CNN.com – Bush backs Dubai port deal, vows veto – Feb 21, 2006 Wow. It’s mind boggling the extent to which the Bush administration’s arrogance and self-righteousness goes. In short, the British company that used to manage some of the administrative operations of some American ports has been bought out by a company in the [...]
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CNN.com – Bikers roll to military funerals to oppose anti-gay protests – Feb 21, 2006
CNN.com – Bikers roll to military funerals to oppose anti-gay protests – Feb 21, 2006 Oh my God. I read this just out of curiosity and was quite surprised to read something like: They call themselves the Patriot Guard Riders, and they are more than 5,000 strong, forming to counter anti-gay protests held by the [...]
READ MORE »Bad Astronomy Blog: Science Under Attack
Bad Astronomy Blog � Blog Archive � AAAS Report #5: Science Under Attack Ah Phil Plait! Quickly becoming the new (if more sarcastic) Carl Sagan. I hate that he’s in St. Louis this last weekend for that conference and I didn’t get a chance to go meet him. Oh well. In this blog entry of [...]
READ MORE »CNN.com – Scientists enlist clergy in evolution battle – Feb 20, 2006
CNN.com – Scientists enlist clergy in evolution battle – Feb 20, 2006 I liked this quote in the article “The intelligent design movement belittles God. It makes God a designer, an engineer,” said Vatican Observatory Director George Coyne, an astrophysicist who is also ordained. “The God of religious faith is a god of love. He [...]
READ MORE »The Cosmos: The Inescapable Perspective
Came across this passage today, and I thought I’d pass it on. Carl Sagan from the program “Who Speaks for Earth”: Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of this small planet Earth. But up there in the cosmos an inescapable [...]
READ MORE »Scientific McCarthyism
Phil Plait of BadAstronomy.com has been keeping track of a story regarding NASA and Bush appointees within the organization that have been supressing information on global warming and attempting to insert religious slant into educational materials. As if that’s not bad enough, one of the Bush appointees was a member of the Bush election campaign, [...]
READ MORE »CNN.com – White House defends handling of Cheney shooting – Feb 13, 2006
CNN.com – White House defends handling of Cheney shooting – Feb 13, 2006 God, I’m not looking forward to listening to “Air America” on my XM after work tonight. I’m sure it’s going to be filled with all kinds of joking and liberal gun-hate and Cheney hate comments about this. Oh God knows I hate [...]
READ MORE »Darwin Day
Listening to today’s Skepticality Podcast I found out about “Evolution Sunday”. Yesterday being the birthday of Darwin, a lot of mainstream and liberal congregations are, er… did something in recognition of the acceptance of science and religion. (But I would bet my in-law’s Southern Baptist church, if they had any recognition, would have been a [...]
READ MORE »The End of the Internet?
The End of the Internet? A story describing the possibility and even probability of coporate ownership of the Internet, all with heavy activity tracking and charging for various types of usage. Is this possible? Well, I’m skeptical. I think the backlash would be too much for the corps to handle. People are too used to [...]
READ MORE »CNN.com – Deadly cartoon riot near U.S. base – Feb 8, 2006
CNN.com – Deadly cartoon riot near U.S. base – Feb 8, 2006 The absurdity of this is surreal. People killed, bases rioted upon, world leaders calling for peace–all sparked by a couple of cartoons depicting a religious prophet. It would be an appropriate end to the world if it blew up due to religious zealotism [...]
READ MORE »CNN.com – U.N. staff flee Afghan cartoon riots – Feb 7, 2006
CNN.com – U.N. staff flee Afghan cartoon riots – Feb 7, 2006 This is insanity. It’s unbelieveable. If someone wrote this in a novel, that thousands of people would riot in the streets, people would die, embassies burned, U.N. evacuations, over a couple of newspaper cartoons, it would be dismissed as rediculous and impossible. This [...]
READ MORE »Very Scary Glimpse Into Bush’s Idea of Reality
I was listening to a “Point of Inquiry” podcast today, and during a promo to join the Center for Inquiry, a statement was made regarding helping to protect what a Bush official dismisses as “reality-based thinking.” Being a skeptical person, I had to look this assertion up to see how out of context it may [...]
READ MORE »CNN.com – Cartoon protests turn deadly – Feb 6, 2006
CNN.com – Cartoon protests turn deadly – Feb 6, 2006 Seriously, the entire Middle East needs to be nuked back to the Dark Ages from which they refuse to evolve out of. Muslem, Jew, Christian alike. Carpet bomb the entire Middle East and be done with religious wars and zealots and fundamentalists. Well, OK we [...]
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