Creation Museum vs. Bill Nye

Yeah, no question mark here.  There is a straight up fact.  Bill Nye came out, rather famously, in a video where he said that creationism is not something that is appropriate to teach in public schools. (link here) And he’s absolutely right about that.  There is not reason that creationism should ever be taught in public school.  Or if it is, it should never be viewed of as science.  At best, it is a kind of pseudo-philosophy as to the nature of existence.  At worst, it is lies that are being taught to kids as fact.

Let’s clear one thing up here – there is no, and I mean no, evidence that suggests that the universe is only a few thousand years old, created by an all-powerful sky daddy, and that if there was a sky daddy, it is the Christian sky daddy, which creationism has a unique habit of being based on that guy, instead of the other thousands of religions that have existed before and since Christianity.  So, Bill Nye is right in saying that denying evolution is not factual.  It simply isn’t.  However, the creationists in this country didn’t take too kindly to this.  The Creation Museum recently released their own video in response.  Here is a link, now let’s take this baby apart.

A few words from two of our science guys at the Creation Museum…

What a way to open.  Okay, this should be rich.  Let’s hear what you’ve to to say.  The title of this video, by the way, is “Creationism is Highly Appropriate for Our Children.”

The first point that Bill Nye makes is that denial of evolution is unique to the United States.  I’m sure he knows better than that.

Here’s your first problem – the guy speaking here is a little right.  It isn’t unique in that only the people of the United States do it, but here’s the kicker – only in America do people fight to include a class based on no evidence, no empirical evidence, getting taught to kids.  I think people got that.

After all, not only is evolution criticized widely in the United States, by at least 40% of its citizens,

That is NOT a good argument to make!  It’s been proven, with studies from all sorts of organizations that our education system in this country is broken!  People in this country are stupid.  We’ve proven this.  When over half of them vote for a crazy Texan man, once (against Kerry.  Bush lost the popular vote against Gore), that says something about its citizens.  And it isn’t criticized by that 40%, it’s denied.  Those people don’t believe that there is another rational explanation.  They think that a magic man in the sky wiggled his nose and we all appeared, doing the Charleston.

but evolution is believed to be false in the Mus-lim world (listen to how he pronounces it, that will make sense).

Yeah, and their beliefs are just as stupid as yours, man from the “Creation Museum.”

Creationism is certainly taught in South Africa, India, South Korea and Brazil.

Not as a science course it isn’t!

Smaller factions of creationists, probably (pay attention to that), are found in Japan, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada.

Did you catch that?  Did you catch how he doesn’t know?  That’s pretty telling.  He doesn’t know, but he is making the assumption to bolster his point.  What a very Christian thing to do – if you don’t know the truth, lie.  Wow, I think their whole belief is based on that…

Bill Nye implies in his video that parents and other adults are doing a great disservice to children by teaching them about biblical creation.

Well, if they are saying that that is right, and evolution is wrong, then yeah, they are.  You can’t argue that.  But I look forward to watching you try.

Well you might be interested to know that I also teach my young daughter about evolution, and I know many other Christian parents who do the same.

And apparently, you didn’t watch Bill Nye’s video!  He said, in his video, that he doesn’t care what people teach their kids, so long as they also are taught evolution, and not just taught that it is a lie!  I guess those ears you claim to use in learning and teaching don’t work so well, or, like most Christians, you just get mad and decide to make this personal, not having all the facts.

Children should be exposed to both ideas concerning our past.

I disagree.  See, here’s the problem – your side has no evidence!  I am a man of science.  Where is the proof?  That’s what it all boils down to with me.  We have to have a standard by which we value what can be proven.  Otherwise, what’s the point?  We might as well be back in the cave.  Science has proof.  Evolution has proof.  The story of biblical creation, on the hands, has no proof whatsoever.  It is faith.  Belief without evidence.  Why should children be exposed to something that has no evidence whatsoever?

Being a good scientist, and a mom, I want to be educated about evolution, so that she can see the inherent problems with it.

