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See actually these guys are brilliant. They knew that all they had to do was string a bunch of sciency-like words together, that all ended in "logical", and people would not notice that the resolution they just passed did not make any damn sense. Especially if those "people" had the misfortune of getting their education from the South Dakota school district.Let me guess. The people of South Dakota just LOVE Sarah Palin, don't they?
Just goes to show that ya cain't fix stupid, no sirree!
ReplyDeleteas stupid as this law is, it pales in comparison to the new law in Utah which criminalizes miscarriage.
ReplyDeleteyup, if a DA decides he can prove that a pregnant woman was contemplating abortion, and then miscarried, she can be charged with criminal homicide.
WTF???
as to Rachel's show tonight, loved her tinfoil hat -- but as a Californian, I was more interested in the interview with Newsom. It is so horrifying to watch Meg Whitman buy the governorship with her massive fortune, and no decent Dem is even willing to run against her. There is no possible way anyone could run against that money.
Much home schooling by fundamentalists going on there?
ReplyDeleteThe dumbing down continues.
And, kellygirl @8:41 PM, I share your concern. It is a travesty. I fear it is only the start after the recent Supreme Court decision.
Amazing, isn't it? I don't know what's worse, these people in office, or those who voted them in. Has Sarah Palin writren all over it- in sharpie!
ReplyDeleteWell gosh, guys, this is a great opportunity to cash in! I think I'll start a web site that gives an astrology forecast for tomorrow's weather. Of course, you have to send me money to get it, but it'll be right from the stars, you betcha...also, too, there.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised Rachel's staff didn't pick up on the fact that what they reported was the House version of the bill, which was rewritten by the Senate before they passed it. This article at Science Progress covers the larger issues involved.
ReplyDeleteClimate Change Preps for Its Scopes Trial
State Legislatures Take Up the Assault on Science
South Dakota’s HCR 1009 is the first bill to attack global warming only, and is especially notable for its attempt to resurrect the creationist “balanced treatment” strategy of the 1980s. As it passed the South Dakota House on February 17, the resolution calls “for balanced teaching of global warming in the public schools of South Dakota.”
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If the [Senate's] revised [version of the] bill passes the House, it will put the hardworking teachers of South Dakota in a bind. Will they bow to political pressure and misinform their students about global warming? Or will they soldier on, preparing their students to understand the climatic forces driving the breadbasket from Kansas to the Dakotas and expanding the market for South Dakota’s abundant wind power? If that is the case, it may take a latter-day John Scopes to shoulder the burden of public ignominy, defend the integrity of science education, and show the South Dakota legislature the error of its ways.
Click my name for a link to the article.
http://www.scienceprogress.org/2010/02/climate-change-scopes-trial/
Wow i bet Texas is pissed they wurt ferst on this one.
ReplyDeleteThermological knowledge has Mercedes ahead of Scarah. Thus the dickheadological familiocentric terminological abhorance to any geneological claim to anything Palinogaclly astronomically legitable futuronomy. I am truely lost for words.
I am not sure but perhaps with mayor Dan Sullivans help the state of Alaska could write an even better bill. Dicktatorially it's all there. Am i far off?
Here are your signs, South Dakota and Utah.
ReplyDeleteThe two Palin jokes on Friday's edition of Real Time with Bill Maher:
ReplyDelete♦ Being politicians, you know, they all got to sharing their personal stories. Obama talked about his mother's battle with cancer, Harry Reid talked about a kid with a cleft pallet and John McCain told how he once carried a brain-dead woman through an entire campaign.
♦ People are always debating, is Buddhism a religion or a philosophy? It's a religion because you’re a religion when you do something as weird as when the Buddhist monks scrutinize two-year olds to find the reincarnation of the dude who just died and then choose one of the toddlers as the sacred lama. Sorry, but thinking you can look at a babbling, barely house-broken, uneducated being and say that’s our leader doesn't make you enlightened. It makes you a Sarah Palin supporter.
And I'll keep on saying it: Idiocracy (the movie) is NOT the future... it is NOW.
ReplyDeleteWhat a bunch of dumbasses.
