Tell me this is a joke...

[rumpel]

Texas GOP memo: It's Jewish conspiracy that Earth revolves around sun

Posted by Evan Derkacz at 9:47 AM on February 16, 2007.

Guest post by Glenn Smith.

It's not surprising that the Earth doesn't move for Warren Chisum, and maybe it's not surprising that he blames a Jewish conspiracy for it.

Still, it's enough to set the world a-spinning that the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, the most powerful committee in the House , distributed to legislators a memo pitching crazed wingers who believe the earth stands still -- doesn't spin on its axis or revolve around the Sun -- that Copernicus was part of a Jewish conspiracy to undermine the Old Testament. That would be the same Old Testament that was written by the folks Chisum's friends say are conspiring to undermine it.

Chisum has no problem believing that GOP interests revolve around the pocketbooks of its wealthy contributors. And that's why he wants to take dollars stolen from middle class Texans in higher tuition, double-taxed highways, underpaid teachers, sick kids and teachers and cut property taxes for those who own a lot of property -- businesses and the very, very wealthy.
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/48125/

make sure you read the actual memo:
http://www.capitolannex.com/IMAGES2/CHISUMMEMO.pdf

[NoPasaran]

1. No joke

And unfortunately, neither is Warren Chisum.

[Cass]

2. Reads like it came straight from the Onion.

These people are certifiable.

[sam sarrha]

3. antisemitism is so... 50's, doesn't he know he is supposed to blame homosexuals now

[NoPasaran]

12. Don't worry

Warren hates them too. He's one of our leading reps for introducing anti-gay legislation.

[Cabcere]

13. Forget about "wrong decade"

this "moran" sounds like he's living in the wrong century, or possibly even the wrong millennium. :crazy: The depths of idiocy to which these people will sink never ceases to amaze me.

[mitchum]

4. But I thought the vengeful skygod of Abraham was a Jewish conspiracy

Which is it? I'm so confused...

[rumpel]

5. How many in this country

actually belong to this cult....uh

[krispos42]

6. Why is it that if the Repub's followed The Onion's plans....

instead of their own, they would be MORE credible?

Is this fucking scary, or what?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

7. Surely this is the far far far right wing

I mean, when I go to other boards it is pretty obvious usually who the 'wingers are because their comments are a grammatical mess and they misspell words far more frequently than everyone else. They spout nonsense like there is no global warming--but would they believe this? What's next, that the earth is flat?

[Kagemusha]

10. They'd believe in a fixed earth sooner than evolution

One of these losers made such a quote and it stuck in my mind..

[toddaa]

8. The web site may be a joke

But Chisum appears to believe it. So, yes, he's a joke too.

The referenced web site is http://www.fixedearth.com . It's pretty amateurish and doesn't exactly pass the smell test, but it does reference a book that claims to be in its third printing.

[rumpel]

11. on that site

it has

KABBALIST "SUPERSTRING" PHYSICS (3 pgs)

HERE Also in Subject Area #4

FALSIFYING THE GEOSYNCHRONOUS SATELLITE CONCEPT (7 pgs)

HERE Also in Subject Area #2

***

THREE PART LEGAL MODEL FOR REMOVING EVOLUTIONISM FROM SCHOOLS IN THE USA

PART I - GEORGIA HB 179 MODEL - HERE - 2 pgs

PART II - ATTACHMENT OF EVIDENCE FOR HB 179 - HERE - 6 pgs

PART III - ADDENDUM WITH EXTRA RELATED EVIDENCE - HERE - 9 pgs

***Once the information in these three links reaches the Courtrooms of the USA, the death knell of evolutionism will have begun.***

These three links are also posted in Subject Area #6

Also new: CUFI: Christian Zionists Unite to Dictate U.S. Mid-East Policy (HERE) - 2 pgs -

Is this was Kansas fell for?

[Homer Wells]

17. Third Printing?????`

Is that like the third time through the Xerox machine??

Inquiring minds want to know!!

:spray:

[conscious evolution]

9. No joke

In Georgia we have a State Senator who is also pushing this BS.
Don't have a link to the story handy but a search of DU archives will find it.

[sakabatou]

14. Torqamada?

Is that you?

[Boojatta]

15. Follow the money!

<...> so-called "secular evolution science" is the Big-Bang 15-billion-year alternate "creation scenario" of the Pharisee Religion. This scenario is derived concept-for-concept from Rabbinic writings in the mystic "holy book" Kabbala <...>

Madonna is implicated in this somehow. Plus, the Big Bang angle suggests that Stephen Hawking is involved. For all we know, this might also involve Dan Brown, Tom Hanks, Opus Dei, and the descendants of Ptolemy. This is big!
(insert appropriate smilie here)

[cui bono]

16. What a tool. Since science has proven the earth revolves around the sun

all it shows is that the Kabbala is more accurate than the Bible. Is that what he's trying to say? :)