Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2015 1:47:07 GMT -6
americablog.com/2015/02/rand-pauls-position-vaccines-not-libertarian.html
abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/03/chris-christie-comes-out-against-gay-conversion-therapy/
time.com/3692080/christie-vaccines-antivax/
When you can't decide whether or not people like this guy are complete quacks (until the voters start yelling at you for it), there is something wrong with you.
When you also suggest that vaccination should be voluntary - because the American populace can be trusted to not be ignorant and gullible - the wrongness is tenfold. Christie's pandering is disgusting.
publicreligion.org/newsroom/2014/01/news-release-jan-2014-sports-poll/
What
io9.com/less-than-half-of-u-s-republicans-now-believe-in-evolu-1492312364
I find it mostly kind of sad to see that the percentage of people outside the Republican party who aren't creationist isn't as high as I always thought it was, but eh.
www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/03/07/judge-says-prosecutors-should-follow-the-law-prosecutors-revolt/
This is just entirely ridiculous. Read slightly more into this, and Wilson pretty much brushed off all criticisms by citing Beatty's presentation of the matter (Because it was "aggressive" and "threatening") as the cause for their petitions. Because, you know, everything has to come in a fucking gold-wrapped package with a bow on top.
The article's analysis:
Rand rolled the GOP’s anti-scientific paranoia, preferential treatment for corporations and good old-fashioned misogyny all into one Youtube clip.
abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/03/chris-christie-comes-out-against-gay-conversion-therapy/
time.com/3692080/christie-vaccines-antivax/
When you can't decide whether or not people like this guy are complete quacks (until the voters start yelling at you for it), there is something wrong with you.
When you also suggest that vaccination should be voluntary - because the American populace can be trusted to not be ignorant and gullible - the wrongness is tenfold. Christie's pandering is disgusting.
O.K., so politicians hedge—especially when they’re thinking of running for President. But this isn’t Christie’s first time at the antivax rodeo. In 2009, he shamefully—and un-take-backably—endorsed the central fallacy of the Jenny McCarthy–esque crazies: that vaccines cause autism.
“I have met with families affected by autism from across the state and have been struck by their incredible grace and courage,” he wrote in a letter to supporters. “Many of these families have expressed their concern over New Jersey’s highest-in-the-nation vaccine mandates. I stand with them now, and will stand with them as their governor in their fight for greater parental involvement in vaccination decisions that affect their children.”
“I have met with families affected by autism from across the state and have been struck by their incredible grace and courage,” he wrote in a letter to supporters. “Many of these families have expressed their concern over New Jersey’s highest-in-the-nation vaccine mandates. I stand with them now, and will stand with them as their governor in their fight for greater parental involvement in vaccination decisions that affect their children.”
publicreligion.org/newsroom/2014/01/news-release-jan-2014-sports-poll/
According to a survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) and Religion News Service, 26 percent of Americans believe "that God plays a role in determining which team wins a sporting event."
Nearly one-quarter (24 percent) of sports fans who have rituals choose a ritual that involves some type of activity, such as dancing in a circle, sitting in the same seat or giving a pep talk to the television. Some fans described their activity in great detail: one reports that he takes all of the money out of his wallet and puts it in the right-hand pocket of his pants before every game.
io9.com/less-than-half-of-u-s-republicans-now-believe-in-evolu-1492312364
It may, however, be possible that people who believe in evolution may have stopped identifying as Republicans as the party has become more closely aligned with religious interests.
www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/03/07/judge-says-prosecutors-should-follow-the-law-prosecutors-revolt/
This is just entirely ridiculous. Read slightly more into this, and Wilson pretty much brushed off all criticisms by citing Beatty's presentation of the matter (Because it was "aggressive" and "threatening") as the cause for their petitions. Because, you know, everything has to come in a fucking gold-wrapped package with a bow on top.
The article's analysis:
In these days when the media and the masses equate every arrest with guilt and every acquittal with a mistaken jury and a technicality in the law, these incidents show that some prosecutors aren’t above playing to these base sentiments, or worse, actually believe these very things.
Why else would a judge who sides with a defendant and his Fourth Amendment rights be unfit to sit in criminal court? Why else would it be grounds to disqualify a judge for reminding prosecutors of their ethical obligation?
Justice Beatty’s remarks are troubling, but not for the reasons the attorney general of South Carolina thinks. They’re troubling because they reveal that prosecutors there engage in witness tampering, retaliatory and selective prosecutions and even perjury. They’re troubling because they reveal that perhaps the South Carolina Supreme Court has been aware of this unethical conduct but has heretofore turned a blind eye to it (“no longer overlook…”). They’re troubling because they reveal that justice in South Carolina isn’t what justice should be and some want to keep it that way.
Why else would a judge who sides with a defendant and his Fourth Amendment rights be unfit to sit in criminal court? Why else would it be grounds to disqualify a judge for reminding prosecutors of their ethical obligation?
Justice Beatty’s remarks are troubling, but not for the reasons the attorney general of South Carolina thinks. They’re troubling because they reveal that prosecutors there engage in witness tampering, retaliatory and selective prosecutions and even perjury. They’re troubling because they reveal that perhaps the South Carolina Supreme Court has been aware of this unethical conduct but has heretofore turned a blind eye to it (“no longer overlook…”). They’re troubling because they reveal that justice in South Carolina isn’t what justice should be and some want to keep it that way.