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Not My Country. Not My Country. Not My Country.
2007-11-01 17:25:00 It used to be my country. At least, I used to think that it was country. As a child I had fantasies about honor, and freedom, and dignity. I imagined that the country in general respected freedom and human rights. I was always kinda proud that my dad fought at Iwa Jima, and elsewhere in ... More About: Country
A list of things from Spanish Inquisitor
2007-10-31 16:26:00 I’ll eventually get back to writing posts of my own, but for now Things I?m Getting Tired Of Hearing from Spanish Inquisitor . First: Atheism Is A Religion. No it?s not. Things I?m Getting Tired Of Hearing The Inquisitor needn’t go further than that quip as a minimum effort at actually thinking pretty much closes the case. But the Inquisitor ... More About: List , A list
Carnival of the Decline of Democracy - Edition 2.22
2007-10-31 15:56:00 Random Thoughts, Notes, & Incidents: Carnival of the Decline of Democracy - Edition 2.22
The Godless House of Horrors
2007-10-28 17:35:00 Greta Christina has the latest Carnival of the Godless . She writes: So you thought you’d take an innocent visit to the Carnival of the Godless? See the godless sights, ride the godless rides, make yourself pleasantly sick on godless cotton candy? Your visit is about to take a ghastly turn. Hand in your tickets, step through these ... More About: House , Carnivals , The Go , The G
Right Wing Rhetoric
2007-10-27 16:49:00 I don’t have the time to generate a post of my own– with any substance, anyway– but that doesn’t mean I can’t pass along something fun. It?s important to note somewhere that right-wing rhetoric has gotten more snarly and bloodthirsty over the past few weeks, especially about the rapturous prospect of a really stupid and destructive ... More About: Right Wing , Wing
The Middle East through Juan Cole Colored Glasses
2007-10-24 18:12:00 Juan Cole recently did an interview with Amy Goodman. The transcript is up at Democracy Now. Here are some interesting bits. JUAN COLE: Well, I think the Cheney camp in the Bush administration very much would like to bomb the nuclear research facilities, which, as far as we know, are civilian facilities near Esfahan. And what ... More About: Middle East , The Middle East , East , Juan
Take it back? But from whom?
2007-10-23 18:45:00 Pray if you want. No harm done. Waste of your time, but that hardly matters from my end. God our Father, Help me to remain true to my ideals during my service to my country. Help me be what is in America, the land of the free. May I realize that I represent what our country ... More About: Back
Criminalizing Extreme Porn
2007-10-22 21:18:00 Cynical Chatter From The Underworld has posted a letter compiled by some academics and aimed at a bit of anti-pornography legislation. The interesting bit for me is the part that follows what I quote here. What follows is a list of reasons that this kind of legislation is problematic. As academics and researchers working in ... More About: Extreme , Sexuality , Trem , Mina
What do these places say about us?
2007-10-21 07:20:00 I just spent several hours at a fund raiser for the Longmont (Colorado) Humane Society Animal Shelter. I am happy that these places exist, but I hate that they have to exist. I hate it. Animal shelters are a bad solution to a problem. They are a lesser of evils, and I say this aiming ... More About: Places
Mitch McConnell vs. a twelve year old
2007-10-20 19:54:00 The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is reporting that “an aide for Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell who was spreading false rumors about a 12-year-old boy and his family” (from an emailed release). Of course he denies such behavior. The Associated Press has another take on things. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell knew his staff had sent e-mails encouraging reporters ... More About: Twelve , Year
The United Nations is the Great Satan
2007-10-19 18:06:00 I found the following points in an article over at Kjos Ministries– a website run by a couple who, from their ‘About’ page, “fellowship at a small non-denominational Bible-teaching church. Our personal ministry is primarily equipping Christian families for a time of increasing hostility toward Biblical values.” I am taking the article in question at face ... More About: United Nations , Satan , The United Nations , Great , United
Sex and the Single girl? is bad. Very bad.
2007-10-18 17:05:00 This clip is a little long, but poignant. More About: Religion , Girl , Sexuality , Single
Daddy! Daddy! The neighbor is beating his wife!
2007-10-17 20:57:00 I got the same “Saddam is beating his wife” junk email now published at The Uncooperative Blogger. The analogy employed in this father/son morality myth is so flawed I wanted to rip my hair out when I read it. The set-up: A man’s son asked why we went to war in Iraq . The man responds ... More About: Wife , Daddy , War , Beating
carnival, carnival, carnival
2007-10-17 17:00:00 Well, ok, just two carnivals. The October 14th edition of the carnival of political punditry is up at I?m A Pundit Too. And the Carnival of The Liberals #49 is up at ( the very well styled blog of the ) Tangled Up In Blue Guy.
The Best of Web Evil
2007-10-16 16:54:00 Visit the latest Carnival of the Godless at Skeptical Alchemist. A big theme of the current carnival is morality: are atheists more or less moral than theists? Does this even make sense? Can we even consider religious books as a proper source for moral guidance in the XXI century? However this is, as usual, quite an ... More About: Evil , The Best Of
The Other New Math
2007-10-15 19:00:00 Utterly brilliant, this. Apparently there is a new calculator out just for Christians. Some functions include… This calculator will have the ‘+/-’ key replaced with a ’satan’ key. This key will only turn positive (good) numbers into negative (evil) numbers…. The ‘cos’ key will be replaced with an ‘effect’ key, as God has no Cause[Genius! Absolute genius! ... More About: Math , The O
Spam science. Spam magnet.
