universe begin?
Lord Obama willed it.
3. How did the earth form, how old is it?
Obama spoke it out from a teleprompter.
4. Is evolution real? Is the basis of phylogenetics real? Yes and No. Liberals were created by Obama. Conservatives descended from apes and dinosaurs.
5. Did humans live at the time of dinosaurs?
Liberal were created from rainbows and good thoughts by Obama. This is why they are so pure and holy. There were no humans at the time of the dinosaurs as they were still evolving into conservatives.
6. Did humans evolve from a common ancestral primate, and are they genetically close to other primates? Yes and No. See above.

Joellen| 1.30.13 @ 7:03AM

Arnie "answer these correctly, and then we can proceed" and correctly would be whose correct?

I dont know about your belief and faith Arnie, mine tells me the world is about 6000 years old,

It was created in 7 days by ABBA FATHER/ YAHWEH/JEHOVAH/ GOD.

I cant speak for you and your family, but the rest of us did not evolve, we were created in the image of GOD.

If you are seeking TRUTH I would strongly suggest you open up the good book, the Bible.
inspired by the word of GOD.

All your other questions are irrelevant because of what I stated above - so dont bother with the blatther you'll be spouting, remember these are MY BELIEFS and MY TRUTHS and remember to

have a nice day cause even though you dont know it GOD does love ya!

Maxwell| 1.30.13 @ 8:18AM

Joellen, that pretty much sums it up. As I said to Arnie, you can go anytime you want. No one is forcing him to stay here and mingle with those of us that have faith. Really, pretty simple.

C. Vernon Crisler | 1.30.13 @ 11:26AM

Dittos Joellen.

BobSledd| 1.30.13 @ 7:08AM

This article talks about the sacred document our country was built on...The Constitution...and women in the military... When the Left can "fess up" to the phony science of global warming and manufactured "science" of the famous "hockey stick" we can have a chat. By the way Einsteint, how is the global warming leader, Al Gore, who suckered you fools into drinking his Kool Aid on global warming who has made hundreds of millions off book sales, speeches ( normally on the East Coast during a blizzard) and who just made $100mm selling his Cale channel to Al Jazerra, who is funded by..you guessed it bright eyes...OIL..Dirty...global warming... OIL.

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 7:14AM

Bob, answer the questions above, and then we can proceed to talk about global warming.

BobSledd| 1.30.13 @ 8:47AM

Arnie..this may come as a surprise to you... I,too,believe God created the world millions,billions of years ago? here is science that has a date of origin,generally accepted as the Big Bang. As for more pertinent issues. an you not see that people on my side of the fence have ZERO interest in debating you and your atheist, baby murdering vermin, but only wish to completely pound you? We are NOT tolerant of the takeover of our Constitution and society that has been in existence since John Locke and thousands of years prior as reflected in the Bible. We are done playing around with you fools. You must be totally, and without question...beaten in every arena of American life.

Al Adab| 1.30.13 @ 10:57AM

The entire conversation has what relevance to the issues facing the nation: debt, deficits, illegal migration, gun control, military strength, foreign relations, entitlements, etc. Social issues perhaps as ones' opinion is likely formed by ones, moral viewpoint either relativistic or universal.

Anthony| 1.30.13 @ 12:18PM

The contraction of the American economy matches that of several anatomical parts of your's Arnie.
Now we can proceed to talk about global warming.

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 7:12AM

ROFL, lololol.

6000 thousand years old people!!! There's your scientific based conservative right!!

Joellen says she has her own truth, which is another way of saying she lives in her own little world.

Although, I must admit, the six green chili enchiladas I had yesterday may be proof of the greatness of God. Or possibly it's that there is a really talented Mexican cook in the kitchen.

C. Vernon Crisler | 1.30.13 @ 11:27AM

Arnie, your anti-Christian bigotry serves no purpose other than to waste space on these forums.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 11:50AM

But C.V...it's fun to debunk all of the nonsense that athiests think are facts!

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 12:05PM

How do you know the earth is billions of years old??

Warrior| 1.30.13 @ 12:33PM

Just watch Doctor Who. It is all explained.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 1:19PM

Seriously?

Warrior| 1.30.13 @ 3:52PM

It is every bit as good an explanation as Arnie offers.

Stan Redmond| 1.30.13 @ 5:54PM

We can't scientifically prove the universe existed 5 days ago. You take as much on faith in your "settled" science as the religious do in their doctrines. When we die, who's the last laugh on?

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 7:20AM

Really, I'm not going to have a debate about science with people that believe in magic and miracles.

Joellen, do you believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny, the tooth fairy also?

Did the grand canyon form because it just appeared that way, or is rock actually eroded by moving water over time?

Maxwell| 1.30.13 @ 8:16AM

'I'm not going to have a debate about science with people that believe in magic and miracles.' Then Arnie, you are free to leave, no one is forcing you to stay here. What Joellen posted pretty much sums it up.

Pecos Pete| 1.30.13 @ 8:52AM

Max: Don't forget that Stupid Communist Village Idiot Arnie is also a super intelligent computer programmer with a university degree in computer science. His education, if true, qualifies him to count in hexadecimal and that's about it for his qualifications as an intellectual. Otherwise, if it feels good, he is for it. Morality is extinct, it doesn't feel good nor is it fair. That's his foundational logic.

