Posted By: Chris on Thursday, September 04, 2008
Aren't you pulling your punches a bit Arianna? Shouldn't you at least mention that she's Jeb Bush in a dress and without an incompetent younger brother's legacy?At least you didn't get petty as some seem to be. Kudos on staying above the mud.
Posted By: John Handforth on Thursday, September 04, 2008
Fresh blood...Yes, that is what the Country needs. While I do not agree with some things that Sarah Palin has stood for, I have to admire her ability and courage. This Country has been run by the same dealmakers for better than thirty years. Yes, the is a lot more inter-party cooperation than many people realize. "You scratch my back and I'll screatch yours." That has created a lot of pork.The money that our Congress is spending now is mortgaging our great-grandchildren's future. Is this something new? No, it is not and has probably existed since Reconstruction after the Civil War. We are in dire straits because the obligations of World War Two have come home to roost. Our grandchildren are feeling the pinch now. We have been deficit spending for too long. We have been spending money that we don't have.The real problem is that the numbers get bigger every year. What has been saving Congress is that no one can repossess America. If I had run my personal affairs the way we've run the Country, I would've had everything I once owned repossessed. On top of that, they would've reinstated a debtor's prison just for me.We need someone like Sarah Palin that has the courage to do something. She actually does have more executive experience than Barack Obama. We don't know about executive ability because Barack has yet to show any.I'm not saying to give her a break due to her gender anymore than I would expect one to be given to Obama due to his race.Let's see what McCain, Obama, Biden and Palin do in the next month. It should be enlightening. Then we'll have more to go on than just conjecture.
Posted By: Chris keith on Thursday, September 04, 2008
You are such the typical liberal talking head, You know nothing about the subject matter and quote debatable matters as FACT. First off Evolution is Not FACT its a theory. A theory so easy to poke holes in that its not funny. BUT since your obvioulsy ignorant of the scientific method, let me teach you something about SCIENCE, the number one thing that needs to be done to prove a theory is that ITS REPEATABLE. Meaning that Gravity isn't a theory its a FACT. You drop something it Falls, every time. Take what ever primordial soup you want to cook up, and add whatever catalyst you want to it, when you get life from non life, get back to me. Until then you should keep your YAP shut about things you obvioulsy DON'T UNderstand. Until then Evolution is a theory and JUST as valid not as "creationsim" But "INtelligent design". Oh by the way you should look up the LAWS of thermo dynamics, things in nature NEVER go from a less order'd state to a more ordered state. Something that "evolutionsist" keep neglecting to mention. AS far as Global warming goes, "despite the science", You are as guilty if not more so of disregarding all the GROWING Evidence and scientists who claim that the results being generated by the church of global warming and its high priest AL GORE is achieved with JUNK science. I don't have the time or patience to educate you on these matters, go google it and look it up. ASLO you always want to bring up rape and incest, which is less than 1% of the abortions that take place in this country. The vast majority of abortions are from people who want all the rights and privledges of adult hood but NONE of the responsiblity that comes with it. The ver definition of a liberal. You want to dance, fnie but that means you've got to pay the piper when he comes a calling. ALSO let me say one last thing, if the "VAST MAJORITY" of the country suddenly got it in thier head that suicide at 20 was a good idea, that would NOT make it a good idea. Just because you believe that the mainstream is "progressive" and not conservative, A) dosn't make it so, and B) Dosn't make it a good idea. And just because you dont want to go along with the mainstream dosn't make you "OUT of TOUCH" with the American people. Agani you have no Understandnig of what a leader does or is called to do, Leaders don't take people to where they were going anyway, the leader takes them to theplace they should be.
