Hdtex, why do you think she puts on the religious facade all the time, to try to fool the ignorant into thinking she is an honorable, upstanding person and she is nothing of the sort. My late great grandmother used to say that those who run to church usually need to, but obvioulsy she doesn’t listen.

Fadel, sad, but not a surprising outcome.

The classes I teach at a national prestigious university involve cultural aspects to them. So I asked my ethnically diverse students to make a short comment on the following question:
“What would be your reaction if while lecturing, I keep winking and blinking at you?”
Here are samples of the most common comments:
* I think you have an eye-muscle disorder, and I
would advice you seek treatment!
* I think you are trying to artificially and
vulgarly be funny!
* I would be offended!
* I would take it as an offensive sexual advance and
I would launch a complain!
* I would feel uncomfortable!
* I would be distracted!
* I would call you derogatorily ‘the winking
professor.’

Then I asked them the following follow up question:

“What would be your reaction if I told you that I believe in witches and feel a need to be “de-witched” by a priest once in a while?”

Here are samples of the most common comments:
* I will think you are a nut or a mental case!
* I will drop your course and launch a formal
complain!
* I think you’re extremely superstitious and feel
uncomfortable to learn from you!
* I think that you have a medieval backward
mentality and you’re unfit to be teaching!
When I told my students that this experiment was related to recent facts about Sarah Palin who is running for vice-president, I was surprised to know that only 4 out of 25 students suspected that my questions were pointedly related to Sarah Palin. To my disappointment I found out that the majority of the students don’t follow the news related to the elections.
Then, when I asked them to guess where it’s more likely that a young man could be lynched for whistling at a girl. I wasn’t surprised to hear that some said it’s most likely be Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, or some medieval country somewhere in the world. But I was shocked to know that those most selective brilliant students, who are the creme of the crop and pay some 35 thousand dollars a year to attend this school, did not know that this happened here in America.

Believe Time.com has read my mind on Palin, Stapleton, and Troopergate:

“. . . Is the Palin administration shockingly amateurish? Yes, it is. Disturbingly so.

The 263 pages of the [Branchflower] report show a co-ordinated application of pressure on Monegan so transparent and ham-handed that it was almost certain to end in public embarrassment for the governor. . .

A harsh verdict? Consider the report’s findings.

Not only did people at almost every level of the Palin administration engage in repeated inappropriate contact with Walt Monegan and other high-ranking officials at the Department of Public Safety, but Monegan and his peers constantly warned these Palin disciples that the contact was inappropriate and probably unlawful. Still, the emails and calls continued — in at least one instance on recorded state trooper phone lines.

The state’s head of personnel, Annette Kreitzer, called Monegan and had to be warned that personnel issues were confidential. The state’s attorney general, Talis Colberg, called Monegan and had to be reminded that the call was putting both men in legal jeopardy, should Wooten decide to sue. The governor’s chief of staff met with Monegan and had to be reminded by Monegan that, “This conversation is discoverable ... You don’t want Wooten to own your house, do you?”

Monegan consistently emerges as the adult in these conversations, while the Palin camp displays a childish impetuousness and sense of entitlement.

http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1849399,00.html