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Posted by MisterOpus1 on Feb-16-2007 17:24:

Anti-Copernican Texas House Republican?

I can't believe this:

quote:
Still, it's enough to set the world a-spinning that the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, the most powerful committee in the House, distributed to legislators a memo pitching crazed wingers who believe the earth stands still -- doesn't spin on its axis or revolve around the Sun -- that Copernicus was part of a Jewish conspiracy to undermine the Old Testament.

http://www.burntorangereport.com/sh...do?diaryId=2916


What's that memo referring to that this nutbag Republican passed out?

This:

quote:
Levitating Globe

"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?

The Bible and all real evidence confirms that this is precisely what He did, and indeed:

The Earth is not rotating...nor is it going around the sun.

The universe is not one ten trillionth the size we are told.

Today�s cosmology fulfills an anti-Bible religious plan disguised as "science".

The whole scheme from Copernicanism to Big Bangism is a factless lie.

Those lies have planted the Truth-killing virus of evolutionism

in every aspect of man�s "knowledge" about the Universe, the

Earth, and Himself.

Take your time.

Check it all out.

Decide for yourself.

http://www.fixedearth.com/


A fixed earth.

A Jewish conspiracy.

Chisum, Chair of arguably the most powerful House Committees in the Texas Legislature.

Jesus, and I thought my Kansas State Board of Education was bad (which incidentally, they overturned the fundie nutbag view on evolution, but I digress). Words just can't describe.


Posted by Magnetonium on Feb-16-2007 17:48:



I had a good laugh out of this, thanks!


Posted by LazFX on Feb-16-2007 18:33:

this is so stupid.....

Gods! first bush now this guy?? If it wasn't for Ron Paul, I would be ashamed to be a Texan........

wait a min!! this state is focking crazy...... damn it!!


[walks off to pour another glass of red]


Posted by Renegade on Feb-16-2007 18:49:

Um heliocentrism is just a theory, Opus - who are you to say that Ptolemy was wrong?

I say we teach the controversy! Let the kids decide what is and isn't scientifically accurate...


Posted by Lira on Feb-16-2007 19:14:

I agree with him because of the following quote:
quote:
Originally posted by Stephen Hawking
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the Earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.
At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."
The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?"
"You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"


Evidence:




Posted by pmoisse on Feb-16-2007 19:17:

lol

This is hilarious. Thanks for the afternoon laugh!


Posted by MisterOpus1 on Feb-16-2007 19:30:

Jesus.

It gets worse.

This guy got this fixed earth piece from, wait for it,.......another State Republican. But from a different state - Georgia. Another Jewish conspiracy unleashed - not just evolution, according to this Georgia guy, but the earth revolving around the sun. Oh my.

Josh Marshall at Talkingpointsmemo.com has more:

quote:
It's times like these you've just got to miss that dear lady Molly Ivins.

Meet our new friend, Georgia State House Rep. Ben Bridges (R), chairman of the retirement committee in the state house.

Bridges is now in a bit of trouble for spilling the beans about evolution being the product of a Pharisee Jew conspiracy to bamboozle normal Americans and destroy Christianity.

�Indisputable evidence � long hidden but now available to everyone � demonstrates conclusively that so-called �secular evolution science� is the Big-Bang 15-billion-year alternate �creation scenario� of the Pharisee Religion,� reads the letter that went out under Bridges' name. �This scenario is derived concept-for-concept from Rabbinic writings in the mystic �holy book� Kabbala dating back at least two millennia.�

It seems that the actual author or analyst, I guess you might say, was a fellow named Marshall Hall, the husband of Bridges campaign manager, Bonnie Hall. Then they sent it out over Bridges' signature to state legislators in Texas, California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Ohio. And they didn't stop by letting the cat out of the bag on evolution. They also blew the whistle on all this hokum about the earth revolving around the Sun.

