http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/12/evolution-beats.html

I was Especially Creeped out When I Saw Chuck Norris Behind him …

But The Numbers Make me Feel Better, 35% of The Non-Evangelical Voters Don’t Like Any of The Top Four Candidates in Iowa!

:-O

Am I the only one that finds him more than a little disconcerting?

I think we should randomly shoot people who call for people who call for other people to be randomly shot.

QD:

> Well, as a member of the “GW is real but nothing to panic over” camp, I *would* like more than a one word answer to “federal action to slow down global warming”.

Agreed, but at least “yes” is in the right vague direction as opposed to “no, and if it is, we’ll pray to God to protect us.”

QD, I might not support random shooting of people not driving hybrids, but could we randomly (or, better, systematically!) shoot smokers? That has to do something for carbon emissions, yes?

Or Gregory Peck.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056592/

Or Paul Scofield.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060665/

Or, failing those, we can always throw Sylvester Stallone at them.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113492/

That’s a LOT of wiggle room.

Does he mean better CAFE standards, or government agents randomly shooting people not driving hybrids?

Sticks or carrots? I like carrots.

Aaand…

> As for creationism and evolution, Edwards thinks local school boards should decide what is taught in their schools, but said “I personally agree with the theory of evolution and believe it should be taught in our schools.”

Edwards fails. Local school boards should also decide whether they want to teach astrology instead of astronomy, alchemy instead of chemistry, phrenology instead of gene theory… ?

> Richardson said “yes” for stem cell funding, “yes” for federal action to slow down global warming and “no” to the teaching of creationism in public schools as part of the science curriculum.

Despite one-word answers, he seems pretty good on the issues.

> Gravel supports federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. He also supports a carbon tax and would invite other nations to do the same so all nations could pool the resources to create a global institute to get the world off carbon fuels in a decade.

Hey, an action plan! Bonus points!

> As for creationism in the schools, Gravel says: “Oh God, no. Oh, Jesus. We thought we had made a big advance with the Scopes monkey trial … My God, evolution is a fact, and if these people are disturbed by being the descendants of monkeys and fishes, they’ve got a mental problem. We can’t afford the psychiatric bill for them. That ends the story as far as I’m concerned.”

Actually, with the combination of taking God’s name in vain and intimating that people disturbed by evolution are insane, this is a surprisingly ballsy thing to say nowadays. While I normally don’t like it, in this case I do (seriously, when would you expect any other career politician to speak like this?). Then again, he’s the darkest horse, so he can get away with it.

http://archive.kpft.org/mp3/080103_110001thresh.MP3

http://blogs.kansascity.com/unfettered_letters/2008/01/god-and-evoluti.html

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