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"How can I transfer voicemail files from my iPhone to my computer?"
It's a question I'm asked fairly often by Ars readers through e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter—at least two or three times every month. It's also a question I was forced to ask myself recently. I had a number of voicemails on my iPhone that needed to be transferred off and forwarded to the appropriate legal entities. And, equally frustrating, I had older, less-tech-savvy family members facing this problem. It's not as if I could tell them to jailbreak their devices and dig through filesystems.
But as many of my Twitter followers pointed out, there are plenty of software packages that allow users to easily transfer their voicemail files—as well as text messages, photos, music, and other data—from an iOS device to a computer. No jailbreak hanky panky required.
I took a look at the four most popular applications that were recommended to me. One is Mac-only, and three are available for both OS X and Windows (though I did all of my tinkering on a Mac). All four offer free demos for download from their respective websites, though all these demos limit functionality to an extent until you pay full price. These apps work with all iOS devices ever created, including iPod touches, iPads, and iPhones. So which are the best for people who want to retrieve those files from their iOS devices? Here's what I found:
PhoneView: $29.95
PhoneView from ecamm was the lone Mac-only app in this comparison, though it was recommended to me (by a landslide) more often than any of the others. It's no surprise why: it has probably the most straightforward and easy-to-use interface of the group.
PhoneView, like the others, generally needs to access the iTunes backups made by your device in order to pull the data out. If you encrypt your backups like I do, you may have to enter your encryption password before the software can find your voicemails and other files. But after you do, accessing the files is easy—PhoneView lets you choose between your devices via the pull-down menu at the bottom of the window if you have multiple devices plugged into your computer. Once you do that, you can choose from any of the options along the left to find what you're looking for.
For my purposes, this was extremely simple. You can select the individual voicemails and listen to them within PhoneView before deciding to transfer them to iTunes or just save them out as .m4a files to your desktop.
The same applies to your call logs (which can be saved out as a text file) and your SMS/iMessage logs (PDF, CSV, text, tab delineated, or XML). And these are just the files you can't normally access from your iPhone. In the event that you've dug up an old iOS device that contains others you never transferred—contacts, music, voice memos, or photos—you can use PhoneView to transfer those, too. Just find the right option on the left-hand side, and the process is fairly straightforward.
PhoneView is well worth the $30 price tag. It's a little more expensive than some of the other options, but I had absolutely no problems when using PhoneView and never found myself confused or frustrated. I would feel very comfortable recommending this to other friends and family, too, whether they're tech-savvy or not. Because it's Mac-only, though, it might not be the best option for Windows-using family members.
iExplorer: $34.99
iExplorer is the first of the three software packages available for both Mac and Windows, and it's probably my favorite after PhoneView. iExplorer also allows you to choose between different devices connected to your computer, and it looks better than most of the other cross-platform options. Though, as you'll see, the bar is relatively low.
Like PhoneView, iExplorer allows you to automatically transfer music or movies you haven't already moved into iTunes, as well as access things like your contacts, notes, calendar items, call history, photos, and more. And when it comes to extracting things like your voicemail files, the process is again relatively straightforward—the software lists them out and allows you to choose which ones to export to your desktop.
My one major complaint with iExplorer is actually about the demo rather than the full software—you can click around all you want with the demo, but it doesn't make things entirely clear which features are accessible and which ones aren't before you upgrade. Clicking the green "Register Now" button doesn't explicitly list out the features you will gain either, so some functionality may seem like it's not working when instead you just need to pay up. But how would you know that if iExplorer doesn't tell you?
Overall, I felt iExplorer's UI was easy enough to use that I might recommend it to Windows-using family, though I think it's a little less straightforward than PhoneView. The price is also ever-so-slightly higher, but I don't think it's necessarily a dealbreaker if your personal data is at stake.
TouchCopy: $24.99
TouchCopy is another cross-platform solution, and its $25 price tag allows for up to three installs on a Mac or three installs on Windows (just not a mixture of both). This makes it a pretty decent deal if you plan to use the software on multiple machines. But keep in mind that if you do, you're sacrificing some of your sanity when it comes to usability.
TouchCopy doesn't appear to let you choose between devices connected to your computers—it just picks the one it feels like using—so you must make sure to only connect the device you want to retrieve data from. It contains the same basic functionality as the other apps in this comparison: you can retrieve all manner of data from your old iOS devices as long as you authorize the software to access your backups.
But what I found frustrating was the lack of organization under many of these options. For example, the SMS interface seems functional enough at first, until you realize all the texts are strangely jumbled together with no obvious organization scheme. Even worse is that they seem to be mixed between senders—I found several SMS conversations that claimed to be from one sender when I know for a fact they were actually sent from others.
The same seemed to apply to all the other categories I clicked through. And when it came to retrieving voicemails—my original purpose for finding this software—TouchCopy claimed it couldn't see any, even though my iPhone displayed them and the other software packages could see them. After paying for the software, this was still the case, so it didn't appear to be a limitation of the demo. But on the upside, TouchCopy does seem to make it clear when you're trying to do something the demo won't let you do. For example, you can see a list of your installed apps, but you can't copy them to iTunes or back them up to your Mac unless you pay up.
I wasn't very impressed with TouchCopy—there are numerous ways in which this software could be improved, both in looks and functionality. But it mostly worked, aside from the inability to retrieve my voicemail files. I wouldn't put this at the top of my list, though.
iBackupBot: $19.95
Up front, iBackupBot was hands-down the worst-looking and most confusing of the applications I used. It's also the cheapest—no surprise there, since it mostly looks like an attempt to recreate a Windows file system motif from 1998. Generally, it works that way too.
On the upside, iBackupBot allows you to access the backups from pretty much any device that has ever been connected to your computer. On the downside, the UI makes no sense whatsoever—at least not to the person who just wants to access his or her voicemails or contacts. What are those checkboxes for in that screenshot above? And how are these files organized?
If you do a bit of digging into the folders, you can find an organization structure that's slightly more sane. At first, I thought there was no way to find the voicemail files, but I was eventually able to find them by hitting command+M to get to the "media browser," which allows you to access the camera roll and voice memos.