John Navratil| 1.30.13 @ 9:35AM

Pecos Pete,

There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary and those who don't ;)

He does give us comp jocks a bad name. Perhaps reading a little Aristotle would help.

mike 3/505| 1.30.13 @ 11:16PM

Wrong! There are THREE kinds of people...those who can count and those who can't. Sheesh!

Maxwell| 1.30.13 @ 9:35AM

Pecos, I run into that type of back round all the time as I am a programmer. The absolute worst programs /applications / designs come from these hot shots. Of course I'm the one left to clean up their mess. I love the line they use, in theory this should work just fine, yeah, right.....

Pecos Pete| 1.30.13 @ 10:22AM

Can you guys imagine the absolute mess the KingOcare state/federal exchanges are going to be? Not to mention that everyone's medical records will be "computerized" to reduce costs. It would be laughable if it were not so serious.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 11:51AM

You won't debate because you'll lose.

Go ahead...try me.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 11:52AM

Arnie,

What is a "singularity," in physics?

Warrior| 1.30.13 @ 12:34PM

He wears them when he is wrestling with other men.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 1:20PM

Thanks for that image...

Warrior| 1.30.13 @ 3:54PM

I was waiting for him to respond that a singularity is how the Romulans powered their birds of prey in TNG.

Grzmlyk| 1.30.13 @ 12:51PM

Duh. Conservatives believe in reality.

YOU, on the other hand, are the one who believes in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy.

They comprise the pagan holy trinity that is embodied by Barack Hussein Obama in your far-left, ideologically blinkered, false consciousness.

And of course in this world down the rabbit hole, John Maynard Keynes is John the Baptist, immersing all true-believing liberals in the holy water of bizzaro-world, the first commandment of which is that going further into debt gets you out of debt.

And unemployment payments stimulate the economy.

And getting drunk makes you sober.

And stealing other people's money is virtue.

And hypocrisy makes you good.

Speaking of Santa Claus, what's the limit on your EBT card, Arnie? I'm curious.

Stephie| 1.30.13 @ 1:10PM

obama is his Easter bunny, his Santa and his tooth fairy. Hell, obama may be his god too.
I pray that you see the light before it's too late Arie.

Stephie| 1.30.13 @ 1:11PM

"Arnie" I meant.

Anthony| 1.30.13 @ 2:36PM

Yes, Arnie, and may that light be an on coming conservative freight train. Inshallah.

Grzmlyk| 1.30.13 @ 2:52PM

I'd settle for a real-life freight train. Arnie and his ignorant ilk wish no less on us.

I always wonder - once they rid their brave new world of everyone who actually works for a living and believes in free markets what are they going to do for walking-around money? Not to mention straw men . . .

Anthony| 1.30.13 @ 3:11PM

Then, dear Grzmlyk, they shall proceed to turn on each other.
I saw it in Dawn of the Living Dead.

Job| 1.30.13 @ 2:49PM

Arn splain this one please with something besides my then 8 year old sisters explanation which went:
la, la, la la la, la la, la, la,la, can't hear you....

http://www.creationtoday.org/a.....an-layers/

http://www.creationtoday.org/a.....an-layers/

cicero| 1.30.13 @ 8:17AM

Try believing in the lessons of history. You can argue all day long about the age of the universe, evolution, or the hand of God in human affairs. Howeveer, you cannot argue very convincingly about the lessons of history if you refuse to accept them. Our recent history should tell you all you want to know about creating the "new man". The Sino-Soviets, and their accolytes tried it, and managed to kill about 200 million human beings (Robert Conquest's number), and impoverish millions more.
No society has ever successfully had women in combat. That should tell us something. The Soviets (them again) had them on the front lines out of dire necessity. It was not pretty. We have no such dire necissity facing us. Lets face it folks, it takes a woman 9 months to produce a child, and about a year to recover from the process. A man can produce his contribution to the child about once a day, if he can talk some gals into it. I think there was a t.v. special about such, but it was cancelled.

If we, as a society, don't wake up soon, we will lose this social experiment, and the last bright hope of man will expire, not to be seen by man again.

Von Mises Jr| 1.30.13 @ 11:00AM

Thank you for not talking to or about Arnie/Perp. I will not contribute to trolls making $10 per hour to interrupt fine posts such as yours, cicero. Doesn't anyone notice that Caliban does not talk to me since I simply insult it instead of taking it seriously? "The Art of War" should be required reading.

You are correct and it has been stated in many ways such as "those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it" (Churchill).

"All of this happened before and it will happen again" (Santayana).

Seapuss| 1.30.13 @ 8:24AM

Liberals pay homage to science only when it meshes with their ideology. Try discussing the law of supply and demand with a liberal and you'll get only a blank stare in response.

1. About 13.7 billion years
2. The Big Bang. But no one knows what started that.
3. It accreted from dust and gas left over from a supernova. About 4.5 billion years.
4. Yes, evolution is real and explains phylogenetics. However, evolution has yet to explain how life began.
5. Of course not.
6. Yes.

Your first mistake was equating all conservatives with young earth creationists. Liberals tend to equate all Christians with young earth creationists too. When I see one of those "Darwin" walking fish bumper stickers, I know I'm following a brainless bigot.

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 8:50AM

Good job Seapuss. I don't equate all Christians with young earth creationists. And as Albert alludes to mistakenly, the right shouldn't equate all lefties with Stalinism or PolPot. I'm sure many Christians also think the mass slaughter that resulted from centuries of religious Christian wars were also horrible.

