Well, at least we still have NASA and Johnson Space Center here. I’d rather not have to talk about the defunct Super Conducting Super Collider in Waxahachie now that the Hunt brothers have turned it into a data center. Yuck.
Missing Molly Ivins and Bill Hicks more and more every dang day. [snif] Those two Texans would have this joker sorted out faster than a sneeze through a screen door (and that goes double for Drumpf).
Might could get Jim Hightower (an unapologetically feisty populist Texan) to weigh in, now that Molly and Bill are in the great blue yonder:
http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/895
CHRISTIANIZATION. People think of many of America’s parks as awesome “cathedrals” of solitude. But the Bushites are saying, hey, let’s bring some real “church” to Momma Nature—in particular, let’s toss a sop to our extremist Christian constituency by converting to a system of faith-based park management (non-Christians need not apply).
Thus, while taking in the grandeur of the Grand Canyon from the popular viewing area on the south rim, your eyes can also behold three bronze plaques bearing Bible verses, put there by the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary. When the park superintendent had them removed on constitutional grounds, a top Bush appointee at NPS headquarters overruled him, and the plaques are still there.
In 2003, this same park began selling Grand Canyon: A Different View. It is a Christian creationist tome asserting that the canyon is not the product of geological forces but instead was created by Noah’s flood and is only 6,000 years old. Again, the park superintendent balked, and again he was overruled
by Bush political appointees, who ordered hundreds more copies of the book to sell. An NPS spokeswoman said flatly,” We don’t want to remove it”–and they haven’t.
Ah yes… Dubya. A Texas man, or one who claims to be one, perhaps, but not one I’m proud of either.
