Progressive Hamann Dogma
It was the German philosopher Johann Hamann who said that far from being a pre-condition for truth the absence of contradiction is a pre-condition for dogmatism.
Johann Hamann was an 18th Century philosopher who anticipated the 20th Century progressive contention that individual unalienable natural rights are superseded by government’s definition of what is good and what is true. Today in America we have a president who encourages anticipatory infanticide, the killing of a human being before it escapes a woman’s womb. For those who support the concept that a human fetus as not a human being contend that any other conceptual interpretation is irrational and therefore should be ignored and even better for those that hold such a belief, maligned.
Then there are those you contend that global warming is anthropomorphic, in other words caused by man. Notwithstanding there is not a scintilla of evidence in support of this contention those who object are also maligned as global warming deniers who more than likely also believe that the earth is flat.
Then of course there are those who contend that the theory of evolution is uncontestable and anyone who does contest it is just plain silly. However can we not agree that the theory of intelligent design, the belief that God has directed evolution, is not inconsistent with the scientific theory of evolution?
I suppose what bothers me more than anything about progressive dogma, is just that. It’s dogma.
Al Gore & Chicken Little
Filed under: International Reflections, Social Commentary
It has now been proven with scientific certainty by the most prestigious, European Organization for Nuclear Research, otherwise known as CERN, that global warming is the result of cosmic rays and the sun, not human activities. High priests of the anthropomorphic religious sect have finally been defrocked.
We are reminded of that 17th century scientist, Galileo Galilei, who observed what everyone, every scientist of his day and the Catholic Church included denied, namely, that the earth, lo and behold, revolved around the sun. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, something similar to what we have today in Al Gore and his acolytes, and they concluded that it was not an established fact. Galileo later defended his views in his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which appeared to attack pope Urban VIII and thus alienated him and the Jesuits. He was tried by the Inquisition, found “vehemently suspect of heresy”, forced to recant, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
It is now fully established that the theory of anthropomorphic global warming is nothing more than a garden variety religion supported by institutions which require millions of global warming fundamentalists to demand that their governments pour billions of dollars into privately held investments which design methods and systems of reducing millions of tons carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which we now know has no effect on global warming.
Perhaps we should put Al Gore under house arrest.
Opinions & Facts
Filed under: International Reflections, Presidential Watch, Social Commentary
The problem with the vast majority of opinions is that they are not owned by the people that express them.
An opinion that is owned is one which is arrived at through thought and study. That is why I am far more willing to read the socialist ranting’s of the likes of say Paul Krugman, professor of economics at Princeton University and Nobel Prize winner notwithstanding I find that I am in constant disagreement with him. On the other hand, what about the opinion of most people that global warming is caused by humans, otherwise known as anthropomorphic global warming? Since there is not a scintilla of evidence supporting this opinion I am as willing to listen to or read such drivel as I would be willing to listen to a 5 year old explain Einstein’s theory of relativity.
There are some people, usually secular, who have criticized, for example, Governor Rick Perry, Republican candidate for president, for believing that the universe was created by God. However there is a tremendous difference between believing in anthropomorphic global warming and creationism. Anthropomorphic global warming is a political opinion advocated by socialists who want greater government control over the world’s productive capacity. Creationism on the other hand is a religious opinion which has no such political agenda. As controversial as Governor Perry’s opinion is about God creating the universe he’s entitled to it because he owns it. But for those who have the unsupported opinion that global warming is anthropomorphic the only thing they are entitled to is the right of freedom of speech. Further, I’ll go with the guy who believes that God created the universe rather than the guy who doesn’t support Israel.
Get The Drunks Out Of Congress
Filed under: National Party Politics, Social Commentary, U.S. Economics
It’s quite a sight isn’t it? Congressional Democrats who are running for office are saying to their home state voters, “Did I say that, did I do that?” as if they just woke up from a Saturday night binge and can’t remember a thing.
This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.
It really would be quite amusing if it weren’t so darn serious. Americans have always taken warmly to their town drunks. But the worst thing a town drunk does is that he scares the cats and turns over the garbage cans. By the next morning everything is back to normal. In the case of the Congressional Democrats however, they’re not going back to the town folks asking for forgiveness but rather demanding another chance to besot themselves and no requirement of redemption. With trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see and by last count if you add Social Security, Medicare and military benefits into the mix 67 trillion dollars in debt the American people are not in the mood for forgiveness. In fact the American people are itching to throw the town drunk, out of town.
To this day I still don’t quite get it. When this Congress took control of the House and Senate the Democrats had everything going for them including a real economic crisis to address. This would be a rare opportunity to show the American people that their progressive philosophy of redistribution was what this country really needed and that Wall Street greed had to be stopped. At the same time the global warmers were real close to the goal line to get something they always wanted, to straight jacket the American economy by taxing the hell out of fossil fuel and regulating a naturally occurring gas C02, a gas that is not toxic, exhaled by every animal on the planet and is used by plants to grow. A bit strange, don’t you think?
