{"id":1770,"date":"2013-01-25T14:31:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T19:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=1770"},"modified":"2013-01-25T14:31:34","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T19:31:34","slug":"creationism-promoting-republican-wants-his-fellow-republicans-to-stop-being-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2013\/01\/25\/creationism-promoting-republican-wants-his-fellow-republicans-to-stop-being-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"Creationism promoting republican wants his fellow republicans to &#8220;stop being stupid&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1778\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1778\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2013\/01\/bobby.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1778\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2013\/01\/bobby.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2013\/01\/bobby.png 225w, https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2013\/01\/bobby-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1778\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">So, governor, do you believe in the Loch Ness Monster?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When I wrote a few days ago about the<a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2013\/01\/23\/a-criticism-of-michael-shermer-and-the-scientific-american-political-left-is-not-at-war-with-science-unlike-political-right\/\"> false equivalence<\/a>\u00a0of saying the political Right and Left are &#8220;both&#8221; at war with science, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightwingwatch.org\/content\/creationism-advocate-bobby-jindal-warns-gop-against-becoming-stupid-party\">this<\/a> is precisely the kind of thing I meant: governor Jindal of Louisiana decrying what he, personally, embodies.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In his remarks to the gathering, he also offered some tough medicine for the GOP, including this piece of advice: \u201cWe must stop being the stupid party. It\u2019s time for a new Republican party that talks like adults. It\u2019s time for us to articulate our plans and visions for America in real terms. We had a number of Republicans damage the brand this year with offensive and bizarre comments. We\u2019ve had enough of that.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Priceless.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This 2012-2013 school year, thanks to a bill pushed through by governor Bobby Jindal, thousands of students in Louisiana will receive state voucher money, transferred from public school funding, to attend private religious schools, some of which teach from a Christian curriculum that suggests the Loch Ness Monster disproves evolution and states that the alleged creature, which has never been demonstrated to even exist, has been tracked by submarine and is probably a plesiosaur. The curriculum also claims that a Japanese fishing boat caught a dinosaur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, Mr Shermer, can you find a liberal to match THAT? I think it would be rather hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote a few days ago about the false equivalence\u00a0of saying the political Right and Left are &#8220;both&#8221; at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}