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POPSFalse Premises I often come across people attempting to argue that atheism is some sort of a creed or even a religion. This clip touches on why this simply isn't the case. The article itself goes into much greater detail.
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POPSFailed Oilman Bush Acts Again He was a failure as an oilman and as a President. More offshore drilling wil have no effect on the price of oil and most sane people know this. One could therefore speculate if this is driven more by George's twisted relationship with his father or just another example of his gut feeling thinking. Next year can't come soon enough! This man has done enough damage already.
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POPSA Bad Law The recurrence of offense by rapists and pedophiles is well documented. But what about the multitude of teens that are branded with the scarlet letter of sex offender? The present laws make no distinction between a rapist and an adolescent experimenting with sex. Yet the consequences are the same regardless of the "crime". This is foolhardy and a tremendous waste of taxpayer money to say nothing of the devastating consequences of teens being caught with their pants down. What began as a law to protect children has turned children into lifelong pariahs and that is not right.
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POPSSentient Beings Protected I'd say it's high time that we got off our high horse and recognized other sentient beings that we share the earth with and grant them limited rights such as freedom from torture. Ethically, it is the right thing to do. In part, we can blame religion for this ethical blunder.
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POPSPZ Myers and Weekend Religionists This short 34 second clip made me imagine future church goers more as civil war reenactors. They are mildly entertaining to watch but you wouldn't base your whole life on their hobby.
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POPSMy Hat's Better Than Your Hat And so begins the strange tale of the alien traveler from the Planet of the Hats. Click on the main link for the meat of the article. You won't be disappointed.
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POPSNever Say Never Like many Americans, I had lost hope that Bush would ever be brought to justice for his lies to the American people and his abuse of the Constitution. I don't wish to jinx things but is this the beginning of hope that Bush will now be held accountable for his crimes? We'll have to wait and see.
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POPSCatholic League Crack Up Once again, the Catholic League, under the direction of Bill Donohue has started a campaign to have a biology professor at the University of Minnesota ousted because he had the termerity to poke fun of a news story of a man who held a Communal wafer hostage (see my previous clip). It seems this was a great insult to the church administrators. PZ Meyers wrote some comments on his blog which further angered the offended Catholics and that's when Donohue stepped in. To hear his take on this issue you'd think the Cracker blasphemer was the anti-Christ! What absolute foolishness.
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POPSHistorical Anniversary Eighty-three years later the knuckle draggers are still arguing for their creation myth. For some, the process of evolution moves much more slowly than for others. Can I hear an Amen?
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POPSInconvenient Facts Fluster Grandpa Seems McCain is having trouble walking the tightrope between the majority of the US voters and the Pants Police of the Religious Right. It is fun watching him squirm.
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POPSPhil "Enron" Gramm Knows Best? The self confessed economic dilettante, Grandpa McCain, puts his trust in Enron and UBS lackey Gramm. Well, that certainly makes me feel better.
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POPSChrist Crackers Held Hostage! This sounds more like a Monty Python skit than a real life occurrence. I can imagine top scientists at the Vatican working on a Magic Cracker scanner so the faithful can be scanned before leaving the church to make sure no more Sacred Ritz are abducted.
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POPSReaganomics A suburb of Atlanta and a bastion of Conservatism discovers cognitive economic dissonance. They want government services but don't want to pay for them. Sound familiar? It's the drum beat from the Right that we hear every election season. Cut taxes (especially for the wealthy) and do away with government services. It seems the residents of this small town are finding out, albeit somewhat late, that "trickle down" is a myth and doesn't work. Wake up Republicans!
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POPSGod to visit on July 17 Oh boy! Only a few days to go and the world will be infused with this "Grace Light" that will infuse everyone with a spiritual glow and change everyone's life. If that doesn't work out, please contact me directly and I'll send you my special "Grace Light Enhancement Kit" for $19.99 which will enable you to be ready for the next Full Moon of hte Guru. It also doubles as a swell red/green 3D viewer.
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POPSCreationist Shows His Stuff Here's a pretty typical tirade by a fundamentalist Creationist that pretty much touches on all the points that Creationists get wrong all the time. About the only point he makes is that he's pretty ignorant about science and adheres to the talking points of the conservative right. My question is how many of these proselytizers will have to be proven wrong before they're eventually shamed into admitting that they've been lied to. The sad part is that many certainly have children who are also subjected to these ignorant views thus the ignorance is allowed to be passed along generational lines.
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POPSMugabe Spoils for a Fight Lying is in political vogue these days. And it seems that the more blatant the lie the more easily it slips off the tongue How often do we need to hear proclamations of peace from obviously non-peaceful countries. Admittedly, Zimbabwe has not directly attacked it's bordering neighbors. Yet the millions of refugees his failed state has produced could be seen as a human tragedy shared by all the surrounding countries. And does this man have room for bluster. Apparently so. With all the chaos in his country he seems to find time to rattle a few sabers of his own.
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POPSDrugs and Crime Scraping the insane drug laws which make it profitable for criminals to engage in drugs in the first place would be a great start. Admit it's a medical and not a legal problem. Turn the resources to that end that are now squandered on law enforcement.
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POPSYoo Roast Watch John Yoo squirm. Great fun. What is your question? I was wondering if the President could order a suspect to watch reruns of Roseanne?
