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LOONY ALERT: Palin says dinosaurs are 10,000 years old, and Jesus is coming back in her lifetime
Sarah Palin and her biggest catch, John McCain, before the Palin bubble burst
Our research among Alaskan sources has shown us that Palin is indeed a young earth creationist who believes the world to be less than 10,000 years old. Palin says she has seen photographs of dinosaur fossils with human footprints in them. She told this to musician Philip Munger who once played at Palin's AofG church. Palin also believes in End Times theology, saying 'Yes, I think I will see Jesus come back to earth in my lifetime.' It is sad that Palin does not have the courage of her convictions. Rather than speak openly and frankly about her beliefs with ABC's Charles Gibson, she fudged the issues, refusing to give straight answers about God's will in Iraq. We know she has strong evangelical beliefs, so why not be honest about them? Do Palin's creationist beliefs matter? Do they affect her ability to be vice president? They don't if she keeps them as personal beliefs. But they do matter if she attempts to ignore more than a hundred years of scientific progress by arguing that her personal belief system, which cannot be tested scientifically, should be taken as seriously as the work of serious scientists who from Darwin onwards have made the theory of evolution one of the cornerstones of our knowledge of the world and its workings. It is clear that Sarah Palin does not understand the status and importance of scientific theories. Creationism is not a theory, nor is it science. It is theology. By suggesting that creationism should be taught alongside evolution in science classes, Palin undermines science and makes herself look silly.
Two T.Rex's on their way to Noah's Ark, if we are to believe Sarah Palin
SNL's Tiny Fey as Sarah Palin
"Sarah Palin is an idiot", according to Guardian America correspondent Michael Tomasky. The words are harsh, but Tomasky's evidence is sound. Back in 2006, Sarah Palin was asked if she was offended by the inclusion of the phrase "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance. Palin replied: "Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, it's good enough for me and I'll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance." Slight problem. The Pledge of Allegiance was written in the late 19th century by Francis Bellamy, a Christian Socialist, in an attempt to boost the circulation of his magazine, The Youth's Companion. The Pledge was written more than 100 years after the Fonding Father's were doing writing of their own. The words, "Under God" weren't added until the Cold War of the twentieth century, in 1951 to be precise. On a similar note, we have to say there is value in a good education. It teaches you the meaning of words and how to use them correctly. You avoid embarrassing moments such as Sarah Palin defending McCain's "verbiage". Asked by Fox television about criticism of McCain's comment that the fundamentals of the US economy were "strong'', Palin said: "It was an unfair attack on the verbiage that Senator McCain chose to use.'' Perhaps Palin thinks verbiage is a fancy word for words, or she might think it means argument. Everyone who has ever read a dictionary knows that verbiage means using too many words. Joe Biden is accused of verbosity and verbiage. Palin has also used the word "opinionated" incorrectly. She seems to think it means having lots of (good) opinions, which isn't what it means at all. We're waiting for her to use "populist" and "opportunist" incorrectly.
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What did Sarah Palin really say about Russia? Can she see Russia from her house? The line "I can see Russia from my house" was uttered by Tina Fey playing Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live (SNL). It's such a good line because it's close to Palin's actual words and thoughts. She could well have uttered those very words. Here is what she said to ABC's Charles Gibson -- we give you Gibson's question and Palin's answer (fact check the source: ABC) GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of the state give you? PALIN: They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska. Maverick Madonna takes her eye off Palin to divorce Mockney Moviemaker Guy Ritchie
Madonna points the finger at wacko Palin: "You can't join my party," she says. Madonna marriage, like McCain-Palin's campaign, is on the rocks. Madonna's maverick marriage to mockney film director Guy Ritchie is as unpredictable as the McCain-Palin campaign. Well folks, it's over. But whereas Madonna is about to embark on her 8th and possibly most successful concert tour, McCain-Palin's Sweet and Sticky Shambles is coming unstuck.
Here's some history: Madonna, 50, shoots from the lip, Palin, 44, from the hip. Both are hitched to dull partners -- no we don't mean First Dude Todd, at least he can race a snow machine and dress a moose (have you ever seen a moose in a dress?) -- we mean John Mack the Strife McCain, 72, and Guy the Iron Ritchie, 40, (if you don't know your cockney rhyming slang, look up iron hoof, that'll help). Ritchie is the least talented of the Quentin Tarantino rip-off school. His "Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels" was a tame London version of "Pulp Fiction". Unfortunately, he didn't learn from the experience, but made progressively suckier movies with each year that passed. "Swept Away", featuring his muscled wife Madonna, was a camp hoot. His more recent Revolver was, well, a blank. It was something to do with getting into trouble if don't understand numbers, sort of luck Palin unable to do the math on the Wall Street bailout. His most recent movie, "RocknRolla" (launched in September), is a total dud, one of the worst gangster movies ever made, but it might start to pick up riding on the back of the divorce news.
We guess Revolver was an attempt to understand his wife's nutty Kabbelah religion -- no insult intended to serious practitioners of the faith. It had to do with numerology, the magical power of numbers in combination, not that Ritchie, much like Palin, knew what he was on about. We'll give you a clue, Guy me old mucker: your number's up.
Which segues us back to McCain, second fiddle to Palin, and a man who has single-handedly redefined the word "maverick". As former friend and McCain speech writer Christopher Buckley says of McCain: "You have to keep ducking because you never know where those McCain salvos are going to come from."
McCain-Palin and Madonna-Ritchie, welcome to partnerships made in hell. SIMILARITIES of Madonna and Sarah Palin. Both are religious wackos. DIFFERENCES: Madonna is successful. Sarah Palin isn't.
PALIN continues her theme of belittling education and experience. Interviewed by Sean Hannity, she said: "Senator Biden has a tremendous amount of experience. I think he was first elected when I was like in second grade." Palin thinks the best way to do a job is to know nothing about it. Thank goodness she's not responsible for appointing surgeons and dentists. BREAKING NEWS: Sarah Palin supports a $600 million bridge to her hometown Wasilla, Alaska across the Knik Arm inlet. Palin says she's against earmarks, but that's only when the money goes to your town, not hers. Oooops, she did it again! PALIN'S RATINGS PLUMMET: Reporting on news that Americans are now wary of Sarah Palin, Newsweek writes that Palin has gone "from being the most popular White House hopeful to the least." Hiding her from the Press worked for a while, then the strategy backfired. FOR THE RECORD: John McCain did not invent the BlackBerry. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, McCain's top economic adviser, claimed McCain was partly responsible for the invention of BlackBerry because his boss was a former chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee. The campaign later apologized for the absurd claim.
Sarah Palin gives the finger Palin Did Try To Ban Books From Town Library At first we thought stories of Palin's attempts at book-banning were a blogosphere rumor, but a week of spadework and cross-checking has revealed that Palin did indeed try to remove books from the library in Wasilla, Alaska. Palin is an extreme evangelical Christian, which she is entitled to be, but as an elected official she is not supposed to impose her religious views on the public, and certainly not restrict freedom of speech and access to information. We know of two books that Palin tried to ban: "Pastor I am Gay" by Rev. Howard Bess, a retired Baptist minister, and "Daddy's Roommate" by Michael Willhoite. Both books take gay issues seriously. They are not propaganda, can hardly be considered offensive, are not promoting "harmful lifestyles". Palin and the type of Christianity she represents is strongly homophobic. They don't want gay issues to be talked about at all. They certainly do not believe that books about gay people should be in public libraries. We do not know whether Palin also wishes to ban books by Oscar Wilde, Truman Capote, Susan Sontag, and Audre Lorde?
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