"johac" <jhachm@ixpres.com> wrote in message
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ID has a competitor, UD. That's Unintelligent Design. It would explain a
lot.

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What Boneheaded Design Guides Dubya's Moves?
by Linwood Barclay

How does one explain all the misguided, unwise, sometimes outright
boneheaded things the Bush administration has done since taking over
nearly five years ago, and continues to do on a pretty much daily basis?
How is it possible for a group of supposedly intelligent, experienced
individuals to take this many wrong turns? Wouldn't you think that once
in a while, even by accident, that George W. Bush and his advisers would
make a decision that made sense?

Can this much mismanagement happen totally at random? Would the
occupants of the Bush White House have us believe that all these things,
these missteps, these miscalculations, these attempts to deceive, that
they all, you know, just kind of happened?

I'm not so sure. And I'm not the only one starting to ask questions.
More and more, it seems unlikely that mere human beings could make this
many mistakes without some sort of misguiding force, a kind of
supernatural entity that has trouble remembering where it put its car
keys.

That's where unintelligent design comes in.

Once one embraces the concept of unintelligent design a kind of
doofus-like cosmic force it becomes much easier to get your head around
the operations of the Bush administration.

I mean, making executive decisions randomly would still probably result
in doing the right thing 50 per cent of the time. So how does one
explain such consistent goofiness, like invading a nation based on
evidence that the administration knew didn't exist in the first place?

Or exposing a CIA employee's identity just to settle some personal
scores?

Ignoring international trade agreements you've signed on to?

Adopting a head-in-the-sand approach to the connection between human
activity on the planet Earth and global warming?

Letting the boss be photographed on the ranch, golfing and cutting brush
and chilling out and generally having a good ol' time while young
Americans die overseas?

Not having the media savvy to have that same boss take a stroll down the
driveway and chat with a woman whose son was one of those young
Americans?

Doing an end run around the Senate to send a loose cannon to the U.N.,
while supposedly promoting democracy abroad?

Not firing a defence secretary who totally misjudged how many troops
would be needed to secure Iraq?

Giving rich folks back home huge tax cuts while soldiers go without
adequate body armour?

Looking upon scientific and medical innovations like they're some sort
of voodoo and letting other nations take the lead in these areas for the
first time?

You can't tell me that some magnificently dumb force, more confused and
baffled than all the members of the Bush administration put together,
didn't have a hand in this.

But I know what some of you skeptical types are thinking. You're
thinking, hey pal, where's your proof? Where's the actual evidence, the
cold, hard facts, to support my contention that unintelligent design has
played a role in the decisions of the Bush administration?

Well, that's easy. I have none. Not one shred of solid evidence. But let
me ask you this. What evidence do you have that I'm wrong? My theory
explaining Bush White House screwups is, by its very nature, impossible
to disprove. And if you can't disprove it, then you don't have much
choice but to consider it as an alternative.

That's why I'm pushing to have universities start teaching my
unintelligent design theory in their political science courses. Sure,
these know-it-all professors may be teaching that Bush and his ilk do
what they do because they're captives of their own ideology, that
they're pandering to baser instincts and popular prejudices to shore up
support among certain constituencies, that they're willing to put their
own political interests ahead of those of regular Americans.

Yeah, well, maybe. But my theory doesn't take as long to explain on the
final.

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John Hachmann aa #1782

"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit
atrocities"
-Voltaire

You're making a pretty strong case, my man. I don't know. I think the
scientists
should look into this concept of yours a little deeper. On the face of it,
it looks
flawless. But I think the scientists should make that final determination.
After all
they *are* scientists. (I wonder if President Bush would like your theory
given
'equal time' in a science classroom?)

Greywolf