Fruit fly research and Governor Palin

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081023175137.htm

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051122093217.htm

http://www.physorg.com/news103997061.html

All I can say is...reading is fundamental. Wow. Vice-President of the United States, huh?

Dr. James Dobson will not vote in this election!

Main Entry: hyp·o·crite
Pronunciation: hi-pə-ˌkrit
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English ypocrite, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin hypocrita, from Greek hypokritēs actor, hypocrite, from hypokrinesthai
Date: 13th century
1 : a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion 2 : a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings

Baseball and politics

“I heard that Senator Obama was showing some love to the Rays down in Tampa Bay yesterday,’’ Mr. McCain told a modest crowd at a manufacturing plant on Tuesday morning here in this battleground state vital to his election on Nov. 4, as is Florida. “Now, I’m not dumb enough to get mixed up in a World Series between swing states, but I think I may have detected a little pattern with Senator Obama.’’

As the crowd booed, Mr. McCain added: “It’s pretty simple really. When he’s campaigning in Philadelphia, he roots for the Phillies, and when he’s campaigning in Tampa Bay, he shows love to the Rays. It’s kind of like the way he campaigns on tax cuts, but then votes for tax increases after he’s elected.

Maybe it's time Senator McCain's and Governor Palin's speechwriting staffs talk to each other. Yikes!

I'll just let Senator McCain speak for himself

In an interview Thursday with The Washington Times, McCain spoke of Bush in tones bordering on contempt, ticking off a litany of what he said were the president’s failures.

“Spending, the conduct of the war in Iraq for years, growth in the size of government — larger than any time since the Great Society, laying a $10 trillion debt on future generations of America — owing $500 billion to China, obviously, failure to both enforce and modernize the [financial] regulatory agencies that were designed for the 1930s and certainly not for the 21st century, failure to address the issue of climate change seriously,” McCain told the newspaper.

“We just let things get completely out of hand,” he said of the past eight years of Republican rule.

Wow, Senator, that's a very interesting line of defense. How exactly are you going to be any different? Oh, that's right, we just have to go by what you say, not how you voted. Righhhhttt.

It's called progressive taxation

Curious, very curious indeed. So, Senator McCain, when you say it, it's good politics, but when Obama says it, it's socialism??

He was a Muslim, and an American hero

Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan was a 20-year-old Stryker soldier based at Fort Lewis. He was killed last August in Baqouba.
Khan was a Muslim. And Powell made a correlation to the decorated Stryker Brigade soldier and Obama in context of negative Republican campaigning somehow insinuating that Obama is a Muslim.


In a moving statement, Gen. Powell posed the rhetorical question to Meet The Press host Tom Brokaw:


"I'm also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim. Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim; he's a Christian. He's always been a Christian.
But the really right answer is, what if he is? Is there something wrong with being a Muslim in this country? The answer's no, that's not America. Is there something wrong with some seven-year-old Muslim-American kid believing that he or she could be president? Yet, I have heard senior members of my own party drop the suggestion, He's a Muslim and he might be associated with terrorists. This is not the way we should be doing it in America."

Who's calling who a Socialist?

So let me get this straight, Governor Palin, you can take enormous amounts of money from the federal government for Bridges to Nowhere, while also dipping into the oil company's coffers, but you only share that wealth with Alaskans. Hmm. Really?! Is that a tenet of democracy, socialism, or the AIP?