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Saturday, August 12, 2006

 

Bush Replaces American "Work Ethic" With "Win Ethic"

The problem with the current Republican fantasy world thinking is that it discourages people from taking the future seriously.

When they deny that global warming is real, and deny that the world is over 10,000 years old, and deny that we we lied into a debacle of a war - the GOP is denying that reality and working hard for a goal really matters. Where Americans once had a long term, results based, national focus - we now have short term magical thinking.

Everybody thinks they can take the "American Idol" route to quick stardom. Everyone thinks, like Don Rumsfeld, that thier wars should take no more than 6 months. "Win a quick war, then kick back and let the oil money roll in." Why be a sap working for something like a long term energy policy when it is easier to win some oil fields? The Republican motto for the past 10 years might as well be - If life presents you with a difficult problem, you are thinking too hard. Pray it away or bomb the crap out of it.

We have turned into a country where being a "prayer" and a "player" is valued over being a contributor.

Experts at S.D. meeting cite other nations' advances

The future of U.S. competitiveness in science and technology is in the hands of young people, but too few of them want to build careers in those fields, a high-profile panel of government, academic and aerospace experts said yesterday in San Diego.

Central to the crisis is a popular culture that doesn't value math and science, a public education system that doesn't pay teachers enough to attract the best instructors, and a national economy that doesn't offer young people the financial incentives to pursue intellectually rigorous jobs that require years of expensive education, the panel said.

Comments:
When you imply that all Republicans - or even all Christians - think the world is less than 10,000 years old, you make yourself out to be an idiot. When you ignore the cyclical nature of global climate and focus solely on humanity's "contribution" to temperature change, you make yourself out to be small minded.
 
When you imply that all Republicans - or even all Christians - think the world is less than 10,000 years old, you make yourself out to be an idiot.

Good point. Except that without the nutjob fundamentalist votes, the mainstream Republican party would once again become the minority party its platform entitles it to. The GOP did not take majority control until it embraced the flat-earthers and theocons.
 
Pardon my implications. I was not aware that non-Republican seculatists were pushing the notion that the earth is less than 10,000 years old - but maybe you have some links that might open my eyes.

As far as global warming is concerned, your vote for the "Global warming is a liberal hoax" position is duly noted.

If you have any problem with the substance of the post, I'd be interested in hearing it.
 
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Republicans are so wedded to the Christian fundamentalist vote that Mike Castle won't even travel downstate to speak up for the Dobriches.
 
The full Republican motto:

"If life presents you with a difficult problem, you are thinking too hard. Pray it away or bomb the crap out of it. If the problem still exists after prayer and bombing - it was Bill Clinton's fault. Why are you looking at me like that?"
 
Well, if that's the Republican motto, then the Democratic motto must be:

"Lose. Then make up excuses. Then lose again. Then blame the other side. Then lose again."
 
ditto anony 9:37
 
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