Symmetry required it: 2012 american general election thread #2

Chris Kofinis looks like Mr. Bean.

Meanwhile in Georgia: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/2012/10/05/house-science-member-says-earth-is-9000-years-old/

Bear in mind that this his is on the House Science Committee with Todd Akin

The earth is about 9,000 years old, according to U.S. House Representative Paul Broun, who is also a physician and member of the Committee on Science, Space and Technology of the House of Representatives. “There are a lot of scientific data that I’ve found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young earth, ” Broun said in a videotape of the Sportsmen’s Banquet held on September 27 at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell, Georgia. “I don’t believe that the earth is but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them.”

smdh at MDs who call themselves scientists

especially republican members of congress with MDs who call themselves scientists

i wonder if he is 100% mendacious or if he imagines that somehow he 'found out a lot of scientific data' scientist-style

AS A SCIENTISTS

http://www.salon.com/2012/10/05/can_i_date_a_republican/

what's kinda lol is that i know a dozen liberal/republican couples and like the couple in this article they're all american liberals and immigrant conservative (israeli + former soviet bloc countries) couples

i is a sientist and to be fair to the congressman, evolution and natural selection is actually absent in nature in the state of Georgia. So, not his fault.

"a young earth" & "but about 9000 years" really dates that guy

paul broun is my congressman, elected only cuz his competition for gerrymandered athens centered district (put forth by party apparatus, broun is a libertarian ron paul tea party type but well before 2010) said he wished someone would bomb athens off the face of the planet the next time uga had a road game and refused to do any debates or campaign in athens cuz he didn't want to come in contact w/ the liberals and gays. actively calling for our deaths was enough to get athens voters to turn out for broun and give him edge in open seat. since then athens vote has gone against him and he refuses to campaign in athens for similar reasons but is wildly popular enough in rest of district for it not to matter, he's primary proof. heavily gop state legislature changed his district this year (most of athens still in it), they're not wild about the guy either, but he still won pretty easily though faced his toughest race as an incumbent.

should be noted also his father (paul broun sr.) was a very longtime and extremely popular state legislator, standard southern dem, has state highway named after him, etc. and alot of ppl who voted for his son very possibly thought they were voting for his father.

That's like the start of your memoir.

haha these guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS4DAXeRuaw

The liberal-dates-conservative couple in my circle of friends had no immigrants or children of immigrants in it; after they got married she converted to fiscal and foreign policy Republican, started grumbling about feminists, and got him to accept the idea of gay marriage -- but the strain started to show shortly after GWB's second victory. He died unexpectedly, and after a year of mourning, she went started talking politics again as if the marriage had never happened. She has since remarried to a big hippy and remembers her husband fondly, but once told me she's glad her daughter won't grow up in a Republican household.

Among comments from that Paul Broun video:

How many outside “laboratory” doors has ever seen proof that “meteorites” aren’t just machined lumps of rock? Who outside “laboratory” doors has ever handled absolute proof that “fossils” aren’t just molded resin casts?

So-called laboratories

Thanks, balls, for explaining to ILX the horror that is Paul Broun ... sometimes I can't believe this entity is my representative. He's unopposed on the general election ballot

How many outside “lavatory” doors have ever seen proof that “meteorites” aren’t just lumps of poop? Who outside “lavatory” doors has ever handled absolute proof that “turds” aren’t just molded resin casts?

That's a direct quote from the Bible.

Laviticus, iirc.

smdh at MDs who call themselves scientists

oh come on

research physicians excepted

cutting edge, evidence-based medicine pretty much is science.

im sry but this dude is def not a scientist

http://www.delpiano.com/carnival/images_carnival_venezia/grev_medico1_w.jpg

Oh no doubt. But there's also a subculture of bad doctors publishing bad books pushing bad science or getting elected to congress that infuriates me and makes me territorially aggressive on behalf of my neuroscientist friends.

lol lagoon xp

http://www.thedailydolt.com/2012/10/06/arkansas-republican-slavery-was-a-blessing-for-black-people/

url is only the beginning

good luck usa

dumbfuck racists have been saying that shit since the reformation, it's not exactly a new development.

was waiting for that one to appear.

There's even another Republican running for the state house getting called out by his own party. Of course, I haven't heard any of the Republicans endorse the other candidate, so I'm sure these two will just get the Akinesque silent treatment of a week or so.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Arkansas Republicans are speaking out against "offensive" statements by a GOP state representative who is running for re-election and a former GOP legislator running for a state House seat.

The state GOP chairman, the Arkansas Republican House Caucus and U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin issued statements Saturday criticizing books written by Rep. Jon Hubbard of Jonesboro and former legislator Charlie Fuqua, who is running for a Batesville-area seat.

Hubbard self-published a book in 2009, in which he wrote slaves were better off in America than they were in Central Africa.

Fuqua's 2012 book says there is "no solution to the Muslim problem short of expelling all followers of the religion from the United States."

Griffin contributed $100 to the candidates and says he wants that money donated to charity.

wtfuqua

Way too easy to find a counter example on Google:

http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/bios/d_dewitt.asp

Physicians are scientists. Bad scientists are bad scientists.

Obama lead in WI cut to 2 as of tonight's PPP poll:

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/254704228264734721

But…

https://twitter.com/ppppolls/status/254707993717899264

ya its just one poll

Is Wolf Blitzer even human?

he is a wolf

anyone plunking down the 5 bucks to watch the John Stewart-Bill O'Reilly debate (starting in 3 minutes)

PPV or what?

yeah, PPV online only as far i know and they seem to be charging 5 bucks

kinda tempted

i like the idea, but i'm not so interested in hearing what bill o'reilly + jon stewart have to say- or rather, i kinda feel like i already know what both have to say since their respective shticks are so well articulated

Don't see any point to it. It's like Orielly going on Letterman; nothing ever changes and its two guys squabbling at each other for the benefit of their respective audiences,

i'd forgotten about it, and tried just now to watch, but the server is choking

...on the predictable banter

schtick goes on, schtick goes off

SPIEGEL: Sometimes at appearances, people call you a "mass murderer" or a "war criminal." Do such things bother you?
Cheney: When you're the Vice President of the United States, you can count on being laughed at so many times a week. But you still do your job.

so Romney got a huge bump from that tedious, completely forgettable debate. People are so weird.

media demanded it

dont worry obama will do better next debate

*cracks knuckles*

he got a 2-3 pt bump i think? maybe slightly above historical average for challengers

and no nominee who has not led coming out of debates has ever won iirc?