Dawn of the Geeks

all the thinking has been done, apparently.

Slashdot.org is whining:

The good news is that the board dropped a 20-year-old requirement that both “strengths and weaknesses” of all scientific theories be taught; score one for the teaching of evolution.
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The not-so-good news is that in a “compromise,” the board also voted to require that students “in all fields of science, analyze, evaluate and critique scientific explanations… including examining all sides of scientific evidence of those scientific explanations, so as to encourage critical thinking by the student.” Score one for the Discovery Institute.

Apparently it’s a win for evolution when you just ignore the large gapping holes in the theory. The teaching of evolution has gotten so ridiculous that to the true believers the theory of evolution is on par with the theory of gravity. There is also no longer a distinction between “micro” and “macro” evolution and the education on that has gotten so bad that people actually think those two terms were created by a creationist as some sort of attack of evolution.

The “compromise” is to stop poking the evolutionists by running Mac Trucks through the theory and allowing them to pick the strengths. So basically the text book author goes to an Evolutionist and says “hey, what’s a good proof of evolution?” And the evolutionist says “Dinosaurs.” The text book author is then free to point out that Dinosaurs do nothing to prove the theory of evolution. As long as evolutionists pick the topics, the authors can have at it.

Evolution is the only scientific theory I’m aware of where it’s a “win” when you can’t criticize it. There are plenty of cults were that is true and it’s rather odd to find that attitude when the core beliefs of the group relate to something other than religious doctrines.

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I think the problem is that most liberals live in a world where transactions are done through meetings and negotiations. If musicians need something they call their agent or they fire up a lawyer. Same with all entertainers. They never have to fight for anything except verbally if that. Everything is about money.

They don’t understand that this civilized manner of getting things done doesn’t work with everyone.

They can’t believe that people like terrorists actually exist as we see them. They assume that since we can’t just talk our way out of the problem or buy our way out, we must be doing something wrong since they can talk and buy their way through anything in their life.

Why should terrorists be any different? Lefties have this very misguided notion that everyone is rational and everyone has a price tag if that’s what it takes.

They’re not stupid. They’re just willfully ignorant. They don’t know what evil is and don’t want to believe it exists. And that’s why they don’t know how to deal with it and don’t like how we deal with it.

I said years ago at the start of the war in Iraq that you can’t reason with unreasonable people. I’ve heard Bill O’Reilly say the exact same thing. People then didn’t like that idea either. The left just can’t accept that unreasonable people exist. People that are so unreasonable that the only way to stop them from harming others is with ammunition.

So they keep trying to figure out the reasons behind the actions and try to blame the victims for these terrorist attacks.

It’s rediculous.

School Changing Nickname, Mascot After Islamic Protest

HINESBURG, Vt. — The Crusaders of Champlain Valley Union High are now history.

The School Board in the Vermont community is selecting a new nickname and mascot for the school.

The Islamic world has criticized the Crusades.

And closer to home, some people object to a knight bearing a crucifix as the symbol for a public school.

The image makeover will be implemented in time for the next school year.

Redhawks, Bobcats and Red Wolves are all in the running for Union High’s new nickname.

Squaw Peak in Arizona recently changed it’s name to Piestewa Peak

It can rename Squaw Peak as Piestewa Peak. It can end the long-running concern by some Native American activists that the word “squaw” is demeaning and insulting to the first Americans.

While Little Green Footballs often does some good reporting, I think they’re spinning this one the wrong way. The Crusades, right or wrong, were a religious and political struggle. Exactly not what a school sports team is about. It wasn’t too long ago that the “Tomahawk Chop” and and other references to Indian culture were under attack by various activist groups for college and professional sports teams.

The Muslims are just catching up to what the Native Americans were complaining against in 1998. Sports teams for public schools shouldn’t have a religious, cultural or political ideology attached to them. Private schools can if they want because the schools themselves are often based on various ideologies. If a private Native American school wants their sports teams to embrace their cultural identity, then that’s their business. If a private Catholic school wants to embrace the crusades for their sports teams then that’s their right. But public schools need to keep the politics where it belongs; in the classroom as an academic study.

T-Shirt Hell presents the following:

And I for one find it hilarious.

“The representative from California has the floor”

Zieg Heil to the president gasman
Bombs away is your punishment
Pulverize the Eiffel towers
Who criticize your government
Bang bang goes the broken glass and
Kill all the fags that don’t agree
Trials by fire, setting fire
Is not a way that’s meant for me
Just cause, just cause, because we’re outlaws yeah!

Punks: Probably the most ironic people to ever exist. Here we have Green Day criticizing the government for not being able to criticize the government. Oh wait, I get it. It’ s not actually a crime to criticize the government and no one is going to blow up your “eiffel tower” for criticizing the government or kill any “fags that don’t agree.” But see, don’t you get it? That’s what the Bush administration WANTS to be able to do.

