To begin I want to mention Texas State Legislator Wayne Christian who after finding that the Texas Board of Education had voted down the Intelligent Design wording, submitted a bill to the Texas State Legislature to codify Intelligent Design into our science classes.
Now we find that Texas Taliban Dentist and sometimes Texas Board of Education member Crazy Don McLeroy (and the rest of the 7 person Texas Taliban on the board) are now on the warpath to cast religious doubt on Climate Change by putting the words "Students must anualyse and evaluate different views on the existence of global warming" into the Texas public school science curriculum.
In her Houston Chronicle column Lisa Falkenberg contends this is not such a bad idea. Presently the 10 year old text books make no mention of climate change or global warming at all and now they will. Also that as soon as students anualyze and evaluate the data on climate change they will find that not only do 85% of scientists and 95% of the top scientists in the field of climatology find there is no question that Mankind is making the Earth warmer – which is causing different kinds of havoc around the world – they well be enlightened and toss that crazyass crap out the door. Lisa Falkenberg State Board of Education Says NO to Climate Change
Well excuse me Lisa! The denial of both evolution and climate change are connected to an ignorant and dangerous belief system that contends only GOD controls our world and all it holds. That mankind has no responsibility for anything at all other than keeping gays from getting married and ensuring YOUR children are dumber than they are.
Of course the denial of Climate Change is not really the work of intolerant ignorant evangelical Republicans alone, its most prominent purveyors are the educated wealthy free market no regulations gang of Republicans who know full well they are lying just to keep their taxes lower than Rush Limbaugh’s character.
Like so many other issues that promote ignorance and intolerance, the country club Republicans throw that crap to their ignorant intolerant BASE who snort it up with a beer chugging helmet, consumed as they are with all the intolerance inherent in issues of abortion, gay marriage, sex education, more assault rifles, Mexicans, Intelligent design, forcing prayer in schools and on and on it goes. The Wall Street Republicans and Rush Limbaugh who actually run the party DO NOT give a crap about any of those sillyass things AT ALL. They came to power for 30 years throwing that rancid meat to the American Morons only to get their vote.
The Republican problem now is that after they brought us this economic meltdown, and we all knowing they are responsible for it, the majority of Americans have begun THINKING rather than just mindlessly popping another Bud or unwrapping another Twinkie during the ads on American Idol.
So what is left of the GOP is an ever decreasing BASE which is for the most part a regional and racially driven core centering in Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi with the remaining Slave States slowly turning blue. Even Texas may go Democrat on the Bridge to the 22nd Century…