Anybody Else Find It Ironic That The Party That Lambastes Science...

[WillyT]

is the party totally beholden\pandering to, and prostituting for...

FOSSIL FUELS?!?!?

:wtf:

We ought to slant drill into every republican's head, and count how many dry holes we come up with!

ANWR :argh:

[whistle]

1. Not much science in oil discovery any longer, just plain old

...exploitation. They know where to drill, how the technology is to be applied and the science part is all intellectual property that only the big oil companies profit by. ANWR is there and represents 5 to 16 billion barrels of oil that they'll exploit in 10 years at $100 to $150 per barrel. You and I and 99.9999% of the rest of the peons will benefit zero from that oil, we'll just pay through the nose to the corporations who are being given special ownership privilege and claim to the rights now by this corrupt congress.

[Lisa]

2. and on a related issue ...

They would claim to be objective and rational, and scorned liberal humanists (e.g. Lynne Cheney's efforts to "purge" academia!) as being "historical revisionists" who were trying to undermine The Truth. Or of not doing "sound science".

Perspectives from environmental science or feminist research are now mainstream -- but Bush's crowd couldn't stand the thought of science supporting once-radical ideas like global warming and ozone depletion -- or of things like community-based or action research becoming popular. (Because then it could be used against neglectful government policies, or harmful corporations.)

So, now, all the academics who don't agree with them are sidelined as "the reality-based community" (who would have thought that would ever be used as an insult?). Meanwhile, they can live in their own fantasy world (which is only bizarre and unworkable if a liberal does it!).

--more on the "reality-based community" quote ...

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/11/05/think_reality_not_ideology/

[Imperialism Inc.]

3. That has to be the most bizarre quote I have ever read.

I had to read it a couple times to understand what he was saying. Who would have thought it would used as insult indeed!!

[Lisa]

6. isn't it!

I was so gobsmacked by it that it took me awhile to see what was so twisted. As usual, they're trying to have it both ways -- they always presented themselves as the fair-minded, trustworthy authority figures (remember how they slammed Clinton/Gore as "not grownups"). So, they told the environmentalists that they'd believe in global warming -- if they had the empirical evidence, e.g. thousands of scientists and hundreds of reports and studies to back it up. And, 20 years later, that's exactly what was presented to them.

But now, they can just as easily pick on those same authority figures who are criticizing them, by equating "intellectual" with "out-of-touch". Being an empiricist, it seems, isn't what it was cracked up to be! "Revisionist history" is where it's at, according to Wolfowitz and Co.

[Armstead]

4. Yeah, where did them fossil fuels come from anyway

Twernt no dinosaurs or nothing before Adam and Eve.

[WillyT]

5. LOL !!!

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