Remember the 2000 “election”? Remember the debacle in Florida? I know we’re often told that it is old news and that we should forget the travesty that led to the last 6 years and move on. But do you remember who ran the whole show before the final decision was handed off to the mystic dwarves?
Well, Katherine Harris, former Florida Secretary of State, is now a congresswoman for Florida’s 13th district and a candidate in the Republican primary for the U.S. senate. From The Orlando Sentinel, via The Washington Post
Rep. Katherine Harris (R-Fla.) said this week that God did not intend for the United States to be a “nation of secular laws” and that the separation of church and state is a “lie we have been told” to keep religious people out of politics.
“If you’re not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin,” Harris told interviewers from the Florida Baptist Witness, the weekly journal of the Florida Baptist State Convention. She cited abortion and same-sex marriage as examples of that sin.
Isn’t this illuminating? Just to be extra clear, how might her view of reality affect other difficult decisions she might be, or have been, called on to make?
Harris, a candidate in the Sept. 5 Republican primary for U.S. Senate, said her religious beliefs “animate” everything she does, including her votes in Congress.
Ah! I see. By the way, this gem also sits on the Homeland Security Committee and the International Relations Committee. And we wonder why the country is in a mess.
August 26th, 2006 at 9:45 am
In science, experimental confirmation is the ultimate arbiter.
In politics, history plays that role.
Elliot
August 26th, 2006 at 10:11 am
Luckily, her Senate campaign has completely disentegrated. I would compare it to a horrible train wreck, but I don’t think train wrecks can generate that level of carnage. Her staffers leave the campaign as quickly as she can hire them. She advertises endorsements from prominent Republicans who then have to publicly announce that they don’t support her. Her campaign holds rallies where no one but paid staff and journalists (who probably drew the short straw) show up.
Go to this webpage:
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/cats/katherine_harris/
Scroll to the bottom. Begin reading.
Yes, it is okay to enjoy this. A lot. Her ability to do irreparable harm to her own campaign is breathtaking. This could not be happening to a more deserving person.
August 26th, 2006 at 10:27 am
That was a very depressing way to start my Saturday morning.
August 26th, 2006 at 1:46 pm
It could be worse: the hurricane season could be comming along…
August 26th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
Maybe physicists should start talking directly to God as Katherine Harris claims to do. It sure would save a lot of tedious, difficult work.
August 26th, 2006 at 2:47 pm
Bob, someone like Harris doesn’t *need* a campaign. Why bother getting votes when you know how to rig the election? (And if your conscience bothers you, just say it is the will of God).
August 26th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
In particle physics, a higgsino is the hypothetical superpartner of the Higgs boson, as predicted by supersymmetry.
The higgsino is a Dirac fermion and that is a weak isodoublet with hypercharge half under the Standard Model gauge symmetries.
After electroweak symmetry breaking the Higgsino become a pair of neutral Majorana fermions called neutralinos and a charged Dirac fermion called a chargino.
These states mix with the neutralinos and charginos from the bino and wino. A linear combination of the higgsino, bino and wino make up the lightest supersymmetric particle, which is a particle physics candidate for the dark matter of the universe.
So I guess humans are just as varied as particles
In hypothetical politics some humans can be supercharged and become candidates in mixed states.
Sometimes annihilation takes places (internicine wars) and sometimes new humans are procreated, or parties of humans get a candidate elected, but as in any race for there to be a ‘winner’ there have to be losers, and most candidates are defeated.
Politics or Physics, the only constant is change.
August 27th, 2006 at 1:16 pm
Maybe you could graph that for me?
Oh wait, i was hoping someone might have an idea of where to find timewave (TM) for osX.4 or whatever?
What bothers me about the wikedwitch Harris is her vast hyperpolarity; she seems liable to pull a DavidBrooks or invoke probability flux and become one of those superPositive LifeForce coaches and make even more $$. It’s disturbingly satisfying to witness such bile and naked insecurity become writ so large, but it also behooves me to remember that theodosia had her detractors too.
August 28th, 2006 at 6:41 pm
[…] A Dark Matter Whilst the world quibbles about Pluto’s status as a dwarf planet, I thought I’d follow up on the real astronomy story - well covered over at Cosmic Variance - proof of the existence of dark matter. I was, however, taken aback by a matter far darker: Katherine Harris’ condemnation of the separation of church and state. […]