Obama Doll

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/06/open_thread_291.html

Democrats Disfigure Baby’s Face

How wonderful that in the age of “hope and change” the cruel nature of democrats keeps coming up. Take a look at what this democrat/liberal/progressive “writer” did to the face of Palin’s kid.

When will americans wake up to the evil of the democratic party and the people who condone it? First it was Letterman’s cruel joke about child rape and now it’s this tasteless, cruel, evil, demonic desfiguration of the face of a disabled child.

When will democrats rise up and remove from their midst such evil people?

From StopTheACLU and Moonbattery

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Wonkette & Co. Continue Jihad Against Trig Palin

In light of official DNC blogger Linda Kellen Biegel’s tasteless assault on Sarah Palin’s disabled son, the execrable Wonkette — who earlier implied that Trig Palin wished he’d been aborted — has renewed her campaign of ridicule against this poor kid with Down syndrome whom progressives believe should have been put to death in the womb.

Wonkette sneeringly refers to Trig as “the New Jesus,” “the Sacred One,” and “the Holy Infant,” and denounces Saracuda for using him “as a cheap political prop” by holding him in public. The post is illustrated with another nasty photoshop of Trig, with links to plenty more. At least moonbats have found something creative to do with their time. A couple of examples:

 

Lovely people we’re up against.

Hat tip: Legal Insurrection. Cross-posted at Moonbattery.

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Scientist Says “Teach Creationism”. PZ Meyers Angry

From Evolution News

Darwin’s Dogmatic Defenders Say Follow Only Some Of the Evidence When Teaching Evolution

The recent comments by a Royal Society scientist and education expert about creationism being taught in science classes in the UK have got PZ Myers panties all in a bunch. Of course, Myers’ panties are used to being in a bunch because it doesn’t take much to get his dander up.

To be clear Discovery does not support the inclusion of creation science in science curricula. However, teaching both the strengths and weaknesses of a scientific theory, such as Darwinian evolution, is a far cry from teaching creationism, or any other alternative views.

For Myers it is too much for anyone to even suggest discussing creationism with the intent to knock it down, and ultimately to uphold a dogmatic view of the Darwinian orthodoxy.

This is an important distinction that is blurred by most people who advocate that tired old slogan, “teach the controversy” or “teach both sides”. There is only one side, the pattern of the evidence. There are, of course, cases where the evidence is still open to interpretation, and there it is appropriate to present a more ambiguous answer and explain how scientists are still working to resolve the problem.

Indeed, we have long argued to follow the evidence where it leads. And, in regards to science education policy specifically:

Discovery “believes that evolution should be fully and completely presented to students, and they should learn more about evolutionary theory, including its unresolved issues. In other words, evolution should be taught as a scientific theory that is open to critical scrutiny, not as a sacred dogma that can’t be questioned.”Simply put, if a tenth grader can understand some of the evidence that supports Darwin’s theory, she can understand some of the evidence that challenges it.

What are the cases where the evidence is still open to interpretation I wonder? Would it be discussion of Haeckel’s faked embryo drawings?

Haeckel’s infamous embryo drawings obscured the differences between vertebrate embryos in their earliest stages, leading to widespread belief in the false idea that “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny” (i.e. development replays evolutionary history). The factual data reveal that vertebrate embryos develop very differently from their earliest stages in a pattern that is unexpected if all vertebrates share a common ancestor.

Or perhaps it would be the peppered moth myth?

A friend of mine tells me that the only things he remembers about evolution from his high school biology course are photos of black and white peppered moths resting on light and dark tree trunks. They were presented as the classic case of Darwinian evolution in action, explaining how a trait that enhances survival could be acquired through an unguided material process.

Throughout the second half of the twentieth century, most biology textbooks featured photos of peppered moths (scientific name: Biston betularia) on tree trunks. Canadian textbook-writer Bob Ritter explained why in 1999: High school students are “very concrete in the way they learn,” he said. “The advantage of this example of natural selection is that it is extremely visual.”

Soon after 2000, however, the peppered myth succumbed to mounting scientific criticisms. The most embarrassing was that peppered moths in the wild don’t normally rest on tree trunks, and the textbook photos had been staged — as The New York Times pointed out in an article on scientific fakery in 2002. Darwinists trying to save the peppered myth turned what should have been a quick and merciful death into a long and painful demise, but it expired anyway. Most biology textbooks have now dropped it entirely.

 

Or maybe it’s the contoversy over the similarity of chimps to humans?

