High taxes like the Holocaust says Beck

It just gets worse and worse. You've got to see this.

Thanks to BuzzFlash. Article and more here.

Master of Science degree in "creationism" - only in Texas!

Shore enuf, pardner! Y'all might soon be able to git a Master's degree in creation science if'n State Rep. Leo Berman (R-Tyler) has his way.

Berman, a Republican wingnut, "proposed House Bill 2800 when he learned that The Institute for Creation Research (ICR), a private institution that specializes in the education and research of biblical creationism, was not able to receive a certificate of authority from Texas' Higher Education Coordinating Board to grant Master of Science degrees.

"Berman's bill would allow private, non-profit educational institutions to be exempt from the board's authority."

Heh. Heh. As they say, so often, "only in Texas!"


Berman provides another good reason why control of education and education standards should be removed from moronic dimwits who operate with pea-sized brains and somehow get elected to state legislatures!

Hemant Mehta had a few thoughts about this proposal:

1. There's nothing Scientific or "Masterful" about Creationism.

2. Get ready for three word Masters Theses: "God did it."

3. You thought your Bachelors degree in Communications was useless...?

4. At least the textbook cost would be low. You'd only need one book the whole time you're working on your degree.


The bill probably won't pass. Perhaps Berman could be recalled on the condition that he's too much of an idiot to serve in the legislature - even for Texas.

Once again: Creationism is not science; it is religious superstition! Anyone or any group teaching creationism should not be provided recognition, but should be scoffed at and scorned.


There's more from FOX News here.


h/t to Friendly Atheist

Michael Steele - Up in flames

There is just no hope for the Repugnican Party.

Michael Steele, chair of the RNC, guest-hosted wingnut Bill Bennett's radio program on March 6. It was an exercise in self-destruction.

According to Sam Stein at the Huff Post, Steele committed such sins as comparing Barack Obama to Richard Nixon, suggesting that the present political situation was "Armageddon between conservatism and liberalism" among other things.

Perhaps the most interesting and idiotic of the "other things" Steele said, was that our planet is not warming but cooling! Yup. That's what he said!


It went down like this: Someone called into the program and made fun of the idea of global warming. Steele's come-back was:

"Thank you, thank you. We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I am using my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process. Greenland, which is now covered in ice, it was once called Greenland for a reason, right? Iceland, which is now green. Oh I love this. Like we know what this planet is all about. How long have we been here? How long? No very long."


The man is a MORON! As Stein points out, "Greenland...likely had forestation some 450,000 to 800,000 years ago. But its name was derived ... from Erik the Red, who wanted to trick people into going to that island as opposed to the more hospitable Iceland."

There's much more and you can read all of Stein's article here.