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Hmmm... How far will right wings go to break down science and proof???
Here's your awnser...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/05/05/13_dinosaur.html
Kansas Outlaws Dinosaur-Themed Toys, Cartoons
"Barney Ban" Will Protect Children, Says State Attorney General Kline. Legislative Leaders' Goal: "Healing Wounds of Darwinism"
May 13, 2005
Satire by David Albrecht
TOPEKA, KS - Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline stunned many Kansans yesterday by announcing that books, toys and cartoons depicting or featuring dinosaurs were now illegal across the state.
Kline, no stranger to controversy on such hot-button issues as abortion and gun control, defended the actions of the Kansas Legislature, which in a special late-night session overrode Democratic Governor Kathleen Sebelius' veto of the Childrens' Defense & Truth in Science Act.
"The people of the Sunflower State understand rock-bottom honesty," he said. "They know that this is not some sort of anti-science conspiracy. We're not moving backwards. We simply believe that this is the best way possible to heal the partisan wounds that decades of rule by the secular left have inflicted on this state."
Kline emphasized that information on dinosaurs would remain available to students in university paleontology classes, provided they supplied waivers signed by their parents or guardians.
The new state law, effective immediately, makes it illegal for Kansans to purchase for or supply to children any book, toy, game, video or electronic media which portrays dinosaurs or "to import, send or ship" any such materials into Kansas from outside the state.
The prohibition on viewing dinosaur-themed items applies to all Kansas residents under the age of 21 and allows courts to impose penalties of up to five years imprisonment for adults who make saurian information available to minors.
The law justifies these penalties as appropriate for "conduct detrimental to public morals." Minors engaged in Mesozoic malfeasance would, however, be subject to the juvenile code rather than adult penalties.
The legislative override, which coincided with hearings by the State Board of Education on science standards and evolutionary theory in public education, surprised observers both inside and outside the state. Many thought that the hearings, which were boycotted by scientists, would mark an end to the controversy, at least pending the board's vote on science standards later this year.
Dr. Thomas Jenkins, head of the prestigious National Academy of Scientists, one of the world's most prestigious scientific bodies, had no response when asked for comment on the ban beyond peals of hysterical laughter broken by convulsive gasping for breath. (He's got the right idea)
But socially conservative Republicans in the state legislature were able to move the bill from committee to the governor's desk in less than 72 hours. In an impressive display of party unity and clout, they were able to override the governor's veto in less than one day.
"We're proud of this bill," said State Senator Kay O'Connor (R-Olathe), "and we're proud of the fact that the children of Kansas are finally safe from the pernicious influence of godless evolutionary theory. It starts with dinosaurs, but believe you me, it doesn't end there."
O'Connor, who won notoriety for her public statement two years ago that women should not be allowed to vote, said that "stopping the infection at the source" was the only way to bring Kansans together and the only long-term solution to the creationism controversy.
Many at a press conference called by the attorney general questioned whether diverting law enforcement resources to raiding bookstores, searching cars and opening packages in search of black-market brontosauruses was a sensible use of taxpayer dollars. Kline, however, was outspoken in his support of the new law.
Pressed by one reporter for the Kansas City Star, who pointed out that methamphetamine-related crime had risen 37% in the past year, Kline posed a rhetorical question: "Who can say where the road to drug abuse begins? I believe that it begins for many young Kansans with the cold, brutal message of Charles Darwin, imposed and enforced by the secular left. It ends, as you point out, in meth labs and prisons across the state." (How are they connected???)
In Lawrence, home of the University of Kansas and arguably the most liberal corner of the state, Borders Books & Music was one of the first targets of suddenly reassigned KBI agents. General Manager Lisa Bakke stood by in shock as officers hauled boxes of Barney videos, Dinotopia books and Jurassic Park DVDs off to waiting police cruisers.
"It's just beyond belief," she said, noting that she had still heard nothing about compensation for businesses like hers in cases where authorities seize merchandise. Also seized in the raid were works by Stephen Jay Gould, Dougal Dixon, E.O. Wilson and Richard Dawkins.
KBI agents who participated in the raid said they had no idea whether CDs by the seminal alt-rock group Dinosaur Jr., or the popular 1980s AOR dance track "Walk The Dinosaur" by Was (Not Was), would be covered by the ban.
