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Ah, so the Mummert is a *good* award? I was thinking the opposite until I read it.
There's a sentence in the linked post that makes no sense:
But it appears that the Mummert award should go to Koopman, not Schweitzer.
Neither this post (criticizing Schweitzer for evidently mocking people who believe the earth is 6000 years old) nor the post it links to (as Jim Wynne pointed out) make any sense. The Mummert is definitely not a good award to be won, however. I believe Mummert came to P.Z.'s attention for complaining that creationists were being attacked by the "educated, intelligent" portion of society, or some such thing.
I assume you meant Koopman.
Anyway, I've been thinking about Schweitzer lately. People like him, who oppose christianism, might help realign things by bringing libertarians into the Democrat fold. Right now libertarians are driven away by the lingering stink of communism.
Yikes...reverse the polarity! My error...never try to post something in under 30 seconds while you're trying to fix dinner.
Wow, that Koopman is such an ignoramus, I have no shame announcing:
Koopman! More like Poopman! Har har har!
Based upon this interesting post I feel compelled to posit the existence of "partisons", charged particles which transmit politics by a "spin" of either left or right.
What lingering stench of communism? Most of the people who wanted to promote communism in America got frustrated with the anti-authoritarianism of the hippie-types and became the neo-cons. Make no mistake, communism was a tool to promote themselves as unquestioned rulers, just as Christianism is now. That's not to say communism doesn't have its problems, however.
Right now libertarians are driven away by the lingering stink of communism.
I'm dying to hear the explanation for this one.
Sorry, PZ. I made it confusing with my bad editing ... because I was rushing to meet my wife for dinner.
"partisons"
Sounds viable. They are of course each others antiparticles. Do you think Penrose's twistors cover these things?
My feeling is that they should have even spin, since they seem to be massive and boso(n)s.
Though they interact weakly with the real world, their charges aren't especially forceful. I have heard that it takes special 'electoral voting systems' to make them accelerate at all.
Confusing little buggars, really.
Schweitzer is cool. I love his stance on logging: "Don't cut down the forests, we need them for deer season."
"Rep. Roger Koopman, R-Bozeman, called Schweitzer's statement "incredibly bigoted.""
Bozeman Population: 32,414
Gallatin County Population: 78,210
Montana State University Enrollment: 11,314
Elevation: 4,810'
Bozeman is home of Montana State University but the community elects Koopman as state representative? Hmmm.
Maybe it's the effect of the altitude and all those mountains.
"Koopman said his belief in the Earth's age is not based on his faith, but on his scientific investigations."
Scientific investigations????
"Koopman had initially planned to introduce a bill . . . allowing the teaching of the controversial "intelligent design" theory, . .. . . . . he has no plans to introduce a similar bill in the next session if re-elected."
If RE-ELECTED? Maybe there's still hope.
Hey, I live in Colorado at 5000 ft, right on the foothills of some awesome mountains and have for my entire life, yet I'm not ejaculating this kind of crap.
Well, one of the pathological properties of partisons is that they consistently deny all charges, regardless of strength, meaning the only element of the state which can ever really be measured is spin. This is known as the Carville Uncertainty Principle (CUP).
As someone who lives in Bozeman, Koopman was elected by the fringies that live on the edges of Bozeman, not by the vast amount of college students and liberals that live inside this town. Bozeman is usually an island of blue, dotted with a few red spots, swimming in a sea of red. And koopman is an insane man who has been spouting out crap in the Bozeman Comical for years now, and hopefully will be kicked out soon!
I second Tanaria's comment. Koopman is a moron. Driving past his yard signs every day is a disheartening experience.
I was up in Whitefish last week, and the area I was staying in seemed at least 'suburban' if not granola-ish. But that's probably just the blowback from Glacier National Park.