Barnes' memo pointed fellow state legislators to the information at fixedearth.com which rails against the �a mystic, anti-Christ �holy book� of the Pharisee Sect of Judaism� and claims that �the earth is not rotating � nor is it going around the sun.� They've even caught on to the "centuries-old conspiracy" on the part of Jewish physicists to destroy Christianity.

Now, it was down in Texas that things started to spin out of control. Warren Chisum (R), House Appropriations Committee Chairman in the Texas state House, took the memo from his friend Bridges and used the House operations system to distribute the memo throughout the legislature. (Here's Chisum's cover letter and the Bridges' memo.)

The ADL caught wind of the Bridges memo and now Chisum says he's "willing to apologize if I've offended anyone" if anyone got their big nose bent out of shape.

Reports the Dallas Morning News: "Mr. Chisum said he hadn't looked at the Web site and didn't realize that he was distributing that type of material. He expressed chagrin that he didn't vet the material more carefully."

Indeed, even Bridges is now saying that he didn't have anything to do with the memo.

Hall doesn't agree. He said he wrote it and got Bridges' approval to send it out. "I gave him a copy of it months ago,� Hall, who is a retired high school teacher told the Atlanta Journal Constitution. �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.� And of course the two have teamed up to ban the teaching of evolution in Georgia back in 2005. So, Bridges' denials are ringing a tad hollow.

And the views expressed in his memo are just too compelling for Bridges to deny outright.

Asked if he agreed with the Kaballah evolution conspiracy theory and the earth's lack of motion, he told the Atlanta Journal Constitution, �I agree with it more than I would the Big Bang Theory or the Darwin Theory. I am convinced that rather than risk teaching a lie why teach anything?�

(ed.note: Additional research provided by Eric Kleefeld.)
-- Josh Marshall

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/012504.php


Hey Texas and Georgia, I've got a few, actually I've got a shitload of nutbag state Congressmen here in Kansas that I'd loooove to ship your way. They'd fit right in!


Posted by Omega_M on Feb-16-2007 20:10:

quote:
Originally posted by Lira
I agree with him because of the following quote:

Evidence:


quote:
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the Earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy.
At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."
The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?"
"You're very clever, young man, very clever," said the old lady. "But it's turtles all the way down!"


Brief History of Time - Chapter 1 (Our Picture of the Universe) : Page 1 : Paragraph 1


Posted by LazFX on Feb-16-2007 20:20:

Dear Mod.... please close this thread..... its making us Enlightened Texans look really stupid. Its bad enough Bush was our inept Gov. at one time...... lol


Posted by shaolin_Z on Feb-16-2007 21:31:

quote:
Originally posted by LazFX
Dear Mod.... please close this thread..... its making us Enlightened Texans look really stupid. Its bad enough Bush was our inept Gov. at one time...... lol


LOL. Texans don't exactly have much of a reputation to begin with.


Posted by DJ Shibby on Feb-16-2007 23:29:

It's probably just some chain mail he gets and sends on without really noticing the contents


Posted by Lira on Feb-17-2007 00:31:

quote:
Originally posted by Omega_M
Brief History of Time - Chapter 1 (Our Picture of the Universe) : Page 1 : Paragraph 1

Well, I did write "posted by Stephen Hawking"


Posted by Lilith on Feb-17-2007 00:36:

quote:
Originally posted by LazFX
Its bad enough Bush was our inept Gov. at one time...... lol


Well, I don't know about completely inept, he did manage to make some kind of record for a modern day, western democracy signing off state executions didn't he?


Posted by Sunsnail on Feb-17-2007 14:58:

/Proud to live in Georgia


Posted by PETRAN on Feb-19-2007 01:52:

God made a "giant magnet" and a "computerised sensor" wt...



Hahahahahahahahahahahaha


This high-tech cyber-god is really cool, lol. Ok, now this is a joke right? I mean this is 2007. Is this for real?

Oh, really thanks for the laugh!



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