New awards: "Friend of Hitler" and "Friend of Jefferson"
In response to the National Center for Science Education's ridiculous "Friend of Darwin" and "Upchucky" awards, I have decided to institute the "Friend of Hitler" and "Friend of Jefferson" awards.
"FRIEND OF HITLER" AWARD
Awarded for outstanding contributions to the suppression of freedom of expression and freedom of thought.
"FRIEND OF JEFFERSON" AWARD
Awarded for outstanding contributions to the promotion of freedom of expression and freedom of thought. Named in honor of Jefferson's famous statement, "I have sworn eternal hostility . . . . against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
FIRST RECIPIENTS OF "FRIEND OF HITLER" AWARD
Judge John E. "Jackass" Jones III, Eugenie "Evil Genie" Scott, Fatheaded Ed Brayton, Stupid Steven Schafersman, Sleazy PZ Myers, Wesley "Ding" Elsberry, Brandon "Haughty" Haught, Josh Rosenau, Kevin Padian, Jerry Coyne, Chris Mooney, Chris Comer, Carl Zimmer, Ken Miller, Francis Collins, National Center for Science Education, Florida Citizens for Science, Texas Citizens for Science, Texas Freedom Network.
FIRST RECIPIENTS OF "FRIEND OF JEFFERSON" AWARD
Jim Sherwood, David Berlinski, Casey Luskin, John West, Don McLeroy, Bill Buckingham, Cornelius Hunter, Discovery Institute.
I welcome the names of nominees for these awards.
"FRIEND OF HITLER" AWARD
Awarded for outstanding contributions to the suppression of freedom of expression and freedom of thought.
"FRIEND OF JEFFERSON" AWARD
Awarded for outstanding contributions to the promotion of freedom of expression and freedom of thought. Named in honor of Jefferson's famous statement, "I have sworn eternal hostility . . . . against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
FIRST RECIPIENTS OF "FRIEND OF HITLER" AWARD
Judge John E. "Jackass" Jones III, Eugenie "Evil Genie" Scott, Fatheaded Ed Brayton, Stupid Steven Schafersman, Sleazy PZ Myers, Wesley "Ding" Elsberry, Brandon "Haughty" Haught, Josh Rosenau, Kevin Padian, Jerry Coyne, Chris Mooney, Chris Comer, Carl Zimmer, Ken Miller, Francis Collins, National Center for Science Education, Florida Citizens for Science, Texas Citizens for Science, Texas Freedom Network.
FIRST RECIPIENTS OF "FRIEND OF JEFFERSON" AWARD
Jim Sherwood, David Berlinski, Casey Luskin, John West, Don McLeroy, Bill Buckingham, Cornelius Hunter, Discovery Institute.
I welcome the names of nominees for these awards.
posted by Larry Fafarman | 3/11/2010 02:05:00 PM
22 Comments:
Thanks for the Friend of Jefferson award, Larry. I am honored.
There should be a Baron Munchausen Award given annually by Eugenie Scott, to the one who has supported her efforts the most by telling the biggest lies about ID. Kenneth Miller would seem to me to be the frontrunner, but Daniel Dennett is close on his heels with his statement that ID "is creationism," is "a hoax," and is comparable to the view that quantum physics is the work of the devil.
I nominate Larry for the Don Quixote award. He has certainly earned it.
Uh, Don McLeroy just voted to remove Thomas Jefferson from Texas social studies text relating to the enlightenment. So how, exactly, does he qualify for a "Friend of Jefferson" award?
Also, it would probably help if you actually de-lineated why people were receiving these awards.
Finally, does anyone else find it a bit odd to have a Holocaust denier handing out "Friend of Hitler" awards to people who he doesn't like?
>>>>>> Uh, Don McLeroy just voted to remove Thomas Jefferson from Texas social studies text relating to the enlightenment. So how, exactly, does he qualify for a "Friend of Jefferson" award? <<<<<<
Don McLeroy got the award for his stand on evolution education.
>>>>>> Also, it would probably help if you actually de-lineated why people were receiving these awards. <<<<<<
I considered that, but the lists are so long that that would take a long time.
>>>>>Finally, does anyone else find it a bit odd to have a Holocaust denier handing out "Friend of Hitler" awards to people who he doesn't like? <<<<<<
I am a holocaust revisionist, not a holocaust denier. And neither my revisionism nor my awarding of the "Friend of Hitler" awards means that I like Hitler.
