Sunday, May 23, 2010

For The Bible Tells Me So - Trailer



Entire Movie - Part 1

The Yes Men: Is Obama Living Up to His Campaign Promises?



WIKI: The Yes Men
The Yes Men Homepage

Link to The New York Times Paper created by the Yes Men

BONUS: Nice Guys Finish Last - What Obama could learn from Bush about bipartisanship

TSBOE Member Opens Debate on New Social Studies Standards with a Politically Divisive Prayer

This whole debate was fucked from the beginning.

"Even before the Texas State Board of Education took up its expected debate today over what students will learn about separation about church and state in their social studies classrooms, board member Cynthia Dunbar, R-Richmond, made her position clear. She offered the board’s opening prayer this morning and removed any doubt about what she and other far-right board members want students to learn: America’s laws and government should be based on the Christian Bible." ARTICLE

Texas Rewrites History by Rewriting Text Books


New York Times: Texas Conservatives Win Curriculum Change





MSNBC: Conservatives put stamp on Texas textbooks
Huffington Post: Texas Textbook MASSACRE: 'Ultraconservatives' Approve Radical Changes To State Education Curriculum
Washington Post: Historians speak out against proposed Texas textbook changes

BONUS: Stupid Texas Laws

Global Warming Facts & GOP Lies

Each year, scientists at NASA'S Goddard Institute for Space Studies analyze global temperature data. The past year, 2009, tied as the second warmest year since global instrumental temperature records began 130 years ago. Worldwide, the mean temperature was 0.57°C (1.03°F) warmer than the 1951-1980 base period. And January 2000 to December 2009 came out as the warmest decade on record.



Telegraph: Climate chaos? Don't believe it
The Economist: I don't believe in global warming, which must be stopped
ABC News: Palin: Global Warming Not Man-Made
ABC News: Howard Dean on Global Warming: Republicans ‘Don’t Believe in Science’

Family Asks Doctors to Wait for Prayers to Work



ARTICLE

Sir Ian Mckellen Rips The Bible