Veteran and wife of a veteran of the US Navy. Have a PhD in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.
Proudly serving as a captain in the US Army.
Sayings I would like to remember (and what better place to write them down than at FreeRepublic?):
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke
Liberal indoctrination cannot succeed when the subject thinks rather than feels.-Me
'I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.' Matt. 25:34-45
We're all sinning, folks: 'Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth' Exodus 20:4; also see Deuteronomy 5:8.
The truth is to Democrats what kryptonite is to Superman. They can't exist in the same room. --anon
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." --John Stewart Mill
Greed is a word leftists use to describe what conservatives call ambition. --Mike Rosen: On greed vs. ambition (socialism, leftist utopia, etc.) Rocky Mountain News column, May 27th, 2005
Common design doesn't make the same predictions as common descent. For example you wouldn't predict that a designer would design everything in a phylogenetic hierarchy, and change their designs over time to keep fitting that hierarchy. That is really bizarre behavior for a designer.
But in general to make predictions based on a designer you need to know who the designer is and what their physical powers and motivation are. When you've got a handle on that you can start predicting how they'd design stuff. Make some successful predictions that are different from the predictions that common descent makes and you might have the beginnings of a scientific theory. We'll wait.
241 posted on 05/16/2005 10:44:26 AM EDT by Thatcherite
Sometimes, people ask why I am "exDemMom," and what led me to reform. Here is my answer to once recent inquiry:
There wasn't any particular moment.
First, let me point out that I never officially was a member of the Democrat party. I did not register with any party, but I voted 90% of the time for the Dem. I voted for Carter against Reagan.
What happened is that I began to question the left.
The left claims to deeply care about people. Yet they are adamantly pro-abortion, a jarringly heartless position to take for people who claim to have cornered the market on compassion.
The final event in my transformation was the nomination of Bill Clinton for president. I don't know quite how to explain it, but something about his appearance tells me that he is a cruel, selfish psychopath. A party that can nominate a man like that, let alone elect him, is not a party I want to associate with.
Along with questioning my assumptions on the Democrat party and the left, I questioned the things I had been taught. I was raised in a totally leftist environment. Two elements probably helped me enormously here in overcoming my leftist upbringing: I am a relentlessly logical person, and I cannot bear those who judge on emotion, not fact, and I am a born optimist.