Other normal functionality that you might expect out of a Mac app (or any app, really) was not present, such as the ability to close windows with a keyboard command or even by clicking the left-most button at the top of the window. No, in order to close windows that pop up within iBackupBot, you have to click the unlabeled "door closing" icon at the top of the window instead. Otherwise the window floats above everything else regardless of whether you want to focus on another window within the app.
The benefit to iBackupBot, if there is one, is that it makes it easy for the serious tinkerer to access and export data files from every single app you've ever used, or every single thing you've ever tried to do on your iOS device. Need some random .plist files or icons saved to your Mac from your iPhone? Have at it.
I cannot recommend this software to anyone—even experienced Ars readers—in good conscience. It's not that it doesn't work (although it does make me want to tear my eyeballs out), it's the fact you can get much more straightforward, easy-to-use software for practically the same price. And if you're going to go this route, you may as well just go all the way and jailbreak your device for free.
For me, my friends and family, and even my tech-savvy peers, PhoneView and iExplorer are much better deals than something like iBackupBot, even though they cost a bit more. These items save you from UI headaches, and they actually make sense to most of the computer-using population. TouchCopy might be an OK solution, but it's not the best you can get for your money. And if you're in the type of scenario that I'm in, where you just want to transfer a few files in order to pass them onto more important parties, you probably don't want to waste much time sitting at the computer using poorly designed software to do it.
But if you disagree with everything in this piece, that's your choice. If iBackupBot is totally your thing and you have $20 to burn, don't let me stop you. Just make sure to keep that bottle of Advil nearby.

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Editorial: A New Breed of Cop, part 1 of 4
Dispatchers received a frantic call: A young man holding a large knife to his throat. When police arrived, the mentally ill man lunged at officers. To the horror of those at the scene, he was fatally shot several times.
This synopsis sounds eerily similar to what happened in April to Scott Sheets Jr. of Marshall County. In actuality, it refers to a September 1987 incident in Memphis, Tenn. Like the 23-year-old Sheets, 27-year-old Joseph Robinson was said to be depressed and suicidal. Like Sheets, Robinson was cutting himself with a knife. Like Sheets, Robinson had family hoping police could save their loved one's life.
Like Sheets, Robinson ended up dead.
Both of these stories reflect the worst possible outcome when law enforcement responds to a call involving the mentally ill, a duty that increasingly rests on officers all around the country. In communities as rural as Lacon and as metropolitan as Memphis, police are often the first responders when a dispatcher radios an EDP, or emotionally disturbed person. Such calls vary in severity. It might be a bipolar woman wandering the streets, a schizophrenic screaming at passers-by, a depressed man threatening his life and the lives of others.
It's the unknown that breeds disaster in these interactions. Officers arriving at a scene may not immediately know whether they're dealing with someone with a history of psychological troubles, much less how to confront him or her effectively. An irrational person tends not to obey commands. He may bolt when a cop yells, "Stop!"; she may flail when the handcuffs come out; he may approach police against their orders. It's uncommon, but unfortunately not rare, for injury -- or worse -- to befall the officer or the citizen.
Central Illinoisans know this well.
A few weeks after Sheets was shot by a Marshall County deputy, Brian Pitzer, 32, was killed during a standoff with the Central Illinois Emergency Response Team (CIERT) at his Creve Coeur home. According to his mother, Pitzer was suicidal and depressed. Last December, there was Tyee Miller, a 41-year-old former sheriff's auxiliary volunteer, also armed and suicidal, also fatally shot by CIERT officers in a standoff.
The year 2000 brought two tragedies: Shannon Smith, 27, of Weston, a mentally disabled man shot in the back after failing to pay for $15 in gas; and Eugene Pitchford, 43, a homeless Peoria man with a history of mental problems, who died after police tried to subdue him with pepper spray and nightsticks.
The list goes on. In September 1997, Thomas Keller, 34, was mutilating himself with knives in Peoria's Campustown lot and charged police, who shot him in front of a crowd. A year earlier, Bartonville police killed 40-year-old John Schertz, who was brandishing a pitchfork. These names don't reflect non-fatal encounters, such as the July 2004 shooting of Edwin Keltner. Then 51, the Peorian known as "unstable" by neighbors survived two shots to the chest after he wouldn't drop a pick ax.
Indeed, this region in the past decade has suffered several cases of what some may characterize as "suicide by cop," what others may see as unnecessary violence, and what official investigations almost always conclude is justifiable force. Last week the Marshall County state's attorney ruled that Sheets' shooting was "not only reasonable but absolutely necessary," the exact words Tazewell County State's Attorney Stewart Umholtz used in exonerating police in the Pitzer shooting.
But that's where the parallels between Scott Sheets and Joseph Robinson end.
After Robinson died, Memphis residents wouldn't accept that another fatal encounter between police and a mentally troubled man was "absolutely necessary." The Memphis Police Department wasn't content, either. That force -- in cooperation with medical professionals, experts, family members and the mentally ill themselves -- came up with a program in the late 1980s to improve its response to such calls. Since then, Memphis has realized a sevenfold decrease in officer injuries during these tricky calls. And in the past two decades, police can point to just two fatal shootings of people known to be mentally disturbed -- in a city six times Peoria's size. Its Crisis Intervention Team is hailed as a national model.
Over the next three days, this page will dig into that model and explain how it has helped police departments deal with these situations.
Moreover, we'll explore whether local law enforcement should borrow Memphis' practices.
Our goal is not to second-guess police involved in highly combustible situations where split-second decisions must be made, or to conjecture whether any of central Illinois' deaths could have been prevented.
Rather, it is to study whether changes in law enforcement's actions and attitudes could lead to better outcomes, for all involved.
Inarguably, the status quo has resulted in tragedy here. Is that tolerable in central Illinois, as it was not in Memphis? Or could we spare some families, and some officers, great grief by approaching these situations differently?
Tomorrow: Origins of the Memphis Crisis Intervention Team.
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In my last post, I began a tour of the unbilled actors who lurked on the streets of the sixties crime drama Naked City. Many of whom later went on to become major stars, or at least busy character actors. Now, with the help of the production records on file in the archives of Naked City's executive producer Herbert B. Leonard, we can identify most of these uncredited performers.
For some reason, Naked City's third season yields the best crop of soon-to-be-famous bit players. Maybe Marion Dougherty, the show's legendary casting director, honed her knack for spotting future stars as she went along.
