A while back I completely stopped reading the magazine I get from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. You'd think that as a graduate I'd want to see what was going on. But I don't wish to follow them anymore. It was the article by the president of the institution, Albert Mohler, that advocated no use of birth control methods as being what God intended. He said that every act of sexual intercourse should carry with it the risk of pregnancy. Albert wants his women subservient and pregnant. I guess he's envious of all those big Mormon families and their subsequent increases in baptisms as the Southern Baptist Convention has slipped into decline. Mohler is another member of the "Flat Earth Caucus," (okay so I stole that from John Kerry) denying science in the same ways that Christians fought against evolution in the 1890's. She denies global warming and species extinctions as well.

There are lot of these flat earthers. Sarah Palin certainly is a poster girl for them. An anti-feminist, she bore her 5th child, a Down syndrome boy, at age 44, and now we are subjected to watching her 17 year old daughter, 5 months pregnant herself, holding the baby so Mom can speak to the media. You have to realize that Bristol is going to raise both babies so Mom can go be powerful. Palin is, of course, against teaching birth control methods to children. She'd rather her own unmarried teenaged daughter were pregnant than that she understood birth control. Why if she knew anything about birth control, she might be promiscuous. Wait . . .

So the poster we will look at for this Vice-Presidential candidate is the woman standing in front of her five kids, one of them pregnant holding the baby, Dad standing behind in his waders, and gun racks and American flags filling the background. Palin has only been a Republican for 12 years. Before that she belonged to the Alaska Independence Party, that advocates that the vote to make Alaska the 50th state was illegal. The party calls for the seccession of Alaska from the United States. Palin gave the opening speech for the party convention in 2008. Yes, 2008. She attended four colleges before graduating from the Unversity of Idaho with a B.S. in Journalism. I wonder what her rank in class was. Why did she leave those first three colleges? (There is a question about whether she atted four or five colleges--isn't that unbelieveable?)

Sarah Palin had never been out of the country until she became governor, when she traveled to Kuwait and Germany to visit Alaskan soldiers. Have all the governors been to the middle east to visit their soldiers? She was a beauty pageant winner and then Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, a town about 1/4th the size of my town, Peachtree City, Georgia. So logically, any former mayor of PTC is 4 times as qualified as Palin to be Vice-President. If you read over her biography on Wikipedia, you'll quickly get the picture of a ruthless, dictatorial, leadership style, that destroys her opponents, and fires underlings for political reasons. Thus she fits right in with what has been going on in Washington for 8 years. She has lobbied against putting polar bears on the endangered species list because it might hurt oil and gas industries to do so. Alaska is so awash with money from the oil and gas industry that they have given $1200 to each taxpayer from taxes paid by this industry.

As mayor of Wasilla she lobbied for and got Federal emarks totalling 27 million dollars for the 9000 population town. That is $3,000 for every man, woman, and child in town, coming from the federal government. Sweet.

Radical right winger does not begin to describe this woman. Vicious, gun-toting, Cro-Magnon bible thumper, might be close. Fear her. She is no sweetie pie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin