Apparently Congressional Wingnuts are ORGANIZED.

[seawasp]

This was pointed out on Usenet after I mentioned the petition I set up to get Paul "Science is lies from hell" Broun kicked off the Committee for Science, Space, and Technology.

I have nothing against Congressmen being religious -- ON THEIR OWN TIME. But on *MY* time, the separation of Church and State comes hammering down, and when it comes to science, anyone on a committee even vaguely to do with it had best be accepting that science exists and not as "lies from hell".

Comments

[von-krag.livejournal.com]

+1

[kengr]

You *are* aware that this sort of thing is *deliberate? These folks don't believe in separation of church and state and aim to get their way by packing comittees on this sort of thing.

Look at the folks on the Texas textbook selection board, for example. They effectively choose what textbooks for the entire country will say.

[seawasp]

Apparently Mr. Moonbat Broun is running UNOPPOSED. For his fourth term.

[claidheamhmor]

Bloody scary...

[murstein.livejournal.com]

You're just noticing this? I've a mother who's been singing the praises of progressively nuttier Congressional wingnuts for three decades now.

[saladin-count0.livejournal.com]

well i am from europe and we have some whacky politicians over here but every time i look over the big pond ... i start to be running scared
it´s not that your centerleft party (democrats) would be considered a conservative - right wing party over here
it´s not that you are so secure on your continent that waging war is a washington partygame with near no influence on elections (at least starting them)
it´s not even that on religion the usa is nearer to iran than to what we europeans find common ground (it´s nice to have one and it´s your beer which one you choose and how you practice it but don´t bother me with it and keep it out of politics/governement)

what really gives me the creeps is that a nation with some of the best universities in the world, a nation that leads in science can have politicians ( i don´t want to call them leaders) and wide sections of the populations that don´t believe in science /scientific principles

someone talking about magic ladyparts that will shut it down in case of legitimate rape (wtf) or that the earth was created some 6000 years ago would be laughed out of office

science is (part of) the solution to many of our problems and if the usa goes all crazy its a dark age coming