"The View" co-host not sure if the earth is round or flat

Holy Crap...

What? So it's OK now to be completely ignorant of VERY simple scientific facts, just because you happen to be raising kids? I'm not buying it. I've raised three, and I've always had time to gather a decent understanding of the world around me. I may not be a quantum physicist, but I do bother to READ, and to LEARN, and to try to understand science and nature. I am appalled. I can't believe Hasselbeck's lame defense for Sheppard's unbelievable ignorance. I also can't believe anyone bothers to watch that show, but that's another issue.

A society without religion is like a maniac without a chainsaw.

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by: Jen @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 11:15:34 AM CDT

Shepherd ran for the cover of motherhood, but...

...there's no cover there.  A mother must meet certain cerebral criteria.  How can a woman who can't even extrapolate from a round globe or a photo of a round Earth that the world is round even prepare dinner?  Or meet her son's intellectual needs? 

She's a Stepford mother and proud of it. 

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by: Holly Capote @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 11:19:10 AM CDT

is the sky blue? Mama, what is 1 + 1?

that is just simply bizarre. it's a complete reflection of rampant anti-intellectualism exemplified by bush...

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by: Mad Professah @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 11:38:44 AM CDT

Smart moms equal...

When I lived in L.A.'s Fairfax District, many of my neighbors where Hasidic Jews. They were great neighbors, but avoided strangers and lived very conservative lifestyles. The women stay at home to raise their children and wear long sleaves, dresses, and scarves on their heads.

One afternoon, I found a group of Hasidic children and a couple of other neighbohood kids crying over a dead cat that had been run over in front of my building.

A Hasidic mother approached and told them about the cycle of life and began answering their questions, including questions about decomposition and whether or not cats go to heaven.

The woman was simply brilliant. She knew the answers to all the children's questions and worded scientific explanations in ways children would understand.

She steered clear of religion in her answers -- I'm sure out of respect for the two children who were not part of her sect. But, obviously she was very well educated on many diverse subjects.

All of those children went away from that horrible scene comforted and educated. I'll never forget it.

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 11:45:36 AM CDT

So ...

"Do you think you should shit in your pants?"

"I don't know.  I hadn't really thought about it.  I'm busy thinking about other things."

"But do you think it's OK?"

"I don't know.  My brain can only handle one thing at a time."

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by: Jami @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 12:17:00 PM CDT

And Elizabeth's Stupid Comment

Shepherd's son is not even in NYC with her, he's in L.A. so Hasselbeck's ignorant comment about "feeding her son" is ridiculous.  Shephard was talking today about going to all sorts of Movie Openings.  Learned that the world is flat or round is something you learn about in elementary school unless the "Christian" right has gotten that removed from the ciriculum too.

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by: BB @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 12:18:58 PM CDT

The son's in L.A.?

She must not know about the 10 Commandments and especially, "Thou shalt not lie."

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by: Holly Capote @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 12:35:03 PM CDT

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Hollow Earth Society

Maybe she believes the earth is hollow and has people living in it.  Wait, in that case the earth couldn't be flat.....well, maybe it's shaped like a cube so it would be flat on 6 sides yet could still be hollow and provide living space for inhabitants....oh, I don't know, it's all just too much for my little ol' brain.

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by: johnnyleen @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 12:45:18 PM CDT

this is a joke.

right?

http://EQFL.org

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by: banshiii @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 12:46:11 PM CDT

Nope.

It's Bushica.

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by: Holly Capote @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 12:47:15 PM CDT

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Ignorance is bliss

Sometimes I long for that kind of ignorance.  How much easier to go through life blind to science and reason, focused only on shoveling food into the pieholes of one's offspring and using a highlighter in TV Guide.

Remember: statistically speaking, in any reasonably-sized crowd, half your audience is below a 100 IQ.  Unless you're speaking in a megachurch, in which case they're down to a double-digit median.

"If people let government decide which foods they eat and medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." -- Thomas Jefferson

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by: RadicalRuss @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 12:47:06 PM CDT

Ignorance is bliss?

Then there should be a whole shit-pot-full of ecstatic Repugnicans!

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by: Jami @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 13:02:56 PM CDT

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Those were the days...

I imagine that the number of people who believe and don't believe in evolution has not changed terribly much over the last 10 years.  It's probably just because of the culture wars that we are sensetive to the topic.

 

And far be it from me to excuse ignorance, but, she's in entertainment.  They're not hiring her for her brains. 

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by: metalsguy @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 13:14:18 PM CDT

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This is mean, but...

Okay, so this will sound horribly mean, but, thanks, I know I'm already going to hell--I've got 3rd shift at the 9th Circle Bar so stop by when you arrive as well--but my bowling partners and I discovered a phenomenon called "30 Seconds of Retarded Joy/Bliss/Ecstasy".

Every Tuesday there's this Special People's league right next to us, and one of the more special guys really really REALLY gets into it. Any pin count gets a "Yay!"...any spare gets a "YAY!" and any strike gets a "YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!" and arms flaying and running around. Never saw him get a double or anything constituting a string of any kind, but I'm sure he'd have a coronary if he did.

