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Comment on Lois Lerner takes the Fifth by Terry A. Hurlbut

Terry A. Hurlbut — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:27:28 +0000

Well, that was then. If it happened that way, which you have not adequately shown. This is now.

Comment on Lois Lerner takes the Fifth by Terry A. Hurlbut

Terry A. Hurlbut — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:26:39 +0000

So you really believe that civil servants should get medals for systematically violating the rights of their agencies’ constituencies, through selective application of law and regulation?

Comment on Lois Lerner takes the Fifth by Terry A. Hurlbut

Terry A. Hurlbut — Fri, 24 May 2013 00:25:54 +0000

All this proves is the iron will of the Democratic Party to break the spirit of conservatives everywhere.

Comment on Lois Lerner takes the Fifth by Robert Baty

Robert Baty — Thu, 23 May 2013 19:21:28 +0000

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I just saw a clip of Nancy Pelosi who stated that the IG report indicated that “nothing illegal was done”.

I don’t know if that’s right, but it is certainly consistent with some of my opinions on what is going on.

After all, the IRS is pretty aggressive in disciplining employees who violate the rules/laws.

Comment on Lois Lerner takes the Fifth by Robert Baty

Robert Baty — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:40:25 +0000

If Congress wants to convince me they are serious about how politics might have affected the IRS, Congress needs to be about investigating how it was that George H.W. Bush was able to thump on the heads of some high level IRS executives, during those Nixon years everywhere being talked about now, and get some handouts for his friends; handouts that continue to be made to this day.

Comment on Lois Lerner takes the Fifth by Robert Baty

Robert Baty — Thu, 23 May 2013 18:37:59 +0000

I think Lois should be congratulated for having what it takes to stand up against political witch-hunters. It’s not an IRS problem, from my vantage point; it’s a Congressional and Presidential problem. Time will tell and I’m looking forward to the career civil servants telling Congress that they are not push-overs. It looks to me like the civil servants were doing the dirty job assigned by Congress and the President and, while they may have made some errors of judgment, any criticisms should properly be laid at the feet of Congress.

Comment on Kermit Gosnell convicted of murder by Is this still America? | Conservative News and Views

Is this still America? | Conservative News and Views — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:59:46 +0000

[...] is to protect our right to life and you reflect on the government that birthed a monster like Dr. Gosnell, your answer would be: “No. This is not [...]

Comment on Global Flood gains astronomical fix by Fergus Mason

Fergus Mason — Thu, 23 May 2013 12:42:16 +0000

“why no person who calls himself a scientist is willing to engage Dr. Brown in such a debate.”

Because science isn’t done by debate, and as long as Brown refuses to submit his work for peer review why should any scientist indulge his grandstanding with a debate that, from a working scientist’s point of view, is an irrelevant waste of time? If he wants to be taken seriously he needs to play by the rules, and until he does all attempts to cloud the issue with debate challenges will be seen as what they very likely are – bluster. Publish, as the saying goes, or be damned. And Brown won’t publish…

As you’re aware I’m perfectly willing to debate Brown as soon as he agrees to the conditions I placed on his distribution of my personal data, and have informed him accordingly. I’ve been waiting for him to answer that email for 17 months.

Comment on Global Flood gains astronomical fix by Terry A. Hurlbut

Terry A. Hurlbut — Thu, 23 May 2013 11:03:38 +0000

I can understand your own reasons for not wishing to engage Dr. Brown in a debate. And they have far less to do with your unfounded allegations of a confidentiality breach, and far more to do with your lack of competence to hold your own in a debate with him, and your full realization of same. But what I cannot understand, and what neither you nor any other anti-creationist can adequately explain, is why no person who calls himself a scientist is willing to engage Dr. Brown in such a debate. If the Grand Evolutionary Paradigm – that is to say, the trident of Uniformitarianism, Abiogenesis, and Common Descent – is so rock-solid, let any of its defenders accept his challenge! Unless, that is, that vaunted Grand Evolutionary Paradigm is nothing but a big bag of gas.

Comment on Global Flood gains astronomical fix by Fergus Mason

Fergus Mason — Thu, 23 May 2013 02:48:38 +0000

“how can anyone submit only ten, or even twenty, pages of a theory as comprehensive as is the Hydroplate Theory, and even hope to do it justice.”

The same way as everyone else does: write an abstract covering the main points, then follow it with a detailed paper. He won’t submit it because he knows it will never get through peer review. As he well knows science isn’t done by debates; it’s done by peer review, publication and testing. Any hypothesis that hasn’t been subjected to that is worthless. If he wants the hydroplate hypothesis to be taken seriously he has to do proper science, and that means submitting it; otherwise he’s just polishing his ego.

“Dr. Brown has set forth the terms under which anyone may debate his work in an open and public forum. As you know perfectly well.”

Yes, and they include allowing him to distribute my address as he sees fit. Seen the news from London today? No thanks.