Discussion for article #233793
They’ve gotten enough complaints from pissed-off parents who realize the legislature’s pigheadedness is not going to help their kids get jobs.
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Good for Wyoming.
You can ignore reality but reality won’t ignore you.
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The greatest threat to Republican rule? Education
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There seems to be a tendency in the red states to make their citizens uneducated, poorly paid, living in environmentally degraded areas where corporations can do what they want. They apparently want to be the Third World section of the country. And if their citizens keep voting these Koch-suckers into office, then let them be the place that does all our shit work for pennies.
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That is why the wedge issues work so well. They depend on ideology, as opposed to objective reality.
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OK, I bite … just which science standards would be unique to Wyoming? Gravity?
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An explanation of them having a bigger sky than the rest of us.
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You clearly have to edumacate yourself if you don’t know the answer to that question.
Just to give you an example from chemistry (which real "Muricans pronounce as “chimistry”): Liberal chemistry is always talking about “free radicals.” Yeah right. Wyoming Chemistry says that all radicals must end up where they’re supposed to be: bound–and in prison. And all that mamby-pamby talk of “relativity” and some “uncertainty principle”–sounds like librulism to us. In Wyoming Physics we teach certainty and absolute standards, and that they emanate from one place: that’s right, atheists, GAWD!
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Wyoming now produces half the coal in the nation. Kentucky and West Virginia are distant now a distant second and third.
Possibly someone has realized that if carbon emissions are capped, Wyoming will be the only coal producing state left, which can only be good for Wyoming. When you just have to scrape off a few feet of soil to reach seams of super-high quality coal that are twenty five to fifty feet thick, no one can beat your production costs.
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Inertia.
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TPM:
Before the state House and Senate agreed on a bill allowing the state school board to consider the Next Generation Science Standards and create standards that “promote excellence,” the legislature debated whether the science standards must be “unique” to the state.
Okay, let’s skip the obvious conundrum of how Wyoming’s standards could be standards if they’re unique. Standards are meant to be shared - not that sharing is anything they teach in the Ayn Rand party. I mean, unique standards is kind of an oxymoron.
But passing over that, what really stands out is the idea that science isn’t based on consensus. “Our science is unique! If other people can agree on a fact, then that fact just ain’t good enough for us Wyomingians, er, I mean Wyomicans, or uh, well, people in Wyoming… anyway, it ain’t good enough for us – especially if those facts are coming from pointy-headed scientists at elitist libtard universities. Our science is from Real Americans and Real Christians - but not Christian Scientists, those people are freaks! No, our science comes from the Bible! As long as that Bible is a unique Wyoming bible!”
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It would be classier to give credit where credit is due. Park the snark & acknowledge that Wyoming Republicans did the right thing – albeit on the second try. They (after some unnecessary drama) put education before politics.
I wish legislatures would leave education to educators. Politicians have conclusively proven that they’re not good at it. And, do they ever wonder how independent and out of state universities view applicants who have grown up in science denying educational systems? Do they suppose the nation’s top universities want a freshman class of evolution and climate science deniers?
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You mean, we’re not actually marching cheerfully backwards to the Dark Ages…?
But…but… what about our never-ending War with EastAsia…???
Wyoming coal and oil go somewhere else and therefore cause no pollution. That God-fearing people in Wyoming have to breathe. And, it’s green energy because of all that sweet, sweet monies that trickle down like a gentle spring rain over everyone in Wyoming. We know this because the Baby Jebubus makes purty rainbows in the sky to show his love and approval of the petrochemical industry.
This is a calamity. Obviously Obama has infiltrated Wyoming with his jackbooted Mooslim ACORN indoctrination shock troops to force Christians to kneel and swear allegiance to Allah and Agenda 21.
A lot of GOPers don’t think the climate is changing or if they do they don’t think it’s man kind caused. I have lived in AZ for nearly 50 years and I have seen changes over time that are undeniable. In the 1960’s we had a rainy season in July and August in which we got rain about every other day in the afternoon. Now that is disrupted. Wildflowers would bloom in the months of late March thru April. Today is the last day of February and for a week I have had Texas Blue Belles blooming in my yard. That’s a full month early. It’s gonna be a long and very hot summer. But climate isn’t one single year. Yet I’ve tracked changes for decades now.
In a compromise, the GOP majority in the Wyoming legislature agreed not to move to a geocentric model of the universe in school science classes without further debate. GOP legislators agreed that teaching a heliocentric model would be adequate until the debate was complete.
Because denying a changing climate because of its name, Climate Change, is dumb even for a red state.
That’s like hating on “Obamacare” but loving the ACA whilst enjoying the savings, sooner or later the glaring ignoranimusness of it all just kicks the goofs right in the gut.
The list of ridiculous inability to accept reality and fact may have just shortened by a factor of one. Wyoming, one less dumb.