Off the top of my head, here are a few US Supreme Court cases I can name
Tinker vs Des Moines Independents Schools
Brown vs Board of Education
Roe v Wade
Bush v Gore
Dred Scott v Sandford (I did have to look up half of that case title)
There’s allegedly an undisclosed clip from the original Katie Couric interview of Sarah Palin where Gov. Palin is only able to come up with one Supreme Court case. (Roe v Wade)
I admit that the cases my mind comes up with are relatively old cases. Bush v Gore is the most recent. But I am limiting myself to cases I can name. And I’m not running for public office. Allegedly after naming Roe v Wade, there wasn’t any stumbling on the part of Palin. Just silence. A blank mind.
Sarah Palin has the same worldview as a 7 year old
When Sarah Palin started babbling to Katie Couric about the “good guys” and “bad guys” in the Middle East, I had one immediate terrifying thought — she has the exact same worldview as my 7 year-old son, Sasha. He too in his childish mind, sees the world starkly divided into the two camps.
He also believes in superheroes with superpowers and monsters under the bed at night.
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Now there is one way that my 7 year-old does have an edge on Sarah Palin. He knows for a fact that dinosaurs walked the earth millions of years ago. He also knows that human beings were not around at the same time.
But then my son isn’t a creationist like our potential Vice President.
September 28th, 2008
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The LA Times is reporting a story in which Sarah Palin states that dinosaurs and humans lived together, at the same time. This is fucking scary.
Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago — about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct — the teacher said.
After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.
Palin told him that “dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time,” Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said “she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks,” recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.
The idea of a “young Earth” — that God created the Earth about 6,000 years ago, and dinosaurs and humans coexisted early on — is a popular strain of creationism.
Though in her race for governor she called for faith-based “intelligent design” to be taught along with evolution in Alaska’s schools, Gov. Palin has not sought to require it, state educators say.
September 27th, 2008
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During last night’s debates, while McCain was getting hammered by Obama on the Prime Minister of Spain debacle, you can hear McCain clearly say “horseshit” twice. This guy is supposed to be a leader? When someone calls you out because of what you actually did say, you respond with obscenities? On live TV no less. I wonder if the FCC is going to fine McCain. I urge everyone who was watching to contact the FCC and let them know you are not happy with the use of obscenities on the air, in a presidential debate.
Here is the video. It happens at about 4:30.
September 26th, 2008
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I won’t say much about the debates here, because, well, you should have watched and decided for yourself who won. I think going in, everyone was expecting McCain to wipe the floor with Obama. It’s long been known McCain is a good debator, but we didn’t see that tonight. Obama only needed to hold his own, but he did more than hold his own. He nailed McCain on several issues. Right after the debate, the news started reporting all the things that McCain got wrong (including his voting record on energy and Henry Kissenger). It’s clear the McCain doesn’t have the issues to run on, that’s why he kept invoking Ronald Reagan, loving veterans, and trying to say Obama didn’t have the experience it takes. The funny thing is, every time McCain would say Obama didn’t understand, Obama would come right back and show that, not only did he understand, but that he understood the situation better than McCain. I’m looking forward to seeing the debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin. If she’s anything like how she is in interviews, it might be unbearable to watch.
September 26th, 2008
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Oh, sorry. Sarah Palin accepts “gifts.” Wasn’t she supposed to be a reformer and a maverick? For some reason I feel that I’ve had that drilled into my head. If McCain says it, it must be true. Oh, wait a minute…
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has made a crackdown on gift-giving to state officials a centerpiece of her ethics reform agenda, has accepted gifts valued at $25,367 from industry executives, municipalities and a cultural center whose board includes officials from some of the largest mining interests in the state, a review of state records shows.
The 41 gifts Palin accepted during her 20 months as governor include honorific tributes, expensive artwork and free travel for a family member. They also include more than $2,500 in personal items from Calista, a large Alaska native corporation with a variety of pending state regulatory and budgetary issues, and a gold-nugget pin valued at $1,200 from the city of Nome, which lobbies on municipal, local and capital budget matters, documents show. Source
Some reformer she is.
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