#37987: coturnix — 08/29  at  07:11 PM
It is NEVER a coincidence. They have a strategy. Does anyone know what is their strategy in South Carolina?

#37989: scott pilutik — 08/29  at  07:15 PM
You're a bad man... You're a very bad man! (cornfield wishing humor)

#37995: DarkSyde — 08/29  at  07:45 PM
Goddamit. As if I don't have to bear enough shame living in the State that put the Brother's Shrub in the WH and the Governor's Mansion.

#37999: John Wilkins — 08/29  at  08:04 PM
It's a Gooood Life, isn't it, Paul?

#38001: donna — 08/29  at  08:22 PM
I'm more and more convinced this is all really class warfare - keep the poor stupid and gullible and educate their own kids. It really sucks.

#38006: — 08/29  at  09:06 PM

Does anyone know what is their strategy in South Carolina?

To get re-elected? Beating on the fundie drum always seems to get out the votes around here. (It doesn't always work out the way the fundies want - look at the lottery vote for a prime eample.) *Usually*, though, these wacko bills just seem to disappear before ever making it through the state legislature.

Oh, and it's got Jim DeMint associated with it, too? That's practically a seal of Batshit Insanity right there.

(On behalf of rational South Carolinians, we'd like to apologize for not being able to prevent Jim DeMint from representing this state. Really.)

#38007: — 08/29  at  09:19 PM
Uh.. intelligent design is good! Man lived with teh dinesars! Gee, I'd really hate to be wished away to Tahiti to spread my views there... I sure hope that doesn't happen...

*Closes eyes and waits...*

#38012: Eva Young — 08/29  at  09:48 PM
I mentioned Cheri Yecke's creationism on Craig Westover's blog comments here. It's getting the standard creationist nonsense in response.

http://www.haloscan.com/comments/westover4/112535794703490558/?a=38875

http://www.haloscan.com/comments/westover4/112440482434034617/

#38018: Phila — 08/29  at  11:10 PM
Coturnix:

It is NEVER a coincidence. They have a strategy. Does anyone know what is their strategy in South Carolina?

You know all about <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=96695">these guys</i>, right?

I love the part where they say, "We can run a corpse and win, as long as we put an "R" on it."

#38019: Phila — 08/29  at  11:12 PM
Damn. Sorry about the bad link. Here it is again.

#38021: — 08/29  at  11:33 PM
"Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins..." Revelation 18:4

That's a form of birth control, right?

http://christianexodus.org/

#38027: George Johnston — 08/30  at  12:13 AM
While you are at it, could you wish me a couple of million dollars?

Thanks!


God doesn't play dice. She uses the Monte Carlo method.

#38043: Phoenix Woman — 08/30  at  06:45 AM
I'm guessing she's being given this as a sop so that she doesn't challenge whoever the local GOP's fair-haired boy/girl is in Minnesota's Sixth Congressional District. See, almost as an afterthought at the very end of their piece on this story, MPR this morning mentioned that her move to JebBushLand meant that she would be giving up her campaign for that Congressional seat.

Trackback: Thanks, Minnesota. Thanks a bunch. Tracked on: FloridaBlues (66.151.149.25) at 2005 08 30 06:47:23
Interesting that Florida hired her despite not being retained by Minnesota, due in part to the controversy of her 'leadership.' One wonders if the fact that science standards are up for review next year has anything to do with her hiring. The good chancellor is not only bad news for science, however; she has also been known to stick her finger into the history pie.

#38044: chris from boca — 08/30  at  06:50 AM
I am the 47 year old parent of 2 small boys, ages 6 and 3, born and arearing down here in FL, Inc. (a BFEE,Inc. subsidiary). I'd like to be able to send my kids to a Florida public school in which, "We may be giants" is somewhere well down the list of priorities taught from things like learning the difference between science and religion. If certain religions could win the religious debate against other competing religions simply by redefining all scientific theory as religious theory, itself, every Pope throughout history, including the unfortunate bane of Galileo, would have employed this sophistic tactic long, long ago. Perhaps a healthy perspective on History is what is really missing here. I would gladly have the words 'science' and 'history' never mentioned in a public school if in return I was assured of my children obtaining that healthy skepticism as a critical faculty that only appreciation of a true portrait of History can accurately inspire. I would not have my kids doomed to repeat the dark ages. Fucking wingnuts can not be permitted to destroy the meaning of words. When the language becomes theirs to shift and change at will, God help us all.

