Saturday, February 27, 2016
pendrake's passions: Trump Vows Frontal Assault on Bill of Rights
Trump Vows Frontal Assault on Bill of Rights
In the latest bizarre twist of the Republican Presidential Primary, candidate Donald Trump has vowed a frontal assault on the article of the Bill of Rights which our Founding Fathers deemed the key right, free speech, especially freedom of the press (which now includes broadcast journalism). Herr Trump seems to be taking his cue from Joseph Goebbels.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly threatened to sue anyone who disagrees with him, or at least hold his breath until he turns blue. Actually, I suppose it would be more appropriate to say scream until he turns more red in his face. Blue, red, seems to change according to perceived opportunity.
I hope that President Obama proves correct in his faith in the American electorate. Whether the Republican party continues shooting itself in the foot remains to be seen. It would help if they were to somehow find some decent candidates. Of course, that is a commodity which they have been sorely lacking in for a long time. Charlie Christ is now a Democrat. And here in Florida we see the Republican Party led by a man with the record of being either the biggest thief in the history of America, or perhaps the second biggest. He has been compared to Bernie Madoff. It is unclear as to which stole more.
Mr. Trump has repeatedly threatened to sue anyone who disagrees with him, or at least hold his breath until he turns blue. Actually, I suppose it would be more appropriate to say scream until he turns more red in his face. Blue, red, seems to change according to perceived opportunity.
I hope that President Obama proves correct in his faith in the American electorate. Whether the Republican party continues shooting itself in the foot remains to be seen. It would help if they were to somehow find some decent candidates. Of course, that is a commodity which they have been sorely lacking in for a long time. Charlie Christ is now a Democrat. And here in Florida we see the Republican Party led by a man with the record of being either the biggest thief in the history of America, or perhaps the second biggest. He has been compared to Bernie Madoff. It is unclear as to which stole more.
Saturday, February 20, 2016
pendrake's passions: Climate Change Deniers Missed the Twentieth Centur...
pendrake's passions: Climate Change Deniers Missed the Twentieth Centur...: I have recently noticed that some of the arguments that the Global Warming Deniers (otherwise known as Flat Earthers) have been making a...
Climate Change Deniers Missed the Twentieth Century
I have recently noticed that some of the arguments that the Global Warming Deniers (otherwise known as Flat Earthers) have been making are purely Rationalist ( see earlier post) in nature. Please note that Rationalism is a school of philosophy opposed to Empiricism. Rationalism states that no truth can be derived from observation of the physical world, but all truth must come from self-evident a priori arguments. The prime example of rationalism is Euclidean Geometry. Euclidean Geometry works just fine for laying out a football field, but fails miserably on atomic scales, or on astronomical scales. Empiricism says that truth comes from observed reality. Prime examples are the General Theory of Relativity and Quantum Mechanics. A great deal of modern Physics has been devoted to proving or disproving Relativity. So far, it works perfectly
One other of the great intellectual accomplishments of the 20th Century was Goedel's proof, which put the final nail in the coffin of Rationalism by showing that any Rationalist system will always be self-contradictory. Apparently Deniers failed to follow the intellectual achievments of the 20th century
One other of the great intellectual accomplishments of the 20th Century was Goedel's proof, which put the final nail in the coffin of Rationalism by showing that any Rationalist system will always be self-contradictory. Apparently Deniers failed to follow the intellectual achievments of the 20th century
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