Such as?  See, here’s the problem with where this second speaker is coming from – they aren’t a good scientist.  Evolution has a mountain of scientific evidence.  As Richard Dawkins had said, it would be so easy to disprove evolution.  But it hasn’t been.  There are no inherent problems with it.  It’s a fact.  It is only called a Theory because it is not possible, in what we understand as science, to have a biology Law.  Physics can have Laws, but biology cannot.

For example, the complete lack of a genetic mechanism that allows organisms to gain genetic information to go from simple to complex over time.

LOGIC FAIL!  More proof that you’re a bad scientist.  There was no mechanism that made them more complicated.  Organisms developed by genetic mutation and permutation over time.  This is a force we call Natural Selection.  Organisms that were more developed were able to survive, while less developed organisms were not.  You clearly didn’t do your research.

Bill Nye also makes the comment that the world becomes fantastically complicated if one believes in creation.  I would argue that the world becomes fantastically complicated when one believes in evolution.

Here’s the problem with that argument – you’re both right.  Think about this – the Bible is filled with HUGE logic holes.  Massive ones.  For one thing – the story of Noah’s Ark.  If you look at the details, this story is unbelievably convoluted.  And not just because of the fact that, through an understanding of science, we know that what happened as the Bible describes it is impossible.  You could not have two pairs of every animal aboard a giant boat for almost a year.  This is scientifically impossible.  It has been refuted, time and time again, by much smarter people than me.  Next, let’s take a look at the story of Jesus.  This is a really popular story among Christians.  But here’s the problem – Jesus was a magic bastard rape child of a dude’s virgin wife (greatest cover story ever told) who went around healing people but knew that he was going to die on the cross with people saying it was still a sacrifice because he died for our sins even though he knew that this was coming and so it wasn’t a sacrifice at all.  I didn’t add commas for a reason.  That’s the total gist of it.  If you think about it, that is so hopelessly complicated, when, if you believe in Christian sky daddy, he could have just taken away our sins with another wiggle of his nose.

Meanwhile, science freely admits that the story of the universe is complicated.  Life is complicated.  The problem with you Christians is that you want it to be simpler.  You want a simple explanation for the reasons that the universe exists, when the reality is that there is no simple reason.  The reasons are all incredibly complicated.  So you are both right.

See, with evolution, you have to look at the hummingbird, feeding at your feeder, and assume that all of its parts have somehow come together by random purposeless change by Natural Selection, which is nothing more than differential reproduction.

Actually, if you believe in evolution, you look at that hummingbird, feeding at your feeder, and you think to yourself – well, this organism was the most able to survive, and that is why it is here.  These parts didn’t all just come together.  They were developed over time, by Natural Selection.  What is the Christian explanation?  Oh, right, sky daddy did it.  He created all the organisms on Earth, which took him a whole day, and creating just this planet, star, moon and our galaxy took him seven days.  Yet creating billions of galaxies was just an afterthought.  Yeah, that is so much simpler.

We need to understand in the video that Bill Nye observational science with historical science.

Ummmm, yeah, I’m going to attack this point directly.  Historical science is bullshit!  Straight up bullshit.  The idea behind this is that there is a form of science, that has no direct cataloging or observation, but through history, is proved.  That is garbage.  That is scientific illiteracy!  Anyone who believes in this is functionally stupid.  This woman calls herself “a good scientist,” yet she believes in something that is garbage by every major field of science.  Science, as we understand it, is when a person creates a hypothesis, and they test this hypothesis, and either prove or disprove it.  That means that ALL science is “observational science.”  All of it is.  It is what we observe and what we can prove.  This idea is bullshit!

Observational science is what I call ‘here-and-now science.’  It gives us inventions and technology, like computers and vaccines.  We can observe it, test it and repeat it.  Historical science deals with the past.  With evolution and creation fall into that category.

Again, bullshit!  Historical science is when you look at something in the past, make HUGE leaps of logic about it, and say that the past somehow, without any way of quantifying your data, proves your hypothesis.  That is lazy, stupid, bad science at it its worst!  And you are arguing for it and expect us, in the rational community, to take your seriously.  I almost pity you.

