No Child Left Behind The Impromptu Shroud Of Ignorance

More signs that our country is going down the proverbial shitter. According to a blurb I just read on CNN's site, a school district in Wisconsin is allowing the teaching of creationism in its science curriculum. I was really hoping we made it past this mumbo jumbo (that should have died around the time the Catholic Church stopped excommunicating people for having the gumption to believe Earth actually revolved around the Sun):

"Members of Grantsburg's school board believed that a state law governing the teaching of evolution was too restrictive. The science curriculum "should not be totally inclusive of just one scientific theory," said Joni Burgin, superintendent of the district of 1,000 students in northwest Wisconsin."

Ms. Burgin fails to realize that comparing a scientific theory, yes a theory, but a pretty fucking sound one such as evolution to the idea of creationism is daft at best. There is about as much scientific evidence that Quincy, M.E. shot JR as there is that supports the notion of a creator. That's not to say having religious faith is daft, just that it is what it is: a belief existing within and outside of the scientific world. It's like trying to play hockey with a baseball and a midget. Sorry, I had to include the midget, you understand.

If a school district wants to include more theories, fine, but what they really want is to teach creation as a science which is scary because I would hope fewer people with the authority to affect change would be that stupid. Yet this isn't the first time and here I am trying to stay positive about the next four years. Something tells me ol' W wouldn't have too much of a problem with this. If you can execute retarded people, I guess anything is fair game......

Can we please leave the idea of faith out of the science classroom? Isn't that what church is for?

My New Favorite Website

Holy crap, my eyes are tearing up after reading this masterpiece on shitty movies that everyone loves.

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Prepare to laugh and embarrass yourself, if you're at work, that is.

How To Kill Yourself Like A Man

I haven't laughed this hard in quite some time.

How To Kill Yourself Like A Man

Red, Spite & Blue

I have only a few more comments to make on the election and the aftermath in the media. Regardless of party affiliation, does anyone find it strange that, all of a sudden, supposed experts are saying Bush has a mandate? Richard Simmons has a mandate, not George W….remember folks, the final numbers look like 51% to 48%. Not since World War I has an incumbent President won by such a narrow margin. Hey, all respect to the Republicans, once again they out-maneuvered, out-campaigned, and out-witted the Democrats. I know, I know. Yet any conclusion other than a widening gap in ideals seems hasty.

Republicans look at the Electoral Map and say “look, the East Coast Liberal Media Evil Empire is out of touch with the American People.” Well, not 48% of them. More Americans voted for Kerry than both Reagan tickets. Plus, that Electoral Map means fuck-all unless all you want to do is over-generalize. Basically, there is a polarization of ideals and values in this country, but to call the Northeast a bunch of ivory-tower liberals and the South a bunch of dumb-hicks drunk on faux-patriotism is plain stupid and unfair. Just as 1 in 3 people from Kerry’s home state of Massachusetts voted to give Bush a second term, 40% of people in Mississippi wanted to elect Senator Kerry. People up here in New Jersey often piss me off with their holier-than-thou smarter-than-everyone else bullshit; you know, that the South should secede again. Maybe it’s because I’m half Texan, half Pennsylvanian and grew up in Alabama and the Mid-West. New Jersey was a Blue State, without question, but I could drive 20 miles in any direction from Princeton and could easily think I was in Nebraska. Take a trip to Birmingham sometime, or Jackson, or Dallas and you’ll find liberal minded people just as fed up with Bush and neo-conservatism as anyone from Beacon Hill.

Actually, it was quite fitting that Ohio was THE swing state this year because of the complexity of the regions and the diversity of opinions there. This gap is REAL and President Bush is the lucky bastard who has to try and fix it, if he wants a lasting legacy as President. Basically, will he be a Buchanan or a Lincoln? I heard some GOP strategist talking about Ronald Reagan in 1980 and how he went to Boston and had a photo op with a mug of beer, in essence, he was a real guy, or could convince people likewise. He was saying that Kerry failed that test, President Bush passed with flying colors. Well, Bush, for better or worse, has the ring, he won the race. He finally surpassed his beloved Daddy, who he’s emulated his whole career. He has to put all this behind him and take a more centrist role, or he will start to alienate supporters of his party and continue to encourage resentment from within our borders and abroad. Still, more Americans than not disapprove of Bush’s handing of the economy and the war. Bush’s only real mandate is to bring the nation together, because we’re a 50/50 nation, regardless of whether a state is pigeonholed as Red or Blue.

