It should be no surprise most American students think science is boring. How can science education be interesting when state science standards for public schools are dumbed down to accommodate America's Christian scum?
I can't imagine any science more interesting than the development of the human ape species but in most science classrooms the subject is never mentioned.
Even worse in many states most biology teachers say nothing about the foundation of biology, either because they are incompetent or because they are cowards who are terrified of harassment from Christian thugs.
The quote in the title of this post comes from The State of State Science Standards 2012.
Since I live in Florida I first checked out my state at page 46. We received only a C grade but that was despite our superior science standards for evolution. Our new science standards make evolution one of the big ideas of science, despite a lot of complaining from Christian crybabies who didn't want their brainwashed children (victims) to become unbrainwashed in high school.
I wrote this countless times before but I can't say it often enough: Fuck off and die Christian retards. Grow up or get off my planet you brain-dead cowardly assholes.
Florida's science standards:
Even human evolution is treated--a rarity in state science standards:
Identify basic trends in hominid evolution from early ancestors six million years ago to modern humans, including brain size, jaw size, language, and manufacture of tools. Discuss specific fossil hominids and what they show about human evolution. (high school life science)
Barely a handful of states tackle human evolution in their standards, bolstering the life science score of the Sunshine State's standards. Still, omissions in other key areas keep these standards from receiving top marks in this discipline.
Please see The State of State Science Standards 2012 to read about other states which do everything they can to accommodate cowardly uneducated morons (all Christians).
This paragraph from The State of State Science Standards 2012 is way beyond disgusting. This is why the United States of Jeebus is called Idiot America. Only 4 out of 50 states "openly embrace human evolution". The other students, millions of them, are being cheated, all because of an irrational fear of offending the most retarded assholes in the history of the human race (all Christians). Fuck off and die Christian scum. Oh wait, I already said that.
Finally, conspicuously missing from the vast majority of states’ standards is mention of human evolution—implying that elements of biological evolution don’t pertain to human life. This marks a subtle but important victory for creationists: Even states with thorough and appropriate coverage of evolution (e.g., Massachusetts, Utah, and Washington) shy away from linking the controversial term with ourselves. Only four states—Florida, New Hampshire, Iowa, and Rhode Island—openly embrace human evolution in their current science standards. (Pennsylvania, which referenced human evolution in its previous standards, has omitted it from the more recent version.)
Friday, August 31, 2012
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Jerry Coyne, author of Why Evolution is True, wrote "Theistic evolutionists are creationists."
Big response to Bill Nye’s attack on creationism
Theistic evolutionists are creationists, pure and simple; they differ from straight fundamentalist creationists only in how much of life God was involved in creating, ranging from those who think God set the whole plan in motion, knowing it would culminate in that most awesome of species, US, to those who think that God tinkered with mutations to create the right species (see the philosophical work of Elliott Sober), to those who think that humans are set apart from other species because God inserted a soul in our lineage (that’s the official view of the Vatican). That is being anti-evolution as scientists understand it, since we see evolution as a naturalistic process that has nothing to do with deities. Sadly, far more Americans are theistic evolutionists than naturalistic evolutionists: the proportions among all Americans are 38% to 16% respectively (40% are straight creationists, 6% are unsure). We have a long way to go.
-- Jerry Coyne
Actually the most recent Gallup Poll shows that now only 15% Americans accept evolution as pure science (without the Magic Jeebus Man). The other 85% are fucking idiots.
Theistic evolutionists invoke a creator (Jeebus) to invent or use or guide evolution. Theistic evolutionists are creationist retards. Theistic evolutionists are evolution deniers.
Even worse are the wimpy atheist suck-ups who tell Christians it's perfectly OK to pollute evolutionary biology with supernatural magic. My contempt for atheists wimps is stronger than my contempt for Bible thumpers and terrorists.
Christians who think they are moderate need to understand a few things.
There is nothing moderate about being a Christian because the Christian fantasies are childish insane bullshit.
If you can't accept science without sticking your dead Jeebus into it, then it would be better if you stayed away from science. Science does not need your death cult. Science is reality. If you stick Jeebus into science, science becomes bullshit.
Natural processes don't need supernatural intervention. For example gravity works just fine without your fairy getting involved. Natural selection is no different from any other scientific mechanism. I noticed you don't stick Jeebus into any other branch of science, so keep your fairy out of biology.
Natural processes don't need a magical inventor. Do you think there would be no gravity if your fairy didn't invent it? Of course you don't think that. You Christians are bloody stupid but you can figure out some things. Do you think there would be no natural selection of favorable mutations without your fairy inventing it? You probably do think that because you're desperate to find some purpose for your Magic Man. Nice try Christian tards but all natural processes, including the mechanisms of evolution, do not need a supernatural inventor.
Christians, you need to understand human apes are not the pinnacle of evolution. We are just one small twig on a vast tree of life. We are not a god's chosen creatures. There's nothing special about us except perhaps our ability to destroy this planet and wipe out other species. We are no more evolved than cockroaches. Besides not being able to do most things other creatures can do, we are no more intelligent than dolphins. And of course some of us (Christians, Muslims, and other religious tards) have less intelligence than dogs.