We cannot test, absorb or repeat them.

Actually, yes, we can.  If you ever read the writings by Darwin, you will see that he observed how the same exact life forms, such as finches, had developed different mechanism of surviving on the different islands of the Galapagos.  That was real science, done in real time.  We are observing today how different animals form different ways of surviving in new places.  We can and DO test evolutionary biology.  All the time.

Yes, we do see fossils and distant stars, but their history of how they got there really depends on our worldview.

Um, no, no it doesn’t.  Dawkins had said in an interview once that fossils were among the weakest sources of data for evolution and Natural Selection.  We have much better sources, like the universal genetic code, or the displacement of animals where some species are in one place where they were better suited to survive, and other animals were in others.  Something which, by the way, was also debunked about the Noah’s Ark story – how Noah had to have been able to spread all the animals all over the world.  Our worldview has NOTHING to do with scientific knowledge.  Science is what can be tested and proven.  We can test how old the universe is, by looking at the distance between stars, and radio-metric dating.  You are lying!

Do we start with man’s ideas about the past, who wasn’t here during the billions of years of Earth’s history?  Or do we start with the Bible?  The written revelation of the eyewitness account of the eternal God, who created it all?

Oh god, you’re making this argument?  Really?!  Man, there have been whole groups of people who have debunked all the lies, contradictions and the straight-up bullshit that is written about in the Bible.  How can you Christians still appeal to this as fact when we in the rational community are so aware that it isn’t?!  Ugh, this is so stupid!  You’re arguing with Bill Nye and science with superstition.  That is so amazing to me.

Rather than being inconsistent, as Bill Nye states, observational science confirms the literal history in Genesis.

Take a moment.  Let that sink in.  She is saying that “observational science” (a bullshit term) confirms the “literal history” of Genesis.  Never mind that real science has said that this universe is billions of years old, and there is NO evidence with empirical data that backs up the Christian story.  None.  This was pulled out of this woman’s ass.

The second point that Bill makes in his video is that evolution is fundamental to all life science.  That life science can’t be practiced without it.

He’s absolutely right.  You cannot look at the growth and development of life on Earth without this basis of understanding.  It can’t be done.  But I look forward to the first speaker trying.

This is certainly not the case.  The evolutionist, Adam Wilkins, publishing in BioEssays, volume 22, no. 12, says as follows – ‘while a great majority of biologists would probably agree that nothing in biology makes sense without evolution,’ yet he said, ‘yet most can conduct their work happily without particular reference to evolutionary ideas.’

Well, I’m glad their happy.  Meanwhile, they aren’t accurate.  The study of the growth of life on Earth cannot be done without acknowledging that life has evolved, and is continuing to evolve.  It is an on-going process.  So, whether or not they are happy is immaterial.

He concluded that evolution would appear to be an indispensable and unifying idea, and at the same time, a highly superfluous one.

And he is dead wrong.  Go figure.  So, that was the end of their refutation of Bill Nye’s video.  Seeing the problems with it?  Don’t take these people seriously.  They are lying to you.

Until next time, a quote,

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”  -Mark Twain

Peace out,

Maverick

America: Stupid Beyond Reason

There are a lot of days when people can look at this country and feel just a touch bit of shame for this generation, and any who might follow it.  There are days when you really think that perhaps it is a good thing that this country is going straight down the shitter, and really fast.  Days like today, when you see things in the news, and you think that it really can’t get much worse.  Days when you see things that are so stupid that you honestly just want to lay in a corner and cry.  Days when you get to see that the people of this country can’t really get any stupider.

Bill Maher was having a debate on his show.  The topic was voting.  There has been a very measly turnout for these primary votes.  It is a fact that the Republicans hate the candidates who are running right now.  Most Republicans are moderate.  Most of all voters are moderate.  The moderates are the overwhelming majority in this country.  And while our media has been good at not talking about anything that matters, they are showing the Republican candidates for who they are.  And that is pretty useful.

