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Sour Apples
2007-10-01 06:43:00 While Apple is getting kudos for refunding the money people spent on the i-phone the first 8 weeks it was out on shelves, they’ve taken to a new business practice that is decidedly less deserving of applause. Having stopped into the Apple store to get an estimate on time for fixing my laptop (using my ... More About: Apples
Holding government responsible
2007-09-30 17:26:00 Well, whaddayaknow? Some nations hold their government responsible for its actions. Stop and ponder the consequences… then panic. My God, Man! What is the world coming to? Pretty soon elected officials will be following the rules. Campaign promises might have to be kept.The rule of law will… gasp… mean something. Lawbreakers in office might actually be ... More About: Government , Holding
What kind of mind?
2007-09-29 17:44:00 Yesterday, I was driving down Hwy 52 headed toward I-25. I’m being very specific about the location so that the cretin who inspired this post– on the off chance that said cretin is literate enough to read a weblog and clever enough to get online (To paraphrase Homer Simpson, “Oh, they have the internet on ... More About: Mind
Your Rep Votes for You? or maybe not
2007-09-29 05:38:00 Straight from my home state, though I’ve moved and I’m not going back except maybe for the Tex-Mex which is the best food on the earth and I miss it terribly… Ahem… let me restart. Watch the video and ask yourself, “Is a representative Democracy supposed to work this way?” More About: Votes
God. Sex. Violence. Immorality.
2007-09-28 16:58:00 In a comment on my recent post about Decadent Old Europe, SamD, of SamuelDouglas.wordpress.com, pointed me towards an article worth quote mining. The piece is from the Journal of Religion and Society. It is cross-national comparison of the more secular vs. the more religious developed democracies. The numbers in square brackets, [], indicate paragraphs as ... More About: Violence , Immorality , Viol , Mora , Ality
Throw down a hundred dollar bill
2007-09-26 19:58:00 … wait until someone tries to pick it up, then assume that person is a thief and arrest them. Sounds like a good idea doesn’t it? Our military thinks so. A Pentagon group has encouraged some U.S. military snipers in Iraq to target suspected insurgents by scattering pieces of “bait,” such as detonation cords, plastic explosives ... More About: Dollar , Throw , Bill , Doll
An Iraqi Civil War?
2007-09-26 19:30:00 “I can’t say there is a picture of roses and flowers in Iraq,” Maliki told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. “However, I can say that the greatest victory, of which I am proud . . . is stopping the explosion of a sectarian war.” That possibility, he said, “is now far away.” Iraqi ... More About: Civil War , Civil
Decadent Old Europe: Look how she suffers!
2007-09-26 19:03:00 Decadent old sex saturated, drug addled, secular, God hating, commie loving, hooker licensing, social medicine-ing, “we show boobs on TV and bare our knockers on the beach” Europe really ought to be suffering the fruits of her sins. Austria 0.18 Belgium 0.14 Denmark 0.12 Finland 0.02 France 0.37 Germany 0.08 Greece 0.14 Iceland 0.14 Ireland 0.09 Italy 0.31 Luxembourg 0.14 Netherlands 0.17 Norway 0.06 Portugal 0.69 Spain 0.57 Sweden 0.07 Switzerland 0.32 United Kingdom 0.09 Overpopulation.Com » HIV / AIDS Infection Rate By Country - Europe and the New Independent ... More About: Society , Sexuality , Decadent , Rope
The Iranian Nuclear Threat
2007-09-25 18:44:00 Seems to be as well supported as was the Iraqi WMD threat. In a leaked letter, the IAEA said a congressional report contained serious distortions of the agency’s own findings on Iran’s nuclear activity. …. It says the report was wrong to say that Iran had enriched uranium to weapons-grade level when the IAEA had only ... More About: Nuclear , Iranian , Threat , Rani
Rare Good News on the Propaganda Front
2007-09-25 18:06:00 The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced on September 21 that it was fining Comcast Corp. $4,000, for its cable channel CN8’s broadcast of fake TV news, a video news release (VNR) without disclosure. The Comcast fine is the first-ever sanction for airing a VNR, sponsored PR video that mimics the structure and style of television ... More About: News , Good News , Propaganda , Front , Good
Iran has itself quite a nice bit of propaganda
2007-09-23 18:56:00 It is Iran ’s version of “Schindler’s List,” a miniseries about an Iranian diplomat in Paris who helps Jews escape the Holocaust… Iran’s Newest Hero Aids WWII-Era Jews The miniseries is apparently quite a success story in Iran. It is called “Zero Degree Turn” and it, quoting the Washington Post, “offers a sympathetic view of the Jews’ plight ... More About: Society , Propaganda , Nice , Prop
The War on Indecency
2007-09-21 18:49:00 Apparently, saggy pants, like Socrates, are corrupting the youth and the collapse of civilization is nigh. We must do something to stop this, and stop it now! In Atlanta, a law has been introduced to ban sagging and punishment could include small fines or community work - but no jail time, Martin said. The penalty is stiffer ... More About: Indecency
See ma! Sometimes I can play nice!