Well, in another month the American people are going to the polls to vote – 10% unemployment, home mortgages still at the highest foreclosure rate in American history and a dollar that has become an international laughing stock can’t be compared to scaring the cats and kicking over garbage cans. These Congressional drunks are leaving town, literally.
This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.
Who’s Bosom Should The Tea Party Coddle?
Filed under: Health Care, International War, National Party Politics, Social Commentary
In a recent article in the Weekly Standard William Kristol, editor and renowned conservative stated that experience has shown that liberals are more disposed to have the rest of us suffer, than to right themselves by rethinking the dogmas by which they are enthralled. Enter now the Tea Party movement.
This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.
Democrats, fearing the gaining political influence of the Tea Party movement have adopted the strategy of accusing it of racism, extremism by wanting to do away with Social Security and Medicare and being chauvinistically patriotic causing the alienation of our friends and enraging our enemies. The last accusation I find somewhat amusing since the current administration has adopted a foreign policy that has enraged our friends and encouraged our enemies.
However intransigent the Democrats have revealed themselves to be with respect to their failing socialist policies the Tea Party movement must remain willing to stay at the edge of promoting alternative policies if it has any hope of convincing a majority of Americans that it is a movement that’s viable and dynamic. If the Republican Party, having drawn the Tea Party movement to its bosom, wants to win a majority of Americans over to its side it cannot be with the same old, same old ideas that it provided us while George W. Bush was in office.
But if the American people are not ready to address the overwhelming debt that awaits payment over the next generation, if they are not ready to abandon the Health Care Reform Act as currently written, if they are not prepared to understand that global warming has little to do with human activity and that America must win the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan perhaps it is better that the Republican Party seek limited gains in the 2010 election rather than accede to the Socialist mantras of the Left.
If the so called radical ideas of the Tea Party movement are not acceptable to a majority of Americans in the 2010 congressional election then these ideas must be preserved for some future day when their truth becomes undeniable and their adoption by the America people becomes unassailable.
This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.
The Truth v. The Liberals
Filed under: Local Party Politics, National Party Politics, Social Commentary, U.S. Economics
The most fundamental failure of totalitarianism is its failure to control thought. The most fundamental success of the current leadership of the Democratic Party has been its ability to control liberal thought among its supporters.
This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.
When speaking with liberals, and living on the Upper West Side in NYC I have ample opportunity to do so, it is always somewhat of a surprise to discover that no matter how educated they are they harbor a belief system that seems never to rely on facts. For example they believe that our health care system is broken, yet nearly 85% of Americans, except for a tweek here and there, were quite satisfied with the system as it currently stood prior to the passage of the Health Care Reform Act. They believe that global warming is anthropomorphic, meaning man made. Yet there is not a scintilla of evidence supporting this. They believe that the government can reduce unemployment by the infusion of massive amounts of money. Yet there is little if any evidence proving this is true. A recent example of this knuckleheaded belief is the recent $800 billion stimulus package passed by the Democrats in early 2009. And they believe that a human embryo is not human unless it is decided by at least one person with respect to one human embryo that it is.
I could go one but I am restricted by my producer to 2 minutes. Now isn’t that a hard fact that liberals would equate to 120 seconds? I wouldn’t bet on it. My point is simple. If you speak to liberals the first thing you should establish is what the facts are. You know, those are the things you can’t make up.
This is Roger Madon and that’s what I think.
Global Warming: Stop BS’ing Me
Overhauling an entire economy predicated on the flimsy claim that hydrocarbon use causes global warming is short of criminal.
This is Roger Madon and this is what I think.
The problem I have with those who believe that the earth is getting warmer because of human use of fossil fuels is that there is as yet no evidence that it’s true. Oh, I know there are those who support the theory and say it’s true. But when real experts review the evidence that is produced there always seems to a problem with the assumptions used to develop the models. For example there is a skewing of the facts, using facts that don’t exist or just downright lying.
As it turn out in the course of my 73 years I have had the good fortune to obtain a bachelor’s degree in science and an advanced degree in environmental law and regulation. That doesn’t make me a scientist but for heaven’s sake I know how to read a science report. So there is little that the average Joe or Jane, you know the ones that you find on the New York Upper West Side or in the Berkshires in MA, or some bloke on the street, who can lecture me on the horrors of global warming. Of course I’m prepared to listen to climatologists, environmentalists or even knowledgeable politicians, if you can find any. But I refuse and so should you to submit to listening to anyone on this subject who has an agenda.
Look the evidence is clear that the earth is getting warmer. But isn’t it strange that the socialists believe, and I emphasize “believe” that the increase in temperature is caused by human action rather than coming to the more obvious conclusion that it’s the earth’s internal regulation and its proven response to solar activity that is the cause? So before we rip our economy to shreds by attempting to reduce the non-toxic substance of Carbon Dioxide, you know the stuff we breathe in all the time and which plants require to live, I want to see the facts. Well, boys and girls, so far, there are none.
This Roger Madon and that’s what I think.
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