Let's begin with the one of the tiniest speaking parts you can possibly imagine. Squint at this scene from 1962's "Torment Him Much and Hold Him Long," which stars Robert Duvall (in one of four leading Naked City roles) and Barbara Loden (director of Wanda, wife of Kazan, fleetingly a sixties ingenue) as husband and wife, and you'll see a black couple in the stairwell in the background:
The male half of that couple is one Bobby Dean Hooks, who under the more formal moniker of Robert Hooks would become a fairly important leading man a few years later; fittingly, he starred in the next major New York City police drama, N.Y.P.D. This Naked City episode precedes any other recorded television or film appearance for Hooks.
"Dust Devil on a Quiet Street" takes place in the world of young, aspiring performers. With its scrutiny of a faded acting teacher (Richard Basehart) and a disturbed young actor under his tutelage (Robert Walker), it's one of the most detailed glimpses of the process of acting ever attempted in a television drama. The original writer of "Dust Devil," Anthony Lawrence, told me that he struggled with the script, and welcomed the revisions undertaken by Naked City's legendary story editor, Howard Rodman. Rodman's wife at the time, Norma Connolly, was a character actress, and I suspect that Rodman's observations of her work are the source of the authentic-seeming acting exercises in "Dust Devil."
Ironically, for a text so sympathetic to the plight of the struggling actor, none of the actors we see performing in Basehart's workshop receive screen credit. However, Dougherty got it right once again: four of the five actors playing actors went on to enjoy noteworthy careers. The first pair to try out a scene (which Basehart decimates) are Penny Fuller (All the President's Men) and Ken Kercheval (Dallas):
Other students who have a line or two each include Stephen Brooks (front row, looking to the left), soon to co-star in The Nurses and The F.B.I., and character actress Joanna Miles (farthest right), also a Dallas alumna:
Moving on to the extraordinary "King Stanislaus and the Knights of the Round Stable" – the one with Jack Klugman, John Larch, and a meat cleaver all locked together in a butcher's freezer – I originally thought that this young brunette nurse on the right might be Elizabeth Ashley, who did play an early role on Route 66 (another Herbert Leonard / Marion Dougherty effort) around the same time:
Wrong: it's actually Broadway actress and director Joan Darling, later of Owen Marshall, Counselor at Law.
A week later, in the episode "Spectre of the Rose Street Gang," we catch a single glimpse of The Waltons' Ralph Waite, likely in his television debut, as a chauffeur:
. . . and then in "The Highest of Prizes," only a slightly longer look at The Stepford Wives' Peter Masterson (shown with Paul Burke), likely in his television debut, as a ferry boat crewman:
The final episode of Naked City, "Barefoot on a Bed of Coals," is famous for Dustin Hoffman's brief but showy role in the teaser, as a two-bit holdup man who gets blasted by a beat cop (Steven Hill). Hoffman made the closing credits – just barely, in the penultimate slot – but a lot of familiar faces around him didn't. Here's the great Philip Bruns (The Out of Towners; Harry and Tonto; The Great Waldo Pepper) as a paramedic who grouchily tends to Hoffman's wound:
And Melvin Stewart (Trick Baby; Scarecrow and Mrs. King) as a witness to the crime:
Soon it's revealed that Hill's character isn't really a cop. Fortunately, there are plenty of real uniformed policemen around, played by the likes of Ramon Bieri (Badlands; Sorcerer):
. . . and future biker movie star Tom Stern, also uncredited:
For the fellow TV junkies in the audience who had watched these Naked Citys before reading this post . . . how many of these actors did you spot?


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Can gays help save marriage?
The rapid evolution of attitudes toward gay marriage is a wonder to behold. On few issues has public opinion moved as quickly or decisively. Many who are against the formal recognition of homosexual unions are now resigned to the reality they will eventually become commonplace.
The main drivers of this transformation are obvious. Most Americans now know that people they care about are gay or lesbian, and empathy can do wonderful things. Partly because of this, younger Americans overwhelmingly favor same-sex marriage. They will dominate the electorates of the future.
But another factor deserves more notice: Steadily increasing numbers of Americans have come to believe that gays and lesbians are not social revolutionaries looking to alter the nature of marriage. Rather, they are seen as simply wanting to be part of an institution that is already open to their straight fellow citizens. This shift in perspective has been essential in normalizing the idea of gay unions.
That finding comes our way courtesy of a series of surveys conducted by Third Way, a policy organization close to moderate Democrats, and the Human Rights Campaign, one of the country's leading gay rights groups. Overall, their latest poll found that 53 percent of Americans favor "allowing gay and lesbian couples to marry legally," while 40 percent are opposed.
The two organizations have been tracking this question: "Do you think gay couples who want to get married are trying to change the institution of marriage or join it?" In 2009, Americans were closely divided on this: 50 percent said gay couples wanted to join marriage, while 41 percent said these couples wanted to change it.
In the latest survey that the groups will release this week as part of their aptly named "Commitment Campaign," 58 percent said gays and lesbians wanted to join marriage and only 27 percent said they were looking to change it. This suggests that an increasing number of Americans reject the culture-war frame when it comes to gay marriage, and that fewer and fewer see it as threatening their own values.
The survey also was striking in showing that Americans make careful distinctions around the religious freedom questions raised by granting gays and lesbians access to marriage.
On the one hand, 61 percent of Americans say that churches and clergy members should have the right to refuse to perform a marriage ceremony for a gay or lesbian couple. Only 28 percent said they should not. But when it came to nonreligious market transactions related to weddings — involving caterers, florists, restaurants and the like — respondents took a very different view. Substantial majorities said that providers of such services should not be able to withhold them from homosexual couples. The public's broad sensitivity to the specific rights of religious institutions is quite different from an endorsement of a wholesale right for individuals to discriminate against gays seeking marriage.
Social conservatives especially should take note of where Americans are heading. Because the desire of gays and lesbians to live in publicly committed relationships is seen increasingly as an endorsement of marriage as it has long been understood, there are new opportunities to defend marriage itself. We need to lay down arms in the culture wars and face up to the urgency of strengthening families.
One person who hopes we will take this path is David Blankenhorn, president of the Institute for American Values. Once a strong foe of same-sex marriage, Blankenhorn has dropped his opposition and urged that we turn our attention instead to a disturbing development: Well-off Americans are far more likely to be in stable marriages than the less affluent. This creates a damaging social cycle — economic inequality is breeding family instability even as family instability is deepening economic inequality.
