We have now seen how much arrogance money can buy. And it's not a pretty sight.
Donald Trump, will you please sit down and quit disturbing the other children?
Donald Trump is a racist. He is a bully. He is a joke of his own making. He is not very bright, and has that irritating middle school narcissism shared by other half-bright wing dings like Sarah Palin.
In fact, there is something just so middle school about that whole clique of Palin and Trump and Bachmann and to a lesser extent, Boehner. Something about the way they back bite, curl their lip at the rest of us, say stupid things and accuse people who point out the stupidity of "hating" or being envious or something else unrelated, like, or, or, or like, you know, they have a bad complexion and their mom, you know, drives an old Ford.
As if they get to say what they want and not be challenged because of who they are.
They get their slavish friends to nominate them for class president because, like, you know, they will put on just the most fabulous dance and play their favorite music, you know, and like if those other people don't like it they just should have been elected and maybe not come and they are just such a drag anyway ...
It's not that they are on the right: There are many, many wonderfully astute thinkers on the right, men and women with good ideas and the ability to articulate them. And it's not that the left doesn't have its own heaping helping of hubris.
But instead of a debate about ideas, we have these plastic Barbie and Ken dolls with their plastic smiles and plastic hair saying stupid things about ... birth certificates? Whether kids who knew him in elementary school remembered the president?
Oh, just shut up. You are tiresome and annoying and if you didn't have money or self generated momentum, no one would bother with you. Very few of those paying attention are friends. They don't really like you, either.
Can anyone, anyone? really compare Sarah Palin and Donald Trump to Obama? To Bill Clinton? To George H.W. Bush? To Eisenhower? FDR? Lincoln? Jefferson, etc?
Ever since the simulacrum Ronald Reagan, senile for a good portion of his presidency, was in office and the right realized it was only necessary to have an image of a president to be the face of policy, an actor instead of an actual person, we have suffered this train of Presidential presenters from the right.
Somewhat like news presenters, standing in front of a camera wearing a slicker in a hurricane, posing as journalists. Speaking of which, to the so-called journalists of America: WTF?
Needed now more than ever, you have ceded your responsibilities to Fox and the Huffington Post? Why are Al Jazeera and Jon Stewart the most reasonable representatives of the Fourth Estate? Where are you? Where have you gone?
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Friday, May 6, 2011
Monday, October 27, 2008
Sarah spreads her ignorance
On October 24th, Sarah Palin gave a speech at a Special Needs conference. In her speech, she mocked "fruit fly research." She was apparently referring to a recent study of Drosophila fruit flies revealing that a protein called neurexin is essential for proper neurological function -- a discovery with clear implications for autism research.
Imagine -- mocking scientific research at a conference on problems understanding of which that very research has has proven to be essential!
It’s unclear if Palin is unaware of the central role that fruit fly research plays in modern genetics, or if she was pandering to her fans at Fox News. Suffice to say that “fruit fly research” has enabled us to discover much of what we know about ... congenital disorders.
Every high school biology student knows that identifying genetic patterns in fruit flies has led to genetic discoveries in humans.
Again, it’s not clear if Palin is unaware of the significance of those discoveries ... Palin has a Down’s Syndrome son, and our knowledge of how that syndrome works (as well as its eventual treatment and prevention), comes from fruit fly research. The next round of significant Down’s Syndrome discoveries will not be called significant, until they are first tested on fruit flies.
There is nothing contestable about the above facts. Like Mendel’s discovery of gene pairing rules, they’re just basic science. But regardless of Palin’s motivation for spreading her ignorance, you should watch the clip noted below, especially the moment where Palin utters the term “fruit fly research.” Her contempt and disdain for even these fundamentals of science – is unmistakable. (And juvenile. Her inner Jr. High princess coming out again)
... As if fundamental science can be shouted down by the indignation of a thousand screaming Joes.
Visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCXqKEs68Xk and
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/24/palin-fruit-flies/ and
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WSS-4PKGJV3-C&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=fce005ed770e9f7a99f2d55716dbeea7
John McCain's war policies will cost America nearly $1 trillion and with far fewer results than genetic research, including that on, yes, fruit flies.
God bless America and may the power of democracy protect us. We need to fix our economy. We need to fix our roads. We need bridges. We need jobs. We need schools where kids are taught the principles of science if we are to compete with China and India and Russia to raise our standard of living. We deserve to be a country where poor kids like Obama can become president, and not just rich kids like Bush and McCain.
(Most of the above was sent to us as an email. It appears to be valid, but most is not original with EyeonOregon).
Imagine -- mocking scientific research at a conference on problems understanding of which that very research has has proven to be essential!
It’s unclear if Palin is unaware of the central role that fruit fly research plays in modern genetics, or if she was pandering to her fans at Fox News. Suffice to say that “fruit fly research” has enabled us to discover much of what we know about ... congenital disorders.
Every high school biology student knows that identifying genetic patterns in fruit flies has led to genetic discoveries in humans.