And the laws of supply and demand are really easy to understand. But I suspect your are more of a supply sider, whereas I have more of a trickle up, demand side outlook. And economists are far from agreement as to which methods are best.

DerKrieger| 1.30.13 @ 8:59AM

I've never had a job offer from a poor man. How does trickle up work without first redistributing wealth from above?

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 9:11AM

I've worked for poor farmers, poor house painters, and poor handymen before.

Next.

DerKrieger| 1.30.13 @ 9:17AM

Weak tea. That doesn't create wealth. Next.

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 9:49AM

DerKreiger, the point is, many economists think that an economy, and the efforts of the society should be towards enriching the middle class and poor. But if all the wealth is held, and created for the already wealthy, how does that benefit everybody. Anyway, we've had low taxes for the extremely rich, and the big investor class for 30 years. It didn't do squat but make them richer, and more powerful. It did not create a wealthier middle class. Trickle down, unregulated supply side economics was tried, and it failed fantastically.

Unregulated free trade was also part of the problem, please watch this prophetic interview from 1994: search "sir james goldsmith charlie rose interview".

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 12:11PM

Those "economists" you speak of are NOT economists; they are propagandists spinning utopian fairy tales.

The "efforts of society" should be towards enriching freedom and liberty, NOT interfering in economics.

The model you describe is deeply flawed and a proven failure. It's also bull.

The vast majority of "wealth" in this country is in the middle class, NOT the evil rich (many of whom just love Obama).

And why, exactly, should you or anyone else benefit from the wealth created by someone else's effort?? Other than to ask for and obtain a job??

You know very little; the Reagan plan created 30 years of unprecedented economic expansion and growth. Obama's plan will do exactly the opposite.

If you understood basic economics, or basic human psychology, you'd get it. But you don't so you won't.

DerKrieger| 1.30.13 @ 8:57AM

I agree with you Seapuss. I am a lifelong conservative and also a Southern Baptist. I'm also an engineer by education and have loved science my whole life.

I don't think the earth is 6,000 years old and find that kind if thinking absurd. My apologies to those who do believe that.

I find no contradiction in believing in both the Big Bang and God. Why can't God have been the spark? Leftists like Arnie certainly can't disprove that hypothesis.

I am supportive of evolution as well and in that can't see why God can't have been involved in the nudges required to produce the diversity we see around us. What evolution can't explain without Godly intervention is branching, that is, why did only one branch of primate evolve toward man?
Lots of questions for which we may never have all the answers.

Regardless, it is Liberals for whom their ideology is their religion who are anti-science and their effort to control world energy use via their religion of climate change is the best proof.

Does climate change? Of course. It's clear in historical records. Are we causing it today? Not clear at all. Will undermining our fossil fuel based world economy reverse or stem further warming? Most models say no. So are we to plunge the world into poverty on the Left's false religion? I don't want to take that risk. Let the Arnies of the world go first.

Seapuss| 1.30.13 @ 9:14AM

DerKrieger, you are right that, for most liberals, their ideology is their religion.

While many liberals claim to despise religion, they actually practice one. I call their religion Equality Worship. Others have called it Radical Egalitarianism.

If you want to see into the heart of a liberal, read 1 Kings 3:16-28. The liberal is the one who says, "Let it be neither mine nor thine, but divide it." She is the one who deludes herself, lies, cheats, steals, and is willing to kill for the sake of equality.

The lesson of the Judgment of Solomon is not that Solomon was a smart fellow. Rather, the lesson is that the desire for equality above all else is perverse and sick. Moreover, seeking to have equality enforced by the sword of government is the height of tyranny and injustice.

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 9:17AM

DerKrieger, I agree with your statement. But I can conclusively say we don't know what existed before the big bang, nor how it started. now, you assert there is a God, maybe an intelligent one, or one that is always unknowable, and therefore irrelevant. But I make no assertion, I simply say I, and the humans if they are honest, really don't know. But for one that asserts there is a controlling God, the burden of proof is on them.

DerKrieger| 1.30.13 @ 9:20AM

There is no burden of proof on believers. We take it on faith.

You're right regarding the time before the Big Bang. Who's to say that the universe isn't "breathing" and when the current expansion ceases and reverses that someday the entire universe won't collapse in on itself to once again explode in another Big Bang? It could be cyclical.

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 9:30AM

Agreed. Faith does not require proof. It is the belief in something not based in any observed, proved reality.

DerKreiger, you are a smart man, and know where you stand and admit it honestly. Respect. And the nature and fate of the universe is a very interesting topic indeed.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.30.13 @ 5:38PM

"DerKreiger, you are a smart man"

Ich denke vielleicht dass Arnie weiss nicht was ein Krieger ist. Ich weiss nicht was der Kreiger ist.

mike 3/505| 1.30.13 @ 11:21PM

could be...but you'd have to check their/his IP address to prove it.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 12:12PM

I have no problem with the "Big Bang," either.

Except that there's a HUGE theoretical hole in the Big Bang Theory, and it has to do with the 1st Law of Thermodynamics.

Takers?

mike 3/505| 1.30.13 @ 11:23PM

Is that the one where the lower the level of scotch in the bottle, the greater chance of the class VI store being closed?

mike 3/505| 1.30.13 @ 11:24PM

Or is it the one where things naturally go from organized/complex, to unorganized/simpler?

Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.30.13 @ 8:32AM

Since the French Revolution, there have been others who thought that they could remake society, civilization and humanity in their own image. The most prominent example came to power 38 years ago. Having immersed himself in the Marxist and communist ideology, including youthful education overseas in France, when Saloth Sar and his Khmer Rouge came to power in Cambodia in 1975, it was decided that they would declare a Year One.

As the educated elites such as Sar (now more prominently known to the world as Pol Pot) decided their movement was a peasant revolution, all educated and skilled workers were viewed as suspected counter revolutionaries. All that had been learned from Khmer, Asian, Western and world history* was to be disregarded (outside of the Marxist ideology the rulers had been exposed to in their studies in Paris) as Saloth Sar aka Pol Pot and his followers set out to transform Cambodia aka Royaume de Cambodge aka Kampuchea. They centralized power , crushed dissent**, and decided to depopulate the cities in order to force the population to undergo reeducation in the glory of the Marxist revolution and agrarian ascendancy that they were leading.

Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.30.13 @ 8:32AM

Of course, this did not occur so long ago that the Left can successfully deny the Holocaust that followed, with more than a million Cambodians being murdered and/ or dying from starvation during the next four years, before a somewhat less murderous communist regime backed by the Vietnamese drove Pol Pot’s government from power.

Instead, many on the Left instead tried to blame Kissinger, Nixon or Ford, instead of the Cambodian Reds who dreamed up and executed the plan for the Marxist utopia that resulted in the killing fields.

Today, as Obama and his acolytes talk about discarding the Constitution* and castigate their opponents for not agreeing with their agenda**, they have difficulty understanding why those who were paying attention to then current events in the 20th century are reluctant to disarm, or join with the Dear Leader Barack Obama aka Barry Soetoro in his vision for a transformational America.

CJW| 1.30.13 @ 8:42AM

Did Pol Pot believe in gun control?

Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.30.13 @ 9:14AM

In general, there was never a history of freedom in Cambodia or sufficient wealth to sufficiently arm those in the countryside with privately owned weapons before 1975. As a result, the population was not heavily armed (as the wars in SE Asia brought many military small arms into play, they were not distributed in the cities or the non-guerilla population). In response to this uneven distribution (and poor logistics), the local Khmer Rouge commissars frequently did not possess sufficient ammunition to waste rounds on those in need of killing, and resorted to more creative or primitive methods. Some were hacked to death with farm implements. Many had their hands tied, and were then suffocated by fastening used plastic bags over their heads (an early aggressive recycling program that I'm sure Al Gore would endorse).

CJW| 1.30.13 @ 11:03AM

Albert
Very good comment.

The answer seems clear: We must ban assault farm implements and assault plastic bags. Had this ban been in force in Cambodia, one million would be alive. I thought the number was two million?

Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.30.13 @ 12:01PM

I've seen the estimates vary between 600,000 to 3 million.

Al Adab| 1.30.13 @ 8:42AM

Note how active the radical Left has become. We are facing an avalanche of proposals, nominations, legislation and so on in order to divide the opposition and force them (us) into a posture of "NO" rather than positive alternative proposals. Most of the agenda deserves failure, rejection and no legislative alternative. Still, we must carefully, pick our battles and win where and whenever we can.

Kerry as Sec of State is despicable, but other nominees more so. The Feinstein bill does nothing except restrict liberty although it might be good for American business to restrict imports. Illegal migration and immigration are two issues but we have allowed the opposition to define the terms of debate. In that and other matters the language of the debate is critical. The list goes on and a coherent strategy to answer, not simply broadcast opposition from Conservatives is sorely needed.

You are much loved Joellen and you speak the truth, but shake the dust off your feet regarding Arnie. Do not waste time bantering with barbarians and phillistines.

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 8:52AM

Kerry was just confirmed 94-3. Are you guys going to purge the GOP for that?

Pecos Pete| 1.30.13 @ 10:34AM

Yes! Absolutely! But, Traitor John is not in the Senate anymore. Some good comes from waving bye bye to him.

Come to think of it, tis a good thing that most of the republicans and all of the democrats voted for him ... they just couldn't stand being around him in the Senate.

Gosh, Traitor John can now be on the liberal/leftist/communist TV all the time and the rest of us won't have to look at nor listen to him. Good riddance.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 12:13PM

Maybe. Why not?

Your guys (Stalin, Mao, Castro) liked to purge people; why can't we?

Al Adab| 1.30.13 @ 1:42PM

"Voting is the best revenge."

Pecos Pete| 1.30.13 @ 8:38AM

Mr. Neumayr: Your best article in a long time. Thank you.

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 8:40AM

One, the military is voluntary, so these women are volunteers. No one is forcing them into the military. I would actually suggest they find better careers, but their chosen path is still their path, to choose.

And I agree, women do have to take care of their bodies, before and after giving birth, so are you for paid maternity leave, you know, like Europeans that allow women to take off time from work, spend several years with their new children, and allow them to keep their job. You may think your wife should always stay home and never work, but that's a decision between you and her. Women should have every right to make choices for themselves, just like men.

Or does your devotion to profit and the business owner trump your concerns for the health of the mother?

And I didn't say anything about the "new man". I don't buy that old soviet propaganda. Nor do I buy the American conservative capitalistic propaganda of trickle down economics and the poor are simply poor because they are of bad character or not hard working. Hell, I bet some people on this website aren't exactly rich either. Are they lazy?