ACHTUNG : Low Blow Alert!!!!

I had to do it........... This is really fitting in that bitter, sore loser kind of way.

Taken with a grain of salt, since I originally hail from a state near the bottom. I'd still rather be on the blue side...................

What Do We Do Now???

Basically, this election was the end of the line as I see it for the baby-boomer generation liberals. Clinton was a centrist and given 20/20 hindsight, a lot of people still wanted Bush to go, but some might have been scared off by the supposed "Massachusetts Liberal" tag so often put on Democrats. Basically, the Republicans have co-opted the political landscape, have defined the issues, and have sold much of working class America on their platform.

The Democrats are largely reactionary in approach rather than taking charge. It took the modern GOP from Nixon to Reagan (most of the 70s) to redefine their party, which was in shambles at that point. (God Bless Him, but who really counts Ford?) The Dems need to find their game plan and re-establish themselves as well. Quite possibly, Republicans could win again in 2008 given the state of the parties and that historically, probably in 1 1/2 to 2 years, the economy will be in better shape despite the GOP's best efforts to f--k it up.....

I think Al Gore is the smart choice in 2008. YES I SAID IT. He represents the best of the glory days of the Democratic Party when social progressiveness and economic centrism could go hand in hand. The term "Clinton Conservative" exists for a reason. Gore's from Tennessee and only Southerners really can win the White House as Democrats (LBJ, Carter, Clinton). I think Al Gore could run with Evan Bayh of Indiana (a popular, young democratic Governor/Senator from a GOP state) and that team would make a definitive but not radical contrast to the Bush administration and the candidate they put up in 2008; McCain would be tough, but Bush already did the dirty work unscrupulously and tastelessly attacking him for his obvious lack of patriotism. (I hear they made up, but if I spent years at the Hanoi Hilton being physically and psychologically tortured for my country only to have some rich-boy brat who had his daddy buy his way out of service snicker and tell me he was a better American, I'd be livid).

Sorry, I'm not over this yet, I'm trying to be rational and positive....so, the Democratic Party could take a real stab at the South and the Midwest with a Gore/Bayh ticket. If they could win Tennessee, Missouri, or perhaps Ohio and hold onto the blue states from 2000 and 2004, they'd win. Remember, they'd only have to swing about 5% to 10% in those states, and less than 3% in the nationwide poll.

It's eerily similar to Nixon in 1960. He had the election bribed out from under him by JFK and, like Gore, many in his party were bitter that he didn't put up a better organized fight. In 1964, Nixon didn't run but instead through all his support behind Barry Goldwater, the GOP nominee. Gore worked really hard for Dean, and then Kerry. Both challenging parties lost their respective elections. In 1964, Viet Nam was heating up, but people weren't ready for change. In 2004, the war in Iraq is getting messy but again, people opted to stick it out. In 1968, people were fed up with the war and were ready for Nixon to get another shot and he had earned his stripes within the party. Gore, with his public speaking, books on the environment (he is our most environmentally sound politician) and unselfish support of the party, is doing the same; he will get his chance to right the wrongs out of the party's control in 2000 and the mistakes we made in 2004.

AL GORE FOR PRESIDENT IN 2008!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Bowels Of Hell

Hey, things could always be worse. You, my friend, could have dysentery!!!!

La La La La La La La Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoo

2009. My God, 2009. I'll be 33 when this long national nightmare is over. UNCLE!!!!!!!!!!!

This is how I feel.

Kerry Concedes: Americans Are Stupid

Many of us liberals love to make fun of the President and he sure provides us with a lot of ammo. Still, this is a guy who, following one of the most popular presidents in history was able to pull out a victory over the sitting vice-president, despite losing the popular vote. OUCH.

In 2004, despite a poor-planned war, massive job losses, unaffordable health-care, record deficits, a GOP staunch neo-conservative social agenda AND with a huge new-voter turnout, especially among young people, Bush was able to win the largest percentage of votes since 1988 (better than Clinton ever did). What does this tell us about the way the American public is seeing the world? Apparently it really was terror or bust; a lot of people must have toyed with the idea of Kerry, but when in the voting booth, they couldn’t do it.

