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[elfs]

This has absolutely been my day today.

Derbyshire: Obama's racism will lead him to shut down "science."

In a long-winded article, John Derbyshire starts out:

This is not widely understood because (a) news outlets are very reluctant to report it, (b) powerful political forces have an interest in suppressing it, and (c) researchers prefer getting on quietly with their work to having their windows broken by mobs of angry protestors.

Derb's bizarre idea is that, now that we know that "nuture" isn't everything and that biological forces do constrain each of us to some degree, "the left" will be powerless before the unstoppable truisms of the right's ideology. I'm not sure what he means by that, but then he goes on further, by quoting Barack Obama's opinion on The Bell Curve, which Obama didn't like because, as he says, it heralds "a return to good old-fashioned racism."

Derb's response? Obama will withdraw funding from the life sciences because the life sciences are on the verge of "proving" that some races are "inferior" (in what ways, Derb doesn't say) to others.

Derb suggests that if Obama does that, all of our scientists will go to China because "the Chinese have none of the hang-ups about human differences that we have here."

[EDIT]: Derbyshire writes that's not what he meant when he posted his article; he just wanted to say that Obama, being a good Marxist, would kill any funding that showed that human beings weren't tabula rasa out of the womb. I agree with others that his explicit invocation of The Bell Curve, out of the blue, demonstrates otherwise.

Andy McCarthy at NRO didn't like the debates.

Memo to McCain Campaign: Someone is either a terrorist sympathizer or he isn't; someone is either disqualified as a terrorist sympathizer or he's qualified for public office. You helped portray Obama as a clearly qualified presidential candidate who would fight terrorists.

If that's what the public thinks, good luck trying to win this thing.

With due respect, I think tonight was a disaster for our side. I'm dumbfounded that no one else seems to think so. Obama did everything he needed to do, McCain did nothing he needed to do. What am I missing?

A date with reality?

McCain accepts endorsement from William Ayers associate!

I saw this list this morning (on No Quarter, ugh... sorry about that) but I missed this little detail. Today, the McCain campaign released the list of 100 former US ambassadors, and number two on the list is Leonore Annenberg. Annenberg was chairman of the board of the Annenberg Foundation when the board established the education charity on which Ayers and Obama both served.

Funny, that.

McCain referes to Americans as "my fellow prisoners..."

Across this country, this is the agenda I have set before my fellow prisoners, and the same standards of clarity and candor must now be applied to my opponent.

Comments

[srmalloy.livejournal.com]

Given the things that the Heimatsicherheitsdienst can do to you for having the presumption to want to travel, or, heaven forfend, travel to another country and back, I'm not sure that "my fellow prisoners" is much of a stretch, if at all.

[heofmanynames.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the public service you perform in visiting toxic-waste sites & reporting back on the mutagenic state of things - nice to be able to leave my breathing gear & lead jumpsuit in the locker!

If I lived anywhere within 2000 miles of you, I gladly stake you a thank-you dinner, just for your daily 'brains'....