Georgia attorney is an IDiot.

Posted by Les on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 at 01:05 PM. Read 1589 times. Tags: ,
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The latest challenge to the teaching of Evolution comes to us via Cobb County, Georgia where they still breed ‘em good and stupid it seems:

Attorney Marjorie Rogers said she first became concerned when her son became enthralled with dinosaurs through the “Jurassic Park” movie and other materials.

Rogers believes that Earth is several thousand years old. Most scientists claim the planet is billions of years old. So Rogers started a movement to push the county school board to put warning labels on biology textbooks saying that evolution “is a theory, not a fact.”

I humbly suggest Ms. Rogers stick with issues of law and leave issues of science to the scientists, but we all know how likely that is to happen. Given the history of Cobb County, though, one has to wonder if they just enjoy being contrarian to piss everyone else off:

Cobb County is no stranger to controversy. As counties around the country were moving to ban handguns, Kennesaw, a city in northern Cobb, passed a law requiring heads of household to own a firearm and ammunition.

Too bad the law didn’t include a mandatory shoot-a-random-citizen clause that might help clean up the gene pool a bit.

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Talking Soup United States Posted on 12/13/2005 at 03:15 PM

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But life without dinosaurs would be so uninteresting!

deadscot United States Posted on 12/13/2005 at 04:00 PM

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What this bitch needs to be concerned with is the idea that her precious will graduate high school without the ability to read beyond the eighth-grade level, solve high-level math problems, or comprehend advanced chemistry, thus making any discussion as to the veracity of evolution completely pointless.

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Sadie Jane United States Posted on 12/13/2005 at 04:09 PM

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Ya know, as long as people like this continue to be elected into positions of political authority, I for one will watch gleefully as the United States loses its technological edge against the rest of the world.

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Qoayn United States Posted on 12/13/2005 at 05:20 PM

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I’m all for warning labels on shit.
I get warned about how to do stupid stuff that I
just wouldn’t normally think to do all of the
time. Like dont put my hand in the meat saw..
or dont let kids play with plastic bags… Smoking
causes cancer and birth defects…

I think it’s only appropriate that school texts
carry caviats to the contents; as long as the rest
carry them too. The bible is a book. I would like
it to carry a likewise sentiment. Something like:

God “is a theory, not a fact.�

Maybe an RSAC/ICRA/CARA/ESRB rating for all
religious materials that are in different formats
now too. I wonder what it/they would get?

elwedriddsche United States Posted on 12/13/2005 at 07:48 PM

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Funny you should mention that:

http://www.warninglabelgenerator.com/

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NeonCat United States Posted on 12/14/2005 at 12:28 AM

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I was born and raised in Marietta, GA, the county seat of Cobb County.  When I was born there were only about 50000 people in the whole county, so I can’t help but think a bunch of crazy people moved there over the years.  Even so, people in Cobb County managed to convince the state legislature to create a municipality about a foot wide running the length of the county’s border with Atlanta to keep Atlanta from annexing any part of the county.  They also created their own mass transit system about 20 years after MARTA was created, I guess to prevent poor inner city blacks from riding the bus to Cobb and stealing from white homes.  I would also note that Cobb County in the early 90s passed a resolution that the “gay lifestyle,” whatever that is, was incompatible with the county’s idea of Christian wholesomeness.  It cost the county any chance to host events for the 1996 Summer Olympics.  On the whole, it is a county of extremely pseudoconservative people, who love Bush, his daddy, hell, they’d of loved Prescott if they’d heard of him.
Cobb County… feh!

Patness Canada Posted on 12/14/2005 at 12:35 AM

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Yeah, the way I’ve looked at it, is that if everyone around me gets dumber, then I gotta be getting more lucrative jobs more easily. At least personally, I’ve got nothing against it, although I think a brain drain is bad for any nation.

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Sadie Jane United States Posted on 12/14/2005 at 02:06 AM

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Cobb County… feh!

Don’t feel too bad--I’m originally from Kansas, home to the Biggest Douche in the Universe, Fred Phelps.

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Brando United States Posted on 12/14/2005 at 09:59 AM

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The next Jurrasic Park movie should be about dinosaurs that get revived and eat creationists that think they don’t exist.

VernR United States Posted on 12/14/2005 at 11:33 AM

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My parents took me to see The Wizard of Oz while it was making its first rounds. I recall that the flying monkeys spooked me more than the wicked witch. The flying monkeys spook me even today. This time they are all too prevalent in many of our legislatures.

Qoayn United States Posted on 12/14/2005 at 05:16 PM

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Nice elwed’.. love the label generator.. somehow
I think they wouldnt ever have an effect..

Unless its badly clashing clothing or a fashion no-no I dont think folks would notice.

zilch Austria Posted on 12/15/2005 at 02:34 AM

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The flying monkeys spook me even today.

And how exactly does Darwinianity account for these flying monkeys, VernR?  Sounds like irreducible complexity to me…

I used to work for the Renaissance Faire in California.  They brought old movie costumes for those who didn’t have their own, and hidden in the racks of motheaten leftovers from many a Hollywood epic were a few original flying monkey outfits, preserved like reliquaries- although the monkeys were long gone.  Seeing them the first time, I felt I was in the presence of something almost holy, and I was almost afraid to touch them.

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GoodKitty United States Posted on 12/18/2005 at 06:55 PM

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Holy fucking shit. We moved to North Fulton county in 2004. People give me so much lip for hating other people, and then fucktards like this just back me up. The really scary thing is that Indiana is worse. The whole state is like this retard.
God Schmod.

Obviously, when we get to buying a house, we won’t be looking in fucking Kennesaw. Unbe-fucking-lieveable!

Morons are everywhere.

p-tooey!

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Jim United States Posted on 12/22/2005 at 01:59 AM

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Come on give them a break, in Cobb County it’s legal to marry your own offspring, other close relatives or domestic animals. All that has a tendency to cause a bit of confusion with any concept there let alone a scientific one.

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