Humans aren't high on the evolutionary scale...there is no evolutionary scale. We aren't the pinnacle of anything. --PZ Myers
A fly is just as evolved as a human. It's just evolved to a different niche.
-- Jeremy Niven
Your problem, Christians, is you know evolution kills your Jeebus fantasy, your cowardly heaven fantasy, your god fairy fantasy, and all other Christian bullshit. But you also know you can't deny evolution because then everyone will call you a retard. To solve the problem with the religious implications of evolution you stick your fairy into it. You can't do that. It's wrong, it's stupid, and everyone will still call you a retard.
Christians, you have two choices. Either you grow up and throw out Jeebus, or you spend the rest of your worthless life being ridiculed. And if you ignore Bill Nye's advice and brainwash your children with your anti-science fantasies, you will be called an asshole. You will be called an asshole because destroying the minds of innocent children is child abuse.
I suggest you go with the first choice. Grow up. Stop being a drooling moron. Stop being a cowardly asshole. Instead join us normal people here in the 21st century. Reality is much more rewarding than hiding in your childish fantasy world.
The religious imagination is paltry and petty compared to the awesome reality.
-- PZ Myers
The only disadvantage of reality from your cowardly point of view is when you drop dead you're nothing more than a stinking pile of garbage. There is no magical soul that flies up to a magical paradise infested with fucking idiots like yourselves. If you must be a gullible coward, willing to believe any insane bullshit that makes you feel good, then you should probably go read your worthless Bible and live with being called a retarded asshole the rest of your pathetic boring life.
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The stupidity burns at 13,008 comments.
The stupidity, it burns again at 2,510 comments.
There is brain-dead insanity at both websites (from creationist morons who believe the Bible's Genesis bullshit and from creationist retards who call themselves theistic evolutionists) but there is some rational stuff in there too.
For example:
Primewonk
Theistic evolutionists are creationists, pure and simple; they differ from straight fundamentalist creationists only in how much of life God was involved in creating, ranging from those who think God set the whole plan in motion, knowing it would culminate in that most awesome of species, US, to those who think that God tinkered with mutations to create the right species (see the philosophical work of Elliott Sober), to those who think that humans are set apart from other species because God inserted a soul in our lineage (that’s the official view of the Vatican). That is being anti-evolution as scientists understand it, since we see evolution as a naturalistic process that has nothing to do with deities. Sadly, far more Americans are theistic evolutionists than naturalistic evolutionists: the proportions among all Americans are 38% to 16% respectively (40% are straight creationists, 6% are unsure). We have a long way to go.
-- Jerry Coyne
Actually the most recent Gallup Poll shows that now only 15% Americans accept evolution as pure science (without the Magic Jeebus Man). The other 85% are fucking idiots.
Theistic evolutionists invoke a creator (Jeebus) to invent or use or guide evolution. Theistic evolutionists are creationist retards. Theistic evolutionists are evolution deniers.
Even worse are the wimpy atheist suck-ups who tell Christians it's perfectly OK to pollute evolutionary biology with supernatural magic. My contempt for atheists wimps is stronger than my contempt for Bible thumpers and terrorists.
Christians who think they are moderate need to understand a few things.
There is nothing moderate about being a Christian because the Christian fantasies are childish insane bullshit.
If you can't accept science without sticking your dead Jeebus into it, then it would be better if you stayed away from science. Science does not need your death cult. Science is reality. If you stick Jeebus into science, science becomes bullshit.
Natural processes don't need supernatural intervention. For example gravity works just fine without your fairy getting involved. Natural selection is no different from any other scientific mechanism. I noticed you don't stick Jeebus into any other branch of science, so keep your fairy out of biology.
Natural processes don't need a magical inventor. Do you think there would be no gravity if your fairy didn't invent it? Of course you don't think that. You Christians are bloody stupid but you can figure out some things. Do you think there would be no natural selection of favorable mutations without your fairy inventing it? You probably do think that because you're desperate to find some purpose for your Magic Man. Nice try Christian tards but all natural processes, including the mechanisms of evolution, do not need a supernatural inventor.
Christians, you need to understand human apes are not the pinnacle of evolution. We are just one small twig on a vast tree of life. We are not a god's chosen creatures. There's nothing special about us except perhaps our ability to destroy this planet and wipe out other species. We are no more evolved than cockroaches. Besides not being able to do most things other creatures can do, we are no more intelligent than dolphins. And of course some of us (Christians, Muslims, and other religious tards) have less intelligence than dogs.
Humans aren't high on the evolutionary scale...there is no evolutionary scale. We aren't the pinnacle of anything. --PZ Myers
A fly is just as evolved as a human. It's just evolved to a different niche.
