Of course, I am basing this off of those blogs that I have actually seen. There may be some I haven't seen for which this is not true. The ones that I have seen will delete comments that seriously question their claims. Some will include fake comments from pretend non-believers that contain arguments so flawed that no one arguing against christianity would ever make them.

I have to wonder. Is christianity just a big game of "Let's pretend"? Are its adherents really that afraid of any inconvenient truths that might come along?

On blogs, when I reveal that I oppose abortion people assume that I support capital punishment and attack me for supporting killing.  And when I reveal that I oppose capital punishment people assume that I support abortion and attack me for supporting killing.  Why can't people understand that I am opposed to killing people in general and that I oppose abortion and capital punishment both because of the general idea?

I heard about a bill in SC that would require women in SC seeking an abortion to view an ultrasound first.  I agree with the requirement on principle, though I do not know all the details of the bill.  I don't know whom the bill would require to pay, but the state should pay for the ultrasound.

An abortion affects the fetus far more than it does the mother.  I believe the "fetus" to be worthy of some legal protection.  If I could work my will, almost all abortions at the fetal stage would be banned.  As to this bill, when one person unilaterally makes a decision that affects another, he should not be allowed to deny the other's existence or pretend that the facts are not as they are.  In this case, closing one's eyes to the ultrasound is hauntingly similar to Bush closing his eyes to the predictions about the results of his Iraq excursion.

It appears that several people have ideas on how to defeat the insurgency in Iraq.  You know, the one that was "in its last throes" four years ago.  The only way anyone would ever "defeat" this insurgency would be to level the entire region.  Let's face a little reality here.  Iraq has a resistance movement.  It is impossible to stop a resistance movement short of eradicating the entire population.

McCain is rolling out his "Straight Talk Express" again.  In 2000, I may well have voted for him.  Today, I know he has hard-liner credentials.  Straight Talk would be to tell the people that he just doesn't care about them.  I wish he would do us all a favor and retire.

Lately, I have been hearing a lot about global warming (now climate change) and the assumption that it is human caused. To date, there has been no testing of that assumption. There is no reason to conclude that climate change is not simply a natural phenomenon.

This is not to say that I don't think we should conserve resources. We should. If we continue to consume energy and other resources more quickly than they are replenished by nature, we are going to exhaust our reserves. I am greatly concerned that people will reduce consumption -- for a while -- on the basis of global warming. If the global warming continues they are likely to resume over-consumption. They will also become unlikely to listen to other reasons why they should reduce consumption as they will consider themselves already fooled once.

I don't believe it. Someone else actually selected my first choice for username. (Okay, I know I'm not the only person to know what it means, but still.)