The wacked out left is absolutely convinced that the right hates gay people and wants to shut up anyone who disagrees with them. Despite the fact this administration has done nothing to even come close to presenting that image. This is the same left that kept accusing the right of wanting to bring back the draft. Guess who were the ones trying enact legislation to bring back the draft? Democrats.

S. 89, the Senate version of the legislation, indicates its purpose is “to provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service or a period of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes.”

The bill was introduced Jan. 7, 2003, by Sen. Fritz Hollings, D-S.C.

The Iraq war wasn’t about oil but the left is convinced it is. Nobody is going to die because they criticize the government but the left is convinced they’re brave and couragous for speaking against the US government like their opinions are so awesome that they must be silenced or the current administration won’t be able to stand. Meanwhile nobody is preventing them from talking. People are just tuning them out because it’s so rediculous.

It’s the Society of Perpetual Victimhood. They’ve absolutely convinced themselves that those who don’t agree with them are out to get them. And they want you to believe it to. I suppose maybe we could blame it on the drugs. Marijuana does make you paranoid.

I liked Greeday’s “Warning” album but I refuse to buy “American Idiot.” It’s just so rediculously out of touch with reality pretending to be some kind of insightful political commentary.

Yala Recieves Honorable Mention as City of Peace in 2002-2003

Rebel attacks wreak havoc in district of Yala

Yala _ Bannang Sata district was thrown into turmoil after gun and arson attacks took place at 11 spots within less than three hours on Thursday night.

The first attack came at 7.20 pm when a heavily armed group opened fire on a peace strategy station at Ban Bacho School. However, no one was killed or injured in the ensuing gunfight.

Shortly afterwards, there was an arson attack on a child care centre in Ban Ba-ngoy Jaekor village. The centre was partly damaged by the fire before the blaze was brought under control.

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Another arson attack occurred at Ban Bang Lan School in tambon Bajor. Local people helped put out the blaze before it could destroy school buildings.

Who was behind these attacks?

Militant messages were spray-painted on the surface of a road in Ban Pawang village saying, “We will not get your things, but will take back what once belonged to us.” The words “Independent Pattani State” and “Free Pattani” were also found spray-painted on a signboard in front of Ban Taophun School and on Bannang Sata-Patae road.

Hmmmm…Who wants the Pattani State?

Patani United Liberation Organisation (PULO) is the most well-known Pattani resistance group in southern Thailand. Its platform is highlighted by its Islamic nationalist goals, calling the Thai presence in Pattani as a colonisation and an illegal occupation. Its stated aims are to secede from the Bangkok administration through military and political means and create a state named Patani Darussalam (Patani, Land of Peace). Their zeal is further enflamed when petroleum is found off-shore of Pattani’s coast.

I wonder if they’ll ever stop firebombing schools and join the rest of civilized society.

Roger L Simon asks “What is Fair and Balanced?”

Fair and Balanced is asking open questions and then finding and accepting the facts. CBS news and now Newsweek assumed conclusions and then went looking for and ended up inventing “facts” to support their already preconcieved conclusion. That’s not fair or balanced.

Considering all sides of the issue has nothing to do with balance. Balance requires finding all the facts. Facts don’t have a side. “All sides of the issue” is just a bunch of people spouting off their opinions, their conclusions based on their interpretation of the facts, which is wholely irrelavent. Fair is reporting all the facts even if you don’t like them.

Fair and Balanced is simply seeing the entire elephant and accuratly describing what it looks like regardless if you like it or not. Often times the Main Stream Media just wants to talk about the trunk of the elephant or the leg. They don’t like seeing the whole picture because it doesn’t support their agenda.

This is why most news outlets can’t get enough dead bodies in Iraq as long as they’re dead Americans but they clam up pretty quick when it comes to our success both in Afganistan and Iraq and how it’s having a positive impact on the rest of the region as well.

I can understand why the elite hate what Bush is doing though and would like to pretend it’s all going horribly wrong and blah blah blah

From Kill Bill Volume 2

Now in these last agonizing minutes of life you have left, let me answer the question you asked earlier, more thoroughly. When it comes to that bitch, I gotta lotta “R’s” in me. Revenge is one. Retribution is another. Rivalry is definitely one. But I got another “R” for that bitch you might be surprised to find out. Respect. But
right at this moment, the biggest “R” I feel, is Regret. Regret that maybe the greatest warrior I have ever met, met her end at the hands of a bushwhackin, scrub, alacky piece of shit like you. The woman deserved better.

It’s because the greatest terrorist threat the world has ever known is being destroyed under the leadership of an “uneducated redneck.” The elite are feeling a lot of “R” right now. And it’s leading to their own destruction.