-- Jeremy Niven
Your problem, Christians, is you know evolution kills your Jeebus fantasy, your cowardly heaven fantasy, your god fairy fantasy, and all other Christian bullshit. But you also know you can't deny evolution because then everyone will call you a retard. To solve the problem with the religious implications of evolution you stick your fairy into it. You can't do that. It's wrong, it's stupid, and everyone will still call you a retard.
Christians, you have two choices. Either you grow up and throw out Jeebus, or you spend the rest of your worthless life being ridiculed. And if you ignore Bill Nye's advice and brainwash your children with your anti-science fantasies, you will be called an asshole. You will be called an asshole because destroying the minds of innocent children is child abuse.
I suggest you go with the first choice. Grow up. Stop being a drooling moron. Stop being a cowardly asshole. Instead join us normal people here in the 21st century. Reality is much more rewarding than hiding in your childish fantasy world.
The religious imagination is paltry and petty compared to the awesome reality.
-- PZ Myers
The only disadvantage of reality from your cowardly point of view is when you drop dead you're nothing more than a stinking pile of garbage. There is no magical soul that flies up to a magical paradise infested with fucking idiots like yourselves. If you must be a gullible coward, willing to believe any insane bullshit that makes you feel good, then you should probably go read your worthless Bible and live with being called a retarded asshole the rest of your pathetic boring life.
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The stupidity burns at 13,008 comments.
The stupidity, it burns again at 2,510 comments.
There is brain-dead insanity at both websites (from creationist morons who believe the Bible's Genesis bullshit and from creationist retards who call themselves theistic evolutionists) but there is some rational stuff in there too.
For example:
Primewonk
"In the beginning god created the heavens and the earth"
When you get the very first verse of the very first chapter of the very first book wrong, it does not bode well for the remainder.
The earth most definitely was not created in the beginning. In fact, the earth didn't form until the universe was 9,000,000,000 years old.
So either your god was wrong, or your god lied. Either way – doesn't make him much of a god, does it?
Even though I'm a Republican I noticed most Republicans are extremely retarded.
For example there is the Republican TV news station called Fox News. Whenever I look at it I notice virtually all the idiots who work there are evolution deniers. Why do they deny the most important basic fact of science? Because they are extraordinarily stupid.
It's too bad. An economic conservative like myself can't vote for a liberal loon like Obama, so I have to vote for the Republicans, even though they are wrong about everything except the economy. I don't understand it. Why can't these morons stay focused about what's important which is solving America's out of control unemployment problem. Instead they have to stick their noses into other people's private lives, they have to attack and destroy endangered species if it's lucrative for them to do that, they have to deny basic scientific facts that conflict with their childish fantasies, and they have to praise their Magic Jeebus Man. Their stupidity is pathetic. And then they wonder why they lose elections.
Here's a list of the ten most fucking stupid Republicans:
The 10 Most Retarded Conservatives
For example: #1 - Glenn Beck - It was only a matter of time before Fox News produced a show to cater to retards.
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UPDATE August 31, 2012:
RNC 2012: Clint Eastwood’s speech to the Republican convention in Tampa (full text)
My favorite quote from Mr. Eastwood's speech:
I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we -- we own this country. We -- we own it. It is not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.
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UPDATE September 1, 2012:
I have watched this video several dozen times.
More Clint Eastwood at Chrysler Commercial from 2012 NFL Championship Game.
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UPDATE August 30, 2012:
Rep. Paul Ryan: It's Time to Choose a Romney-Ryan Ticket
Most Republicans have the god disease but I'm willing to ignore their mental illness if they can make a speech like the brilliant Paul Ryan, the Republican candidate for Vice-President. I saw it last night on TV at the Republican convention in Tampa, Florida. He explained perfectly how Obama is destroying the future of this country with his trillions of dollars in debt with nothing to show for it.
And he found time to be humorous when he had the nerve to ridicule the Republican candidate for President Mitt Romney. Mr. Ryan talked about Romney's old age of 65 (Ryan is only 42) and Romney's terrible taste in music. Of course Rich Pig Romney is easy to ridicule, and of course I'm voting for Romney and Ryan anyway.
I'm going to see if I can find the entire Paul Ryan speech to copy and paste here.
Ok, I found Mr. Ryan's speech at Transcript: Rep. Paul Ryan's Convention Speech. Click the link if you want to listen to or watch the entire 35 minute speech, or better yet watch the YouTube video I provided in this post. The "Thank you, and God bless." at the end of it is unfortunate but please remember this is the United States of Jeebus. Here is Mr. Ryan's brilliant speech:
It's too bad. An economic conservative like myself can't vote for a liberal loon like Obama, so I have to vote for the Republicans, even though they are wrong about everything except the economy. I don't understand it. Why can't these morons stay focused about what's important which is solving America's out of control unemployment problem. Instead they have to stick their noses into other people's private lives, they have to attack and destroy endangered species if it's lucrative for them to do that, they have to deny basic scientific facts that conflict with their childish fantasies, and they have to praise their Magic Jeebus Man. Their stupidity is pathetic. And then they wonder why they lose elections.
