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A memo distributed to the Texas House of Representatives by Rep. Warren Chisum (R), on behalf of Ben Bridges (R) of the Georgia House of Representatives:

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Actually, some comment is necessary. The links go to a site that decries the Jewish conspiracy to falsely claim that the Earth revolves around the Sun. Among other such things.

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Comments: 74

 
 
 

Damn Copernicus-loving liberals!

 
 

See? I told you we could be creepier and more controversial than Scientologists!

 
 

I sure don’t get why these guys have such a problem with muslims. Every day they act more and more like Mullah Omar…

mikey

 
 

Damn Copernicus-loving liberals!

The point of the screed is that it’s not egghead-related but Jesus-killer related.

Share some bloody matzoh with me?

 
 

They’re offended by the direct competition, mikey….

 
 

Holy crap, I can’t wait until he discovers Dr. Bronner’s fine soap products or, saints preserve us, the Time Cube site…

 
 

Holy crap, I can’t wait until he discovers Dr. Bronner’s fine soap products or, saints preserve us, the Time Cube site…

…Or if he ever deigns to visit San Francisco, hopefully he’ll meet Frank “12 Galaxies” Chu.

 
 

Jeez, it’s about the same stuff you can hear from a random street-crazy on a 15 bus….

 
 

Yep, another ITS TEH J00z!!!11 moment from Israel’s bestest friends, teh Religiose Right.

Gotta love those “Judeo-Christian Valuez.”

 
 

“There are countless constellations, suns, and planets: we see only the suns because they give light; the planets remain invisible, for they are small and dark. There are also numberless earths circling around their suns, no worse and no less than this globe of ours.”
– Giordano Bruno, Dominican monk and philosopher, burned at the stake by the Inquisition, Feb. 1600

 
 

Bah, everyone knows the Lords of Kobol killed that Jeebus dude or whatever.

 
 

I guess it’s really just a matter of how we choose to waste our billions then.

 
 

The scary part is that the first paragraph is a lucid and accurate summation of current law. And then it is like Mr. Hyde showed up to type the rest of the memo: “The geocentrist (aka jewicentrist!) monopoly on our ‘science’ must be be destroyed!”

 
 

um… way to put the “retro” back in “retrograde stupid hillbilly shit.” i mean, the antisemitism is for the ages, but allying antisemitism with denying the earth revolves around the sun – way to take it back to the good ole days.

 
 

So why are the Jews lying about the Big Bang?

 
 

When did elected representatives start communicating to each other in spam format?

 
 

This has been said elsewhere, but the real funny part is that both Chisum and Bridges are both trying to back off the memo. Chisum’s excuse is that he didn’t read it or check into at all – nor had any of his subordinates do so – before passing it around.

Wow!

 
 

So why are the Jews lying about the Big Bang?

Because they’re Jews!

 
 

IM IN UR SCHOOLZ, OYSLERNEN UR KIDZ!!1!!111!

 
 

I am so tired of you politically correct whiners. Just because a legislator says there’s a Jewish conspiracy going back thousands orf years to disseminate poisonous lieds denying the truth of God’s word, you get all excited.

You liberals *say* you believe in freedom of speech, but you are always making fun of good Christian people who point out how Jews undermine the very foundations of society, or who proclaim that the Very Word of God trumps the pharisaical scribblings of so-callled “scientists.”

Is that fair? Is that consistent? Smarten up if you don’t want to be left behind to be tortured by the armies of the antichrist!!!

 
 

Damn hillbillies, always trying to steal my thunder. I’m a have to burn their necks!

 
 

I’d say that expecting more and more of the at-all-vulnerable to be defeated, we’re looking at the future of the party. (That is, what oft is thought will be more and more expressed.)

 
 

Please, someone, please tell me Elderofwhosafat is joking….

 
 

Is that fair? Is that consistent? Smarten up if you don’t want to be left behind to be tortured by the armies of the antichrist!!!

Do masochists go to hell?

 
 

LINEAR TIME IS LIE. YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID.

 
 

Yes, gratis, he’s joking.

 
 

I proposed a contest with a conservative from work….