Sharia is the code of law based on the Koran. Muslims are trying to get it enforced everywhere they can. It’s the law system that currently rules much of the Middle East resulting in needless arrests and murders simply because people chose to reject Islam or practice another religion. The other thing that will get you in deep trouble is speaking bad of the “prophet” Mohammed. See, like putting quotes around “prophet” implying that he was actually a false prophet at best, could get you arrested in the Middle East. That’s a little more than rediculous and why the first right in the Bill of Rights is freedom of religion. The establishment clause is second and freedom of speech is third. The favorite thing for tyrants to oppress is religion which obviously results in the oppression of the people who practice the forbidden religion(s) who are then forced to fight and voila, war.

Italy has similar laws and recently ruled that it was not okay to have harsher sentences for those who slander the Catholic church than other religions. The only reason Artical 403 of Italian law isn’t as rediculous as the Sharia law is that Italy’s law covers defamation of all religions where as Sharia law is only concerned with defamation of Islam. Both laws fly in the face of our First Amendment Rights of freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

But apparently Democratic State Representative John Conyers doesn’t see it that way. He wants to enact a law that prohibits the criticism of religions. Especially Islam as though it needs some kind of special protection.

Resolved, That the House of Representatives–

(1) condemns bigotry, acts of violence, and intolerance against any religious group, including our friends, neighbors, and citizens of the Islamic faith;

(2) declares that the civil rights and civil liberties of all individuals, including those of the Islamic faith, should be protected;

(3) recognizes that the Quran, the holy book of Islam, as any other holy book of any religion, should be treated with dignity and respect; and

(4) calls upon local, State, and Federal authorities to work to prevent bias-motivated crimes and acts against all individuals, including those of the Islamic faith.

I would hope that this guy is voted out of office when his term ends. Apparently even as a State Representative he’s oblivious to all the hate crime laws this country already has thanks to groups like the KKK.

It’s not a hate crime or bigotry to say that Mohammed was not a prophet and that the Koran is just a book. A State Representative living and working in the United States should know better. We as a free nation are allowed to have and express negative views of whatever and whoever we want. The only time this is a problem is when your views lead to violence. And we’ve already made plenty of laws against that.

Congress has no more right to enact a legal objection to flushing a Koran down the toilet than to burning a flag. We as a free nation can burn all the flags we want and all the Korans we want or any other religious text. And thanks to the Constitution, even though most would never consider doing such things, it’s well within their right to do so and will always be even if silly people like Conyer want to try to deny those rights.

The KKK has a legal right to exist under the constitution even if everyone else in the United States hates everything they stand for. That’s a consequence of freedom.

Back in the day the main stream news would report and people would discuss amongst themselves. If there were glaring errors in the reporting or some kind of blatent bias, pockets of people would know about it. Now with blogs, when the MSM screws up, millions of people know about it and sometimes it gets back to the more mainstream news outlets such as Investor’s Business Daily.

I first saw Newsweek’s “US Flag in the Trash” cover on Little Green Footballs. Most Americans have never seen it because the cover was for the Japanese version of the magazine. Well IBD picked up the story and added additional insight to the blatent bias of the MSM that Liberals like to pretend doesn’t exist:

Stories that make our enemies look bad are treated differently. Witness the brouhaha over photos of Saddam Hussein in his undies. NBC’s “Today” show led off one morning with an interview with one of the tyrant’s lawyers and later had host Matt Laurer probing if the Pentagon thought this was a violation of the Geneva Convention. Yet when in mid-April new Saddam-era mass graves were discovered in southern Iraq, including one believed to hold as many as 5,000 corpses, NBC didn’t cover that story.

Liberals like to think that bias is injecting one’s opinion into the story. Anderson Cooper flat out stated that on the Daily Show and I’ve had zero interest to watch CNN since. He implied that CNN isn’t biased like Fox News because CNN doesn’t have anchors that state their opinion about things they report. What AC is being intellectually dishonest about is that bias is also what you choose to report and what you choose not to report. NBC and most mainstream outlets choose not to report anything that might look the Bush administration look good and focus on finding or even inventing stories that make it look bad. That’s bias.

The net result of all this rampant story invention and blatent bias is the reduction of the relavency of the MSM. Power Line is keeping on top of the latest developments that seem to suggest that Saddam did indeed have strong ties to al-Queda. Documents are comming out of Iraq supporting Bush’s assertion at the start of the war.

The number two of the al-Qaeda network, Ayman al-Zawahiri, visited Iraq under a false name in September 1999 to take part in the ninth Popular Islamic Congress, former Iraqi premier Iyad Allawi has revealed to pan-Arab daily al-Hayat. In an interview, Allawi made public information discovered by the Iraqi secret service in the archives of the Saddam Hussein regime, which sheds light on the relationship between Saddam Hussein and the Islamic terrorist network. He also said that both al-Zawahiri and Jordanian militant al-Zarqawi probably entered Iraq in the same period.

You won’t find these stories on the MSM, and that’s exactly why you won’t find many TVs turned on to the MSM either.