For the full article: http://www.au.org/media/church-and-state/archives/2009/06/religious-right-targets.html

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Not all republicans are crazies, either.

Maybe not absolutely all but far too many of them are. Any sane Republican is definitely an ignored minority in that mob. Plus, unfortunately, not only are the Republican ‘crazies’ too numerous they are also the one’s in charge of the party.

It is hardly either a secret or news that the fundamentalist Religious Wrong and the fanatical pro-Israel neo-con mob hold undue sway over the Republican – or as I term ‘em the Retardican party – in your country.

Generally speaking, the Republican party is the party of religious extremists and anti-science. No doubt about it.

Want proof? Just look at who they nominated last time – an elderly fool who confused a planetarium with an “overhead projector” and constantly criticised the idea of spending any money on it for science education and, *shudder*, that creationist redneck hickette, Sarah Palin.

“There is a certain amount of innuendo in the criticism of Dr. McLeroy,” Sen. Steve Ogden, R-Bryan, said. “To a certain degree it’s a slur.”

Yeah, I always find that attitude pretty ironic. It’s okay to deny plainly overwhelming evidence that’s tested, retested, supported over and over again, but dare to suggest that belief in spirits and angels and supermen in the sky might be a little out of sync with reality and suddenly you’re a religious bigot, when in fact that epithet should be reserved exclusively for people who take mythology as literal truth and insist upon foisting their fantasies on others.

But his supporters said there was an anti-religious tinge to the opposition because McLeroy is a conservative Christian who does not believe in evolution.

“There is a certain amount of innuendo in the criticism of Dr. McLeroy,” Sen. Steve Ogden, R-Bryan, said. “To a certain degree it’s a slur.”

Gaah! Oogh! … Puh! I believe my brain just rotated in my skull, before returning to life again.

In what way is “not believe in evolution” not a religious slur on science?

[Careful with those links, Phil. Or you have to write a book about "Death from the web!"]

Another argument for some other system of determining curriculums.

[Texas I presume..] Keeps varying from saved to doomed.

Ultimately we’re *all* doomed.

Our Sun will burn out scorching the Earth to a cinder or less before it goes, our Milky Way will be destroyed in a galactic collision with Andromeda, even the very universe will perish. Long, long, lo-ooo-oong before that you and I and all of us will have died. *

Texas might just be doomed a bit earlier like, say, the ancient Aztec empire was.

Cheery thought … Think I read all about it in some book somewhere ..Now then, who was the author again, a Phil somebody? Pl.. something?

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* Well, almost certainly so. I suppose there’s the exceedingly remote possibility some of us could use relativistic effects, cryogenic freezing or an artificial black hole or something equally SF to survive or travel up to this universal end but then, really, who’d *want* to?