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POPSGathering of the Loonies And remember, you're promised a "dazzling array of world class speakers"!!! Such as Ken Ham, the creator of the Creationist Museum in Kentucky. I suggest anyone within a 100 mile radius of this event stock up on flashlights and candles as you witness the advent of the Dark Ages.
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POPSHere We Go Again This somewhat disappointing position by Obama may be simple politics or it may be a sign of increasing involvement by religious organizations in government. Already we've seen the problems this can cause, mainly in the realm of churches to discriminate according to religion. If the rumors are true, churches will be able to discriminate in hiring if "certain conditions are met". I can't help but wonder if this is a ploy to garner the "evangelical" vote. Of course this still doesn't make McCain any more disirrable as a candidate.
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POPSBuffy St. Marie This is dated and the quality is lacking but the emotion still shines through. If you're not familiar with this artist this is a decent introduction.
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POPSSorry, Tea Leaves Indicate a Leaking Teabag To get to the meat of this issue you'll have to delve deeper than this clip. Consider this clip a teaser only. So, you've had an "experience" that made you a believer? These are as common as dirt. What most people forget are the untold "misses" they've experienced in their lives. It's similar to the positive hits from prayer that gives believers such faith that their cosmic begging stuff is actually working! Read the piece and open your eyes. It takes a bit of effort but you'll find that you'll be able to see much better afterwards.
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POPSOne More Time for the Learning Impaired It always helps to reiterate for the scientific challanged among us (and in the US that's a majority of the population) the difference between law, theory, guess and wishful thinking. Pay attention people, my patience is running out. And yes, you'll have to read the whole article to reap it's rewards. Learning does have it's costs so ante up! Don't let ignorance keep you sounding like a complete idiot.
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POPSMore Ignorant Comments About Creationism Jindal, like Bush himself, must have dozed off in basic science class when they were discussing what science is. It's no mistake that Americans are woefully ignorant when it comes to science. This wouldn't be a problem but for the fact that they want to spread their ignorance to school children too. ID is the pig with lipstick. It's Creationism dressed in a lab coat. It's not science. Period.
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POPSWould Garlic Protect Us From the Courts? More insanity from Texas which seems to have more than its share. This superstitious stupidity really needs to end. This religious immunity from critical scrutiny has existed for too long. It's time to begin shinning a light on these barbaric practices practiced by this death cult.
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POPSCrazy Phelps Rants On Be warned. This is not pretty. This demented hater of the ages spews his venom. And he backs it up with scripture so it must be true!
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POPSSmall Steps Are a Start No one has ever suggested that I am a friend of religion. Yet, for positive progress in the Middle East it apparently needs people that share that mindset to take a positive approach to deal with this issue.
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POPSNader - One Trick Pony Admiration for past good deeds aside, Nader presents these days as bitter, self-absorbed, and out of touch. Now he's accusing Obama of attempting to "talk white". I'm not even sure what the hell he means by this except perhaps a twisted view into his own cultural stereotypes
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POPSShowcase of Real Stupidity It's getting more and more difficult to keep up with the wackos these days. Ray's best line, of course, is his assertion that the poster he's responding to lives in an imaginary world. Irony meters all over the world pegged on that statement. Oh my!!!
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POPSPEW Survey Prompts Questions As I noted in a previous clip the PEW Survey claims that 1 in 5 atheists believes in god. I remarked at that time that this simply doesn't make sense. In this clip (and the appended comments) several people suggest reasons why this might have happened.
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POPSBill to Support Obama - Sort Of If I was making decisions in the Obama campaign, I think I'd be extremely careful on how I handled the Bill Clinton question. Considering the negative press he caused with his comments before and the bad blood that was evident between him and Barack, a careful approach is what is needed now. Eventually he might be able to be a positive influence but IMO, Bill definitely needs some reigning in and that doesn't seem to be something easy to do.
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POPSMormons Hoping Fear and Prejudice Will Rule the Day As explicitly spelled out in the Mormon letter this is a solely religious viewpoint. So why would they expect others to respect or obey their edicts? If they choose to do so it's their business. Otherwise this is a matter mostly of rights that are being denied to a segment of the population. Bias and prejudice aside, there is no rational reason that gays be denied the rights afforded straight people. Majority rule does not imply correctness. Have we forgotten the manner in which we denied rights to Blacks? Have we forgotten the way we denied rights to Native Americans? The majority was behind these oppressive measures too.
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POPSWhere We Stand I was stuck by the ambiguity of by which the respondents of this survey viewed religion. It seems that if they were better informed of their own faith they would be forced to abandon their present views of tolerance. Among high profile religious leaders we see lip service towards tolerance but a solid underpinning of a them versus us mentality. "We are the true faith" seems to have become blunted somewhat in the roll your own religious climate of today. The main article seems to be pretty fair and objective. Take a look for yourself.
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POPSThicker Skins Needed Maybe if certain Muslims tempered their over the top outrage over perceived insults and reined in their more radical leaders others would view them differently. Just a thought.
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POPSFood for Thought One statistic that stood out to me was the strange 1 in 5 self professed atheists that claim to believe in God. Atheism is conventionally defined as holding no belief in a god or gods.
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POPSI'll Miss Him I've followed Carlin since his days as the Hippy-Dippy Weatherman. I didn't always agree with him but he made me laugh more often than not.
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