posted on October 24, 2008 05:20:23 PM new
This morning, Sarah Palin said:
"Where does a lot of that earmark money end up anyway? […] You’ve heard about some of these pet projects they really don’t make a whole lot of sense and sometimes these dollars go to projects that have little or nothing to do with the public good. Things like fruit fly research in Paris, France. I kid you not."
Beginning in 1910, fruit flies helped Thomas Hunt Morgan accomplish his studies on heredity. "Thomas Hunt Morgan and colleagues extended Mendel's work by describing X-linked inheritance and by showing that genes located on the same chromosome do not show independent assortment.
[S]cientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have shown that a protein called neurexin is required for..nerve cell connections to form and function correctly.
The discovery, made in Drosophila fruit flies may lead to advances in understanding autism spectrum disorders, as recently, human neurexins have been identified as a genetic risk factor for autism.
The study of fruit flies has also been used for other autism research and “revolutionize[d]” the study of birth defects.
posted on October 25, 2008 03:36:43 AM new
Oh Coach,
I just don't know any more. Is Palin funny or just sad? Lieberman's first sentence below may say it best.
"Thank God she's not going to have to be president from day one."
-- Sen. Joe Lieberman, quoted by the Stamford Advocate, when asked if Gov. Sarah Palin is ready to be president. He went on to say, "McCain's going to be alive and well."
posted on October 25, 2008 06:05:11 AM new
Hi Cherished, I think it is pretty sad. I don't know what is going on in that campaign. Don't expect her to know everything, especially about fruit flies, but if you are going to have your candidate make fun of a study, at least research it first. Pretty sloppy work they are doing.
posted on October 25, 2008 06:11:46 AM new
Good find, Cherishedclutter
Headline to the story with that remark...."Lieberman: Working hard for McCain; prepared to bring people together if he fails"
In other words, Lieberman is working his little ass kissing heart out for McCain but if a Democrat wins guess where he'll be. With that remark it's clear that he knows the election is lost and so he is attempting now to ingratiate himself to a few gullible members of another party. He jumps back and forth like a jackrabbit with his tail on fire.
