<div>Bill McKibben, interviewed earlier this week by Amy Goodman on "Democracy Now," after release from jail after being arrested at the Keystone XL pipeline tar sands protest at the White House, said in the interview regarding Texas governor Perry's recent comments about science and global warming, "It's astonishing that someone is able to <strong>make</strong> George <strong>Bush look</strong> relatively smart about scientific things. <b>..."</b></div>
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<div><strong>Scary is right... Unbelievable! This religious mindset discussed in the article you referenced, and its connections to politics, reminds me in some ways of Margaret Atwood's novel "The Handmaid's Tale" which was made into a film, about a religious based tyranny: "In a dystopicly polluted rightwing religious tyranny, a young woman is put in sexual slavery on account of her now rare fertility." </strong><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099731/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099731/</a> <a href="http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/atwood0408.htm">http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/atwood0408.htm</a></div>
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<div>The McKibben interview can be experienced at website below:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/23/over_160_arrested_in_ongoing_civil">http://www.democracynow.org/2011/8/23/over_160_arrested_in_ongoing_civil</a></div>
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<div>An excerpt on Perry:</div>
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<p><strong><span class="caps">AMY</span> <span class="caps">GOODMAN</span>:</strong> Speaking of Texas politicians, Bill McKibben, I wanted to play a comment of Texas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry, who recently claimed global warming is a hoax. This is what Perry said at a news conference in New Hampshire.</p>
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<p><strong><span class="caps">GOV</span>. <span class="caps">RICK</span> <span class="caps">PERRY</span>:</strong> The issue of global warming has been politicized. I think that there are a substantial number of scientists who have manipulated data so that they will have dollars rolling into their projects. And I think we’re seeing it almost weekly or even daily, scientists who are coming forward and questioning the original idea that man-made global warming is what is causing the climate to change. And I don’t think, from my perspective, that I want America to be engaged in spending that much money on still a scientific theory that has not been proven and, from my perspective, is more and more being put into question.</p>
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<p><strong><span class="caps">AMY</span> <span class="caps">GOODMAN</span>:</strong> That was presidential candidate Perry, the governor of Texas. Bill McKibben?</p>
<p><strong><span class="caps">BILL</span> McKIBBEN:</strong> Rick Perry’s response to the drought so far has been to have a statewide day of prayer. Now, I’m a Methodist Sunday school teacher, so I’m completely down with prayer. That’s good. But in most theologies, prayer works a little better if you aren’t at the same time trying to think of every policy you can do to make matters worse. It’s astonishing that someone is able to make George Bush look relatively smart about scientific things. The Governor is completely wrong, of course, about the science. It’s not only strong, it grows stronger with every passing heat wave and every year of record temperature. There’s no scientific doubt.</p>
<p>The only reason that anybody is even considering building this pipeline is because it’s going to make a few big corporations an immense amount of money. And that’s why those corporations and the Koch brothers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce are lobbying like crazy for it. We don’t have the money to compete with those guys. All we have, the only alternative currency we have, is our bodies. And that’s what we’re using.</p>
<p>It was interesting to be in jail this weekend and reflect—listen to some of the people on the cell block reflecting on the fact that the last time they were, you know, lying on the ground like this was in some church basement while they were out campaigning for Barack Obama in that fevered fall of 2008. We’re incredibly hopeful that if the President does the right thing here, it will remind a lot of us why we were so enthusiastic about him and send a real jolt of electricity through people that are a little, frankly, discouraged at the moment.</p>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett<br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 8:26 PM, deb <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:debismith@moscow.com">debismith@moscow.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">After listening to a radio article, i investigated a bit. Scarey......we all best pay attention. These folks make Doug Wilson look like a sweetheart, and his Southern Reconstructionism look quaint....Get out the vote, people, 'cause these nut-baskets surely are!!!</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/21/posner_nar_dominionism" target="_blank">http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/21/posner_nar_dominionism</a></font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Debi R-S</font></div></div><br></blockquote>