And I definitely don't buy anything that runs in the face of hard scientific evidence.

ncatty| 1.30.13 @ 9:03AM

I am all for hard scientific evidence. The problem is today's hard scientific evidence becomes yesterday's discarded theory. An example would be from Newton to Einstein. Therefore, I don't worship at the altar of science.

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 9:24AM

Good philosophy Ncatty. Newtons laws still describe the world if the world is not too small, too large, or too fast. Science is always about pushing ourselves beyond our our current understanding of the universe. It may lead us to discover God.

But so far it has not. And the Bible is not a basis for science.

ncatty| 1.30.13 @ 9:53AM

The Bible contains science, history, sociology, psychology, and religion, but you could not accurately put those titles on the cover. It is sui generis.

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 10:15AM

For all those subjects, I would not rely on the Bible.
In fact, I advise against it. The library is a much better source for those subjects.

ncatty| 1.30.13 @ 5:05PM

The Bible's understanding and description of human nature is unparalleled. Truly, there is "nothing new under the Sun."

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 12:19PM

"And the Bible is not a basis for science."

Neither is Darwinian evolution.

Or Richard Dawkin's explanation for life on earth: "Alien microbes that traveled to earth...on crystals...in meteorites."

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 12:22PM

Romans 1:20
"For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities--his eternal power and divine nature--have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse."

Psalm 14:1
"The fool has said in his heart, There is no God."

Bandido| 1.30.13 @ 12:25PM

where did the original subatomic particle that started the universe come from?

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 1:26PM

EVOLUTIONIST: "Ummmm...from a breach in parallel dimension explained by string theory!"

CREATIONIST: "Ok...fair enough. So where did that parallel universe come from?"

EVOLUTIONIST: "What, are you stupid? From a parallel 'Big Bang'! Duh!"

CREATIONIST: "Riiiiight. And...what caused that parallel 'Big Bang'?"

EVOLUTIONIST: "All the matter in the universe was condensed into a particle the size of a b-b. The strain was too much, and it exploded. DUH!"

CREATIONIST: "Ok...so where did that b-b come from?"

EVOLUTIONIST: "What?!?!?"

CREATIONIST: "WHERE did that b-b come from?!?!"

EVOLUTIONIST: "Are you stupid? From another parallel universe! DUH!! Go away!! You creationists believe in fairy tales!"

CREATIONIST: "You're projecting..."

Job| 1.30.13 @ 3:03PM

where did the bb come from

a mouse shart of course

sickofit5| 1.30.13 @ 10:00AM

Hey Arnie, don't let the facts get in the way of the truth. You are truly an idiot on the verge of becoming an imbecile. Most European countries do not allow women to take off several years with their "new" children. Many do have maternity leave with most in the area of days to several weeks. Slovakia is at the top with 36 months followed by Norway at 54 weeks. (btw most of the socialist freebies in Norway are subsidized by evil oil) . England is at 39 weeks, subsidized by the taxpayers and the Netherlands at 16 weeks. Most are at partial pay. I don't believe a job should be held for a woman who decides to take three years off to raise her children. It should be given to someone who needs it now. The fact that you believe that women have to take care of their bodies before and after giving birth would lead one to believe that you too believe that there is no place for them in combat on the ground.

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 10:24AM

Yes, they do. I never said it wasn't at partial pay, only that they are allowed to keep their job and they are paid. The Czech Republic allows 1 year full pay, 2 years at half pay, and 3 years at a third of pay. Many countries have policies like this. Plus the schemes as to what they get from the company and also the government and the company differ. But fact, with many countries a women can take up to a year off or more, including time before the due date.

What does the US offer? Do Americans really care about mothers and their health?

CJW| 1.30.13 @ 11:09AM

Purpie/arnie

The US allows mothers to kill their unborn children at will.

Arnie| 1.30.13 @ 10:27AM

As for women in the military, I think it is their choice.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 12:18PM

And what if it's NOT their choice, Arnie?

If woman can serve in front-line combat units as volunteers, then they can also do it as draftees.

Are you prepared to send women to the front lines who DON'T want to go? Who never had any desire to be a soldier?

Anthony| 1.30.13 @ 12:50PM

And what about the men who have to serve next to them in front line combat, do they get a choice?

JD| 1.30.13 @ 12:37PM

The military does not exist to provide opportunity for people. It exists to defend America.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 1:27PM

LIKE.

mike 3/505| 1.30.13 @ 11:27PM

+1

Job| 1.30.13 @ 3:06PM

Looking for the God particle or trying to figure out how life animates our flesh is a quest for the Rube Goldberg that begins with God; no more.

Stan Redmond| 1.30.13 @ 6:01PM

If a woman is to be given maternity leave that is a contract between her and her employer. It's not my responsibility to pay for her, her child, or the cost of keeping her unfilled job.

