McCain Answers Science Policy Questionnaire

thebestsophist writes "A couple weeks ago, I reported that Barack Obama had answered a questionnaire by Scientists and Engineers for America. McCain has now answered that questionnaire as well. You can also compare their answers. Perhaps with help from the Slashdot community, we can get all the Congressional candidates as well?"

Re:Old Skool Science Mavericks

[furball]

But Palin is a hot Creationist. It's like an equation. After hot, you can drop everything else.

Hmm. Something's amiss.

[Tibor the Hun]

I think he errs when he tries to establish a database connection.

I think it's a pretty common problem for older guys though.

Re:McCain's response...

[megamerican]

Error establishing a database connection

Isn't there a pill he can take for that?

Database Connection Error

[Anonymous Coward]

There were only 3 comments when I tried to open the links in the article but I'm already getting a database connection error.

Either this has been spread around digg, reddit, or somewhere else already or their servers can't handle much of a load.

In Soviet Russia...

[Anonymous Coward]

I just *know* there's a good reason you linked to the hl=ru cache, but for the life of me, I can only think of /. memes.

Re:Database Connection Error

[$RANDOMLUSER]

...or their servers can't handle much of a load.

Oh, don't be silly. We all know McCain's/Palin's "science policy" is a huge load.

First question

[kosanovich]

Question #1: As president what will you do to ensure that our webserver doesn't die a fiery death when this article gets slashdotted?

Re:Old Skool Science Mavericks

[aproposofwhat]

Palin is a Creationist [google.com]. McCain is a fossil.

Does that mean that Palin believes that McCain was carefully buried by God to confuse the evil Darwinists?

Re:McCain's response...

[rootofevil]

Bob Dole says yes!

How the heck???

[DnemoniX]

McCain must have had some help with this, we all know he doesn't use computers, doesn't know how to use e-mail and admittedly depends upon his wife for that. Talk about out of touch with the 21st Century. How is he ever supposed to become a Cybernetic Overlord? I mean really!

Vote Cthulhu 08
Why vote for a lesser evil when you can vote for a greater one!

Re:Old Skool Science Mavericks

[Anonymous Coward]

Sarah Palin wouldn't be hot if you coated her in bear grease, dressed her in an oil-soaked toga, stuffed her socks with charcoal briquets, stuck a lit flare in her mouth, and threw her into an active volcano.

It might, however, raise the average IQ in Alaska by a tick.

Re:Innovation

[eln]

John McCain is a puppet of the Jew.

Sure, but which Jew? I bet it's Woody Allen, since they have so much in common: They both used to be entertaining and relevant, but now they're just churning out derivative crap.

On the other hand, it could be Joe Lieberman. Lieberman's clearly got his head up McCain's ass, he might have his hand up there too.

Come on man, you can't leave us hanging like this: which Jew is controlling McCain?

Re:The best answer to the science questionnaire

[jep77]

You can't take the government out of research. Think of a world without your iPod [engadget.com]. And I can't personally imagine a world without Matthew Lesko [governmentgrant.com]. Seriously though, Matthew Lesko!

Re:Innovation

[superberg]

This is the point, where an honest man in your shoes either commits suicide or promises to vote for a Republican as a penance...

Now, now, two wrongs don't make a right.

Re:Innovation

[Anonymous Coward]

Come on man, you can't leave us hanging like this: which Jew is controlling McCain?

Jesus. Oh wait, that's Palin.

Palin's Experience

[BodhiCat]

In her interview with Charles Gibson, Sarah Palin claimed to have foreign policy experience because, "You can see Russia from Alaska." Is this true? Is Alaska so close to Russia that you can see it? From a world map we can see that the state of Alaska is indeed close to Russia. (Use Google Maps) They seem to be closest at the Seward Peninsula. But, both the peninsula and the part of Russia that it is opposite are snow covered mountainous regions that are separated by about 50 miles of the storm tossed Bering Strait. Not a likely invasion route. But since they are 50 miles apart how can you "see Russia from Alaska"? Well between the two peninsulas there are two islands Big Diomede and Little Diomede. Big Diomede is indeed owned by Russia and Little Diomede is part of Alaska, since they are separated by about 2 miles of ocean, you can indeed see one from the other. Little Diomede is 2.8 square miles and has a population of 146, mostly Native Americans who make their living from whaling and ivory carving. Not a tempting target for Russia. So where did Palin get the idea that Russia is such an immediate security threat to Alaska? Well, if you look at the Risk game board there is indeed a dotted line where you can move armies from Russian territory to Alaska. Is playing Risk where she really got her foreign policy experience?

Re:Innovation

[holy_calamity]

"When you control the *tubes* you should be able to get profit from your investment."

There, fixed that for you.

Re:Innovation

[Jason Levine]

No, no, no. The Christian Right are the ones controlling McCain. We Jews control Barack... Oops. I don't think I was supposed to tell anyone that.

Re:Innovation

[iserlohn]

Yeah.. and so is Rupert Murdoch!!

It's all a vast left-wing conspiracy!!

Re:Old Skool Science Mavericks

[geoffspear]

It seems when Republicans call for bipartisanship, it really means "Do everything I say.". I'm hoping that one day, the Speaker really requires them to stand up and talk for 30 hours, instead of simply declare the intent to filibuster. :)

I'm sure the Speaker of the Senate will get right on that as soon as they create the position.

Re:Who did you say was answering the questionnaire

[GlobalEcho]

I want to know if the candidate himself could pass a grade school science exam before he gets to make calls on science policy.

It would be nice if our leaders were superhuman and were experts on every facet of policy, but the reality is that no one can be an expert on everything

(emphasis added)

The GP is asking for grade school, not graduate school. It's not a very high standard.

Re:Innovation

[mcgrew]

Now, now, two wrongs don't make a right.

No, but three lefts do.

Re:Innovation (Steve Ballmer?)

[Tetrad_of_doom]

and what cabinet position would Steve Ballmer have? Secretary of Checking the President's Email?
McCain at Google [youtube.com]

Re:I hate them, they're "think of the children"

[WindBourne]

No, I do not hate our children. Just yours :)

Re:Innovation

[gabrieltss]

"...two wrongs don't make a right."

Yeah, but two Wrights made an airplane!

Re:Innovation

[KGIII]

...who lived with Mom until he was thirty.

Hmm... You'd think that Jesus would get more respect here on slashdot just for that very reason. Changing water into wine, making scads of fish and loaves of bread, getting up after he was dead?!? Fuck - Jesus was a hacker.

Re:Innovation

[Anonymous Coward]

I dunno. When I play pocket pool, It's a zero sum game between inflation and deflation.

Re:Innovation

[z80kid]

> One of them is going to win, so wipe the sand out of your vagina and pick the one you dislike the least

So that would be.... the giant douche?

Re:Innovation

[lawn.ninja]

someone please mod this funny.

Re:Innovation

[Eli Gottlieb]

So how do I join this Know Party?

Re:Innovation

[KGIII]

That is who I'm going to vote for then.