So, the guy Maher was talking to, Eliot Spitzer, had this idea to get people to the votes – bribe them!  After Maher suggested that they might want to schedule voting days for Saturday, when people aren’t at work, Spitzer said that there should be a lottery.  Everybody who votes is elligible to win something like $1 million.  Of course, Maher was rather shocked at this, asking if we should be bribing people to care about what happens in this country.  Spitzer immediately replies – yes!

Why the hell should the future of our country be contingent on bribing people to get to the polls?  If you have to bribe them to get their lazy asses of the couch, then I don’t want the future of our country in their hands.  Honestly, I would prefer that 1000 people vote in total than a group of worthless losers who have to have the promise of money to get them to the polls.

But you know, maybe it’s a good thing that the turnout is so low.  Take a look at America.  Only 4 out of 10 people in this country accept the theory of evolution.  A theory that has a mountain of scientific evidence.  It’s a fact (these terms are not mutually exclusive, by the way – theory and fact.  Not in the science world).  And 6 out of 10 people don’t buy it.  They don’t accept evidence.

Instead, they have their own theory – that Jesus did everything!  And Gawd made the universe, and all of us peoples.  We didn’t come from monkeys! (insert stupid southern voice for all the text in this paragraph)

Of course, what do you expect from people who are getting one of the worst education systems on the face of the planet.  Education in this country is a joke.  And before you libertarians go getting on the privitization bandwagon, it isn’t the public educators fault.  It is the mother’s fault.  The average dim-witted mother is the worst thing to happen to public schools.  Teachers are constantly having to question everything they do, and to always have to tip-toe around these dumb-fuck mothers who want to whine and complain about how classes are too hard for their equally-stupid kid.

The reason that test scores are so low, teachers are teaching tests, and the standards for students are so low is because mothers are constantly complaining about how hard things are.  They don’t want their kids to hear that character-building words – “you’re a loser, Billy!  You suck!  You’re stupid!”  Those words build character, and can teach student some things.  Everything wrong with America’s education system, you can blame on mothers who like to bitch about how their kid isn’t doing well.

And these stupid people are the kind that Spitzer wants in the voting booth.  I have an idea – how about NO!  How about we get these Christards away from our government!  How about we embrace logic, and reason, and rationality?  These people are scientically illiterate.  Keep them as far from the voting booth as possible!

What’s more, we can’t shame these people anymore.  It’s now out of the bounds of acceptable behavior to basically turn them into the modern version of the village idiot, and throw tomatoes at them (figuratively speaking).  No, we can’t shame the stupid, because we love the stupid!  We absolutely love them!  We give them television shows.  Shows like Jackass, The Jersey Shore, Real Housewives of…wherever.  We laud these people and give them all the notoriety that they can handle.

But if all that I have said before hasn’t convinced you that America is stupid beyind all reason, here is the proof above all proof – Snooki, the tiny and absolutely retarded bimbo, is a New York Times best-selling author.  No shit!  Her latest book, “Confessions of a Guidette,” is on the top of the New York Times best-seller list.  If you needed any more proof of her stupidity, you got it.

What kills me is how the American public thinks themselves so superior, pointing and laughing at how stupid these people are.  They never realize that at least the idiots on that show are getting paid to be as stupid as they are.  They are getting filthy rich to be stupid, white bimbos and meat-heads.  While you, the person laughing, is probably just as stupid, but is working at McDonald’s or at WalMart.

Here is the ultimate truth about America – you’re stupid.  You’re stupid because you accept mediocrity, and never ask for anything more.  You’re stupid because you are just fine with your culture dying.  You’re stupid because you don’t get outraged at the fact that the bulk of the people in this country are scientifically illiterate.  You’re stupid because this kind of pathetic shit is totally acceptable to you.  But most of all, more than anything else – You are stupid because you have to have Eliot Spitzer offer you a million dollars to get your lazy, unmotivated ass to the voting booth to give a shit about your country’s future!