(1) Is the 99% Human/Chimp DNA-similarity statistic accurate? While recent studies have confirmed that certain stretches of human and chimp DNA are on average about 1.23% different, this is merely an estimate with huge caveats. A recent news article in Science observed that the 1% figure “reflects only base substitutions, not the many stretches of DNA that have been inserted or deleted in the genomes.”1 In other words, when the chimp genome has no similar stretch of human DNA, such DNA sequences are ignored by those touting the statistic that humans and chimps are only 1% genetically different. For this reason, the aforementioned Science news article was subtitled “The Myth of 1%,” and printed the following language to describe the 1% statistic:

• “studies are showing that [humans and chimps] are not as similar as many tend to believe”;
• the 1% statistic is a “truism [that] should be retired”;
• the 1% statistic is “more a hindrance for understanding than a help”;
• “the 1% difference wasn’t the whole story”;
• “Researchers are finding that on top of the 1% distinction, chunks of missing DNA, extra genes, altered connections in gene networks, and the very structure of chromosomes confound any quantification of ‘humanness’ versus ‘chimpness.'”

Indeed, due to the huge caveats in the 1% statistic, some scientists are suggesting that a better method of measuring human/chimp genetic differences might be counting individual gene copies. When this metric is employed, human and chimp DNA is over 5% different. But new findings in genetics show that gene-coding DNA might not even be the right place to seek differences between humans and chimps. 

Clearly, there are different interpretations on lots of aspects of modern evolutionary theory. Instead of discussing creationisms pros or cons, when teachers present evolution, they should present both the evidence that supports it and the evidence that challenges it. That’s just good pedagogy.

Homosexual Rapes Adopted Black Child

http://mrssatan.blogspot.com/2009/06/frank-lombard-of-duke-u-caught-in-sex.html

Whoa…this story is…disgusting and abhorrent are understatements.  

Frank Lombard, Associate Director of Duke University’s Global Health Institute

Frank Lombard, associate director at Duke U’s Global Health Institute, was arrested Wednesday after offering his 5-year old adopted son for sex. ABC News:

A Duke University official has been charged in federal court with offering his 5-year-old adopted son up for sex. Frank Lombard, associate director at the university’s Global Health Institute, was arrested Wednesday in Raleigh, the FBI said.

A Duke University official has been charged in federal court with offering his 5-year-old adopted son up for sex. Frank Lombard, associate director at the university’s Global Health Institute, was arrested Wednesday in Raleigh, the FBI said.

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[An] informant told investigators he had met Lombard on the Internet four years ago. The informant described in graphic detail how he allegedly observed Lombard molesting an African-American child on four occasions over an Internet video chat service called ICUii.

The informant said, according to court papers, that Lombard, who is white, said that he lived in the Raleigh-Durham area of North Carolina and that the child was one of two adopted African-Americans in his custody.

Lombard has been charged with attempting to induce someone to cross state lines to engage in sex with a child, punishable by a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.

Lombard allegedly used the adult Internet service to conduct his video chats. According to an affidavit in support of the arrest warrant, the Internet service indicated that Lombard’s profile “stated he was interested in “perv fam fun,” a reference to “incestuous child molestation.” The service also told investigators that a customer service complaint had been sent to the company in January 2007. A customer who had chatted with Lombard complained to the company that Lombard said he was “into incest” and had adopted two African-American children, court records said. [Any Progressive want to make a case for gay adoption? – Drake]

A Washington, D.C., police detective who was investigating the case set up undercover chats with someone matching Lombard’s description during which the detective says he was invited to fly to Raleigh to have sex with the person’s 5- year-old adopted child. In his affidavit, Det. Timothy Palchak wrote that he engaged in a chat with someone using the screen name “FL” who provided nude pictures of himself. The pictures matched Lombard’s North Carolina driver’s license photo, according to the affidavit.

During the chats, according to the affidavit, whom he adopted as an infant, and that he had allowed others to molest his child. “FL” told undercover investigators that he had himself molested his child,”FL” stated that “the abuse of the child was easier when the child was too young to talk or know what was happening, but that he had drugged the child with Benadryl during the molestation,” Palchak wrote in his affidavit.

I’m really tired of pedophiles using the excuse, “I was molested as a child,” in attempts to explain, rationalize or garner sympathy for their demented and disgusting behavior.

I’m going to make a sweeping generalization: Most people employed in the educational system are Liberals. A steak dinner wager says this guy is a raging, psychopathic Liberal.

Lombard’s Facebook page.

From Right Pundits: “The search warrant produced five computers, a sex toy, two webcams and numerous other items.“

The warrant (pdf) states Lombard lives in Durham with his gay partner.

ABC Local WTVD News reports the following:

[Lombard] told the investigator “he could not molest the adopted 5-year-old child when his partner was around, however the partner was leaving for a four-day business trip the next day, which would allow him the ability to molest the child just as he did the last time his partner had left town.”

I’ll ask this question again: any Progressive out there want to make the case for gay adoption? Huh? If so, maybe you should leave your child/children in the care of Frank Lombard.

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