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The Bombers game last night was fun!

We have 15 people going on July 13. $12 gets you hot dogs, chips, soft drink. They gave us 4 complimentary tickets last night. Lots of other choices in food. Nice clean establishment. Call to make reservations before July 7.





Leading McCain VP Candidate Bobby Jindal Supports Creationism As Part Of ‘The Very Best Science’

From Think Progress:

Yesterday on CBS’s Face the Nation, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich — who is currently advising Republican senators about how win in 2008 — praised Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) as “spectacular,” and said he would be “far and away the best candidate” to be Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) vice presidential running mate.

Just before Gingrich came on to praise him, Jindal himself spoke on Face the Nation, where he invoked conservatives’ most-hated term, “political correctness,” to assert that teachers should teach intelligent design in the classroom:

I don’t think students learn by us withholding information from them. … I want them to see the best data. I personally think human life and the world we live in wasn’t created accidentally. I do think that there’s a creator. … Now the way that he did it, I’d certainly want my kids to be exposed to the very best science. I don’t want any facts or theories or explanations to be withheld from them because of political correctness.

Jindal insisted the federal and state government should not “impose” their views on local school districts, effectively giving school boards carte blanche to teach scientifically inaccurate ideas, just like Kansas did in 2005, when it rewrote standards to cast doubt on evolution. Watch it:

Of course, if Jindal — who has written about participating in an exorcism — were truly committed to “the very best science,” he would reject intelligent design as a religious idea unsuited for the science classroom — a fact recognized by federal courts. As Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of Sciences, explained, “Because ‘intelligent design’ theories are based on supernatural explanations, they can have nothing to do with science.”

Jindal’s stance deserves scrutiny following last week’s action by the Louisiana House, overwhelmingly passing a bill (SB 733) that opened the door to teaching creationism in schools. Though backers denied the bill had religious intentions, the Louisiana Family Forum, the group that spearheaded the bill, describes its mission to “persuasively present biblical principles in the centers of influence on issues affecting the family through research, communication and networking.”

Last year, McCain gave a keynote address to the Discovery Institute, a religious right-wing think tank that aggressively promotes creationism.





Will creationism bill rouse the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

By Scott Jordan
From The Independent (Louisiana)
Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Now that Senate Bill 733 — the Louisiana Science Education Act — passed 36-0 in the Senate and only awaits Gov. Bobby Jindal’s signature to become law, will it rouse the Flying Spaghetti Monster?

The quick backstory: this bill has been blasted as a backdoor attempt to allow the teaching of creationism in Louisiana science classes. And if Louisiana mirrors Kansas, we could be in store for some nationwide press and ridicule, courtesy of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. In 2005, after the Kansas Board of Education welcomed a similar bill, an Oregon State University grad with a degree in physics wrote open letters to the board members imploring them to also teach the theory that the Flying Spaghetti Monster created the universe. Spaghetti Monster supporter Bobby Henderson calls the church’s supporters “Pastafarians,” and his efforts spawned widespread media coverage.

For the full story of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, its Web site is here. (Warning: there’s strong language sprinkled throughout the site.)





CLINTON SUPPORTER PLANNING "HOLY CHAOS" FOR OBAMA CAMP

Fort Worth Star-Telegram
June 18, 2008

Ed Hale and his feisty flock are nearing action. The Texas rancher's web site for Hillary Clinton supporters planning to back John McCain over Barack Obama has attracted thousands of supporters along with ridicule and investigations online. Now he's launching a 527 political action committee intent on sending a message to the Democratic National Committee: put Clinton at the top of the ticket or her die-hard supporters will defect to the GOP.

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