Hopefully a quickie post today–on the subject of your spicy brains! Two really interesting podcasts this week (I understand some people still need reminding you don’t need an MP3 player, certainly not an iPod to listen to podcasts. They’re just MP3 files you can download and listen on your computer.) The first is The Skeptic’s [...]
READ MORE »The government has a social contract with the people. The government, in a secular society, is there protect liberty and provide the means for people to have a quality of life, liberty and pursue happiness. Teddy Roosevelt, a Republican and a progressivist, stated: “Political parties exist to secure responsible government and to execute the will [...]
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The normally very calm and reasonable John W. Loftus has a post today that got him as upset as I’ve been known to be here on my blog, discussing religious issues: ♦ Girl from Qatif Rape Victim In brief, a newly married young woman was gang-raped. The Saudi Arabian courts, in accord with their extreme [...]
READ MORE »Story on BoingBoing today about a rather scary issue as reported by FOX News: ♦ DHS to firefighters: snoop on emergency victims for evidence of terrorism The imperial government under King George wants firefighters, who don’t need a warrant to enter your house when they’re responding to an emergency, as a means of circumventing that [...]
READ MORE »Time magazine has an interesting story this weekend: ♦ Sunday School for Atheists. It’s a very brief look at the rise of Freethinking Sunday Schools (as well as sleep-away camps like Camp Quest) to fill a particular need of the young adults in America who claim no religious belief, trying to raise moral, thinking kids [...]
READ MORE »Oohh, poli-sci sucks! Or rather, not being an ideologue sucks. If only there were an -ism I could latch onto and sink my beliefs into and not question and just be that, life would be simpler. But when you’re a Marxist-libertarian-anarcho-socialist, things get messy. No organization should have control over the people, period. But, objectavism [...]
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Hmm, I may be playing with fire here….my own. I’ve stopped posting on religious issues, mainly because it makes me a complete raving meanie. (Huh, kinda like some people and drinking….) But this is an informative and thought-provoking post, not a hateful insulting one. OK, so, the development of the Jesus myth is very heavily [...]
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Here is the world we live in now: ♦ Terror police ‘shot’ man in coma Cops in Leeds, England, decided it was better to Taser a man, twice, and hold a pistol on him, because he was found on a bus unresponsive due to a diabetic coma. Better safe than sorry, right?! He could have [...]
READ MORE »Former seminarian, preacher, apologist, John W. Loftus’s latest post: ♦ Liberal Christianity: A Dangerous Pretend Game. No commentary; just posting the link and a quote from it here. This discussion has made me think about playing pretend. I liked the movie “Toy Story,†produced by Disney. The character Buzz Lightyear actually thought he had supernatural [...]
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This is an issue that somewhat recently gotten me emotionally involved. Well, ever since I opened my eyes and started realizing there’s more going on in this world than the Good and Holy Capitalist Democracy bringing peace and love all over the world. Up until a year I thought of social protest as something riotous [...]
READ MORE »Just wanting to share this article from Classically Liberal: ♦ Pious politician prays after prognosis predicts precipitation.
READ MORE »Skeptico just posted a reminder for a potentially fascinating program on PBS tonight: ♦ Judgment Day – Tonight on PBS TV Tonight, 8.00pm on PBS (US TV) is Nova’s Judgment Day – a two hour montage of interviews and reconstructions of the Kitzmiller vs Dover case from 2005. (Wow – was that really two years [...]
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According to the gubberment, the proper response to all these accusations of the gubberment and corporations invading privacy, is to think of privacy more as something they own and you’re borrowing–on their terms. Privacy no longer can mean anonymity, says Donald Kerr, the principal deputy director of national intelligence. Instead, it should mean that government [...]
READ MORE »Senator Chris Dodd’s “people” made this very short (2 minute) clip of a former AT&T tech who blew the whistle on them, explaining the implications of their allowance of the government to spy on us:
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In the wake of my recent post about the Finnish folk band that was hassled, harassed, and strip searched on their entry into the U.S. to perform at some music festivals: Don’t fly the unfriendly skies, you foreign intruder on the Homeland!, in which one of the musicians remarks that his treatment under U.S. Homeland [...]
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Been busy. Here’s a few items of science interest for you! Enjoy. A really amazing couple of animations from the Cassini probe exploring the Saturn system: ♦ Cool Cassini Animations One shows the “shepherd’s moon” Prometheus moving around in its space in Saturn’s ring, pulling out threads of the ring! The other is Mimas, or [...]
READ MORE »I’d mentioned before how foreign tourist agencies are advertising their work on making sure you don’t have to step foot on US soil as you travel around it to get somewhere else in the world: ♦ “Wâ€: The new swastika; “U.S. borderâ€: The new Iron Curtain. And how one visiting, abused and strip-searched Finnish folk [...]
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