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To: Lane3 who wrote (82078)9/4/2008 12:03:52 PM
From: Sam  Read Replies (6) | Respond to of 542125
 
My sister just sent me this, quotes allegedly from Palin in 2006. Should be relatively easy to see if they were there or not if anyone is interested:

Below are some actual quotes by Governor Palin during a series of interviews by the Anchorage Daily News in 2006 when she was running for Governor...

On Creationism:
The simple yet elegantly awkward moose proves God's creation and not evolution is the source of all life. How could something as oddly shaped and silly looking as a moose evolve through so-called "natural selection?" Is evolution a committee? There is nothing natural about a dorky moose! Only God could have made a moose and given it huge antlers to fight off his predatory enemies. God has a well known se nse of humor, I mean He made the platypus too.

On oil exploration and drilling in the ANWR:
God made dinosaurs 4,000 years ago as ultimately flawed creatures, lizards of Satan really, so when they died and became petroleum products we, made in his perfect image, could use them in our pickup trucks, snow machines and fishing boats.

Now, as to the ANWR, Todd and I often enjoying caribou hunting and one year we shot up a herd big time, I mean I personally slaughtered around 40 of them with my new, at the time, custom Austri an hunting rifle. And guess what? That caribou herd is still around and even bigger than ever. Caribou herds actually need culling, be it by rifles or wolves, or Exxon-Mobil oil rigs, they do just great!

On Alaskans serving overseas in Iraq:
Well, God bless them, and I mean God and Jesus because without Jesus we'd be Muslims too or Jewis h , which would be a little better because of the superior Israeli Air Force.



To: Lane3 who wrote (82078)9/4/2008 12:09:16 PM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 542125
 
And what did that produce?

The circuit court that includes Texas has been locked up for them. I forget the number. A lot of cases get settled at that level without getting the visibility of supreme court cases.

My guess is that it is more the rule than the exception.

They are much closer to a clear majority on the court (four solid votes); one more appointment. And all decisions are increasingly slanted their way. Any majority has to include some elements.