Feb. 04, 2005 - 20:33 MST

THE WONDERING JEW

Could It Be ?

Maureen Dowd of The New York Times is a columnist often criticized as being hopelessly liberal. May be so, maybe I am hopelessly liberal too. There are times that what she says carries weight. Her column in the Rocky Mountain News today strikes a chord that is mightier than The Lost Chord in my heart.

Bush Bunch wants to dismantle 20th century

"Do male nipples prove evolution ? Not at all, according to a website for a planned Creation Museum devoted to showing that the Bible is literally true."

"Nipples may be biologically de trop for men, an "expert" on the site notes, but that doesn't mean they resulted from natural selection. They could just as well be a decorating feature of the creator's (like a hood ornament). Who are we to question his designs, since we cannot presume to comprehend his mind ? The virtual tour of the museum, to be built in rural Kentucky, says its exhibits will explain many such mysteries, like their claim that T. rex lurked around Adam and Eve -- "That's the terror that Adam's sin unleashed!" -- and how Noah and his family survived 371 days alone on an animal-filled boat" (a real Survivor story").

"Personally I've decided to stop evolving. No point, really. Evolution is so 20th century."

"As with Iraq, President Bush has applied his doctrine of pre-emption on evolution, cutting it off before it can pose a threat to our well-being."

"Even since he observed during his 2000 campaign that on the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth," Bush has been reeling backward as fast as he can toward the garden of Eden, which if creationists are to be believed, was really Jurassic Park. Seeing the powerful role of evangelicals in getting Buish re-elected, teachers across the country are quietly ignoring evolution, even when the subject is in their curriculums."

"So much for the Tree of Knowledge. Bush gives us the Ficus of Faith."

"I knew the president, Dick Cheney and Newt Gingrich wanted to wipe out the psychedelilc, "if it feels good do it" post-Vietnam '60s and go back to the black-and-white '50s -- a meaner Happy Days. They wanted to yank us back in a time machine to a place before Vietnam was lost, free love was found, Roe v. Wade was enacted: they could roll back science to smother stem cell's promise. I misunderestimated this ambitious president. His social engineering schemes in the Middle East and America are breathtakingly brazen."

"He doesn't just want to dismantle the '60s, he wants to dismantle the whole century -- from the Scopes trial to Social Security. He can shred one of the greatest achievements of the New Deal and then go after other big safety-net Democratic programs, reversing the prevailing philosophy of many decades that our tax and social welfare systems should equalize the distribution of wealth, just a little bit. Barry Goldwater wouldn't have had the brass to take a jackhammer to that edifice."

"The White House seems to think Social Security was corrupt from the moment it was enacted in 1935. It wants to replace it with private accounts that will fatten the wallets of stockbrokers and put the savings of Americans who didn't inherit vast fortunes at risk."

"Bush and his crew not only want to scrap the New Deal. By weakening environmental and safety protections and trying to flatten the progressive income tax, they're trying to eradicate not just one Rosevelt, but two, going after the progressive legacy of Theodore."

"With their brutal assault on history and their sanctimonious manner, they give a whole new meaning to Teddy's philosophy of the presidency. Bully pulpit indeed."

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My opinions, a few of them. Seems as if those of us who live differently, expecially those of us who will never be fortunaires and think differently are and have been under attack forever. In recent times NAFTA I think has harmed us more than helped us. And is seems that we are welcoming the camel into the tent -- still saying that, "Our citizens will not do stoop labor, will not work this that and the other jobs," not mentioning that those jobs have been owned by folks who have underpaid the undocumented workers unmercifully.

I have seen articles by scientists who see no conflict between evolution and religious beliefs and agree with them.

Archeoligists and paleontologists as well as historians have found too many things that prove evolution, to my mind without a doubt . . . . . but who am I ? I have a firm belief in God that will not be shaken and feel that freethinking folks are under attack from all sides, especially those of us who are not rich enough to buy a senator, governor or administration figure.

The unions have been all but buried by various manipulations, the upper ranks of folks have been convinced that they have to work 50 hours or more a week just to survive in their present jobs -- they have swallowed that hook, line and sinker it would seem. Our finest, highest educated folks, walking in a line, tail of those ahead firmly grasped in the trunk of the behind follower.

Will their children and grandchildren end up in that sodden line ? Could It Be ? . . . . . . . . . . .

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