Extremist language in the Heartland

[Stephen Fox]

Not far from Shorter College one of the largest SBC churches in NE Alabama reportedly the pastor had a series on Obama as the AntiChrist. At some point you would imagine Rick Lance and Bob Terry would have something to say. Just how big a skirt is the autonomy of the local church and at one point is a Southern Baptist pastor no longer a minister of the Gospel but a demagogue?

http://www.ethicsdaily.com/extremist-rh ... -cms-19595

[Ed Pettibone]

Ed: Can some one tell me if this is a legitimate interview involving Robert Pharham ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P03x3kRK1oE

If so, he doe not seem to have applied the Golden Rule to his performance in the clip.

[Blake]

[Gene Scarborough]

Note the author: Stephen Fox!!!!!

The wilder the link, the more he distracts the participants on this good website

The article deals with Global Warming and the use of inflamatory signs in Chicago

[Gene Scarborough]

Ed---that is a typical interview clip of Parham in the limited time allowed---and pushing to get his point across.

I agree with him. I run my business with a Golden Rule ethic that I need to raise worker according to production. If we do better than average, instead of an hourly rate I can apply a percentage rate since labor normally is 1/3 of my gross price.

Wal Mart has been extremely "successful" by doing its best to keep employees under 40 hours so they don't have to provide benefits. Sam Walton didn't build the business on the backs of employees, but it is not the same now that he is gone.

Those who gripe about the long lines and poor service at Wal Mart, could go to smaller stores if they were not so focused on saving money. We get what we pay for and if you don't consider your own waiting time a part of the equation, then you could be spending more than you think to "save money."

[Ed Pettibone]

[Gene Scarborough]

I did listen to his opponent----found him to be the heartless one--especially if you have ever talked with a Wal Mart employee! Things haven't changed in that salt mine.

[Ed Pettibone]

[Gene Scarborough]

That's why, when I was working my way through college and enquired at McDonald's, I gladly stuck with my Trim Carpenter part-time job.

The Manager informed me that if I could replace another employee by doing the work of 2, I could make .5 more than the starting wage----I didn't get into Emory by being stupid!!!!

Our trouble now is people are more and more trapped in "service jobs" with little opportunity of advancement. Outsourcing overseas to cheap labor lets us "save" at WalMart---but where do you find a job to make enough to "save" at WalMart???

[Stephen Fox]

[Gene Scarborough]

Stephen----are you sure you aren't on the sauce tonight????????????

On the wrong thread and now------what the heck

[Stephen Fox]

I'm after the Gander

[Gene Scarborough]

Don't let the mental health officials find you, buddy!!!

[David Flick]

[KeithE]

In the world of GW discussions (if we can call them that) the word “denier” merely means someone who disagrees with the scientific view that man has caused GW/CC or that GW/CC has not happened. It no longer (if it ever did) denotes anything about the Holocaust deniers, no more than the word “alarmist” recalls the person who cries FIRE is a crowded theater.

But equating “alarmists” (e.g. the 95-100% of climate scientists whose studies have demonstrated AGW) with the unabomber Kazcinski so graphically on a billboard is an intended direct comparison and is indeed extremist language - yeah I know they have taken that off the billboard, but Heartland has not yet apologized or stepped down from that statement.

Parham has it right and did not compared GW/CC “deniers” to Holocaust “deniers” in those articles (as you imply), no matter what Solomon said.

[David Flick]

[KeithE]

[KeithE]

[David Flick]

[KeithE]

[Gene Scarborough]

Global change issues involve more common sense than just speculation. You cannot apply big machines to forests with clear cutting and not affect the air temps and the polution of streams.

You cannot pour emissions into the air and not affect the natural cycles of weather and air temps. If populations do not care for their sewage, then disease breaks out and mother earth reduces the population. The same is true of animals eating vegitation away and then starving without food to balance with what the food supply can naturally provide. We are using chemicals to speed food growth and then find hormones and hybrids generate cancer!

For me, it is simple common sense and animals have to balance with the air, water, food to sustain them. Already we are depleting the marine resources by over-fishing. Much of the excess comes directly from pure old greed.

[David Flick]

[KeithE]

[David Flick]