HAHA, McLeroy gets a "Friend of Jefferson Award." I think he'd be offended, as I don't think he's much of a fan!!!
Oh, the irony... It hurts.
Ahhh censorship. Typical m/o for a revisionist.
More Friends of Hitler by your criteria...
Galileo Galilei, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Martin Luther King Jr...
And, oh yes, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
I'll bet you a dollar this post doesn't pass your moderator.
The FAIL of this blog! My eyes! The goggles do nothing!
Is there a "Friend of Unflattering Irony" award?
The irony of giving a Friend of Jefferson award to a man who is suppressing Jefferson from Texas classrooms is just the most glaring example of what a farce these awards are. They are so ridiculously backward that I have to wonder if this is meant to be satire. If this is satire, bravo. If not... YIKES.
You shouldn't insult Don Quixote like that, Mr. Anderson.
"I'm always kicking their butts -- that's why they don't like me."
Funny thing. I hear that from right-wingers a lot, usually after they've made ridiculous, easily-disproven arguments. You guys really don't have long memories, do you?
Which is also the reason that so many of you are historical revisionists (see Don McElroy), and now even Biblical revisionists. (See the Conservative Bible Project - uh... can you guys define "heresy" for me?)
Dude, what color is the sky in your reality? Oh and nice job destroying my brand new irony meter.
Oh so one doesn't have to actually believe that any of the principles Jefferson stood for are important enough to merit mention in a curriculum with his name attached to be a friend of jefferson?
"I considered that, but the lists are so long that that would take a long time."
So you're lazy to boot.
Semantics. You deny what happened, so you revise.
Larry: my name is Scott Hatfield. I am an enthusiastic teacher of evolution and proud NCSE member.
I have a request.
Please, Please, PLEASE nominate ME for your newly-minted 'Friend of HITLER' award.
It would indeed be an unprecedented honor for me, a humble science teacher, to have my pedagogy, my field of study, yea verily my personal character attacked by the likes of you and your buddies with the Disingenuous Institute.
I cheerfully invite you to so lambaste me. Feel free to visit my blog:
www.monkeytrials.blogspot.com
I have been trolled by professional provocateurs, so you would not be the first ID maven to misrepresent the state of the scientific enterprise in my neck of the woods. Your attempt to make rhetorical hay with your version of 'Der Fuhrer's Face' is like an outtake from 'The Producers': twice as juvenile, and nowhere near as funny.
Anyway, I have to confess that I can only look forward to the day you attempt to brand me with the same sort of limply-rotating, politically impotent mock-swastika.
After all, the intellectually crippled should, as a rule, avoid goose-stepping. They are likely to slip, fall and hurt themselves. It's awkward even for the adroit, and for you it's pure vaudeville spectacle, akin to slipping on your own banana peel.
Now, that might not seem funny to YOU, but compared to the trivialization of the Holocaust your precious 'award' implies, it has the ring of high farce.
Sincerely....Scott Hatfield
"Don McLeroy got the award for his stand on evolution education"
This must be a mistake. Don McLeroy is opposed to teaching evolution. Favoring religious instruction instead. Sad that Christians can't just be honest.
>>>>>> Uh, Don McLeroy just voted to remove Thomas Jefferson from Texas social studies text relating to the enlightenment. So how, exactly, does he qualify for a "Friend of Jefferson" award? <<<<<<
*Don McLeroy got the award for his stand on evolution education.*
Do you actually know anything about Jefferson? If there's any one of the founding fathers who would have quickly understood Darwin's theory and recognized its brilliance, it would have been Jefferson, who--unlike you--was not constrained by dogma and was a firm believer in an enlightenment education.
You have grossly insulted the memory of Thomas Jefferson, you pathetic fool.
So, as a holocaust-denying(oh I'm sorry, "revisionist") creationism-spouting religious fanatic, what say you about Jefferson's attempt at rewriting the bible to remove all the supernatural/divine mumbo-jumbo from the core message of peace, love, and respect?
Incidentally, if you think about it, by following Jefferson's editing criteria, he'd probably remove all the magic breath and sky ocean nonsense from Genesis as well.
These Darwinism-believers appear to be very ignorant, since they think that everyone who doubts their One True Darwinist Faith must believe in "creationism" and be a "religious fanatic." What can anyone say to a clueless Darwinist yokel?
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