Indiana and the March Back in Time

There's More than Corn in Indiana! There's also Ignorant Religious Fanatics and Slave Masters!

An Indiana Republican-controlled Senate Education Committee voted 8-2 to send legislation endorsing the teaching creationism in public schools, to the super majority (37-13) Republican controlled Indiana State Senate. Senate Bill 89 allows school corporations to authorize "the teaching of various theories concerning the origin of life" and specifically mentions "creation science" as one such theory.

State Sen. Scott Schneider, R-Indianapolis, who voted for the measure, said if there are many theories about life's origins, students should be taught all of them.

Ah! I can't wait for Norse-Creationism to be taught in Biology class! YMIR was the father of six-headed son that was nourished by a cosmic cow called AUDUMLA. Audumla fed herself by licking the salty rime-stone, until that stone was licked into a shape of man. Ye, but verily did WOTAN slay the Mighty Frost Giant Ymir and from his bones made the earth and from his blood made the seas and rivers and his skull became the Vault of the Heavens! ODIN!!!!!!!

But, wait there is more! Not to be outdone on the March Back in Time, the Indiana House voted 54-44 to pass one of the Right-To-Fuck-Over-Workers Bills. The Indiana Legislature has 3 bills (2 House and 1 Senate) which contain language making it illegal to be part of a Union or Labor Organization. These bills are so bad that even the NFL Players Association condemned the right-to-work bills in a Jan. 6 statement, calling it “a political ploy designed to destroy basic workers’ rights.”

And you thought the train had pulled away from the Pullman Shanty Towns forever! This is how Corporate evil works, little by little they undermine hard-fought gains until the you wake up and your Rights as a worker are gone.

You really think you're going to negotiate paid-sick leave and a salary increase? You think your complaints about unsafe working conditions are going to stop the Company from putting you in harms way? Just ask the 29 dead workers at the Msssey Energy Upper Big Branch Mine or the 11 dead Oil Rig workers on the BP Deepwater Horizion Off-Shore Rig?

Once Corporations get the power to pay you slave wages that's exactly what you are going to get. Don't like it? You're fired! Combine this with Republicons working to steal Social Security, unfund Medicaid, eliminate Medicare, and roll-back Obama Cares the vast majority of Americans are looking at being chained as Serfs and Wage Slaves to the 1% Neo-Feudal Industrial Machine.

Creeping Creationism and Conservative Stupidity

Up in Lake County Illinois creationism has infected several schools. The push by fundamentalist bigots and morons is the first step of evil conservatives to destroy the minds of the youth and tie them into the cycle of Violent Republican Stupidity.

At Libertyville High School (District 128), school officials confirmed, biology and human genetics teacher, Beau Schaefer, had been promoting creationist beliefs while discrediting evolution. I wonder if biology teacher Schaefer referenced Genesis 1:29

God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.

and advocated the eating of hemlock and nightshade in accordance with god's proven advice.

All three incumbents, (Jim Burke, Doug Goldberg, Tony Pietro) and one candidate (Chris Wallace) for the Lake Zurich Unit District 95 school board believe creationism should be taught alongside evolution in elementary school science classes. Wallace, went so far as to say creationism is fact and evolution is just a theory. (emphasis mine).

I know what you're thinking who wouldn't want to learn about how mighty Odin slew Ymir and from his bones and blood created the earth and the seas and from his skull created the heavens! Cool, right? But No! Instead they want some 3000 year old myth called biblical creationism to be taught.

Now, I could run down these candidates for their simple ignorance regarding what constitutes a scientific theory as opposed to the everyday person saying "I have a theory..." But that gives them to much credit.

When these despicable buffoons were questioned further they retreated behind the 'Oh I misunderstood the question' excuse. There is no doubt these christian fascists believe the bible to be the infallible word of yahweh and that teaching all life on earth share a common descent has been the harbinger of America's doom,

We've seen the chaos the election of ignorant anti-human Republicans and conservatives has wrought in Indiana, Florida, New Jersey and Wisconsin and these asses in Lake County Illinois are how the conservatives operate. The Right has for years worked on the small local level, first getting evil idiots elected to school boards, who work to to alter American history elevating conservative criminals, punks, and chicken hawk cowards to the status of heroes and to promote ideas which contradict proven observation and accepted knowledge.

They do this because everyone knows Conservatism is Terrorism and Slavery. It is a system of evil bondage which shackles the mind with ignorance and demands the surrender of morality and humanity to the interests of the Rich and serfdom. But, in order to get people imprisoned in the conservatives grasp they must abuse children and warp their minds.

Conservatism is Terrorism and Child Abuse.

Lt Gov Jason Plummer (R-IL), Flintstones Biology on the curriculum

Ginnungagap was so vast that it extended forever in every direction. There was nothing within the yawning void of Ginnungagap that any human thought could comprehend. Only the Gods knew the secret of Ginnungagap- it was not empty.

The only Creation Mythology that is true are the Norse-Teutonic Legends. I know they are true because that is my faith and True Creationism - Norse Creationism- must be taught in Illinois Public Schools alongside Evolution.

By just substituting the laughably false bible and judeo-christo-islamo myths for the above you have the stance of Illinois Republican Lieutenant Governor candidate Jason Plummer.

Plummer said he believed local school officials should be able to determine whether to teach creationism in schools. Simon said local school districts should not be able to opt to teach creationism, saying it was an issue of "separation of church and state."

Plummer said he believes in creationism.

Asked if he believed that the world was created in six days and the earth is 10,000 years old, Plummer said: "My philosophical beliefs and my life is based on my faith, and my faith is rooted in my Christian faith."

If local school boards wanted to teach that; First jesus came and he created the loaves and the dinosaurs and then he handed George Washington the Constitution when god ordained America as a white, christian, heteronormative promised land Plummer would be Okay with that.

Of course, what Plummer really wanted to do is send out the conservative code speak and move on but, fortunately, America has enough interested scientists and lay persons who do not want christian ignorance foisted on another generation of Americans as "knowledge".

I saw Leslie Marmon Silko give an interview lecture at the University of Chicago over the weekend. She's fascinating but I don't want her creation myths taught in Biology or Anthropology class either.

The Republicans are suceeding again in getting Americans to vote against their own economic self-interest by feeding them the same panoply of Racism, Religious bigotry and pseudo-scientific ignorance.

Only evil rotten anti-human legislation can come from the electing of polluted Republicans.