"We're just waiting for clarification from Mr. Kline's office", said Sgt. Frank Pickering, who declined further comment. However, legislators are preparing to revise the law with an eye towards answering troublesome enforcement questions.
This will include just what Kansas intends to do about national broadcasts of Animal Planet and Discovery Channel. Law enforcement officials are also concerned about how to handle comic strips like BC and The Far Side, which occasionally depict dinosaurs, as well as the caveman-themed 1950s hit song "Alley Oop," the 1933 horror classic "King Kong," and Blue Oyster Cult's 1980 heavy metal magnum opus "Cultosaurus Erectus."
For the time being, Kansas "Flintstones" fans and collectors of Sinclair gasoline memorabilia will also be left hanging.
A truth told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent
-William Blake
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…have taken over the asylum.
Hugs
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I dream of boys with big bulges in their trousers,
Never of girls with big bulges in their blouses.
…and look forward to meeting you in Cóito.
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Hope everyone is noticing the word "satire" in the byline.
"Satire by David Albrecht"
(\\__/) And if you don't believe The sun will rise
(='.'=) Stand alone and greet The coming night
(")_(") In the last remaining light. (C. Cornell)
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cossie
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Location: Exiled in North East Engl...
Registered: July 2003
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... is that you need to label the article as satire, and even with the label attached many readers still wonder whether the basic story might be true.
Oh, btw - just to air one of my fave words again - do you agree that the phrase 'Bush Administration' is an oxymoron? And how about 'Republican Intellectual'? Any other suggestions?
For a' that an' a' that,
It's comin' yet for a' that,
That man tae man, the worrld o'er
Shall brithers be, for a' that.
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"ad·min·is·tra·tion
Pronunciation: &d-"mi-n&-'strA-sh&n, (")ad-
Function: noun
1 : performance of executive duties : MANAGEMENT
2 : the act or process of administering
3 : the execution of public affairs as distinguished from policy-making
4 a : a body of persons who administer b often capitalized : a group constituting the political executive in a presidential government c : a governmental agency or board
5 : the term of office of an administrative officer or body"
Bush Administration is just desciptive and as such is accurate. Now if you were to throw in some adjectives.......
'Republican Intellectual' must be a European term as I've never heard it used in the U.S. Besides we all know that Intellectuals are part of the 'liberal elite' and therefore cannot be republican. I think they would explode or something....
(\\__/) And if you don't believe The sun will rise
(='.'=) Stand alone and greet The coming night
(")_(") In the last remaining light. (C. Cornell)
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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May is very close to April
Are we really sure this is not an April Fool's joke?
I know the gene pool is very shallow in parts of the mid west, but this one feels like a story too far.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
Registered: February 2003
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Well that proves I should read the article before asking the question! Yup, Satire. Well now I've seen the real source, that is!
But so believable about Kansas!
Incidentally "Ar-can-saw" and "Kan-sass"? Why?
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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Microsoft works...
...Now, Then...
Private Government Organisation
Capitalistic Socialist Republic
and how about Military Intelligence, Software documentation, sweet sorrow, new classics, christian scientists and alone together. Good grief, this is all genuine imitation food they serve, with drink in plastic glasses, and is almost exactly the same difference as a small crowd who are terribly pleased with themselves and a large crowd in tight slacks using passive agression to stop the zobie fashion attack!
Just beware that the living dead doesn't start thinking about fashion, as they'd be clearly misunderdstood in the system of riligious tolerance. Soon they'd send a peace force to stop those living dead, and make exact estimates of how many there are. That would get pretty ugly, and soon they'd be extinct life, while we watch the old video's taped live.
PS. Nothing in this post is supposed to make sense. just see the oxymorons.
This is a waste of everyone who reads this's time...oh well
A truth told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent
-William Blake
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cossie wrote:
>do you agree that the phrase 'Bush Administration' is an oxymoron?<
Oxy what? Oh, moron. Now I understand! ::-)
The paradox has often been noted that the United States, founded in secularism, is now the most religiose country in Christendom, while England, with an established church headed by its constitutional monarch, is among the least. (Richard Dawkins, 2006)
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