Russell wrote:Bart wrote:Let's suppose the rumor is true and she protected her daughter from paparazzi jackals. I don't know about the rest of you, but that would NOT be a character flaw in my eyes.
It would be in mine. She lied to the Alaskan public, while in office. On top of that, she is now lying to the nation while seeking office, if the rumors are true.
When you are a public official, you no longer have privacy. Your entire family is scrutinized, continually. This is the sacrifice you must make when you are a public official. Don't like it? Then work in the private sector.
Really? You know for a fact that she lied? You're comfortable with making that assertion, based on something posted by a demented Kosling?
The two bottom photos in that Daily Kos post were not even taken in the same year.
The second one was actually taken in March of 2006 and published by the Anchorage Daily News back then. Kos claims it was taken THIS year. Trig Palin was born THIS year. Therefore, the Koslings are lying about that photo. Secondly, since that photo taken in 2006 looks exactly like
the photo taken in 2007, it tends to disprove that the 2007 photo is of a pregnant teenager.
The Koslings are the liars here. This is a really sleazy smear job of a politician's kid on the part of the Daily Kos, but it is also VERY typical of what Koslings post. They are unhinged. They have no brains, and they know nothing of proof. The post's author's claims about fat distribution in pregnant and non-pregnant females aren't even anatomically or clinically accurate. He obviously knows nothing about medicine. The person who posted this tripe at the Daily Kos is an idiot, and I would have serious personal doubts about the wisdom of anybody who would buy into it. Anybody who
does buy into it needs to bone up on
Occam's Razor:
Occam's razor (sometimes spelled Ockham's razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae ("law of parsimony" or "law of succinctness"): "entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem", or "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity".
This is often paraphrased as "All other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best." In other words, when multiple competing theories are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the theory that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities. It is in this sense that Occam's razor is usually understood.
Originally a tenet of the reductionist philosophy of nominalism, it is more often taken today as a heuristic maxim (rule of thumb) that advises economy, parsimony, or simplicity, often or especially in scientific theories.
I have never bought into the notion that the proper way to attack a politician with whom you disagree is through their children. It's just indecent, and it's unAmerican. It was wrong when people did it to Chelsea Clinton. It was wrong when people did it to the Bush twins. It would be wrong to do it to Obama's kids, and it is wrong now. It is simply despicable behavior, and in my mind, it is a key indicator as to whether or not the candidate that this type of person supports is really the right person for the job. If I were Obama, I would move immediately to marginalize these kooks and make sure that the rest of the world knows that I don't need kooks in my support base, because to NOT do so would imply consent, and
decent people simply won't support a candidate who tolerates this kind of behavior from his or her base.
“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
― G. Michael Hopf, "Those Who Remain"
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