Friday Open Thread [8.24.12]

Filed in Open Thread by on August 24, 2012

Go Bill Nye the Science Guy!!!

In a new web video from online knowledge forum Big Think, Bill Nye talks about evolution denial and its negative impact on society. Nye says the idiotic radical religious reich is welcome to their “crazy, untenable, inconsistent” world view, so long as they don’t try to force it on their children.

“[I]f you want to deny evolution and live in your world, in your world that’s completely inconsistent with everything we observe in the universe, that’s fine, but don’t make your kids do it because we need them,” Nye says. “We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future. We need people that can-we need engineers that can build stuff, solve problems.”

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  1. puck says:

    Romney’s anti-wind power chart keeps blowing over in the wind.

    Also noted: Romney’s hair doesn’t move.

  2. puck says:

    Lance Armstrong stripped of titles based on testimony of people who had their asses kicked by Lance Armstrong.

  3. puck says:

    The awards will probably be reinstated in 75 years like Jim Thorpe’s.

  4. puck says:

    Somebody here knows how to play this game:

    As part of its counter-convention activities, the Democratic National Committee will send a truck to Tampa emblazoned with campaign material painting Romney as an agent of the rich. One side shows generic middle class Americans juxtaposed with Mitt Romney and Donald Trump and reads “End Medicare for us … to fund tax cuts for them.” The truck will begin making the rounds in Tampa Saturday.

    Click through for awesome photos.

  5. Rockland says:

    Internal documents obtained by the House Judiciary Committee show that the Obama administration has been “cooking the books” in order to reach their “record” number of deported illegal immigrants, chairman Rep. Lamar Smith said Friday.

    Based on the internal U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) documents, the number of removals are actually down, the opposite of what the administration has been claiming.

    Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/24/ne…#ixzz24UyG2rY1

  6. Liberal Elite says:

    @jm “Lance’s statement is awesome. He makes the USADA look like a bunch of punks.”

    Yes. It would seem that way until you get the rest of the facts. There’s a reason he dropped his defense. Actually, a lot of very good reasons. And none of them make Armstrong look good.

  7. Liberal Elite says:

    @Rockland “Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/08/24/ne…#ixzz24UyG2rY1

    Looks like they pulled that story. Maybe it wasn’t true?