Again, it’s not clear if Palin is unaware of the significance of those discoveries ... Palin has a Down’s Syndrome son, and our knowledge of how that syndrome works (as well as its eventual treatment and prevention), comes from fruit fly research. The next round of significant Down’s Syndrome discoveries will not be called significant, until they are first tested on fruit flies.
There is nothing contestable about the above facts. Like Mendel’s discovery of gene pairing rules, they’re just basic science. But regardless of Palin’s motivation for spreading her ignorance, you should watch the clip noted below, especially the moment where Palin utters the term “fruit fly research.” Her contempt and disdain for even these fundamentals of science – is unmistakable. (And juvenile. Her inner Jr. High princess coming out again)
... As if fundamental science can be shouted down by the indignation of a thousand screaming Joes.
Visit http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCXqKEs68Xk and
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/24/palin-fruit-flies/ and
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WSS-4PKGJV3-C&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=fce005ed770e9f7a99f2d55716dbeea7
John McCain's war policies will cost America nearly $1 trillion and with far fewer results than genetic research, including that on, yes, fruit flies.
God bless America and may the power of democracy protect us. We need to fix our economy. We need to fix our roads. We need bridges. We need jobs. We need schools where kids are taught the principles of science if we are to compete with China and India and Russia to raise our standard of living. We deserve to be a country where poor kids like Obama can become president, and not just rich kids like Bush and McCain.
(Most of the above was sent to us as an email. It appears to be valid, but most is not original with EyeonOregon).
Friday, September 12, 2008
Sarah Palin lies
Sarah Palin did not say "no" to the Alaskan "bridge to nowhere." In fact, she took the money and spent it on something else in Alaska.
Sarah Palin did not "control" the oil of Alaska. She was governor of the state from where the oil was pumped from federal lands.
Sarah Palin knows nothing of Russia, except she could nearly see it from her back door. Yet she threatens to go to war. She says that ignorance is a blessing, that the less she knows, the better she is.
That's what George Bush said. He damaged our country. She is just as reckless, maybe more so. Her church believes the world will end in a war with Russia. The sooner the world ends, the sooner they get to heaven.
Sarah Palin tried to get her brother-in-law fired from his job as a cop when her sister's marriage broke up. She fired former staff who did not agree with her when she was mayor. She billed the state of Alaska to stay in her own home. She puts her personal agenda over the welfare of her citizens.
In other words, Sarah Palin may be corrupt. She certainly should not be vice president.
The Bush/McCain style is back and is worse than ever. Lie to the voters, scare the voters, get the voters to forget that they are losing their jobs, their schools, their ability to afford health care. That is the Bush/McCain legacy. They should be thrown out of office.
But instead, they have found a pretty face and pretend they are starting a revolution in Washington.
They are lying. Just like they have always lied. They are wasting our tax dollars. They are trashing our schools. They are sending Medicare dollars to giant corporations instead of lowering health care costs for the average citizen. Our roads and bridges are crumbling.
They sent our children to a war without purpose. Without armor.
They gloat over $4.50 a gallon gasoline, (the Bush cabinet is FULL of people with ties to the oil industry) and then say the cure is to let the oil companies take MORE oil from federal land and sell us fuel at maybe $4.25 a gallon. While those responsible for overseeing the oil industry are doing drugs and sleeping with oil company people.
We need roads and bridges schools and health care that doesn't cost 25% of our monthly paycheck. We don't need nasty lies from pretty women who pretend they are something they are not.
We need Obama.
Sarah Palin did not "control" the oil of Alaska. She was governor of the state from where the oil was pumped from federal lands.
Sarah Palin knows nothing of Russia, except she could nearly see it from her back door. Yet she threatens to go to war. She says that ignorance is a blessing, that the less she knows, the better she is.
That's what George Bush said. He damaged our country. She is just as reckless, maybe more so. Her church believes the world will end in a war with Russia. The sooner the world ends, the sooner they get to heaven.
Sarah Palin tried to get her brother-in-law fired from his job as a cop when her sister's marriage broke up. She fired former staff who did not agree with her when she was mayor. She billed the state of Alaska to stay in her own home. She puts her personal agenda over the welfare of her citizens.
In other words, Sarah Palin may be corrupt. She certainly should not be vice president.
The Bush/McCain style is back and is worse than ever. Lie to the voters, scare the voters, get the voters to forget that they are losing their jobs, their schools, their ability to afford health care. That is the Bush/McCain legacy. They should be thrown out of office.
But instead, they have found a pretty face and pretend they are starting a revolution in Washington.
They are lying. Just like they have always lied. They are wasting our tax dollars. They are trashing our schools. They are sending Medicare dollars to giant corporations instead of lowering health care costs for the average citizen. Our roads and bridges are crumbling.
They sent our children to a war without purpose. Without armor.
They gloat over $4.50 a gallon gasoline, (the Bush cabinet is FULL of people with ties to the oil industry) and then say the cure is to let the oil companies take MORE oil from federal land and sell us fuel at maybe $4.25 a gallon. While those responsible for overseeing the oil industry are doing drugs and sleeping with oil company people.
We need roads and bridges schools and health care that doesn't cost 25% of our monthly paycheck. We don't need nasty lies from pretty women who pretend they are something they are not.
We need Obama.
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