For the past few years I thought that American people had finally seen through the drive-by media and realized just how slanted and biased they are. I now know that they have, and they don't care. The majority of Americans (at least by polls that we see today) are happy with the biased media when it tells them things that they want to hear. A good case and point is Palin's comments about fruit flies. Granted her comments were a little ignorant. A lot studies with genetics are done with fruit flies. Anyways, I think she is mostly talking about a program that is paid for with tax money and that the program resides in Paris. What is frustrating is that the media is talking everything out of context and saying that she hates science. Hmm.. juicy! Slate.com even went so far as to say that she is wicked and immoral. All because she thinks that money should be directed to other programs. I thought these were considered opinions and we can have them.
Now, what we are presented with, by the ever so accepting left (when it suits their needs) is a stupid, science hating, apocalypse believing Pentecostal. What is even more frustrating is this desire to pounce on her about something that most Americans, dare I say, most intellectual Americans don't even know much about. With a little studying (because I am not abreast on the expansive research of fruit flies). I found that the media and most of the naysayers have been incorrectly calling the Drosophilia (the real species name) the fruit fly when it is actually called the vinegar fly. Also, the study that Palin was talking about, though incorrectly, is called the olive fruit fly. All these semantics aside, Palin never said that science stinks and we should drop the experimental method. In the same comment she thought the money could be used on studies that could benefit children with disabilities.
I love this doozy from Slate:
Videos taken in the Assembly of God church in Wasilla, Alaska, which she used to attend, show her nodding as a preacher says that Alaska will be "one of the refuge states in the Last Days." For the uninitiated, this is a reference to a crackpot belief, widely held among those who brood on the "End Times," that some parts of the world will end at different times from others, and Alaska will be a big draw as the heavens darken on account of its wide open spaces.
Peter saw this so long ago in the 3rd chapter of his 2nd epistle.
4 They will say, "What happened to the promise that Jesus is coming again? From before the times of our ancestors, everything has remained the same since the world was first created."
5 They deliberately forget that God made the heavens by the word of his command, and he brought the earth out from the water and surrounded it with water. 6 Then he used the water to destroy the ancient world with a mighty flood. 7 And by the same word, the present heavens and earth have been stored up for fire. They are being kept for the day of judgment, when ungodly people will be destroyed.
I am happy to say I am one of those apocalypse believing, crazy evangelicals.