BobSledd| 1.30.13 @ 8:55AM

Hard science like the concocted Hockey stick nonsense the Professors fabricated to ram global warming science down our throats? What "other" science would you propose we worship? Care to comment on the global warming shenanigans the Left wing academia,led by His Majesty Al Gore hawked? Mr. Science? We are done playing games Arnie..the survival of our Western Civilization is now in jeopardy from fools like your side. We are no longer willing to stay silent any longer with this leftist takeover. the gloves are off Arnie.. Get used to it

John Drake| 1.30.13 @ 9:00AM

We can only hope the fate of the architects of this obama revolution is the same as that of the French revolution, consumed by their own, but sooner and with far less innocent lives lost. I'm afraid it won't happen soon enough, far more damage will be had just the same and there will be a loss of innocent lives regardless.....

fmm| 1.30.13 @ 9:10AM

“I think people have come to the sensible conclusion that you can’t say a woman’s life is more valuable than a man’s life.”

Have seen no better example of the inconsistency and foolishness of the left when feminism has spent their entire history trying to elevate women above men in all ways.

Murl| 1.30.13 @ 9:30AM

I helped a female friend from church move some furniture and pull up some carpet in her home last night. It wasn't even 5 minutes into our task that she said, "We'll have to wait for more men to arrive to lift that. It's too heavy for me to lift."

Anyone from any cultural spectrum can try and make the argument that men and women are equal. I'll keep citing examples like the one above to refute them.

Stan Redmond| 1.30.13 @ 6:02PM

I've never asked a woman to open a jar of pickles.

Murl| 1.30.13 @ 9:27AM

I got halfway through this article and could stomach no more. It's writing like this that makes me want to commit suicide.

PolishKnight| 1.30.13 @ 9:50AM

Most of the left's dogma, like the French revolution, is arbitrary and contradictory. Of COURSE there are differences between men and women in that women are always victims and in need of continual assistance to be "equal". Get it? Racism is the notion that white males are human beings entitled to equal rights. Those are hypocrisies and even paradoxes. Sometimes they're just silly like someone thinking that if they use cloth bags at the supermarket that will somehow stop the world from melting from their claimed manmade global warming. Hiliarous, eh? They either have cheap sentiment or it's nonsensical.

Hardcard| 1.30.13 @ 9:56AM

Same trap different day.

farmerinthedale| 1.30.13 @ 10:15AM

Arnie - based on the number of posts you make it would seem highly unlikely that you are contributing much of any value to our GDP. If some business is signing your paycheck, I'm sure that your impeccable ethics will compel you to include your worthless time spent posting here as line items on your weekly time accounting payroll report. More than likely though you are sitting around in your pajamas with nothing better to do than pollute air spewing your liberal claptrap. By the way - have you ever made a payroll? Have you ever taken one risk to do anything? Let me guess - you are some fat bureaucrat in a cushy government job or getting some other kind of public support.

Who Knows?| 1.30.13 @ 10:36AM

People need to become completely familiar with the metric, “necessary and sufficient.”

Say you’re building a house. It is certainly necessary that you have building materials, but they ALONE are not sufficient.

Right now, as the really big news, politically, in the big dog country of America, continues to be the Chairman Ma-Obama Revolution, for freedom lovers, attention is drawn to the GOP---can it shed its “Stupid Party” image?

Well, it is ONLY necessary to KNOW and acknowledge that it is, by its actions correctly labeled thusly, but it is surely NOT sufficient. Say you have an alcoholic, who just found out, and agrees, he is one, AND still continues to drink away---that’s where the GOP is, today.

Here’s another thing---hubris abounds in the GOP, even as it continues to get its ass kicked!

Why, don’t you know---pace the GOP convention, it has a superb “bench” of dynamic up-and-comers, and, golly gee, there have never been so many Republican governors with GOP-controlled state legislatures. Chortle.

AA has a 12-step program that only STARTS with admitting being an alcoholic. The GOP has about 11 steps left to go---I don’t see any walking, do you?

I give you John McCain---need I say more?

Well—okay---South Carolina gives you another squishy senator. Yes, the GOP, led by McCain and the SC squish.

Losers!

Anthony| 1.30.13 @ 10:45AM

Mr. Neumayr, The "new" calendar of the American left and Obozo, most assuredly, will be a short lived phenomenon.
The true American people will see to it in good time, and that time is fast approaching.

Bandido| 1.30.13 @ 12:28PM

no, they won't. and it isn't.

Petronius| 1.30.13 @ 11:44AM

Remember what was said back in '68 by he acolytes of the Chicago 7 while they were busy spitting on Judge Hoffman? The unwashed outside the court house were being interviewed by the network correspondents from NYC and asking them what they wanted. The reply that made the sound bite of that week was, "I'll tell you what we want: A new economic order beginning with US!" Allow me to translate. What the hippies wanted then, they want to complete now: confiscation of all private fortunes, abolition of all privilege, and an end to any obligation to compete with anybody in order to get a living by abolishing commerce in the all things necessary to sustain life. This, the embodiment of PeterPantheism.

RCV| 1.30.13 @ 12:39PM

Here's a newsfalsh, Mr. Neumayr: neither the President nor anyone else I know of is using a new calendar. It's 2013 for us just as for you. No one is sitting knitting while a guillotine is chopping off your head or anyone else's. Your French Revolution analogies are so silly it strains what little credibility you have. Give it up and get back to grown-up political analysis.

JD| 1.30.13 @ 12:48PM

Straw. Man.

Stan Redmond| 1.30.13 @ 6:05PM

It's not for lack of enthusiasm. Lots of lefties are for "bringing back the guillotine." OWS was full of people calling for the execution of "greedy fat cat bankers" and who can forget the Obama mentor Billy Ayers utopian leftist dream would require only about 20 million Americans to be executed.

