Re: Sometimes you have to really wonder about these people.

2012-08-15 Thread Cameron Childress
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Jerry Barnes wrote: > I don't know how stupid the typical American is, but I do believe there is > a significant part of the populations that no longer practices critical > thinking. I believe that there are plenty of people in industry, on Wall > St, and in of

Re: Sometimes you have to really wonder about these people.

2012-08-14 Thread Jerry Barnes
"Do they really thing that the typical American is this stupid " I don't know how stupid the typical American is, but I do believe there is a significant part of the populations that no longer practices critical thinking. I believe that there are plenty of people in industry, on Wall St, and in

Re: Sometimes you have to really wonder about these people.

2012-08-13 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Forgot to mention here are some of Barton's claims. Demonic powers control the government. The Founding Fathers opposed the teaching of evolution. Jesus opposed the minimum wage. The Bible opposes Net Neutrality. The US would have won the Vietnam war if it had flown just one more bombing run. Pra

Sometimes you have to really wonder about these people.

2012-08-13 Thread Larry C. Lyons
Do they really thing that the typical American is this stupid - not NPR, but David Barton, a radical right wing conservative pseudo historian. This genius cannot even get how often the bible is mentioned in the constitution. Then there's this funny idea that Thomas Jefferson was a fundamentalist C