{"id":28429,"date":"2012-06-28T23:06:05","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T05:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-part-48-in-a-series.html"},"modified":"2012-06-28T23:06:05","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T05:06:05","slug":"this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-part-48-in-a-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-part-48-in-a-series.html","title":{"rendered":"This Is Why We Can&#39;t Have Nice Things (Part 48 in a Series)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because fundamentalist Christian nuts can craft textbooks that use the Loch Ness Monster as proof of Noah&#39;s Flood and the Evil Falsehood of Evolution, and receive our tax dollars to do so by way of educational vouchers to religious private schools.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fblogs%2Ffriendlyatheist%2Ffiles%2F2012%2F06%2FNessie.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/friendlyatheist\/2012\/06\/25\/fundamentalist-christian-textbook-uses-nessie-to-disprove-evolution\/?utm_medium=twitter&#038;utm_source=twitterfeed'>Fundamentalist Christian Textbook Uses Nessie To Disprove Evolution<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJust when you think you&#39;ve heard it all. I want everyone reading this to take a moment to compose yourself. This is going to be an extremely serious discussion topic. Because the Fundamentalists have &#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/jENyFhVGJUA' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because fundamentalist Christian nuts can craft textbooks that use the Loch Ness Monster as proof of Noah&#39;s Flood and the Evil Falsehood of Evolution, and receive our tax dollars to do so by way of educational vouchers to religious private schools. Embedded Link Fundamentalist Christian Textbook Uses Nessie To Disprove Evolution Just when you think &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/28\/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things-part-48-in-a-series.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;This Is Why We Can&#39;t Have Nice Things (Part 48 in a Series)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8680,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/08\/nothing_to_worr.html","url_meta":{"origin":28429,"position":0},"title":"Nothing to worry about here","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Sep-05 2:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"For all of those who are concerned that George W. 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