Well Nuke is having trouble breathing through his eyelids, we need a live chicken, is it a chicken or a roo, we need a live rooster to take the curse off of Hectors bat, and nobody seems to know what to get Millie and Jimmie for their wedding! We are dealing with some serious stuff here Goofus!

Will it be "Scopes" all over again??
Why do I keep feeling like we are slipping backwards in time??????
To me religion is a private matter. If you want your children taught Creationism send them to a school that teaches what you believe.Or take them to Church and Sunday School on weekends. Science is not a religion.
Someone near and dear to me was kicked out of a Catholic grade school in about 1960 because being a practical,scientifc type person who needs to see to believe he drove the nuns mad because he would not embrace Blind Faith. He was told he did't have to see, he just had to believe!! What does that do to a kid! Of course that experience put him off religion for life!!But he respects the right of others to have their beliefs as long as they don't try to force it on him!!

I couldn't believe all that hoopla over JanetGate!! There wouldn't have been such a fuss if it had happened here.

It reminds me of that time when Rosanne spat on the ground after singing Stars Spangled Banner! BOY! DIDN'T SHE GET A LOT OF PUBLICITY TOO! SHE WAS JUST TRYIN' TO BE ONE OF THE BOYS!! (How did you feel about that one Joe?)

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It reminds me of that time when Rosanne spat on the ground after singing Stars Spangled Banner! BOY! DIDN'T SHE GET A LOT OF PUBLICITY TOO! SHE WAS JUST TRYIN' TO BE ONE OF THE BOYS!! (How did you feel about that one Joe?)<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

It was a big fuss about nothing. I remember when that happened in San Diego. Roseanne said she was just poking fun at the ball players, who are always scratching & spitting. It wouldn't have been a big deal if it hadn't been preceded by her screeching version of the National Anthem. Personally, I blame the team for being so stupid as to book somebody who wasn't a singer to sing a song that most professional singers can't sing.

The practice of singing the National Anthem before a sporting event should be abolished for having outlived whatever usefulness or purpose that it may have had once. I wish I'd said this, but a local sportswriter once wrote that singing the National Anthem before a ball game was like saying grace before eating a Hershey bar at a gas station.

Nowadays, the fans stand for the anthem when they're supposed to, but most of 'em aren't even paying attention. The TV stations no longer show the singing of the anthem, having found that there's money to be made by using that minute to sell commercials. It's a meaningless exercise.

That's today's sermon.

The debate on Intelligent Design and Evolution in public schools is and will be a classic until the cows come home. In the morning paper there are a variety of discussions on the subject with absolutely and unequivocally no resolution. I have to wonder, is it possible this debate could ever be resolved in a Ninth Grade High School Science class. That is a bit of a lofty goal for 14 / 15 year old kids. I think a curriculum on basic scientific method with emphasis on objectivity, assumptions, experimental method and data analysis are more appropriate at this level. Questions on the order of magnitude of the genesis of life can be left to them to explore once they are given the tools to do so! I say take this whole argument out of the classroom or, if the desire and need still persists, put it in the Government or Philosophy class where arguments over the effects of forcing scientific, religious or political beliefs on kids in classrooms or into the mechanisms of government are more appropriate.

A great man once said, “our schools are still like prisons, because we don’t learn how to live and everybody wants to take, nobody wants to give.”

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That is what they should do in teacing biology, which just doesn't make a whole lot of sense if evolution is left out. If creationism is brought up in a science class, it should be subject to the same rigorous tests as any other idea. But the question of creationsim belongs in cosmology class, not biology class. It actually makes sense to discuss it there: What was there before the instant of the big bang?

I don't see anything wrong with teaching about religion in high school; quite the opposite. I think it should be taught there. That's religion; not one particular religion, but all of them. Why not teach kids how religion developed in different parts of the world (a la Joseph Campbell), and have them learn to contrast and compare modern religions and philosophies. Comparative religion was probably the biggest non-chemical eye-opener I had in college. (But that's too late; you leave out the kids who don't go to college.) Then they'd really have a shot at understanding their own beliefs and those of others, and the role of science, too. You never know; it could lead to peace breaking out.

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Our man Santorum is as rowdy as ever! Yesterday he was very vocal in opposition to Stem Cell Research proving he is ever bit as intelligent as GW! Our my fellow Pennsylvannians as proud as I am!

I know it is an ugly link but I find him to be a bothersome Senator and I will go out of my way to tip the boat on this one!

I hardly could believe what I heard on AirAmerica yesterday: that Santorum had introduced a bill that would prohibit the National Weather Service from telling the public about the weather--but it's true! See this. It seems that just two days before he introduced the bill, a company that provides weather information for $$ had paid him the last $2,000 of their $11,000 in contributions to him. He's not only corrupt, he's a cheap date! You'd think that crippling the NWS would cost more than $11,000!