We could, of course, replace one divisive fight with another and start arguing about whether the problems families face are caused primarily by personal choices or economic challenges. Instead, we should follow the advice of Robert Putnam, a Harvard professor who is deeply alarmed by the expanding American class divide.
Putnam says we should be able to accept the "red truth" that family structure matters and the "blue truth" that declining economic opportunities are, for so many Americans, worsening family difficulties — a point his colleague, William Julius Wilson, has long been stressing. There is a role for personal responsibility, and also a role for government social policy.
The end of rancor over gay marriage should mark the beginning of an effort to save marriage itself.
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Part of coming of age and the endless struggle for self is the establishment and ascendance of individual truth, honing mind and temperament, discriminating fact from fancy, empirical evidence from legend and myth.
I thought I had arrived in so many ways and then reality hit me like a flung wet noodle against the wall of my existence. We'll save for another venue all the charming folktales of my youth soberly and maturedly dispensed with. But there I was, sitting pretty on the comfy wine colored couch, reaching for a bleached white conch shell that sits atop a wicker woven basket poised for reminiscence, aside other brilliant priceless colored stones, crystals, odd shaped rocks and shells randomly picked for their momentary significance and tangible recall. As I held the conch to my ear, I heard the voice of my nine year old neighbor and friend – Batya – herself clearly establishing her own unique truth sets, say:
– You know, that's not the sound of the ocean you're hearing, that's just the echo of the air in the shell.
– What??? That can't possibly be true, I know it's the ocean, the waves of the very ocean that the shell came from.
I was not going to let this cute but clearly misinformed enfant terrible wreck my personal objects de time machine recall. Of course, we did what sensible people do in such circumstances, we checked Wikipedia online.
I shouldn't have, I know it now….. there are certain life mysteries that are best left alone… but there it was, the total deflation of spirit and romance and everything that's right with the world…."What you are actually hearing is the sound around you vibrating as an echo in the air within the shell." Who the heck needed to hear that, to know that? Great! Take the technicolor out of my universe… Hey, absolute reality is not all it's cracked up to be. I know a butterfly flitting it's wings impacts the climate at the opposite end of the globe, and I know with the ten percent of my brain operational part of my brain that yawning is contagious, chicken soup cures a cold and that the five second rule applies. So maybe being primordial isn't such a bad thing… No such thing as fairy dust?!?!?!? P'shaaaaaawww! What a world, What a world!!!
So talking about cooking pasta. Here I was thinking I had reached maximum maturity when I learned that al dente is très chic, that the "if it sticks" rule really does work and that salt in boiling water is a good thing along with a few drops of oil, so that the pasta doesn't stick. When I really pay attention, I even cover the pot after its come to a boil and let it stay on low simmer.
Anyway, here are a few things I've learned since. Feel free to write in and further debunk my myths.
- Use a one to four ratio of water to pasta – four parts water to one part of pasta. Pasta needs room to cook.
- Add 1-2 tablespoons of salt for each gallon of water.
- Bring it to mighty bubbling boil, and then let it simmer for a minute or two till done.
- Don't add oil… get this: oil makes the pasta slick and then all the wonderful sauces can't adhere to it.
- Furthermore, after you drain the pasta, don't rinse it. The starchiness too is a binder for whatever you will be adding to your pasta dish. The only exception is when you are making a cold pasta salad, then it is preferable to rinse the pasta first.
See? Some things are worth knowing after all. By the way, that gum I swallowed approaching the shiva house… seven years until it dissolves. Well what you can't see can't hurt you, right? Right?
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- 1 lb penne pasta
- 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 red onion, cut into strips
- 1 lb beef, cubed
- 1 red pepper, cut into strips
- 1 cup mushrooms, chopped
- 8 broccoli florettes
- Mango Salsa
- 1/2 cup fresh basil
- 1/2 cup fresh parsley
- salt and pepper to taste
- Cook the penne pasta al dente (cooked through, tender, but still offering some resistance to the bite).
- Stir fry beef with Spanish red onion, mushrooms, red peppers and broccoli
- Toss on the pasta with mango salsa.
- Sprinkle with fresh parsley


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Opinion: $20 billion in debt, 12 percent jobless, no budget — and we ban grocery bags?
A recent Field Poll found that 79 percent of Californians believe the state is on the wrong track – the highest rating in the venerable history of the survey.
Stop and think about that for a moment.
More than three-quarters of the Golden State think the state is not heading in the right direction; they're dissatisfied, disappointed and, for the more than 12 percent who are unemployed, feeling pretty despondent right now.
The disapproval ratings for the governor and Legislature are just as dismal: 70 percent and 74 percent respectively.
Knowing this, can you imagine the profound resentment Californians felt when they learned that instead of addressing the state budget deficit, or the 12 percent unemployment rate, legislators are debating—and passing—laws to ban the bags that carry our groceries home from the store?
Most are concerned about having the money to fill a grocery bag with food for their family, not what that grocery bag is made of.
Even worse, legislators want to create a new $1.5 million government bureaucracy to ensure local grocery stores aren't offering their customers the wrong kind of bags. Is this even close to what Californians want their leaders to be focused on right now?
In times of prosperity and financial ease, policy debates like this are a luxury tolerated by voters. But when people struggle to find employment, or pay their bills each month, all while government is frivolously throwing their tax dollars down the bottomless pit of an ever-expanding bureaucracy, anger at government is downright understandable.
Further frustration is manifested by the fact that the Constitutional deadline for the Legislature to enact a state budget passed by almost unnoticed more than three weeks ago. Such callous disregard for their obligations is one of many reasons voters have no faith in – or respect for – their elected officials.
Producing a sound, balanced budget should be a top priority for legislators. Instead, with every daily delay, the state's $20 billion deficit continues to climb.
If they can't manage a basic responsibility, how can citizens believe their representatives are qualified to tackle even more complex issues facing California right now? Californians face a myriad of tough problems right now—problems that the Legislature doesn't seem to be in any hurry to address.
Have they forgotten our housing crisis, as many people struggle just to remain in their homes? While home foreclosures hit a record high last quarter, among all 50 states, California has the fourth highest foreclosure rate and the most foreclosures total with 340,740 properties returning to the bank.