I have to find the craziest batshit conservative site on the web I can and he’ll find some crazy liberal website. But the sites have to be approvingly linked to by a “mainstream” liberal or conservative – e.g. an elected official, talk show host or big blogger.

These people just made me a sure winner.

 
 

Tomboy, for my money a crazy motherfucker named Kevin McCullough at Townhall is your ace in the hole.

Why America was nuked

Why Imam’s be Playin’ us

 
 

Here come the liberals and their PC police, marching innocent Christians off to the “World is round, orbits the Sun” re-education camps.

 
 

From the memo:

“Feel free to copy and forward this memo to others you know.”

Uh, okay!

Amazon currently has available one copy of Marshall Hall’s The Earth Is Not Moving. It has yet to be reviewed. I think we might have an assignment for Jesus’ General.

 
 

please tell me Elderofwhosafat is joking

Of course, the real ones always have waaaaay more footnotes.^

 
 

You can tell that the earth-not-moving site is legit due to its fine appreciation of html aesthetics.

 
 

If we’re talking about educatin’ anybody, let’s start with the proper use of quotation marks. He puts scare quotes around the “Establishment Clause,” because God knows conservatives really don’t believe in THAT.

 
 

Once again I am made sorely proud of my home state of Georgia. Although recently Virginia has taken the lead in the ‘Bizarre Loudmouth Displays from Troglodyte Southern Freaktard Politicians’, thanks to the absolutely outstanding performance of Congressman Virgil Goode, the good representative from Cleveland, Georgia fills me with hope. Or with something awful, very unlike hope.

 
 

That fixed earth link is almost, but not quite, as good as Time Cube guy, who seems to think that the scientific discovery of the millenium is a geo-relative internal clock.

 
 

Here in Minnesota’s 1st district we had a rep (I’m spacing in his name for the moment, sorry.)who wrote to the CDC and claimed he could prove that HIV didn’t cause aids. He proved this by copious biblical quotations.

This was the man who represented the Mayo Clinic.

When he was ridiculed he tried to back off and claimed that it was a staffer who wrote the article and that signature of his was there because he signed it without reading it. That was the eighties. He was only just defeated in the last election cycle and it was over Iraq and not his incredible stupidity.

 
 

Lawnguylander,

Yeah, there are so many aces in the hole. I just wonder what my coworker will come up with. He is always trying to get me to admit that Jesse Jackson is running an extortion racket. I bet he’ll get the craziest fucking reparations site he can find that is linked by somebody.

But a Jewish conspiracy that invalidates all science from the last 500 years? Wow, that is insane.

My other option is to find some site that is still selling repurposed Y2K shelters… His brother built one in Utah in 1999, sure that the world was going to end.

I think this would make a good blog contest, though. I’d be interested in the loony sites from our sode of the aisle, as well.

 
 

Ah yes, it was Gil Gutknecht.

“I think this would make a good blog contest, though. I’d be interested in the loony sites from our sode of the aisle, as well.”

How would you decide? If someone believes that the queen is a shape-shifting reptilian a liberal or a right wing loon?

 
 

noen,

Actually, there are real scientists who claim that the link between HIV and Aids is sketchy. My friend’s dad is one of them, though lots of past drug use could be a contributing factor. He did, however, win an actual nobel prize in biology.

http://old.valleyadvocate.com/hiv-aids/i980714.html

 
 

Here come the liberals and their PC police, marching innocent Christians off to the “World is round, orbits the Sun� re-education camps.

Max Power, it’s way worse than that.

We’re marching innocent Christian children into multiculti HELL!

http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw/parks/attractionDetail?id=ItsASmallWorldAttractionPage&bhcp=1

 
 

Sure, I can have an open mind, if there is like, you know, proof or at least a rational argument. I kinda need that little detail.

My comment goes to the evangelical belief that you can prove real-world facts by quoting the bible. Rep Bridges is taking the position that because you can construct an argument that links evolutionary science to the Kabbala that it must therefore be a religious belief and not science.

Is there a lot of IV drug use in Uganda? You are going to have to square that circle first ya know.

