1. This Is Not a Test

Comment #102827 by Dreamer's Dilemma on December 23, 2007 at 5:50 pm

Scooter, Thanks for the comment. I'm quite aware of your point that too many of "both" parties circle the wagons tightly around a collection of ideas and try to limit debate and reason even (perhaps especially?) within their own group. It is quite unfortunate because it slows to a stagnant crawl any sort of societal progress that might be possible if the country were able to tackle issue by issue independently. Sometimes on slow news days, I like to walk by the cages of either the left or the right and poke them with a stick, just for the entertainment value of the predictable responses. I like to go on a conservative site and rile them up about the christian right or same-sex marriage or throw a comment in here on the Dawkin's site about border security or the venerated AlGore. It's a weakness I suppose.

I haven't been on here much recently but recall your postings as well reasoned and not constrained by ideology. A pleasant Winter's Solstice to you and yours.

2. This Is Not a Test

Comment #102105 by Dreamer's Dilemma on December 21, 2007 at 3:06 pm

Wow, some of you leftists are a touchy bunch! How the hell did I get lumped in with Bill O'Reilly? And to be clear, I didn't mention Republicans or Democrats, that came through subsequent responses.

I still stand by my original statement which for the sake of clarification is restated as the following two propositions: "I'd rather have had the last 7 years under Bush than Gore. The current political process in America divides the country into two very constraining groupings, both of which seem to try to limit the speech and ideas coming out of their own camps."

Does that mean I agree with everything Bush did? No, it doesn't. He allowed Iraq to turn into a quagmire from which it will take years to extract the US. But, on the other hand, we haven't had any further domestic terror incidents since 2001.

Blow it out your ass, Diacanu, you've effectively proven my point. Although you may not consider yourself a socialist, you apparently lump yourself in with the left very tightly. You will be expected to support all of their agenda planks, even those with which you don't agree.

I'm very uncomfortable with some of the christian lunacy that happens within my party, but I'd still vote for the Devil (if such an entity were real and could get on the ballot) before I'd vote for Hillary.

Maybe I'll vote for al-rawandi. An Atheist capitalist Libertarian strikes a chord with me. Unfortunately, Libertarian's can't raise enough votes to break through our ridiculous two-party monopoly. Too bad, because getting the government out of our lives is an admirable objective.

Hey al-rawandi, what are your positions on border security(for it?), same sex unions (for them?), and universal socialized heath care (against it?). If so, I really think I could support you against the current slate of candidates on either parties ballot.

3. This Is Not a Test

Comment #100934 by Dreamer's Dilemma on December 19, 2007 at 4:58 pm

There have been far worse 7 year periods during actual American history. The 7 year period that could have happened had Gore won in 2000 is too scary to comtemplate. Thank God (er, excuse me, forgot where I was, it is just an expression anyway) Thank W, deadeye Dick Cheney and SCOTUS that never came to pass.

Personally, I'm hoping for a staunchly conservative atheist to come forward before the primaries. These roundtables of loony Christians on the right and secular hate-America socialists on the left don't really provide much of a pool of diversity from which good ideas (and candidates) can spring forth.

4. Interview with Christopher Hitchens

Comment #70359 by Dreamer's Dilemma on September 15, 2007 at 4:00 am

Windexpeller,

The Chomsky piece may be well written, but it is disingenuous at best. Certainly it does not accurately describe the New York Times and major television media news organizations (CBS, NBC, ABC) that blanket the American news market with left leaning propaganda on a daily basis. In that world, socialized health care, proliferation of the welfare state, complete abdication of our national sovereignty and an absolute requirement to ignore half of the biological origins of the unborn children killed by the "Mother's Right" to choose is considered the "middle ground" position, with anything slightly to the right of that being called extremist.

5. Christopher Hitchens on BookTV

Comment #67771 by Dreamer's Dilemma on September 4, 2007 at 5:35 pm

Scooternyc,

Stand tall in the face of the opposition. Correlation is not cause. You are correct that there are many more significant problems on which the global economy should invest scarce resources to the greater good of humanity than the threat of global warming.

World hunger comes to mind. A handfull of medical challenges (AIDS of course, but maybe if a few dollars could be spared for non-politically correct diseases then some others as well). Islamic terrorists. Michael Moore movies. Well, you get the idea.

Regards,
DD

6. Al Gore on Reason

Comment #45030 by Dreamer's Dilemma on May 25, 2007 at 8:32 pm

Hopefully, the Mind_Rebel bashing has now concluded and we can get back to the matter at hand, that being Al Gore's pandering to whomever has cash in hand to finance his next campaign. In this case, he was saying whatever the anti-Irag War crowd wanted to hear. He was probably hoping they would all go down to the bookstore and by his Inconvenient Lie extrapolation of data into the realm of infeasibility. At my local Barnes and Noble, the have an entire table devoted to copies of his Inconvenient Lie (sitting next to the help desk, presumably because they obviously don't belong in non-fiction, but they couldn't be put in the fiction section because they're claiming to be true) but they do not offer Christopher Hithchen's "God is not Great" book although it is number 4 in the country? Go Hitch!

Sorry, Mind_Rebel, you seemed to take an unwarranted amount of guff in response to your posts on this article.

7. Importing a slave class

Comment #45011 by Dreamer's Dilemma on May 25, 2007 at 7:24 pm

I love Ann Coulter. She has bigger cojones (felt compelled to throw a little Spanglish in there since it was a border crossing article) than 90% of the Al Gore butt-kissing crowd that frequents this site. That said, what does it have to do with atheism? That is perhaps one of the few points with which I would choose to disagree with Ann. She is rabidly Christian and an unapologetic defender of the likes of the recently deceased Mr. Falwell. Oh well, nobody is perfect.

