Sarah Palin Makes Me Want to Run to the Hills

Sarah Palin gets more frightening all the time. P.Z. Myers pointed out this video of Ms. Palin speaking at her church:



Yikes! Our invasion of Iraq is "a task that is from God". Yeah, Yahweh has a good track record of giving out tasks that involve killing. ("Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.")

I see that local blog Caffeinated Politics has found some more video:





Wowzers! They do prophecy. Makes me want to listen to some Iron Maiden.

I had their lives in my hands
Their fate their fortune in my vision
No one believed in my true prophecy
And now it's too late



The proprietor of CP also noted that Palin has been accused of seeking to ban books.

Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor.

How about standing up for freedom of speech instead of banning books? I hope that Ms. Palin knows that freedom of speech is precisely for speech with which she doesn't agree, that which offends her or some of her constituents.