 
 

Nothing is better than his explanation about how star trail photographs prove the earth isn’t rotating, but that the stars are just flying around the earth every twenty-four hours, because that’s what it looks like, damn it!

No, he doesn’t present any evidence. Evidence is for Jews.

 
 

When he was ridiculed he tried to back off and claimed that it was a staffer who wrote the article and that signature of his was there because he signed it without reading it. That was the eighties. He was only just defeated in the last election cycle and it was over Iraq and not his incredible stupidity.

Oh, come now. Gil’s incredible stupidity helped.

 
 

“Evidence is for Jews.”

Now there is a slogan. It would be even better if we could get them to take it up themselves. That would be great. Maybe we could print up some T-shirts and sell them. You need to copyright that.

I really like the suggestion that we are just a cheesy executive toy on God’s desk.

” ‘An electromagnet and computerized sensor hidden in its
display stand cause the Earth to levitate motionlessly in the air.’
Could God have engineered something like that for the real Earth?”

How do you compete with that?

 
Qetesh the Abyssinian
 

I really like the suggestion that we are just a cheesy executive toy on God’s desk.

I think we must be the one with one steel ball on a string and a magnet. Unlike the fun ‘clicky’ toy, where you lift one ball at one side (steady, people, steady) and let it go, and the whole lot go whackeda whackeda whackeda from side to side, this one had a simpler operation. You lift the ball (singular), let it go, and it clumps to the magnet and stays there.

Hey, I think I’ve come up with a metaphor for politics: the right likes it option-free and subtle as a brick, while the left likes lots of swinging balls going whackeda whackeda.

Excuse me, I think I need a lie-down.

 
 

http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2005_06/house/bios/Bridges,%20Ben/bridgesbio.htm

This is odd tho,

“…In 1966…” “…he was promoted to Trooper and graduated…”
“.. {served} DUI Task Force for many years, during which he achieved Corporal ranking.”
“…assigned as a Staff Member for Georgia’s Lt. Governor, Zell Miller, in 1976.”
“…9 years with that office where he attained rank as Sergeant and later Lieutenant.”
“In 1976, Captain Bridges…”
“Representative Bridges retired from the Georgia State Patrol after 30 years of distinguished service in September 1995.”

 
 

Damn shame Molly Ivins isn’t around to see this. Chisum was one of her favorites.

 
 

So why are the Jews lying about the Big Bang?

Isn’t it obvious? Because they have made so much money off that theory, and the sun-centered solar system hypothesis. They’re so crafty!

 
 

So why are the Jews lying about the Big Bang?

They were all set to lie about the Little Bang but they got the Big Bang wholesale.

 
 

About the pamphlet:
The memo directs supporters to call Marshall Hall, president of the Fair Education Foundation Inc., a Cornelia, Ga.-based organization that seeks to show evolution is a myth. Hall said he showed Bridges the text of the memo and got his permission to distribute it.

“I gave him a copy of it months ago,� said Hall, a retired high school teacher. “I had already written this up as an idea to present to him so he could see what it was and what we were thinking.�

Hall said his wife Bonnie has served as Bridges’ campaign manager since 1996.

Bridges acknowledged that he talked to Hall about filing legislation this year that would end the teaching of evolution in Georgia’s public schools. Bridges said the views in the memo belong to Hall, though Bridges said he doesn’t necessarily disagree with them.

“I agree with it more than I would the Big Bang Theory or the Darwin Theory,� Bridges said. “I am convinced that rather than risk teaching a lie why teach anything?�

From this article in the Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionAnti-evolution memo stirs controversy

“Rather than risk teaching a lie why teach anything?”

Hmm. That’s going to put a few holes in the curriculum at state universities. “Sorry guys, we can’t teach biology or physics or nutrition or psychology because it’s based on theories. We’ll get back to you when we know everything about everything. Until then, try not to get sick from a mutated virus and eat lots of red meat.”

You sure wouldn’t want to expose your kids to Sunday school.

