FROM NORBROOK'S BLOG
I hate to sound like an old fogie, although chronologically I’m rapidly approaching that point. But I do remember back “in the good old days” (which weren’t all that good, really) when you could disagree with a Republican on many things, but you didn’t have cause to doubt their intelligence or sanity. You knew they arguing from the same facts as you were, that they acknowledged an objective reality. Those days are gone, judging from current evidence.
I can’t read the news feeds these days without getting another example. I don’t have to look for them, they just keep coming with depressing regularity. First we had Todd Akin’s “legitimate rape” comment, which he’s (sort of, not really) apologized for, except that his comments in the past show that he’s still “out there” by claiming that it was “common practice” for them to be giving abortions to women who are not actually pregnant.”
Bad? Yes, but then there’s Representative Paul Broun who is busily denying … science. All science.
All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell,” Broun said. “And it’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior.
Um, yeah, and he’s not, despite his claims, a scientist. He has a medical degree, but that doesn’t make one “a scientist.” Yes, I can state that, because I used to work training doctors in doing scientific research.
The really disturbing part about these two is not that they’re nuts, it’s that they serve on the House Science Committee. If they were the only two, you could write it off, but they’re not. You have Michele Bachman claiming HPV causes mental retardation (it doesn’t), Louie Gohmert coming out with a litany of reallystupid remarks, Steve King thinks women can’t get pregnant through rape or incest, and a state legislator in Arkansas, Jon Hubbard, thinks that slavery was a blessing for African Americans.
“… the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.” (Pages 183-89)
All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the Big Bang Theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell,” Broun said. “And it’s lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior.
The really disturbing part about these two is not that they’re nuts, it’s that they serve on the House Science Committee. If they were the only two, you could write it off, but they’re not. You have Michele Bachman claiming HPV causes mental retardation (it doesn’t), Louie Gohmert coming out with a litany of reallystupid remarks, Steve King thinks women can’t get pregnant through rape or incest, and a state legislator in Arkansas, Jon Hubbard, thinks that slavery was a blessing for African Americans.
“… the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.” (Pages 183-89)
FROM THE RAW STORY
New Hampshire Republican says Boston bombing was government conspiracy
New Hampshire state Rep. Stella Tremblay (R-Auburn) believes that Alex Jones’ website Infowars has revealed the truth behind the Boston Marathon bombings.
The New Hampshire Democratic Party on Tuesday highlighted a Facebook message Tremblay left on Glenn Beck’s fan page last Friday.
The message claimed the U.S. government secretly carried out the Boston attack and that the suspect who was arrested was merely a patsy. The post linked to an Alex Jones video.
She wrote: “Just as you said would happen. Top Down, Bottom UP. The Boston Marathon was a Black Ops ‘terrorist’ attack. One suspect killed, the other one will be too before they even have a chance to speak. Drones and now ‘terrorist’ attacks by our own Government. Sad day, but a ‘wake up’ to all of us. First there was a ‘suspect’ then there wasnt. Infowars broke the story and they knew they had been ‘found out’.”
Tremblay has previously questioned President Barack Obama’s citizenship and claimed that President Woodrow Wilson was fond of Adolf Hitler.