Here's a list of the ten most fucking stupid Republicans:
The 10 Most Retarded Conservatives
For example: #1 - Glenn Beck - It was only a matter of time before Fox News produced a show to cater to retards.
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UPDATE August 31, 2012:
RNC 2012: Clint Eastwood’s speech to the Republican convention in Tampa (full text)
My favorite quote from Mr. Eastwood's speech:
I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we -- we own this country. We -- we own it. It is not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.
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UPDATE September 1, 2012:
I have watched this video several dozen times.
More Clint Eastwood at Chrysler Commercial from 2012 NFL Championship Game.
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UPDATE August 30, 2012:
Rep. Paul Ryan: It's Time to Choose a Romney-Ryan Ticket
Most Republicans have the god disease but I'm willing to ignore their mental illness if they can make a speech like the brilliant Paul Ryan, the Republican candidate for Vice-President. I saw it last night on TV at the Republican convention in Tampa, Florida. He explained perfectly how Obama is destroying the future of this country with his trillions of dollars in debt with nothing to show for it.
And he found time to be humorous when he had the nerve to ridicule the Republican candidate for President Mitt Romney. Mr. Ryan talked about Romney's old age of 65 (Ryan is only 42) and Romney's terrible taste in music. Of course Rich Pig Romney is easy to ridicule, and of course I'm voting for Romney and Ryan anyway.
I'm going to see if I can find the entire Paul Ryan speech to copy and paste here.
Ok, I found Mr. Ryan's speech at Transcript: Rep. Paul Ryan's Convention Speech. Click the link if you want to listen to or watch the entire 35 minute speech, or better yet watch the YouTube video I provided in this post. The "Thank you, and God bless." at the end of it is unfortunate but please remember this is the United States of Jeebus. Here is Mr. Ryan's brilliant speech:
EnlargeCharlie Neibergall/AP
Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., speaks Wednesday to delegates at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla.
Transcript of vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan's speech as prepared for delivery at the Republican National Convention:
Mr. Chairman, delegates, and fellow citizens: I am honored by the support of this convention for vice president of the United States.
I accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity – and I know we can do this.
I accept the calling of my generation to give our children the America that was given to us, with opportunity for the young and security for the old – and I know that we are ready.
Our nominee is sure ready. His whole life has prepared him for this moment – to meet serious challenges in a serious way, without excuses and idle words. After four years of getting the run-around, America needs a turnaround, and the man for the job is Governor Mitt Romney.
I'm the newcomer to the campaign, so let me share a first impression. I have never seen opponents so silent about their record, and so desperate to keep their power.
They've run out of ideas. Their moment came and went. Fear and division are all they've got left.
With all their attack ads, the president is just throwing away money – and he's pretty experienced at that. You see, some people can't be dragged down by the usual cheap tactics, because their ability, character, and plain decency are so obvious – and ladies and gentlemen, that is Mitt Romney.
For my part, your nomination is an unexpected turn. It certainly came as news to my family, and I'd like you to meet them: My wife Janna, our daughter Liza, and our boys Charlie and Sam.
The kids are happy to see their grandma, who lives in Florida. There she is – my Mom, Betty.
My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin.
I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesville is that kind of place.
The people of Wisconsin have been good to me. I've tried to live up to their trust. And now I ask those hardworking men and women, and millions like them across America, to join our cause and get this country working again.
When Governor Romney asked me to join the ticket, I said, "Let's get this done" – and that isexactly, what we're going to do.
PBS NewsHour/YouTube
Video: Paul Ryan's speech, from PBS NewsHour
President Barack Obama came to office during an economic crisis, as he has reminded us a time or two. Those were very tough days, and any fair measure of his record has to take that into account. My home state voted for President Obama. When he talked about change, many people liked the sound of it, especially in Janesville, where we were about to lose a major factory.
A lot of guys I went to high school with worked at that GM plant. Right there at that plant, candidate Obama said: "I believe that if our government is there to support you ... this plant will be here for another hundred years." That's what he said in 2008.
Well, as it turned out, that plant didn't last another year. It is locked up and empty to this day. And that's how it is in so many towns today, where the recovery that was promised is nowhere in sight.
Right now, 23 million men and women are struggling to find work. Twenty-three million people, unemployed or underemployed. Nearly one in six Americans is living in poverty. Millions of young Americans have graduated from college during the Obama presidency, ready to use their gifts and get moving in life. Half of them can't find the work they studied for, or any work at all.
So here's the question: Without a change in leadership, why would the next four years be any different from the last four years?
The first troubling sign came with the stimulus. It was President Obama's first and best shot at fixing the economy, at a time when he got everything he wanted under one-party rule. It cost $831 billion – the largest one-time expenditure ever by our federal government.
It went to companies like Solyndra, with their gold-plated connections, subsidized jobs, and make-believe markets. The stimulus was a case of political patronage, corporate welfare, and cronyism at their worst. You, the working men and women of this country, were cut out of the deal.
What did the taxpayers get out of the Obama stimulus? More debt. That money wasn't just spent and wasted – it was borrowed, spent, and wasted.