But visit the fixedearth.com site. You will be powerless before the authority of bold lilac text with the lavish use of caps and exclamation points. They are claiming that NASA pretty much fakes everything. Anything that doesn’t support the fixed earth “truth” is done in virtual reality. They’re all in on it–all the astrophysicists, aerospace engineers, astronauts, mathematicians and computer analysts who work together to figure out how to launch a payload from a rotating planet that revolves around the sun so that it meets up with another rotating, revolving body. They SAY they’re doing that, but the instruments and computer programs are fake. Probably astronaut Nowak cracked under the burden of her guilty secret.

What’s sweet is the way the evidence attachment tries to use the nutty side of Kaballa interpretation to leverage their own nuttiness to the same level as the theory of evolution. After the fact of scientic discoveries about the universe, some Kabbalists manipulated and cherry-picked ancient writings to “prove” that ancient Hebrew mystics foretold the scientific consensus on the origins of the universe. This is offered as proof that Kabbalists are behind the scientific consensus.

 
 

He was only just defeated in the last election cycle and it was over Iraq and not his incredible stupidity.

To-MAY-to, to-MAH-to…

 
 

Oh please. I’ve been pointing out for years that so-called “Big Bangism” is based on a tragic typo. Go back to the original physics papers. We are (or, rather, should be) talking about the Big Band creation of the universe: mainly by Stan Kenton, with secondary help from the Glen Miller Orchestra, Woody Herman and the Thundering Herd, and Artie (“Begin the Beguine”) Shaw.

Those Texans can go fuck themselves, essentially.

 
 

We are (or, rather, should be) talking about the Big Band creation of the universe

Hey, there might be something to that; after all, Fletcher Henderson was a crucial creator of the big band sound, and he was also a key influence on Sun Ra! It all makes sense now, or at least as much sense as the fixed earth site.

 
 

Wow. A conspiracy that is shared by both Galileo AND Lisa Nowak is teh awesome!

 
 

Marshall Hall has a “BS M.A.” I didn’t know you could get graduate degrees in that now.

 
 

let me ask all of you something: when you go outside and stand in the street, do you rotated in some way? do you, when standing still, nonetheless move? no, you do not. if you jump, do you not land in the same place?

on a related note, when your brother-in-law dies, do you not fuck the living shit out of his sister? and, while your at it, do you, when beating your slave, try not to knock their eyes out, the better to keep them slaving away?

i think you see what i’m talking about.

 
 

Ah. So it really was the Jews all along.

With the generous help of numerous others, of course:

“In lockstep with the Global Control aspirations of the Secret Societies of Kabbalism and Talmudism are numerous other Secret Societies. Some examples are: Freemasonry, the Vatican II Cabal, Rosicrucianism, the Templars, the Club of Rome, Scientology, the Bohemian Club. the Tavistok Institute, a host of UN surrogates, the Bilderburgers, the Cheeseburgers, etc., etc.”

Not to mention the Hamburglers. Or has no one else been wondering about the meaning of Pope Benedict’s cryptic encyclical, Deus Caritas Est, Robble Robble?

 
 

Tomboy:

Kary Mullis is the Nobel Prize winner who is in a kind of weird AIDS-denial. His autobiography is a fun read, though.: Dancing Naked Through the Mine Field True, he’s a surfer who made it to Stockholm, but he’s even more interesting and, umm, unique than that. The scene he depicts about his encounter with the talkng rabbit left me looking for Pookas. But I’m guessing he’s eccentric and otherwise lucid, and hoping he remains a productive scientist — he says in his book that he wanted to focus on diabetes. Frankly, if he can come up with a breakthrough there, he can talk to all the rabbits he wants to.

 
 

Aww, dammit, now the The Lunatics, the Parodists, and the Republicans have reached a point of singularity and we’ll never be able to tell between garden variety Republican idiocy like creationism, sublime idiocy like Time Cube, and a good parody like Jonny Swift or the Elderofblahblah up there.

Can someone take charge and label these so I can tell ’em apart?

 
 

From their “Stunning” report on geosynchronous satellites:

As physicist Wal Thornhill (et al) agree: “Electromagnetic forces are infinitely more powerful than gravity…� (HERE, p. 4). As we know, a child can test this statement with a plain magnet or an electromagnet and a coin on the ground. Gravity holds the coin on the ground, but pass the magnet over it at some appropriate height and….

