Steve, You Suck

Last autumn I sat in the Fort Greene Observatory and thought that the hurricane season had been very kind to the Eastern Seaboard, then in late-October a Category 1 storm traveled up the Gulf Stream to smote New Jersey with a lunar-intensified tidal surge. The coast was devastated by the water and wind. Governors sought relief from Congress and the GOP responded by delaying any funding as a punishment to the Tristate area supporting the re-election of President Obama. This week Rep. Steven Palazzo of Biloxi, Mississippi district voted against a $9.7 billion relief package to victims of Hurricane Sandy. Palazzo's office did not immediately respond to TPM's requests for comment. Update: A spokeswoman for Palazzo provided TPM with a statement Friday in which she said the congressman hopes the debate over aid to victims of Hurricane Sandy will prompt a "national discussion on disaster relief reform." Read the statement here. I tried to contact his office via email to call him an asshole. http://palazzo.house.gov/ I enter the zip code 39535 for Biloxi. I emailed that he was an asshole. I have yet to receive a response. ps he does have John Edwards hair. Is that a good thing?

The End Of Truth

The GOP have nurtured a strong disdain of science in their followers as recently evinced by the declaration by Congressman Paul Broun that, "God's word is true. I've come to understand that. All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and the big bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of Hell. It's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who were taught that from understanding that they need a savior. You see, there are a lot of scientific data that I've found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth. I don't believe that the earth's but about 9,000 years old. I believe it was created in six days as we know them. That's what the Bible says." The Georgian representative is a licensed MD and a leading member of the House Science Committee with his GOP cohort Rep. Todd Akin, who revealed his conviction of faith in the 'fact' that "women don't get pregnant from "legitimate rape". While Paul Broun might be an outstanding example of the myth of evolution, I'm continually amazed at their denial of facts, reason, and knowledge in favor of their pseudo-cult reference book, the Bible, plus he might have been talking about THE BIG BANG THEORY the TV show. It's in its sixth season. Evolution was a 2001 TV series from PBS. It's no longer on the air. I couldn't find any show named Embryology, but it might have died from funding.