But she wasn’t required to believe, just go there and stand around for a while! How many of use have sat there with a straight face while our boss lays out a plan that might as well be faith-based, for all the difference it would make.
Not stupid, but we don’t have an Evil RIOTD thread. Scott Walker wants to take union busting to a whole new level: elilminate federal unions, gut the National Labor Relations Board, make all states automatically “right-to-work” unless they vote otherwise, and generally remove all worker protections against unfair labor practices and making it more difficult for unions to organize. As one expert quoted comments, he could only be making these proposals to satisfy wealthy contributors.
Why doesn’t he just build a giant time machine and take this country back a hundred years and be done with it? It’ll also solve the nasty problems of women and minorities voting too
“Stupid” in that he’s running for the Pub nomination for POTUS. He (and all the other candidates) should learn a lesson from Trump: Economic populism plays better to the Tea Party base than supply-side orthodoxy.
Well, the surface of the earth is travelling faster than that due to the earth’s spin. Sadly, the whole “the earth is a sphere that is spinning in space” thing doesn’t accord with the hard core fundy worldview, so…
No, no, no. We are standing still; the whole solar system, galaxy, universe are traveling around us. It’s right there in the [del]science text books[/del] Bible.
Don’t get all up in my face about facts, you know, that science-y stuff.