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cause i happen to get all worked up about mccain s latest campaign ads and it is an intriguing thought in any case that the individually irrational behavior of a certain group towards criticism could itself be evidence that their ideological red meat is generally more accurate in the face of criticism 15 comments campaigns conservative culture democrats election election 2008 john mccain liberal logic marketing mccain media news philosophy politics republican science skepticism tagged backfire effect brendan nyhan jason reifler kevin drum permalink posted by bad oprah boycott all kinds of stupid september 7 2008 oh good grief if you ve been following drudge and a host of conservative pundits you may have noticed an odd story crop up seemingly out of nowhere claiming that sarah palin had been denied a place on oprah winfrey s show the story then turned into drudge s usual fallback there had been anonymous debate behind the scenes as to whether palin should be invited onto oprah s show the whole thing appeared to be a bid to win palin a free media spot but far from letting the sneaky bid drop once oprah herself had denied the already substance free rumors people are actually serious about this as in they re actually acting all outraged about it the florida federation of republican women is even calling for an oprah boycott the whole thing has a canny stiffly staged air an embarrassing spectacle of joiners playing to a campaign script rather than people doing anything on principle oprah for her part seems to have a very reasonable and fair principle no active headline candidates during the campaign she openly supports obama but since declaring so has not invited him or his surrogates on to campaign i don t see any unfairness there i see a media figure with a laudable policy of neutrality oprah owns her own show if she wanted to use it to promote obama constantly she could have within the limits of fec regulations but she hasn t we re 60 days out from the election sarah palin is apparently going to spend the next two weeks in an undisclosed location refusing questions from actual reporters rejecting what would also be free media spots on countless news programs but she s somehow entitled to what amounts to a free campaign spot on oprah s private television show when no other candidate not even other female candidates like hillary herself is given such airtime and that s unfair especially biased nope it s all an act or profoundly cynical posturing another out of the blue bid for attention and the fact that people can promote it with a straight face let alone use bombastic rhetoric about entitlement and desert is simply astonishing 8 comments barack obama campaigns celebrity conservative culture election election 2008 gender hillary hillary clinton john mccain mccain media news politics republican scams skepticism television women tagged oprah sarah palin vp permalink posted by bad blessed are the peacemakers for they shalt have 50cal machine gun turrets september 6 2008 missed this story when it first broke but can you think of a reason for a local police department to have an armored personnel carrier with a mounted 50 caliber machine gun turret can you imagine them actually using such a thing in a residential neighborhood in the u s probably not the sheriff claims that the vehicle will save lives and reasons that when something like this rolls up it s time to give up i m all for the police being appropriately armed but give me a break first of all this thing is not going to have time to roll up unless the police are either conducting a pre planned raid or having a long standoff and in either case i very much doubt that an apc is going to intimidate criminals any more than twelve guys in riot gear and machine guns already can 50cal machine guns are for closed firing ranges and war zones places where you either want to have safe human target free gun fun or else turn real human beings into hamburger they don t belong in residential or urban police operations for anything short of die hard but wait what if i told you that it all made sense because because jesus sheriff lott stated that the name selected from the entries will be the peacemaker because that is the apc s purpose and the bible refers to law enforcement in matthew 5 9 blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of god as drugwarrant points out in all my reading of the beatitudes i never once imagined christ astride an armored personnel carrier complete with a turret mounted 50 caliber belt fed machine gun surrounded by apostles in swat gear as he said to the crowd blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of god 11 comments bible christianity crime drugs god government humor jesus law military news police politics skepticism technology tagged 50cal apc permalink posted by bad religious freedom under international islamic attack september 4 2008 some american innovations are so deeply embedded in our psyches that it s hard to imagine how any other country could forgo them but reject them they do and now the organization of the islamic conference oic seems to be moving with objections from around the globe to further formalize u n resolutions against defamation primarily against islam critics have pointed out that the language gives further cover for the persecution of minority voices in already undemocratic and illiberal islamic regimes this language destabilizes the whole human rights system said angela wu international law director for the becket fund for religious liberty a public interest law firm in washington it empowers the state rather than individual and protects ideas rather than the person who holds them we don t really have a culture war in the u s we have a impolite scuffle mostly exaggerated for the benefit of political fundraising the real culture war is between the liberal west and theocratic ideological regimes who enforce conformity in their societies with the threat of violence and persecution 5 comments aclu atheism church and state culture first amendment god government islam law muslim news politics religion tagged oic religious freedom un permalink posted by bad god jews for jesus to palin terrorism is god s judgement on jews september 3 2008 i m desperately trying to find non sarah palin subjects to delve into and given that this one only tangentially involves her maybe this is my way out two weeks ago david brickner founder of jews for jesus was invited to speak to palin s congregation by her pastor larry kroon or rather according to kroon the message was so important that god arranged to have brickner speak to everyone there including palin but above everything i want you to understand when god set that date august 17th 2008 david brickner in wasilla bible church god wanted to say something to us at this time in our congregational life to us corporately and to us individually and god has brought you here to hear it david what did god arrange for everyone to hear that the violence and death in the middle east is god s judgement of unbelief against jews and other non believers in the region but what we see in israel the conflict that is spilled out throughout the middle east really which is all about jerusalem is an ongoing reflection of the fact that there is judgment judgment is very real and we see it played out on the pages of the newspapers and on the television it s very real when isaac brickner s son was in jerusalem he was