On Sun, 04 Nov 2012 04:30:43 -0500, Warp wrote:

> but I get the impression that it's one of the worst of its kind) boards
> of education are often staffed by people who are completely illiterate
> in terms of science and education.

Not just BoEs, but legislative bodies.  One of our US house of 
representatives members on the science committee thinks that evolution 
and the big bang theory are "from the devil".

We've got representatives who talk about it being God's will when a woman 
is raped that the baby be carried to full term, and that if it's a 
"legitimate rape", the female body has "ways of shutting that down" (so 
the woman doesn't get pregnant - IOW, if she wasn't 'legitimately' raped, 
she must've 'wanted it' and if she got pregnant, that means that it 
wasn't a "real" rape.  I guess.)

It's a sad, sad state of affairs.

We need to have some sort of intelligence test for our elected leaders.  
If they can't pass basic science, history, and math, they shouldn't be 
allowed to hold political office.

But I'm saying that partly because I'm getting absolutely sick and tired 
of this election.  Tomorrow can't be over soon enough.

Jim

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