I can sum up my feelings about this country’s normal public in two words – fuck you!  You’re dumb!  Go away!  Take your pick which you like.

Until next time, a quote,

“And don’t tell me, by the way, that I hate America.  I don’t hate America.  I just hate you!  I hate you stupid fucks, that ruin America for the rest of us.”  -TJ Kincaid, TOO DUMB TO VOTE!

Peace out,

Maverick

Ron Paul and Me

So, my last post talking about this was kind of angry, so I thought I would come back and write something a little bit more articulate about my feelings of Ron Paul.  When I observe culturally and politically aware people, they generally fall into two categories – liberal or libertarian.  I have a lot of problems with the Libertarian model of society.  It is fool-hardly.  The free market has never existed in the industrialized world.  If you look back through history, the only time you could find a truly free market was during the fuedalism cultures.  So yeah, their beliefs are, for most of what I’ve seen, lining up with Ayn Randian objectivism, which is a joke, both philosophically and economically.  And this brings us to Ron Paul.

My problems with Ron Paul are as follows -

1. He wants to bring back the Gold Standard.
History can tell us why this was such a bad idea.  Winston Churchill brought back the Gold Standard to Britain in 1925.  He commented as follows -

We have had no reality, no stability. The price of gold has risen since then by more than 70 per cent. That is as if a 12-inch foot rule had been stretched to 19 or 20 inches, as if the pound avoirdupois had suddenly become 23 or 24 ounces instead of 16. Look at what this has meant to everybody who has been compelled to execute their contracts upon this irrationally enhanced scale. Look at the gross unfairness of such distortion to all producers of new wealth, and to all that labour and science and enterprise can give us.

That was from a testimony in front of the House of Commons in 1932.  It was a disaster for Britain’s economy, and Ron Paul is championing this.  This is a major problem.  All of these ‘experts’ that Paul so cavalierly brings up backing him up aren’t looking at the historical facts.

2. He wants to repeal Roe v. Wade
A lot of the supporters of this guy will come out of the woodwork and say that Ron Paul’s religious beliefs won’t affect his policy making.  That’s a lie.  And outright lie.  Case and point – he wants to get rid of a woman’s right to have an abortion, to have control over her own body.  He has said, many times, about how life begins at conception.  He backed up legal efforts in this regard.  He sponsored the Sanctity of Life Act, which defined life as beginning at conception, and therefore made abortion illegal.  He is all for small government, apparently, but believes that the government should have the rights over a woman’s body.  He wants to make a woman’s uterus public property.  How’s that for liberty?

3. He does not believe in the seperation of church and state
Here’s another point where the Paulites seem to not understand where their icon is coming from.  This guy basically believes that our government should have a state-endorsed religion.  This is not something that a person who believes in “liberty” (whatever the fuck that actually means to these Libertarians) pursues.  He wants to get rid of that clause from the First Amendment.  This ties into my fourth issue with this man -

4. He doesn’t believe in the incorporation of the Bill of Rights
So, in other words, Ron Paul believes that the rights that a person has should be allocated on a state-to-state basis.  What rights you have as a human being should be in the hands of each of the states.  Never mind that that would destroy our system of government, becuase that would turn America into a confederacy, but more importantly, it shows that he believes if a state should mandate that women shouldn’t have the right to vote, that should be their call.  Civil rights for minorities, depending on the state, gone.  Gay rights, depending on the state, gone.  Any rights the state sees fit, gone.  This would be a disaster to our country, an absolute disaster.

5. He does not believe the theory of evolution
I just think this should be a requisite of somebody who is in charge of this entire country.  I mean, he basically says, “to hell all the scientific data, to hell with all the mountains of evidence, that’s just a theory.  But my theory is, Jesus.”  I can’t respect a political figure who can’t realize that evolution is a scientific fact.  A lot of the people who say, “but it’s just a theory” don’t seem to understand the fact that they confuse theory with hypothesis.  A hypothesis is something that there is no evidence for, but people are questioning.  A theory, on the other hand, is something that has been more or less proven, but the scientific community is still open to being proved wrong about.  And Ron Paul’s theory, Jesus, has NO scientific evidence to back it up, none.  That’s why over 90% of scientists in the National Academy of Sciences are agnostic or atheists.  Jesus has no evidence.  Evolution, on the other hand, has a mountain of it.

