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Posted on entry Our Exciting Neighbor to the North ::: December 02, 2008, 03:28 PM:
@90: I'm never going to refer to the Governor General again, except as our LDQN. (Or kingship node, eventually, I suppose.)

Prince Charles is going to have a while longer to wait. Considering how old the Queen Mother was before she died, Elizabeth is good for another 20 years, easily.

I suspect that the House of Windsor may be part of our universe's version of the Howard Families.
Posted on entry Palin and McCain ::: August 29, 2008, 02:04 PM:
She also has a history of pandering to the creationist camp (this from a debate during her gubernatorial election campaign:

"'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.'


and


That was how she was brought up, she said. Her father was a public school science teacher.

"My dad did talk a lot about his theories of evolution," she said. "He would show us fossils and say, 'How old do you think these are?' "

Asked for her personal views on evolution, Palin said, "I believe we have a creator."

She would not say whether her belief also allowed her to accept the theory of evolution as fact.

"I'm not going to pretend I know how all this came to be," she said.

Posted on entry A seriousness that fails ::: March 04, 2007, 12:26 PM:
According to I think the third comment on this post: http://jackandjillpolitics.blogspot.com/2007/02/conservapedia-has-racist-agenda.html,
the core group of Conservapedia owners/sysops all go by usernames in the pattern of either first initial, last name (like Aschlafley), or first name, last initial (like PhilipB). Most of the first name, last initial people are homeschooled teenagers from a special class run by Andrew Schlafley. With a few exceptions, the people with more creative user names are all satirists.

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