How Old Are You?: A perfectly rational question or a level of rudeness that can only be expected from liberals?

Facts. You can use them to prove anything.
--Homer Simpson

Some people would say the biggest news story of 2006 that was ignored by the liberal media was the fact that Barack Obama smokes cigarettes.

Some people would say the biggest news story of 2006 that was ignored by the liberal media was the report that stated Iraqi casualties of this war could be as high as 600,000.

Some people would say that biggest news story of 2006 that was ignored by the liberal media was the fact that the US Military did not count deaths from bombs, rocket and mortar attacks in their official death count from Iraq.

I, of course, would like to go in a different direction with my most glossed over story of 2006.

It begins with a question. A question that when you ask your Mom, she glares at you. A question that when you ask a 2 year old, you get a show of fingers.

The question is: How old are you?

Just for funsies, let's ask the Grand Canyon.

Grand Canyon, how old are you?

Speaking on behalf of Grand Canyons everywhere, the National Park Service will promptly answer, "No comment."

Hmmm, perhaps my Mom is at the helm of the NPS.

Or, another logical conclusion is that the NPS "In order to avoid offending religious fundamentalists, our National Park Service is under orders to suspend its belief in geology." PEER Executive Director Jeff Ruch

So why is geology going the way of stem cell research?

Because of commerce and the right-wing of this country of course!

Currently for sale in the Grand Canyon gift shoppe is a novel by Tom Vail called Grand Canyon: A Different View.

The novel claims that the Grand Canyon developed on a biblical time scale as opposed to Satan's evolutionary time scale.

Shockingly enough, there are a few people who can still think for themselves and think that this book of religious fiction has no place in a National Park. Park Superintendent Joe Alston tried to have the book blocked but was denied. The NPS Chief of Communications David Barna assured him there would be a "high-level" review in order to quash any further outrage.

That was back in August of 2003.

No such review has taken place.

Park officials have defended the decision to approve the sale of Grand Canyon: A Different View, claiming that park bookstores are like libraries, where the broadest range of views are displayed. In fact, however, both law and park policies make it clear that the park bookstores are more like schoolrooms rather than libraries. As such, materials are only to reflect the highest quality science and are supposed to closely support approved interpretive themes. Moreover, unlike a library the approval process is very selective. Records released to PEER show that during 2003, Grand Canyon officials rejected 22 books and other products for bookstore placement while approving only one new sale item — the creationist book. (PEER)

Is it any wonder that US children are being left behind when it comes to science?