On Tuesday, December 31, 2013 9:43:00 AM UTC-5, Mr. Luddite wrote:
On 12/31/2013 9:28 AM, F.O.A.D. wrote:

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On 12/31/13, 3:47 AM, Mr. Luddite wrote:



The various hosts of MSNBC shows have been featuring

"Highlights" of

their 2013 shows. Someone put together this compilation that is

pretty

funny. (link below)



BTW, one of the show hosts ... Melissa Harris Perry ...

demonstrated

that racism is alive and well even among the highly educated

members of

"academia" that Perry represents. She is the daughter of a college

dean, has a bachelor's degree in English and a PhD in political

science.

In addition to being an MSNBC show host, she is also a

professor at

Tulane University. She's also African-American.



During her year in review show on Sunday, she showed a picture of

Mitt

Romney's large family that included Mitt Romney holding his son's

adopted toddler on his knee. The toddler happens to be

African-American.



What fun Perry and her panel had mocking the Romney family.

Comments

like, "One thing is not like the others", "Token baby", etc.,

plus

the

typical anti-conservative political comments.



So much for the "enlightened" ones.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpRA5H3iuMQ#t=44





















Sometimes it is really difficult to ignore "the stupid" in the

Republican Party:







The divide between Republicans and Democrats on their views of the

scientific theory of evolution is widening, according to a new poll

released by the Pew Research Religion and Public Life Project.



The overall percentage of Americans who say "humans and other living

things evolved over time" (60 percent) versus those who believe

"humans

and other living things have existed in their present form since the

beginning of time" (33 percent) is about the same as it was in a

similar

poll four years ago. But the political gap has widened

substantially.



In 2009, 54 percent of Republicans said they accepted the theory of

evolution as true, compared with 64 percent of Democrats. But in the

intervening years, opinions appear to have evolved: In the latest

poll,

nearly half of Republicans (48 percent) believed in a static view of

human and animal origins, while just 30 percent of Democrats

expressed

that point of view. Independents tracked closely with the breakdown

for

Democrats.



"The gap is coming from the Republicans, where fewer are now saying

that

humans have evolved over time," says Cary Funk, a Pew senior

researcher

who conducted the analysis, .



Nearly a quarter (24 percent) of those surveyed by Pew said they

believed that a "supreme being guided evolution for the purpose of

creating humans and other life in the form it exists today."



According to Pew:



"A majority of white evangelical Protestants (64%) and half of

black Protestants (50%) say that humans have existed in their

present

form since the beginning of time. But in other large religious

groups, a

minority holds this view. In fact, nearly eight-in-ten white

mainline

Protestants (78%) say that humans and other living things have

evolved

over time. Three-quarters of the religiously unaffiliated (76%) and

68%

of white non-Hispanic Catholics say the same. About half of Hispanic

Catholics (53%) believe that humans have evolved over time, while

31%

reject that idea."



Broken down by age, respondents 18-29 years old were about 20

percent

more likely to accept evolution as were the 65+ age group. The gap

between college graduates (72 percent accepted evolution) and people

with a high school diploma or less (51 percent accepted evolution)

was

also fairly pronounced.



The Pew survey sampled 1,983 respondents, with a margin of error of

plus

or minus 3 percentage points.



As , the issue of evolution � in particular in states where there

have

been high-profile fights over how it is presented in public school

classrooms � has increasingly placed members of the scientific

community

at odds with politicians and local school boards.



http://tinyurl.com/qzp8llt





Since "the beginning of time." Conservatives belief man and

dinosaurs

walked the earth together, and that "The Flintstones" was the first

reality show.





What does any of that have to do with Dr. Melissa Harris Perry and

her

liberal panel yukking it up and high-fiving each other about Mitt

Romney's son adopting an African-American baby?











Nothing and...everything.









I think you were just sharing my soapbox.



I for one don't give a hoot who believes what. I also don't care if

schools teach the *theories* of evolution or the *theories* of

creationism. Both exist in our society ... as your Pew survey points

out, so why suppress one at the expense of the other? As long as they

are presented as *theories* and not necessarily as proven fact by the

school's curriculum, it seems to me that it only broadens a person's

education.



Leave the final brainwashing to the liberal professors in liberal arts

college programs.









"Creationism" is based on religion and teaching of religious beliefs has

no place in the public schools. Also, there is *no* scientific evidence

or proof for religious beliefs. Might as well have a class extolling the

virtues of superstition.



There is plenty of scientifically valid proof for evolution.



It matters what people believe. If you have a huge percentage of the

population believing superstition and belittling science, you end up

with a stupid society, which is sort of what we have now in 'Merika.







You contradict yourself. "It matters what people believe", yet if a

large percentage of the population believes something that you don't

buy, you want it banned from being discussed in school.



I am not advocating the actual teaching or preaching of creationism in

public schools, but rather the fact that in our society there are many

who believe in it. Just teach the facts. Most people believe in

evolution but there are many who believe otherwise.











Many people used to believe that slavery was ok. Does that mean that

those of us who think and thought it was an abomination should give

those who believe in slavery a pass?



I don't think so. I think it behooves to stamp out stupidity and

superstition in society when and where we can.





In other words, only present information that *you* happen to believe

and suppress anything else. Wow. What enlightenment.

Besides, slavery is still "taught" in school. It isn't swept under the rug and ignored. But some would sweep other's ideas and beliefs under the rug if it doesn't suit them.

Liberals sure don't seem to mind pushing their particular beliefs onto other folks.