Toon: Insanity Sam

[n2doc]

[madamesilverspurs]

1. So I shared this on FB.

First response: "Do you know that it takes 40 firemen to cover one retiree's pension?"

Beats me.

[pacalo]

5. Reply: "The pension that the retiree paid for in advance through his life-long paychecks?"

Or, "One only has to look at Gov. Perry's 75% budget cut in Texas' state volunteer fire department to understand how much Republicans value firemen. Meanwhile, it takes a lifetime of one's paychecks to provide for his own retirement. Do you have a more convincing point?"

[Rex]

10. FB is full of idiots that post with no facts to back them up.

Reply back - PROVE IT.

[a la izquierda]

2. Can someone please explain what...

"Galileo got outvoted for a spell" even means? What the hell is Perry talking about, am I just dense?

[Voice for Peace]

3. he's implying that despite the science of the day, it's possible that he, like Galileo,

will be proven right.


:shrug:

[a la izquierda]

4. Thanks...

I appreciate the answer. I'm pretty sure he's not going to be proven right, especially considering his whole state is burning down, and Oklahoma (my adopted state and where my husband is still living) is as dry as a bone.

[pacalo]

6. Possibly this...

Galileo's championing of heliocentrism was controversial within his lifetime, when most subscribed to either geocentrism or the Tychonic system. He met with opposition from astronomers, who doubted heliocentrism due to the absence of an observed stellar parallax. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, and they concluded that it could only be supported as a possibility, not as an established fact. Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, which appeared to attack pope Urban VIII and thus alienated him and the Jesuits who had both supported Galileo up until this point. He was tried by the Inquisition, found "vehemently suspect of heresy", forced to recant, and spent the rest of his life under house arrest. It was while Galileo was under house arrest that he wrote one of his finest works, Two New Sciences. Here he summarized the work he had done some forty years earlier, on the two sciences now called kinematics and strength of materials.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei

[Enthusiast]

8. I believe Perry is trying to say that

we should be careful in accepting the "so-called" science of climate change, just as the Catholic church was careful in not accepting heliocentric theory as truth in the days of Galileo. Of course history showed the Catholic church to be wrong in regard to science time and again.

Perry's comment is stupid no matter how we look at it.

[Enthusiast]

7. That is awesome!

Love it.

[sfpcjock]

9. ...basically Over Fed "Sam" Perry, LOL

:hurts: hurts his own people