Did John Edwards inadvertently reveal that he voted for Barack Obama, if so he also revealed that Elizabeth Edwards voted for Hillary Clinton.
related:‘im or ‘em? Are Obama supporters hearing what they want to hear?
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A draft sequence of the platypus genome reveals reptilian and mammalian elements and provides more evidence for its place in the ancestral line of animal evolution.
1) There is a god who is transcendent, outside of nature, outside of the universe.2) There is a god who is descendent, inside nature, inside the universe, and who makes things happen in our world.
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Mr Wizard fired, say it isn't so.
The Story(thanks Geoff)
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There are charges from many here that any support of Hillary is born of bitterness and is destructive. It seems quite likely that the race is now over, and we should unite behind a candidate. There will be some that continue to hold out hope that events will occur that change this outlook and they will continue to support Senator Clinton. It seems to me, having been on the receiving end of some very nasty and personal attacks that those of you who support Senator Obama are participating in exactly the destructive behavior you claim to abhor. I understand why there are so many Hillary supporters who now say they will not support Obama and they have my sympathy though not my support. The bottom line is I'm going to save you from yourselves. Any comments that include the kind of mean spirited Clinton bashing I've seen recently will be deleted and if you persist you will be banned. If you find that you've been banned and want to continue commenting contact me by email and perhaps we can work it out. I don't think you understand the damage you're doing. If you have constructive comments leave them, if you want to bash me send me an email.
Lots of Animals Learn, but Smarter Isn’t Better - New York TimesDr. Kawecki and like-minded scientists are trying to figure out why animals learn and why some have evolved to be better at learning than others. One reason for the difference, their research finds, is that being smart can be bad for an animal’s health.
Plagiarism is a serious crime in journalism; it can be embarrassing and career-ending. But what if the plagiarists are children who won the KidsPost poetry contest, children who said the work was their own?The winning poems were published Tuesday. Two of them, submitted by children as original, were not original. Seventeen readers noticed, including 10-year-old Hannah Engle of Alexandria, who wrote to me to name the original authors and suggested: "You should check the winners to make sure they did not do such a thing."
ExxonMobil reported profits of nearly $11 billion on April 29th for its 1Q08, outpacing their first quarter earnings from 2007 and putting the oil giant on pace for the largest annual profits in history. Exxon’s first quarter profits for 2008 exceeded by $1 billion the $9.3 billion profits the company made in the first quarter of 2007, pacing the company towards easily topping the record $40.6 billion in profits the company made last year.
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Predict the spread in tonight's primaries. I say Clinton by 8 in Indiana and Barack by 2 in North Carolina. Let's make it a contest for registered commenters. A book of your choice at Amazon (limit 25.00) for the the person whose prediction is closet to the final cumulative difference (sum the percentages) in the two contests. Only comments posted before the polls close will be considered.
The winners Gypsy Sister and Forester. Hmm two winners, so two prizes. If the winners will be kind enough to send me a link to or the title of a book at Amazon and their address, the book should reach them in just a couple of days. I have an Amazon Prime account so I get free two day shipping on most orders.
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Obama's campaign has been built upon his supposed transcendent qualities and intuitive judgment. His foreign policy experience is limited to having lived in Indonesia between the ages of 6 and 10, and having traveled overseas briefly as a college student. He further claims that a speech he gave against the war in Iraq six years ago to extremely liberal supporters in a campaign for state senator in Illinois is sufficient proof of his superior judgment in national security matters and qualifies him to be president and commander-in-chief of U.S. Armed Forces at a time when we are fighting two extraordinarily difficult wars. As with his relationship with Wright, a closer examination is warranted.
But, wait, what exactly is the logic of this argument? Why are floods, droughts, predators and diseases a necessary component of the world? And even so, this seems to imply that God isn’t directly responsible for natural evil (human-caused evil falls into a different category altogether), because he didn’t design living beings one by one, he just set in motion the laws of the universe. OK, but doesn’t a God who picks the laws of physics and biology bear some responsibility for their outcome, however indirectly? Is He not all-powerful, all-good and all-knowing? I mean, when a human-made bridge collapses we still investigate whether the engineers who designed it have some reasonable degree of culpability (or whether, ironically, it was an “act of God”). Perhaps God cannot be accused of genocide, but how about at least manslaughter? (Over and over and over again, of course...)
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What if there was a way of reducing global warming emissions by 18%? 18% is more than total percentage of emissions produced by all forms of transport. To do this, we would have to accept some small modifications in the way we lived but nothing too drastic in the great scheme of things. Wouldn’t you have thought the press would be all over this? Wouldn’t you have thought at least some politicians would be exhorting us to make these changes, and telling us that we owe it to future generations? But it’s well known how to reduce global warming emissions by 18%, and it has been well known since a United Nations report published in 2006. We stop eating meat. Just the news vegetarian Hummer drivers have been waiting for it seems.
Don’t we all need a rest from this exhausting campaign?You may, then, excuse me if this time I — as a refreshing change of pace — don’t write about the most profound current subjects facing our world today.
I mean, of course, Rev. Wright, Miley Cyrus and the Austrian lady kept in the bunker by the man whose offspring — or as Bill Buckley would say, whose progenita — are simultaneously his grandchildren and his children.
(Shylock speaks of those who, at the irritating sound of the bagpipe, “cannot contain their urine.” Just those four syllables — Rev-er-end-Wright — affect me similarly. So . . . )
is about the American history most Americans never learned, including the story of the short-lived, early-17th-century colony established on this windswept island eight miles west of Martha’s Vineyard.
But in a year of doing this, I've learned a couple of things. And today's commute gave me a perfect example of one of them. People who wear suits to work in Manhattan are the biggest god-damned dicks you'll find anywhere.
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Politicians pander to the religious community and when it comes back to bite them in the ass they act surprised. I give you Mr. Fish with the best cartoon of the year.
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