151. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #266318 by righton on October 18, 2008 at 4:25 pm

"Mccain was a lot funnier than Obama."



Funnier looking maybe, what is wrong with his face?

152. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #266107 by righton on October 18, 2008 at 12:18 am

You people should be using the cricket thread for this discussion.

This is on topic and important.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081018/ap_on_re_us/bill_ayers

153. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265970 by righton on October 17, 2008 at 5:59 pm

Double Penetration,



David Robertson.

154. Dinesh D'Souza: Winner of the 2007 Bad Faith Award

Comment #265928 by righton on October 17, 2008 at 3:19 pm

D'Souza is coming to my sisters church this weekend to give a talk and promote his book.



I am thinking of going and causing some mischief. Any ideas?

155. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265851 by righton on October 17, 2008 at 11:43 am

Steve Zara,

PM for you.

156. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265360 by righton on October 16, 2008 at 1:44 pm

*double facepalm*




Three more weeks!!!

157. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #265050 by righton on October 15, 2008 at 10:42 pm

Off topic. I would submit this but it never works.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/suing_god


Pretty funny. Judge throws out lawsuit against god because his address is unlisted.

158. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264586 by righton on October 14, 2008 at 11:16 pm

Diacanu #6610



Ownership.

159. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264542 by righton on October 14, 2008 at 6:04 pm

r2s


LMAO.


I love the "Maverick" movie poster in that picture.

160. Why Evolution is True

Comment #264526 by righton on October 14, 2008 at 4:52 pm

Not til January? That sucks. I really like Jerry Coyne. Any word on Dawkins book about proof of evolution? Is he really writing one on this topic?

161. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264511 by righton on October 14, 2008 at 3:52 pm

Stop

162. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264393 by righton on October 14, 2008 at 10:39 am

Al,

PM

163. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264382 by righton on October 14, 2008 at 10:27 am

Shit.

Al

It didn't send. Give me 5 min.

164. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264373 by righton on October 14, 2008 at 10:09 am

Al,



PM for you.

165. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264100 by righton on October 13, 2008 at 5:08 pm

Frankus1122,



Don't forget that DP has yet to be wrong about anything, according to him, in the last two weeks. That's pretty amazing.

166. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #264070 by righton on October 13, 2008 at 3:49 pm

Al / Anyone,

Can you give me the link to Al's blog.

167. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263975 by righton on October 13, 2008 at 12:47 pm

Did you prove that they talked once a month for 15 years? No you didn't, so the relationship is being overplayed.


Working on legislation and boards together just means they worked together and does not prove friendship for 15 years, neither does starting your political career at his house. Once again, overplayed.

168. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263969 by righton on October 13, 2008 at 12:34 pm

twp,

He is more like txpiper.

No one warned you??? Sorry.

169. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263967 by righton on October 13, 2008 at 12:28 pm

"Theres a lot of information out there proving they had a 15 year relationship. But who cares because it wouldn't change your mind anyway. SO vote for your messiah."



You missed the point. The media/Mcpalin is overplaying the relationship. Maybe they knew each other for 15 years, that does not mean that they were best buddies. How often did they talk? If you can prove they talked even once a month I would take that as a 15 year relationship. You can't prove this so we can't take it seriously.


"SO vote for your messiah."


Again no one has said Obama is the mesiah or that he is perfect, just much better than McPalin, so stop saying that.

170. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263830 by righton on October 12, 2008 at 10:22 pm

Palin/Huckabee in 2012.


I would support that ticket!

171. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263829 by righton on October 12, 2008 at 10:20 pm

6302. Comment #263822 by Steve Zara



I don't believe for a second that Sarah Palin is saying anything that the Mccain campaign didn't tell her to say. Mccain brought this character attack up and now it is getting sufficient coverage so he is backing off so he doesn't look bad.

172. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263818 by righton on October 12, 2008 at 7:48 pm

"Injuries getting better?"



What happened twp?

173. Bill Maher's Religulous Opens Today

Comment #263606 by righton on October 12, 2008 at 12:32 am

Just saw Religulous. I thought it was very good. The theatre was almost full and filled with cynical laughs throughout. I think this is a very important film. Maher exposes the glaring inacuracies of all the main religions and ends with a powerful warning of the dangers of religion to the future of humanity.

Any kind of criticism of religion brought to the main stream is a good thing and Maher did great.

174. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263507 by righton on October 11, 2008 at 2:46 pm

"Unlike your boy Obama who has yet to release NOTHING."

He has released his birth certificate.

Nice try though.

175. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263496 by righton on October 11, 2008 at 2:16 pm

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHa!!!!!!!!!!!

Caudi,

That was very good timing.


Hey DP you might want to look at that link.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23415028/


From the linked article,

"The problem arises from a phrase in the Constitution setting out who is eligible to be president."


DP,

Oh yeah, don't you have the constitution right next to you? Can you go ahead and check that for us? Thanks bud.

176. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263406 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 8:28 pm

Caudi wrote:

"Promise to look up stuff for you - but right now too -- tired---"


Ah, don't worry about it. I can look on Monday but thanks. I do think it is interesting though.

177. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263405 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 8:25 pm

"Not to belabor the point, but we here on this site hold a "minority" view about god. Do you think we're wrong? A whole lot of theologians in the "relevant" fields disagree with us!"




