Things George W. Bush is guilty of causing...

Depressing.

And Bear, you are WRONG. Over the past 5 years, as a result of the President's budget proposals, the NIH has received funding that does NOT keep up with the rate of biomedical inflation.

http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/49077/

While the NIH got what amounts to a 3.7% decrease (adjusting for biomedical inflation) in funding last year, the Pentagon got a 5% increase..... and that does not even include the $70 billion "special fund" for Iraq.... which is, by the way, over twice as much as the $28.9 billion dollar NIH budget.

I'd say this administration's priorities are severely out of order and I am counting down the days until GWB leaves office, and hoping he manages not to do any more damage until then.

Oy, this is easy, so I guess I'll have to condescend and dismiss, because now I think I'm a lot smarter than you are (said more to demonstrate what always happens in wordforge debate than as an expression of true belief, but with a tinge of true belief because I'm human and a wordforger too, and I won't hypocritically claim not to fall into the same traps everyone else does):

People who are smarter than those around them in every day life learn to habitually discount other people's opinions rather than spending all day analyzing them on a case by case basis. Smart people are polite about this in real life, but they all do it to some extent, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's just a way to avoid overloading on fruitless debate.

When people join a secondary social group where what once was the 99th percentile is now the 50th percentile, ingrained habits don't change readily. Opposing opinions are still dismissed. Just because you're smart doesn't mean you're not a creature of habit. Smart people debating each other in unstructured fashion never leads anywhere productive. That's why, for example, peer review and scientific methodology are so important to the advancement of knowledge. Without such structures, debate among smart people ends up as all theological debate among the strong willed does, with no one ever being convinced to meaningfully change his mind.

Obviously not. Or else your funding wouldn't get cut.

Me to keep losing my TV remote control

That weird clicking sound in my car engine

My pet rabbit's Erectile Dysfunction

To make a statement like the above completely ignores the power that a body like the United States Congress has in determining what types of engagements this country will be involved in for extended periods of time.

The United States could not be involved in Iraq, Afghanistan, or virtually any other part of the world without buy in from the Congress.

In my opinion as a nation we tend to be critical of Presidents for decisions like Iraq because he is the easiest target. It is far easier to target on individual than it is a crowd of hundreds such as the Congress.

Iraq was supported by most of the Congress, including Hillary Clinton because it was politically to her advantage at the time. Obama couldn't participate since he didn't take office until 2005.

There is plenty of blame to go around for Iraq, and any other military activity that takes place in the world.

You've had decades to find a cure for that shit. Where are the results, you lazy slags?

All right phil, here's your problem. You need to tie your research to global warming, perhaps rich white people created AIDS and injected it into the ozone layer?

Funding goldmine.

Which Congress wouldn't have given if Congress hadn't been fed false information.

That's not to exculpate Congress, which did an absolutely lousy job and should have known better. But as far as traditional responsibilities go, Bush's administartion bears more responsibility for this war than a President usually does for any war.

The Congress had the same intelligence information that Bush had, that Clinton had, that the UN had.

Packard you are very practiced at rationalizations.

By the way, did you know that rich white people created HIV?

That's a lie, and you know it.

That isn't. And here's a comma to help you out: ,

And some of you idiots on the Right try to pretend the world is utopia after he became President.

You have one of the worst cases of Neo-Conservative Derangement Syndrome I've ever seen.

See a psychiatrist.

See? THIS is where I thought this thread would go. SHIT! How'd I miss Katrina!? The Eeevil Halliburton Hurricane Machine was used to disenfranchise all those black people.

Ooh. There's another one: Rigging the 2000 election so he could trick everyone into getting Eeeevil Diebold Voting Machines so he could...rig the election(?)

Ooooh....good one!

BDS is a recognized mental condition that affects mostly liberals and Democrats. While I understand that might be a little embarrasing, simply snapping in 'Neo-Con' in the place of 'Bush' isn't going to cut it.

Regardless of what anybody says here, people on the right are more than willing to be honest and open about the failings of Bush. I don't see that on the left where Clinton is concerned.

I wonder if any of that grant money is funding "phil" fucking around on WF.

Your tax dollars in action!

I haven't heard a lefty tool use the term 'massive cuts' for a reduction in funding increases in a long, long time. I'm glad to see the old standards are still in their playbook.

That would be interesting to know indeed.

I'm hearing it everyday here in CA. Especially since once again the state legislature and the moron governor of the state have seen fit to continue the trends that began during the Davis administration.

Nonsense you damn fool.

Not one person here thinks things became a utopia after he was elected.

After all you and the other so called independents (ie liberals) are still alive.

Exactly. Slovenly work like he's doing is a waste of taxpayer dollars.

Alive was in the plan. The plan was in chains, riding like ponies, remember?

We don't need that many ponies. Some culling would do wonders for the pony gene pool.

Yah, but you don't do the culling until AFTER everyone's had their pick.

Sure it does. Besides, I don't see Volpone sniping at the right all that much. One side is just as bad as the other IMHO.

It's fun being a Moderate. I get to shoot at both sides.

Zombie called me a liberal!

Oh well, if you're not with us, you're against us.

You forgot last year's floodings in Bangladesh.

What's your problem, Gheyboi?

Were you channeling POTN?