Marnie1's Comments (1096)

“She also pointed out repreatedly the uslessness of lame duck elected officials.
I didn't hear and lot of agreement (as in not even one) from other elected officials. Or from anyone, for that matter.

Point is do you want a POTUS who decides to blow off their job two years into a four year term?
Because she has already announded loud and clear by her acts and her words that that is her view of an elected official's responsibility, and that is what her attitude toward an elected position is.

And her acts show even more that that. Most of the half term she served she made very sure she was as far away from the capitol city of Alaska as she could be.
Detached from her job mentally and physically.”

“Say "Thank You", Bobby.”

“Plus she keeps her disaster in front of the press and public, so that we can all laugh at her again, and again, and again.
Just like the Letterman, and statutatory rape issue. Every time she brings it up she reminds us that her underaged daughter did in fact get pregnant out of holy wedlock.

Sarah doesn't learn. And she doesn't indend to. She'll keep the clown show going till there's no more money in it.”

“Katie could learn pretty much all that she would need to know about Sarah's version of Alaska by reading the Alaskan bloggs from the period of Sarah's failed Governorship.”

“I'd actually pay to watch that one.
I'm not a big Katie fan but whe would wipe the floor with Palin.
Sarah as memorized a few cliff notes and now thinks she knows it all.

She has been an intelectual void all he life and thinks she can make up the gap in a couple of months of toutering.

Katie can still win with what books have you read and what would your 10 year plan for the economy be.”

“How many fatalities have there been from breast biopsies? Compared to deaths from breast cancer in women under 50?

This is a effort by the insurance companies to protect their profits, by being able to deny coverage for a diagnostic test for potentially life destroying disease.”

“Becaue the death panels Sarah claims are Obama's fault are actually the profit charts of the insurance companies.

Republicans get most of the insurance lobby money and Sarah lies to protect the party lies.
What she claims actually puts women at greater risk since by supporting the insurance lobby's talking points and blaiming Obama, she endangers women.”

“One interesting thing that has come out is the claim that mammograms between 40 and 50 would cause as many deaths as would be save.

I am curious how that statistic can be validated. How 10 to 30 years after the exposure can it proven that a breast cancer was caused by a single exposure to low level radiation, and specifically to the mammogram?
What demographic of women aged 40 to 50 who had a mammogram but never had any radiation exposure after aged 50 was used as a comparison to a control group of women 40 to 50 who had no mammogram and also had not exposure to radiation after the age of 50?”

“And Obama keeps putting them in his administration.”

“Also, too
It was unbelievable that he keeps putting Bushies in the government.
The people are Bushies first and Americans last.”

“That was all Clinton's fault.”

“She also claimed to be "Commander­-in-Chief' of the Alaska National Guard.
The Alaska National Guard is responsible for that part of the national missile defense located in Alaska. It is under the Defense Department.

Alaska under Gov Palin was also criticized by vets for its failure to care for the needs of National Guard members returnng from our multiple wars. Many need medical care and jobs.”

“More experience at quitting.
More experience at fighting with her own state legislature.
More experience keeping her children out of school.
More experience at lying.
More experience at making a fool of herself.”

“If he is so great why no run in his own district where there are sure to be people who know him?

He went to a struggling rural district with 1.5m bucks and tried to buy a congressional seat.
Why wouldn't the voters of that district be insulted?

Do you honestly believe that if elected he would have represented the best insterests of an electorate that he didn't know?

Well, neither did they.”

“Hoffman needs to put up or shut up.

He accues the Dims and Acorn of cheating.
Since the district is largely Republican and white it would have been pretty difficullt for Acorn (which as we all know is all black people, Right?) to get their hands on voting machines, or ballots, and almost as difficult for Democarts.

Its time for Hoffman to name names and give dates and times. What were the exit polls statistics? Give us some red meat instead of weenies.

This outsider went into a rural area with a 1.5M dollar PR machine and bull dozed the Republican candidate chosen by the local party, who had a 75K campaign budget. And he still lost.
Somebody in the Republican party of rural "real America" doesn't understand rural communities.”

“"This brain research may convince the public that development is a fixed, undisputed path toward rational thought, thus further marginalizing those children who stray from the path of 'normal' developmen­t."

Brain research? What exactly is that.? Does the public follow the very technnical dicipline of neuroscience all that closely?

I hope Ms Cox does a better job of using the specific language of sicence in her research notes than she does in this pseudo "scientific" word salad.

"This research also shows that young people's pathways out of punishment rely on the development of social capital -- relationships, networks, and opportunities -- as much as they do on the development of their human capacities­."
What is a "pathway out of punishment?" Answer is, a good lawyer.
Should the emphasis not be on altering the behavior, that gets a youth into trouble? As opposed to finding a way to avoid punishment for continuing to behave in a manner that harms others and breaks the law.
Doesn't "brain science" not consider "relationships" to be part and parcle of our "human" capacity. We are after all a herd animal. If it is not then what exactly is it?”

“An elected official holds office as the representative of his/her electorate regardless of their religious beliefs.
Better for the Bishop to ban Catholics from holding office. That at least would insure that the voter would not be forced by the Catholic Church to follow a religious sect that they do not belong to and whose beliefs they do not share.
And that ban would at least be honest.”

“More important, why can priests who commit serial rape take communion?”

“Or even before their busted, also too”

“Wonder who's paying for the lawyer him or his wife?”

“14 against one and becasue that one is "different" and a targeted "different­."
Yeah let's ignore mindless mob like violence.

"First they came for the communists­...
then they came for me....."
Pastor Martin Niemöller”

“First arrest parents of the the kids that did the attacking. And make sure their names are published.”

“Really. Very bad precent to set.
Now they will have to let anybody who asks or find an acceptable reason who not.
They just created a long term nut cracker for themselves.
And its just bad policy.
If the individual soldiers want a copy there are lots of places they can get one and not have to pay full price.
I understand the "public" can come on base for this. Do they get to buy at the PX do they get to have a signature?
Overall an inapproprite use of government property.”

“"Was the Vietnam War an act of prescience, or simply a prelude to today?"

It was neither. It was a moment, in history, and there are many such learning moments in history, when bad decisions were made based on bad logic, with little factual knowledge of the the people of Vietnam or the country and its history.
It can and should, be an object lession. Politically and financially it is a true predictor of where we are going, but the much more recent and much more real lesson is in the the role that the Afgan war played in the implosion of the Russian Empire. Afganistan - bin Ladin - virtually single handedly bled the USSR dry.
And its happening to us and our leadership is two foolish to see that.”

“It would do a lot to ease the tax burden on the rest of us.
It's about time for the Henry VIII doctrine to be considered.”