There are times when the stupid is so pervasive, it exceeds my capacity to parse it properly. So why not just cite some odd headlines? I guess I should call this one the "Great States" edition.
Proposed math books for elementary school children and their teachers have resulted in one computation that publishers would just as soon erase – 109,263.Welcome to Texas.
That's the number of errors that were uncovered in proposed math textbooks that are under review by the State Board of Education for distribution to schools in the fall of 2008.
The fire in the Sierra Oaks subdivision in Jacksonville's Northside was started when a woman at the 2-month-old home smelled something and lit the fireplace to clear the air, said Lt. Mike Peery of the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department. Peery said gas from a leaky line to the fireplace was in the room and exploded into a ball of flame when the fireplace was lighted.
Welcome to Florida.
Federal agents raided the headquarters of a group that produces illegal currency and puts it in circulation, seizing gold, silver and two tons of copper coins featuring Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul.Welcome to Indiana.
The organization, which is critical of the Federal Reserve, has repeatedly clashed with the federal government, which contends that the gold, silver and copper coins it produces are illegal. NORFED [National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act & Internal Revenue Code] claims its "Liberty Dollars" are infaltion [sic] free and can restore stability to financial markets by allowing commerce based on a currency that does not fluctuate in value like the U.S. dollar.
"Well, I mean, where are we going to get scientists?" [Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee chairman Jim] Gooch asked. "We're limited here in Kentucky to what we can do. I don't know how we'd necessarily get scientists to come here."
The interim joint Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing to dispute the idea that the Earth is warming, at least in part because of carbon dioxide and other heat-trapping gases in the atmosphere produced by industrial activity.
Chairman Jim Gooch, D-Providence, a longtime ally of the coal industry, said he purposefully did not invite anyone who believes in global warming to testify.
"You can only hear that the sky is falling so many times," said Gooch, whose post makes him the House Democrats' chief environmental strategist. "We hear it every day from the news media, from the colleges, from Hollywood."
Welcome to Kentucky...where even the Democrats are attempting to build a bridge to the 19th century.
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