Basically, Bush won when things couldn't be any better and won even more handily when things couldn't be worse.

My cousin put it best when he wrote:

We've always known that the American people have rather foolish tendencies to believe anything they want to believe.

Because of spending millions upon millions of dollars in "think-tanks" since the 70's, the Republicans have manipulated the language and framed the debate (liberal=c***sucker, Pro-LIFE, Tax-RELIEF, Family Values) convincing everybody in the nation to see things their way. The "American People" see their reality.

My hope is that a new leader/movement will emerge that will appeal to this country's values and hopes the way we see them - Our nation can one day be the good guys again.

Don't forget. Four years ago, Bill Clinton finished an eight year term.

For the record, the Electoral Vote map turned out exactly as I predicted minus Ohio.

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD, BOYS.

Not A Garden Variety State This Year?

I can't believe what I just read; according to the most recent polls (courtesy of electoral-vote.com), with all but one state accounted for, Kerry has a slimmest of slim 262 to 261 advantage in the E.C. What state is dead even and would decide the election if these numbers prove correct, you might ask?

NEW JERSEY!!!!!

Criminy! Could it be, however improbable, that New Jersey is this year's Florida? If you base your opinion on the polls going into today's vote, it very well could be.

A lot has to happen, of course....this estimate has New Hampshire and New Mexico going to Kerry, which is shaky and Hawaii, yes, Hawaii going for Bush.

The good news for a Kerry supporter is that these polls have Florida and Pennsylvania going blue, with Ohio staying in the red column. Minnesota, Michigan, and Iowa are also blue, with Wisconsin siding with W.

Tonight should be very interesting.

A MESSAGE FROM YOUR PRESIDENT....

Dear Christian Voter:

Remember on the September the 11ths, the Suiciders waged a war on the Freedomists. God fearing people from across this great, great land from Canada, to England, to the Grecians stood with me. Even those Mexicans…..I know you will too. John Kerry hates God. John Kerry wants to put arsenic in your drinking water. If you don’t vote for me, Osama will eat your baby. When you are all alone in that voting both tomorrow, FART!!!!! Heh heh heh, just kiddin’ folks, seriously, if you don’t vote for me, the gays will take over the CIA and make your son wear a dress.

Thank you America.

I’m George W. Bush and I approve this massage.

Hey Sammy, Put A Cork In It!!!

Ahh, the life of the millionaire athlete who underperforms and blames everyone but himself...

Sammy Sosa decided this week to unload some verbal baggage on the Cubs, Major League Baseball, and anyone else within earshot.

From msnbc.com:
“I’m not a sixth batter,” Sosa told Hoy newspaper in Santo Domingo on Saturday upon returning to his native Dominican Republic. “I’m a cleanup hitter or third because I’ve earned that right with almost 600 career home runs.”

Just because you had your worst season in seven years and your team choked down the stretch doesn't mean you have to pout and act like a six-year old.

Sosa arrived late to the finale at Wrigley Field and then left the game early without playing. The Cubs fined him $87,500 — one day’s salary — because of his actions.

Hey Sammy, take your $17 million, quit corking your bats, and shut the hell up!

You Want Osama This???

A Funny joke:

After numerous rounds of "We don't even know if Osama is still alive", Osama himself decided to send George Bush a letter in his own handwriting to let him know he was still in the game. Bush opened the letter and it appeared to contain a coded message:

370HSSV-0773H.

Bush was baffled, so he typed it out and emailed it to Cheney..
Cheney and his advisors had no clue, so they sent it to the Republican National Committee.

No one could solve it, so it went to the National Education Association and then to MIT.

Eventually they asked Britain's' MI6 for help.

They cabled George Bush back, "Tell the President he is looking at the message upside down."

Redskins Bush-wacked

Of course it's coincidence, but still; the Redskins fell to the Green Bay Packers today 28-14 which, according to myth, means Kerry will defeat Bush on Tuesday. Apparently, the trend of a Redskin loss coinciding with an incubent president's loss on an Election Day following the game (and vice versa) has held true since 1936.

I sincerely hope this rubbish is "right" again...............