Now you guys don't like it when the lower 48 think all people in Alaska are like Sarah Palin, so why would you think all people from South Dakota are like this or like her.
ReplyDeleteI may not live there anymore, but I can assure you that even if I did, I would not like $P.
My education is also pretty good. I went to ONE college and got a 4 year degree in 3 years even, unlike your girl from AK ;)
This is said mostly tongue-in-cheek, but really AK residents should "get" that one-size-fits-all does not hold true in MOST places.
Well, if these folks want to go in the direction of astrology, they may want to take a look at just what the stars may have in store for their beloved Sarah:
ReplyDeleteSee the February 12 blog...and enjoy!
http://starlightnews.com/wordpress/
Okay, whatever--but, in the end, Sarah's star power is going to dim and fade away--but not before she has etched out her place in the history books:
Chapter 1: The stellar rise and astronomical/astrological fall of Sarah Palin. An overview.
It also give SD teachers permission to teach astrology as a science.
ReplyDeleteBut not creationism.
Curious said...
ReplyDeleteNow you guys don't like it when the lower 48 think all people in Alaska are like Sarah Palin, so why would you think all people are like this or like her.
I totally agree, condemning the entire population of a state isn't a constructive attitude.
It also applies to every state in the union, especially now with neanterthals in every level of elected office and proud of their ignorance.
I spent most of my life in the most hated state in the union, Texas, though not for the past 5 years. Alaskans have had to endure a lot of insults from the rest of the country for the last couple of years, thanks to Sarah and others. So they are probably enjoying getting some of their own back right now.
Just because Sarah is Stupid, or Whorehouse Perry is a brainless toady, or the SD and AZ legislatures are retarded doesn't mean that every citizen should be similarly branded.
Come on we can do better than that, and try to support and encourage the voices that speak out against the dumbness, racism, and hate.
Sarah was back to calling the POTUS "arrogant". Its that racism and attitude we need to be calling out.
the only bright side to this story is that rachel is on the teevee helping us see teh stupid. if we didn't have rachel and keith - we would truly be screwed.
ReplyDeleteSoDak is not even smart enough to come up with this on their own. They're just following the lead of the brain trust that is the Utah State Legislature who did this same thing a couple of weeks ago: http://priorbadacts.wordpress.com/2010/02/14/its-our-right-to-live-in-a-cesspool/.
ReplyDeleteCitizens can't make it to your meaningless anti-environmental signing ceremonies because of bad air quality: -15.00 (cab fare). Non-binding resolutions done strictly to get your stupidity into the public record: Priceless.
Utah one-upped even itself in stupidity, debating whether to eliminate 12th grade to save some money. After all, what you you need that fancy book-lernin' for when your real job is to (pro)create as many members of the church as you can? Start 'em young and have a womb-a-palooza.
I can assure you that the people of SD are THAT mindless!
ReplyDeleteThank God I moved back to Minnesota where the good citizens regard Michelle Bachmann as a freak ..... on par with Palin!
I now have what remains of my sanity ..... back.
I think.
Growing up, I spent my high school years in Sioux Falls, SD. Worst years of my teenaged life. If one wasn't athletic one didn't fit in, and you were made fun of. I experienced this first hand, as did my brother. I was ready to beat the guy up for picking on him. Luckily I made the guy feel so bad he apologized to my bro. We moved not long after that incident (dad changed jobs) to a bigger city and never had any other problems like that.
ReplyDeleteMy whole family is pretty liberal, so we always felt out of place there anyway. What they're doing now doesn't surprise me one bit. Just makes me sad that people can be so stupid.
all of my sd relatives find sp despicable. many were alaskans at some point.
ReplyDeleteWow, as a South Dakotan I find it very funny that you Idiots in Alaska think wer are a bunch of hicks? Is that why its called the Iditerod? Anyway, yes the resolution was worded badly. But, the point the legislature was trying to make was that we do NOT want that Al Gore crap being taught to our kids as the gospel, because it is not. Thats what was going on here and if you all are too stupid to see that. Who is the hick. Please stay up where you are. While I am not in support of Palin as President, she has more balls than ANY of you.
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