Honestly, it was so tempting to make fun of him cuz he just looks so silly, but honestly, we all readily agreed that he was living pure joy and how lucky he was for it. Really, when's the last time you got so excited about something that you jumped up and down, screamed, hooted, hollered, and just forgot all your cares and woes? Wish I could.

So, anyway, out of that came the "Here's your '30 Seconds of Retarded Joy"! Enjoy it!" And I saw that to this dumbass Shephard woman. Enjoy it. 

Curses! My million dollar ideas foiled again: "God Bless Your Brand!" http://www.christvertising.com/

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by: TJ McFisty @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 13:55:41 PM CDT

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Intelligence vs. Ignorance

My boyfriend has been a clinical psychologist for 30 years and he says the most disturbed patients typically have higher IQs. And those with high IQs who are highly creative -- artists, musicians, actors -- spend more time in therapy. In other words, it is easier for him to treat those with lower IQs who aren't particularly creative thinkers. I'd say they're just easier for him to train. (Boy, my BF would get mad if he heard me say that.)

When you look for the bad in mankind, expecting to find it, you surely will.

- Abraham Lincoln.

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by: Fritz @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 14:11:43 PM CDT

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Frighteningly typical

It also just proves to me what even mildly intellectual people are up against when it comes to equality for LGBTs, among other things.

Thousands of parents send their children off every day to private schools where they are taught creationism and indoctrinated in a single religion, nevermind all the other religions and science.  I know...as a kid I attended one of these schools myself. 

Parents believe this is a good way to bring up morally sound individuals, again, never giving thought to anything except what they know as "tradition" and "the way things are supposed to be".  As most of us know, this kind of thinking is quite pervasive. 

 

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by: Madison @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 13:57:06 PM CDT

The sad part is

It seems those who are so convinced that their religion is the "right" one are so afraid to listen to anything else.  It's almost as if they are afraid if they hear it then their "faith" will magically disappear.

Sadly, it isn't a phenomenon of the religious right in this country.  Religion has been at the root of many wars throughout history, and I doubt that will change anytime soon.

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by: whtz @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 23:33:07 PM CDT

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Democracy!

They should have voted on it.

I vote 'round!'

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by: kegbot1 @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 15:11:46 PM CDT

What is she talking about????

What does she mean she's thinking about her son and his dinner?

1) she's being paid to co-host The View not worry about her son's next meal

2) she has never in her life thought about the planet being round?  That's like Clarence Thomas saying he never thjought about Roe v. Wade.

I guess dishonest is as dishonest does.

How do ntiwits like these people rise so high in our society?

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 16:51:17 PM CDT

And since she is

co-hosting The View, I'm pretty sure that she doesn't have to worry about where anybody's next meal is coming from.

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by: Jami @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 19:12:52 PM CDT

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PS

Does it bother anyone else that in some photos she looks like a Star Jones wannabe?

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report

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by: Lev Raphael @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 16:53:39 PM CDT

Yeah

I had noticed that but wasn't going to say anything, but since you brought it up ... yeah.

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by: Jami @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 19:10:20 PM CDT

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It had to happen.

Someone posted an IQ test:
http://thestubborncu...

My America includes LGBT families.

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by: Mena @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 18:41:18 PM CDT

Kate is the perfect Christian magnet for ABC

Yo, soccer mommy: ABC is on its knees for the Christianists. Kate sings for the Christianists and the network.

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by: Holland62 @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 21:07:09 PM CDT

I really hate it when my own predictions prove true.

Last year I hammered on the stupidity of the religious right, mocking the idea that any one of them would ever suggest, in all seriousness, that Earth was flat.

Alas, I had to repost that idea -- the first actual repost I've ever done on my dive. 

So Sherri is too busy now taking care of her kids to remember what she was taught in grade school?

To borrow from another, "The stupid, it burns". 

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by: Warren @ Fri Sep 21, 2007 at 21:47:41 PM CDT

A fine case for homeschooling indeed

Well, that video is gone... "terms of use"... but many other still exist at youtube. Just search for "Sherri Shephard flat earth" and you'll get it.

Fantastically, incredibly (in the literal sense of unbelievable) Ms. Shephard said she would have to "go look it up."

Please tell me she doesn't homeschool. A few brain-poopy moments in calculus class and you'll crank out an engineer capable of creating the current state of infrastructure disrepair the US now enjoys.

James

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by: dewdrop_world @ Sat Sep 22, 2007 at 08:37:54 AM CDT

From the standpoint of...

...topology (a mathematical construct) the earth's surface might be considered a manifold that, in a small enough region of space might be considered flat, but, when patched together with other regions, is sort of a 2-sphere, with pimples called mountains.

If you understand that, more power to you.  I kind of do.  But, I wonder, why bother with such formalism?

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by: raj @ Sat Sep 22, 2007 at 14:06:47 PM CDT