Blasphemy!!! Careful there caudi. You can't compare those two and you know that. Usually scientists and health professionals base thier opinions on objective research. When new research emerges things can change, maybe this is one of them. But still, bad comparison.


Edited for clarity.

178. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263401 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 8:19 pm

That is interesting. I will read the article tomorrow after I recover from the adverse health effects I am about to impose on my body from large quantities of alcohol. Are there any studies that show large quantities of alcohol is not really bad for you??? Kidding.
Any papers on mouse studies with high fat diets that you know of? I do have access to pubmed.

179. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263398 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 8:08 pm

Mitchel

If that's true, then how is it that vegetarians statistically suffer from less heart attacks and strokes and on average live longer?


Do they really on average live longer? I hope the study was not comparing the average american to a vegetarian. I don't think that would be the best comparison.

180. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263395 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 8:04 pm

Caudi

I still havent read the article. It's Friday and I have to read those all week, so that's not going to happen tonight.

I am not disagreeing with you but when I said excessive I meant like eating a very high fat meal everytime you eat. Do you think that could have adverse health problems.

181. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263384 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 7:23 pm

I would still say that excessively high fat diets likely cause adverse health effects over time.

Do you disagree with that?

182. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263379 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 7:13 pm

caudimordax


I agree with you. High sugar diet is much, much worse than high fat, at least in terms of diabetes.

183. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263375 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 7:02 pm

Mord wrote:


PBS NOW is conducting a poll on whether Palin in qualified to be VP, the Republicans have put out a notice for its members to vote and skew the results, so to make things fair please vote here:

http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

The results will be televised so we don't want people thinking that she IS qualified, do we?

Other Comments by mordacious1

184. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263364 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 6:04 pm

Uh oh!!!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081011/ap_on_el_pr/palin_troopergate

185. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263343 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 4:38 pm

mordacious 1 comment 6045

Voted. It is still at 49% yes 49% no


Get to voting!!!

186. Math Skills Suffer in U.S., Study Finds

Comment #263322 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 3:18 pm

I was never good at math, never got good grades in it, C's and B's, mostly C's.

I like Bonzais summary of the situation, comment #15.

I think if it was taught in a completely different way I would have done a lot better. More emphasis should be put on the context of the problems, where they come from, how they relate to other problems, and how the concepts were disovered. Some math history would help to make the classes more interesting and easier to understand.

Strictly showing examples of problems and then drilling the students with homework problems does not work very well. I remember being able to do some of the math but having no idea about the overall concepts and why they are important.

Despite my low grades I have never had trouble doing any general math in my everyday life or at my job, molecular biologist. However I think it would help to know more about statistics for my work and am contemplating taking a class, I took calculus instead of stats, as an undergrad.

187. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263275 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Aren't we all on here to waste time (and have a good argument)?



Well if you want to waste time you are on the right thread, however you will not get the latter.

188. Bill Maher's Religulous Opens Today

Comment #263273 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 1:10 pm

Stagehnd1,

I am going to see it this weekend. Does he mention Dawkins, hitchens, Harris at all? Just curious.

189. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263268 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 1:07 pm

mismos00 wrote:

"Go back and read this thread starting from around comment 2500 and you will understand."

No fucking way! Why, what did I miss?



Nothing, a giant waste of time. I am sure you will figure it out soon, if you continue.

190. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263252 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 12:42 pm

r2s,




PM for you.

191. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263251 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 12:41 pm

mismos00 comment 5997


Go back and read this thread starting ftom around comment 2500 and you will understand.

192. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263226 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 12:06 pm

Comment #263212 by Diacanu


Agreed. I'm done with this nonsense as well.

193. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263165 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 10:44 am

Gregg Townsend wrote:


"I think this is an oversimplification of most Americans' view."



Another glaring theme to all of DPs posts.

194. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #263159 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 10:35 am

Steve wrote:

"This suggests to me that what you are actually in favour of is republicans simply because they are called republicans. They can do no wrong because, by definition, what republicans do is right."



This is a good summary of this giant waste of time. He reminds me of txpiper.

195. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #262969 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 12:13 am

Diacanu,


What about comment 5864

196. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #262966 by righton on October 10, 2008 at 12:03 am

"Your comment did not prove anything I said wrong."



No it didn't. Yours did. It proved that you are a loser.




"I actually said things you can look up and find out."




I don't need to look it up because I am smart enough to now that it is much more complicated than that. Plus I am not going to retrace your steps through google to find political rhetoric articles. That would be a waste of time. I will let you continue to do that.

197. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #262962 by righton on October 9, 2008 at 11:54 pm

Really???

I must have missed that.

No way...

Really?

198. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #262959 by righton on October 9, 2008 at 11:48 pm

"You're talking to a brick wall."



Yeah that too.

199. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #262958 by righton on October 9, 2008 at 11:47 pm

Philip,

Very nice post, I agree with you. Problem is, we have been over this many times. DP will just regurgitate a long list of political rhetoric and BS, that paints the democrats as evil economy ruiners and makes the republicans look like, well, Gods. Steve said it best, he is a dogmatist. He will twist anything in any way to show that the democrats are to blame for everything.

200. Palin: average isn't good enough

Comment #262956 by righton on October 9, 2008 at 11:42 pm

DP comment 5873

Do you really believe all of that?

So you have found a way to put all of the blame for the economy on the Democrats? Really?

You are such a loser it is amazing.