Sarah Palin hates science - Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann comment

What a busy day for Sarah Palin. Besides giving a deposition on her role in troopergate (see: ethics, abuse of power), and dropping a hockey puck in St. Louis, she also managed to screw up her first policy speech. Via Think Progress:

For many parents of children with disabilities, the most valuable thing of all is information. Early identification of a cognitive or other disorder, especially autism, can make a life-changing difference.

Palin claimed that the amount that Congress spends on earmarks "is more than the shortfall to fully fund IDEA." She then ridiculed some of the projects — such as "fruit fly research" — saying they have little or no value:

Where does a lot of that earmark money end up anyway? [...] Youve heard about some of these pet projects they really dont make a whole lot of sense and sometimes these dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not.

Damn those earmarks! Wasting good money on fruit fly research:

[S]cientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have shown that a protein called neurexin is required for..nerve cell connections to form and function correctly.

The discovery, made in Drosophila fruit flies may lead to advances in understanding autism spectrum disorders, as recently, human neurexins have been identified as a genetic risk factor for autism.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/10/24/15275/725/604/641141
The New Empiricism In Politics
Seed endorses Obama:

Science is a way of governing, not just something to be governed. Science offers a methodology and philosophy rooted in evidence, kept in check by persistent inquiry, and bounded by the constraints of a self-critical and rigorous method. Science is a lens through which we can and should visualize and solve complex problems, organize government and multilateral bodies, establish international alliances, inspire national pride, restore positive feelings about America around the globe, embolden democracy, and ultimately, lead the world. More than anything, what this lens offers the next administration is a limitless capacity to handle all that comes its way, no matter how complex or unanticipated.

Sen. Obama's embrace of transparency and evidence-based decision-making, his intelligence and curiosity echo this new way of looking at the world.

And this, I think, helps describe Obama's political disposition pretty accurately: a liberal empiricist. And it's the empiricism that makes him attractive to conservatives of a Burkean disposition.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/10/scientific-voti....

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[rubberbaby00]

She's a moron.

[rjsloan8589]

why the hell does the government bring religion into politics? stupid

[halflifeproductionz]

i really wish this milf would've been voted in 2008. obama is boring, this bitch would've made some sexy headlines all over the world.

[GotAmmo21]

I think he kid isn't the only retard in the palin family. God gave us oil? What a stupid fucking statement but what can you expect from that idiot, she's like george bush with a cunt.

[baxtar1963]

She is trying so hard not to fuck up. Opps she said God gave us oil. Look stupid the plan is to use up everybody else's oil and natural resources first then we will be the only ones that have the reserves. We have more diamonds and gold in Montana then Africa has but we make it into a national park and take theirs.

[S0Nofastunna]

I RAN... She should run her ass to the kitchen

[iPriestHolmes]

I didn't know we could pull oil and gas out of our ass...hehe

[christinepeace]

What God gave the States Oil? lol she is a fucking loon. She can't find Venezuela on the map.

Cheers Christine

[ueks69]

"God has so richly blessed our land"

She is an absolut embarresment to the US, and on top of that she is an Intellectual fundamentalist midget.....borderline nay fascist idiot.

It is so sad to see the US harbouring these Fundies, sad very sad.

[andyoupretendtoknow]

"God has so richely blessed our land with the supplies that we need"

Really?

She should also dig for brain. It should be somehwere on the underground if God blessed her lands with all what she needs.

This women could be president of USA and control nuclear weapon? No way.

[YY4Me133]

Unless I'm mistaken, oil from U.S. wells is sold on the open market, so the only ones who benefit from drilling in the U.S. are the multinational corporations that're making money hand over fist. Meanwhile, the government gives tax breaks, and even subsidies, to the oil companies.

[kwolf43]

How can palin say that god made it so that america be blessed with natural resources when native americans where here first and for the other lady on here to say that palin did not care abou exspensive clothes is an under statement as if the rest of us don't know any better.