Becoming Water.

Thoughts for the day.

1. I am looking into an idea I had last night, but so far my search has been fruitless. Why is there not a political party for science and education?!?!

2. I am getting a DNA test done soon, but which one? Should I do sports or Ancestry first? (For those who may not know I am n orphan with no available family history.)

3. I have nothing else to report.

stfuhypocrisy:

[“People think that the republicans are afraid that the economy will be harmed when tax rates go up on the rich. It’s the OPPOSITE of the truth. They’re TERRIFIED that when tax rates go up on the rich, it’s NOT going to harm the economy, and 30 years of ridiculous orthodoxy are going to go down the drain with it” -Nick Hanauer, Venture Capitalist]
stfuhypocrisy:

How convenient. NOW they like science.
1. I plan on it.
2. Hopefully you say good bye to your tax exemption. 
Thoughts for the day.

1. I have decided to collect superhero mask replicas. What a cool collection!

2. My mother died when I was twenty one never revealing who my biological father was. No one in my family knows. My conclusion? He’s a Timelord.

3. MY blog is a personal blog, it expresses my thoughts and feelings at the time. It covers many topics and many things. I don’t know how people host theme blogs. I have tried, it is so difficult. One day…maybe…

4. My wife’s aunt is mad at her for posting a breastfeeding picture on facebook. For those who do not know, I support breast feeding and public breastfeeding. My wife, in turn, told her aunt she was mad at her for being a Republican. It was amusing.

5. My wife was reading my blog the other day and came across my “Thoughts for the day” posts. “Is this how your mind works?” Was all she said.

Thoughts for the day.

1. I am fairly certain I couldn’t pick Gary Oldman out of a line up. I’m not even sure what he really looks like, he is so versatile as an actor.

2. We just had a family dinner of baked beans, mac and cheese, and hot dogs. Dinner of nine year olds every where.

3. I think the Republican party has out lived it’s usefulness. IT is the appendix of the American Government.

4. “Mountain Dew is the greatest soda ever.” Carl Sagan via Family guy

and today, a gif.

(p.s. as far as the gif vs. jif debate. I hold that people were simply spelling g-i-f nd people mistook it for jiff. that is all.)

atheistoverdose:

If there is ever a time for an lgbt post on atheistoverdose, this is it: mississippi republican state representative andy gipson calls for the death of gays by citing bible verses about it on his public facebook pagefollow for the best atheist posts on tumblr

He is clearly biased and should be removed from his office.
astrotastic:

occupyallstreets:

New Bill Will Make It Illegal To Teach Evolution In Tennessee
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) announced yesterday that he will “probably” sign a bill that attacks the teaching of “biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning” by giving broad new legal immunities to teachers who question evolution and other widely accepted scientific theories. Under the bill, which passed the state legislature last month:

Neither the state board of education, nor any public elementary or secondary school governing authority, director of schools, school system administrator, or any public elementary or secondary school principal or administrator shall prohibit any teacher in a public school system of this state from helping students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught.

Although the bill is written to seem benign, as it neither specifically authorizes the teaching of creationism nor permits teachers to do more than criticize scientific theories “in an objective matter,” the practical impact of this bill will be to intimidate all but the heartiest of school administrators against disciplining teachers who preach the most outlandish junk science in their classrooms. Because the bill provides little guidance as to what constitutes an “objective” criticism of a scientific theory, any principal who reigns in teachers who force creationism or Pastafarianism upon their students risks finding themselves on the wrong side of the law.
In reality, of course, there are few, if any, “objectively” valid objections to the theory of evolution (or, for that matter, to global warming). Rather, as Travis Waldron explained when this bill passed a legislative committee nearly a year ago, “Scientists have reached a consensus that evolution is ‘one of the most robust and widely accepted principles of modern science,’ and as such, it is ‘a core element in science education.’”
Source

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astrotastic:

occupyallstreets:

New Bill Will Make It Illegal To Teach Evolution In Tennessee
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R) announced yesterday that he will “probably” sign a bill that attacks the teaching of “biological evolution, the chemical origins of life, global warming, and human cloning” by giving broad new legal immunities to teachers who question evolution and other widely accepted scientific theories. Under the bill, which passed the state legislature last month:

Neither the state board of education, nor any public elementary or secondary school governing authority, director of schools, school system administrator, or any public elementary or secondary school principal or administrator shall prohibit any teacher in a public school system of this state from helping students understand, analyze, critique, and review in an objective manner the scientific strengths and scientific weaknesses of existing scientific theories covered in the course being taught.

Although the bill is written to seem benign, as it neither specifically authorizes the teaching of creationism nor permits teachers to do more than criticize scientific theories “in an objective matter,” the practical impact of this bill will be to intimidate all but the heartiest of school administrators against disciplining teachers who preach the most outlandish junk science in their classrooms. Because the bill provides little guidance as to what constitutes an “objective” criticism of a scientific theory, any principal who reigns in teachers who force creationism or Pastafarianism upon their students risks finding themselves on the wrong side of the law.
In reality, of course, there are few, if any, “objectively” valid objections to the theory of evolution (or, for that matter, to global warming). Rather, as Travis Waldron explained when this bill passed a legislative committee nearly a year ago, “Scientists have reached a consensus that evolution is ‘one of the most robust and widely accepted principles of modern science,’ and as such, it is ‘a core element in science education.’”
Source

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