Republicans Sponsor 9 Creationism Bills in 7 States in the First 3 Months of 2011

Take America back! (To the 17th century.)
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In addition to all the other wonderful things Republicans have been doing lately (union-busting, misogynistic anti-abortion legislation, tax breaks for the richest, keeping gays down), they’ve also introduced a record number of bills that promote the teaching of creationism in science classes as a valid alternative to evolution. Sometimes these are presented as “academic freedom” bills, to mask the true intent with a phony lofty-sounding name, but sometimes they don’t even try to hide their outright young earth creationism.

In the first three months of 2011, Republicans in seven states have introduced at least nine bills intended to destroy the science education of America’s children: 9 Bills That Would Put Creationism in the Classroom.

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25 comments
1 Kragar  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 11:51:07am

Propping up the economy and creating jobs by…wait, WTF is this shit?

2 Targetpractice  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 11:51:28am

The Republican Party: Boldly Taking America Back…to the 19th century.

3 Mickey_being_mickey  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 11:56:05am

How odd. The coordination between the people trying to destroy this country is breathtaking.

4 Gus  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 11:57:23am

re: #2 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

The Republican Party: Boldly Taking America Back…to the 19th century.

19th century? Isn’t that a little too modern for the GOP? /

5 Kronocide  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 11:58:49am

It’s the Economy, Stupid.

6 moderatelyradicalliberal  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 12:04:27pm

According to recent polls the experiment in TeaGOP governance is not going well at all. Most people in important swing states have buyers remorse, big time. OH, WI, MI and FL specifically.

[Link: tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com…]

[Link: www.tampabay.com…]

The national GOP isn’t getting much attention, but at the state level serious damage is being done and eventually the national party and the GOP nominee for 2012 will carry the burden of it.

8 Jeff Zazlow  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 12:09:05pm

Dear Reuters You Must Be Kidding

Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian strike. It was the first time Jerusalem had been hit by such a bomb since 2004.
Those Israelis and their crazy terms! I mean, referring to a fatal bombing of civilians as a “terrorist attack”? Who are they kidding? Everyone knows that a fatal bombing of Israeli civilians should be referred to as a “teachable moment.” Or as a “venting of certain frustrations.” Or as “an understandable reaction to Jewish perfidy.”
9 Gus  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 12:09:35pm

re: #7 Jeff Zazlow

Beautifual Pakistani Actress Confronted by Idiot Mullah on Pakistani TV - MEmri

Pakistani Actress Defies Pwns Mullah

:)

10 Kragar  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 12:11:12pm

Server going wonky?

11 moderatelyradicalliberal  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 12:11:12pm

re: #7 Jeff Zazlow

Beautifual Pakistani Actress Confronted by Idiot Mullah on Pakistani TV - MEmri

I hope she had good security. A woman in Pakistan can get acid thrown on her face for that kind of defiance.

12 Jeff Zazlow  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 12:14:48pm

A Study in Contrasts

When I saw the news that a young Jewish family had been brutally slaughtered [1] in Samaria (the West Bank), including three young children butchered in their beds, my blood began to boil. Since that day, the news coverage has done nothing to alleviate my emotional turmoil, and in several cases, it has heightened it [2]. With so many calamitous events in the news — earthquakes, tsunamis, radiation leaks, Libyan rebels, and so on — most news outlets have consigned the brutal murder of the Fogel family to second-class status. Pity the family was not murdered during a slow news cycle, when perhaps the world would have taken greater notice.

One seemingly unrelated article [3] I read a few days later caught my attention. It was the story of IDF soldiers and Israeli paramedics saving the life of a young, pregnant Palestinian woman and her baby, when the baby’s umbilical cord had become wrapped around its throat. In the same town where what remains of the the Fogel family sat shiva, mourning the massacre that had taken place just days before, a Palestinian cab driver raced with the pregnant woman towards the Israeli forces, who he knew would help her. The baby and mother were saved by the Israelis, and according to the article:

Palestinians from the nearby village of Nabi Salah gathered around the paramedics along with the new grandmother and could not hide their joy. “They thanked us and told us they named the girl Jude,” Corporal Levin said.

Reading this article, I could not help but note the stark contrast between this story and the news of the massacre, between the actions of Israelis and the behavior of Palestinians. The Palestinian taxi driver raced towards the Jewish forces because he knew they would help the Palestinian woman and her unborn child … and that is exactly what the Israelis did. Yet not far away, Palestinians had smashed a window of a Jewish family’s home, entered, stabbed the husband, mother, and three children, and slit all of their throats [4], decapitating their infant child. As news of the murders spread, the Palestinians celebrated [5] with fireworks and dancing in the streets. They handed out candy and other treats in a display of jubilation.