During the 2009-2010 legislative session, the Assembly considered more than 3,000 pieces of legislation; the Senate almost 2,000.
Instead of introducing 5,000 new laws and debating inane policies like banning certain grocery bags, legislators should demonstrate their commitment to making California the Golden State once again. That means setting aside frivolous distractions that don't directly address the state's budget, bringing businesses and jobs back to the state, and easing the tax burden on hardworking taxpayers.
Only then can they prove they're serious about matching their priorities to the concerns of their constituents will politicians begin to earn the respect of California's people.
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RABAT (AFP) - Amnesty International on Thursday urged Morocco to immediately drop what it called "absurd charges" against a teenage couple arrested after a photo of them kissing was posted on Facebook.
The case has sparked outrage, with activists threatening to lock lips in a group "kiss-in" outside Parliament on Saturday in protest.
The young couple and a male friend who took the photo outside their school in the city of Nador were detained last week and released on bail several days later ahead of their trial on Friday for violating public decency.
If convicted, they could be jailed for up to two years under Article 483 of the kingdom's penal code.
"It is simply absurd that these teenagers could face a prison term just for kissing and posting a photo on Facebook," said Amnesty's regional director Philip Luther.
"These young people should never have been detained in the first place - there is no imaginable reason why expression of this type ought to result in prosecution."
"Launching a judicial investigation into a complaint about an act as benign as teenagers kissing is ridiculous. It should be dismissed out of hand," Mr Luther added.
The teenagers, aged between 14 and 15, were arrested after a Moroccan NGO filed a lawsuit last month charging that such photos had a negative affect on society and upset people's feelings.
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The lack of light has been reeking havoc on my photos, and I know many of you can relate. I had a great post prepared for making holiday ornaments and decorations, but didn't get to shoot it properly, so that'll be for next week, and hopefully on Wednesday. Whatevers.
I've blogged about these ridiculously easy felt ornaments before. You just use your favourite cookie cutter (or anything) and use it to trace your desired shape onto your chosen fabric and sew it up. Tah-da!
But you don't so much care about that – you want the winners! I'm not offended and totally understand.
The winner for the chocolate bar post was number 5, and for the tea it was 20. You'll just have to believe me folks, I still don't know how to take a still of the random number thingy.
Jojo of Vegan In Brighton will be sent some a dark chocolate with quinoa (so good!) and Fanny from Vegan Up North is getting some tea. Which kind? I'll decide! Ladies, would you be so kind as to email me at fishbowlmusings (at) gmail (dot) com and I'll get your goodies off to you soon.


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It's Friday. That's my only excuse.
Picture a train. It is composed of coal cars, the very coal cars James Hansen used as a metaphor harkening back to the Holocaust.
The coal cars are full–100 tons of coal in each and there are 100 cars to the mile. It's a very long train. It stretches from Albuquerque New Mexico to Anchorage in Alaska.
The energy we get by burning all the coal in this train equals one quadrillion BTUs. We call it a quad.
Now picture 54 of these trains lined up side by side, each filled with 38 million tons of coal, each stretching from Albuquerque to Alaska.
And you can start your weekend on either an optimistic or pessimistic note–is your glass half-empty or half-full?
If you want to look on the bright side of life, you can make those 54 trains disappear. In fact, we did. That's how much energy the world got last year from renewable sources–hydroelectric power, wind, solar, biomass and biofuels.
If being of good cheer is too much for you today, don't worry–be gloomy. Once those 54 trains are magickally disappeared from the landscape, you have an unobstructed view of the 480 Infinity Trains that we used last year that were provided by sources that were not renewable.
Whether you're an optimist or a pessimist, have a good weekend.


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Gov. Rick Snyder on Wednesday called for raising an additional $1.2 billion a year to patch up Michigan's ailing roads and bridges, describing the higher taxes and fees that would be required as investments that would provide long-term savings for motorists.
Generating new money for Michigan's transportation network was the centerpiece of Snyder's third annual State of the State address, delivered to a joint session of the state Legislature in the Capitol. The Republican governor sought support from both parties midway through a turbulent term in which he has pleased business interests but alienated Democrats and organized labor with tax relief for corporations and measures that some say have weakened unions' powers.
Snyder provided few details in his nearly hour-long speech, which also touched on education, insurance reform and a variety of other issues. But in a briefing for reporters beforehand, senior policy adviser Bill Rustem said Snyder favored replacing the tax on fuels paid at the pump with a levy at the wholesale level, which could be passed on to consumers and rise with inflation. He also supports raising the annual motor vehicle registration fee and allowing local governments to increase it even further to raise money for fixing local roads, Rustem said.
Instead of proposing specific tax and fee increases, Snyder tried to make the case for raising the money in the first place — which could be a tough sell in a legislature led by tax-averse Republicans and with Democrats still resentful over his last-minute embrace of contentious right-to-work legislation last month.
"We need to invest more in our roads ... it's time," he said, arguing that while his plan would cost about $120 per vehicle, motorists would recoup most of that by having lower repair bills as highways and local roads are improved. "This is not about costing us money. It is about saving us money and building for the future."
State Sen. Judy Emmons, R-Sheridan, said Snyder's speech highlighted that a lot has been accomplished in a few years. His proposal for roads will be "critical, especially in an agricultural community," she said. "We don't want to add to the cost of food products, and a poor infrastructure could do that."
Finding money will be challenging, Emmons added, "but they will look at it in all aspects. There are a multitude of options, and there may be one that hasn't been thought of yet. Citizens will have input, and we need that. That's the kind of thing that makes the state stronger: everybody looking at how we can improve."
State Rep. Mike Callton, R-Nashville, called some of the proposals named by Snyder "really contentious.
"Issues like funding for deteriorating roads – these are not slam-dunk issues," Callton said. "We have deteriorating roads, but the feedback I am getting from my constituents is they don't want to see a raise in taxes or in registration fees, but we need to generate $1.2 billion of new income per year (for roads)."
Callton added that he believes the funding system for roads needs to be reformed. With new hybrid and electric vehicles that use less gas, basing funding so heavily on gas taxes is a problem.
