#Creationism - #BobJones: 'Electricity is a mystery' #godless #socialism

Creationists, at least of the Bob Jones ilk, think "Electricity is a mystery." No, really!

That's from a homeschooling textbook from  the fundamentalist South Carolina university. Given that Bob Jones is approved by Gov. Bobby Jindal et al as a provider for Louisiana’s new school curriculum, this means, in a decade, Botswana will be ahead of Louisiana in science.

There is so much wrong with this, it ain’t even funny.

First, Bob Jones got the creationist, tea partier and general wingnut meme on this wrong. Not just kind of wrong, but totally wrong.

Electricity isn’t a “mystery.”

It’s socialist, dammit!

Why? It allowed for progress, which is always socialist.

It allowed for better working conditions. It allowed for more literacy. Those in turn allowed employees to be better able to stand up to bosses, which is of course socialistic.

But, it’s not just socialistic, it’s New Agey.

Electricity, after all is everywhere and in everything, with those invisible electrons. Especially since modern godless science says that those electrons aren’t even in one exact location, it’s just like those New Age gurus and their made-in-India (sorry, Gov. Jindal) fuzzy religion bullshit say!

And, it’s still godless. Because it comes from science.

Also, electricity is a stimulus. And, what godless, socialist New Agey president believes in stimulus?

So, nope, can’t teach Louisiana kids about electricity.

More seriously, I’ve got several other thoughts.

1. How long before Jindal retreats on at least the most egregious parts of this, and what lame-o excuse will he use?

2. Or will he retreat?

3. How long will it be, here in Texas, before the State Board of Education says, “Dammit, how did Louisiana beat us to this”?

4. How long will it be before Bob Jones changes the book to something else?

5. If you really believe electricity is a mystery, why do you use it? That’s like Barry Bonds saying the “clear” and the “cream” were a mystery, but he still used them while his head ballooned to Bob Jones creationist size. 

The South originally wasn't a 'one-drop' land

In the latest installment of its "Disunion" op-ed series about the Civil War, the New York Times describes how racial lines were a bit more fluid in the antebellum South.

But, the thread of the end of slavery, and its rigid borders, changed everything.

Read the column for a how a Louisiana white family with black ancestors in its bloodline reacted.

Louisiana asks God to end BP spill

Dear nutbars suggesting prayer in the Louisiana Legislature to stop Deepwater Horizon: If God is so omnipotent, why didn't he prevent the spill/gush in the first place?

A century of BP 'fun' for Louisiana

Yep, the undersea/seafloor oil from BP's Deepwater Horizon blowout could linger, (and perhaps occasionally wash up on beaches?) ... for the next 100 years.

So, yes, Firedog Lake is right on why we SHOULD be mad at Team Obama, including the rotting fish head on this issue.

The one thing missing from the jeremiad is a call to immediately freeze all BP assets in the US, rather than just threatening to do so at some future date.

Too bad the Obamiacs who populate places like Talking Points Memo don't read, or listen to, stuff like this.

Dear Louisiana: Don't expect much from BP

Your friendly federal government capped disaster payouts at $75 mil after Exxon Valdez. Congressional attempts to change that cap and make it retroactive?

The retroactive part is unconstitutional as ex post facto legislation. Are our Congresscritters more pandering, or more that stupid?

The Katrina of oil spills

First, this news about the Gulf of Mexico oil leak leads me to say, we only have 100 years of weather data, so talking about "100-year floods" is bullshit.

Therefore, and along similar lines why do we let oil companies assume they've adequately planned for disasters when they deliberately do not include the possibility of everything going wrong at once?

This is a clusterfuck by BOTH the likes of BP and the likes of the federal government, as the NYT notes.

Indeed, BP even made the official claim that an event like this pretty much could not happen.

At the same time, it's "fun" to see the Louisiana hypocrites, GOP Gov. Bobby Jindal and Sen. David Vitter, suddenly scramble for the federal government to be big and strong.

Elect a Green to Congress

Malik Rahim is running for Congress in Louisiana's Second District against incumbent William Jefferson, the latest in a long line of indicted or convicted Louisiana political shady characters. You can learn more about Rahim here and contribute to his campaign here.

With Democrats in Congress showing they're all too willing to do President Obama's centrist bidding, this is a chance to help elect a truly independent voice.