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Bush Admin: Noah's flood created Grand Canyon
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| DaveSZ |
Heh, this is too much man. When do the witch burnings begin?
http://www.peer.org/press/524.html
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For Immediate Release: Wednesday, October 13, 2004
Contact: Chas Offutt (202) 265-7337
PARK SERVICE STICKS WITH BIBLICAL EXPLANATION FOR GRAND CANYON
Promised Legal Review on Creationist Book Is Shelved
Washington, DC — The Bush Administration has decided that it will stand by its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah’s flood rather than by geologic forces, according to internal documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
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| Dupz |
| I dont know whether to laugh, or cry... |
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| DaveSZ |
| quote: | Originally posted by Spacey Orange
is it the first of april already? this has to be some f'n joke right?
*** shakes head in disbelief *** |
It's no joke.
Fundamentalists control many high-ranking positions in this administration.
Obviously if that book sells and helps the Park Service, then that's a good thing I guess.
Still there are more significant issues that actually affect millions such as this:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/10/15/145936/65
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U.S. Rejects U.N. Plan for Women
The Associated Press
Thursday 14 October 2004
United Nations - The United States has refused to join 85 heads of state and government in signing a statement that endorsed a 10-year-old U.N. plan to ensure every woman's right to education, healthcare and choice about having children.
The Bush administration said it withheld its signature because the statement included a reference to "sexual rights."
Kelly Ryan, deputy assistant secretary of State, wrote to backers of the plan that the United States was committed "to the empowerment of women and the need to promote women's fullest enjoyment of universal human rights."
"The United States is unable, however, to endorse the world leaders' statement," Ryan said, because it "includes the concept of 'sexual rights,' a term that has no agreed definition in the international community."
Ryan did not elaborate. At previous U.N. meetings, U.S. representatives have spoken out against abortion, gay rights and what they see as the promotion of promiscuity by distributing condoms to prevent AIDS.
The statement was signed by leaders of 85 nations, including those in the European Union, China, Japan, Indonesia, Pakistan and more than a dozen African countries, as well as 22 former world leaders.
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The fact that such global human rights leaders as China and Pakistan have signed onto this statement really says something. |
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| NYCTrancefan |
| My goodness help us all, those people sound like they are for real. Wow. Isn't it strange that when we speak of violence in the Middle East we speak of fundamentalists, ironically in America we also reference fundamentalists within the religous right, comforting thought. Ideologies and Politics are not bedfellows. |
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| DaveSZ |
| quote: | Originally posted by NYCTrancefan
My goodness help us all, those people sound like they are for real. Wow. Isn't it strange that when we speak of violence in the Middle East we speak of fundamentalists, ironically in America we also reference fundamentalists within the religous right, comforting thought. Ideologies and Politics are not bedfellows. |
That irony isn't lost on me either.
We've heard Bush speak out against Islamic fundamentalists, while he quietly (or not so quietly in some cases) installs a fundamentalist regime here at home.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17BUSH.html?oref=login&oref=login&oref=login
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Without a Doubt
By RON SUSKIND
Published: October 17, 2004
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Bruce Bartlett, a domestic policy adviser to Ronald Reagan and a treasury official for the first President Bush, told me recently that ''if Bush wins, there will be a civil war in the Republican Party starting on Nov. 3.'' The nature of that conflict, as Bartlett sees it? Essentially, the same as the one raging across much of the world: a battle between modernists and fundamentalists, pragmatists and true believers, reason and religion.
''Just in the past few months,'' Bartlett said, ''I think a light has gone off for people who've spent time up close to Bush: that this instinct he's always talking about is this sort of weird, Messianic idea of what he thinks God has told him to do.'' Bartlett, a 53-year-old columnist and self-described libertarian Republican who has lately been a champion for traditional Republicans concerned about Bush's governance, went on to say: ''This is why George W. Bush is so clear-eyed about Al Qaeda and the Islamic fundamentalist enemy. He believes you have to kill them all. They can't be persuaded, that they're extremists, driven by a dark vision. He understands them, because he's just like them. . . .
''This is why he dispenses with people who confront him with inconvenient facts,'' Bartlett went on to say. ''He truly believes he's on a mission from God. Absolute faith like that overwhelms a need for analysis. The whole thing about faith is to believe things for which there is no empirical evidence.'' Bartlett paused, then said, ''But you can't run the world on faith.''
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In the summer of 2002, after I had written an article in Esquire that the White House didn't like about Bush's former communications director, Karen Hughes, I had a meeting with a senior adviser to Bush. He expressed the White House's displeasure, and then he told me something that at the time I didn't fully comprehend -- but which I now believe gets to the very heart of the Bush presidency.
The aide said that guys like me were ''in what we call the reality-based community,'' which he defined as people who ''believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.'' I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ''That's not the way the world really works anymore,'' he continued. ''We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality -- judiciously, as you will -- we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.''
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| MisterOpus1 |
| Suskind's article was, without a doubt, one of the most disturbing articles on Bush I have ever read. It really cuts to the heart of the matter with Bush's policies and goin' with his gut-God-told-me-so "instinct". I realize that the conservatives are crying "biased" on this, but Suskind is a pretty damn good research writer, and his sources have been consistent and true for many years now. If even part of that article holds merit, it should downright scare the out of ANY voter. |
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| Cyrus King |
| cue Q5echo to come in and save Bush's ass... wait.. hes still sucking his cock.. give it some time |
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| MisterOpus1 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cyrus King
cue Q5echo to come in and save Bush's ass... wait.. hes still sucking his cock.. give it some time |
C'mon, Cyrus - you really don't have to go there. You can make some great salient points when you want to without getting so personal. |
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| che |
Indeed thats a very disturbing article...
I love the one on the Grand Canyon though....as a geologist its pretty funny to me...:D |
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| 3xx3r7 |
This is too good. :stongue:
Soon, Christianity will be the official and only religion in US. Everyone else will be put into concentration camps. Oh wait, I confuse the terminology, internment camps. :rolleyes: |
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| Cal |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cyrus King
cue Q5echo to come in and save Bush's ass... wait.. hes still sucking his cock.. give it some time |
Ahahahaha, oh man thats excellent. Good thing I finished my drink or I would have had a spit take right there! |
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