hot legs

Workout notes 2500 yard swim, some IM (400 yards worth, in 100’s) 5 x (100 pull, 100 swim) 18:02 (way slow), drill/swim sets. Later: 2 mile walk with Olivia in Bradley Park.

Why the title “hot legs”? Because my legs are hot; literally. I felt them cooling off as I swam. I am feelings some slight hip tingles, so I had better rest a bit.

Tomorrow: I am to take Vickie’s yoga class, so I had better practice tonight.

Stuff

Professor Moran: disgusted by IDiots and their inability to understand the role “junk DNA” plays

Let me try and make this simple for the IDiots.

1. Junk DNA is here to stay. It’s a lie to claim that the concept has been abandoned by scientists. True, there are some stupid scientists who don’t understand what’s going on but they do not represent the consensus.

2. The concept of junk DNA is anti-Darwinian. There’s no possible way that a true Darwinist could accept junk DNA. It is incredibly ignorant to claim that the idea of junk DNA was “born, bred, and sustained” by the neo-Darwinian paradigm. On the contrary, it has helped overturn that paradigm, replacing it with a more pluralistic approach to evolution.

It goes without saying that Intelligent Design Creationists think they have a better “paradigm” than real scientists. Luskin is amazed by recent discoveries that some heritable diseases are caused by mutations in regulatory sequences, which he, in his ignorance, thinks are equivalent to junk DNA. [...]

In the comment sections of the post, one of the posters wonders how ID-types figure that genetic diseases got started.

Mark asked what aspect of ID creationism explains genetic diseases. That’s easy. The designer did it, just as in his new book Behe explicitly says that malaria was designed. That designer is one mean bastard.

Sir: it is all God’s plan. Who are we to question ALMIGHTY GOD!

And speaking of the Almighty and His Annoited, Liberalsmustdie sets us straight.

The President doesn’t read the news paper, and most times, if you are a smart Republican like George W. Bush and me, you really don’t need to.

All you need to know the “whole story” is to read the headline.

For example, I came across this headline this morning:

Bush Is Prepared to Veto Bill to Expand Child Insurance

Do you need to read the article? No. It is clear what is going on here, and I will explain it.

Bush is getting ready to veto some bill, and if Bush is going to veto it, you know it must be evil. So first off we know 2 things, 1) the bill is evil, and 2) Bush was chosen by God to be our president.

[...]
So we now know what the bill is: This bill will provide “Child Insurance” to all the immoral hethen Democrats out there who want to have sex will hundreds of partners (me or women, Democrats go both ways), without being married to them, and are concerned that they might accidentally cause a pregnancy. This “Child Insurance” would then be used to pay for the abortions.

So now we know 1) the bill is evil, and 2) it is going to pay for millions of abortions, so we can assume that 3) this bill is being pushed by the Democrats, because they are the party that hates God. So we also know that 4) the Republicans must have all voted against this bill but they were beaten back by the evil majority party because 5) Republicans are the party of Good, Truth and God, while 6) Democrats are the party of Satan and Science, who want to force your children to learn “evolution.”

But no fear. God and Bush are teaming up once again to stop this evil act! We need those babies to be BORN, and we need to get them to enlist for service in Iraq in the coming decades, as well as for our upcoming campaigns against Iran, Syria, and (God willing) France.

Update: More from Liberalsmustdie: a proof of god’s power:

Local (hat tip to Peoria Pundit): Knight in Dragonland talks about a recent racist incident in Pekin.

This past Wednesday, two boys, ten and eleven years old, circled a woman and her 2-year-old child (specific ethnicity not identified) on their bikes, repeatedly yelling racial slurs. One threw an empty soda can at the pair, striking the child. The other bumped into the woman’s leg with his bike.

While the woman and her child were not truly endangered, the behavior displayed these two boys was absolutely disgusting. What disturbs me the most is the thought that this racist hatred was not learned in a vacuum. Someone, directly or indirectly, taught these boys that this sort of horrific display was acceptable. Thus does Pekin’s legacy of racism continue into the next generation. [...]

Note: Pekin High is now called “The Dragons”; they used to be called “The Chinks”. That ended in 1980, I think. Lest you think that I am throwing stones, my Austin High School was called The Rebels, we used the Confederate Battle Flag and our fight song was Dixie.