How could Cheney, Rove, Rice, Rumsfeld or others, even a 3rd Bush term be by far a better choice for President than the current GOP candidate? Read on and be afraid. I've got to start looking for a place to move. If (WHEN!!) McCain loses it will be scary to see the the number of people in this country who think that this is the person they want running the country.
Palin is very much in support of killing people who have raped but no way should the victim be allowed to have an abortion.
.. On being vice-president: "What is it exactly that the
VP does every day? I'm used to being very productive and working real
hard and being in administration." (Watch video) ...
On capital punishment: "If the (Alaskan state)
legislature passed a death penalty law, I would sign it. We have a
right to know that someone who rapes and murders a child or kills an
innocent person in a drive by shooting will never be able to do that
again." .. (link)
The volatile issue of teaching creation science in public
schools popped up in the Alaska governor's race this week when
Republican Sarah Palin said she thinks creationism should be taught
alongside evolution in the state's public classrooms.
Palin was answering a question from the moderator near the
conclusion of Wednesday night's televised debate on KAKM Channel 7 when
she said, 'Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of information.
Healthy debate is so important, and it's so valuable in our schools. I
am a proponent of teaching both.'
She’s blonde, she’s hot and she wants your vote: Paris Hilton for president?
The American hotel heiress has thrown her bikini into the presidential
campaign with a video in which she declares she's "like, totally ready
to lead."
The
big news, obviously, in the blogosphere today is John McCain's surprise
pick for the Republican veep nominee--a relative unknown by the name of
Sarah Palin, whom--at least in the more conventional political circles--would appear to be a complete cypher.
Unfortunately, if one digs just a bit deeper, Palin is found to have some very interesting--and very disturbing--connections...among
them, being potentially the first Assemblies-linked VP candidate and
having a number of links to dominionist groups targeting kids via "bait
and switch" evangelism.
Sarah Palin's connections that McCain doesn't want you to know about
There are quite a number of extremely troubling links between Sarah
Palin and neopentecostal dominionists--enough that, in truth, she may
be ultimately as much of a "dream candidate" for the dominionist
movement as Mike Huckabee was. Even worse, she's running in a manner
that has been frighteningly successful for dominionist groups since the
early 80's--specifically, as a "stealth candidate".
Palin's Assemblies linkage
The first link in and of itself is a doozy--and one of the most damning indeed. No less than the official newsletter of the Assemblies of God of Alaska
promotes her proudly as one of the denomination's own, and she was
actually feted at an official function of the Assemblies' Alaska
District as recently as this year:
The opening night banquet of the 2008 Alaska District Council was
honored to have Governor Sarah Palin address the delegates and guests.
Governor Palin spoke of her appreciation for the Assemblies of God and
requested that the Council pray for both her and the State of Alaska.
Superintendent Ted Boatsman, who was Palin’s junior high pastor at
Wasilla Assembly of God, along with Pastor Mike Rose of Juneau
Christian Center, where Palin presently attends church when in Juneau,
laid hands on the Governor and led the Council in prayer.
Palin, who was elected Governor in 2007, is Alaska’s youngest
governor and the first female governor of the state. She just recently
gave birth to her fifth child, Trig. Palin spoke of the faith challenge
she faced when learning that Trig would be a Downs Syndrome child.
However, she and her husband, Todd, believe that every child is a gift
of God, deserving of life, and that God was asking them to accept His
will for their lives. The Alaska District Council believes that the
State of Alaska is blessed to have a woman of faith and courage as
Governor.
Category: Posted on: August 30, 2008 7:26 PM, by PZ Myers
Everyone must read this article about ‘Joel's Army’
and be afraid. It's a movement by radical Dominionists to build an
informal paramilitary organization (at this time, it seems to be more
attitude than organization) to prepare to fight to impose a kind of
Christian fascism on the world. It may be a group small in number (but
not that small, I fear), but they have a lot of fanaticism and lunacy to amplify their power. ... (link)
That’s a pretty extreme position Palin’s got going for her there. The latest polling I could find - from Fox no less - shows that 70% support abortion in the case of rape. (link)
One of the more well known supporters of dominionism but one I'm not as afraid of as bat shit crazy doesn't even begin to describe him. This video has been around for a while but the combination of music and clips could not be better.
Well
that didn't take long. The first brazen lie of Sarah Palin's campaign
as John McCain's VP nominee came just moments into her speech accepting
his invitation to join the ticket. From the Washington Post's transcript of her speech:
And I championed reform to end the abuses of earmark
spending by Congress. In fact, I told Congress -- I told Congress,
"Thanks, but no thanks," on that bridge to nowhere.
(APPLAUSE)
If our state wanted a bridge, I said we'd build it ourselves.
But Brad Plumer at the New Republic blog puts the lie
to that claim. He quotes her answer to a question about that "bridge to
nowhere" in the Anchorage Daily News during her 2006 campaign for
governor:
5. Would you continue state funding for the proposed Knik Arm and Gravina Island bridges?
Yes. I would like to see Alaska's infrastructure projects built
sooner rather than later. The window is now--while our congressional
delegation is in a strong position to assist.
Moose-eating, Pro-Life, Pro-Gun, daze-eyed ex-beauty queen and the nation’s #1 GILF1 Sarah Palin, whose political experience includes unveiling Alaskan quarters
while wearing unbelievably hot boots and a whorish little skirt, will
be John McCain’s Vice Presidential running mate and possibly the Hot
Buttered Ass for which he leaves his current wife once her political
influence and money runs out or her many face-lifts explode like an
overtaxed suspension bridge.
According to unverified sources
that couldn’t possibly just be shitting into their hands and throwing
it at walls to see if they can distract the Vast Corporate Barbeque Media
from saying nice things about Barack Obama’s ass-kickery in Denver last
night, McCain will in fact forego all the “qualified,” “advantageous”
and “politically intelligent” choices for Vice President and instead
lock up Alaska’s crucial 3 Electoral Votes “with a really hot piece of
ass.” ...(link)
Happy Mid-Autumn Festival -- celebrate in nerd style with one of these moon-cake-shaped USB sticks -- 4GB for $28.
USB Mooncake Flash Drive
(via Neatorama)
Currently in his sixth term in the Senate, Biden has served for the
sixth-longest period among current senators (fourth among Democrats)
and is Delaware's longest-serving senator. He is the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee in the 110th Congress. Biden has served in that position in the past, and he has also served as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Biden unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party's presidential nomination in 1988.[2] He again ran in 2008, but withdrew after the caucuses in Iowa on January 3, 2008. Obama announced Biden as his running mate two days before the beginning of the 2008 Democratic National Convention, at which the nominations of Obama and Biden are expected to be ratified.
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