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 Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 2:46 am Post subject: Debate: Obama vs Romney |
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Topic: Domestic policy
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OK.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 3:31 am Post subject: Re: Debate: Obama vs Romney |
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| dmitchell wrote: | | Topic: Domestic policy |
I'll be curious to hear if the private sector is still dreamy.
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| sugar wrote: | | When's the science issue debate? |
Why in the name of fuck would you want to hear politicians debate science? Politicians only have two things to debate: how they are going to fuck foreigners, and how they are going to fuck you.
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Three things: "... and how they are going to make half the population like it and ask for more." |
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| sugar wrote: | | When's the science issue debate? |
Who do you think knows more about science? The guy with the Harvard law degree and a couple years of experience as a social worker, or the guy with the Harvard law degree, Harvard MBA, and about 25 years of actual experience in industry?
Tough call.  : |
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Obama vs Romney vs ?
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This debate will be available to everyone because YouTube is going to stream it. Source.
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| dmitchell wrote: | | sugar wrote: | | When's the science issue debate? |
Why in the name of fuck would you want to hear politicians debate science? |
because science affects policy, eg energy, agriculture, fisheries and ocean health, public health and biosecurity, food supply issues, natural resource policies etc.
These are the important issues that don't have their own forum.
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| sugar wrote: | | because science affects policy, eg energy, agriculture, fisheries and ocean health, public health and biosecurity, food supply issues, natural resource policies etc. |
Good reasons to hear scientists debate science. I'm still waiting for a reason to hear politicians debate science.
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| dmitchell wrote: | | sugar wrote: | | because science affects policy, eg energy, agriculture, fisheries and ocean health, public health and biosecurity, food supply issues, natural resource policies etc. |
Good reasons to hear scientists debate science. I'm still waiting for a reason to hear politicians debate science. |
Politicians control a lot of the money used for scientific research.
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You people are too young to remember the real debates that were run by the League of Women Voters, not these travesties that are controlled by the two Parties, via a Congressional Committee.
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| runningwithscissors wrote: | | Politicians control a lot of the money used for scientific research. |
They do indeed, but they also control a lot of the money used for virtually anything you care to name: it doesn't make them expert--or even intelligible--on any particular subject. Case in point.
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| dmitchell wrote: | | runningwithscissors wrote: | | Politicians control a lot of the money used for scientific research. |
They do indeed, but they also control a lot of the money used for virtually anything you care to name: it doesn't make them expert--or even intelligible--on any particular subject. Case in point. |
What does "expert" or "intelligible" have to do with the question? The fact is that the person elected president will have a large degree of power to influence scientific issues - energy policy (nuclear policy, development of fusion, global warming, electric vehicles), space exploration (manned vs unmanned, solar system exploration versus telescopes), medical science (stem cell research, cloning), etc. Aren't those things that they should be discussing in a public forum? |
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| richk449 wrote: | | What does "expert" or "intelligible" have to do with the question? The fact is that the person elected president will have a large degree of power to influence scientific issues - energy policy (nuclear policy, development of fusion, global warming, electric vehicles), space exploration (manned vs unmanned, solar system exploration versus telescopes), medical science (stem cell research, cloning), etc. Aren't those things that they should be discussing in a public forum? |
Absolutely not. I can see it now...
| Quote: | Anderson Cooper: Mr President, you will be representing the side of manned space exploration. Governor Romney, you will be representing the side of unmanned exploration. Mr President, your opening statement, please.
Obama: Herp.
Cooper: And Governor Romney, your response?
Romney: Derp. |
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| dmitchell wrote: | | richk449 wrote: | | What does "expert" or "intelligible" have to do with the question? The fact is that the person elected president will have a large degree of power to influence scientific issues - energy policy (nuclear policy, development of fusion, global warming, electric vehicles), space exploration (manned vs unmanned, solar system exploration versus telescopes), medical science (stem cell research, cloning), etc. Aren't those things that they should be discussing in a public forum? |
Absolutely not. I can see it now...
| Quote: | Anderson Cooper: Mr President, you will be representing the side of manned space exploration. Governor Romney, you will be representing the side of unmanned exploration. Mr President, your opening statement, please.
Obama: Herp.
Cooper: And Governor Romney, your response?
Romney: Derp. |
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I'm sure their respective offices' can come up with a suitable positions on several scientific issues.
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| Obama would continue to go for green energy (that's failed) while Romney would probably go for that hypersonic aircraft (that crashed). |
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The President can ask for all the money he wants, but Congress controls the money.
Obama talked a lot of shit about the Scyents, and that's pretty much what he delivered - Jack Shit. His most significant act was to kill manned space flight.
Go back to the debates of 2007 and listen to all the shit Obama SAYS he's gonna do, then compare it to reality. |
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| BoneKracker wrote: | The President can ask for all the money he wants, but Congress controls the money.
Obama talked a lot of shit about the Scyents, and that's pretty much what he delivered - Jack Shit. His most significant act was to kill manned space flight.
Go back to the debates of 2007 and listen to all the shit Obama SAYS he's gonna do, then compare it to reality. |
whatever. Where's the science debate?
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Moon Unit Zappa did a song with her father about people like that.
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Moon Unit Zappa did a song with her father about people like that. |
about people who are trying to stay on topic?
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| dmitchell wrote: | | sugar wrote: | | because science affects policy, eg energy, agriculture, fisheries and ocean health, public health and biosecurity, food supply issues, natural resource policies etc. |
Good reasons to hear scientists debate science. I'm still waiting for a reason to hear politicians debate science. |
indeed. but both candidates should know basic science as their decisions affect a lot of science. |
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