Jack London| 1.30.13 @ 1:07PM

Interesting how the far right loonies are desperately looking up half-remembered history classes on Nazis (Jeffrey Lord, ad nauseam) and the French Revolution (Jeffrey Lord, Newmayr) on Wikipedia and applying them to a what is really a pretty middle of the road Obama administration. I'm sure Pol Pot and Year Zero won't be long a'coming. It's a form of entertainment I guess.

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 1:29PM

Gee, that's brilliant!

"Compared to Pol Pot, Obama is 'middle of the road'!"

You have no idea how stupid that sounds, do you?

Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.30.13 @ 4:18PM

...apparently, a Middle of the Road Dictator prefers to murder only tens of thousands of his own people, as opposed to the extremist dictator with a goal to murder hundreds of thousands...

Doctor Right| 1.30.13 @ 1:32PM

CALLING ARNIE!!!!

Where are you, Arnie? You have a lot of questions to avoid answering!

Anthony| 1.30.13 @ 1:44PM

DR, He's online getting Deer-Antler spray; he wants to know what it's like to be with a real woman, and have something to show for it.

John II| 1.30.13 @ 2:42PM

“Everyone is conservative about what he knows best." I had almost forgotten Conquest's mot. It explains so much.

The Left, as I can attest from more than 40 years in the rarefied atmosphere of academe, is essentially narcissist in its orientation. Lefties really have no serious interest in the world around them. They want perennially to change the world, but they cannot sustain any serious effort to understand the world. Even those among them who one or two children are not interested enough to give them a decent upbringing.

So, foprever preoccupied with themselves, they don't know much about anything.

So they have nothing to be conservative about.

QED

John II| 1.30.13 @ 2:44PM

. . . who have . . .forever Damn. I'm rushing to class just now.

John II| 1.30.13 @ 4:20PM

Back from class. "Everyone is conservative about what he knows best."

It explains so much! The Professor was a rotten student who coasted through the degenerate ivy league scene on affirmative action. All his demagogic speeches attest to his ignorance and his indifference to the world around him. All the commentary on his manners includes this or that aside about how "detached" he seems. All the shrinks admit that he exhibits the classic symptoms of narcissism.

He knows very little at all, and he knows nothing very well.

He has never experienced the conservative impulse.

So he's a Lefty by default. All Lefties are Lefty by default. "Everyone is conservative about what he knows best." People who don't know anything have nothing to be conservative about.

Kingofthenet| 1.30.13 @ 4:27PM

It doesn't matter if a fetus is a 'human being' or not, because to give it rights, you have to automatically take rights from another human being away.

John II| 1.30.13 @ 5:40PM

"Everyone is conservative about what he knows best."

Allow me to recapitulate the previous moronic comment: It doesn't matter whether Kingofthenet is a troll or not, because to give it any attention, you automatically have to take attention away from John II.

Allow me now to waste my time by responding to a moron. Human beings HAVE rights, King--even cretins like yourself. God made you with them--you're hardwired that way.

No one this side of eternity GIVES you rights, least of all the Holy State that you worship. The state has the one primary function of protecting the rights you already have.

So if a human fetus is a human being, which it is (a scientifically settled question), a human fetus has rights, the most elemental of all being the right to life. The mother of the fetus has rights too, but neither she nor anyone else this side of eternity has the right to take away the right to life. Even if cretins like yourself are an annoyance or inconvenience or embarrassment to me, I still have no right to shove you down a flight of stairs.

Kingofthenet| 1.30.13 @ 5:48PM

So when a Pregnant Women commits suicide, you want it listed in the paper as 'Murder-Suicide' claims two, I don't even think your fellow NeoCon buddies are going to support that.

Simon Templar| 1.30.13 @ 5:58PM

Suicide is murdering oneself, moron.

Kingofthenet| 1.30.13 @ 6:44PM

So you DO what a suicide by a pregnant lady listed as a murder-suicide, this is going to make the papers very interesting.We can have miscarriages listed as 'Freak Toilet' accident claims twins for example.

John II| 1.30.13 @ 10:11PM

Actually, there are many post-1973 cases in which miscreants who beat their pregnant girlfriends have been prosecuted precisely for MURDERING the fetus. The moral schizophrenia of the law might be of interest to you if a gerbil like yourself cultivated any interest in the world around him, King.

But alas, "Everyone is conservative about what he knows best," so that being conservative about anything isn't quite within reach of an ignoramus like yourself.

Stan Redmond| 1.30.13 @ 6:09PM

Interesting concept. Big government entitlement programs take away my property rights every single day via taxes to pay for the "rights" of welfare recipients. How do we solve this conundrum?

Controse| 1.30.13 @ 4:36PM

Here is a memory aid, a short cut, to understanding the lefts approach to human, personal relations: A gaping anus yields to my sexual pleasure. No pleasure brought forward by human, personal relations surmounts my sexual pleasure. Man, woman, what difference does it make?

Kingofthenet| 1.30.13 @ 5:56PM

Something tells me your a Conservative with a 'Wide Stance'.

Stan Redmond| 1.30.13 @ 6:11PM

"I don't want them punished with a baby" -Barack Obama, LAS

Simon Templar| 1.30.13 @ 4:42PM

I will try, Awnie, to answer it like a good liberal.

