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The Loaned Star State of Texas is coming after your science (and your funds)
from theologyandculture.wordpress.com
Educamate at Your Own Risque.
In a move that ought to make the Texas School Board proud of its scientific larnin’, the state of Texas Friday contested in court the right of the EPA to enforce its standards of air quality. The science of climate change used by EPA is now under attack by the state.
Here in the Loaned Star State, recidivism is a family value. With a candidate for re-election as governor who raises threats that he’s going to secede, there are few surprises left when it comes to the state government’s failures. We even have a lawsuit out here over whether the good-haired chief executive can take Big Bro’s money in the stimulus program and substitute it for state money, which is a tad short. Yes, that chief executive, the one that said out in public that the Big Government bugaboo couldn’t make him take their money. . . .
Now we have a suit filed by Texas against EPA for refusing to allow polluters to foul the bit of clean air they’ve left us to breathe. Out here, the Stoopit reigns supreme. We spend the public’s money to keep that uppity Bro from protecting the public.
In motions submitted Thursday to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott accused the federal Environmental Protection Agency of relying on faulty science for its proposals to regulate greenhouse gases.
The briefs build on a federal suit filed in February by Texas and other states against the EPA, which in December issued an endangerment finding that carbon dioxide emissions threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations.
The endangerment finding, which opens the way to further regulations, spun out of a 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the EPA had the authority to regulate greenhouse gases. ..The state is challenging proposals to limit emissions of greenhouse gases from light-duty-vehicle tailpipes and large industrial facilities.
The State of Ignorance, that achieved new levels of ignorance in recent School Board revisions of curriculum to make sure that fact did not intrude into our kids’ education, has bounded upwards on the monitor of how far it would go to protect residents from this high-falutin’ modern age. Contesting universal science as grounds for public protections is a new low in use of the taxpayers’ dollar cents.
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America is on the cusp of breaking up.
I just had a client from TX who tore up a piece of fine art and then….blamed ME! wanted another piece to tear up as well.
Think she’s a “shaman”. My legal guy told me not to have anymore contact with her but I hate to see her lose her money so I sent her one…last.. chance.
People are going nuts and I don’t’ care whether the media says it’s not because Obama is a black guy, I think it is and I also think the MOTU knew EXACTLY what they were doing to get people all riled up and divided right now by putting him in there.
It put the liberals to sleep and waved a red flag in front of the bigots.
I always like your posts, Ruth.
Thanks, but I hope you’re wrong, and that voters in general reject the craziness. Of course, if the original thirteen colonies had let the rest of the wilderness wander off on its own…well, we can hope.
This is being funded by the oil barons, of course. They hate science.
Not when they’re paying off the scientists.
I love your graphic!
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ooooh, me too, I was so happy to find it. especially for a Sunday post.
Scientists never drink the Kool-Ade. They will help you enhance it for grant money. If they degenerate to doing it for good old fashioned profit, they’ve stopped being scientists. It’s easier to fund them than to debunk them.
Galileo recanted but he knew the truth. That he lied to save himself is the best reason for the separation of church and state.
Any agent of the state who crosses that line, particularly one who educates, should be vigorously contested in court. It’s tough work particularly when the local judicial system is elected from the very people who believe what you are fighting. But the alternative is chaos.
That is why the partisan nature of the Supreme Court is particularly disturbing. As the court of last resort, Rehnquist’s pronouncement that ‘Innocence is no bar to upholding a conviction.’ coupled with the 2000 Gore v. State of Florida decision and not to mention, Citizens United, should give one real pause to consider.
‘That he lied to save himself is the best reason for the separation of church and state.’
Actually, imho, I think the best reason is that you have no choice other than to serve the state, thru taxes, military, teaching or other gov’t services if that’s your area. I believe churches shouldn’t have that privilege.
I do so agree with you about this coathanger court. The decisions they are making overturn precedents that have taken years of forward progress.
My point is that, when the power of the church can intimidate the truth, the truth is lost. It is usually only for a period of time but that time can be critical.
If that power is influential, it doesn’t matter where it is vested. But when it rests with government, it has direct and immediate effect upon all of us.
Conservative interest in influential media has been growing for decades. But attempts to actually interfere with university curriculum and censure professors out of political favor began, in earnest, during Bush 43. At least, that was the first governmentally backed effort I noticed.
Regardless of how these are marketed, they are faith-based initiatives.
I don’t mind when someone tells me I am wrong because God says so. I can conclude that the discussion is fruitless and find something more productive to do. But when that person is my teacher, it’s insidious. When it’s a judge, it’s frightening.
Let the clerics stay in the church. Let the scientists stay in the lab. Let the children keep an open mind.
Blindness begins at an early age.
“The science of climate change used by EPA is now under attack by the state.”
Your premise superficially is correct. However, the state could really give a shit!! It is the backwards, servile logic of corporate interests in a state owned by OIL that push this anti climate/anti science agenda. It is not in their self interest to protect future generations, just to maintain the status quo cash cows, which they are addicted to. Slave-owners refused to change and fought change, to protect the institution of slavery.
Those who would abdicate reason for faith in earthly matters simply to comply with religious doctrine might believe the earth is flat, in the center of the solar system and people should be property! Wlarip, you nailed it, Citizens United is the modern era “Dred Scott decision,” by equating money with free expression Robert’s disgusting ruling gives to corporations an advantage under the color of law, and protection as did a legal decision that stated.. “Negroes are inferior therefore not entitled to constitutional protection, and are property! “Paraphrasing!” An Advantage for the slave owners, codified in fugitive slave laws. History repeats and the jerks who fail to acknowledge this reality deny historical context, because they want all the money and power for themselves!
‘attempts to actually interfere with university curriculum and censure professors out of political favor began, in earnest, during Bush 43.’
I believe you can trace it back farther, but am not going to research deeply. Pepperdine is a particularly bad example, but tax exemptions for Bob Jones U. and the like go pretty far back. I tend to think that freedom of thought is something we practiced back in the 60′s, marching on the Pentagon and protesting the war, so maybe I still think it will always prevail. Our founding fathers violated a lot of Church of England as well as societal conventions to get us this far.
Agree, teachers enforcing church doctrine are a particularly frightening influence.
The right wing orientation of Roberts’ court is insidious. It has unfortunate precedents. The courts have stripped a lot of the effect of civil rights legislation by insisting that proof of ‘intent’ is required, as I discovered in hearing a Black Congressional Caucus panel Friday.
See; http://seminal.firedoglake.com/diary/72005
As a late aside, I would note that the the Texas State Board Of Education (SBOE), not to be outdone, has found a new issue! I’ll let the deplorable headlines speak for themselves…
Texas school board concerned that textbooks are too nice to Muslims
Thanks. No doubt the Crusades will in the future be called summer camp, and the treasures they looted, merit badges.