Stupid politician tricks

[unixronin]

Arkansas:  'Very, very old rocks.'  (Link from amenquohi)

I know exactly how I'd deal with this:

[Teacher] "Yes, Johnny?"

[Johnny] "Mr. Smith, how old are these rocks?"

[Teacher] "I'm sorry, Johnny, the school district has forbidden me to give you a truthful and accurate answer to that question."

The science facility in question says "[t]hey have polled teachers in the districts they serve and have heard from them more than enough times that teaching evolution would be “political suicide.”  I seriously think some of these people wouldn't be happy unless the world returned to the Dark Ages.  I sometimes wonder whether it would change the attitudes of fundamentalists if they were prohibited by law from using any modern technologies that are not spoken of in the Bible -- you know, things we take for granted like motorized vehicles, medicine, sanitation, indoor plumbing.

And Washington DC:  Bush says Congressional oversight rules on the renewed Quisling Patriot Act "are not binding" on him.

In the statement, Bush said that he did not consider himself bound to tell Congress how the Patriot Act powers were being used and that, despite the law's requirements, he could withhold the information if he decided that disclosure would ''impair foreign relations, national security, the deliberative process of the executive, or the performance of the executive's constitutional duties."

"Does not consider himself bound", huh?  As someone else put it, "Either veto it, or live with it as it is."  Does Bush think ANYTHING is binding on him?  I think I'm going to follow after several other people I know and just start calling him King George, because he pretty clearly thinks he's a king, not a president.

And finally, a humorous commentary in photographic form.  I have to admit it took me several seconds to realize what the "entrepreneur" here is actually selling and why....

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Oops.  Somehow lost a strikeout tag up there.  Fixed now.

Comments

[ilcylic.livejournal.com]

"Fuck that. You can fire me, but I'm not going to lie in science class."

-Ogre

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I thought about that too, but figured the "Embarrass the bastards" approach had a better chance of causing a chance of policy.

[7leaguebootdisk.livejournal.com]

Most kings had limits to their powers, I think we should use "Dictator", until we can come up with something more offensive.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Offensive, I think, is counter-productive. Imperator, perhaps, though, or Generalissimo, or ... say ... what was Saddam Hussein's self-awarded title?

[tabbifli.livejournal.com]

President

[richspk.livejournal.com]

It has nothing to do with Hussein, but I like "Il Duce."

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I gotta admit it has a certain style.

(And he didn't REALLY make the trains run on time, but it was a good piece of harmless propaganda.)

[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

The Congressional Republicans must be feeling very conflicted right now: here's this lame-duck asshole who's thumbing his nose at them, but he's their guy. I wonder how soon a Democrat + Dissident Republican caucus in the House will pass articles of Impeachment ...

I can dream, can't I?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I'm given to understand there's a LOT of discussion of impeachment going on, but the mass media is burying it. (Was that from your journal...?) Of course, right now, if we impeach Bush, we get Cheney, which isn't much of an improvement - if any. Who's in line after Cheney? The Speaker of the House?

[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

Wasn't me; I'm not that plugged in.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

In that case, it must have been ... ah, yes. This post. (http://community.livejournal.com/neph_politics/320911.html)