Creationism In Louisiana Science Class, and Bobby Jindal
The two topics don’t appear to be related, but they sort of are, in that both items may have their roots in Bobby Jindal’s ambitions. I found both to be of current interest.
First, the “Science Education Act”, and recent opposition to textbooks proposed for use in Louisiana schools:
If you believed the advocates of Louisiana’s “Science Education Act,” the whole point was not to ban evolution from textbooks in science classes. Rather, it was to provide a way for teachers to introduce “supplemental materials” that would question the purported weaknesses in evolution.
You were wrong to believe that, if you did.
And Rep. Frank Hoffman, R-West Monroe, frankly admitted the lie the other day.
Another of the same group of creationism advocates had challenged some proposed life-science textbooks, on the grounds that the books treated evolution as the basis of biology. Hoffman was one of the votes on a review committee that objected to the texts.
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The fraud behind the “Science Education Act” is that it was called a measure narrowly designed to deal with a specific problem.
Rather, it is part of an anti-intellectual crusade that can serve only to hobble the education of Louisiana’s children, and will have the effect of bringing ridicule on this state.
Read the whole thing. The comments are worth reading, as well, and point out Jindal’s idiotic support for this law, and possible reasons for that support. Which leads us to the next topic: Bobby Jindal’s job hopping and his possible future aspirations. In addition to other problems I’ve had with Jindal’s method of governing (his media secretiveness, his support of creationism, his utter failure to keep in touch with the electorate), here’s another point voters should think long and hard about: Jindal’s job-hopping. The comments at that article are also worth reading. And I’d like to point out, as well, that the end result of this job-hopping is that Jindal has briefly held a number of high-falutin’ sounding job titles, but I can’t find evidence of actual accomplishment for any of them!
I don’t know why it surprises anyone that Gov. Bobby Jindal is running all over the country apparently trying to get another job when you look at his employment record.
It seems he has never completed a job that he began.
He did graduate from Oxford in 1994, briefly worked as a business consultant and subsequently (1996) was appointed to head the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals.
In 1998 he was appointed executive director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare. What did that accomplish?
Then in 1999 he became the president of the University of Louisiana system, a position he held a mere two years until he jumped to the federal Department of Health and Human Services under President George W. Bush in March of 2001 and served until 2003.
In that year he resigned to run for political office (governor of Louisiana), a race he lost to Gov. Kathleen Blanco. In the next year, as a consolation prize, I guess, he ran for, and was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives seat vacated by now-U.S. Sen. David Vitter, and served from 2005 until he resigned in 2008 (one and one-half terms), when took office as governor of Louisiana.
Apparently, he did not really want to be a member of Congress, although he was assistant minority whip, whatever that amounts to.
Now he has been governor for less than one term, and despite the lip service that he pays to us as residents of Louisiana, claiming that he has the job he wants, he seems to be again looking for employment elsewhere.
Do you see a pattern here?
Is this a sign of unbridled ambition, someone who can’t make up his mind or incompetence? Bail out before you get caught, and let someone else clean up the mess?