Damn you crow! That was going to be my joke!
Too slow… always too slow.
Then you may be qualified for the Kansas Board of Edumacation!
OK tThat’s it! I’m becoming a Pastafarian!
That wasn’t called for, and I don’t appreciate it one bit! You have just shown yourself to be on the same level as the people who made those votes in Kansas IMO. The same goes for the rest of the people who showed such attitudes.
(Bolding mine) Thank you Una Persson, for speaking up and being a reasonable voice.
That sort of depends on where Roberts and Alito fall on the spectrum. Scalia has already been willing to swallow Creationist claptrap on the basis that the people who promote it are acting in good faith and his opponent at the time was the now long departed Brennan. Thomas has also demonstrated a willingness to ignore science while permitting pseudo-science as worthy of consideration.
Wait, now we can’t use the actions of the Kansas school board to make fun of the Kansas school board? I understand Una’s objection, but I think you’re being just a tad oversensitive.
rAmen, my brother. 
Well, considering that Kansas has a lot of farmers, of course the school board members would realize a lightbulb wasn’t a potato, it would go without saying. 
I think they perfer “Jesusland”
I still find it so funny they can just redefine whatever they see fit. I mean, they can do that? Maybe they should get working on pi next.
That’s “buckle on the Bible belt” to you. (There are quite a few here who are open minded enough to live and let live too. Phelps is an import remember.)
FWIW, don’t think for a minute I support the actions of the Board. I loathe this decision and feel like they (meaning, the ones who voted for this) are dangerous timbertools. The resulting decision is indefensible.
I personally, even among the most hard-core fundamentalist Christians I work with, do not know a single, solitary person who supported this. Even the guy I work with who argues (seriously) that “oranges are proof that God exists” and who tries to start client meetings with a benediction (which really goes over well with Buddhist clients, BTW :rolleyes: ) believes this is a bad decision.
We haven’t seen the end of this, and IMHO the Board will be brought under control, by one means or another. There is already talk of most of the school districts in the East (most people don’t give a shit, but Kansas is essentially two States - the far East, and the Western 90%, which are quite different) refusing to recognize their authority, so it’s likely heading for the courts.
Next on the docket: Gay is contagious. Sit on a toliet seat that a gay has sat on and now you’ve got gay.
All I gotta say is that the Fundies you know are better than the Fundies I know.
I doubt seriously that the judicial system in Kansas will allow this change to remain on the books very long. I’ve never been in Kansas, but I’ve seen the bigotry of regionalism all over the SDMB.
Just because the religious right has a strong influence in a state and a few minnow-minds work their ways into positions of power doesn’t mean that everyone from that state should be tainted.
I doubt that many of you would want the intelligence of all citizens of the United States summarized by the decisions made by the current President.
Quick. Somebody redefine “Kansas State School Board.”
Bolding mine.
Well, it’s true that painting everyone with the same brush is problematic.
But do you have any evidence that it is indeed a “tiny minority” of Kansas’s population that approves of these ridiculous science standards.
After all, the Kansas State Board of Education is an elected body, with ten members each representing one district in the state. The size of the districts, as shown on the map on this page, suggest (given the location of Kansas’s large population centers) that the districting has been carried out in an way that attempts to balance population within each district.
I’m not sure how successful it has been, but it seems to me that any assertion that only a “tiny minority” of Kansans support this measure needs to be supported with some evidence. Do you have any?
And if we find out that a majority of Kansans actually support the new science standards, what then does that say about the place?
Dorothy: Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore.
Toto: What do you mean?
Dorothy: Toto, you can talk!
Toto: Of course I can talk.
Dorothy: But you’re a dog. Dogs can’t talk.
Toto: Pfft. That was way back when science was overrun by heathens who studied the ungodly subjects of “evolution”. Me? I’m no flying monkey. Oh, crap, look! A munchkin is committing suicide!
Okay, that went nowhere. Much like Kansas’ education, it seems.
Hey, don’t drag us UUs into this mess!
Yeah!
And it’s not like anyone could ever find anything less than semi-intelligent about Kentucky…
No problem how about Kansas State School Board as the definition of shit for brains?
Look I am sure that there are smart people in Kansas, as well as hip, cool, easy to get along with and few asshats.
The problem is the school board has an over abundance of asshats.