Maybe the greatest waste of all was time. Here we were, faced with a massive job crisis – so deep that if everyone out of work stood in single file, that unemployment line would stretch the length of the entire American continent. You would think that any president, whatever his party, would make job creation, and nothing else, his first order of economic business.
But this president didn't do that. Instead, we got a long, divisive, all-or-nothing attempt to put the federal government in charge of health care.
Obamacare comes to more than two thousand pages of rules, mandates, taxes, fees, and fines that have no place in a free country.
The president has declared that the debate over government-controlled health care is over. That will come as news to the millions of Americans who will elect Mitt Romney so we can repeal Obamacare.
And the biggest, coldest power play of all in Obamacare came at the expense of the elderly.
You see, even with all the hidden taxes to pay for the health care takeover, even with new taxes on nearly a million small businesses, the planners in Washington still didn't have enough money. They needed more. They needed hundreds of billions more. So, they just took it all away from Medicare. Seven hundred and sixteen billion dollars, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed, all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare, and we're going to stop it.
In Congress, when they take out the heavy books and wall charts about Medicare, my thoughts go back to a house on Garfield Street in Janesville. My wonderful grandma, Janet, had Alzheimer's and moved in with Mom and me. Though she felt lost at times, we did all the little things that made her feel loved.
We had help from Medicare, and it was there, just like it's there for my Mom today. Medicare is a promise, and we will honor it. A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my Mom's generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.
So our opponents can consider themselves on notice. In this election, on this issue, the usual posturing on the Left isn't going to work. Mitt Romney and I know the difference between protecting a program, and raiding it. Ladies and gentlemen, our nation needs this debate. We want this debate. We will win this debate.
Obamacare, as much as anything else, explains why a presidency that began with such anticipation now comes to such a disappointing close.
It began with a financial crisis; it ends with a job crisis.
It began with a housing crisis they alone didn't cause; it ends with a housing crisis they didn't correct.
It began with a perfect Triple-A credit rating for the United States; it ends with a downgraded America.
It all started off with stirring speeches, Greek columns, the thrill of something new. Now all that's left is a presidency adrift, surviving on slogans that already seem tired, grasping at a moment that has already passed, like a ship trying to sail on yesterday's wind.
President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, "I haven't communicated enough." He said his job is to "tell a story to the American people" – as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?
Ladies and gentlemen, these past four years we have suffered no shortage of words in the White House. What's missing is leadership in the White House. And the story that Barack Obama does tell, forever shifting blame to the last administration, is getting old. The man assumed office almost four years ago – isn't it about time he assumed responsibility?
In this generation, a defining responsibility of government is to steer our nation clear of a debt crisis while there is still time. Back in 2008, candidate Obama called a $10 trillion national debt "unpatriotic" – serious talk from what looked to be a serious reformer.
Yet by his own decisions, President Obama has added more debt than any other president before him, and more than all the troubled governments of Europe combined. One president, one term, $5 trillion in new debt.
He created a bipartisan debt commission. They came back with an urgent report. He thanked them, sent them on their way, and then did exactly nothing.
Republicans stepped up with good-faith reforms and solutions equal to the problems. How did the president respond? By doing nothing – nothing except to dodge and demagogue the issue.
So here we are, $16 trillion in debt and still he does nothing. In Europe, massive debts have put entire governments at risk of collapse, and still he does nothing. And all we have heard from this president and his team are attacks on anyone who dares to point out the obvious.
They have no answer to this simple reality: We need to stop spending money we don't have.
My Dad used to say to me: "Son. You have a choice: You can be part of the problem, or you can be part of the solution." The present administration has made its choices. And Mitt Romney and I have made ours: Before the math and the momentum overwhelm us all, we are going to solve this nation's economic problems.
And I'm going to level with you: We don't have that much time. But if we are serious, and smart, and we lead, we can do this.
After four years of government trying to divide up the wealth, we will get America creating wealth again. With tax fairness and regulatory reform, we'll put government back on the side of the men and women who create jobs, and the men and women who need jobs.
My Mom started a small business, and I've seen what it takes. Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life. And it transformed my Mom from a widow in grief to a small businesswoman whose happiness wasn't just in the past. Her work gave her hope. It made our family proud. And to this day, my Mom is my role model.
Behind every small business, there's a story worth knowing. All the corner shops in our towns and cities, the restaurants, cleaners, gyms, hair salons, hardware stores – these didn't come out of nowhere. A lot of heart goes into each one. And if small businesspeople say they made it on their own, all they are saying is that nobody else worked seven days a week in their place. Nobody showed up in their place to open the door at five in the morning. Nobody did their thinking, and worrying, and sweating for them. After all that work, and in a bad economy, it sure doesn't help to hear from their president that government gets the credit. What they deserve to hear is the truth: Yes, you did build that.
We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years.
In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.
