Johnny Coli

Here's an excerpt from her new manifesto of hate. As usual, it's loaded with lies and dubious "references". It will also make for a very entertaining Friday as we tear it to pieces. I'll start. Actually, Ann, I am a scientist and while I can only speak directly for myself in this forum, I can assure you that the scientific community is largely liberal and doesn't hate science. We do, however, hate bad science, ie crap that hasn't been peer-reviewed (like much of the gabage being used to attack global warming), or science that has been manipulated or suppressed by an administration with an agenda (there are numerous examples, but you can see another one here and a related editorial here.) In fact, Ann, when examining a laundry list of how this administration has hampered and obstructed science since taking office, a sane person could only make the assumption that it is the Bushies, the Religious Right and scum like you that actually hate "real" science. I'll leave you with an excerpt of the commencement address Mayor Bloomberg gave last week at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

You have to kind of feel for the country fans, really. If they think a country tune or band is good, they're stuck with "This band cunts!", or "This song cunts!"

Without delving into what is considered a disease versus a trait/allele, and which non-deleterious traits would be desirable versus undesirable, from a genetics and evolution standpoint a clonal population is not very ideal as it becomes very susceptible to disease. Basically, it is genetic diversity that helps insulate a population from extinction events (from a disease or niche standpoint...not much you can do about an asteroid for example), and it is genetic diversity that helps a population adapt to change. You never know when an unwanted trait might become very desirable.

..or the entire ruling family of Saudi Arabia, because they're directly related to Bin Ladin. Oh, wait...nope, we need them. Let's only kill off those that we don't need. No...wait, only those that we may not need in the future to help us kill someone else who may-or-may-not be allied with us right now.

So, our troops get one of the top-five most sought-after terrorists in the world, and your first reaction was to take a shot at the "liberals." Why are you posting under a man's name, Ms. Coulter?

My parents were divorced and I connected with both of them. The problem isn't forcing parents to stay together, it's forcing parents to stay involved. Also, I can't believe there were no less than three calls for sterilization within the first six posts in this thread. How is mandatory sterilization going to solve the problem of parents getting divorced, or single parent issues? It would stop unwed pregnancies, I suppose, but how will it keep people together after they're married? Sometimes this place astounds me.

Why would a child living in an environment where both his/her parents hated each other, yet were forced to live together by the state, do any better than a child of a single parent?

They liberally quoted him, that's for sure.

Is your reading comprehension that freaking impaired that you don't even bother to try anymore? I was sticking up for responsible reporting. The transcript is out there on the "internets" had the NYDN or Drudge bothered to look for it.

Excellent point, UConn James. I'm not going to defend Rep. Kennedy's actions, and for the record he hasn't either. But, if you're going to attribute a quote to the guy, at least try and find the actual transcript and not rely on Drudge or the NY Daily News for a manufactured quote. Here is the full transcript via WaPo. A poor choice of words? Totally. But definately not as sensationalist as Drudge would have you believe. The guy is having a press conference to say that he accepts responsibility and doesn't want to be treated any differently than anyone else in that same situation, and the right wing press is taking him to task. So we're ripping congressmen for actually accepting personal responsibility now?

Everett Square was a tough area. I lived on Boston street and Mt Vernon street while getting my MS at UMass/Boston. That store was getting robbed all the time. There was a pub on Dot ave a few blocks from Columbia road (in the Stabbin Kill direction) that I used to frequent, the Griffin (?) maybe?

We should get him a pave stone.

That would have been most egregious.

I’ll list five that will usually get me to pick up the needle and move it back to the beginning of the record, but it could easily have been thousands because music should be played at maximum volume no matter what. Plus, no one will read this post anyway, and I can edit it all day long if I want to until the thread disappears. (I could have agonized over this list for hours, because lists like this are pretty much all I think about during my mundane job doing drug discovery research): Rockaway Beach – Ramones My Old Man’s a Fatso – Angry Samoans This place sucks – Queers Jesus entering from the rear – Feederz Holiday in Cambodia – Dead Kennedys Screw it, here’s five more: Bullet – Misfits Sonic Reducer – Dead Boys Pay to Cum – Bad Brains Capital Radio – Clash Tooling for anus - Meatmen

Holy cow. That is definately not "zoid."

Bingo. Helix: No rest for the wicked The remastered CD is going for 22 bucks. I know I have a vinyl copy of this somewhere, and I can pretty much guarantee that it's in mint (ie, played less than once ) condition. I'll start the bidding at $50. We're talking mint condition vinyl people. These guys played with Michael J Fox and opened up for Jim Carrey! Own this piece of rock and roll history.

Wow. I think I had that record. Didn't they do a song called "White Lace, Black Leather"? Still, if I recall, they were so bad they were good...making them retro-cool. 'Zoid sounds like a techno band. As for how you wear your BVDs, I'm just glad there's more than one layer of fabric between us and your twig and berries, mate.

So we're letting the same crowd that lets the waistband of their undewear show determine the hipness of our geometric shapes? What have we become?

Someone explain to me how the hell a trapezoid is considered cooler than a freaking helix (alpha-, double-, etc.)?

We've already discussed that scientists are virtually unanimous in recognizing the human impact contributing to global warming. So, in the face of hit-pieces disguised as movie reviews, personal smear tactics directed at Gore, utilizing front groups for Big Oil to produce absurd propaganda films, and issuing baseless "policy" opinions from thinktanks beholden to industry, in my opinion, showing that An Inconvenient Truth is doing exceedingly well at the box office in spite of the millions of dollars the industry is shelling out to silence it, is very relevent.

Jesus, Bill, settle down, man. Your response to my initial post was that the "dummycrats" do it, too, a position that, had it been uttered by a left-leaning poster, would have been soundly beaten down by the GOPPP. That's what I was responding to, combined with Ken's post. Nowhere in this thread did I claim that liberal Dems were "pristine." I sure as hell do that in plenty of other threads, but not in this one. I was attacking your use of a partisan argument to label me partisan.

The original post in this thread linked to a hit-piece on An Inconvenient Truth. I linked to the week-two box office numbers for the same film. It looks like the negative press and propaganda from Big Oil has actually had a positive impact with regards to people going out and seeing Gore's film, no doubt quite the opposite effect that Big Oil and their media lackeys wanted. I thought it seemed relevent in light of this thread. I apologize that the standards for what I consider relevent on the PPP are not on the same level of yours...an inconvenient truth, indeed. Mea culpa.

An Inconvenient Truth was #9 at the box office over the weekend, despite playing in only 77 theatres nationwide. It grossed $1.3 million in 77 theatres. Compare that to the $34 million X-men III made in a staggering 3700 theatres. Is it any wonder that Big Oil and their shills are attacking Gore's movie?

I don't consider gay marriage or women's reproductive rights "b.s. issues." Be that as it may, both of your responses to the politics of distraction (ie whipping up a diminishing portion of your base) by the GOP were to bring up topics that distract from the issue. It's laughable that the same people who are so quick to condemn a "Bush Bad!" post are the same ones to use "Dems bad" posts. Now who's being "partisan?"

Well, when your approval numbers are lower than Nixon's, and you're freaking out about the possibility of the Dems controlling either the Senate or the House (and because of the almost-certain hearings and investigations that will follow), it's time to whip up the Fundamentalist base that put you there in the first place. To paraphrase a quote from The Dick, "I think they're in their last throes."