Are We Really Going To Hire Another Fundamentalist Nitwit?
Mike Huckabee gives an example of where being anti-science takes a guy -- to call for quarantining of homos, despite it being common knowledge at the time that AIDs was not spread by, say, sneezing. Must have felt all squishy and good for Hucky, as a pretense for being all public health'y, to find an excuse to hate on the homos (per his evidence-free belief in god, and the made-up story that homosexuality is sinful).
Now, Mr. Morality is trying to weasel his way out of his 1992 remarks -- perfect pandering for his state's fundy electorate, but not so perfect now that he's trying to have wider appeal; like, to people who don't believe the creationist story that man saddled up T-Rex and yippeekiyay'ed off to go spear a mastodon. Here's the AP story:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Mike Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased federal funding in the search for a cure and said homosexuality could "pose a dangerous public health risk."As a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in 1992, Huckabee answered 229 questions submitted to him by The Associated Press. Besides a quarantine, Huckabee suggested that Hollywood celebrities fund AIDS research from their own pockets, rather than federal health agencies.
Huckabee said Saturday that his comments came at a time when the public was still learning about HIV and AIDS and promised to do "everything possible to transform the promise of a vaccine and a cure into reality."
...Huckabee said in a prepared statement released by his campaign Saturday afternoon that he called for quarantine when there was a lot of confusion about how AIDS is spread. He said he wanted at the time to follow traditional medical practices used for dealing with tuberculosis and other infectious diseases.
"We now know that the virus that causes AIDS is spread differently, with a lower level of contact than with TB," Huckabee said. "But looking back almost 20 years, my concern was the uncertain risk to the general population — if we got it wrong, many people would die needlessly. My concern was safety first, political correctness last."
When Huckabee wrote his answers in 1992, it was common knowledge that AIDS could not be spread by casual contact. In late 1991, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there were 195,718 AIDS patients in the country and that 126,159 people had died from the syndrome.
The nation had an increased awareness of AIDS at the time because pro basketball star Magic Johnson had recently disclosed he carried the virus responsible for it. Johnson retired but returned to the NBA briefly during the 1995-96 season.
Since becoming a presidential candidate this year, Huckabee has supported increased federal funding for AIDS research through the National Institutes of Health.
Buttlick.
For more on how the nitwit creationists think, laugh along here:
Dinosaur Mummy Another Flood Artifact?As a young boy, Tyler Lyson grew up with a playground that scientists could only dream of – his backyard contained a treasure of dinosaur bones. And in 1999 at the age of just seventeen, he stumbled upon an extremely rare find while out searching for bones on his family’s North Dakota farm. What he accidentally discovered is a piece of history, a mummified dinosaur, which he fittingly named Dakota.
Lyson actually unearthed a hadrosaur - and one of only six mummified dinosaurs ever found. But the finding is even more remarkable because it is the remains of an entire dinosaur – skin and bones, petrified into stone. Evolutionary philosophy dates Dakota to nearly sixty-seven million years.
But are sixty-seven million years really necessary? Paleontologists studying Dakota say this rare preservation of skin and mummification means that the creature had to be buried very rapidly, in flash flood conditions, to petrify in this way. The common-sense, biblical worldview would agree. Not millions of years, though; but yet another result of the Flood in the days of Noah just 4,400 years ago.
If the Flood happened as the Bible says, we should see many leftover artifacts. Rock layers, Grand Canyon, the formation of oil, and even these petrified dinosaur bones are more evidence that God’s Word is scientifically accurate.
Hey, silly fundies, heard of radiometric dating? And no, it's not something they sell on eHarmony.
There's a great link I use frequently when it's time to thump thumpers: www.asa3.org/ASA/resources/Wiens.html . Possibly the coolest thing about it is the title: "Radiometric Dating: A Christian View".
And there are hundreds of useful links, with beautifully-prepared pages, at darwiniana.org . Including NASA, NIST, NOAA, USGS and so forth.
Radwaste at December 9, 2007 8:43 AM
Thanks so much, Rad.
Amy Alkon at December 9, 2007 8:45 AM
I don't know. The argument that Satan scattered those "dinosaur" bones around the world to bolster the arguments of non-believers is pretty compelling...
eric at December 9, 2007 9:02 AM
Of course, he's lucky to have me to help him do his bidding:
http://www.advicegoddess.com/archives/2007/11/satan_1_alkon_0.html
Amy Alkon at December 9, 2007 9:52 AM
eric -
It is nothing but sad to here a grown adult use that. The pastor of the church I often attend is really good people. I mean the type that instantly comes to mind, when people talk about the good aspects of christianity. He's also really not stupid. Indeed, he is actually quite bright. In all of that he is very disarming, in that one really doesn't expect such irrationality from him.
So he really throws me off sometimes. One of those times was when we were discussing evolution and he said basically that, though not in so many words. The worse though, was when I asked him to explain the rear "legs" of whales, still there under all the blubber. His response was that satan is the author of lies and he must have caused some mutation in whales and other animals that show residual evolutionary leftovers.
Kind of hard to argue with someone who has no problems blaming the devil for every lick of evidence that supports evolution. On the upside, he is, if anything, more repulsed by intelligent design advocates and their lies, than I am.
DuWayne at December 9, 2007 11:05 PM
The more I look at Huck Fib, the more he starts looking like Jemma Carter. He pardoned something like 703 people while he was governor surpassing a combined total of six nearby states. He totally kissed the illegal immigrants asses so Tyson foods could have their slave labor. He never met a tax hike he didn't like and he spent through the roof on social programs. He really had to because he had all those poor people there making below minimum wage in a chicken factory with painted emergency exits. And when you call him on all of this crap, he says something like, "I must have drank a different Jesus juice than you did". Ok, wipe your face asshole and make some sense. I don't even want to know what the hell that means. But notice the similarities between him and Jemma. They feel that Jesus wants them to take care of the poor. Better idea, let the people work for real wages without the imported slave labor and let them keep their own money and they can take care of their damned selves. His name was JESUS, not Karl Marx you asshole. Jesus was an ok guy but I still wouldn't have voted for him. He never learned that you can only be so compassionate and helping to people before they kill you. Oh yeah, and let's lock up everybody with a social disease, that doesn't sound very Jesus-like Huck. I seem to remember Jesus ministering to lepers. We'll start with aids, within six weeks we'll be down to cold sores!
Huck Fib is being pushed like a wheelbarrow by the mainstream media because they know that he is the only one who can't beat Hussein or Hillbilly. Him being from Arkansas and the same town as bill, you know damn well that Hillbilly has a few pictures of Huck dressed as the pope in a compromising position with an illegal immigrant llama hidden in Huma Abedins chastidy belt.
Just my .02 worth.
Bikerken at December 10, 2007 1:10 AM
Perhaps this is Huckabee's theme song?
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=720_1179383603
jamie at December 10, 2007 10:02 AM
Sadly, I just wanted to see a picture of the mummified dinosaur. That's awesome!
CornerDemon at December 10, 2007 11:33 AM
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