McCain-Palin. Because science is for fags.

[prog]

So, this, yesterday, from Palin:

Where does a lot of that earmark money end up anyway? […] You’ve heard about some of these pet projects they really don’t 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.

Yes, as McCain has been mockingly referring to planetaria as "overhead projectors" and a waste of money in national debates, Palin in speeches sneers at fundamental biological research techniques because they involve running experiments on icky bugs. And anyway, if those eggheads in Paris's Institut de Fru-Fru Sodomé are into it, then it's nothing that Americans would want anything to do with, right?

My friends. Are you scared of the light? Aching for an embrace of the comforting darkness, a state where one just didn't need to know about the world beyond arm's length? Weeping for the chance to keep your children's brains smooth and unfurrowed by a world that seems to become more complex every day?

Then McCain-Palin is the ticket for you. And may your God love you and hold you in his bosom, pressing your eyes closed against his warm flesh, for all eternity.

Comments

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

"McCain-Palin: Because sometimes racist ignorance needs a little help."

[radtea.livejournal.com]

And don't forget the money wasted on colliding "large hadrons" (whatever THEY are) also in France!

What I want to know is why it costs so much money to create these collisions. If they're LARGE then shouldn't it be cheap to get them to run into each other? I know it's almost impossible to keep my Hummer from colliding with things.

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

This:

"may your God love you and hold you in his bosom, pressing your eyes closed against his warm flesh, for all eternity"

is the creepiest phrase I have read in ages.

*twitch*

But so apt.

"The flight to quality"

[radtea.livejournal.com]

A couple of links in from something in the comments:

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank/archive/2008/10/24/reagan-appointee-and-recent-mccain-adviser-charles-fried-supports-obama.aspx

Reagan-era much-respected conservative announces he's absentee voted for Obama, having dropped out of his role in McCain campaign because he's appalled by Palin.

[pseudomanitou.livejournal.com]

The more we learn about the world and how it works, the less people like Palin can point to some mess and excuse it away as 'God's Will'.

[keimel.livejournal.com]

You're gonna end up making me put a sign on my lawn if yer not careful.

[nuns.livejournal.com]

OK I totally want to attend coursework at Paris's Institut de Fru-Fru Sodomé

[chocorisu.livejournal.com]

"Fruit" flies, no less. Unlike real American scientists who only research MANLY FLIES.