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Glenn Beck believes that atheists are to blame for all of the U.S.'s woes. Afterall, the fastest growing group in all 50 states are the non-religious, and yet for the *first* time in the history of the country, we've had economic and social turmoil. Coincidence?
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I've been watching Fox News a lot lately (Glen Beck's my hero!), but it's got me confused. It's been suggested Obama's a fascist, but they've also claimed he's a communist.
So which is it?
Is Obama worse than Hitler, or is he the second coming of Stalin?
Obama's declared Guantanamo is to be closed, and so the current detainees need to be relocated. Presumably, they'd be moved to prisions in the U.S. However, even most Democrats, much less Republicans, are blocking this.
A British court has ruled that key evidence of torture on a British citizen by the U.S. be concealed due to threat by the U.S. to withhold future terrorism intelligence.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/05/12/obama/index.html
Granted, it's still speculation as to what the motives are. Is the Obama administration and the British government simply agreeing on rationale to bury a torture trial, or is Obama actually strong-arming Britain from pursuing the matter?
It seems that whenever someone mentions global warming or Al Gore, the conservative knee-jerk reaction is seething hatred.
I've noticed this both on this site (I won't name names) and in convservative media in general (http://mediamatters.org/research/200905010049).
Why is this?
Senator Specter recently left the GOP to become a Democrat. His cited reason for leaving was that the Republican Party in general has become too extremely conservative to the point where his moderate conversative values fit better with the Democrats.
This obviously hurts the GOPs power in the Senate, but how do you think it effects the GOP in general? Is it good or bad for moderate voices to leave the Republican party?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/28/AR2009042801523.html
Sean Hannity (joked?) that he'd let himself be water boarded as a charity event. Keith Olbermann's since pursued the remark and offered to donate $1000 to charity per-second that Hannity submits himself to waterboarding. Hannity's not yet accepted the offer.
So, should Hannity go through with it? He doesn't think it's torture, or that it creates "permanent physical harm", so if he's right then he shouldn't have anything to lose, and a lot to gain through charitable contributions to the troops.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/28/hannity-waterboard-offer-_n_192578.html
Organizations like the Immortality Institution (http://www.imminst.org/) actually think this might be obtainable in the near future.
So, if you had the option to never age, would you take it? Note, everything else would remain the same. You'd still feel pain, have to eat, go to work, pay taxes, etc.
An analogous debate might be "Death: A Waste or a Release?".
To most sane people, the answer should be obvious, but researchers recently found that conservatives were likely to think Stephen Colbert's act was serious, and not a joke when he plays his conservative alter-ego.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/27/colbert-study-conservativ_n_191899.html
So what do you think? Are the conservatives right? Is Colbert actually being serious?
Do you find debating (here or elsewhere) an addictive activity? And if so, why?
What is it about a subject that fires up passions and makes everyone want to chip in their 2 cents?
Every decade, almost like clockwork, watery eyed patriots in Congress come out of the woodword and try their hardest to outlaw all those evil protestors burning American flags. Should the preservation of a symbol outweight an individual's freedom of speech?
Ghost writing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost-writer) is the practice of one person paying another to write material, after which the credit will be given to another person in return for payment, usually without any credit to the actual author.
Personally, I find this no different than a kid in school paying another kid to do their homework, and most people agree that that's completely unethical. From a social perspective, I see ghost writing as a form of fraud, since someone is selling a book under the impression that they've authored it themselves, when this is untrue.
Is ghost writing (specifically where the true author receives no credit at all) different, and if so, how?
Computers have allowed mankind to do wonderout things. They've opened up new frontiers of information and brought people together from across the globe. However, they're also directly or indirectly responsible for much pain and suffering (blue screen of death anyone?). And as any Nigerian prince can tell you, they've also allowed people to abuse each other like never before.
If indesputible proof was found definitively proving or disproving the existence of God, would you change your beliefs? If you were an atheist/agnostic/irreligious, would you become religious? If you were an Evangelical Christian, would you become an atheist?