Posted By: Good Life on Thursday, September 04, 2008
Chris--Evolution is repeatable. Scientists have brought about evolution in plants and animals that reproduce quickly. Those studies are repeatable and accepted. Has creationism ever been repeated? If it can't be repeated it's not science. There are virtually no biological scientists that accept creationism. In fact if you look up "Project Steve" you will find that there are more biological scientists named Steve that accept evolution than the total of all scientists of all disciplines that have put their name on creationism.But in actuality there is no conflict between religion and science. They ask different questions that are nonconflicting. Science asks "how", religion asks "why". Isn't it amazing that a God that "never changes" speaks in parables in the New Testament, but didn't speak in parables in the old--Or did he?You will not know how you stand on abortion until a doctor looks you in the eye and says "this baby could be a real mess". When that happens to you come back and we'll talk.
Posted By: fencerider rob on Friday, September 05, 2008
The main problem I see with Ms. Huffington's arguement is that Mrs Palin is only a candidate for VPOTUS and not the deciding vote for the congress, who, last I checked, is responsible for legislation. Not one ofher points refers to anything the executive branch is responsible for. More liberal blather why we should elect an empty suit as POTUS.
Posted By: Good Life on Friday, September 05, 2008
Let's cut the family stuff and look at the issue. How many want anyone that is just politically right of Attila the Hun in line for the President?
Posted By: Cindy on Wednesday, September 10, 2008
My goodness, Chris! You are so apoplectic with righteous indignation that you can't even spell. Oh, wait...... maybe that's not the reason
Posted By: Richard Gund on Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Perhaps Ms. Huffington has by now, even in Los Angeles, discovered some of the recent polls. They seem to indicate that perhaps Governor Palin is anything but lacking in either credibility or experience. And I'd be fine with someone politically to the right of Attila the Hun as President given that the alternative seems to be two who are miles left of Stalin, Marx and the gentleman currently running North Korea. Sarah Palin is anything but light.
Posted By: ml johnstone on Wednesday, September 10, 2008
I think that most of this is about Santa Claus and Fairy Tales and Father Knows Best. We still want to believe in them. Apple pie is symbolic even if its not homemade. I told people after the Sarah speech at the RNC "They are going to start making Sarah Palin dolls...." and they have.But where are the babies to go with them? Women will buy guns, go hunting for wildlife, buy glasses like Sarah"s even if they dont need them ,French knottish hairdos will be in and young teenage girls will want to get pregnant.I wonder if Sarah agrees with teaching critical thought in schools? Thank the Goddess we have Elizabeth May up here in Canada.
Posted By: AK on Sunday, September 14, 2008
Hey Goodlife...'politically to the right of Attila the Hun.."...hmmm...well, is that preferable to an empty suit surrounded by mentors so Communist one would have to exhume the bones of Karl Marx to find someone further to the left..? Undoubtedly for Arianna (how my fellow Greeks have sunk from their days of classical glory...hey, at least the airbrushed pic is, like Governor Palin, cuuu--uute....) the Canadian above, and you, it would be....fortunately the rest of us haven't been quite so idiocracied...my word, and yes, you can use it....
Goodlife...by the way....I rarely agree with you loons but I have to side with you on the evolution issue..no way should any religious version of the origins of the universe be taught..which one should we use? The Hindu? Perhaps the !Kung version? Or hell..I like the Norse stuff, all those big breasted blonde warrior types, like Arnold's co-star in Conan the Barbarian...This religion in public schools (this from a pretty standard US Catholic) is why I pulled my kid out of a local a charter that was a thinly disguised -- and publicly funded -- Christian academy. My kids, like Mom, are Jewish...and they were hounded...screw that....Having said, am I worried about Palin's will or ability, as VP, to influence what is taught in schools? No more than my worry that Obama's minions will push a heroic image of his role model Che Guevara at kindergarten level... ;)Seriously..I think you might agree...it is a bellwether of 'something wrong' if someone sitting in the US Chief Executive's office has ANY influence over what is taught in schools at the local level....abolish both DOEs...Education AND Energy....has the former added one educated person to America's citizenry...or the latter, one kilowatt to the power grid..for the funding they take to run?
