Donald Trump presented a Purple Heart to a soldier and kissed the man's wife a couple of times while congratulating him for his big win of a Purple Heart. Remember, Trump always wanted one of those for himself, but didn't want to earn it.

Replete with the customary takings from his brag book; but included one laced with insensitivity, if not cruelty.

 On his great ratings draw: "CBS Face the Nation host John Dickerson had 5.2 million people.  It's the highest for "Face the Nation"--or as I call it, "Deface the Nation."  It's the highest for "Deface the Nation" since the World Trade Center.  Since the World Trade Center came down.  It't a tremendous advantage."

Or are you as bad at 'secularist' math as you are at doing an unbiased study of current scientic findings?

Another one: how does giving attention Only to a miniscule percentage of scientists who happen to agree with the conservative platform prove you have an "open mind"?

Lastly, what works of Karl Popper have you actually read all the way through?

jimakaPPJ: "The point is that belief in God does not negate the theory of evolution."

BTW - The smear against the NOAA scientist has been debunked numerous times, but don't let facts stand in the way of a winger fairy tale.

NOAA Scientists Falsely Accused of Manipulating Climate Change Data

No Data Manipulation at NOAA

Nowhere does it say anything about "Top Ten Scientists", as if the one's mentioned in the article were the most respected scientific minds according to some world-wide poll of scientists.

You keep ducking my question, Jim.

Zen was published in 1974, after being rejected by 121 publishing houses. "The book is brilliant beyond belief," wrote Morrow editor James Landis before publication. "It is probably a work of genius and will, I'll wager, attain classic status."

The top Democrat and Republican on the House Oversight Committee announced Tuesday that ousted Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn could have broken the law by accepting payments from foreign governments as a former military officer.

After viewing classified documents that included his application to renew his security clearance, Committee Chair Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) and ranking member Elijah Cummings (D-MD) said there was "no evidence" that Flynn made the appropriate disclosures about payments he received from abroad.

In Donald Trump, Margaret Atwood sees an eerie reflection of her novel.

"The world always has been quite weird. It's just that we took for granted in certain parts of this country that there was a normality, and that that was normality. And that rights were inalienable. I don't know where anybody ever got that idea, because they didn't come down out of a cloud. They were thought up and fought for by people. That's where rights come from," Atwood said.

Thinking about the current moment, Atwood invoked the character from "The Handmaid's Tale" who's tasked with beating the new order into Offred and the other women.

"That's how they get taken away. People take them away. So, what is normal and how much can we count on it? And our idea of what is normal changes a lot, depending on the circumstances," she said. "So, when Aunt Lydia says, `This may not seem normal to you now,'......

Of course he is as wrong about that as he is many other things.

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The Founder:  Good but kind of sad. It wasn't what I was expecting.

The point is that belief in God does not negate the theory of evolution.

Clearly the Pope agrees.  But he is Catholic and a scientist himself, while anti-evolutionists tend to be fundamentalist and Protestant.

You must be aware that some ignorant people have suggested that "creationism" should also be taught in schools alongside actual science.  How do you explain the opposition among right-wing Christian groups to the most documented theory in scientific history?

BTW, I have read Darwin's "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life" several times, because it is the greatest science book ever written (I will defend that statement if required).  

Anti-science people like to cherry pick specific passages from that work and claim that Darwin did not believe what he clearly did. They will point out, for example, that a cat has never evolved into a dog, which of course Darwin would agree with, but somehow that "refutes" evolution.

When officers physically lifted Dao from his seat, Rodriguez's report said, Dao's flailing caused Long to lose his grip on Dao, and the passenger fell forward and hit his mouth on the opposite seat's armrest.
Long's statement described Dao as "flailing and fighting" as officers tried to remove him from his seat.

"It was probably unfortunate that so much focus was put on the golden showers part of the dossier because it wasn't something that could be confirmed. Yes, it's easy to establish that the rumor went around and that many people at the Ritz Carlton believed that it occurred. It was much harder to confirm that it happened as described or that the Russians had video or audio evidence of it with which to blackmail Trump. The more important part was what Source B was confirming. Regardless of the veracity of the Ritz Carlton story, a high level Russian intelligence source was saying that the FSB had arranged / monitored sexually compromising situations for Trump."

Further, it should be noted that the incident comprised but a small portion of Steel's 33-page dossier. Longman offers that our media's unhealthy pre-occupation with the sexually deviant aspects of the dossier is precluding many of us from acknowledging that much of what Steele reported last year in the rest of the dossier has since been corroborated by our own intelligence sources:

"Because the salacious golden showers story led the dossier, reporters and news organizations were reluctant to publish it. The lewdness had the tendency to discredit the entire document since it was outrageous and unconfirmed. But there were plenty of other parts of the dossier that could be falsified or verified. After some efforts to do that, the FBI was satisfied that the dossier was accurate in many respects. They used it to go to the FISA court and obtain a warrant to monitor the activities of Carter Page."

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"The right was way too quick to dismiss the quality of Christopher Steele's work. He's a former MI6 officer who worked under diplomatic cover in Moscow and headed the Russia Desk from 2004 to 2009. He has an excellent reputation in the intelligence community. He clearly has sources and he knows how to write intelligence reports. The dossier was never a fake. It wasn't gospel, either, nor did it purport to be accurate in every respect. But it was based on real sources, many of which were well-placed sources."

In other words, whether or not the "golden showers" incident in the Moscow Ritz-Carlton ever occurred is actually immaterial and likely unprovable. In this case, what's far more important is that Steele was able to establish through his sources that the Russian FSB was actively surveilling Trump during the 2013 Miss Universe pageant and was further setting him up for potential personal blackmail. Indeed, the Steele dossier alleges that Russian security services were likely successful in that regard:

"I think the more Steele's work is corroborated in general, the more we can be sure that he didn't make things up. So, what's more credible now is not that the golden showers took place. What's more credible is that the rumor was real and that it was being related as true by a person very close to Trump who would be in a position to know. And it was possible to establish that people in Moscow at the hotel had heard the same story and believed it.

"The thing is, what really matters is the more general question of whether Source B (the former high ranking Russian intelligence office still active in the Kremlin's inner circles) was telling the truth when he said they had enough material on Trump to blackmail him. If that's true, the prurient details don't matter." (Emphasis is mine.)