Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Obsession

Everyone gets a cost of living increase except those who are productive

US has the best cancer survival rates

Lee Marvin on Liberty Valance

Spengler on the US

LGF obsessed with evolution

Claim: “No amount of validation changes a theory into a law, which is a descriptive generalization about nature.”

Fact: “The modern world began on 29 May 1919 when photographs of a solar eclipse, taken on the island of Principe off West Africa and at Sobral in Brazil, confirmed the truth of a new theory of the universe ” (Paul Johnson, Modern Times, 1)

For Einstein’s law of relativity, see here

Claim: “The fossil record and abundant other evidence testify that organisms have evolved through time. Although no one observed those transformations, the indirect evidence is clear, unambiguous and compelling.”

Question: What is the evidence?

Chavez supports Hezbollah

“Alas! The devil labours night and day to cause warfare, where good men wish for peace and harmony, and he well knows how to accomplish this end.” (John Froissart, The Chronicles of England, France, and Spain, 163)

Student and advisor to be flogged in Saudi Arabia

McCarthy and Wittes on Boumediene, etc.

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