And now Answers in Genesis itself is getting into the misinformation game. While they do helpfully provide what apparently is the abridged poodle article (pdf), it’s the only thing they mention. Nowhere to be found in their article is any reference to the obviously-creationist PowerPoint presentations on which Helphinstine spent four of his eight days as a “science” teacher. Missing still from any account from any source is an explanation for why Helphinstine chose an article on poodles from a creationist author rather than, say, one written by a scientist.
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Just a friendly piece of advice to Christianity and Science. You’re quite right that “[a] lot of misinformation has been passed around concerning the firing of biology teacher Kris Helphinstine”. But do yourself a favor and read the truth of the matter before accusing other people of passing around misinformation. Otherwise, you just look like an idiot.
Having no cable, every Sunday begins the wait until Battlestar Galactica is available via iTunes. Today, it’s availability timed out perfectly to be able to download it over Morrison Street Grill’s broadband and wifi while awaiting my order of burger and fries to go. So, finally (and much to the relief of my coworkers who had to remain silent all day today), I’ve seen the season finale. That, in no uncertain terms, was awesome.
Now, it’s nice and all that Jen over at Diary of 1 “saw the teacher in question, Kris Helphinstine, in church yesterday”, and it’s all well and good that she feels the need to “put in a good word for him”, but to claim that “[t]he reporting is not accurate” and that he “was not teaching creationism” shows only that the other side in this debacle has no interest in actually reading the facts. Which, of course, should come as little surprise.
TPM Muckraker explains, in part via a front page Washington Post article, the grand unified theory of the GOPresidency, through Bush’s Brain, pulling out all the stops to politicize the power of the Federal government to help the Republican Party in 2008.
Out of Bend, The Bulletin profiles Kris Helphinstine, and yet in its discussion of his PowerPoint presentations somehow (perhaps in a zeal to appear “balanced”) manages to leave out the one which most directly shows he was teaching creationism in his high school science classroom.
For those who aren’t yet clear on it, Josh Marshall explains just why the politically-motivated firings of selected United States Attorneys happens to be a big deal.
So here I am running a site about Charter revision in advance of the special election on May 15 (which is in a bit of a lull right now due to planning for the charity screenings in June), and my early suspicion has turned out to be true: Kristin Hersh is playing her Portland show that night. Sorry, election returns, but I’ll be at the Aladdin.
Here’s the situation. My internal network has three machines: My laptop, the mail server, and the web server, hereafter referred to as Laptop, Mail, and Web, respectively. When I try to sftp from Laptop to Web, I get rates roughly equivalent to a dialup modem of a decade or more ago. Add in the following other possible permutations, and I can’t understand what’s causing this.