"There are 16 townships in Ionia County, and some townships have more money for roads and some don't," he said. "As you go through townships, you see different qualities of roads. I don't think it should be a quiltwork of good and bad roads. The road commission gives us the best they can, but it's a perfect storm for them, increased costs with decreased funding."
Snyder appealed to legislators — all of whom will be up for re-election in 2014, as will Snyder — to put political considerations aside, acknowledging that his road program "will go nowhere" otherwise. Instead, he said they should approach the matter as a family would, putting long-term needs first.
"We can decide how long we want to argue about it, how political we want to make it, or we can just use some common sense and get it done," he said.
Michigan's retail-level motor fuels tax has been stuck since 1997 at 19 cents per gallon for gasoline and 15 cents per gallon for diesel fuel.
Aides acknowledged it would be difficult to win approval in a legislature where tax-averse Republicans are in the majority, but said the state has no other choice as it seeks to attract new businesses and jobs. Studies show that if nothing is done to generate more funds to fix potholes and repair bridges, 65 percent of Michigan's roads will be in poor condition by 2020, Rustem said.
Elsewhere, Snyder was calling for an array of new initiatives dealing with education, the environment and the economy.
He proposed moving more state social workers into troubled elementary schools, reforming Michigan's no-fault auto insurance program, establishing an agency to crack down on insurance fraud, and improving mental health services.
Callton said that he was surprised Snyder issued as priorities an educational authority, which "didn't make it in the last session," working again on overhauling Blue Cross Blue Shield, and reforming no-fault insurance.
"Last session, there was a stronger Republican majority and he couldn't get it done," he said. "It's a complicated issue."
Emmons said she appreciated Snyder's emphasis on working to ensure that veterans get the programs and services they need.
"Michigan was last in this in the country, but we're changing that. It is just unacceptable," she said. "Veterans' organizations have done a great job, but there needs to be more available, especially in employment. I was encouraged when I heard him talk about that and how we can help them."
Emmons was also pleased that Snyder talked about agriculture, both the weather challenges that 2012 brought and that there were record sugar beet and wheat crops. Snyder set a goal to reach $100 billion in revenue from agriculture, Emmons said, and 2012, in spite of the difficulties, came in at $97 billion.
"If not for the drought, we'd be very close to that mark if not over it," Emmons said. "Anything we can do to enhance agricultural opportunities is good for the local economy and for families who purchase food, who work hard and who want to provide."
"The governor did a good job measuring our track record of success. From education to fixing our roads, I am excited to get to work for common sense solutions," said State Rep. Lisa Posthumus Lyons, R-Alto. "We have done a lot to restore a healthy economy, but we can do better. It is my mission to ensure all of Michigan's hardworking taxpayers have job opportunities and a high quality of life."
In the speech, Snyder also voiced regret about the bruising legislative battles of 2012, when thousands of angry demonstrators protested the Legislature's quick approval of right-to-work measures making it illegal to require non-union workers to pay fees to the unions that negotiate their wages.
"I hope we can work together," he said, promising "to work hard to find common ground."
But Democrats criticized what they described as a lack of meaningful details in his speech. And several hundred protesters clustered near the main entrance of the Capitol, beating drums and chanting, "Liar." A banner stretched across the stone stairway read, "You can't trust Snyder."
"This governor is getting a lot done, and he's pushing the envelope. I agree with him 95 percent of the time," said Callton. "He's like a chairman of the board of Michigan, not a governor. We don't just put things into play, we show and evaluate results. That is good government."
Callton said he recalls a conversation with Lt. Gov. Brian Calley, in which Calley told him when it comes to trimming the budget, "'there is always a constituency that will fall on a sword for that dollar, which makes it difficult to change things,'" Callton said. "You can look at how the dollar is spent (and ask), is that good value for the money, or you can make noise if the money is taken away. These are two different ways to look at it.
"The protesters that were out that door, those were the people falling on swords," he said. "This state has a balanced budget, and everybody was touched in some way. Every one of us somehow contributed to balancing the state's budget, and that's the way it should be."


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I write kind of "dark" fiction but it's not horror. It's not thriller. It's not really any genre. It's just sort of…dark. Sad? No idea. But I don't want to mislead readers with a cover that screams, "Horror!"
That was fun.
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Laundry: I used to make our own laundry detergent using a recipe of grated soap, borax and washing soda. I thought it worked great for a while and we saved a bunch of money… until our clothes started to STINK. All of our clothes. All the time. It was super gross. So now we use store-bought stuff. I've tried pretty much every brand because I have very sensitive skin. Right now we've settled on Whole Foods Market brand Green Mission Organic Laundry Detergent for all our clothes and Rockin Green for the cloth diapers. In the past we've been happy with Charlie's Soap for both, as well. For the diapers, I use a few drops of tea tree oil when I need to deodorize.
Fabric Softener: If I had my way, it'd just be dryer balls (when we use the dryer), but the husband can't seem to give up dryer sheets. He even makes special trips to buy them all by himself. I don't use them, but since we tag team everything, including laundry, they still get used about half the time. They are at least fragrance free, but not really ideal.
Dishwasher: Like the laundry, I tried making my own for a while. I used Borax and washing soda with white vinegar as a rinse aid. But after a while there was terrible build up on all of our dishes. Nothing looked clean, everything had a hard, chalky film on it. I could even remove the film with hand washing. I thought all my glasses were etched. I went back to commercial detergents, everything from Seventh Generation to Cascade. I was thinking my dish washer was broken. Then somewhere, on some random forum, someone said try Lemi Shine. It is for hard water, and it WORKS. It is phosphate free, and I only need to use it periodically. And I use the phosphate free tab detergent things. It fixed everything; we're sparkling again. What do you use?
Shampoo: Still looking for a good natural shampoo. I tried the baking soda thing.. . yeah, no. What do you use?
Body moisturizer: I used to sell natural soaps, scrub and body butters by a local company, but they went out of business. But there is a new company here in Colorado making a wonderful body butter called Simple Sundries. My friend Genny started it after she couldn't find a good moisturizer. She's obsessive about ingredients. This stuff is awesome, and I'm not just saying so because she's my friend (though a shameless plug in never a bad thing, is it?). The butter is sooo creamy and is a great moisturizer. It cleared up C's awful cradle cap within two days. I use it on my legs after shaving, and it is very lubricating, if you catch my drift. You can get it with different essential oil combinations or unscented.
