Posts Made By: Rod Kaufman

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

Here is the bill freakazoid:

Nowhere in the bill at all does it say they are banning the teaching of science or any of the subjects above, gravity, atomic theory, etc... 

Point out in the language of the bill where it says what your hysterics claim it says.

You can't DB.  

Anything else?  

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer

If one reviews all the bills that dont even make it to the floor for a vote you can find all kinds of outlandish, ridiculous, even crazy things. Hell, even some of the same that do make it to the floor for a vote are insane. 

Originally Posted by James Brown

Plenty anti-science on the left too.  GMOs are scary Frankenfoods rather than the means to end third world starvation, rickets and other maladies.  Childhood vaccines (other than Covid, of course)?  So many lefties say, not in my baby, he'll catch autism!  Vitamin cocktails, sold by your favorite celebrity.  Stop the aging process!  Billions spent on those, and I doubt it is by Kansas farm wives.   Our favorite here, astrology!  (It just tells me so much about myself and my soul mate!)  Crystals and so on.  We  have a metaphysical wares store in my neighborhood, and I might be the only R in a mile.  

Scientific illiteracy knows no political boundaries.  J

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

And this week's latest polling shows 63% of Republicans still think the election was stolen...

Originally Posted by James Brown

8 years ago, I would have taken the argument, for grins.  Now, I would not.  I'd expect to lose!  Lots of things cycle. 

My best examples, general pre-covid anti-vax sentiment because of the anti-scientific fear of autism, and fear of GMO foods are not benign "fear of aging" things by the way.  Thousands of children in the third world starve and suffer from preventable nutritional diseases because of fear of GMOs.  Europe is worse than us.  If the GMOs are banned, they can not be exported to the third world.

https://ec.europa.eu/environment/europeangreencapital/countriesruleoutgmos/  

Originally Posted by James Brown

Weld County has a point.  Contrary viewpoints are shouted down with thinly veiled threats of violence in Boulder.  All in the name of social justice of course. 

You might make the point that this polarization trending to hostility is just as much the Rs fault as it is the Ds.  I think fault is irrelevant.  I would be frightened to express a right of center opinion on the mall in Boulder and that is wrong and destructive, no matter who might be to blame for the hostility, violence, and eagerness to eradicate what Boulder sees as "wrong-think."

Originally Posted by James Brown

Rod - these are not serious attempts to secede.  You know that right? 

Right?

These are just the harmless efforts of activists and crack-pots.  America is great that way.  Anyone can start a petition.  That does not make the subject matter legitimate or well supported.   J