WHEREAS,

Gotta be something in the water...

Wow - That one leaves me to think. First is it April? Then as I think more on all of it 'why do people hate change'. The scientific community decided to correct something that was wrong. I always thought that we learn from our mistakes and move on. Obviously some people can't.

The Assemblyman (Keith Richman) who introduced it was making a political point about the skewed priorities of the California legislature. There's an article in the Ventura County Star that discusses this. The satire content of the WHEREAS clauses is very high. I particularly liked " WHEREAS, The deletion of Pluto as a planet is a hasty, ill-considered scientific heresy similar to questioning the Copernican theory, drawing maps of a round world, and proving the existence of the time and space continuum...".

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the Members of the Assembly of the State of California be summarily executed in the interest of raising the average IQ of the Human species.

Thanks, that was funny.

"Cause Psychological Harm"
I thought that the NDP were only in Canada!!

Between this kind of retarded showmanship time-wasting and the stupid bullet-microstamping Bill of Koretz that an autistic child could defeat, we have a circuis of Legislative morons eager to make new laws. Somebody please come and invade us, before the Taliban sees how easy it would be....

Hang on here a minute. Californy is the original home of Disneyland. Obviously Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, and Donald have political connections. I wouldn't be surprised if some brown manila envelopes have been passed around. It's still gotta be the water...

You know what I like best about all this Pluto-in-the-news business? The appearance of the term "Kuiper Belt" in many of the stories.

I just think that looks way cool in print.

Kuiper Belt.

Wow. Just look at it. Very nice.

Throw in the term "heliopause", and I'm in heaven.

Hmmmm....

What were we talking about again? Oh, right: moonbats. You know, people who think a Kuiper Belt is the latest designer item at Saks, and heliopause is something women go through in their fifties.

How long do y'all think it will be before this same item appears as an NDP policy resolution?

Whew... and here I thought it was just me. "Don't go gently into that long goodnight Pluto!!!"

As much as I'm willing to believe that California crazies are in a class by themselves, it appears to be a joke. Take for instance the following...

WHEREAS, The downgrading of Pluto reduces the number of planets available for legislative leaders to hide redistricting legislation and other inconvenient political reform measures;

Kerry would have carried Pluto.

From the resolution:

WHEREAS, Recent astronomical discoveries, including Pluto's oblong orbit...

Pluto's oblong orbit is hardly a recent astronomical discovery. As I understand it, they figured out Pluto's orbit before they discovered Pluto itself by detecting its gravitional effect on the outer planets.

While they're at it, I would appreciate it if the assembly would make pi a rational number. 22 / 7 should do nicely. That is, after all, the traditional number the ancient Greeks used.

I see the fly's are attacking Mt St. Helens again.

Bet PETA will be up in arms about that.

Wow,there's a very fine line between serious political jargon and mischevious banter.Well done,the point was made rather creatively,I say.

It never ceases to amaze me how easily Kate can bamboozle most of the SDA minions. Some of you guys can't have an I.Q. any higher than room temperature. Celcius.

Kerry was for Pluto before he was against it.

It never ceases to amaze me how easily Kate can bamboozle most of the SDA minions. Some of you guys can't have an I.Q. any higher than room temperature. Celsius.

Geniuses, on the other hand, post twice.

I think the few leftist blogs out there don't dare have fun with parodies for the following reasons:

Once their'minions'have read it....TOO LATE...they believe it!

Any subsequent attempts by the host to retract the article will be greeted by accusations of hidden agendas.

As soon as a parody is posted,trolls will flood popular conservative blogs with even more inaccurate information than usual.

Yup, she's gettin' dumber.

"Gotta be something in the water..."

Well if it's like Vancouver it's more likely something in the air and it's not smoke from the forest fires.

"Assemblyman Keith Richman, the maverick Republican who has represented much of Simi Valley for the last six years, is leaving office with a bit of cosmic sarcasm....In a few short hours, Richman was able to round up 53 co-authors — 26 Republicans and 27 Democrats."

3w.venturacountystar.com/vcs/county_news/article/0,1375,VCS_226_4947230,00.html

LickMuffin: "heliopause is something women go through in their fifties"

Is that when they momentarily have a sunny disposition?

Have no fear SDA Minions , Kryptonite Kate will save the 9th Rock from the Sun , formally known as Pluto.

And , with that , I feel some Canadian Whiskey in the near future.

I've always liked Pluto since it has always been the underdog, :) and being an amateur astronomer, I could give a rat's ass the experts say Pluto has lost its planetary status. Get over it and keep looking to the skies kids cause that's as close as you and I are ever going to get.

Well, maybe California's gone to the moonbats.

Funny how the visiting leftists don't recognize a sense of humor when it pops up in front of them.

They have no sense of humor themselves, anyway.

They therefore confuse funniness with dumbness.

What do we expect from moonbats, anyway?

To heck with 'em... let's have fun with the Pluto thing... heh...

"Get over it and keep looking to the skies kids cause that's as close as you and I are ever going to get."

Him...that's quite a defeatist attitude.
Actually,every single one of us has travelled over 2.5 million kms through space today alone.All depends on how you choose to look at things,I guess.

Say... how come when we're talking about stuff from outer space, the moonbats suddenly appear?

That's eerie...

BTW, hey, moonbats, you can take your lame attempts to crap on us and shove 'em up Uranus...

I particularly like this part:

"WHEREAS, Pluto, named after the Roman God of the
underworld... has a special connection to
California history and culture"

What would you expect from people who elected an idiot like Schwartzenegger?

exile, electing Schwartenegger is certifiably the most SANE thing Californians have done sense Regan. Comeon now. Look what the man is up against.