Soap: I use Vermont Soap company bar soaps, which can also be bought from Simple Sundries. They are facial quality, non-drying and organic.
Toothpaste: We like JASON PowerSmile All Natural Whitening Toothpaste. It's the only toothpaste we've found that is fluoride and SLS free, doesn't contain artificial sweeteners and actually gets our teeth clean. All of the other brands we tried left a weird filmy build up. Yuck.
Deodorant: Based on a recommendation from Deanna Duke, author or The Crunchy Chicken blog and the book The Non-Toxic Avenger, we tried the Crystal Body Deodorant Stick. And by we, I mean Rick. And it works great. It has no smell, and leaves no stain on his white undershirts. And he really sweats at work sometimes. I have not read her book yet, but plan to.
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Uncommon only Battle Pets - this list only includes US pets and there may be a few other Uncommon only pets from other countries special promotions that I am unaware of. There are currently NO US only pets, so these are availble to all.
Aquatic - 9 total
- Fishy
Jubling - Non-Cageable
Mr. Chilly - Non-Cageable
Sea Pony
Shore Crawler
Tiny Goldfish
Tree Frog
Wood Frog
Beast - 27 total
- Albino Snake
Baby Blizzard Bear - Non-Cageable
Black Kingsnake
Black Tabby Cat
Bombay Cat
Brown Snake
Calico Cat
Cobra Hatchling
Cornish Rex Cat
Crimson Snake
Darting Hatchling
Death Adder Hatchling
Deviate Hatchling
Dun Morogh Cub
Durotar Scorpion
Feline Familiar
Leaping Hatchling
Obsidian Hatchling
Orange Tabby Cat
Ravasaur Hatchling
Razormaw Hatchling
Siamese Cat
Silver Tabby Cat
Smolderweb Hatchling
White Kitten
Winterspring Cub
Worg Pup
Critter - 21 total
- Armadillo Pup - Non-Cageable
Brown Prairie Dog
Brown Rabbit
Elwynn Lamb
Golden Pig - Non-Cageable
[pet]Gu'chi Swarmling[/pet]
Imperial Silkworm
Mr. Wiggles
Mulgore Hatchling
Perky Pug - Non-Cageable
Pint-Sized Pink Pachyderm
Scooter the Snail
Silver Pig - Non-Cageable
Snowshoe Rabbit
Spring Rabbit
Undercity Cockroach
Whiskers the Rat
Winter Reindeer
Dragonkin - 6 total
- Blue Dragonhawk Hatchling
Golden Dragonhawk Hatchling
Proto-Drake Whelp
Red Dragonhawk Hatchling
Silver Dragonhawk Hatchling
Thundering Serpent Hatchling - Non-Cageable
Elemental - 6 total
- Ammen Vale Lashling
Sapphire Cub
Spirit of Summer
Teldrassil Sproutling
Tiny Snowman
Withers - Non-Cageable
Flying - 24 (+ 5 NonBattle) = 29 total
- Ancona Chicken
Azure Crane Chick
Blue Mini Jouster - Non-Cageable
Blue Moth
Gilnean Raven
Gold Mini Jouster - Non-Cageable
Great Horned Owl
Green Wing Macaw
Hawk Owl
Imperial Moth
Jade Crane Chick
Miniwing - Non-Cageable
Plump Turkey
Red Moth
Rustberg Gull
Tickbird Hatchling
Tiny Flamefly - Non-Cageable
Tirisfal Batling
Westfall Chicken - Non-Cageable
White Moth
White Tickbird Hatchling
Yellow Moth
Humanoid - 7 (+ 6 NonBattle) = 13 total
- Ashleaf Spriteling
Curious Oracle Hatchling - Non-Cageable
Curious Wolvar Pup - Non-Cageable
[pet]Father Winter's Helper[/pet]
Rotten Little Helper
[pet]Winter's Little Helper[/pet]
Magic - 12 total
- Enchanted Broom
Enchanted Lantern
Festival Lantern
Jade Owl
Jade Tiger - Non-Cageable
Lunar Lantern
Magic Lamp
Mana Wyrmling
Toxic Wasteling
Zipao Tiger - Non-Cageable
Mechanical - 14 total
- Blue Clockwork Rocket Bot
Clockwork Rocket Bot
De-Weaponized Mechanical Companion
Lifelike Toad
[pet]Lil' Bling[/pet]
[pet]Lil' Smoky[/pet]
Mechanical Chicken - Non-Cageable
Mechanical Pandaren Dragonling
Mechanical Squirrel
Personal World Destroyer
Pet Bombling
Tranquil Mechanical Yeti
Warbot - Non-Cageable
Undead - 4 total
- Creepy Crate - Non-Cageable
Ghostly Skull
Macabre Marionette
[pet]Sen'jin Fetish[/pet]
- Fishy
Uncommon only Non-Battle Pets - These can be upgraded to rare but they will only show as rare ingame and will not change in the armory or here on Warcraft Pets. All of the Non-Battle Pets are Non-Cageable.
Flying - 5 (+ 24 Battle) = 29 total
- Alliance Balloon - Non-Cageable
Chi-ji Kite - Non-Cageable
Horde Balloon - Non-Cageable
Sky Lantern - Non-Cageable - (for the time being you cannot upgrade this guy due to a bug of some kind)
[pet]Yu'lon Kite[/pet] - Non-Cageable
Humanoid - 6 (+ 7 Battle) = 13 total
- Argent Gruntling - Non-Cageable
Argent Squire - Non-Cageable
Guild Herald Alliance - Non-Cageable
Guild Herald Horde - Non-Cageable
Guild Page Alliance - Non-Cageable
Guild Page Horde - Non-Cageable
- Alliance Balloon - Non-Cageable
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A Democratic sponsored bill that limits ammunition magazines of more than 15 rounds passed through the Senate Monday, despite some members of the party defecting and casting votes in opposition to the measure.
The bill passed on a 18-17 vote, with Democratic Sens. Cheri Jahn of Wheat Ridge and Lois Tochtrop of Thornton voting against it. Two Republican lawmakers on Monday said they will disobey the measure if it becomes law.
House Bill 1224 is originally sponsored by Rep. Rhonda Fields, D-Aurora, and passed through the House in February on a 34-31 vote.
