Thursday, September 07, 2006
More of why Madison makes you makes you go WHAT?!?!?!?!?!?!
Yesterday when I heard a radio news story saying that the Madison City Council had passed a resolution proclaiming Pluto to be the ninth planet of our solar system I thought I was just hearing things, and after an extensive internet search yielded no results I was sure that I was just hearing things. Then this morning I happened across this in the Wisconsin State Journal...
Now that the Madison City Council has boldly gone where no city has gone before and proclaimed Pluto our ninth planet, we can thank our lucky stars that we're living in the most conservative city in Wisconsin. Bet you thought I'd say "the most crazy," didn't you? Yes, I'm sure that's the way it seems in the outer reaches of our state. There goes Madison again. First it was naming a street the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Then it was supporting the Sandinistas. Now Pluto?...
Doesn't that make Madison, once again, a laughingstock? Not by my count. Conservatives like to conserve traditions. And in the case of Pluto, most of us
are very attached to what we learned as children.
WHAT? This is more representative of trends in modern liberalism, that of over regulation by the government. Any real conservative would see this as government entering in on something where it doesn't belong, it is not the Madison City Council's place to determine what is a planet and what is not a planet. Furthermore, tradition is very different from science.
After reading this article I simply had to see for myself the resolution that was written and passed and I was correct in my assumption that it was something that was directly from the out of touch city of Madison. Here are a few of my favorite lines from the resolution...
WHEREAS, one of the reasons for this demotion is that Pluto is small, which they call being a "dwarf," suggesting the IAU does not tolerate diversity; and
WHEREAS, Pluto's orbit intersects the orbit of Neptune and is somewhat elliptical, which also is being used as a reason for disqualifying it as a planet, suggesting that the IAU really does not tolerate planets pursuing different lifestyles;...
There goes Madison trying to tug and the heard strings and make you feel like someone (in this case something) is being oppressed. And finally...
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City requests Neptune modify its orbit to assist Pluto in qualifying for planetary status and that Neptune declare this to be a reasonable astronomical accommodation.
So this is the city of Madison telling the planted Neptune to change its orbit and help poor Pluto take one step closer to becoming a planet. If I was a taxpayer of the city of Madison I wouldn't know what to think I mean Madison has done some pretty stupid things before but WOW. This is a blatant case of the members of the Madison City Council who voted for this resolution being 'stuck on stupid.'
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