6. Ron Paul’s economic plan is a complete disaster that would destroy our contry’s economy
One of the biggest points is that he wants to get rid of the tax code, get rid of personal income tax, the whole shebang.  You know, as much as people don’t want to admit it, there are these things that taxes fund, like our police, firefighters, ambulences, the lights in our homes, the water that we drink from the city water systems, the universities, the schools, the infrastructure on any level.  To get rid of all taxes would mean that we couldn’t fund any of them.  That would be a disaster.  I already talked about the Gold Standard and how bringing that back would be a disaster.
Ron Paul also wants to leave the WTO and basically have an isolationist policy.  Bad idea!  Very bad idea!  The global economy has taken away all the ability to be economically isolated.  It has simply robbed us of our ability to keep things to ourselves.  Also, the trade barriers that we have with the WTO are one of the main reasons for the prosperity that we have.  Our economy isn’t good, but Ron Paul’s economic ideas would plunge this nation into fuedalism.

Okay, I’ve listed my reasons, and I have links to each of them, so you can learn more.  Now let me say this – A lot of people seem to like this guy for a couple of reasons – he is big on getting out of the Middle East, big on ending the drug war, and big on privacy and people not having to pay money into taxes.  The first two are good things to be for.  However, while he has some good ideas, it is pretty clear that he has some absolutely TERRIBLE ideas!

Another big thing that gets me is this – why, if he is so against the mainstream, and so focused on being third-party, why is he with the Republicans?  Don’t you find that a little bit strange how this guy talks about how he is so down with not being a part of this system that he believes is beaten and broken, but then chooses to be with one of the two major parties, both of which have proven themselves to be utterly and completely incompetant?  It is worth looking into because this shows that the heroic Messiah character that the Libertarians have gotten may not be the hero that they all believe him to be.

But if you want to vote for him, you have to accept that along with a couple of good ideas, he has some absolutely terrible ones.  That’s the fact.  You make your choice.  But this is how I view Ron Paul.

Until next time, a quote,

“There are people out there who don’t agree with this guy on a lot of really important stuff, and yet still decide that they’re gonna support him based on the few things that they do agree with, and they’ll put everything he says that they don’t agree with just out of their mind, or they’ll pretend that when he says it it has some kind of silver lining.”  -TJ Kincaid, CULT of Ron Paul 

Peace out,

Maverick

Ron Paul is not a God, so SHUT UP!

I am more than a little pissed off right now.  I am pissed off mostly because of the fact that I got to see a very articulate and very good article written by a friend of mine trashed by a group of people who I no am beginning to think don’t think.  They don’t think at all.  These assholes don’t have two brain cells to rub together.  I am, of course, talking about Libertarians.  These people have proven, time and time again, that if you say anything bad, or anything that goes against their views, about their Messiah, Ron Paul, then you are going to have all kinds of vitriol and hatred thrown at you.

Here’s an blog posting from a very good friend of mine.  I grew up with the guy.  He wrote in his professional blog (he is a political commentator, and one of my favorites to read) about how Ron Paul is NOT the hero/savior/awesomeness/God/Jesus/whatever other deity you can think of.  And how was his statement met?  Hatred, vitriol, and scorning, while still raising up on the glorious pedestal into the sky their hero, Ron Paul.

So, what were my friends reasons for why Ron Paul is not a saint?  Well, he had some pretty good ones.  The first was the fact that Ron Paul is for the overturning of Roe v. Wade.  So, basically, he believes that the government should be smaller, but large enough to force all women to carry a pregnancy to term?  It is just the first of a laundry list of stupidity to come from this guy.

