Until last summer, recent discoveries of dinosaur bones and tracks in Alaska had been restricted to the Cretaceous Period, some 80 million years ago.
All that changed when a team including University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists documented fossilized tracks in Southwest Alaska that appear to date from the Jurassic Period, which stretches from 150 to 200 million years ago, UAF scientists say.
"In one fell swoop we pushed the record of dinosaurs in Alaska back about 50 million years," said Patrick Druckenmiller, earth sciences curator at the University of Alaska Museum of the North, and assistant professor in the UAF geology and geophysics department.
Well THAT is going to irritate a certain science denying, young earth believing, "drill, baby drill" chanting, Presidential hopeful. As you probably already know Caribou Barbie sort of believes that the Flintstones was a documentary.
Remember it was a young Sarah Palin, then Mayor of Wasilla, who once had the following exchange with my friend, and fellow Alaska blogger, Phil Munger:
After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.
Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.
Stupid 150 to 200 million year old dinosaurs! How dare they embarrass the future savior of America with FACTS! Don't they know who Sarah Palin is?
Well I am confident that nobody can find fault with her explanation for Christmas.
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Sarah was a blonde at one time?
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O/T Gryph ... but I just had to comment on one of my favorite pics of WGE/Granny Grifter/Fraud/Scum/illiterate/evil incarnate.
ReplyDeleteSince the bots always say we are jealous of her beauty I say post the most unflattering pics of her all-the-time! Dearest bots, all of us look fabulous with proper lighting, stylists and makeup, too ... but you can't fix stupid with these tools!
Palin aside, that's really cool! I bet there are some pretty amazing archaeological treasures in Alaska. I'd love to get up there.
ReplyDeleteOMG....the chin...er...that hair...Eek....who is that??? Why does she look so much OLDER??
ReplyDeletePlastic surgery can truly work wonders huh!
Tired of the trolls, Gryphen. They serve no useful purpose here. Having to wade through stupid if I feel like browsing the comments just annoys me. I'm going to start avoiding the comments again. Heaven forbid should sane people get to converse without the cockroaches running across the floor.
ReplyDeleteLook how different the shape of her face is then. Telling.
ReplyDeleteScience has dealt sarah the ultimate insult; it has transcended her ability to understand it.
ReplyDeleteScience reminds sarah that she is stupid.
Reality is too much for her to handle. ¨Science is wrong. Bristol is abstinent. Todd loves me. I sound intelligent. Virile men find me irresistible. I am fertile. These fake breasts are real. No one knows I was a slut. Katie Couric did not own me. I really do have friends....¨
LMAO!
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ReplyDelete"Science has dealt sarah the ultimate insult; it has transcended her ability to understand it."
I could not have said it better myself!
You know what?
ReplyDeleteSarah seems like sh was really religious a while back. Remeber the gum chomping inn the video when Toad won some race, and Mrs. Palin said (chew chew) "we thank God, that;s who we thank"). And she had the Muthee nut laying on his hands and praying for her.
But, I think now Mrs. Palin has quit religon, too. She was led down the garden path by all these religious wingnuts, but she lost. She agreed to adopt or take possesion of a Tri-G and now she is stuck with him and not president!! It was all a big set up.
I can kinda understand, as I too, have been disappopinted by religion and have escaped and seen that it is all a coontrol mechanism. Maybe there is a part of Mrs. Palin that relaizes this, too. But, she loves the money and power, so even though in her souls she has quit religion along with eberything else, she has to look like she is still playing.
um.... speaking of morons, oxy and otherwise, isnt "home-schooling commencement" one? What's next? Home-schooling fraternities? class rings? student council elections???
ReplyDeleteOh come on now. Such a fuss.
ReplyDeleteThe Palins have inherited the earth, face it. Love it. Live it.
Everybody will get used to it. Shucks, we already are, right?
See, it's as simple as Bristol taking over keffiyeh. It's no longer a Palestinian symbol - it is now the official symbol of Christian abstinence.