Maybe I’m using the wrong coins, but for some reason my magnets don’t attract copper or nickel. Or maybe it’s that I’m not a child. Or maybe it’s cause this is a friggin’ lie!

 
 

Oh, and for that matter? “Infinitely more powerful”? Dood, come ON, the inverse square law does not, ever, yeild infinity…

mikey

 
 

“Oh, and for that matter? “Infinitely more powerfulâ€?? Dood, come ON, the inverse square law does not, ever, yeild infinity…”

With God all things are possible, you degenerate infidel.

 
 

I touch myself in your presence! I fart in the general direction of your auntie. I do unnatural things to your water buffalo. I drink the fermented remains of your grape, and the distilled result of your grain. Strike me dead, ywha or yoohoo or whoever you imagine yourself to be!!

mikey

 
 

Anybody else notice that the bottom of the memo instructs us to “direct supportive calls and emails to” the nutbar. In other words, “If you’re already in the echo chamber with us, please let us know. Otherwise, la-la-la we can’t HEEEAR you!”

 
 

Anybody else notice that the bottom of the memo instructs us to “direct supportive calls and emails to� the nutbar. In other words, “If you’re already in the echo chamber with us, please let us know. Otherwise, la-la-la we can’t HEEEAR you!

“Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly or standeth in the way of sinners.”

If Good Christians had ignored you heathen and your “science” we wouldn’t have had to take over the government to put Christ back in the Constitution where he belongs.

Of course, we have to nuke Iran first.

 
 

Owlbear1 left out the best part of Ben Bridge’s bio, his educational and entrepreneurial attainments. After high school, he attended a barber school. Yep, that’s where all the best work on evolutionary theory is done these days….. and then he ran *his own barbershop* for a number of years!

 
 

Well, there’s no evolutionary reason for baldness.

Just sayin….

 
 

Holy crap, I can’t wait until he discovers Dr. Bronner’s fine soap products or, saints preserve us, the Time Cube site…

It should be noted that Dr. Gene Ray, of Time Cube fame, is a Georgia native.

 
 

Also:

In The Earth Is Not Moving (pp.207-214) there is a piece entitled “Eclipses” wherein I attempted to show that the direction of the moon’s shadow on the earth during a solar eclipse would be different in the heliocentric model from what it actually is, thereby revealing a classic flaw in the heliocentricity model.

Alas, it turns out that the direction is the same in both the geocentric and the heliocentric models, and I regret that error.

 
 

I’m not surprised by the Fixed Earth nonsense. Much of the rhetoric from the religious right sounds like watered-down excerpts from “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” Except instead of saying “Jews,” they use code phrases like “cultural elite” or “intellectual elite.” Read the Laura Ingraham quote in this article.

 
 

“I am so tired of you politically correct whiners. Just because a legislator says there’s a Jewish conspiracy going back thousands orf years to disseminate poisonous lieds denying the truth of God’s word, you get all excited.

You liberals *say* you believe in freedom of speech, but you are always making fun of good Christian people who point out how Jews undermine the very foundations of society, or who proclaim that the Very Word of God trumps the pharisaical scribblings of so-callled “scientists.�

Is that fair? Is that consistent? Smarten up if you don’t want to be left behind to be tortured by the armies of the antichrist!!!”

To Elder of Zion:
1) You’re not enough of a man to actually put your name to your words, good going shiteyes.

2) Ptolemy proved the earth was in fact spherical in shape way before the jews held any real sway in any region. (You can visit his bones actually, can you do that with your lord and saviour?)

3)We don’t have to be fair and balanced when we’re talking about the truth. That’s like watching a guy murder his sister pregnant with his own kid and then saying “Well, he was stressed”. Fair and Balanced doesn’t apply to the truth like it does to propaganda.

4) It’s only funny because you say the earth is flat. I could care less who someone else hates.

5) you already expressed your freedom of speech, no-one has a freedom to be heard.

6) Have you read Revelations? The hordes of the Anti-christ will CHARM our asses into hell.

-SH.

 
 

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