Convince people one-on-one that they should vote for Obama by submitting “chat rules” in the Chatbot Game.

I am now, until further notice, via my day job, the “permasub” (i.e. de facto full-time but not legally full-time) High School Science Teacher at Nia Educational Charter School in Altadena, California. I am teaching 40 students (9th, 10th, 11th grade) Chemistry, Biology, and Anatomy & Physiology.

Hence these aspects of the McCain-Palin position are already being discussed in my classroom:

(0) Palin left her pentacostal Assembly of God church for a slightly less extreme church (i.e. without talking in tongues and the like), but is a biblical Literalist committed to the war between Good and Evil. This is a Science class, students, so let us discuss the meaning of the word “Truth” and why we will focus on Empirical truth rather than Reveraled/Religious truth.

(1) Palin is a Creationist, perhaps an Intelligent Design advocate. Our syllabus shows the centrality of Evolution in our lessons. So what do we mean by Evolution, as opposed to the combination straw-man, ignorance, and discredited century-old canards of the brainwashed?

(2) Palin has shifted slightly more liberal on sex education, now to the Left of McCain, in that she is not purely abstinence-only in sex-education (how well did that work for her 17-year-old daughter?) but willing to admit to the exitence of condoms.

(3) I believe that Palin is sincere on Family Values. McCain, on the other hand, cheated on his first wife with many women, including the stripper known as “The Flame of Florida”, and married a rich woman for his second wife about a month after ditching his first wife. We shall discuss sexual reproduction in our lessons on Genetics, Evolution, and Physiology. What man in human history has been shown to have more living descendants than any other? Genghis Kahn. Let us discuss Parental Investment theory, opening with this evolutionary question: why should a man not rape and impregnate as many women as possible?

(4) McCain’s current wife was addicted to prescription drugs including Vicodin, and was caught stealing them from an organization in which she was an executive. Let us discuss addiction as a matter of physiology, with readings from The Book of Limbaugh.

(5) We have Ecology as a set of lesson plans. Let us discuss the Ecology of Alaska. Why is it good that Palin might be the first white house resident since Teddy Roosevelt who knows how to field dress a moose? Why did she try to fire from the state trooper her ex-brother-in-law who illegally shot a moose? Is shooting caribou from a helicpter “hunting?” Natural Gas, petroleum, let us discuss Alkanes and other hydrocarbons. Is McCain telling the truth when he says that Obama is against “drilling?” McCain and Palin are in favor of many kinds of energy production facilities, including nuclear reactors. Our lesson plans include Nuclear Structure. Compare and contrast: nucleus of atom, nucleus of cell. Compare and contrast: nuclear (Obama) and “Nukular” (Bush).

(6) Palin said that she put the governor’s private jet up on eBay. That was true. McCain said that it sold at a profit. That is false. It did not sell on eBay, so was sold for a loss through a broker. But at least Palin knows what eBay is. Did Al Gore invent the internet? Why does McCain confess to being computer illiterate, and has to have someone print out his emails for him to read? What internet devices does Obama use? What is the role of the internet and ecommerce in our economy? Is it a good idea for the government to read all your emails? What’s the deal with Palin’s pregnant daughter’s soon-to-be husaband’s MySpace page where he says how little he wants to be a father?

(7) Palin promised, as the mother of a developmentally disabled baby, to be an advocate for all such parents. What is the relationship between her vews on sex education and the incidence of developmentally disabled babies? Is a baby named Trig more likely to master Trigonometry?

“The Harvard-educated couple that the Democrats want to install in the White House are part of an elitist, “uppity” class, a Republican congressman said Thursday.
Rep. Lynn Westmoreland, a two-term Republican who represents some of Atlanta’s suburbs, commented about class when asked about the performances under pressure of his party’s vice presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and the Democratic nominee’s wife, Michelle Obama, as they introduced themselves to the nation in their separate convention speeches.

“Honestly, I’ve never paid that much attention to Michelle Obama,” Westmoreland said. “Just what little I’ve seen of her and Senator [Barack] Obama, is that they’re a member of an elitist class…that thinks that they’re uppity.”

Palin was tough and mocking. This election is not going to be a cake-walk. I read so many people saying what “Obama” should do. You should give money to Obama if you can, and work for the campaign if you can.

If independent liberals can invent speculation that Bristol gave birth to that boy, then independent conservatives can invent speculation that Obama himself is behind it.

I keep parsing that to mean that Obama’s the father. Now that would be a rumor.

I’m against Palin, (and McCain by association), because I find her offensive to the scientific process, which I consider to be the greatest achievement of our soft, human brains. I am embarrassed for our species that someone who lacks a basic understanding of elementary school biology can be democratically chosen for such powerful positions in the first place.

It’s just my honest opinion that, if Obama wants to clinch the election and follow through with his promise to unite this country, he darn well better address the elephant in the room (i.e. what Palin represents to the religious conservatives).