What's good for the Pope, is good for Bristol.
http://findalismonkeyinthemiddle.blogspot.com/2008/06/keffiyeh-fashion.html
womanwithsardinecan:
ReplyDeleteDon´t you know? sarah reads this blog. She is one of the trolls. The truth slays her. Why do you think she tries to alter the truth so much? sarah actually believes if a teenage boy notices her, she is a teenager. That is why she picks fights with teenagers. sarah is hoping they will kiss and make up. Then they will make out and do the dirty. sarah wears her fantasies on her sleeve.
All of her relatives have posted here.
Some of sarah´s children have anonymously posted here thoroughly trashing her out. (Can you blame them?)
Almost everyone who has ever worked for/with/around sarah come here and skin her alive.
There are times when the only commenter defending her is sarah herself.
Sarahland is a hoot!
The troll ratio is fairly low here IMO.
ReplyDeleteI think it's ok to post just a hint of the stupid that is moderated away by our intrepid blog runner G.
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You know, that photo was something I used as my "Christmas" card to a number of my friends. I love it love it love it!
ReplyDeleteHere's a song to go with that:
http://lynnrockets.wordpress.com/2010/12/14/sarah-palin-and-ron-paul-in-tea-party-tempest/
Didn't her dad teach science? Now I have to wonder if he was teaching creationism instead of real science.
ReplyDeleteThere are amazing things sticking out of or under the ground in Alaska. Mammoth tusks along the banks of the Yukon above Ruby, for instance.
ReplyDeleteOne of the coolest things about having shared my talk with Palin about creationism and the End Times back in 1997 was that it inspired Zina Saunders to create the drawing adorning this post. Zina's dad Norman Saunders was a famous pulp magazine illustrator back when I was a kid. She has chosen Palin as subject for many of her drawings. She wrote to me back in 2008 that all the Alaska bloggers inspire her to create more Palin stuff.
Some are collected at her web site:
http://www.zinasaunders.com/
9:46
ReplyDeleteHow do you know who posts here? How do you know Sarah's children post here?
I'm not being flippent, I just want to know how you know these things to be true.
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ReplyDeleteum.... speaking of morons, oxy and otherwise, isnt "home-schooling commencement" one? What's next? Home-schooling fraternities? class rings? student council elections???
9:45 AM
Uhm Belle, people homeschool for many different reasons. Quite often, students participate in educational opportunities together - so yes, a homeschool commencement is entirely appropriate.
You may have some outdated, fundagelical isolationist image of homeschooling in mind - best update it.
I love to lurk on what are called "tinfoil hat" forums. There are a number of folks who do think that dinos could have coexisted with humans, but they weren't the "Adam & Eve" kind of Christian humans. These civilizations were on earth many, many millenia before the Biblical humans, and while this might verify the human-in-the-dino-foot story, it would totally blow the whole Genesis-7000 year thing out of the water. Can't have your cake & eat it, too.
ReplyDeleteGryphen... can you comment on why Levi has been so quiet lately?
ReplyDeleteSee, it's as simple as Bristol taking over keffiyeh. It's no longer a Palestinian symbol - it is now the official symbol of Christian abstinence.
ReplyDeleteANd to think just a year or two ag, Rachel Ray was being durg through the wringer for the same fashion faux pas (it does take a while fro trends to reach you up there, huh?)
http://www.hollyscoop.com/rachael-ray/rachael-rays-scarf-controversy_16197.aspx
O Ye of little faith!
ReplyDeleteGryph - only a partial quote of a 15 year old conversation. You can do better.
ReplyDeleteMunger goes on to say...
"Our next discussion about religion was after she had switched to the less strict Wasilla Bible Church. She was speaking at, I was performing bugle, at a Veterans ceremony between Wasilla and Palmer. At this time, people were beginning to encourage her to run for Governor.
Once again, we found ourselves being able to talk privately. I reminded her of the earlier conversation, asking her if her views had changed. She was no longer "necessarily" a young earth creationist, she told me."
I saw that movie, the one with the humans and the dinosaurs, wasn't Ringo in it?
ReplyDeletePerhaps, Fox News can assign her as their Expert Pali(eo)ntologist.
I hope some of the Local Alaskans will show up at the Costco Book signing. Has anyone contacted you... or are you going to videotape the event?? Time for the Locals to start making some ' WGE ' signs.( BIG Letters )
ReplyDeleteThat was the ONE message that set her off the most.
