Those EMOTIONAL women…

I’m not sure, but while teaching class, I couldn’t wait for lunchtime to get here. I ate my normal lunch, but there are days when I am a total chow-hound.

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I find it interesting that so many conservatives think that climate scientists (and life scientists for that matter) are involved in some grand conspiracy to “hide the truth”.

Politics

Ok this is supposed to be about politics. But I forgot that there were sexy women in the pre-spandex era too.

Rick Santorum: this is a nice piece on his religious delusions:

More than any major candidate in recent times, Mr. Santorum has derogated the federal government on religious grounds. On issue after issue, from education to the environment to health care, he has not only disagreed with decades of federal policy, but has accused those who implement it of a conscious and deliberate effort to destroy the foundations of faith.

After weeks of railing about the Obama administration’s mandate for free birth control as religious oppression, he upped the ante on Saturday and said the same thing about pre-natal testing, which has saved the lives of countless mothers and babies. For Mr. Santorum, of course, it’s all about abortion, limiting the rights of women, and the possibility that parents will abort a fetus if they discover a grave birth defect. But health experts know that testing can make a huge difference in safe deliveries and healthy infants.

To cite just one example, a test for sexually transmitted diseases in pregnant women can allow doctors to treat a fetus for syphilis in the womb before it is born. Many states require such tests, and the reasons the Obama administration has required insurance policies to cover it for free are almost too obvious to state.

But for Mr. Santorum it is just another example of what he dared to describe as Mr. Obama’s “phony theology.”

“It’s about some phony ideal, some phony theology,” he said in Ohio, referring to what he called the president’s imposition of his ideas on churches. “Oh, not a theology based on the Bible, a different theology. But no less a theology.”

Because Mr. Obama cares about public health, like most presidents and governors and mayors and lawmakers, he builds his public policy on the recommendations of scientists and medical experts. That infuriates those, like Mr. Santorum, who say that divine law should come first.

Those who say that religion is harmless are wrong. Yes, there are religious people (Catholics even) who strongly disagree with Mr. Santorum. But they disagree with him mostly because they’ve learned how to either disregard or rationalize away the more noxious elements of their “faith”.

OH, those EMOTIONAL women

A conservative woman says that most women vote Democratic because they can’t “think about the issues” and instead react emotionally.

Oh dear…where to begin to counter this nonsense….

First consider Rick Santorum’s religious ranting. Is this rational? (no, it isn’t).

Consider Pat Buchanan and his self-pity party for getting fired from MSNBC for his “apartheid like” vision for the United States. (side note: google Pat Buchanan lashes out…you’ll find links to Stormfront )

Consider these intellectual giants:

Jim Inhofe

Joe Shimkus

Oh, Paul Ryan is a serious person with serious economic ideas….and his economic plan….complicated…and has some interesting assumptions:

If Rep. Paul Ryan’s newly unveiled 2012 budget is signed into law, this is what Ryan’s economic forecasters say will happen: The unemployment rate will plunge by 2.5 percentage points. The still-sinking housing market will roar back in a brand new boom. The federal government will collect $100 billion more in income tax revenues than it otherwise would have.

And that’s just in the first year. By 2015, the forecasters say, unemployment will fall to 4 percent. By 2021, it will be a nearly unprecedented 2.8 percent.

The tax and spending roadmap put forth Tuesday morning by Ryan, the Wisconsin Republican who heads the House Budget Committee, is backed by a set of extremely optimistic assumptions about how the budget would stimulate private investment, hiring, and broad economic growth.

Where would that spectacular growth come from? Based on an analysis provided to Ryan by the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, it would come from the liberating effects of lower taxes and less government debt.

But the forecasted growth is so high that it falls on the outer edge of what most economists say is plausible—or even desirable—for the next decade.

And what about the Republicans overall?

These emotional women just can’t handle the intellectual ideas put forth by geniuses such as these.

Parting shot: too funny!