“Granite Grok,” the four-headed freak with the perceptive powers of warm mayonnaise, is at it again. Actually, it probably never stopped heaving up its blinkered vomitus; I just hadn’t looked it its site in months, not since it raised the art of dodging simple questions while continuing to assert victory to the upper troposphere.
At present, it’s bemoaning some New Hampshire Dems’ complicity in the scheme to help the Muslim world overthrow not only New Hampshire, a geopolitically critical 9,000-square-mile icebox that an impressive 11 percent of Americans of voting age can find on a map of New England, but all of America.
Ed Brayton has already explained why the latest round of yammering from the knee-jerk right is even more groundless than usual. I left a comment at Granite Grok explaining the same thing, using some random handle so as to not unduly influence the Grokkers’ response or their choice to post this comment – they undoubtedly associate chimpanzees with unrelenting beatings with tack hammers at this point. When they didn’t post the comment right away, I got busy writing this post. I see that my comment is now posted, but having gone this far ‘ll reproduce it here:

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“Granite Grok,” the four-headed freak with the perceptive powers of warm mayonnaise, is at it again. Actually, it probably never stopped heaving up its blinkered vomitus; I just hadn’t looked it its site in months, not since it raised the art of dodging simple questions while continuing to assert victory to the upper troposphere.
At present, it’s bemoaning some New Hampshire Dems’ complicity in the scheme to help the Muslim world overthrow not only New Hampshire, a geopolitically critical 9,000-square-mile icebox that an impressive 11 percent of Americans of voting age can find on a map of New England, but all of America.
Ed Brayton has already explained why the latest round of yammering from the knee-jerk right is even more groundless than usual. I left a comment at Granite Grok explaining the same thing, using some random handle so as to not unduly influence the Grokkers’ response or their choice to post this comment – they undoubtedly associate chimpanzees with unrelenting beatings with tack hammers at this point. When they didn’t post the comment right away, I got busy writing this post. I see that my comment is now posted, but having gone this far ‘ll reproduce it here:

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Someone is feeling PZ’s pain.

In a move that could endanger Florida’s flaky backwater reputation, the state Board of Education is poised to endorse the teaching of evolution as a science.
This is a dangerous idea — not the presentation of Darwinism in schools, but the presentation of Florida as a place of progressive scientific thought.
Over the years the Legislature has worked tirelessly to keep our kids academically stuck in the mid-1950s. This has been achieved by overcrowding their classrooms, underpaying their teachers and letting their school buildings fall apart.
Florida’s plucky refusal to embrace 21st century education is one reason that prestigious tech industries have avoided the state, allowing so many of our high-school graduates (and those who come close) to launch prosperous careers in the fast-food, bartending and service sectors of the economy.
By accepting evolution as a proven science, our top educators would be sending a loud message to the rest of the nation: Stop making fun of us.
Is that what we really want?

If you think Florida’s a screwed-up place thanks to the 2000 election circus, think again. It was a gleeful ruin-in-progress long before Al Gore started inventing blogs.

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Someone out there seems to have his mind made up about climate change.

The scam of Global Warming is being unraveled seemingly on a daily basis. News reports out of Canada are proving the point that the Arctic not only has returned, but is thicker. I’ve been saying that it is thicker all along.
The Global Warming whores from the Church of Global Warming of Modern Day Idiots (MDI) will blame the recent cooling trend on carbon dioxide instead of decreased sunspot activity.
No one who subscribes to the Global Warming BS will remind you that Greenland was once farmland. Nor will they tell you that it is no where close to being that warm on that icy island. They just complain that the glacier is retreating. Well no kidding. Glaciers have been advancing and retreating in cycles for millions of years you inbeciles.
I love it when the leftards are caught in their lies. Think the world is getting warmer? Tell that to those who are freezing in Canada and the northern plains of the United States.
[Global warming is] a fantasy dreamed up by High Priest Al Gore and the scientists whose only purpose in life is to promote this con. The more they scare us the more money they make. It is no longer science it is an industry. An industry built on a lie. In other words, a con.