I learned a good deal about economics, and about America, from the author of the Reagan tax reforms – the great Jack Kemp. What gave Jack that incredible enthusiasm was his belief in the possibilities of free people, in the power of free enterprise and strong communities to overcome poverty and despair. We need that same optimism right now.
And in our dealings with other nations, a Romney-Ryan administration will speak with confidence and clarity. Wherever men and women rise up for their own freedom, they will know that the American president is on their side. Instead of managing American decline, leaving allies to doubt us and adversaries to test us, we will act in the conviction that the United States is still the greatest force for peace and liberty that this world has ever known.
President Obama is the kind of politician who puts promises on the record, and then calls that the record. But we are four years into this presidency. The issue is not the economy as Barack Obama inherited it, not the economy as he envisions it, but this economy as we are living it.
College graduates should not have to live out their 20s in their childhood bedrooms, staring up at fading Obama posters and wondering when they can move out and get going with life. Everyone who feels stuck in the Obama economy is right to focus on the here and now. And I hope you understand this too, if you're feeling left out or passed by: You have not failed, your leaders have failed you.
None of us have to settle for the best this administration offers – a dull, adventureless journey from one entitlement to the next, a government-planned life, a country where everything is free but us.
Listen to the way we're spoken to already, as if everyone is stuck in some class or station in life, victims of circumstances beyond our control, with government there to help us cope with our fate.
It's the exact opposite of everything I learned growing up in Wisconsin, or at college in Ohio. When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself. That's what we do in this country. That's the American Dream. That's freedom, and I'll take it any day over the supervision and sanctimony of the central planners.
By themselves, the failures of one administration are not a mandate for a new administration. A challenger must stand on his own merits. He must be ready and worthy to serve in the office of president.
We're a full generation apart, Governor Romney and I. And, in some ways, we're a little different. There are the songs on his iPod, which I've heard on the campaign bus and on many hotel elevators. He actually urged me to play some of these songs at campaign rallies. I said, I hope it's not a deal-breaker Mitt, but my playlist starts with AC/DC, and ends with Zeppelin.
A generation apart. That makes us different, but not in any of the things that matter. Mitt Romney and I both grew up in the heartland, and we know what places like Wisconsin and Michigan look like when times are good, when people are working, when families are doing more than just getting by. And we both know it can be that way again.
We've had very different careers – mine mainly in public service, his mostly in the private sector. He helped start businesses and turn around failing ones. By the way, being successful in business – that's a good thing.
Mitt has not only succeeded, but succeeded where others could not. He turned around the Olympics at a time when a great institution was collapsing under the weight of bad management, overspending, and corruption – sounds familiar, doesn't it?
He was the Republican governor of a state where almost nine in ten legislators are Democrats, and yet he balanced the budget without raising taxes. Unemployment went down, household incomes went up, and Massachusetts, under Mitt Romney, saw its credit rating upgraded.
Mitt and I also go to different churches. But in any church, the best kind of preaching is done by example. And I've been watching that example. The man who will accept your nomination tomorrow is prayerful and faithful and honorable. Not only a defender of marriage, he offers an example of marriage at its best. Not only a fine businessman, he's a fine man, worthy of leading this optimistic and good-hearted country.
Our different faiths come together in the same moral creed. We believe that in every life there is goodness; for every person, there is hope. Each one of us was made for a reason, bearing the image and likeness of the Lord of Life.
We have responsibilities, one to another – we do not each face the world alone. And the greatest of all responsibilities, is that of the strong to protect the weak. The truest measure of any society is how it treats those who cannot defend or care for themselves.
Each of these great moral ideas is essential to democratic government – to the rule of law, to life in a humane and decent society. They are the moral creed of our country, as powerful in our time, as on the day of America's founding. They are self-evident and unchanging, and sometimes, even presidents need reminding, that our rights come from nature and God, not from government.
The founding generation secured those rights for us, and in every generation since, the best among us have defended our freedoms. They are protecting us right now. We honor them and all our veterans, and we thank them.
The right that makes all the difference now, is the right to choose our own leaders. And you are entitled to the clearest possible choice, because the time for choosing is drawing near. So here is our pledge.
We will not duck the tough issues, we will lead.
We will not spend four years blaming others, we will take responsibility.
We will not try to replace our founding principles, we will reapply our founding principles.
The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us – all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this.
We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.
Whatever your political party, let's come together for the sake of our country. Join Mitt Romney and me. Let's give this effort everything we have. Let's see this through all the way. Let's get this done.
Thank you, and God bless.
FUCK OFF AND DIE MUSLIM SCUM.
Human rights campaigners are using Ms. Masih’s case to renew calls for changes to the blasphemy laws, which date from the British colonial era and are frequently abused by powerful Muslim clerics to persecute religious minorities or to pursue grudges against fellow Muslims.
Don't change your bullshit blasphemy laws. Throw them out. Blasphemy is a code word for "respect your breathtaking stupidity". People who ridicule your violent death cult should be applauded. Instead you cowardly Muslim retards kill them.
Muslim morons, your Mohammed was a stupid fucking asshole and your Allah doesn't even exist. Grow up Muslim scum or get off my planet.