See, Ron Paul believes that he is a scientist.  He’s a doctor, to be sure, but he is not a scientist.  One of the really great proofs of that is that he doesn’t believe in the theory of evolution.  It’s come straight from the horse’s mouth.  He claims to be a scientist, while not accepting the fact that evolution has a mountain of evidence, a mountain.  Here’s an article by Richard Dawkins which can nicely pwn Ron Paul.  I think a nice little bit that was on NPR (oh no, NPR!  The Libertarian’s worst nightmare!) which can also put his views on this subject in their place.  Really, there can be no denying that the theory of evolution is true.  So, this is another area where Paul’s supporters are completely out of their depth.

Then there is the fact that Ron Paul is against the seperation of church and state.  My friend had a great quote from the man himself, and a response (of sorts) by Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father.  Here is Ron Paul’s quote -

The notion of a rigid separation between church and state has no basis in either the text of the Constitution or the writings of our Founding Fathers. On the contrary, our Founders’ political views were strongly informed by their religious beliefs. Certainly the drafters of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, both replete with references to God, would be aghast at the federal government’s hostility to religion.”

And here is the response, or rather, disagreement, that Thomas Jefferson would have had -

 Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law. In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.”

But really, when you think critically about this issue, being against the seperation of church and state is a huge fallacy to having a small government.  If the government had a state-endorsed religion, that would mean taking away people’s LIBERTY or freedom to worship whatever god, gods, or whatever, that they please (I am an atheist, so I think it’s all bullshit, but we have the right to have it in this country).  Yeah, that’s really big for small government, right?

So, those are a couple of the examples of hypocrisy in what he says.  His supporters will clamor to his defense (as they did against my friend) that he is for cutting taxes, entirely.  Okay, let’s get something straight – Ron Paul’s economic ideas are childish and dumb.  We are too far in debt now for cuts alone to work.  This nation is too far in debt for us to be able to just cut spending.  We have to increase revenue.  Sorry, but that’s a fact.  Really, the fact that Paul endorses Alan Greenspan’s failed economic ideology, which was modeled after Ayn Rand’s way of doing things, is a sign that he is out of his depth.

Now, it should be noted that Paul does want to end the wars.  He very much wants to bring the troops home.  He seems very dedicated to this cause.  However, in being dedicated so much to this, people are losing sight of the other side of this character.  The side who wishes to destroy our infrastructure, take away women’s control over their bodies, and wants there to be no seperation of church and state.

And this is part of what’s pissing me off right now about the reaction my friend got.  There was nobody articulately defending anything.  They all just came on and did endless attacks, making lovely strawman arguments, ad hominem attacks.  It was just a bunch of ranting bullshit that really served no purpose other than to reinforce a view I already had the Libertarianism is just a me-me-me belief.  Don’t take my money, don’t give money to other people, don’t interfere in my life.

This is what gets on my nerves so damn much poeple like Ron Paul supporters – the fact that they just seem to have blinders on.  There was a posting on Reddit where a guy said that he was a pro-choice atheist, but then turns around and says that Ron Paul has a good perspective, that his is the right perspective.  And this is why I consider the followers of Ron Paul, and TJ Kincaid as well, more like members of a cult than a political party, and also why I think the party can’t be taken seriously.

These people follow this man and talk like his word is gospel the moment it leaves his lips.  There are some, a precious few, who question, and contend, and they are lambasted and ridiculed by the rest.  My friend’s posting was put on DailyPaul.com, and everybody jumped on the bandwagon the Ron Paul is some kind if victim/savior who is going to save America.  No!  Wrong!  He’s a guy.  He’s a guy with some alright ideas, and a guy with a lot of really fucking stupid ideas!  And if you want to accept his good ideas, then guess what, you Libertarians, you also have to accept his bad ideas!  Sorry, but that’s a fact!  If he is elected President, you will have to take responsibility for what this man espouses.  His religious views WILL affect his politics.  Sorry, but that is how it is.

Until next time, a quote,

“If you wanna vote for him, at least be honest about his fucking foibles!  Stop treating him like a god!  Stop sucking his fucking dick!”  -TJ Kincaid, CULT of Ron Paul

Peace out,

Maverick