Reason Returns to the White House (Mary Lyon)

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Mary Lyon, On The Left -- World News Trust

March 9, 2009 -- Like it or not, knuckle-draggers: Science is back IN.

As a life-long Catholic, I couldn’t be more delighted. I’m sure the airwaves and the cable channels will soon be wall-to-wall with conservatives and Republicans and other assorted 133h-century thinkers whining and moaning and ringing their hands -- probably gnashing their teeth and rending their garments, too, according to the Old Testament model.

The gas giants certainly will weigh in (there! How ‘bout that for blurring the lines between science and “morals”?). For the sake of decency and morality I will not name them here especially since one in particular got WAY too much undeserved attention last week and doesn’t need any more help from little me. Instead, I will step up, myself.

I am utterly thrilled that the White House has now moved out of the Dark Ages. For the last eight years I have watched the national debate with growing sadness as the volume and temperature turned up, and fact-based reality gave way to the faith-based mindset. The sins were legion.

Government-issued “scientific” reports were cherry-picked clean of evidence supporting global warming. Anti-choice red tape strangled federal funding to women’s health programs throughout the country and across the globe. Realistic sex education was deemphasized or even banned from schools (hey, Governor Palin, how did abstinence-only education work out for that still-unmarried, high-school-aged new-mom daughter of yours?).

And then there was the narrow-minded religious extremist nominee Dr. David Hager who was tapped to head the FDA’s Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee. This darling man was best known for recommending that women struggling with PMS look for a cure by reading the Bible. Why did he even bother with medical school, I wonder? I dreaded the “brain drain” prompted by the Bush tourniquet choking off federal funding for scientific research. No wonder some of our finest scientific minds were leaving the country. Way to lead the world, America!

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[ClassWarrior]

1. It's a new day in the U.S. of A...

:hi: Sis!

Great job as usual.

NGU.

[damntexdem]

2. Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, and Joe the Plumber will now have rants over that.

Reason is unconstitutional, unAmerican, and most-likely a socialist, to boot. ;-)