The old picture of Palin featured in this post is discussed in a good blog post about the plastic surgery Mrs. Palin has had over the years. In the close up, Palin's lip liner tatoo is visible. Remember that?
ReplyDeletehttp://principalquattrano.com/blog/2008/10/04/the-smoking-gun-palin-plastic-surgery/
The photos I have seen of human feet and hand prints combined are mostly obviously faked or totally ignore that most of the earth's living species 6000 years ago still exist but not one dinosaur does.
ReplyDeleteI have never seen or heard of, say, a giraffe print next to a dinosaur print, or clydesdale, or German shepherd. Only modern human prints and Yeti type prints.
So how did all of the hundreds of different species dinosaurs die 6000 years ago and everything else survived and where are their actual bones? Fossils are the mineral replacements of organic material. But maybe Sarah thinks the "fossils" are real dinosaur bones.
And where did all that oil come from that Sarah likes to brag about.
How did it get down into the sediments under the Gulf of Mexico or under the North Slope under thousands of feet of water and/or sediment. 6000 years ago the Gulf of Mexico, and Alaska were pretty much what they are today.
Dayum she is stewpid.
In Going Rogue, Private Citizen Palin describes a meeting she has with Mr. Steve Schmidt and Mr. Mark Salter, and the issue of "theories of origins" came up.
ReplyDeleteMs. Palin describes some mealy mouthed version of intelligent design, and then says "I had just dared to mention the C-Word: creationism. But I felt I was on solid factual ground.” (Rogue, p. 217).
My copy of Going Rouge has a giant stain on p. 217, where I spit a mouthful of coffee, when I read "I had just dared to mention the C-Word..."
If you care (and there's no reason why you should), I wrote an analysis of Ms. Palin's version of intelligent design:
Designer Desperately Seeking Intelligence--Will Travel.
Don't let me shock anyone: after promising the McCain campaign that Ms. Palin wouldn't let her (Palin's) kooky spiritual beliefs get in the way of the campaign, Game Change describes a time when the McCain people needed Ms. Palin to narrate an ad about stem cell research. Ms. Palin simply refused to read the copy.
NBC's polling analysts say that this 22 percent spread is "an indication that the former Republican vice presidential nominee remains a polarizing figure who actually wins support for Mr. Obama."
ReplyDeleteBwahahahahahaha
Thanks to Phil Munger for getting this on the record.
ReplyDeleteShe won't be able to answer this type of question any better than any others. The deception may be obvious too should she go that way.
10:44am homskool supportur:
Several things come to mind in response to this:
"-Uhm Belle, people homeschool for many different reasons. Quite often, students participate in educational opportunities together - so yes, a homeschool commencement is entirely appropriate."
1. Increasing the numbers does not necessarily increase the brainpower. But it does increase the volume when the answers are chanted- in a cult like fashion. See videos later.
2. If all the homeschoolers want to have the trappings of a real education- then fake commencement exercises are necessary, just like fake diplomas, and deficits in knowledge that many of these homeschoolers have.
Watch this video of an organized "Biblically Correct" tour of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. One of the tour guides runs a flooring business. He appears to have some problems with math, in addition to the science and natural history deficiencies.
Or this Biblically Correct tour of the Denver Zoo. Some self indentified 'christian home schoolers' appear in this video.
"You may have some outdated, fundagelical isolationist image of homeschooling in mind - best update it.
I don't know what ideas the Op has, but it is clear to me that the same mentality that produced the Dark Ages wants another go at it. Homeschoolers and the war on science are at the forefront of this.
Had video existed 400 years ago we would hear about how some say the world is round but the bible says different- according to what is said in church. Ditto some astronomical facts now fairly well accepted today; but which caused imprisonment and death to the early proponents.
In the words of Isaac Asimov:
"However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if that were all they had. It is religion that recruits their squadrons. Tens of millions of Americans, who neither know nor understand the actual arguments for - or even against - evolution, march in the army of the night, their Bibles held high. And they are a strong and frightening force, impervious to, and immunized against, the feeble lance of mere reason."
A final observation: 10:44 perhaps has missed something else in the post they responded to. LOL.
tired of scrolling. Been scrolling for 2 years. Bye.
