Via my amigos at Fighting Liberals:
Planetariums and Other Foolishness
From nature.comCandidate John McCain took aim at these unlikely targets this week when discussing rival Barak Obama’s attempt to obtain earmarks for certain projects. Some estimates put Obama’s earmarks at over $900 million, meaning Obama has not a leg to stand on when attacking on Republican potential vice-president Palin on the same issue, says McCain.
“That’s nearly a million every day, every working day he’s been in Congress,” he says (AP). “And when you look at some of the planetariums and other foolishness that he asked for, he shouldn't be saying anything about Governor Palin.”
Theoretical physicist JoAnne Hewett writes on the Cosmic Variance blog that McCain seems to be talking about Obama’s plans to provide cash for a refurb of the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.
“Quite frankly, I am left speechless at the phrase: ‘planetariums and other foolishness’,” says Hewett.
“... Sorry, but replacing 40 year old equipment at one of the leading science education facilities in this country (the Adler Planetarium is located in downtown Chicago and is the oldest planetarium in existence today) is one of the best investments in the future that I can think of. I’ve always equated planetariums with science education - an area where the US seems to be lacking.”
McCain calls it an overhead projector. Me, I call it science education.
I’d go one step further and say that McSame didn't mock it because it was pork: he offered it up to his Base because it was Godless Science being offered up to the general public in the Big, Scary Democratic City.
I'd note that when the sheep look up and notice they are being stampeded towards a large, blood-scented room fully of whirly, choppy things…that’s when all hell breaks loose.
And nothing makes the sheep look up faster than the promiscuous underwriting of (Science + Fun); a combination which has been known to lead to the teaching of cosmology, physics, chemistry, evolution, literacy, critical thinking skills, taking the long view and all kinds of other awful Liberal heresies that, among the wingnut rank and file, are as popular as Mandatory Holy Water Suppository Day at the Lords of Darkness Leisure Community.
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-Oscar Wilde
Given that one of my ancestors provided the first projector to the Adler This draws my particular ire. As a regular visitor, the Adler is a wondrous place and a temple to science. I've seen sky shows there since grade school, which drove my desire to become an optical scientist and an amateur astronomer. Given this country's need for better science education this is a particularly stupid move.
In short: NOBODY F**KS with the Adler!
That satanic machine is CLEARLY part of the communist plot known as "the theory of evolution".
And when John and Sarah (Sarah and John?) get in office, they are gonna spay and neuter that sumbitch like it was the neighborhood bull-goose tomcat.
And so when we refer to them as "dumb fucks" our assessment is grounded in observed behaviors.
Mr. Glass, you simply have to post a beverage alert when you're about to lay something on me like "Mandatory Holy Water Suppository Day." (Church of the Blessed Enema, anyone?) You get me to laughing so hard I can barely inhale when you do stuff like that!
Sir, you are the BEST...
Planetariums lead to such evils as questioning whether the universe is more than 6,000 years old.
It wasn't a random choice -- McThuselah and Tundra Trash and their mouth-breathing violent fantasist supporters hate knowledge in general and science in particular. On the flipside, we'll have a ready source of uneducated idiots to flip burgers, bag groceries and dig ditches if the Repigs deport all illegal immigrants.
My mouth dropped open when he referred to the equipment as an 'overhead projector'. Must be like one-a them newfangled filmstrip machines them librul teachers keep whining about wanting. Good grief. I have a great idea. Let's ship the 27%ers to Alaska and let it secede. Palin can be queen of the new country of Dipshitistan, witch-free since 2007!
And of course, the best response is from the Adler Planetarium. If you check their press room and look at the latest press releases, at the top is their response to McCain and his stupid.
One of the things I miss most about living in Chicago is the Adler. One of my favorite places in the whole city.
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