there to witness some of that judgment some of that conflict when a palestinian from east jerusalem took a bulldozer and went plowing through a score of cars killing numbers of people judgment you can t miss it and here we are again to non believers or even believers who don t think that christianity is the one true ideology these beliefs are about as morally repugnant as one can get if violence and tragedy are a form of judgment upon humanity then we re talking about nothing less than spiritual terrorism to many conservative christians on the other hand these ideas are the quite logical implications of their beliefs so when this sort of rhetoric hits the mainstream what happens fairly often politicians seeking mainstream approval will seek to distance themselves from the full implications of such statements without getting into the theological details what do you deny about the biblical basis of such statements where did they go wrong if this becomes an issue for palin in particular i have little doubt that we ll be hearing a lot more about theological uncertainty and humility but isn t it time we started to confront these beliefs directly instead of briefly shying away from them whenever they are cast in an uncomfortable spotlight countless americans really do believe that it is god s will that bulldozers crush people to death that shrapnel would tear apart markets and worse many including all of palin s known spiritual advisors believe it just and warranted that the majority of humanity will endure eternal suffering merely for having the wrong set of ideas in their heads at the moment of their death there isn t a nice middle ground here either these sorts of conservative fundamentals are true or these views are absolutely and unequivocally morally abhorrent to worship and glory in such ideas is simply grotesque it might well be reasonable to say that we cannot know the mind and purposes of god and so we should be unwilling to say whether this or that is righteous judgment that position can warrant some respect but people like bricker aren t saying that they are going all in on the idea that death and destruction are worthy parts of god s plan with all blame falling upon the victims humble christians simply cannot toe the line of denying bricker s theology but then failing to pass judgement on his open endorsement of atrocity either you re with humanity with more humane and loving ideas of god or you re with this image of a vengeful god one can t be for god right or wrong and still claim to have any principled moral code or feeling 9 comments atheism campaigns catholic christianity conservative election election 2008 ethics god islam jesus john mccain mccain morality news politics religion republican spirituality theology tragedy tagged israel jews for jesus sarah palin permalink posted by bad sarah palin s record as mayor teeny tiny bush administration september 2 2008 this is a truly startling little read from one of sarah palin s old constituents as alaskan mayor if she s to be believed then palin s mayoral reign over the tiny town of wasilla should sound startlingly familiar to anyone who s watched the last 8 years of the bush administration deeply politicized mismanagement she fired experienced public servants because they won t bow to bizarre ideology including a librarian who refused to ban books palin didn t like she sliced progressive taxes on the rich raising regressive ones on the poor and then spent lavishly leaving the town in newfound debt she hired a lobbyist who scored the tiny town almost 27million in federal pork and in the face of management squabbles she seems to have handed off the actual day to day administration to another person pile this record on top of her support for ignorance only sex education creationist seasoned science classes and a hearty round of theocratized historical ignorance and christianist knee slappers and she sounds like the second coming of the mayberry machiavellis i ve had a hard time getting too worked up about the thought of a mccain administration but the idea of a sarah palin taking over wherever he finally leaves off is sounding less and less encouraging bush has gotten a worse rap than he deserves even still i m not eager to spend the next four to eight years sapping my forehead in everything from wearied exasperation to shock 5 comments conservative election election 2008 ethics government john mccain mccain politics pro life republican tagged alaska sarah palin permalink posted by bad more creationist claptrap from pawlenty on palin september 2 2008 hemant at fa points us to a recent interview with minnesota gov tim pawlenty in which he defends and expands upon republican vp pick sarah palin s as yet unclarified support for teaching creationism and not even necessarily with the veil of id cast over it in public school science classes suffice to say it s not encouraging stuff gov pawlenty in the scientific community it seems like intelligent design is dismissed not entirely there are a lot of scientists who would make the case that it is appropriate to be taught and appropriate to be demonstrated but in terms of the curriculum in the schools in minnesota we ve taken the approach that that s a local decision but i know senator palin or governor palin has said intelligent design is something she thinks should be taught along with evolution in the schools and i think that s appropriate from my standpoint this is of course all in line with the basic creationist gameplan statewide freedom legislation and a standards free permissiveness towards local attempts to introduce creationist talking points into science classrooms note of course the ever present irony of the stance that kids should hear all sides when it comes to science even complete psuedoscience but when it comes to learning about basic realities of human sexuality and contraception kids should remain as ignorant as possible 2 comments christianity church and state creationism election election 2008 evolution expelled intelligent design politics religion science tagged abstinence pawlenty permalink posted by bad palin the coy creationist august 29 2008 via pz myers it looks like republican vp pick sarah palin is the sort of republican ruler who thinks it s ok to be in charge of the science education without actually knowing much about how science works she apparently agreed in a debate that creationism should be taught alongside science but then backed off the stance a bit when it came to specifics falling back on the ultimately evasive discussion of alternatives rhetoric my dad did talk a lot about his theories of evolution she said he would show us fossils and say how old do you think these are his theories of evolution the always ready and reliable dating method of ask children how old things look to them i d like to hear a little more about exactly what her father taught because while hardly indicative of anything this little statement sets off a few red flags of course maybe this is a reason to vote for mccain the vp slot has about as little influence on education policy as any major political position which is a win win for students in alaska in any case the platform of palin s own party is solidly undeniably creationist the republican party of alaska platform says in its section on education we support giving creation science equal representation with other theories of the origin of life if evolution is taught it should 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