Surely not all Palestinians are murderers [6], just as not all Israelis are saviors, but again and again the contrasts keep echoing in my mind. The Palestinian taxi driver knew the Israelis would help them. The IDF and Israeli paramedics saved a Palestinian mother and child. The Palestinian townsfolk celebrated in the streets the brutal murder of Jewish children.

I posted a link to the article on my Facebook page, along with some of my thoughts about the contrasts between the actions of the Israelis and the Palestinians, and the following day, I found the following comment had been left by a woman whom I had recently added as a “friend” following a request she had sent me:

May be you should ask yourself this — What this population had gone through, the losses and sufferings that they have become so heartless that they see no way out of this unjust occupation other than eradicating these Jews who forced them to become animals. Ok fine, I believe in a 2-state solution as I’m a reasonable and realistic person. But what about the Jews who celebrated in their thousands and congratulated the Israeli soldiers after they raided the flotilla and killed many activists?

This woman’s comment is wrong on so many levels that it is hard to know where to begin refuting it.

13 Bubblehead II  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 12:15:10pm

re: #7 Jeff Zazlow

Beautifual Pakistani Actress Confronted by Idiot Mullah on Pakistani TV - MEmri

Fixed your link. You need to remember to delete the http that is automatically included in the link box.

14 Jeff Zazlow  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 12:16:56pm

BUBBLEHEAD II
Beautiful Pakistani Actress Confronts Idiot Mullah
I deleted the http this time but I clicked on the original link and that worked as well?

15 Bubblehead II  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 12:20:40pm

re: #14 Jeff Zazlow

This is what I got when I clicked on it (original post/link)

Safari can’t find the server.
Safari can’t open the page “

Youtube Video
because Safari can’t find the server “http”.

You can use Google to search the web for this text.

Either way it was an interesting link. She totally ripped him a new one.

16 Bubblehead II  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 12:23:36pm

re: #15 Bubblehead II

Ok, that is just too weird. Didn’t mean to embed the video to begin with, but that it would work with the double http header is surprising.

17 Stanley Sea  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 12:29:17pm

@theplumlinegs: Breaking: Huffington Post yanks Andrew Breitbart from front page: new statement: [Link: wapo.st…]

18 Jeff Zazlow  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 12:33:03pm
Youtube Video

there’s the link…. ok?? she’s a pleasure to look at g-d is she beautiful… I wonder if they sell the India Big Brother show she was on on DVD? lol…
How ridiculous is it that she has to deal with dark ages neanderthal hypocrites like this….. She can come to the US and improve our gene pool anyday!!

19 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 12:35:29pm

re: #18 Jeff Zazlow

[Video]there’s the link… ok?? she’s a pleasure to look at g-d is she beautiful… I wonder if they sell the India Big Brother show she was on on DVD? lol…
How ridiculous is it that she has to deal with dark ages neanderthal hypocrites like this… She can come to the US and improve our gene pool anyday!!

Pakistani women are often stunning. It’s a good-looking part of the world.

20 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 12:35:56pm

re: #19 SanFranciscoZionist

Pakistani women are often stunning. It’s a good-looking part of the world.

And Bollywood does not do ‘girl next door’. They do ‘heart-attack beautiful’.

21 Targetpractice  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 12:37:26pm

re: #17 Stanley Sea

@theplumlinegs: Breaking: Huffington Post yanks Andrew Breitbart from front page: new statement: [Link: wapo.st…]

Was wondering how long it’d be before he went one toke over the line. But when you’re talking about Andrew Breitbart, the wait time on his making an even bigger ass of himself is measured in picoseconds.

22 Jeff Zazlow  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 12:43:06pm

re: #20 SanFranciscoZionist
She is both….

23 BongCrodny  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 12:47:01pm

Will someone please tell me how electing dumb people is supposed to make things better?

24 Kronocide  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 1:26:10pm

Too soon for Palin/Bachmann 2012 campaign slogan entries?

How about Dumb and Dum... no.

Nutter and Nutterer!

2012: Yes We Can Derp!

25 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 24, 2011 3:36:52pm

re: #20 SanFranciscoZionist

And Bollywood does not do ‘girl next door’. They do ‘heart-attack beautiful’.

Yeah, she’s gorgeous. I always laugh when I hear some fool say Middle Eastern or in this case South Asian women are ugly. Lot of beautiful women from those parts of the world. Of course, there are a lot of beautiful women period :). As for the original subject, is this some kind of stupid joke? I mean really pushing creationism how lame can they get.


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