Why do people laugh at creationists? RE: Palin

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BWAHAHAAHAH!!!! I didn't catch that previously.

ethnic slur against Caribou.

if science is a throwaway, then so is language comprehension.

kick

:toast:

It is almost hard to believe John McCain gave us this gift.

(God knows I'm not), but I think Quayle was more of a clod than an idiot. Even with the "potatoe" event taken into consideration. Palin's a joke. I get such a kick out of watching the frat boys walking around town in their McCain/Palin gear, thinking about what sort of neanderthal insults they'd have for the woman if she wasn't McSame's running mate....

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Excellent review of Palin's recent interviews and incompetence.

15-20 years of RW talk radio has convinced more than four out of 10 Americans that Republicans have done and currently do everything right and the Democrats never have and never will do anything right.

These people have seen their jobs leave the country. If they're employed, they're holding 2 or more jobs and making less than they did from the job they lost. They're maintaining their standard of living on debt. Their homes are deteriorating. They're drving cars held together with baling wire and duct tape.

In the 50 years I've been alive, 30 of them have been under Republican administrations. Almost every one of them have been marked by recessions and/or corruption, increased debt, and war.

And this is better than the alternative?

Despite the near-collapse of our economy, despite evidence that we attacked Iraq on a pack of lies from a Republican administration, costing us hundreds of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives, despite seeing and hearing the Republican candidates for President and VP setting new standards for lying and buffoonery every time they speak, despite the obvious fact that Palin is grossly unqualified for the VP role, people will still beligerently argue in support for this ticket and this party.

And it's not like this period of time is just an aberration. Read your history on the Great Depression and see who was in power in the years leading up to and during the start of the GD.

That's one of the most maddening things of all. I know Cheney/Bush's approval rating is in the toilet, but there are still millions of folks out there who Dubya could waltz into their double-wide this afternoon, rob them at gunpoint, and take a dump on the rug before he left, and they would STILL insist that he was a wonderful leader, and thank God HE'S the president instead of Gore or Kerry.

But you can't blame it all on talk radio. For most of the past x-ty years Democrats simply didn't fight back. We thought we were taking the high road, not getting dragged down to their level. And we stood by as the RW turned "liberal" into a slur and equated "conservative" with "good American" and "liberal" with "traitor." We've got to take some of the blame on ourselves.

Thank God we FINALLY have someone who is fighting back!

Sure, his policies are much, much, much closer to my own philosophies than those of any national republicon. But more than that I admire the fact that he stands up for himself. Same with Teddy Kennedy. I was born in 1966...I have no memory of--and no time for wallowing in--Camelot. The Kennedys have enough skeletons in their personal and political closets to last for centuries, and the fact that a few of them have decided to "give back" doesn't impress me any more than any non-Kennedy who does the same. But you can't deny that Teddy has stood up for liberal, progressive principals even when it was least popular to do so. I hope he's doing OK this morning.

I suspect she's very fluent in Pentecostelese. She's just holding back. I hope Biden nudges her into that idiom somehow so that she gets going on Living in the Word Thursday night until the cat's out of the bag. Remember that scene in the last episode of Rome where the soldier who suspected a slave boy was Caesarion just casually spoke to him in the idiom of Egyption pharoah worship, and out it came. Someone interviewer really needs to gently nudge this out of her.

She's an arrogant fool on most of the issues, to be sure, but I think what we saw on the clip about Putin and Russia was not just her not being able to come up with something, but also knowing that she couldn't let go and say, "Alaska is the last front in God's war on Satan. We are the battleground between the forces of communism (she'd still consider them communist) in Russia and the seductive evil of liberal socialism in Canada. We are the final frontier where those who are strong in the Lord will join to fight the holy war as foretold in Revelations 4 point whatever against the multi-headed antichrist, whose tentacles include the United Nations and other tools of Satan in the mideast who are fighting to destroy Israel. While the battle rages for the promised land and Christ returns, Alaska will be the last haven for those Living in the Word against the Beast, through which we will all be raptured up to heaven to usher in a reign of 1000 years of Christian rule . . . . " yada, yada, yada

_That's_ what she really believes gives Alaska a special role in dealing with Russia.

I agree. A lot of her demonstrated inanity is just a result of her trying to hold all this nonsense in.

You can speak Pentacostalese just a little TOO good! If it weren't for your screen name I'd be worried!

In gassho,
Purplechez

This is just an outstanding presentation!

-Hoot

...and why I, and those I know, are perilously close to tears;

The inability for many to think for themselves is our biggest threat; and one that the republican party is depending on to win this election. We are gambling on the ignorance of masses; are thoughtful, sufficiently educated people in the United States the majority or the minority?

We will find out November 4th.

I am hopeful that, when Americans go to the polls, they will remember that the founding fathers emphasized the need for us to have "a decent respect to the opinions of mankind."

OBAMA/BIDEN 2008!

She's an idiot.

All reasons why SP, or Mccain should not be anywhere near the WH, compiled in one convenient video!

Oh God! The thought of 8 years of hearing this dum-dum speaking absolute bullshit in press conferences! :wow: :scared:

And I thought Bush was bad! :hurts: :hurts:

ROTFL!

