08.25.11
Lightbulb nutz
Another inescapable character in the pantheon of GOP/Tea Party extremism is the lightbulb nut.
Michele Bachmann, Ted Nugent, etc.
Today, NBC distributes a story straight on a hoarder of incandescent lightbulbs.
Why?
To show us how apparently lots of people believe you might be able to sell them on eBay for big bucks as a scarce commodity in the near future. And because it’s a fight against modernity creeping unconstitutional state totalitarianism.
It is an “Act of Rebellion,” according to one subhed:
“These edicts always come from the government. It’s an attack on civilization. It’s a condemnation on our standard of living.???
DeCoster has collected hundreds of bulbs in her basement, not only because she hates the alternative, but also because she considers it her “social obligation.??? Hoarding bulbs is her form of peaceful rebellion against what she sees as an unconstitutional measure forcing Americans to change the way they have lived for decades.
[Actually, 14 million unemployed and 48 million on foodstamps is a change in the way people have “lived for decades” but, what the hey!]
Light bulbs have even become a 2012 campaign issue. GOP presidential candidate Michele Bachmann has repeatedly spoken out against the new standards on campaign stops and supported a failed last-minute effort in the House to repeal the mandate for the more-efficient bulbs.
“I think Thomas Edison did a pretty patriotic thing for this country by inventing the light bulb …???
“This is how liberty dies,” reads one quote, attributed to Rush Limbaugh.
Barack Obama and, probably, lots of people think presidential debates are good.
“How so?” DD asks.
When the people you debate don’t respond to logic, facts or reason, how can one win even a semi-intellectual contest with them? You’d have better luck arguing with a wooden table.
Yearning for theocracy
Today, two posts excerpted from Randy Toman’s LehighValleyConservative blog in Bethlehem, PA.
Toman is a local Tea Party man running for a position on the Bethlehem Public School District board. Over the last couple of years published material on the blog has made it clear he despises public education.
His extremist views make him unfit for any elected office in a modern democracy.
In the last week he has mused about how the United States ought to be a theocracy.
I believe separation of Church and State with its doctrine will be placed on center stage in 2012 with the Christians again showing their ignorance of scripture and the Biblical teachings. They will be supporting some Heathen claiming to be a Christian; all the while the so call Christian Voter ignores the Constitution and the essences of Romans 13:1-6 and what the civil magistrate should be doing.
Heathen. One less syllable than Infidel.
The understanding of the Bible and God’s law is imperative if we are to know how to separate church and state, and knowing the true meaning of what a theocracy is. Neither the church nor the state can take away conscience or man’s right to property as given to him by God. All spheres of life are under God and owe their boundaries, as fixed, by Him and His sovereignty; this then becomes a true theocracy under Godly men …
As we drift away from God and His law we see 70 years later, the devastation done to the social fabric, the people and their freedom.
It remains for us to rightly divide the Word if there is going to be a correction and that correction will only come if God has mercy on us if we understand salvation is through Jesus Christ, and not the State …
It’s incomprehensible that any concerned parent (who is not a fundamentalist religious extremist) would vote onto a school board anyone who held such views.
However, toxic extremists get elected when the local news media refuses to do its job.
Chuck said,
August 25, 2011 at 8:48 am
I listened to Michio Kaku opine on the state of US Education, pointing out that it’s the H1B is America’s “secret weapon”, not the non-collegiate system of education. I must admit that I bridled a bit and mumbled “here’s Dr. B.S. spouting his usual nonsense”:
http://bigthink.com/ideas/19054
On further consideration, I think he’s right–at least with respect to the last 30 or so years (California Prop 13 was the beginning of the decline, I think).
If the U.S. taxpaying public were to be made really aware that their Texas-Board-of-Education-approved curriculum was among the worst in the developed world, they might demand some change. But maybe not.
So, don’t sweat U.S. education. Michio Kaku says that as long as we have a supply of foreigners wanting to get in, there’s no problem. Our kids can work for them.
And as long as we have cheap foreign offshore labor to sell us garbage and take our IOUs in trade, we’ll stay an industrial superpower.
Right?
George Smith said,
August 25, 2011 at 9:28 am
So Dr. TV Friendly Bullshit recommends giving in to the superior minds, eh?
Make lemonade from lemons. Reminds me I somehow got Google’d to some other thing on bigthink the other day. Looked at it for a bit, wondering how I’d gotten there.