1. How old approximately is the known universe?
The universe began on August 4, 1961.
2. How did the known universe begin?
Lord Obama willed it.
3. How did the earth form, how old is it?
Obama spoke it out from a teleprompter.
4. Is evolution real? Is the basis of phylogenetics real? Yes and No. Liberals were created by Obama. Conservatives descended from apes and dinosaurs.
5. Did humans live at the time of dinosaurs?
Liberal were created from rainbows and good thoughts by Obama. This is why they are so pure and holy. There were no humans at the time of the dinosaurs as they were still evolving into conservatives.
6. Did humans evolve from a common ancestral primate, and are they genetically close to other primates? Yes and No. See above.

Simon Templar| 1.30.13 @ 4:46PM

Glad we could clear that up and end thread this way.

John II| 1.30.13 @ 5:43PM

End the thread? You mean, you don't expect Arnie to respond? How could that be?

Albert Constantine Jr.| 1.30.13 @ 11:11PM

...Not with a whimper, but a bang (though not a Big Bang)...

Marc Jeric| 1.31.13 @ 3:00AM

We want equality of sexes! There must be 50% women and 50% men in NFL, NBA, and in MLB. Affirmative action must also be enforced; in both NFL and NBA we have 80% blacks vs. only 20% white - these ratios must be reversed!

sameth| 1.31.13 @ 3:07AM

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Arnie| 1.31.13 @ 6:53AM

Wow, it seems some of you anti-evolution tards blew a gasket in regards to my comments. Although, funny, you don't seem angry at the other people here that know evolution is real.

By the way, Doctor Right, you are a singularity, in the sense that you are matter that became extremely dense.

Anyway, here's another example a religious Republitard, from the proud Confederate state of Louisiana.

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/f.....slim-ones/

John II| 1.31.13 @ 2:25PM

Vindicated. Except . . . come to think of it, I guess Arnie doesn't really "respond" to anything, in any normal sense of the word.

"Everyone is conservative about what he knows best." In retrospect, John Dewey is perhaps the lamest, easiest-to-refute of philosophers--and he's the dude who gave us a public education system that now produces gerbils like Arnie.

Well, I like a conservative balance in things, so let's try again to tied up this thread with a few counterquestions for Arnie:

John II| 1.31.13 @ 2:26PM

1. In your reading of Darwin, what specifically, in which of his books, struck you as his strongest argument?

2. In your wide reading of philosophy, what precisely was there about Karl Popper's response to Darwin that you found unpersuasive--and why?

3. What about the late Australian philos0pher David Stove's response in his "Darwinian Fairytales"? Or Benjamin Wiker's biographical approach in "The Darwin Myth"? Take your pick. As I'm sure you know, the list of refutations is quite long and, having studied most of them, you may find the selection a little daunting, but take your time as well.

4. Do you regard the string-theoretic multiverse as a solution to the problem of cosmological fine-tuning? If so, why? And in response to the question, what aspect of intellectual method do you place your faith in, so to speak, as a means of grounding your response?

Answer these few questions, and then we can proceed.

And now back to the superior 1953 version of "War of the Worlds," a political fable about Earth being taken over by heartless Martians whose advanced knowledge of engineering and celestial mechanics is apparently unmatched by any knowledge whatever of philosophy, ethics, and microbiology. Result: the Martians all contract common colds and shrivel up and die.

DRed| 1.31.13 @ 4:01PM

I don't know about all that other stuff, but I do know that Popper's response to Darwin failed in the end to persuade Karl Popper, and he recanted (publically, at Darwin College, Cambridge) his criticisms of natural selection.

John II| 1.31.13 @ 6:21PM

Not precisely. He did indeed "recant" (his own word) his earlier application of his standard of falsifiability to Darwin's theory of natural selection, and he even applied the theory to his own speculations about biological purpose in mutations. But he still properly regarded the theory as highly conjectural, notwithstanding its utility as an explanatory model. The underlying issue in the Darwin debate is intellectual method, and Popper, I think, is a good model of a philosopher who understood that point.

And what are you doing on this dated thread, DReddie? You messed up my conservative attempt to tie things up.

DRed| 1.31.13 @ 7:21PM

What do you mean by the Darwin debate?

John II| 1.31.13 @ 11:11PM

Uh--I guess I mean the Darwin contretemps. Or maybe the straw-man fraudulence of the otherwise terrific 1960 flick (superior to the 1999 remake) "Inherit the Wind." The smugness portrayed by Spencer Tracy and exhibited the college audience watching the flick in 1960 was an early influence on Phillip Johnson, who in his later years wrote "Darwin on Trial." The response to that book was generally hostile in precisely the manner of the religious hinds at Dayton portrayed in "Inherit the Wind."

So, come to think of it, maybe there really isn't a debate; maybe there's just a steady stream of arguments met by a steady pattern of smug stonewalling. The pattern IS interesting on a dramatic level, inasmuch as the original roles of the distinguished scientists and of the know-nothing religionists seem to have been reversed over the past generation or so. Look closely at Arnie's language.

So . . . what do you mean by "mean"?

Anyhow, I'm starting to see how Br'er Rabbit felt when he was wrestling with the tar baby.

dkc| 2.1.13 @ 1:43AM

Perhaps the best test of the great minds' notion of gender equality would be to form an entirely women 's combat brigade and send it to war. All preconceived notions about the sexes would be tried and our culture clarified--one way or the other.

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