Too funny! We “leftards” (and that’s everyone to the left of Pat Robertson) don’t understand how someone who uses phrases like “then along cames” and “the Arctic has returned” can deploy the word “idiot” so freely and without apparent embarrassment. One of these days the karmic, cosmic hypocrisy police are going to catch up with Gribbit, and his head is going to explode in a gruesome, 10,000-megaton shower of confusion, blind hatred, and soupy intracranial faeces-like matter.

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Someone out there seems to have his mind made up about climate change.

The scam of Global Warming is being unraveled seemingly on a daily basis. News reports out of Canada are proving the point that the Arctic not only has returned, but is thicker. I’ve been saying that it is thicker all along.
The Global Warming whores from the Church of Global Warming of Modern Day Idiots (MDI) will blame the recent cooling trend on carbon dioxide instead of decreased sunspot activity.
No one who subscribes to the Global Warming BS will remind you that Greenland was once farmland. Nor will they tell you that it is no where close to being that warm on that icy island. They just complain that the glacier is retreating. Well no kidding. Glaciers have been advancing and retreating in cycles for millions of years you inbeciles.
I love it when the leftards are caught in their lies. Think the world is getting warmer? Tell that to those who are freezing in Canada and the northern plains of the United States.
[Global warming is] a fantasy dreamed up by High Priest Al Gore and the scientists whose only purpose in life is to promote this con. The more they scare us the more money they make. It is no longer science it is an industry. An industry built on a lie. In other words, a con.

Too funny! We “leftards” (and that’s everyone to the left of Pat Robertson) don’t understand how someone who uses phrases like “then along cames” and “the Arctic has returned” can deploy the word “idiot” so freely and without apparent embarrassment. One of these days the karmic, cosmic hypocrisy police are going to catch up with Gribbit, and his head is going to explode in a gruesome, 10,000-megaton shower of confusion, blind hatred, and soupy intracranial faeces-like matter.

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Frankly, I think the Pan troglodytes pictured here could do a better job than some of our congress critters, but never mind that cheap shot of a slippery banana peel. However, I wonder if our presidential candidates could identify the genus and species of our close primate cousins or if they could estimate the percent of homology at the DNA level between humans and chimps? Perhaps those are not burning scientific issues for a presidential candidate to consider but certainly there are others which are scorching hot. With that in mind, the Science Debate 2008 is rolling right along.
Yesterday, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine joined American Academy for the Advancement of Science and the Council on Competitiveness as official cosponsors of Science Debate 2008.
This kind of co-sponsorship adds to the heavyweights already on the growing list of those calling for such a debate – the first of its kind for a US presidential election. Let’s make this happen!
And yes, I voted today. The polls were quiet in my particular spot in Einsteinville. A WTF moment occurred when a voter rolled in on a red, white and blue Segway.
Thanks to Rhapsody for the chimp photo via that Icanhascheezburger, cheezburger, cheezburger site.

Frankly, I think the Pan troglodytes pictured here could do a better job than some of our congress critters, but never mind that cheap shot of a slippery banana peel. However, I wonder if our presidential candidates could identify the genus and species of our close primate cousins or if they could estimate the percent of homology at the DNA level between humans and chimps? Perhaps those are not burning scientific issues for a presidential candidate to consider but certainly there are others which are scorching hot. With that in mind, the Science Debate 2008 is rolling right along.
Yesterday, the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine joined American Academy for the Advancement of Science and the Council on Competitiveness as official cosponsors of Science Debate 2008.
This kind of co-sponsorship adds to the heavyweights already on the growing list of those calling for such a debate – the first of its kind for a US presidential election. Let’s make this happen!
And yes, I voted today. The polls were quiet in my particular spot in Einsteinville. A WTF moment occurred when a voter rolled in on a red, white and blue Segway.
Thanks to Rhapsody for the chimp photo via that Icanhascheezburger, cheezburger, cheezburger site.