So I started to FINALLY watch all three extended versions of the �Lord of the Rings� movies back-to-back Sunday. 12 hours of supurb fantasy entertainment goodness! But was interrupted durring �Two Towers� for a couple of hours, so had to cut the marathon short. Will need to try again some other week-end. So I watched [...]
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How To Take Our Country Back
I’ve mentioned in a previous blog (or three) that we have advanced in military technology and size that it impossible now for the American people to form a revolt against our government as is our right. Mandated by our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence, among other political, sociological, and governmental writings. “WHEN in [...]
READ MORE »One Step Closer to a Fascist State – The Real ID Card
They Really Are Watching You / Ready for your own all-new, sinister ID card, courtesy of Homeland Security? Shudder That article is about 75% sci-fi speculation of what extreme versions of surveillance are eventually possible…and while it’s a bit into paranoid extremism, I think there is some real awareness of the threat of the slippery-slope [...]
READ MORE »General Update
Just a general what’s-going-on from me. Currently reading: Carl Sagan’s “Demon-Haunted World” (still) How to Be a Villain: Evil Laughs, Secret Lairs, Master Plans, and More!!! And trying to get ready for some games: Stargate:SG-1 RPG Spycraft RPG World’s Largest Dungeon Currently listening: At this very moment – The Prodigy “Fat of the Land” In [...]
READ MORE »Religion and Politics. Friendly topics
NPR : Debating America’s Christian Character Includes a comment from someone visiting the graven image of the “10 Commandments”, saying they want to see the 10 Commandments “before the sacred text is taken from us and our children.” God. Can we be any more rediculous? It’s not the freakin’ actual stone tablets from 4000+ years [...]
READ MORE »National Day of Reason
National Day of Reason: Home Page If there were every a time we need to encourage rationalism, reason, critical thinking. Even moreso than when Thomas Paine declared the 18th century “The Age of Reason.” We’re approaching more of a social Dark Age than we ever have since the 16th century.
READ MORE »Kansas and the Dark Ages of Scientific Stupidity
NPR : Kansas Weighs Alternates to Teaching Evolution Oh my God! In the article, the audio article linked in the link above, actually said “…to encourage teachers to tell students that Evolution is only a theory, not a fact.” God, I’m so sick of it. Hearing “only a theory.” GRAVITY is a freakin’ “theory”! “Theory” [...]
READ MORE »What Century Are We In?
CNN.com – Evolution on trial in Kansas – May 2, 2005 I’ve discussed this ad nauseum in blog posts over the last couple of months. But of course this rediculousness just brings the ire back. How is this possible? How in the 21st century can we still be in an educational Dark Age? Europe doesn’t [...]
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