Helio,
In the end, one of us is right and one of us is wrong. For now
that is all there is to know.
v/r
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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Helio Wakasugui
Sent: Monday, October 27, 2008 7:06 AM
To: ProFox Email List
Subject: Re: [OT] Countdown: Palin Wants To Help Special Needs Kids
ByDoingAway With Science
A right-wing conservative and creationist talking about intellectual
honesty.
Wow.
HW
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Wolfe, Stephen S Civ USAF AMC 6
MDSS/SGSI <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob,
>
> Do you really expect a lucid answer to your questions below. The
> 'in-the-know' left leaning Democrat is dishonest these days and the
rank
> and file democrat is not being told the entire story (several of my
> friends are democrats, particularly old style southern democrats).
>
> v/r
>
>
> //SIGNED//
>
> Stephen S. Wolfe, YA2, DAF
> 6th MDG Data Services Manager
> 6th MDG Information System Security Officer
> Comm (813) 827-9994 DSN 651-9994
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Bob Calco
> Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 5:55 PM
> To: 'ProFox Email List'
> Subject: RE: [OT] Countdown: Palin Wants To Help Special Needs Kids
> ByDoing Away With Science
>
> I enjoy the
> quote-taken-out-of-context-to-make-the-opposition-look-stupid
> tactic as much as the next partisan--indeed, who doesn't?--but to put
> your
> critique in context, consider:
>
> 1. The context of Palin's remark was budget discipline, and it was
> clearly
> intended to be a crowd laugh-maker regarding Obama's proposed spending
> increases rather than a serious statement of her beliefs about the
value
> of
> scientific research. I could find hundreds of examples at Obama
rallies
> of
> silly things he says to make the crowd chuckle at republican expense,
> things
> which, if we take them too seriously, would lead us to conclude he's
> dumber
> than he really is. On the other hand I could find things he says in
all
> seriousness that ought to make us very afraid -- things like his
comment
> that we need a civilian national security apparatus as strong and well
> funded as our military. Egads, ever here of the KGB?
>
> 2. At a time when the economy is struggling because of federal
> negligence
> and meddling in the housing market, the fruit fly budget line item was
> not
> picked because she is stupidly against "science", but because it sure
> sounds
> like a stupid thing for the federal government to be spending money on
> right
> now. Even Mccain proposes curtailing military spending--but so far
Obama
> has
> not indicated a single program his "scalpel" will target outside of
the
> military. We all (those of us who know what he's really planning to
do)
> know
> that he plans to put the hatchet down on our armed services--but
wither
> the
> scalpel? Why not here, in a Parisian fruit-fly paradise of academe? If
> not
> here, what do we mean by "sacrifice"?
>
> 3. If you want to argue in a time of war that the fruit fly research
is
> more
> urgently a top spending priority of the federal government than
winning
> the
> war and shoring up the capital markets, then by all means, come out
and
> say
> so. Obama has wandered far and wide in his public promises from his
> earlier
> private claims to more radical constituencies to want to gut military
> spending, so that he might sound more palatable to a center-right
> electorate
> primed for "change". But we all know he wants to pay for most of his
> robbing-peter-to-pay-pedro-and-tupac social programs at the expense of
> our
> national security infrastructure and capital markets. Who is the
stupid
> one?
> Well it looks like we'll find out the hard way, if the polls are
right.
>
> - Bob
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> > Behalf Of Ed Leafe
> > Sent: Sunday, October 26, 2008 1:38 PM
> > To: ProFox Email List
> > Subject: Re: [OT] Countdown: Palin Wants To Help Special Needs Kids
By
> > Doing Away With Science
> >
> > On Oct 26, 2008, at 12:22 PM, Helio Wakasugui wrote:
> >
> > > What an ignorant person Sarah Palin is. Her level of stupidity is
> > > astonishing.
> >
> >
> > I especially like the comments to that article, claiming that
> > criticizing Palin for her actual words and deeds is somehow
> > "prejudice". Obviously ignorants attract.
> >
> >
> > -- Ed Leafe
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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