8. Republican candidates range from ignorant to dishonest

Comment #37516 by Dreamer's Dilemma on May 4, 2007 at 5:26 pm

I hold out great hopes that an inspiring candidate with proper credentials and positions will come forth to earn the Republican nomination. But even if that doesn't happen and someone actually conjures up the Devil on the stage during the Republican convention and he/she gets the nod, I'll vote for him/her over the likes of Senator Mrs. Bill Clinton.

9. Study: Religion is Good for Kids

Comment #34914 by Dreamer's Dilemma on April 25, 2007 at 3:03 pm

Nails, well stated and right to the point.

It would be interesting to follow up with these little sheltered naive youths when they leave for college (assuming their religous parents allow them to attend secular schools) and they find out there is a real world outside the protective cocoon of lies in which they've lived. I wonder how well-adjusted they will seem then?

10. Genie shows barred by Islam, clerics say

Comment #32613 by Dreamer's Dilemma on April 17, 2007 at 3:25 pm

So what if the ragheads ban Jeannie?

I hope they ban "Bewitched" too. The Muslims don't deserve to see the likes of Barbara Eden and Elizabeth Montgomery gracing their TV screens.

11. U.N. Draft Cites Humans in Recent Climate Shifts

Comment #29943 by Dreamer's Dilemma on April 5, 2007 at 3:56 pm

Well, andyinsdca, it is quite simple really. The folks that frequent this site have already settled the matter of God/noGod and have moved on to other matters. Despite an earlier post's claim otherwise, they are politically motivated and emotionally charged and have thrown in their lot with the likes of AlGore, he of "Inconvenient Lie" fame. They are also rather intolerant of dissent, attacking those who disagree in a rather arrogant and condescending way, as only liberals can. Just watch the later posts and see for yourself.

12. Falwell says Christians shouldn't focus on global warming

Comment #23828 by Dreamer's Dilemma on March 3, 2007 at 3:34 am

As my grandmother used to say, "Even a blind pig finds an ear of corn once in awhile." Falwell is unquestionably an idiot, but he did get one statement correct, "the jury is still out." As Al Gore likes to remind the media every time someone reports on his self promoting program to buy carbon footprint futures from himself, "people just like to attack the messenger instead of hearing the message."

It amazes me how the bulk of this secular humanist crowd will blindly follow a leader like Al Gore down the "faith-based" ecology path to worship at the feet of Gaia.

Aren't these the same people who were promoting the idea of global cooling thirty years ago? Have they come up with an explanation for the cooling of the oceans within only the past three years?

When "science" becomes more about fostering support for only one side of an unresolved issue, it ceases to be science and risks becoming a religion.

13. Conservative Atheists

Comment #17538 by Dreamer's Dilemma on January 14, 2007 at 3:39 pm

I enjoy seeing the conservative and libertarian atheists (my people) mixing it up with the secular humanist and left-leaning atheists. Maybe we can talk some sense into them before the '08 elections. Probably not, but there's always hope. Yes, I'm embarrassed by the religious right in my party, but I'm certainly not going to vote for a party that doesn't believe in national sovereignty, but does believe in confiscating my paycheck so they can socialize medicine and further expand the welfare state. After 8 years of Condi as president followed by 8 more with JC Watts, hopefully the Republicans can shift enough of the black demographic away from the Democrats (talk about a group that is entrenched in a party and getting nothing for it) so we can kick those crazy moral majority nuts off the bus! I don't care who someone has sex with as long as they want to see good strict constructionists sitting on the Supreme Court.

14. Federal Way schools restrict Gore film

Comment #17433 by Dreamer's Dilemma on January 13, 2007 at 5:04 pm

Continuing to cite from the same column referenced in the earlier comment, which may be found at TownHall.Com:

{Renowned meteorologist Dr. William Gray, in a recent interview with Discover Magazine (which has advocated the theory of human-induced global warming), says: "This human-induced global-warming thing ... is grossly exaggerated. ... I'm not disputing there has been global warming. There was a lot of global warming in the 1930s and '40s, and then there was global cooling in the middle '40s to the early '70s. Nearly all of my colleagues who have been around 40 or 50 years are skeptical ... about this global-warming thing. But no one asks us." (Gray was described by Discover Magazine's editors as one of "the world's most famous hurricane experts.")

Commenting on the misuse of science to support political agendas, Harvard's Dr. Malcolm Ross concludes of such folly, "Freeze or fry, the problem is always industrial capitalism, and the solution is always international socialism."}

Apparently, unless one is in lockstep agreement with "the only sensible conclusion", one is being unhelpful to a measured discussion. The point is, legitimate scientists (discounting the fundamentalists) remain on both sides of the global warming debate.

15. Federal Way schools restrict Gore film

Comment #17416 by Dreamer's Dilemma on January 13, 2007 at 1:29 pm

"The debate in the science community is over,'' Gore insists, but in the inimitable words of the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a classical liberal, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts."

More than 17,000 scientists, to date, have signed a petition sponsored by Dr. Frederick Seitz, past president of the National Academy of Sciences, refuting Gore's claims that global warming is human-induced. The petition states: "There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of carbon dioxide, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere and disruption of the Earth's climate. Moreover, there is substantial scientific evidence that increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide produce many beneficial effects upon the natural plant and animal environments of the Earth."

The preceding was taken from a column by Mark M. Alexander, Friday June 23, 2006.

How is it that people lucid enough to see through the charade of religion are so willing to blindly follow the dictums of the socialists and secular humanists in Al Gore's camp?