“Here your mom was asking about evolution. And you know, it’s a theory that is out there — it’s got some gaps in it. In Texas we teach both creationism and evolution in our public schools. Because I figure—”
Rick Perry.
The article, by Eric Kleefeld, continues:
It is unclear what Perry meant about Texas schools teaching both creationism and evolution, as teaching creationism in public schools is illegal. There have been several attempts to introduce “supplemental materials” into Texas curriculum that would express doubt over evolution, or to advance creationism under the name of “intelligent design.” But these efforts have not come to any major fruition.
Perry On Evolution: ‘It’s A Theory That’s Out There’ (VIDEO) | TPMDC
“First of all, let’s clarify what the NASA budget is. Do you realize that the $850 billion dollar bailout, that sum of money is greater than the entire 50-year running budget of NASA?
And so when someone says, “We don’t have enough money for this space probe,” I’m asking, no, it’s not that you don’t have enough money, it’s that the distribution of money that you’re spending is warped in some way that you are removing the only thing that gives people something to dream about tomorrow.
You remember the 60s and 70s. You didn’t have to go more than a week before there’s an article in Life magazine, “The Home of Tomorrow,” “The City of Tomorrow,” “Transportation of Tomorrow”. All of that ended in the 1970s. After we stopped going to the Moon, it all ended. We stopped dreaming.
And so I worry that the decision that Congress makes doesn’t factor in the consequences of those decisions on tomorrow. Tomorrow’s gone. They’re playing for the quarterly report, they’re playing for the next election cycle, and that is mortgaging the actual future of this nation, and the rest of the world is going to pass us by.
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(Source: kateoplis)
“With the nation’s attention diverted by the drama over the debt ceiling, Republicans in the House of Representatives are loading up an appropriations bill with 39 ways — and counting — to significantly curtail environmental regulation.
One would prevent the Bureau of Land Management from designating new wilderness areas for preservation. Another would severely restrict the Department of Interior’s ability to police mountaintop-removal mining. And then there is the call to allow new uranium prospecting near Grand Canyon National Park.
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Leslie Kaufman / NYT: House Republicans Try to Roll Back Environmental Rules
Never let a serious crisis go to waste… those poor oil companies need help.
“Whereas ordinary players made a loss of 15.6%, the skilled made a return on investment of 30.5%, suggesting that poker is after all a game of skill. The economists say that similar tests of persistence in returns have also been used to detect whether mutual-fund managers have genuine expertise. In contrast to the case of poker, they point out, those tests have tended to find ‘little evidence of skill in this domain’.”
"Huckabee, contacted through his political action committee, did not respond to a request for a comment. The Soviet Union, which dissolved in 1991, also could not be reached."
From today’s top story at MoJo, “Huckabee Adviser: Obama is a Soviet Spy.”
Excellent line.
They also keep increasing the surplus ceiling for very rich people. Just sayin’.
Republicans weren’t really worried about raising the debt ceiling under Bush…
Combined Boehner and McConnell voted to raise the debt ceiling 5 times for a total of $4 trillion.
How Condoms Are Shutting Down the Government
No, seriously.
