So the Displaced Plainsman noticed last week that Rep. Mike Verchio (R-30/Hill City) was kicking up a fuss about Agenda 21 in the Custer paper. Rep. Verchio was complaining that his fellow legislators failed to do anything substantive against the conspiracy he and modern John Birchers think the United Nations is waging against us:
Verchio said HCR 1008 is well-meaning, but is “useless because it is toothless.” HB 1190, which failed in the Senate State Affairs Committee Feb. 15, would have had the force of law behind it.
“It prohibited the State of South Dakota and its political subdivisions from adopting any Agenda 21 policies,” he said. “This may lead us down the slippery slope and bears watching at the state, county, township, city and town level. I hope we can bring it back next session” [Jason Ferguson, "Legislators Concerned about Agenda 21," Custer County Chronicle, 2013.03.14].
That's funny: Rep. Verchio says HB 1190 would have done what he says needs to be done about this conspiracy he imagines. But if you check the House State Affairs committee roll call vote from February 15, you will see that Rep. Verchio voted to kill HB 1190.
Don't ask me to make sense of either Verchio's vote or subsequent statements. Expecting sense from anyone perpetrating the Agenda 21 myth is a fool's errand.
Quoting Ron White: You can't fix stupid.
"Expecting sense from anyone perpetrating the Agenda 21 myth is a fool's errand."
Cory, you have yet to refute the research I presented that clearly shows Agenda 21 is a UNESCO project being implemented in our public schools with collaboration from the NEA. Teachers like you are the real fools.
Not that I have to defend Cory but this is what he said on 3/20/13 16:36.
"To Mr. Sibson's comment at 7:45, demanding proof that the things he says aren't true: it is not the job of civilized people to prove that the ravings of lunatics are false.
Put more politely, the burden of proof lies on the individual positing a new thesis. To declare that a speaker can make any statement and then demand that the community act upon that statement unless the community can prove that statement false creates an unmeetable burden and epistemological chaos."
My question to you is what has done education done to you that you hate it so?
"Put more politely, the burden of proof lies on the individual positing a new thesis."
And I provided the proof via published statements made by UNEACO and the NEA. Cory continues to ignore that truth and continues to marginalize those who based their opinion on those truths.
"My question to you is what has done education done to you that you hate it so?"
Lie about really important stuff.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/03/21/texas-mom-outraged-after-finding-stunning-question-about-911-terrorism-on-her-sons-test/
Glenn Beck's site Steve? Really??
Teachers are nothing more then a underpaid overwork group that have to put up wit the bunker mentality of people like you
Owen, why are you such a bigot? If it is Glenn Beck it is automatically wrong???? Very sad.
Owen, the piece I linked to was authored by Jason Howerton, not Glenn Beck, if that makes any difference to a bigot.
Nice name calling. The Blaze is not a respected source.
Jason Howerton is a reporter for TheBlaze, which is a radio station founded by Glenn Beck in 2010. Not much difference, after all. Glenn Beck is a high school graduate, and attended one class at Yale University: he is not an expert on history, political science, economics, or any of the subjects he claims expertise on. In fact, most of his statements about history or economics are flat-out false, either through distortion, misquotation, or outright lies. He has his agenda, he promotes it heavily, if you want to believe it's the truth, fine. But requiring documented facts - and that a person sticks with those - is not being a bigot, it's pursuing truth.
I don't mind the wingnuts getting off on these sorts of paranoid circle jerks. The more time they spend on loony-tunes nonsense, the less time they can spend in the real world, where they might be more effective. If they want to place themselves in the crazy ghetto, that's fine with me.