--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting how she says, "Paris, France," not just "Paris," as if she > thinks that a lot of the people she is talking to wouldn't know that > Paris was in France unless she told them. Or maybe she only just > learned that fact herself. Large European cities like Paris, London, > Rome etc., are usually referred to just by their names, since everyone > knows what country they are in -- except, perhaps, the Palinites.
Uh, no, feste37. If you were from Canada, you'd know that whenever you're talking about "London", you always say either "London, England" or "London, Ontario" because if you don't qualify it, your listener won't know which city you're talking about. Being in Alaska and apart from the Lower 48, she's in the same proximity to Paris, Texas as she is from Paris, France. Palin is appropriately identifying which "Paris" she is referring to. This is probably a cultural thing, something you're not familiar with but I can assure you that people that live near Paris, Texas will always qualify which city they're talking about in general conversation. The movie "Paris, Texas" (starring Nastasia Kinsky and Harry Dean Stanton) isn't called "Paris" for a reason. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> wrote: > > > > > > > > Sarah Palin, ever the moron, in her big "policy speech" yesterday: > > > > Where does a lot of that earmark money end up anyway? [...] You've > > heard about some of these pet projects they really don't make a whole > > lot of sense and sometimes these dollars go to projects that have > > little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly > > research in Paris, France. I kid you not. > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCXqKEs68Xk > > > > > > Scientific research with fruit flies has led to valuable discoveries > > that have boosted autism research, as a study at the University of > > North Carolina demonstrated last year: > > > > Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill > > School of Medicine have shown that a protein called neurexin is > > required for..nerve cell connections to form and function > > correctly. > > > > The discovery, made in Drosophila fruit flies may lead to > > advances in understanding autism spectrum disorders, as > > recently, human neurexins have been identified as a genetic risk > > factor for autism. > > > > http://localtechwire.com/business/local_tech_wire/biotech/story/180966 0/ > > > > > > The study of fruit flies has also been used for other autism > > research and "revolutionized" the study of birth defects. > > > > http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/24/palin-fruit-flies/ > > > > > > Take it away, PZ Myers, biologist and associate professor at the > > University of Minnesota: > > > > This idiot woman, this blind, shortsighted ignoramus, this > > pretentious clod, mocks basic research and the international research > > community. > > > > You damn well better believe that there is research going on in > > animal models what does she expect, that scientists should > > mutagenize human mothers and chop up baby brains for this work? and > > countries like France and Germany and England and Canada and China and > > India and others are all respected participants in these efforts. > > > > Yes, scientists work on fruit flies. Some of the most powerful > > tools in genetics and molecular biology are available in fruit flies, > > and these are animals that are particularly amenable to > experimentation. > > > > Molecular genetics has revealed that humans share key molecules, > > the basic developmental toolkit, with all other animals, thanks to our > > shared evolutionary heritage (something else the wackaloon from > > Wasilla denies), and that we can use these other organisms to probe > > the fundamental mechanisms that underlie core processes in the > > formation of the nervous system precisely the phenomena Palin claims > > are so important. > > == > > > > > > This is the type of ignorant Christian Nationalism, where hillbilly > > gut instincts and religious edicts trump knowledge and reason, that > > corrupt Republicanism has devolved into. > > > > This is what is meant to be "conservative" these days. It has nothing > > to do with the conservatism of years past, and everything to do with > > nativism (notice how Paris, France was included in the mocking- those > > god damned furriners!), reflexive hatred of the other, suspicion and > > derision towards those who know something, and cronyism. This woman > > embodies everything that is wrong with the current Republican party; > > there is a reason the know-nothings embrace her. > > > > The only thing missing from the speech the bumbling and ignorant fool > > delivered yesterday was an attack on Michael J. Fox and stem cell > > research. Or maybe she could have attacked Arlen Specter as being a > > baby killer for embracing stem-cell research. That would have served > > as a poignant wingnut tribute to her predecessors. > > > > These people must be absolutely destroyed on November 4th. It is a > > national imperative. This is more important than anything that happens > > in Iraq and Afghanistan. And why is it that the people who claim to > > adhere to the culture of life are so filled with hate for people? > > > > ~~ John Cole, former Republican > > Links here: http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=12886 > > >
