WTF? AZ lawmaker who believes Earth 6,000 years old leads education panel

[L. Coyote]

AZ lawmaker who believes Earth 6,000 years old leads education panel

An Arizona lawmaker who believes the Earth is 6,000 years old is the new chairwoman of the state Senate committee that oversees education-related legislation.

Republican Sen. Sylvia Allen of Snowflake has a gift for going viral with statements that would be edited out of most school textbooks:

– Buying into conspiracy theories surrounding “chemtrails” — exhaust from aircraft — and suggesting the government is manipulating the weather.

– Sharing her opinion that church attendance should be mandatory, during a legislative debate on whether concealed weapons should be allowed in public buildings (she voted for the bill).

– Declaring the Earth “has been here 6,000 years,” during a debate over allowing access to public lands for mining and other purposes.

Senate President Andy Biggs on Monday named Allen to lead a committee that acts as a gatekeeper for education-related legislation, such as Common Core and spending. ..............

[dhol82]

1. How did she get appointed to this?

[izzybella]

4. She's unqualified.

That seems to be the only qualification nowadays.

[dhol82]

8. Well, that seems to be the trump way

[gordianot]

2. Sounds very average as a Republican legislator.

There are really two types:

1. Those who really believe that crap.

2. Those who imply they might believe that crap.

[northoftheborder]

3. Texas rubbing off on Arizona now.

[Ilsa]

5. Yes, the earth has been here 6000 years... and then some!

I think others need to point out how ignorant she is, not based on her rejection of real science, but her rejection of common sense.

[politicat]

6. The sad thing is, she's middle of the road for Snowflake.

I spent two years of high school there.

My AP history babysitter (won't call him a teacher, I learned nothing from him other than to spot the crazy) spent most of the first quarter, and a lot of time after, lecturing on Bo Gritz, the New World Order, FEMA camps, and the likelihood that the Mormons were going to save the world by being prepared with a year's supply of food in every home and the Dream Mine, and that all of us unclean, dirty gentiles (i.e. Me, and one other kid in my class) were going to volunteer to be slaves for a can of beans.

I spent a lot of time in the vice-principal's office that year, and eventually went to the school board. That shut down the conspiracy theory lectures for the rest of the school year, but I had to contest every single grade, and he still tried to fail me. (The Veep interfered on my behalf.) The next school year, he went right back to it.

That was in the late 80s, before Waco, the Murrah building, or Ruby Ridge. That shit runs deep.

[Judi Lynn]

7. The gov. should be able to force you to go to a church every week among gun-bearing idiots?

How are we supposed to get any decent prayin' and praisin' the lord done, if we're scared to death someone's going to think he/she doesn't like the way we looked at him/her and takes a shot at us?

Thank goodness Republican Sen. Sylvia Allen of Snowflake is here to lead us out of our secular ignorance.






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How can we express our love for our gawd when someone might be holding a gun on us for one reason or another?

[democratisphere]

9. Stupid big mouthed idiots are allowed to run for political office and

many stupid big mouthed idiots vote for them.

[L. Coyote]

17. Incredible. No wonder my AZ college algebra students had not learned fractions.

[MrScorpio]

10. See? This is why we can never have nice things.

[longship]

11. Just like Betsy Wetsy DeVos.

She's a Dutch Reformed Calvinist. 10,000 year old Earth for her, too.

[MFM008]

12. I am so sick

Of STUPIDITY from these ass holes I could scream.

[hunter]

13. They worship a very small and petty god.

The tech guys like Gianforte are among the most pathetic. Supposedly they can do the math, but at some point they became afraid of very large and very small numbers.

The universe is very big, and humans are very small. Some people simply can't deal with that. They'd rather believe silly things like the dinosaurs laughed at Noah so they all drowned.

You know what I think is a miracle? All my ancestors, going back billions of years since the beginning of life on earth survived to reproduce. So did yours. It's a great privilege to be a visitor to this place, even for an infinitesimal moment in time.

[KingCharlemagne]

14. Radiocarbon dating is merely a plot by Satan to deceive

the faithful.

[hunter]

15. So is the speed of light.

The universe can't be 13 or 14 billion years old. All those far away stars and galaxies, like dinosaur fossils, are meant to deceive us, to test our faith.

[KingCharlemagne]

16. LOL. Some intrepid reporter should ask Trump to

define the Scientific Method, just for the giggle factor.