I posted earlier: shrub, the Idiot Boy-Man Continues. This is great: CNN: Colin Powell says Iraq in a ‘civil war’. Bush has avoided using the term “civil war” to describe the situation in Iraq. Tuesday, he called the latest violence in Iraq “part of a pattern” of attacks by al Qaeda in Iraq to divide [...]
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More Americavakia
So now evidently radio wires in a backpack on the backs of people at a dance who are dressed up as zombies, are possible weapons of mass destruction: http://www.kstp.com/article/stories/s17817.html God, when will the security paranoia end?!
READ MORE »shrub, the Idiot Boy-Man Continues
First, some possible positive news: Yesterday I blogged about the NSTA’s possible gross influence by oil interests (Corporate Ownership of America–Lies, Education and Anti-Science). Well, it’s possible that the Washington Post op-ed about that story may have been misleading. I hope so. I’ll update as I learn more. So president shrub was in Estonia yesterday. [...]
READ MORE »Americavakia, and the Dicks that “Protect” It
The terrorists win. Congrats. Over at BoingBoing I found a couple of items regarding draconian and paranoid security measures: Blowing Up Scientific Equipment in the Name of Security And these videos of US soldiers in Iraq making it pretty easy to see why we’re so hated by the world: Soldiers taunting and tormenting Iraqi children. [...]
READ MORE »Corporate Ownership of America–Lies, Education and Anti-Science
Where do I begin. It’s just more evidence of the disgusting, sickening, control and corruption of public opinion and education by corporate interests. I’d already been thinking about what kind of culture of sociopathic corporate greed and we’re living in when you have a Bank of America event where a performer perverts a U2 song [...]
READ MORE »The incredible “smallness” of Jesus’ sacrifice
“s burgener” over at Debunking Christianity has a fascinating post entitled: The incredible “smallness” of Jesus’ sacrifice He investigates the relativity of the “sacrifice” of God. I’d always heard the argument about just how sure, being scourged and buffeted and crucified is pretty bad! But, in the realm of human suffering, it’s actually very short [...]
READ MORE »Beer Review: Sam Adams Cream Stout
SAM ADAMS’ CREAM STOUT overall: 3.95 appearance: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | mouthfeel: 4.5 | drinkability: 4 A – Beautiful deep, opaque brown to almost black. Slight amber tint; I don’t see any ruby as other mention. Pours a reasonably thick head. Soft looking, nice tan brown. Dissipates somewhat quickly, but leaves [...]
READ MORE »Interesting Science Blog Day: Dark Matter and Supernova
Latest show of “AstronomyCast” podcast discusses dark energy, the expansion of the universe, and its eventual heat death. “Dark energy,” the reason why the universe expansion rate is increasing, despite the originally expected hypothesis that expansion of the universe was slowing. Proof there’s no great cabal of scientists colluding to fool the world about its [...]
READ MORE »Special Lesson: “Hope Evolves”
(Busy blog day, today.) HUZZAH! I contacted the Point of Inquiry people asking about transcripts for the essay by Lauren Becker in the latest episode, referred to in my post: A Rock and the Battle of Science Over Delusion. And Lauren sent me a copy of the essay, “Hope Evolves”! It is a fantastic commentary [...]
READ MORE »Contraception, abortion foe to head family-planning office – CNN.com
Contraception, abortion foe to head family-planning office – CNN.com So, bush appoints someone with absolutely no experience in emergency management as the head of FEMA but was an election campaign manager, an anti-science propagandist to construct the agenda for NASA, and now an enemy of contraception and a member of a group that lies about [...]
READ MORE »A Rock and the Battle of Science Over Delusion
Some months ago I heard an essay on Point of Inquiry that I so wished I could find a transcript for. An essay about the importance of skepticism and the scientific method, and the dangers of religious belief. When people ask me why I’m so against religion, why it’s so important for me to tell [...]
READ MORE »More Sacrifices for the God of Disasters
After most of what few members of the “Coalition of the Willing” that supported the Iraq war to begin with have withdrawn, our largest ally, Britain, is starting to come to their senses: Their top military general advocated a military pull-out as soon as possible, Prime Minister Tony Blair finally admitted Iraq was a disaster*, [...]
READ MORE »Microsoft’s Extortion of Linux Distros
Wow, Microsoft has some huge brass ones! Ballmer: Linux users owe Microsoft Ballmer never expresses, so far as I can find, what Microsoft “intellectual property” Linux users are using in violation of copyright. Just the ability to use an operating system to run a PC?! His statement: “Only customers that use SUSE have paid properly [...]
READ MORE »Sad, Meaningless Lives Without God
Over on The Secular Outpost, there’s a reprint of a post by Keith Parsons: From Keith Parsons: Craig on the Relevance of Christianity In it is a story of a Christian who tries to convince some non-Christian teens that basically life is meaningless and without value without Christ in their lives. The counterpoint is obvious: [...]
READ MORE »Lying For God
A recent post by Jim Lippard on The Secular Outpost: Public School Teacher Tells Class: “You Belong in Hell” About a teacher using his public high school class to proselytize and teach Christian mythology, lie about doing do, and then becomes belligerent when proof is provided. One interesting comment on the blog: Why do so [...]
READ MORE »Copies Don’t Mean Credibility
Debunking Christianity has an interesting post today by Zac Taylor, titled: What if the Bible was Perfectly Copied for the last 2000 Years? In it he briefly discusses why it doesn’t matter if the entire line of Biblical manuscripts from now on back 2000 years is accurate to the original writing, because: The bottom line [...]
READ MORE »Science, Ethics; Mistaken Antagonism
On the Agnostic Mom blog (which sadly doesn’t look like it used to thanks to unethical cyber-vandals) she posts some feedback regarding a conversation about ethics and science and animals. Interesting stuff. Humans As Animals and Ethics A couple of points she makes regarding science and ethics I’m posting here: Science must do its investigating [...]
READ MORE »Creepy-Cool Saturnian Storm
Yesterday I blogged about a really cool galactic size astronomical black hole energy expulsion discovery: Awesome Power of the Cosmos; God in the Machine But if that’s not close enough to home for you, today on BadAstronomy, Phil Plait discusses a wicked cool storm discovered on Saturn’s south pole. This isn’t one of those big [...]
READ MORE »Questioning the Resurrection
A few excellent questions posted on a recent Debunking Christianity post by Ed Babinski: Richard Carrier’s Five Questions Concerning “The Resurrection” 1. “In the Book of Acts the Apostles are having vivid and powerful visions and dream communications from God all the time. We hear of similar experiences reported in that era from Jews and [...]
READ MORE »Awesome Power of the Cosmos; God in the Machine
A recent post of the BadAstronomer bog: Bad Astronomy Blog » Plowing through the electromagnetic spectrum has me awestruck and amazed at the literal power and energy found in the universe on galactic scales, and the figurative power these things have over me. It’s about a massive eruption from a mega blackhole in a super [...]
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