The title of this post, FUCK OFF AND DIE MUSLIM SCUM, is being way too nice. Muslim assholes have long ago lost their right to live on this planet. Muslims have less value than cockroaches. The world's Muslim subhumans need to be completely eradicated.
To all you wimpy atheist liberal scum who suck up to Muslims, you deserve something a lot worse than instant death.
Now watch the cowardly censorship-loving terrorist-loving Google Corporation vaporize my entire blog without warning, like they did to me once before. FUCK OFF GOOGLE.
From the New York Times a story about cowardly Muslim assholes who want to murder a 14 year old mentally handicapped girl because they think she might have shown disrespect for their Islam Terrorist Organization. Incredibly more than 100 people are victims of their bullshit laws against blasphemy. Fuck off Muslim shitheads.
Lawyers Seek the Release of a Christian Girl Charged With Blasphemy in Pakistan
The Pakistani authorities have held the girl, Rimsha Masih, in a high-security jail since Aug. 16, when hundreds of Muslim protesters, angered over claims that she had burned pages from an Islamic holy book, surrounded a police station here in Islamabad to demand that she face prosecution.
Fearing violence, the police filed blasphemy charges against Ms. Masih. Relatives and human rights workers said she was 11 years old and had Down syndrome, and should therefore be exempt from the blasphemy laws. The girl, who comes from an impoverished family of Christian sweepers, was said to have been seen holding a burned copy of the Noorani Qaida, a religious textbook used to teach the Koran to children.
After a brief court hearing on Tuesday morning, Ms. Masih’s lawyer, Tahir Naveed Chaudhry, said a medical board had established that she was 14 years old and had a degree of mental disability. “The report establishes that her mental condition does not match her age and physical condition,” he said.
That medical finding could help break the deadlock in a case that has outraged human rights groups, embarrassed Pakistan’s government and renewed the spotlight on laws that experts say are abused by the powerful to prey on the weak and on religious minorities.
Mr. Chaudhry said he hoped Ms. Masih would be granted bail at the next scheduled hearing, on Thursday, while senior government officials indicated that they were pressing to have the charges droppede.
For now, worries for Ms. Masih’s well-being focus on her incarceration at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, where Mr. Chaudhry told reporters that he found her “weeping and crying” during a visit last Saturday. Amnesty International has said it was “extremely concerned” for Ms. Masih’s safety, noting that some people accused of blasphemy in Pakistan had been killed by vigilantes before their cases reached trial.
Ms. Masih’s plight has also prompted concern among conservative Muslim clerics who, alarmed by a spate of recent blasphemy-inspired mob attacks, have united with Christian leaders on the issue.
The police should investigate Ms. Masih’s case “immediately and without fear,” said Maulana Tahir Ashrafi, the chairman of the All Pakistan Ulema Council, an umbrella group of Muslim clerics, including some from fundamentalist groups. If investigators find that Ms. Masih is innocent, he added, those who instigated false charges against her should be prosecuted.
“In Pakistan, we have one law for both Muslims and Christians,” he said. “The government should apply it.”
Human rights campaigners said that Ms. Masih’s parents were in the protective custody of the minister for national harmony, Paul Bhatti, whose brother Shahbaz Bhatti, the former minorities minister, was shot to death outside his Islamabad home last year.
Hundreds of Ms. Masih’s Christian neighbors fled the area once the scandal erupted, fearing for their lives. Last weekend some erected a makeshift church, using branches, on the edge of nearby forested land, where they held prayer services, The Associated Press reported. That structure has since been burned down, and the Christians have been forced to leave the land.
Some 50 families have returned to the neighborhood, said Joseph Francis of the Center for Legal Aid, Assistance and Settlement, which is working to help people accused of blasphemy in more than 100 cases. But, Mr. Francis added, local Muslim shopkeepers are refusing to sell food to Christian families, leaving them dependent on donations from Christian charities.
Human rights campaigners are using Ms. Masih’s case to renew calls for changes to the blasphemy laws, which date from the British colonial era and are frequently abused by powerful Muslim clerics to persecute religious minorities or to pursue grudges against fellow Muslims.
But the issue is considered politically toxic, particularly since the assassination of the governor of Punjab Province, Salman Taseer, at the hands of his own bodyguard in January last year. The bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri, said he killed Mr. Taseer because he had supported changes to the blasphemy laws and because he had supported Asia Bibi, the first woman sentenced to death for blasphemy. Ms. Bibi remains in jail.
If, as the government hopes, Ms. Masih is released this week, there is little chance that she can return to her home, Mr. Francis said.
“It is not possible for her to stay in the same village” because of security concerns, he said, adding that his organization had helped resettle people accused of blasphemy in the United States, Canada, Germany and across Pakistan.
Plans are already being made to relocate Ms. Masih and her family, he said.
By DECLAN WALSH
Published: August 28, 2012
Salman Masood contributed reporting.
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Both Republicans and Democrats suck up to Idiot America's Christian scum.
