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Video and transcript of Barack Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention. Made of 100% awesome, as usual.
ITA with this article on McCain's VP pick. Sarah Palin just does not have enough experience to be vice president. Especially as backup to a 72-year-old president who's a cancer survivor - I wouldn't want her anywhere near The Button ( Read more... )
ITA with this article on McCain's VP pick. Sarah Palin just does not have enough experience to be vice president. Especially as backup to a 72-year-old president who's a cancer survivor - I wouldn't want her anywhere near The Button ( Read more... )
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1) I don't believe in global warming either. (No, I'm not being facetious. I really don't. There's plenty of evidence that we're just being cyclic. Especially since the big environmental scare of the 70s was the coming ice age. Possibly I'm yet more skeptical because I believed in the ice age.)
2) Isn't the one major strike against Obama that he doesn't have enough experience either? If you're going to ignore that in your favorite, you can't choose to pay attention to it in your most reviled.
3) The pro-choice thing. Doesn't she believe one way but vote the other?
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1) The global warming "controversy" strikes me as being manufactured, much like the intelligent design "controversy". Wikipedia has some good info on this - a huge majority of climate scientists agree that human activity is causing global warming. The opposition has no peer-reviewed research out there, and they've done some pretty sketchy things, like claiming that a petition is signed by x number of scientists when a bunch of the signatories are not actually scientists. Either there's some vast conspiracy forcing almost every expert in this field to espouse anthropogenic global warming, or a few scientists, journalists, and think tanks that have already proven to have some less-than-honest tendencies are lying - Occam's razor says the latter is most likely ( ... )
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