'We got no razor blades, we got no victory gin
I got no tiny alcove to hide myself in
To say things weren't good would not be an untruth
But I just met a girl from the anti-sex youth
We get up in the morning for physical jerks
We might pass in the hall as we're going to work
I have found us a place where there's no telescreen
And there's no hidden mikes and it's not too unclean
While the high remain high
and the middle change places
The low don't want to know they tell all with their faces
She might sit afront of me for the two minutes hate
I might see her again if it's not already too late
So they will take the book away from me
So let them catch me talking in my sleep
I guess I never really understood the law
So Winston Smith takes it on the jaw
So let's do what we want, it makes no difference now
When the thought police find us, we're dead anyhow
Kick us out of the party and bust us to parole
Then they'll stuff us both into a memory hole
So let them haul me off to 101
Public confessions of everything we've done
Of everything I heard and everything I saw
When Winston Smith takes it on the jaw'
tr-i

#38045: Sean D. Hurley — 08/30  at  06:51 AM
Well, it goes to show how shallow their talent pool is, given that the same names and faces keep showing up over and over again.

Next time we hear about Cheri Yecke, she'll be the choice for Secretary of Education for the next Republican president (hopefully not for a long long time to come).

#38048: Phoenix Woman — 08/30  at  07:04 AM
Arrrgh! Need. More. Coffee.

It all makes sense now: Yucky Yecke was running for Mark Kennedy's Sixth District seat, but she's not the person the GOP wants to see there -- or she realized she'd have no chance.

Mark Kennedy is the Sixth's current Congresscritter and the guy the local GOP is grooming to take Dayton's Senate seat -- except that not only does he face strong Democratic candidates (either Patty Wetterling or Amy Kloubchar can take him out), but there are a number of GOPers who intend to go after him as well. Apparently, the Republican Party is trying to buy them off one by one so Kennedy's path is clear.

#38054: — 08/30  at  07:37 AM
I think the ever wonderful Michelle Bachmann is at least the one the wingnuts are favoring for 6th district, she is running in the primary for the slot.

In the Senate race prior Minnesota Senator Rod Grams was interested in another run, but was pretty much kicked out of the race by the Pawlenty/Bush cabel. Grams was less than thrilled about it too.

#38055: — 08/30  at  07:40 AM
Ooohh, PhoenixWoman, are you a Minnesotan? (heart palpitates)I haven't felt this bolstered since I discovered Attaturk hails from these parts.

More (though not completely) on topic, tho: Do you think Wetterling or Klobuchar can beat Kennedy? I was at Woodbury Days on Sunday, and Kennedy's crew was out in force at the parade, plastering kids and parents with stickers up and down the line. Kelly Doran's group of 3 looked kinda paltry compared to that. Kennedy also had a float in the parade, and I'm not sure he was even present. And Woodbury is the center of his support in CD6; if he's hitting us that hard, imagine what the rest of the state is in for? (palpitations give way to shudders)

#38056: — 08/30  at  07:43 AM
Everyone might have already seen this but just in case, there was a terrific op/ed in the New York Times this Sunday on the subject of intelligent design. I felt like it really nailed the deceiptfulness of the whole ID enterprise.

link

#38058: Phoenix Woman — 08/30  at  07:55 AM
CrispyShot: A-yep, I'm a Minnesotan.

And I think that Kennedy's going to have major, major problems getting elected to statewide office. Both Wetterling and Klobuchar outpoll him -- Wettering by comfy margins, Klobuchar by close ones. Doran is a joke, and I've yet to see him at the DFL's State Fair booth.

#38060: — 08/30  at  07:59 AM
That would be a good thing ya done, Billy.

#38061: — 08/30  at  08:11 AM
Happy to have missed the bullet. Sorry for the folks in Florida.

#38065: — 08/30  at  08:35 AM
"I also wished her away to Texas or Florida before—I never knew I had such power. Next time, I'll wish her into a cornfield."

At last, that proof of the supernatural we've been looking for. Irony of ironies, it works only for ill-tempered atheists. Hey, I'm an ill-tempered atheist, too! Time to start channeling . . . .

#38066: John Emerson — 08/30  at  08:36 AM
Minnesota came off looking pretty good on this.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Johnson of Willmar says the commissioner came from Virginia with some East Coast ideas that didn't fit well in Minnesota.

Willmar is a country town, pop. ~18,000. Johnson is hardly an elite liberal.

Yecke: "It is so unfortunate that the level of political discourse has fallen into the gutter. It is just the politics of personal destruction. You see it in Washington. You shouldn't see it anywhere. You see it in Washington. I never expected to see it here in the heartland".

Translation: Yecke is a D.C. hack whose information about "The Heartland" comes mostly from TV talkshows. She speaks entirely in movement-conservative cliches. When she got to Minnesota she was baffled when she wasn't able to fool the simple country folk.

Yecke is moving from a state which values education to one which doesn't. For that reason, she'll fit well in her new position.

http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2004/05/16_pugmiret_yecke/