Clergy from several denominations are scheduled to pray at the opening and closing of each day's sessions of the party conventions. The tradition of such prayers goes back more than 100 years.
We have something in our constitution called the Establishment Clause also known as our wall of separation between church and state. I call it our wall of separation between religious insanity and our government. It's the first clause of the first amendment of our Bill of Rights and despite its importance it is constantly being ignored so politicians can show off how holy they are.
I don't see much difference between the United States of Jeebus and theocratic Iran.
Come on Americans. If you're too bloody stupid and too cowardly to grow up, at least have the decency to not stick your god fairy disease into everyone else's face. Keep your childish fantasies to yourselves.
We have something in our constitution called the Establishment Clause also known as our wall of separation between church and state. I call it our wall of separation between religious insanity and our government. It's the first clause of the first amendment of our Bill of Rights and despite its importance it is constantly being ignored so politicians can show off how holy they are.
I don't see much difference between the United States of Jeebus and theocratic Iran.
Come on Americans. If you're too bloody stupid and too cowardly to grow up, at least have the decency to not stick your god fairy disease into everyone else's face. Keep your childish fantasies to yourselves.
Monday, August 27, 2012
"President Obama continues to show either a lack of knowledge about how business works or has a disdain for businesses in general.”
The quote is from an Ohio voter. If Romney wins Ohio he could still lose, but he must win Ohio.
Not long ago it looked like our incompetent president would defeat Romney in Ohio but a recent poll shows they are dead even at 45% each.
The closest Dispatch Poll in modern history shows the races for president and U.S. Senate in a dead heat in battleground Ohio.
I'm voting for Romney in another swing state, Florida, where the election will be equally close. Romney has to win Florida.
Unlike many atheists I'm not a liberal loon. I love capitalism. Liberals, including our president, hate capitalism. They prefer big government and massive government debt. Why? The only possible explanation is liberals are just plain stupid.
After almost four years President Obama has made no progress solving America's unemployment problem, over 8% unemployed, millions more can only find a part time job, and millions more have given up all hope of ever finding a job. How could Obama make any progress when he keeps saying he wants to raise taxes for job creators? Obama is as incompetent as Carter was.
Please see ROMNEY MAKES THE MORAL CASE FOR FREEDOM.
Capitalism is the only economic system that has ever worked.
Definition of CAPITALISM
Not long ago it looked like our incompetent president would defeat Romney in Ohio but a recent poll shows they are dead even at 45% each.
The closest Dispatch Poll in modern history shows the races for president and U.S. Senate in a dead heat in battleground Ohio.
I'm voting for Romney in another swing state, Florida, where the election will be equally close. Romney has to win Florida.
Unlike many atheists I'm not a liberal loon. I love capitalism. Liberals, including our president, hate capitalism. They prefer big government and massive government debt. Why? The only possible explanation is liberals are just plain stupid.
After almost four years President Obama has made no progress solving America's unemployment problem, over 8% unemployed, millions more can only find a part time job, and millions more have given up all hope of ever finding a job. How could Obama make any progress when he keeps saying he wants to raise taxes for job creators? Obama is as incompetent as Carter was.
Please see ROMNEY MAKES THE MORAL CASE FOR FREEDOM.
Capitalism is the only economic system that has ever worked.
Definition of CAPITALISM
: an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market
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I wrote some comments at Christians must accept creationism where a science denier got something right, Christians have to believe in the Christian magical creationism fantasy unless they want to admit their Magic Jeebus Man was an uneducated moron. There were the usual comments from wimpy suck-ups who wrote about theistic evolutionists as if sticking the dead Jeebus into evolutionary biology is a good thing. I told the wimps they're as retarded as the Bible thumpers and terrorists they suck up to.
A Christian airhead wrote "If you want to believe you are descended from monkeys...so be it. If you want to believe you were somehow wonderfully created in Gods image...so be it. Eventually...one belief will win out over the other and leave some people looking really stupid." I don't mean to pick on women because Christian men are equally insane, but I noticed while it's impossible to convince a male retard to grow up it's much more than impossible to convince a female airhead to grow up. It's also impossible to be more brain-dead retarded than god-soaked Christian ladies who brainwash their children, making sure their disease is transmitted to the next generation. Thank goodness for the brilliant real women who are not infected with the Jeebus fantasy.
Somebody else already explained we share an ancestor with today's monkeys, we did not descend from them. And of course we are more closely related to the other ape species.
I wrote this reply for the airhead:
Mendy Trahan Wascom wrote "Eventually...one belief will win out over the other and leave some people looking really stupid."
Your "Eventually" is today, or more accurately your "Eventually" was in 1859 when Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. Since 1859 the research of thousands of other biologists have made evolution the strongest fact of science.
There is absolutely no debate about the truth of evolution and there is absolutely no debate about the stupidity and idiocy of your childish magical creationism fantasy.
By the way basic scientific facts like evolution are not beliefs. Reality is not a belief.
Guess what, you're right about something. You look really stupid.