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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 01/23/2010 : 03:36:53 [Permalink]
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FOX "news," douchebags to the end.
It's a horrible, unspeakable tragedy that gets you right in the core of your humanity. The poorest country in the Western Hemisphere is flattened by a huge earthquake. Hundreds of thousands killed, thousands of children orphaned, more than 1.5 million now homeless. Bodies of the dead are lain in the street to be bulldozed into mass graves while machete-wielding gangs fight for the scarce resources. The pain, the fear, the sense of hopelessness is palpable.
It is now incumbent upon all of us, as fellow humans, to lend a hand and help the Haitians. And in a rare show of humanity, broadcast and cable television outlets have agreed to pre-empt their regular programming to air the Hope For Haiti Now Global TV Telethon.
Except for Fox News Channel.
Our crack C&L team has checked around the dial and compiled a list of channels participating:
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There follows a rather long list of participants from which FOX is conspicuous by it's presence on everything else but that. They certainly didn't interrupt O'Reilly for it (as if anyone could).
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"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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 Posted - 01/23/2010 : 04:06:14 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
Now, you can cackle gleefully about the bit of stupidity concerning the Himalayan glaciers and bitch endlessly about Al Gore's shortcomings, it changes nothing. |
Major FAIL by you, Filthy.
It's Bill Scott's imperative to unprompted bring up Al Gore as a refutation of anthropogenic global climate change.
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 01/23/2010 : 06:11:19 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Originally posted by filthy
Now, you can cackle gleefully about the bit of stupidity concerning the Himalayan glaciers and bitch endlessly about Al Gore's shortcomings, it changes nothing. |
Major FAIL by you, Filthy.
It's Bill Scott's imperative to unprompted bring up Al Gore as a refutation of anthropogenic global climate change.
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Yeah, I understand. But it is my imperative not to let it go unanswered.
The Great Ocean Conveyor
If you look real close, you can almost find the island of Hispaniola, or what's left of it since the recent tectonic spasm. It's right over there east of Cuba.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist!
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 01/23/2010 : 12:15:37 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Bill scott
Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
Originally posted by Bill scott
| When science gives us cars, mobile phones, computers, and medicine, faith gives us delusions false hope of comfort. |
You don't think Henry Ford had any faith that his Model T's would replace the horse and carriage?
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Don't be such an asshole.
You're actively trying to sabotage this discussion by equivocating a belief in one self's accomplishments or ability (Henry Ford having faith in his car), with acquiring knowledge from God (Truth) by divine inspiration. Just because the word "faith" is spelled the same... But it does have different meaning depending on context. Children are taught this long before high school, maybe you need to go there and freshen up your language skills?
"Equivocation" is not a job career, it's a logical fallacy. Your argument have failed, please try again.
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You missed the point. |
And you've missed the point of having science. You're clueless when it comes to what science is all about.
There's a bloody big difference between having faith that the sun will rise tomorrow or if I let go of this apple it will fall to the ground, and having faith that there is an invisible silent God who can hear your thoughts and violate the laws of physics accordingly.
It's called empirical evidence. If you can't see the difference you really need to get your head examined.
| The question becomes where do you place your faith? You appear to have placed your faith in your own definition of science. |
You seem to implying something that I would consider offensive. Please elaborate on this, so I don't have to draw the wrong conclusions.
| I am here to remind you of the fact that because humans perform science we have many errors and non-truths in science. |
A statement which clearly shows that you have no clue what science is, and how it works.
| So simply placing all of your faith in science in no way gives you a monopoly on truth. |
I never claimed monopoly on truth.
Heck, it don't even guarantee you a majority.
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Guarantee me a majority of what? Please elaborate.
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 01/23/2010 : 12:21:45 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Bill scott
Now how important must the truth be when you ignore your own standards and are being corrected/refuted in your field of expertise by the flippin Sunday Times? |
How important is it to protect children from child-molesting priests, when the church actively protects the priest by covering up the molestations and shields him from the police, then reassign him to a parish where his pedophilia is still a secret so he could start molesting children again?
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There are actually standards for protecting priests from pedophilia allegations which comes from the highest heads of the church in question, so obviously my bringing up priest pedophilia as a deviation from standard (like you did above) is a false analogy.
I apologise for that.
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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| Edited by - Dr. Mabuse on 01/23/2010 12:32:53 |
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podcat
Skeptic Friend
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Posted - 01/26/2010 : 21:31:45 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by filthy
There follows a rather long list of participants from which FOX is conspicuous by it's presence on everything else but that. They certainly didn't interrupt O'Reilly for it (as if anyone could).
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Funny you should mention those two, because guess who just demanded transparency from the Hope for Haiti Telethon?
http://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/fox-news-was-only-news-channel-not-r
| In my dreams, the answer O'Reilly's people got when they called was this: "WTF? You want us to find someone to take time out of the hard work we're doing here just to satisfy Bill O'Reilly's ego? Get stuffed! If one of the participating channels wanted transparency, we'd be delighted to open the books for them. But we don't owe Fox News Channel a goddamn thing. Good-bye." |
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podcat
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