Yes. It was.

And the sad thing is... I'll bet she's still trying to figure out what was wrong about it.

Palin has that obnoxious "Sir, yes sir", do as you're told and follow orders mentality mixed with the arrogant know-it-all, I've got it figured out (because my preacher told me)you get, not from atheists (where it rarely comes from), but from Fundies. This can only sincerely survive in a closed, cut off place....like Alaska (or a cult compound or mega-church). It can only thrive among its own, with little input from the outside world. That's why it's falling apart on the world stage. Not only for Palin, but for Bush and his ilk as well. (Remember, Bush really doesn't care or believe any of the born again malarkey, but Sarah DOES believe in that crap)It's a sad joke and has nothing to offer the future of America or Mankind for that matter.

Palin makes a great lackey, but is no leader or thinker.

then why do you get to use airplanes, telecommunications, computers, tv; and cellphones? Why do you get to play with nuclear weapons if you don't know what atoms are? How can you make policy on stem cells and biology if you don't understand cells and evolution?

NoFederales

If you think the scientific method is crap, that's fine. You get to live in a hut without so much as fire from now on.

My goodness. This is just terrifying.

  God, though, how I shudder when staring out over the wrecked vista of what our country has become at the hands of Bush and how even that smoking wreckage demands protection from Dilettante's understudy, Sarah Palin.

PB

... another funny Sarah video:

Sinatra & Sarah do Witchcraft
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqs_2CVcWb0

to know that the bible is FICTION and was never meant to be taken literally.

Jeebus, riding dinosaurs?:crazy:

Great Vid!

actually been there.

However, as historically inaccurate as the bible can be, people ride asses and horses. No mention of dinos except maybe as the 'giants' who walked the earth and were seen no more.

Send this to any so-called independent or ignorant likely voter you know. I sent it to my slightly dimwitted Republican sister, and she has replied saying she is going to stay home on election day.

I'll take it.

There is more in this vein. The article left me shaking my head with shame for my fellow Ohioans in the Fox-infested SW corner of our otherwise great state. The ignorance displayed is breathtaking.

One thread running through all of the favorable Palin comments here is "I don't want a political expert in the White House, I want someone just like me." WTF? Would these same people have this same attitude toward the crew of a 747 jetliner that was about to fly them across the Atlantic? Would we hear "I don't want some fancy aviation insider up there in the cockpit, I want someone just like me"? Would they insist on having a pilot or co-pilot whose entire flying experience came from living near an airport? One who had never actually been in a cockpit before? I doubt it. So why do they care so much less about America?

I will never, ever understand the Republican "mentality". Most of the things they say, as in this article, sound literally insane to me, in the sense of being totally disconnected from the reality of the situation. How did these people get like this? What are we going to do about them?

This person has a very good chance of being elected. That is horrifying.

She's stuck in a radical church and reverend-church well - a deep well down in an Alaskan valley - no scope to the world. They have put blinders on her. She can't even see herself.

This was all about DEBT carried forward from the Cheney administration. The Republicans promised the reverends plenty of roe-wade type favors in exchange for the delivery of votes the reverends were in charge of and Cheney did not deliver enough pay back. The reverends got plenty of their people into government jobs (especially the DOJ and Pentagon) and they co-created plenty of hate for Moslems and Mexicans, but they did not reverse Roe-Wade, nor did they close down the UN, nor did they get to put their engraved Commandments in the courhouse to start the list. AND TO TOP IT ALL - Cheney did not write an Executive Order for George to sign giving them everything they wanted.

So they told McCain - give us a VP - Palin or we won't barnstorm for war or the election or we won't deliver our portion of the 30-37% of your solid base, plus most of the margin.

Cheney wanted generated wealth for his baron bosses and friends, they wanted Christian Evangelical domination. Both wanted to go and still want to go for THE GOLD - profit and doctrine gold.

There is only one good thing you can say about the radical religious agenda - there are very few secrets in it.

.... She's got five kids. But trust me on this - you can do that without ever trying. I'm betting she's not much in bed either. :scared:

In this context it scares the CRAP out of me!

On creationism though...
Imagine the scientists are wrong. The fields of biology and microbiology become nonsense. Medicine is based on nonsense.

Should creationists be eligible for modern health care, or only for our prayers? If it were not for human compassion, creationists would fall victims of natural selection!

Really funny. The crazies have lost their way.

"The Beauty about elections is that you get to learn from your mistakes, and that electing a grade A Moron is a Bad mistake. Please America, learn from your past: Do not make the same mistake again."

Priceless.

of Bush's lies that they show at the end of the video? Anyone have a link??

I download at 2553 kbps yet can not watch any of the YouTube political videos. I will tell Yahoo I wish to return to regular DSL, it did work, either. Sucks!

They're the scariest people there are. They can sit in front of something and say
"I can't see it, i can't smell it, and I can't hear it"
despite all the evidence to the contrary. I just found out that someone I have
been working with for 25 years believes Neanderthals are from outer space.
He told me that there is absolutely no proof that evolution exists... After my jaw
hit the ground, I changed the subject.
THESE are scary people.