2007-09-19 18:49:00 Several other blogs on the Atheist Blogroll have posted the whole list’o'links. I can play just as nice when I have to. 2 Intellectual Atheists A Daily Dose of Doubt A Human Mind A Load of Bright A Night on the Tiles A Veritable Plethora A Whore in the Temple of Reason A-Deistic AA Aardvarchaeology AASAUF About: Agnosticism / Atheism Abstract Nonsense Aces Full of Links acrylic. Action Skeptics AEsahaettr After ... More About: Play , Nice , Some
More piss-poor theology
2007-09-19 17:48:00 Here are a few questions for Dr. Laura Schlessinger from Humanists of Utah– piss-poor because anyone with a respectable understanding of theology would know how to spin webs of rationalization around such things and turn them into positive virtues, or else would know how to discount them with strained explications about ‘fulfilled law’, or else ... More About: Religion , Theology , Poor , Piss , Theo
Oh MY GOD! These people have normal human bodies!
2007-09-18 18:05:00 And kinda cute ones too. Vanessa Hudgens. Ashley Tisdale. Skin. Skin. Skin. I will be so god-damned happy when ‘naked’ stops being sooooooo shocking. Come on people, when are we going to grow up? Hudgens took pictures of herself for her boyfriend proving 1) that she is a sexual creature like everyone else and 2) that she ... More About: Society , People , Human , Bodies , These
No one really likes to be left out, now do they?
2007-09-18 15:54:00 Bitter after being snubbed for membership in the ?Axis of Evil?, Libya,China and Syria today announced that they had formed the ?Axis of Just as Evil?, which they said would be more evil than the Iran-Iraq-North Korea axis President Bush warned of in his State of the Union address. Photo Matt » Axis of… What? More About: Left , Ally
You may not know you?ve lost it
2007-09-18 05:00:00 But you’ll miss it if you ever need it. We all want to make America safe from terrorism, but becoming a nation that sanctions the unlawful detention of its own residents — detaining and jailing them without the chance to appear before a judge — does not make us safe. Instead, it violates a value that ... More About: Lost
Toilet Humor
2007-09-17 21:14:00 The Minneapolis airport toilet where US senator Larry Craig was arrested for allegedly soliciting gay sex is now attracting tourists, say airport staff. “People are taking pictures,” Karen Evans, an information officer at Minneapolis-St Paul international airport, told Associated Press. BBC NEWS | Americas | Larry Craig toilet ‘tourist site’ This kind of thing says a lot about ... More About: Humor , Toilet
Try to remember that?
2007-09-16 18:39:00 … that this is a creature that feels neither emotion nor pain, and consequently we need not feel bad about injuring and killing it in the name of research. The 12-week-old macaque - who was abandoned by his mother - was close to death when it was rescued on Neilingding Island, in Goangdong Province. After being taken ...
