The current public educational system in Kansas and the United States is preparing its students to be liars, crooks, thieves, murderers, and perverts.
My mission, in running for the Kansas State Board of Education, is to throw out the crap that teachers are feeding their students and replace it with healthy good for the soul knowledge from the holy scriptures.
Let’s be specific. Evolution should never be taught in public schools as science. Evolution is false science! God made the heaven and the earth and created humans from the dust of the earth! The very bad teachers that teach that men descended from apes via evolution need to have their teaching licenses revoked … Eliminate funding for evolution textbooks and pseudo-education … .
The lies of men and of the devil need to be expelled from the classrooms of Kansas, and of the United States, and of the world. Make room for the truth of God!
“Jack Wu grew up in Hayward, California,” it reads. “Jack fell victim to the lies of his evil teachers and thought evolution was real science for a time.”
The paper notes that although it is unlikely that Wu will win election, other politicians are concerned enough to go to the media so that voters, read straight ticket choosers, will know about wu’s views when they enter the booth.
The Guardian spoke to some of the women, all volunteers, to find out why they decided to come out in support of a conservative whom the mainstream Republican party and many women in the US consider a pariah …
Asked what she thought about the science behind Akin’s comments over a rape victim shutting down a potential pregnancy, [Missouri Baptist student Kelly Burrell said: “I’m not a scientist, but there are a lot of contradictions. There was a time in the world when scientist thought the world was flat. I don’t buy into science.”
Coincidentally, Todd Akin is on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
Missouri Women Standing with Todd Akin
“Akin, who enjoys gospel music, brought his guitar and played,” reads the Guardian piece.
Every week YouTube/Google editors find some dogshit to highlight, always by celebrity musicians or someone who really doesn’t need any more fame or publicity.
Today, it’s “Pyschedelic Music!”
From YouTube:
The ’60s might be long gone, but a new crop of musicians is embracing the era’s experimental, anything-goes aesthetic. Whether it’s through mind-expanding visuals or adventurous songs, psychedelic music is alive and well. Even Neil Young’s doing it!
Neil Young, a ‘new crop-type of musician,’ whose ‘new’ shtick is low-res videos cobbled together from other old pieces of film downloaded from YouTube. Only when you and I do it, no bonus points.
People who don’t know anything about science, including journalists, often labor under the assumption that the US military is whiz-bang at it.
Not so. Most of the great achievements in American science do not, and did not, come from the US military. The Manhattan Project, for example, while conducted by the military in World War II, was the product of the finest minds in high-energy physics, chemistry and other related fields.
Today, a doofus editor at an NBC News blog called “Futuretech,” allowed someone to go forward with a story on how the US Navy wants to make jet fuel from sea water.
It takes one small torpedo to send this story to the bottom.
The only way to make fuel from water is by electrolysis, which yields burnable hydrogen gas. And the reason our fuel problems are not over is because splitting it is not trivial, energy wise.
Which is a very good thing for the planet since good ol’ H20 is the solvent in which the chemistry of all life on Earth occurs. (I kinda like that sentence.)
But leave it to stupid journalists to mess this up with incomprehension for an equally benighted audience.
The U.S. Navy may need to look no further than the water around its ships to produce jet fuel, according to a program underway at its research laboratory …
The technology involves extracting carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas from seawater and then using catalysts to convert them into a class of jet fuel called J-5 that meets Navy safety specifications.
The journalist, John Roach, never really gets around to explaining the bit about cracking water, instead relying on some double-talk from the Navy boffins pushing their quack schemes:
This can all be done for between $3 to $6 per gallon, according to a feasibility study published in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy.
“This cost includes capital costs, operation and maintenance, and electrical generation cost for synthesizing the fuel,??? Heather Willauer, the study’s lead author at the Naval Research Laboratory, told NBC News in an email …
The team elaborates in the paper that the “though the energy balance is unfavorable, electricity cannot and never will be able to fuel jet turbines.???
The electricity to produce the fuel would come from either ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC) technology or onboard nuclear power technologies.
Took a giant step toward solving the world’s energy problems in one e-mail, a press release, some vague jargon (OTEC) and an article in an obscure journal, did ya?
There might be an Ig Nobel Prize in it.
From Barry Commoner’s obit at the Times, today:
Along with eminent figures of the postwar years like the chemist Linus Pauling and the anthropologist Margaret Mead, he was concerned that the integrity of American science had been compromised — first by the government’s emphasis on supporting physics at the expense of other fields during the development of nuclear weapons, and second by the growing privatization of research, in which pure science took a back seat to projects that held short-range promise of marketable technologies.
Basic science helps one understand why the Navy’s fuel from seawater project is a waste of time. And is intelligence-insulting.
In a “Last Word??? interview with The New York Times in 2006, videotaped to accompany this obituary online, Dr. Barry Commoner elaborated on his holistic views and lamented the inability of society to connect the dots among its multitude of challenges, “an unfortunate feature of political development in this country.???
— the New York Times
The Times obit provides a 12 minute interview, conducted by Pulitzer-winner Tim Weiner, with Commoner. It traces his career as a scientist and environmentalist.
As the former, Commoner discusses his major role in the cessation of atmospheric nuclear weapons testing during the Kennedy administration, achieved through assaying the levels of strontium 90, an element in radioactive fallout, in children’s teeth. He, along with others, had determined early that the generation of radio-isotopes during atmospheric testing posed a distinct and measurable threat to everyone. And then he went forward with a scientific plan to measure and prove it, by tracking strontium-90, which is taken up like calcium in bones and teeth.
Commoner discusses global warming as a dire threat as well as things that have been lasting environmental achievements in this country. Commoner cites the removal of lead from gasoline in 1970, and the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency the same year to enforce the Clean Air Act which had been made more effective through amendments, as something which has made life demonstrably better.
Reality tv for the Psychopath Vote. Or to paraphrase Paul Fussell, catering to the audience of shallow pocket that gets erections dreaming about shooting or shoving a bayonet into someone foreign or liberal, preferably smaller and not white.
The more indecent and infamous Nugent gets, the more atrocious television he makes. Like a perpetual motion machine of BAD — that which is puerile, odious or both, publicized as if it is the opposite, a defiantly burning example of freedom and liberty.
A show devoted to showing how tricked up semi-automatic long range assault rifles and machine guns to shoot antelope, pop mannequin heads and blow up vehicles. In case you’re attacked by zombies or, uh, real people. What a pitch that must have been.
As said previously, I grew up in a community of hunters. But there came a point where excess became celebrated simply because it was excessive. And now all the straining white flab in too-small camouflage clothes, all the paramilitary gear, the creepy obsession with private ownership of heavy weapons by men who rant about tyrannical government, just shows the rest of the world how psychotic much of this country has turned.
60 Minutes did Afghanistan last night. Fifteen minutes of total cock-up from the war that will never end until we have a President who will do it. And Barack Obama is probably not that guy.
General John Allen: “I am completely devoted to these magnificent troops …”
60 Minutes showed we’ve managed to make Afghanistan into a shit magnet for the remains of al Qaeda. Like insignificant iron filings, they’re all drawn to the lodestone of American soldiers.
Did Pete Seeger’s old song achieve any result during the Vietnam War?
He reflects on the linked page: “No one can prove a damned thing. It took tens of millions of people speaking out, before the Vietnam War was over. A defeat for the Pentagon, but a victory for the American people.”
Missouri Women Standing with Todd Akin