11/23/2008 09:10:12 PM EST

Don't mess with Texas, especially if you're a scientist

posted by LudwigVan

The reactionary Right is at it again in America's second largest state. You'd think this was the Scopes Trial of 1925 if you forgot it was 2008.

It's not just Texas; I know it's Kansas at least, but at least they got a Democratic Governor with better hair.

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Look folks. Evolution is science. Creationism, or "intelligent design" if you insist on calling it that, is faith, religion. Teach the former in science class and the latter in social studies.

Or if you really want to keep your kids from learning that whole monkey garbage taught by those godless liberals in Austin, then send your kids to a private school or homeschool them. Just keep your petty theocratic agenda out of our public schools.

Not that our public schools are worth a pile of dog product, since they've been defunded so much. And good luck on whatever standardized test they got you taking this year; they keep changing it...

Fortunately, most of the rest of America rejected Sarah Palin. I think God for this. Seriously.
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Lovely, lovely (none / 0)

LudwigVan

Welly, welly, welly, well. Hi, Hi, Hi there my fellow droogie.

Boy am I embarrassed if you picked your nick for some other reason but.........

The Washing Post is talking about the future of the Republican party if they continue down this road.

Link. 

That is not the only one. It is just a matter of time now before the religious lunatic fringe no longer calls the shots in your state. 

by z1p101 on 11/23/2008 10:04:24 PM EST

Yup, that's where the nickname comes from (none / 0)

but I am a freelance composer trying to be a professional composer, and I had a major obsessed with Beethoven as a young kid. But I've never been into the ultra-violence...

That was the one main reason I dissociated myself from the Republicans and the conservative brand name in the early 1990s, the narrow religious agenda. As long as they hold on to that, they'll be hemorrhaging more members and end up as relevant as the Constitution Party.

by LudwigVan on 11/24/2008 06:10:41 PM EST

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Thought so (none / 0)

Seeing LudwigVan that was the first thing that popped into my mind.

BTW, you have a fellow Texan here at this blog named Ken. I don't know if you have met him yet but I have been trying to tell him for the last 2 years that the Republican party is blowing it's own feet clean off. They were not playing around either, 12 gauge, double O buck shot, point blank. He didn't believe me but yet here we are.

Another Texan who call himself ProfRich has tried the same to no avail.

Ken now insists that he and this old buffoon on the AM dial are going to turn things around and cause people to return to the Bush, Neo Con party.

I know, the truth is stranger than fiction.

Maybe as an Ex Republican you can start trying to explain it to him. Be warned, Ken's skull is made up of 3" of concrete and covered with at least an 1" of lead but you can never loose hope.

Welcome fellow droogie and if I make some derogatory red neck Texan jokes they are totally aimed at Ken and no one else.

by z1p101 on 11/24/2008 07:01:30 PM EST

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Religious mentalism (none / 0)
Holy and wholly crap.

If I'd wanted to time travel back to the fucking Dark Ages and have fundamentalist insanity taught as science then I'd have emigrated to Afghanistan.

by geffel on 11/23/2008 10:07:12 PM EST

I came across this youtube clip a few days ago (none / 0)

I guess things went the wrong way on election day.

by jutewe on 11/24/2008 12:06:01 AM EST

wow (none / 0)
Now that's an activist. Give that guy a medal.

by hazmat on 11/24/2008 11:39:29 AM EST

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Aron Ra (none / 0)
I subscribe to this guy's (Aron Ra) videos on youtube. Apart from his excellent voice, he speaks a lot of sense on many subjects. His videos debunking creationist/"intellige nt design" bullshit are superb - they're thoughtful, tinged with sarcasm and irony, beautifully illustrated and researched.

by geffel on 11/24/2008 01:12:03 PM EST

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