(February 11, 2014 at 3:38 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Um, the reason it is happening is because that collection of dickheads that make the up tea-party caucus will not let him pursue any other course.That's some of the posturing I am talking about. They know that they have to raise the debt ceiling (which itself strikes me as a ridiculous idea that no longer serves the purpose of making congress appear to be "fiscally responsible") because there are only so many times that you can "shut down the government" (snicker). They won't admit defeat, of course, they will just threaten to remove Boehner (oh, that will change everything!) and claim to stand on principle, or whatever crap allows them to pretend to save face.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
