Archives for September 2005
Levee Reconstruction Will Restore, but Not Improve, Defenses in New Orleans
In the short term, the levees can’t be rebuilt to withstand a Category 3 hurricane. In the long term, New Orleans is sinking in the Gulf. Maybe we should think this over before we spend $200 billion.
The costly federal effort to rebuild […]
Dover School Board broke with curriculum policy
Witness testifies was called an ‘atheist’ for evolution-only stance
Let’s send the atheists to Hell. Let’s bring some creationism, prayer and “a state of morality” into the district.
Anyway ID is pure science.
Several times [in court], space aliens have been mentioned as the theoretical identity of the intelligent […]
iowahawk: Rainforest Iowa: Right For America, Right For Puppies
Iowa Rainforest Project - no joke.
“Cosmos” again.
And it only costs $4.00 per month extra from DirecTV.
We watched the first two episodes on Tuesday. It will continue for 11 more weeks, Tuesdays at 9.
Remember when “googol” was only a number?
Ronnie Earle, the Travis County DA who indicted TomDeLay, is now in the spotlight himself.
Unsurprisingly … (well, none of the claims that follow are surprising) Tom DeLay calls him “an unabashed partisan zealot engaging in personal revenge.”
Media Matters, Kos, and the Lefties point to this record of his prosecutions
U.S. […]
Roberts on the verge of becoming chief justice
A divided Democratic caucus on Wednesday assured Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. of a comfortable, bipartisan Senate confirmation as the nation’s 17th chief justice, the youngest in 200 years.
Many say they would have chosen someone else for the position, yet 21 Senate Democrats agreed he has […]
Jennifer’s friend Caren is biking for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society next weekend. And one of the people she is honoring is Jennifer’s Dad.
Click on the above link to check it out…and pass on the word…
The Swift Report: New Law Says Science Teachers Must Recite “Footprints in the Sand”
DOVER, PA—Life sciences teacher George Haven used to begin his classes here with an unusual practice: by focusing on whatever science-related topic he was teaching that day. But now members of the local school board say he must hold off on educating […]
Testimony from Dover
The Scopes Monkey Trial, version 21.C, continued today in Dover, Pennsylvania.
In honor of Creationists everywhere, I will “quote-mine” the news report:
one member of the school board dismissed the separation of church and state as a “myth,” …
Board members also urged science teachers to balance evolution with creationism or intelligent design and […]
RATHERGATE UPDATE
Comrades, you must read Kevin Drum. If you ever find the main conservative blogs to be a bit of an echo chamber, and cannot abide the irrational Atrios, Kos, DU set, go read Kevin Drum.
Here’s what he says about Mary Mapes new book:
If the first chapter of Mary Mapes’s new book is any […]
Beth at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, got this email from a MGySgt serving over in Iraq at Al Asad. He and the others he works with at HQ read her blog (no accounting for taste), and among other things, he said:
I think you would be amazed at the morale of the young military people […]
First of all, let me be clear. I am an atheist. If you press me with “Okay, what happened before the Big Bang?” I will confess that I don’t know and therefore cannot deny the possibility of God. Maybe that makes me an agnostic. But I’m as secular as one can be.
Now read this prejudiced, […]
Utah State Senator Chris Buttars on the Kitzmiller vs. Dover School District evolution case:
The campaign to eliminate God from the public forum has been going on for decades, having accelerated greatly since the Supreme Court’s ill-advised decision in 1963 to eliminate prayer from public schools. And I believe those fighting against the teaching of intelligent […]
From CBS News:
The No. 2 al Qaeda leader in Iraq was killed Sunday night, U.S. officials say. Abu Azzam, reportedly the deputy to Abu Musab al Zarqawi, was shot during a house rain in Baghdad, according to Pentagon officials. As the aide to Zarqawi, Azzam was reportedly in control of financing foreign fighters […]
Plea agreement in teacher sex case
The former CBA teacher accused of having sex with a 16-year-old student will likely be out of jail by the end of the year.
Sandra “Beth” Geisel was charged with three counts of rape and one count of performing a criminal sexual act. On Monday, she pleaded guilty to one count […]
