Republican Snubs Nobel Prize Winner

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Big Bang or Bust

{A} strange thing happened yesterday when Sen. Paul G. Pinsky (D-Prince George's) introduced John C. Mather, co-winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Mather, who won the prize for his work at Goddard Space Center in Greenbelt in providing the first tangible evidence to prove that the big bang started the universe, received a resolution from the Senate. He got his picture taken like all other resolution recipients before him.

But when it came time to support the resolution, two senators -- Sen. Janet Greenip (R-Anne Arundel) and Sen. Nancy Jacobs (R-Cecil) -- declined to vote.

"I don't believe in the big bang theory and I'm not going to honor someone who does," said Jacobs after the session. "If I wanted to make a political statement I would have voted no."

Ovetta Wiggins

[mike_c]

1. nothing worse than a flat-earth republican....

:rofl:

Someone ELECTED those bone heads.

[Bicoastal]

2. You have GOT to be kidding me...

Are the inmates officially running the assylum at this point?

[TygrBright]

4. Oy. I can certainly understand the Cecil Co. idiot...

...since I used to live in the next county south. That part of Maryland includes a good many folks who long for the good ol' days --and in that part of the world, the good ol' days were back in the eighteenth century, doncha know.

But WHAT were the good voters of Anne Arundel thinking? That's Annapolis and points adjacent, which is pretty civilized territory, on the whole.

Hard to imagine.

speculatively,
Bright

[WindRavenX]

3. I don't "believe" in the big-bang is like saying you don't "believe" in atoms

good lord.

[baldguy]

5. Atoms is the devils' werk.

There be jus' 4 elements - earth, air, far 'un water. It says so in the Bible.

[WindRavenX]

6. an' humours. None o' that blood, no sir!

:)

[madrchsod]

7. nancy jacobs made "snopes".....

http://www.snopes.com/politics/quotes/raskin.asp
Urban Legends Reference Pages: Jamie Raskin

she really is stupid

[melody]

8. I don't believe in the Republican party

Can we just ignore everything it does now?

[dicknbush]

9. she is not averse to honoring the person who proves that the easter Bunny and ...

Santa Clause are real living beings!