Dan Klepal, in today’s Courier-Journal reports on gubernatorial candidate Steve Beshear’s plan to create economic growth and educational attainment within Kentucky:
“My goal is to double the number of degree-holders by the year 2020,” Beshear said, adding that would bring the total to about 800,000. “To do this, we must make higher education more affordable.”
Beshear, a former lieutenant governor and attorney general, also has a plan to keep college graduates in the state. It’s called the Kentucky First Scholarship Program and would forgive one year of state loans for every year a graduate works in Kentucky.
The program would cost about $27 million in its first year, a Beshear spokeswoman said.
Those state loans would be granted only after all other available assistance — such as scholarships, grants and student loans — are used. The program would apply to all students, whether from Kentucky or out of state.
First, we know that President George W. Bushhas packed his administration with over 150 graduates of a Virginia-based, fundamentalist Christian college, founded by radical cleric Pat Robertson. These Bush hires have been at the center of nearly every scandal to hit the administration.
Second, a “radical Christian activist group” in Texas has been going around bombing other churches that the bombers themselves don’t consider to be pure, holy, and true enough. The group is rather disorganized at the moment, but the trend is nevertheless frightening.
Third, a radical Christian group invaded the U.S. Senate chambers today to interrupt a prayer being led by an American Hindu. They were arrested, and the prayer continued. Here’s the video.
We’re seeing a disturbing trend, I think, and I believe it will only intensify in the coming years as the majority of the nation moves towards a more inclusive, tolerant agenda to replace the one of hate and fear being carried out by the Bush administration. I think these people, while being small in number, will only radicalize more.
This letter to the editor was actually published in a Kentucky newspaper. I think its a pretty good representation of the kind of mindset and mental health that it takes to believe that Adam and Eve played fetch with dinosaurs 6,000 years ago while their kids were busy fucking.
Let me just summarize the wonderful pontification in the letter. The evolution “mythology” and science being taught in our schools is “dumbing down” our kids. This is being taught so the “Illuminati” and the Rockefeller family can control our kids. Oh, and they control the Federal Reserve and engage in occult activities, too. Also, her family loved the Creation Museum and the animatronic dinosaurs “concretely prove that God created the heavens and the earth”.
I really do hope that they chose to run this because it was funny, or they accidentally ran some wonderfully crafted snark.