2007-10-15 18:53:00 Admittedly, this is a wee bit of a snarky post, but I’ve got to get this off my chest. I have a post titled “Ohio State Board of Education Repeals “Bad Science ” Lesson Plan; Creationists are annoyed”. It seems to get targeted for spam more than anything else on the blog. I do not conclude this ... More About: Spam , Magnet
Let Bush Go Free?
2007-10-10 17:14:00 I hate to quote huge blocks of text but I have no time this morning and I couldn’t beat this for ‘concise’ and ‘to the point’. We’ve got to get our government back soon or we won’t get it back at all. These things ’stick’ if they are accepted for too long. People come to ... More About: Bush , Free
Win an ?Assume the Position? DVD
2007-10-09 17:23:00 Wuhl’s “Assume the Position ” is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time, but more importantly I think the show is a urgently needed counterbalance to the nightmarish history we are taught in school, so I was happy to help promote the release. Good for them. Good for me. And good for ...
Enlightenment Theory, Freedom and the Communal Good
2007-10-08 16:58:00 Enlightenment theorists argued for the power of reason to direct human activity, a process Immanuel Kant, in the opening lines of What is Enlightenment?, described as “man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity.” Kant, and other Enlightenment thinkers chided humanity to think for itself, to reason from evidence and to leave behind authoritarian sources of knowledge such ... More About: Society , Freedom , Theory , Good , Enlightenment
Sending Bad Signals to the Bad Guys
2007-10-07 17:35:00 I fail to see why a measure intended, I think obviously, to force the President of the United States to hold to the Constitution of the United States is sending the ‘Mad Mullahs’ the wrong message. [Hillary Clinton] is co-sponsoring a measure introduced by Senator Jim Webb (D-Va.) that would prohibit “the use of funds for ... More About: Guys , Sending
Ig Nobel? Hell no!
2007-10-07 17:31:00 The folks over at Pam’s House Blend are having fun with an Ig Nobel Prize winner– an “ aphrodisiac chemical designed to make enemy soldiers sexually irresistible to each other and cause widespread homosexual behavior” intended to create “a “distasteful but completely non-lethal blow” to affect troop “discipline and morale”". Hell ’s Handmaiden objects. “War by aphrodisiac” ...
Of Pins and Patriotism?
2007-10-07 04:34:00 I couldn’t have said it better. Brilliant. A true patriot understands the skepticism of authority which motivated the founding fathers, both in breaking away from England and in the form of government they established. You cannot both be a patriot and condemn all those who exercise their right to dissent as traitors. You cannot both be ... More About: Patriotism , Pins
I guess we are an Islamofascist state now? oh dear
2007-10-05 17:45:00 Foehammer cites House Resolution 635 (110th Congress)… Recognizing the commencement of Ramadan, the Islamic holy month of fasting and spiritual renewal, and commending Muslims in the United State s and throughout the world for their faith. Has the United States already submitted to Islam? « Foehammer?s Anvil … and concludes that the sky is falling. Bloody hell! It is ... More About: Guess
Know Religion, Know Nonsense
2007-10-04 16:58:00 Becky– “a stay at home mom who has been married 16 years to a wonderful, God fearing man. I homeschool my 2 children, 13 and 7. Jesus is coming back soon!!!”– of No Religion , Just Jesus published a couple of pieces that caught my eye. First, the light fair. The Lord of the Rings star, Ian ... More About: Nonsense
That?s not waste? gosh no! That?s just fill dirt.
2007-10-02 23:16:00 There is a remarkably brief piece of legislation called H.R. 2169 coming up to vote soon. Environmental-action.org is advertising it as legislation “that would help fight mountaintop removal mining.” The bill itself, though, is named `Clean Water Protection Act’ and reads (almost in its entirety): `(25) FILL MATERIAL- The term `fill material’ means any pollutant which ... More About: Society , Fill , Dirt , Waste
Happy! Happy! War! War!
2007-10-01 20:54:00 A powerful statement about war… Curiously, pacifists have long been stereotyped as sentimental and naive. But haven’t the real romantics of the past century been the misty-eyed flag-wavers, convinced that the next war will build a brave new world? Particularly in a world harboring some 30,000 nuclear weapons, those who speak about war as ... More About: Happy
Overestimating Omnipotence
2007-10-01 19:53:00 The Atheist Mama makes a mess of religious logic with only a few lines. I once heard it [”it” being “Natural Family Planning”– themaiden] explained that the method leaves open the opportunity for God to ?give? you a child, if he so wishes. I suppose that if I were to believe in an omnipotent deity who ... More About: Omni , Eres
this is not my country - October 1, 2007
More articles from this author:2007-10-01 16:33:00 Welcome to the September 1, 2007 edition of the “this is not my country” carnival. War: Ian Welsh, of The Agonist, asks Is the US Determined to Have War With Iran?. “It would be military and economic insanity, but, after all, we are talking about the administration that brought us Iraq, messed up Katrina, and tortures ... More About: Politics , Country , October 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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