Comments on: Evolution in Michigan — Politician Noses… http://auchtoon.com/blog/2006/10/03/evolution-in-michigan-politician-noses-just-keep-getting-bigger/ Comics and Comments from John Auchter Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:25:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: ryan http://auchtoon.com/blog/2006/10/03/evolution-in-michigan-politician-noses-just-keep-getting-bigger/#comment-30 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 14:22:39 +0000 http://auchtoon.com/blog/2006/10/03/evolution-in-michigan-politician-noses-just-keep-getting-bigger/#comment-30 Taking off on a popular business cliche: Failure to understand basic scientific principals on your part does not constitute a need to cave into your misguided worldview on my part. As a product of the wonderful West Michigan religious machine, let me say kudos to Hoogendyk and Moolenaar! Kudos for forcing Michiganders to try and pronounce your names. Kudos for being shortsighted enough to forget that not everyone believes what you believe. And kudos for dragging the Republican party further from the center and towards its death roll of uber-religious dogma. You've lost me and thousands like me already; let's see if you can lose the rest of those on the fence. And, don't forget, DeVos tossed a little ball on a rope to these people not that long ago. Of course, he didn't <em>mean</em> that he would encourage religion dressed in a lab coat to be taught as science curriculum, he just said that. Always take a Dutchman for what he means, not what he says, right? Taking off on a popular business cliche: Failure to understand basic scientific principals on your part does not constitute a need to cave into your misguided worldview on my part.

As a product of the wonderful West Michigan religious machine, let me say kudos to Hoogendyk and Moolenaar! Kudos for forcing Michiganders to try and pronounce your names. Kudos for being shortsighted enough to forget that not everyone believes what you believe. And kudos for dragging the Republican party further from the center and towards its death roll of uber-religious dogma. You’ve lost me and thousands like me already; let’s see if you can lose the rest of those on the fence.

And, don’t forget, DeVos tossed a little ball on a rope to these people not that long ago. Of course, he didn’t mean that he would encourage religion dressed in a lab coat to be taught as science curriculum, he just said that. Always take a Dutchman for what he means, not what he says, right?

]]> by: Mike http://auchtoon.com/blog/2006/10/03/evolution-in-michigan-politician-noses-just-keep-getting-bigger/#comment-29 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:42:01 +0000 http://auchtoon.com/blog/2006/10/03/evolution-in-michigan-politician-noses-just-keep-getting-bigger/#comment-29 Happy to say that I agree completely. Under Republican rule, we are told to expect smaller government, less intrusion into our personal lives and the benefits brought from glorious, carnal capitalism. A fundamental assumption to make all this work in society is that we Americans homogeneously function on the same intellectual/ambitious/moral strata. This editorial indicates that Mssrs Hoogendyk and Moolenaar and I operate on different levels. Attempting to compel me and other Michigan citizens through legislation to drop to their level is a wastful abuse of their respective offices. Happy to say that I agree completely. Under Republican rule, we are told to expect smaller government, less intrusion into our personal lives and the benefits brought from glorious, carnal capitalism. A fundamental assumption to make all this work in society is that we Americans homogeneously function on the same intellectual/ambitious/moral strata. This editorial indicates that Mssrs Hoogendyk and Moolenaar and I operate on different levels. Attempting to compel me and other Michigan citizens through legislation to drop to their level is a wastful abuse of their respective offices.

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