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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (264618)	9/1/2008 11:50:17 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793561

Not to change the subject, but I watched a program on cable last night. National Geographic, or Science channel, can't remember which. The program studied in depth how a 40,000 year old skeleton proved that humans migrated to Australia from Africa a very long time ago. Part of the proof of this migration was a computer model that showed how ocean levels waxed and waned on a 40,000 year period defined by wobbles in the earth's rotational axis. The model showed that ocean's rise and fall made Australia's coast line change dramatically, and the geological record seems to confirm it. A low period in ocean level made it possible for migrants from Africa to follow the coastline to the Indonesia island group, and it was a short trip from there to the expanded coast of Australia. The low periods were caused by tilts in the axis that made the polar ice caps grow, taking up the earth's supply of water. I bet Al Gore never thought global warming was caused by the other end of that tip of earth's axis, huh! cosmosmagazine.com

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (264618)	9/1/2008 11:51:41 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793561

It's the elite aristocratic driven mindset. He went to Harvard, therefore, no further questions about his readiness to lead are necessary. His Professors made him ready with their deep thinking classes. And his fellow students made him ready with their deep thinking discussions. Obviously, he's been thinking about important world events and important policy prescriptions for a long time. We don't need evidence of his leadership skills. Like for instance; what he actually accomplished with hundreds of millions of dollars in community service projects going toward education programs. It's the involvement that matters, or that he spoke about how much he cared. That's all that's important. After all, no one truly intelligent and ready to lead comes from a small college in the midwest. Besides, she isn't a lawyer and everyone knows you have to be a lawyer to be considered smart by leftists. Hillary was a lawyer, so she's ok. Biden was a lawyer, ok there, Obama too. Check, check, check. McCain and Palin. Not lawyers. Therefore, too dumb to lead.

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (264618)	9/1/2008 11:52:03 AM
From: gamesmistress	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793561

She has more executive experience than Barack Obama Yes, but it's not the RIGHT kind of experience, don't you know. She didn't attend an elite college, she's not governor of an "important" state (Alaska has fewer people than Chicago, OMG!), she hasn't been elected to a national office so it just doesn't COUNT. I am being to feel the kind of visceral reaction I used to feel when I would read the Boston Globe's "coverage" of NH issues back when I lived there (NH is my native state and I moved to go to grad school at 31). There is only only major daily paper in NH, the Union Leader, and William Loeb was the publisher for many years. Now true, he was a piece of work, often obnoxious and nasty towards candidates he opposed, and a battle raged between him and the Globe. But it was the Globe's attitude towards NH citizens that stuck in my craw, that we were a bunch of idiots whom you had to throw on their backs to get their shoes on them. I think the media has the same attitude towards Palin and her suppporters and I think it will provoke an unprecedented backlash. This idea that running for President constitutes enough experience to be President is a novel one. LOL! That seems to be David Frum's POV, sure enough.