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Let’s face it: McCain’s old. He’s the oldest dude ever to run for president. As a result, there is a statistically very real chance that Palin, his VP choice, may have to fill in at some point should he become elected.

If We, The People, are to be okay with this possibility, we need to trust that Palin has decent decision-making chops. In my opinion, she doesn’t. Reasons after the jump.

Yes, this update comes right after I posted. It’s simply too large not to share with you. I’ll let Paul take it from here:

Dear Matt,

But Hitler actually killed others for his faith in evolution! Did you know he had a “Bible,” but this one actually scorns the book most people think of when the word, Bible, is mentioned, for in Hitler’s “Bible” we read these words: “we have long discarded the Adamic theory that man is descended from a single pair, created a few thousand years ago in a mythical Garden of Eden somewhere in Asia, to spread later over the earth in successive waves.”

The real Holy Bible also contrasts with Hitler’s “Bible” on the sanctity of human life. The true Bible forbids murder and upholds the sanctity of human life, but this is not so in Hitler’s “Bible”:

UPDATE: The conversation continues here.

Evidently my post yesterday about Sarah Palin’s creationist tendancies landed highly on google for anybody searching “Sarah Palin + creationist”. Yesterday, my view count more than quadrupled as a result.

As I should have expected, the crazies also come out of the woodwork. Paul Humber is some guy from Philadelphia that runs a ministerial organization which focuses on the “5 CR’s” according to his website:

1. CRT (which stands for Christian Released Time).

2. CREATOR (promoting the doctrine of Creation and Creator Christ).

3. CROSS (promoting evangelism and preaching).

4. Child Rescue (supporting Pro-Life efforts).

5. Challenging Racism (fostering unity within the human family).

I won’t link to his website as I can’t promise the integrity of any of the shared files contained within, and it’s not above a creationist to sink to dirty tactics to spread a message. More after the jump.

My hospital just activated emergency staffing due to Hurricane Gustav. I’m “E1″, which means “first shift” of the disaster.

What this means is that I’ll be blogging to you live from the hospital as I sleepover Monday night and work Tuesday. Fun.

In case you’ve been living without internet, tv, radio, or telephones up until now, you’ve no doubt heard about first-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s selection as McCain’s VEEP. It’s hard to find details on where she stands on various subjects as she’s a relative unknown in the national circuit. However, the good folks at Afarensis did a little investigating back in 2006 when she was running for governor.

What they found, unfortunately, is that the potential vice president is a tried and true creationist:

“Teach both. You know, don’t be afraid of information. Healthy debate is so important, and it’s so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both.”

Sarah, I’ll support teaching creationism in public school science classes the day you support teaching evolutionary biology in Sunday school classes.

I stand firm that creationists aren’t fit to hold any position higher than assistant manager at Burger King; especially not a position a heartbeat away from President of the United States (Note: I don’t even want to know McCain’s position on this).

From CNN, an adviser to Senator McCain just released this piece of absolute lunacy:

“The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American – even illegal aliens – as uninsured.”

The reason, he contends, no one should be labeled “uninsured” is because everyone has the right to a medical exam and stabilizing treatment under EMTALA.

Emergency rooms are emergency rooms, people! Despite the fact ERs routinely see all sorts of non-emergent cases, they are not properly equipped or staffed to deliver high-quality care for non-emergencies. Instead, what happens is patients without insurance can’t receive the treatment they need to maintain relatively stable medical situations, and instead wait until it becomes an emergency situation.

Even if we ignore the ethical argument, you have to be economically daft not to realize that simply telling everybody to go to the ER when their uncontrolled diabetes leads into renal failure or their unmonitored hypertension strokes them out isn’t cost-effective in any way, shape, or form for the taxpayers.