Latest Challenges to the Teaching of Evolution

The obvious line up of Republicans and Democrats on each side of this dispute in all of wande's reports from the battlefront is indisputable evidence that the matter is a political one.

The Hatch Act of 1939, the Political Activities Act, made it unlawful for federal employees to take an active part in party politics even outside working hours and in a follow up Act in 1940 the prohibition was extended to cover those whose salaries come from federal grants.

Do these Acts still apply?

Antisemitism does have a long and ignoble history. There's a number of reasons for this, first of all there's a really ugly side to human nature that likes to pick on minorities. The ruling classes usually allow this to happen, because it's very useful for them to have a scapegoat. In Europe the Jews are a very visible minority.

Most of the countries that the Jews settled in were Christian, and Christian mythology likes to portay the Jews as killers of Christ, which also lets the Romans off the hook for the part they played in the crucifixion. There's also the aspect of money lending. For a long time Christians were forbidden to practice usury, or charging interest on loans, the Jews were not forbidden, and as they were not allowed to own land it was one of the few areas in which they could make money.

During the pogroms in Russia the Tsarist secret police produced a document called 'The Protocols of Zion.' This purported to be a Jewish manifesto for world domination. The Protocols of Zion is a fake, but that doesn't stop it being used by anti semites today, and it was used to justify the Holocaust.

So when you listen to Holocaust deniers you're including yourself in a very ugly piece of history that most of us would rather forget about.

Why is the bald eagle, haliaeetus leucocephalus, the symbol of American greatness when it has to be cosseted and cuddled like a baby to stop it going extinct under the National Emblem Act of 1940, also known as the Bald Eagle Protection Act. And further protected under the Endangered Species Act, and stiff penalties imposed for killing, harassing, possessing or selling bald eagles, when, from an evolutionary point of view, the chicken, gallus gallus domesticus, is almost infinitely more successful and viable as a species?

Why are evolutionists not agitating for the bald eagle to be replaced by the chicken as the national symbol? The disgusting and lousy eagle creature is a welfare recipient.

And the jaguar. We have a piteous ad on our TV asking us for only £3 a month to save a bloody jaguar and here we are tucking into roast beef. Dinosaurs would still be here if we all coughed up £3 a month. A pint is £2.50 for ****'s sake.

Looks like spendi cant get anyone to rise up and take his shimmy shad.

At least spendi knows the price of beer.

You daren't. That's why.

I'm going to conduct a scientific experiment next NFL season. I've shown them how to win the title, twice, in my first two years too, so winning has nothing further to offer.

One of the features on that game, now a field of scientific research, is Coin Toss. The picks are made by tossing a coin for those who need it explaining.

My scientific training informs me that with nearly three hundred games CT, as we familiarly call this ghostly player, should come in at 50/50.

Now what I am going to do is choose my picks aesthetically from their chosen name. It will be difficult when the Jaguars play the Eagles. The Texans, the Cowboys, the Buccs and the 49ers will be high on my list. The Ravens near the bottom. The Cardinals about half-way. I know there's a certain subjectivity in it but it's a traditional one.

And I'm not expecting to be much different from CT. But if I do beat CT by a statistically significant margin it will suggest that the chosen name of the team has an effect, a religious one really, on its performance.


If there is no religious seepage from the symbol to the performance I should finish level with CT.

I have started making a list of ladies NFL teams as we in England don't consider it proper for ladies not to play our two national games.

As I think patriots would run away pretty sharpish at the sight of giants, slingshot Dave notwithstanding, I am predicting that the Giants will win tomorrow.

It also means you don't understand the game of football in the US. Those so-called choice by names have been at the top, the middle, and the bottom if you look at all the seasons played.

It's the players that make the difference, not the name of the team.

You and 83 % of those on the Las Vegas line.

ESPN had a chicken pick the line several years ago. The cxhicken often beat the "pros"

Obviously a cheap gimmick. Fetch me a chicken and I'll bet as much as you want I can beat it.

You really don't understand science ci. Why don't you accept the fact and take your idiotic comments to Facebook?

What's the point of the name if it makes no difference. The Jacksonville Jam-Jars. Why not the St Louis Ewes? The Pittsburg Bottom Knockers?

What all this misogyny then?

I said it was a scientific experiment of a statistical nature. Will I beat CT and discover a bias.

You had better hope I don't.

As I understand it the Giants are +3 second favourites. And odds against with every bookie.

BTW Bottom knocking is an activity associated with blast furnaces. Every sagger maker has a bottom knocker. They are like a geologist's chain-man. Lower in the pecking order. No key to the executive ****-house.

What has Facebook have to do with anything being discussed here? Your tangents are stupid and irrelevant.

Respond to what I said, not what you think I said?

I did do you silly moo. More than adequately.

Names of teams is not based on science, you stupid moron!

That is to be decided after the experiment. Remember my "ambience" post. Or was it "albumen". It's the same thing.

. I never implied that you were dumber than a chicken, I do think that you are smarter.

Thats a new term to me. Is it something the Brits made up that is some kind of a cockney rhyme?

chain man= field hand? ( we just call em "juggies" or grad students or GIT's)