Senators passed an amendment to the bill that bans any shotgun magazines that hold more than 28 inches of shotgun shells. Shells vary in size, and originally the bill outlawed any magazines with more than eight shells — something Republicans argued banned "common shotguns."
The measure now heads back to the House for a vote because it was amended in the Senate.
Democrats have made HB 1224 the heart of a far-reaching package of gun control laws that include universal gun backgrounds checks and the ban of online training for concealed carry handguns, which also passed through the Senate Monday.
If passed, anyone who currently possesses a magazine that holds more than 15 rounds is able to keep it, though if they transfer or sell the magazine, that individual would face a class 2 misdemeanor charge.
Manufacturers will be allowed to continue to produce the devices, though they would be required to engrave a date of production on each.
Sen. Mike Johnston, D-Denver, on Monday stressed support for the bill, saying that limiting ammunition magazines could offer enough time for a person to intervene if a gunman must stop to reload.
"And if that prevents coffins with for children then it's worth it," said Johnston, alluding to the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., where 20 first graders and six staffers were killed in December mass shooting by a gunman using a weapon equipped with a large-capacity magazine.
Johnston was the only other Democrat besides the bill's Senate sponsor, Mary Hodge, to speak in favor of the magazine limit.
Meanwhile, Republicans have called the bill flawed and futile in quelling any future mass shootings.
"I will willfully and purposefully and civilly disobey this law," said Sen. Greg Brophy, R-Wray, a line that drew loud applause from the gallery. Vicki Marble, R- Fort Collins, joined Brophy in saying she would not obey the measure if it became law.
Sen. Steve King, R-Grand Junction, said government should not let law-abiding citizens be out gunned by criminals.
"This bill will do nothing, zero, nothing, to prevent crime," King's colleague, Sen. Bill Cadman, R-Colorado Springs said Monday.
Brophy argued Monday that the measure will effectively block the sale of handguns made by Glock — one of the most popular manufacturers in the U.S.
Johnston noted Glock sells ammunition magazines in states where magazine capacity limits have been implemented.
The measure now heads back to the House for a vote because it was amended to include the shotgun provision in the Senate.
Gov. John Hickenlooper has indicated support for the bill and is expected to sign it into law if it arrives at his desk.
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ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia Rep. Paul Broun said in videotaped remarks that evolution, embryology and the Big Bang theory are "lies straight from the pit of hell" meant to convince people that they do not need a savior.
The Republican lawmaker made those comments during a speech Sept. 27 at a sportsman's banquet at Liberty Baptist Church in Hartwell. Broun, a medical doctor, is running for re-election in November unopposed by Democrats.
"God's word is true," Broun said, according to a video posted on the church's website. "I've come to understand that. All that stuff I was taught about evolution and embryology and Big Bang theory, all that is lies straight from the pit of hell. And it's lies to try to keep me and all the folks who are taught that from understanding that they need a savior."
Broun also said that he believes the Earth is about 9,000 years old and that it was made in six days. Those beliefs are held by fundamentalist Christians who believe the creation accounts in the Bible to be literally true.
Broun spokeswoman Meredith Griffanti told the Athens Banner-Herald that Broun was recorded speaking off-the-record to a church group about his religious beliefs. He sits on the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology.
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My friend and skeptical colleague Phil over at Skeptic Money has passed along some welcome news: the Louisiana private school voucher program has been found to be unconstitutional! Whoo-hoo!!! :)[**Aside: If you recall, the state of Louisiana has been a hotbed of creationist activity over the years; more on that here and here. And yes, that fact is important. Read on…]
This is news partly because the program was being used to funnel public school money to private religious schools which specialized in indoctrinating children into fundamentalist forms of Christianity which taught, among other things, creationism as "science". In addition, let us also not forget that this was the award-winning 21st century educational plan which would teach that the Loch Ness Monster was real as a way of supporting creationism. Phil has some more interesting information on these developments:
Louisiana $11 Million Creationism Give Away
News from the State of Louisiana today!
"A state judge on Friday shot down Louisiana's sweeping school voucher program, ruling that the state could not use funds set aside for public education to pay private-school tuition…"
This is huge. They were going to spend $11 Million to teach creationism.
"Louisiana is preparing to spend over $11 million to send 1,365 students to 20 private schools that teach creationism instead of science as part of Governor Bobby Jindal's new voucher program."
This $11 Million is to come out of the public schools. According to a report from "American Legislative Exchange Council" Louisiana ranks 49 out of 51 (They also ranked the District of Columbia). I guess they want to race to the bottom.
The governor is not happy about the ruling.
"Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, who had championed the program, called the ruling "wrong-headed" and "a travesty for parents across Louisiana who want nothing more than for their children to have an equal opportunity at receiving a great education." "
A great education? These children are not being educated. They are being thrown back to the bronze age. We might as well teach them that 2+2 equals "fish".
"While State District Judge Tim Kelley ruled the voucher program unconstitutional, he did not issue an immediate injunction to stop it. The 5,000 students currently receiving vouchers will be able to continue attending their private schools pending an appeal, state officials said."
What? The state creates a blatantly illegal program and a judge rules against it but yet it continues. It looks like they are still going to spend that $11 Million on creationism. I feel like we live in some kind of bizzaro world.
This is all promoted by a guy that wants to be the next President of the United States Bobby Jindal.
So… the program will continue for the immediate future (probably until the end of the current academic year), which will no doubt give Jindal and his political allies time to come up with another cockamamie scheme that will bilk the taxpayers and direct their money towards religious zealots who have no interest in teaching their kids (or anybody else's kids) science.
I agree with Phil. The irony here is that Jindal and his religious right allies go on and on about "giving the kids a great education" but it's apparent they wouldn't know good science education if it bit them squarely in the ass. Remember folks, these are the same people who want to give public tax money to schools that teach the Loch Ness Monster is real. Just chew on that for a bit, folks…
In conclusion, I think it is appropriate to end this post with the following clip from Bill Maher's movie Religulous. In it he is interviewing a U.S. Senator (Mark Pryor from Arkansas) who is trying to justify creationism. When challenged by Maher, the Senator responds with the following, quite telling, line: "You don't have to pass an IQ test to be in the Senate…"
Yup, he really said that. Watch for yourself (the dialog leading up to the line starts at 4:00):


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