ReplyDeleteListen Stupid Ignorant "Anon at 3:39PM. I tried to suggest civilly to you that homeschoolers come in many types. Yes, there are religious homeschoolers.
ReplyDeleteThere are also atheist homeschoolers. There are individuals who homeschool because they want BETTER academics for their kids. No, rote chanting in unison is not the type of participatory education I was discussing. Try the advanced camps held at Ivy League/state flagship universities for gt kids. You know, the ones where 11 y o are doing calculus and trig then applying same in aeronautics, geology, forensic ballistics, etc. Or the advanced language classes some kids take. Or the in the field biology projects, and oh yeah, - evolutionary biology. The same kids who will be starting university at age 12 or 13. Just because a kid completes a section of his/her studies in 4 years instead of 8 doesn't mean they have to skip acknowledgment and celebration of the milestone.
Feel free to diss the fundagelical young earthers. But you'll find just as many of them in private/public group schools as you will in homeschools. Grouping all homeschoolers together is ignorant and makes enemies where non-need be.
"She was led down the garden path by all these religious wingnuts, but she lost. She agreed to adopt or take possesion of a Tri-G and now she is stuck with him and not president!! It was all a big set up."
ReplyDeleteThat's just plain horrible to say no matter how much you despise Scarah.
She was led down the garden path by all these religious wingnuts, but she lost. She agreed to adopt or take possesion of a Tri-G and now she is stuck with him and not president!! It was all a big set up."
ReplyDeleteThat's just plain horrible to say no matter how much you despise Scarah.
4:45 PM
Exactly what part do you find horrible? I hope it's the FACT that 1) She did not birth Tri-G out of her vajayjay or cut abdomen and 2) Once she took possession of him, she named him after his disability and thought no one would be the wiser.
I don't hate Sarah Palin. I pity her. She is a mentally ill puppet, as delusional as they come. If I prayed, I'd pray for her, as she needs it more than pretty much anyone on this earth.
I think she has always believed this type of claptrappery. Many signs are there.
ReplyDeleteWhat is changing is how much she exposes to the average person. Just like Joe Millers private campaign events; if you are in the club you hear what she really believes, otherwise you hear what's on the deception menu.
All the codewords she has used are for a reason, hiding her true colors. The Huckabee-DeMint connections prove this too.
10:46 AM"ANd to think just a year or two ag, Rachel Ray was being durg through the wringer for the same fashion faux pas (it does take a while fro trends to reach you up there, huh?)"
ReplyDeleteYou missed the point. It's not about fashion - that's the point.
As far as Rachael Ray wearing keffiyeh. Well, she was wearing keffiyeh. Get it? She can if she likes - it's all personal choice.
Where it crosses over with Bristol Palin? It doesn't.
Rachael Ray, students in New York and Tokyo, Megan McCain, L.A. movie stars, activists, Green-Peacers, etc etc.; maybe they are each making a personal Intifada statement; maybe it's just a chic scarf. MOST people know quite well that it's a Palestinian symbol.
But here's the difference - the others are not wearing keffiyeh and promoting Christianity.
lolololol!!!!!
ReplyDeletei love that christmas card especially!
When Palin actually declares her bid for POTUS, she needs to be asked about her batshit crazy claim that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time." Teabaggers might buy into that imbecilic drivel, but most Americans know full well that the rocks in their front yard are FAR older than the 6,000 years that the creationists allot for the age of the Earth.
ReplyDeletePalin is simply an ignoramus. Therefore, it is axiomatic that anybody that would follow her anywhere is even more of an ignoramus than she is.
Undoubtedly, Palin is the Pied Piper of morons, with a seemingly magical ability to transfix and hypnotize masses of cousin loving goobers with more toes than teeth, but she is simply THE most imbecilic buffoon that has trodden our national political stage, EVER.
Quayle was as thick as shit and W was/is a willfully incurious halfwit, but Palin has plumbed new and hitherto unexplored depths of dumb.
As sick of her as I am, I know that each time she opens her piehole she can't help but expose her imbecility. For that reason alone I actually want further coverage of her until all the sane people are convinced that she is a peawit.