Thanks to the GOP, I now have face-palm callouses from chin-to-forehead; so I didn't even feel this latest one.
GOP mouth-breather and Minnesota State Legislature candidate Bob Frey, who flagged his utter cluelessness with last week's goofy take on AIDS virus infections, has also testified before Minnesota lawmakers that dinosaurs existed alongside men...presumably, men like Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble.
According to Bluestem Prairie, Frey said:
". . .they likes to say that humans probably evolved from bacteria that lived more than four billion years ago, but that's not what we find in the fossil record. There's this 16-foot tall giant was found with numerous others around the world" [Frey had placed a large plastic femur on the table before he started testifying].
"Dinosaurs have always lived with man. Is the rock wrong or is the theory wrong? I suggest to you that the theory is wrong. Dinosaurs have always lived with man. And here's a plesiosaur that washed up on the beach on Nova Scotia in 2002. This is a juvenile that also washed up on the beach in Lake Erie.
Professor Krisman {sp?} passed on his letter of recommendation attached to the science minority report addressing that biology should be included in the science standards and benchmarks. I suggest doing the same types of revisions for other disciplines in the science standards as well--geology, cosmology, etc.
Reading from the proposed standards from the known fraud evolutionary theory worldviews being scientific fact and teaching real science based upon what can be observed and tested because there's so much good science that can be taught as students develop their worldview and behavior.
I also have a handout that I'd like the committee to have--"
Senator Steve Kelley offers to have a staffer get the handout, then asks if there are any questions; Senator Leroy Stumpf has one. The tape continues:
Stumpf: "Mr. Chairman, Now is that --ah--bone, is that actually a real one?"
Frey: "This is a replica of a real one, the entire skeleton has been found. Numerous of them have found up in Wisconsin, Texas, Egypt, Turkey, around the world. The Bible says "there were giants in the land in those days," in the early days. This shows that things are winding down, not winding up."
Kelley: "Thanks very--"
Frey: "I have about 25 hours of presentation material with lots of slides of dinosaurs, lots of slides of this sort of thing, and also the consequences of teaching known fraud and everything to society."
Kelley: "Thanks very much Mr. Frey .. ."
Minnesota is Bachmann country, where I guess it's yaba-dabba-doo time,
all the time.
Can we give Minnesota back to Norway...or someone? Anyone...?*
*This is a cheap crack. In fact, Minnesota is the only state in the US that has voted Democratic for the past 10 presidential elections. Bachmann is an aberration. My apologies to Minnesotans.