54 More Years
2007-09-16 18:21:00 54 years. That is about how long we’ve been in Korea now. That’s been so much fun let’s do it again, yes? This morning I received an email from Democrats.com. Tonight George Bush finally let the cat out of the bag: he wants U.S. troops to occupy Iraq for decades to come, no matter the cost ... More About: Years
The Great Web of Ideas
2007-09-15 17:57:00 Reporters without Borders commissioned the image above as part of an ad campaign, so I doubt that the lines drawn actually indicate real world connections. It is an interesting graphic though. The image is hotlinked to Ads of the World, a site none too surprisingly about advertising. Several disturbing trends show up in the comments ... More About: Society , Ideas , Great , The G
Blogs for Federal Deficits
2007-09-14 17:20:00 Mark is thrilled. The deficit is going down. See how good Bush is? See? See? Quoting the Herald Tribune: The federal deficit is running sharply lower than last year even though spending in August set an all-time high, the government reported Thursday. Blogs for Bush: The White House Of The Blogosphere: Federal Deficit Shrinks by 36% Well, it ... More About: Deficits
Blogs for Snotty Boycotts
2007-09-13 17:46:00 You know… the original Olympics served as a time that the Greeks could gather despite their sometimes severe disagreements. They even put hot wars on hold during the games. The quasi-democratic Athenians stopped killing the harshly authoritarian Spartans and visa versa. The concept behind such rules seems ot have been a kind of admission and ... More About: Society , Bush , Blogs
Holy Books and Human Behavior
2007-09-13 17:28:00 It is fundamentally wrong to go from ‘what some religious text says’ to ‘this is how people actually behave’ no matter what kind of lip service the faithful give to ‘divine inspiration’ or ‘infallibility’ and such like rot. There is a gulf between ‘holy book’ and ‘human behavior’ and we all know it. Theologians spend ... More About: Books , Behavior , Human , Holy
Be afraid. Toss your liberties. Trust me.
2007-09-12 16:22:00 The odds? Even if terrorists were able to pull off one attack per year on the scale of the 9/11 atrocity, that would mean your one-year risk would be one in 100,000 and your lifetime risk would be about one in 1300. (300,000,000 ÷ 3,000 = 100,000 ÷ 78 years = 1282) In other words, your ... More About: Terrorism , Trust , Bertie , Toss , Liberties
1.5 Billion is a Hell of an Army
2007-09-11 17:52:00 “Islam is fundamentally violent.” “The Qur’an commands armed proselytization.” “True Muslims must be jihadists.” “Muslims will not rest until the world is taken by force for Islam.” “Violent jihad is a core Islamic value.” These kinds of statements are not hard to come by in this modern world, though it is with some irony that I ... More About: Terrorism , Army , Hell , Billion
Why go to college?
2007-09-10 15:50:00 … when you can self-educate with quality texts from Regnery? “Regnery publishing has a line of Politically Incorrect Guides to any particular issue that happens to cross them the wrong way“, to quote 90% True. Regnery has book covering everything you need to know from the Constitution, to Capitalism (Rah! Rah! Rah!), to Global ... More About: College , Coll
Blogs for not getting the joke
2007-09-09 22:47:00 Or maybe, “Blogs for not getting that their namesake is a joke”. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is giving away bumper stickers that read “Sorry, W, I’m the Decider; Dems in 08″. I might order one myself, although I’m not sure I’ll stick it on my car. The Democrats have yet to “Wow!’ me. But it ... More About: Politics , Bush , Joke
Bob Carter?s Mythology: The IPCC
2007-09-09 19:43:00 This article covers the last of the points made in ?The Myth of Dangerous Human-Caused Climate Change (PDF)?, Bob Carter ’s frontal assault on the science of global warming. First, a recap. Part I is a fairly light introduction. Part II digs into Carter?s claim that we have no theory of climate and hence can’t deal ... More About: Mythology , Ology , IPCC
Facts are funny Things
More articles from this author:2007-09-08 19:23:00 In several of my exchanges with Foehammer– notably in “FoeHammer’s Grey Matter” but also in “Jihad will destroy us?”– I’ve been challenged to “attack FoeHammer’s facts not to attack the ‘blog-persona/man-thing’̶ 1;. So here are some facts, as Foe was quick to point out, the article was written by an anonymous third party. However, Foe endorses ... More About: Society , Politics , Terrorism , Religion , Funny 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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