Sunday, February 24, 2008

Say What?


I forgot to add to that last post that now here in Florida, our public school teachers must address the teaching of evolution by calling it the "theory" of evolution.

This is a compromise between people who believe in science and and people who believe that God created the universe in six days. Or, as I see it, sane people and insane people.

As has been pointed out before, when these non-believers in evolution get a bacterial infection, they should be happy to be prescribed one of the older antibiotics that USED to cure such infections before they...evolved. See how well that works out for them.

It is becoming more and more embarrassing to be a Floridian. I had thought after the election debacle in 2000 that it couldn't get any worse, but circumstances continue to...evolve... making it harder and harder not to hide my head in shame.

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  1. One of the problems is that these days, fewer and fewer people know anyone who has had a 'back street abortion,' no one born after about 1960 has a friend who drove 3 hours to have an abortion performed by a doctor, without any type of pain killer (because she told the doctor she was driving 3 hours back right afterward), and fewer and fewer people each year can remember sitting up all night, watching this friend for signs of hemoraghing (sp?) or infection. And, this friend was one of the lucky ones who had her abortion from a real doctor, I don't even want to mention what some other friends went through...

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  2. Too true. Too darn true. The fact of the matter is, women will get abortions and if those abortions are not safe and legal, women will die. Women who are daughters, sisters, mothers, aunts.

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  3. Yup, we migrated from rural central FL to Philly and suddenly everyone around us more or less agreed with our political leanings. It was quite lovely.
    Of course it's still becoming embarrassing just to be an American, but maybe Obama can fix that...
    :)

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  4. Yes. This is not a stellar time to be American. Florida can't take all the glory here. But we Floridians are not helping things at all.
    And I love my state. But it's getting weird here. And when I say "weird", I don't mean Monkey Jungle, either.

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  5. I'm sitting down here in Merida BLOWN AWAY at this new ruling on "theory" of evolution being taught in Florida. Haven't read the Florida papers recently. Duh. Oh, I wish I were still teaching in the public schools so I could stand there and teach it and double over in laughter while I did. (For which, of course, in our current police state, I would be fired.)

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  6. I need to make a correction- it's the SCIENTIFIC theory of evolution. As apposed to what?
    Bah.

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  7. An oxymoron if there ever was one!! =0
    Florida is an embarrassment, all right. I just have to remind myself that at least it's not boring living in a Carl Hiassen novel. ;/

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  8. Which reminds me that I need to check Twelve Mile Limit out of the library. What's your name in that book or will I just figure it out?
    I guess it's best just to embrace the wackiness which is Florida, although some things you just cannot get your arms around.

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  9. That's for sure, and that's when its' best to run for our lives!!!
    My character in Twelve Mile Limit is Mrs. Post, the owner of the Pelican Post Motel. For real. :)

    PS Ms. Moon, your blog has dooce with her trademark symbol beat all to hell, by the way! Oh, how gauche for her to be making MONEY off of it. ;/

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  10. I will be getting that book next time I go to town which will probably be tomorrow.
    And as to making money off of a blog- honey, if I thought I could, I would and I'd be in heaven. Do what you love? Get paid?
    Oh yes.

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  11. I'm just jealous, too. How does she do it?? There is a b...., I mean woman down here who does the same thing. Her site, yucatanlivingdotcom, is great, but I refuse to click on her ad links anymore because I found out she was supposed to be sharing the revenues with her advertisers but they didn't know it and she was skimming it all off. Like I said, B----!

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  12. I don't understand how any of those ad things work. And I know I don't get the sort of traffic you need to make any bucks off my site.
    Of course I have to go check out the yucatanliving site now.
    Okay. I just did. Looks like a nice site, actually.
    That site I link which is cozumelmycozumel dot com does not do ads. They have links for local businesses, though. I don't understand how the woman who does that site can afford to pay for her bandwidth but then again, I don't understand bandwidth.
    Yeah. I'm ignorant.

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