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[theweaselking]

Ohio state governor endorses teaching about The Flying Spaghetti Monster in school.

Quoth the article:"The state school board approved lesson plans last year that some scientists say continue to contain inaccurate information about evolution." - BULLSHIT. Show me *one* person who knows what they're talking about saying that.

Taft, of course, is currently under investigation for breaking all the "don't abuse your position" laws.

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[ceara.livejournal.com]

I will, but only in the same sense of the word as the egg model of the cell is "inaccurate". It's simplified to the point of containing small but unimportant pieces of wrongness.

[corruptedjasper.livejournal.com]

Lies-to-children wrong, or wrong, wrong?

[ceara.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I know what you mean by "lies-to-children".

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

lies-to-children wrong: they're wrong in the sense that Newtonian motion is wrong - which is to say, wrong, but close enough in all real-world applications that its taught ANYWAY and simply retaught with modifications later.

wrong wrong: The sun circles the Earth, fossils are from animals buried in the Great Flood, Intelligent Design is a scientific theory that preempts evolution.

[ceara.livejournal.com]

Right. Definitely the lies-to-children flavor, then.

[thette.livejournal.com]

"Egg model"?

[ceara.livejournal.com]

There's a cell membrane, which is represented by the shell of the egg; there's some cytoplasm, which is represented by the egg white; and the nucleus is the yolk. Not a bad macromodel for ten-year-olds, really, but definitely oversimplified.

[thette.livejournal.com]

Ah. I'm glad I didn't encounter it.

(I think I was ten when I started my biology geeking.)

[thette.livejournal.com]

Funny enough, I started my biology geeking with a book on evolution I found in my parents' shelf. I was totally fascinated by the mRNA.

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

On behalf of my entire state, I apologize.

Taft's involvement in the Noe scandal is on the front page every fucking day, and he just had to show himself to be an ignorant tit besides. It's kind of depressing, because the literacy program he introduced in his first term has been successful and made me like him quite a lot. Now I'm just disgusted.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Get literate by reading the Bible!

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

Actually, no. (I'm sure you were going for teh funneh, but...um, no.)

Ohio Reads trains volunteers to go to schools and help teach kids in K-4 better reading skills. They work with basic reading ability, comprehension and reading fluency, and get the kids extra reading time and reading help that most of them just aren't getting at home.

[unnamed525.livejournal.com]

Well ...
I hate this.
That's something good thing that a Republican has done.
Now, we just need to start teaching critical thinking in junior high.

[thathatedguy.livejournal.com]

In a poll on WCMH's web site, 70% of participants think Taft should see jail time.
From the web site:
--- State Sen. Marc Dann, a Democrat of the 32nd District, said the incident is embarrassing.

"I'm horribly embarrassed for state," Dann said. "This is something that we're going to have a hard time living down. It was embarrassing enough that the state took $50 million of injured workers' money and invested it in rare coins, and then lost it and never ever saw the investment. It's embarrassing enough that it is now clear to everybody in the state of Ohio that we have a government of which we cannot be proud."

Dann said Taft's actions are only a small part of what he believes is common in state politics.

"There's a pay-to-play culture of corruption down here that is unacceptable. So the governor being charged with a crime is kind of the cherry on top of the sundae in terms of our national humiliation. The question now is what do we do about it," Dann said.

"We expect that from the Democrats," said Jason Mauk, of the Ohio Republican Party. "It's unfortunate that they're not providing proactive, positive leadership ideas for moving Ohio forward. They're engaged in political partisanship. That's why Republicans continue to win elections in Ohio."

"We need to restore integrity to government. If his resigning will help that, then I'm for it. I think more than resigning, his telling the truth about what happened (and) helping us understand the problem so that we can pass solutions, laws that will prevent this from happening again (is) far more important," Dann said.

"These are some of the same people who just a few years ago were defending President Clinton against charges of obstruction of justice and perjury, and now they're suggesting a governor who failed to report some golf outings should step down or be impeached. I don’t think those two are on the same level," Mauk said.---

What Mauk doesn't get, as he is obviously a chowderhead, is that CLinton lied about a blowjob. Taft accepted improper gifts from a man that ripped off our Workman's Comp system for tens of millions of dollars.
Fucktard.

[missysedai.livejournal.com]

It's unfortunate that they're not providing proactive, positive leadership ideas for moving Ohio forward.

Yes, because stealing BWC money and blowing it on high-end dinners, golf trips and luxury vacations has done SO FUCKING MUCH to move Ohio forward. What's our unemployment rate? 6.1%?

Fucktard.

You can say that again.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

> What's our unemployment rate? 6.1%?

Closer to 16%. After all, "unemployment rate" in the USA doesn't count *most* of the unemployed, because that makes the number lower.