Eon vs. Ion
20 12 2009
Now, some of you may have read that headline and thought to yourselves immediately that there must be some epic battle brewing between the evil claymation vulture who attempts to keep Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer from ushering in the new year in the 1976 TV movie; and the embodiment of a benevolent symbiote and secret identity of DC Comics’ Green Lantern protagonist Kyle Rayner.
Not so.
This “Eon vs. Ion” matchup exists only in the realm of Twitter, and the vast empty space in Sarah Palin’s cranium where the science section ought to be.
eon (plural eons)
- (US) (also temporal æon) Eternity.
- A period of 1,000,000,000 years.
- (geology) The longest time period used in geology.
ion (plural ions)
- An atom or group of atoms bearing an electrical charge such as the Sodium and Chlorine atoms in a salt solution.
- A charged particle.
Sarah Palin tweeted today. She said this:
Bypassing the painful inelegance of the tweet, the question it begs is, “Why should we be taking climate science advice from a person who does not know the difference between ‘a really long time’ and ‘a charged particle’?”
And wasn’t her father a science teacher? How ionic.
In Going Rogue (pg. 218) she says of her father that his science lessons “spilled over to the dinner table.”
“I just assumed every kid learned clever acronyms for planet alignments and the elements of the periodic table between forkfuls of caribou lasagna.”
I just assumed that anyone who claims to have had “eighteen years of impromptu supper table lessons” about the periodic table, and is a self-described “nerd” might know the difference between an eon and an ion.
And furthermore, while we’re at it, there are no clever acronyms for planet alignments. But there are several clever acronyms for planetary order, like:
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas
or
My Very Easy Method Just Set Up Nine Planets
or even
My Very Early Morning Jam Sandwich Usually Nauseates People
Alignment – order, Eon – ion… whatever.
But one thing’s for sure – that’s one Tweet that’ll have me chuckling for ions.
December 20th, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Ya’ know…with just a couple of wee, teeny-tiny, itty-bitty, minor tweaks, AKMs post header could become SPs run for POTUS slogan! It’d read: “Palin has vs.ion”.
December 20th, 2009 at 9:03 PM
{Lilybart @ 145 and Anne @ 148 – an excellent [if somewhat lengthy, due to its exactness] discussion about Tower 7s collapse can be found here: “WTC7″ ~ http://www.debunking911.com/pull.htm beth.}
December 21st, 2009 at 11:39 AM
Well, when you’re an expert on climate, energy, patriotism, part-time mothering, real America and birth certificates, you’re allowed to spell anything in any way you choose…that’s been true for ions.
Jeeebus, she needs a proofreader even for a Tweet? She can’t do anything right, it almost seems like a curse. OMG, her handlers let her out of their sights for 20 minutes and boom, she tweets with abandon…leaving them with another mess to clean up.
I swear that witch doctor that prayed over her secretly put a hex on her, leaving her forever afflicted with the “babble on curse” where she will be unable to utter anything sensible or based in reality. She should have checked his birth certificate!
How many people has she ordered to “get the hell out” of our country, is anyone counting? With everyone thrown under her bus, who is left?
December 21st, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Poolman thanks, I realize that’s the NIST’s official explanation, but it doesn’t address the explosives found at the scene and there are numerous reports that openly question the 9/11 conclusions, see http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/thermite/explosives_evidence_timeline.html
Also to Beth who said the black boxes weren’t found. They were found according to sources at the scene when major equipment was brought in to locate them, but they were confiscated and claimed not to have been found in the 9/11 report. If they could find minute bone fragments, how could they miss huge orange boxes? Even if 1 or 2 were missing, what about the 1 from Pennsylvania, there’s no reason that wasn’t found, and Fedrl Aviation said they’re almost always recovered.
I know it’s easy to dismiss all of this, and I hate conspiracy theories but many people have risked their lives and reputations for questioning the info. The site is 911truth.org and has extremely intense interviews with key players such as Susan Lindauer who was told by her superior that the Moosad team/ Isralei agents, were the ones waiting with video cameras at the scene and knew what was coming. He named them before they were named by the press.
I encourage any naysayers to read a few articles for themselves. It is a nonpartisan site and has no hype or fluff, just very well written scientific and journalistic information. It also does not say the US planned the attacks, just questions the conclusions of the committee and delves into extremely interesting topics, like a translater Sibel who’s interviewed about her inside information on Turkey, the US govt, Chicago affiliates, drug trafficking, international banking, etc. Much is recent, relevant 2009 info.
December 21st, 2009 at 8:07 PM
Ok, I really don’t mean to sound obsessed about this but I found a link to an official proposal made to the Obama administration to at least investigate the discrepancies of 9/11 and it is a very compelling read. It asks Obama to look into all the missing data, 85 undisclosed videotapes from the Pentagon, the first responder testimony that conflicts with the official report. The short timeline of the offical report without and official investigation. The fact that steel buildings were turned into dust that doesn’t fit the scientific evidence of plane fuel.
It bears questioning since this event is what led us into 2 existing wars, billions of taxpayer dollars, and thousands of lives lost. The link is:
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20090616021947552 scroll down a few paragraphs to the start of the letter. OK I’m done discussing this.
December 22nd, 2009 at 7:34 AM
I don’t come on here as regularly as I should. I love to read comments about Palin who is almost on an even par as our goofy guv down here in Texas.
BTW, I’m sure you all have seen the following on HuffPo.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/18/sarah-palin-rupaul-spoof_n_397667.html