Your last sentence is nonsense BTW … there’s plenty of real science I believe in that does NOT have anything to do with Evolution. And I support REAL/PROVABLE science. Evolution is an ‘evolving’ theory because every time someone pokes a hole in it, people just keep adding ‘millions’ or ‘billions’ of years to the timeline as some magic way to explain everything (even though there STILL are no ‘in between’ fossils to be found to account for the changes).

Your assumption is just like that of Global Warming alarmists …. anyone who doesn’t agree with you is ‘against all science’ …. rather childish really.

Some of the smartest scientists I’ve met are ‘in the closet’ believers in ID … because if they came out, they’d be fired. If you really are a libertarian, that should bother you.

“Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it only because the only alternative is special creation which is unthinkable.” Says it all ….

The essential problem with your statement is that you imply that there are scientific “facts” compared to “theories.” The very example you chose demonstrates that this is a fallacious dichotomy.

The indoctrination you’ve received appears to be by creationists bent on denying the progress of biological science.

Public schooling is mostly indoctrination, the reading, writing and arithmetic aside.

Disclaimer: I subscribe to the theory of evolution as the best current explanation for how things have come to be. I subscribe to the scientific method.

Yes, because libs just love it when people try to ban books from public libraries and then fire librarians that won’t fall in line (Palin as mayor), tax the heck out of the oil industry (Palin as gov), and spend like mad, endorse every last piece of pork on the table, and then turn around and claim to be a foe of big government because of a single year of vetoing everything that came before her in a fit of pique.

“She is also the biggest opponent of AK senior senator (to nowhere) Stevens”

Little odd that she would be heavily involved in running one of the 527s supporting him then, no?

“and has cleared out many of the more blatantly corrupt state bureaucrats and politicians. Brava!”

She cleared out one guy from a job that she hated as a way of getting out of it entirely and launching back into a campaign. By all accounts, she’s also fired tons of qualified people simply because they wouldn’t pledge loyalty, all simply to build her own political machine to simply replace the old one.

Then, there is the Alaska Independence Party, to which she belonged until becoming a Republican, which argues that the statehood vote was erroneous, and that Alaska (which, as I recall, the US bought from Russia, cash money) should be its own independent entity.

Face it: Alaska is a petrodependent welfare state (not at all unlike Saudi Arabia) which sucks federal largesse like the biggest piglet in the litter– all while portraying itself as the last frontier, full of rugged self-sufficient individualists.

I’ve no doubt that the establishment media will keep spinning Palin’s “maverick” image, but I don’t see her as anything other than an opportunist whose ship came in unexpectedly (and prematurely).

“Anyone who doesn’t understand that evolution is a state-sponsored religion doesn’t truly understand science.”

I wonder if you would be willing to apply your discriminating mind to analysis of the teaching of history and civics in government schools. Do you understand that U.S. history and civics is state religion, that government schools indoctrinate their captives to the cult of the state? Do you similarly object?

Statism = religion

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Palin_wonders_what_is_it_exactly_that_the_VP_does_every_day.html

Occurs at around the 2:50 mark.

Now, will she pick Jindal or Cantor as her running mate in 2012?

chsw

Second, bobzbob, where do you get your info on her mayoral budget? Everything I see shows that she slashed the budget 60%. She did enter a $20MM bond. Confusing the two is like saying that someone with a $200,000 mortgage and $50K in savings is in worse shape than someone barely making a $80,000 mortgage.

I didn’t ask anything about Biden. I asked about Palin. Arguing that Palin is better than Biden doesn’t answer my question: how does using government strength to enforce a particular morality make somebody a libertarian? Or does freedom only matter when it comes to money?

The average person has a far keener sense of morality than a political leader, who must by definition be a person of low morality, since the enterprise they have chosen is founded on forcing individuals to surrender their independent judgment and action to a criminal organization.

Thus, Palin, by rising so far so fast, has amply demonstrated her ability to serve the office of VP.

I especially enjoy the concept that McCain made this decision unilaterally. Talk about having one’s head in one’s ass — every decision made at the national level is made by the ruling oligarchy to ensure that every candidate is a member of “la famiglia.”

Trust me when I write, Palin is surely one son-of-a-bitch, as it were, and more than up to her role as mafia lieutenant.

I’m suprised she didn’t say, “thanks but no thanks, there are like a dozen more qualified persons than me.” McCain’s wishes to pick Lieberman ultimately draws us a picture that Palin was picked to win an election, not run a government. His lack of foresight into the fact that if something wrong happens to him Palin is a heartbeat away from running the country with such little experience is absolutely shocking.

One more quick thing, I was sent some information this morning that inclines me to questoin whether Trig, the baby with down syndrome, is hers, rather than one of her daughters. It was a string of picture and newspaper clips that detail what perhaps did happen. Interesting stuff. not determinative, but very dispositive. I’ll wait to see if the MSM picks this up before I forward Mr. Balko the message.

Color me skeptical.

She may be a fiscal conservative, but her insistence on using the government to enforce morality, her view that creationism should be taught in public schools and her extreme pro-life views (opposing abortion even for rape) are enough to turn this libertarian away.

Also there is censorship. According to this story, Wasilla’s library director, Mary Ellen Emmons, said that Palin asked her outright if she “could live with censorship of library books.” Palin later dismissed the conversation as a “rhetorical” exercise. I am not entirely convinced.