SIGNS OF THE LAST DAYS

Here's a portent of the Apocalypse: I actually agree with two posts at Little Green Footballs.

One links a CNN video of George W. Bush bowing his neck to receive a medal from Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah:

Bush Bowed Too

More than a few people on the right are screaming that Barack Obama should be impeached for bowing to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

Those of you who are buying into this hyperventilating nonsense need to see this video....

Instead of impeaching Barack Obama, America needs to impeach its gas tanks....

Video here. And I'll place a still from the video back-to-back with a photo of Dick Cheney similarly bowing his neck to receive a medal from the king last year, courtesy of the Boston Herald:



The other expresses relief at an election result in Louisiana this weekend:

A Republican candidate endorsed by Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal has lost big.

Baton Rouge lawyer Dan Claitor beat businessman and fellow Republican Lee Domingue -- the candidate with Gov. Bobby Jindal's backing -- to win the state Senate District 16 seat in Saturday’s special election.

Claitor garnered 11,713 or 66 percent of the vote to Domingue's 6,114 or 34 percent, based on complete but unofficial election returns....

Lee Domingue is a Biblical literalist who wants creationism taught in public schools, and wants to ban single Louisiana citizens from adopting children....

It's too bad the Louisiana voters couldn't stop Jindal from signing his Discovery Institute-sponsored bill to sneak creationism into public schools, but at least this outright creationist has been shown the door.

Damn right. On our side, we talk about Sarah Palin and the religious right, but Jindal is a far more dangerous theocrat. About that public school law? Let's hear what the Discovery Institute had to say:

Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal has signed into law the Louisiana Science Education Act, ensuring the state's teachers their right to teach the scientific evidence both for and against Darwinian evolution....

Upon the request of a local school board, the State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education will be required to "allow and assist teachers, principals, and other school administrators to create and foster an environment within public elementary and secondary schools that promotes critical thinking skills, logical analysis, and open and objective discussion of scientific theories being studied including, but not limited to, evolution, the origins of life, global warming, and human cloning."

... around the country, science teachers are being harassed, intimidated, and sometimes fired for trying to present scientific evidence critical of Darwinian theory along with the evidence that supports it....

Pressure on teachers who want to teach fairytales as science? Can't have that!

More, from Talk to Action during the 2007 governor's race:

...In September 2003, the Associated Press reported [Jindal's] answering "yes" on the Louisiana Family Forum's voter guide as to whether he favored teaching the "scientific weaknesses of evolution" (creationist codetalk) in public schools.... When a reporter asked his position on teaching creationism, Mr. Jindal's response clearly favored undermining the teaching of evolution: "With evolution there are flaws and gaps. I think it's appropriate to tell our students that no scientific theory can prove evolution." ("Sharp questions put candidates at governor’s forum on spot," Associated Press, September 25, 2003) ...

Among Jindal's most troubling allies is Republican Religious Right operative David Barton, who calls church/state separation "a myth." Barton, who runs an organization called Wallbuilders, has used bogus quotations by the Founding Fathers to support his contention in books and videos that American government was founded on Christianity....

Journalist Frederick Clarkson reported in October 2006 that Jindal and Barton visited Baptist churches in Alexandria, Bossier City, and West Monroe. Describing these visits on Barton’s Wallbuilders Live! radio program a few days later (October 18 & 19, 2006), Jindal praised Barton's pseudo-history: "Dave did a fantastic job, went to three churches with us, just reminding us of our nation's history [and] heritage." Barton, calling Jindal a "product of what we were able to put in office in 2004" because of the "huge increase in Christian voter turnout," praised Jindal's desire to "make a difference in the culture war." ...

The exorcism is just the tip of the iceberg.