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?

In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes ~ Ben Franklin

The next time I hear someone complain about paying 39% for every dollar over their first quarter million rather than the current 36%, I think I will scream. You're telling me that 3% more, over that first 250K NET, is going to bankrupt these folks or stop small businesses from growing? Wake up people! Think about this a minute: if your house is on fire, you EXPECT the fire department to be there and put it out. If you've been victimized in some way, you EXPECT the police to investigate and bring the perp to justice. If the roads are full of potholes or full of snow, you EXPECT the road department to fix it. Do you get the running theme here? We've come to expect many things in our society to keep us safe, and productive. Where is that money going to come from if everyone's not paying their FAIR share of taxes? If you feel that paying that police officer, or firefighter, or teacher or road worker is "spreading the wealth", then you aren't looking very closely at the demands you put on your government.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges ~ Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin sure got it right. These fringe types totally ruin the "cake". Questioning someone's patriotism without cause is about the most un-American thing you can do. As I've worked the phone banks for Obama, I've talked to one or two of them myself. In one call, I was questioned about mine too, but heard silence on the other end when I asked if they'd served their country in the military, like I have. Unless you're a seccessionist or have denounced democracy and the American way, then where's the problem?

"I think we need a little bit of reality from Wasilla Main Street" ~ Sarah Palin

Well, NOW I know why Sarah's qualified. It's just so crystal (meth) clear. Thanks Wasilla! Now I know what a pro-American town really looks and feels like.

John McCain, Sarah Palin, and the scary liberal feminist agenda?

Asked if Gov. Sarah Palin has become a drag on his ticket, McCain said, "As a cold political calculation, I could not be more pleased."
"She has excited and energized our base. She is a direct counterpoint to the liberal feminist agenda for America. She has a wonderful family. She's a reformer. She's a conservative. She's the best thing that could have happened to my campaign and to America," he said.

As one of those "liberal feminists", I REALLY resent the implications in this statement. Sarah Palin is the direct counterpoint to the liberal feminist agenda? It's because of feminism that any of us are able to interact equally with our male counterpoints in the workplace, it's the reason I can choose to stay at home or other women can choose to work (neither is wrong or right, rather what's best for each individual family is what's important), and it's the reason that any woman could ever be considered for one of the highest offices in the world. I am SO SICK of this divide and conquer strategy. Now the campaign has to resort to pitting women against each other. Great. And don't even get me started on the "cold political calculation" thing. Country first??

Madam Governor, I'm exasperated! Your lack of basic knowledge of the English language is confouding!

http://www.adn.com/sarah-palin/story/553680.html

I hope this guy Monegan hires a lawyer for defamation of character. It's completely incredible to me that she believes that if she just says that she's vindicated and no laws or ethics codes were violated enough, it'll be true. Compound that rhetoric with her constant whining about what everyone else is doing wrong without paying any attention to her own "backyard"...

2 : corrupt , dishonest Definition of "rogue" as an adjective in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, i.e. "rogue" cabinet member

So, in your view, Madam Governor, being corrupt and dishonest is not neccessarily a negative thing???? Talk about a character issue. Nice.

You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you will see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye."~Matthew 7:5 (International Standard Version)

Alaskan Independence Party leader, friend of Sarah Palin

All I can say is, wow. Maybe McCain needs to think more about how slinging mud could affect his ticket and start talking about issues. Character questions are easy to pose. Ask your running mate.