Sep 25, 2011 911 911 academia accountability now actions adventures alcohol anniversaries announcements april fools architecture art asri atheism aunty flow awesomeness bad universe banned books week berlin wall biden birthday bit o fun bloggers boob tube books bush carnival carnival of the elitist bastards carnivals catblogging celebration chaosisms. December 20, 2018 after a threeweek break brought on by yet another hospitalization, we return to talk about all of the huge developments in the various investigations surrounding trump and a few other issues. Trump does not want to be a war time president that loses the war. In light of recent public confusion about the rape thing and what the rightthinking christian view on that whole thing should be, our text for tonight will be a selection of verses pertaining to this issue. I am proud to declare on my blog super duper iraq victory day. Plus we desperately need some from the atheist pantheon of. The wall street journal printed a column by suzanne somers, presenting her as an expert on health care, criticizing obamacare. Jan, 2012 at the request of several readers, this is a separate thread just for the jessica ahlquist college scholarship fundraiser if you want to help her, please contribute.
Apr 03, 2020 you might recall the flood of children from central american countries in the summer of 2014. The battles that define america from jeffersons heresies to gay marriage, from which. Shes the lovely lady who said gays are a bigger threat in america than terrorists a little while back. Elevatorgate is the unprecedented internet war that erupted after rebecca watson above posted a video in which she discussed an ordeal she experienced in an elevator while attending the world atheist convention which took place in dublin, ireland, from june 3rd to june 5th, 2011 during the months of july and august 2011, the atheistskeptic blogosphere was ablaze with accusations. I got this handy list of the most frequentlychallenged books 20002009 from the american library associations website. Rick santorum obviously didnt learn anything in school.
The us has begun the first stage of the process of withdrawing its troops from afghanistan from,000 to 8,600, one of the elements of the peace deal signed by the us with the taliban. The real whig ideology that inspired the colonial protest movement of the 1760s drew on classical and early modern rather than christian sources. Americas car culture collapse of industrial civilization. Flamboyant emergence ive been neglecting you, readers. I think the facts in that case, like those in the arlenes flowers case, are more sympathetic for the shop owner. Ladyparts, let alone al qaeda, if 3 hersey high school students in illinois asking questions make his election chairman cry. Freethought s coordinator, bishop mcneill, told the huffington.
The superstition that the budget must be balanced at all times, once it is debunked, takes away one of the bulwarks that every society must have against expenditure out of control. Far cry 4 is a 2014 firstperson shooter game developed by ubisoft montreal and published by. En tequila es verdad is moving to freethought blogs on october 1st. I mean back when it was about some baseline skepticism of aliens with good technology posing as gods, that was cool. Abandoned and orphaned children in postearthquake haiti must have seemed like easy pickings to an idaho baptist church, so it looks like they went there and scooped some of them up. Well, its not new, but for some reason the mailing list had this old blog address on it and the real thing is at. A discussion of political correctness versus free speech, the eradication of christian traditions including christmas from public life, and the attack on family values, hard work, thrift, cleanliness, selfreliance, selfrespect, and all the things that made this country great.
Jan 20, 2014 in august of last year in newport, tn cocke county child support magistrate lu ann ballew ordered a couple to change their newborns name from messiah to martin. From what ive seen and of all the people who claim to be one way or the other, those who claim to be conservative most certainly are the ones who are standing firm saying that compromise is an assault ont heir principles. Companies in the united states that manufacture, distribute and sell firearms, ammunition and hunting equipment employ as many as 98,752 people in the country and generate an additional 110,998 jobs in supplier and ancillary industries. Mar 27, 20 on the off chance that the new pontiff is in the habit of reading obscure atheist blogs i thought id take this opportunity early in his career as head of one of the worlds most damaged and damaging institutions to offer him a few words of considered godless opinion on the best way for him to fulfil his brief while doing as little as possible to exacerbate the social evils his church is.
Why these puritanical numbskulls never learn from the fate of similar bills peddled around the country, ill never know. Turgid because im too lazy to do research or write a complete essay. Im not going to fight anyone here, or be drawn into a fight here. I really should read more leguini loved the dispossessed and enjoyed the earthsea quartet. To the secular left he was a thundering theocrat who was about to usher in a police state in the us, with all dissent squashed and all unbelief punished. Jun 30, 2009 whereas, freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of god benjamin franklin. Nov 24, 2010 i thought i drew the line in the sand at line in the sand back with sg1. He also has a soft spot for crazy ideologues, namely joseph farah and. Now peter rollins seems to be saying i believe in god means jesus, yipee or jesus, wow. Whereas, god who gave us life gave us liberty and can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of god thomas jefferson. Im going to vote for biden while shaming him and the culture that made him a nominee. Whats with this religious crap in stargate universe. These are not your grandfathers pastyfaced men living in dusty and remote batinfested castles whose main goal is to get their feast of human blood while avoiding detection. If you have a problem with that, well, i dont care.
Tnet 35 how women were tricked into shaving their legs. Christian youtuber who serves as a shoulder to cry on. According to the blogs resident physics professor and math department chairman. There is about to be released in australian cinemas tales from earthsea, an anime loosely based on leguins earthsea novels. I explain the reasons for this in the book as to masterpiece cakeshop. December 20, 2018 we missed a week because i was in the hospital again, but were back and were talking about trump losing several court cases over the limits of his authority, his tireless need to insult veterans and much more. Borgonzonis granddaughter is lucia borgonzoni, the farright. Jul 03, 2018 blacklist every last one of them mari uyehara gq alexandria ocasiocortez demonstrated the power of young women in politics li zhouli vox no one will believe baboon complaints racist abuse in immigration detention on the rise in trump era, report says aida chavez the intercept after the supreme court blow, unions should look to a new model. The laws and morality in peoples heads does not include corporations. The longest war in us history is in the process of finally winding down, at least as far as the us is concerned. I am mean, i am cruel, i am forcing all of you to update blogrolls and rss feeds and all that rot. What is noteworthy so far, for a brief interval in history, some humans have tried science. Atheists, please stop saying these things ed brayton patheos.
They arent people and people do not think of them as people. The unintentional irony award goes to the opponents of the international baccalaureate curriculum at a high school in upper st clair, pennsylvania, who appear to be of the view that it comes straight from chairman mao. The rape of one woman is a degradation, terror, and limitation to all women. Stephen prothero has a new book out called why liberals win the culture wars even when they lose elections. Teapot something about its impossible to see, but but so far im failing to come up with a last line. Sep 28, 2007 the superstition that the budget must be balanced at all times, once it is debunked, takes away one of the bulwarks that every society must have against expenditure out of control. Ive expressed my objections to raes argumentsi think they basically misrepresent science it is taken as axiomatic in this series of posts that science is an ideology, whereas i think this needs to be argued fordemonstrated and critique a strawman. Well, its not new, but for some reason the mailing list had this old blog address on it and the real thing is at the real dispatches from the culture wars page. Thursday, may, 2004 carnival of the vanities if youre here looking for the carnival of the vanities, please go to the new dispatches from the culture wars. Get updates from dispatches from the culture wars delivered straight to your inbox.
Moreover, it is important to point out that a country founded by and for christians does not a christian founding make. Krauthammer echoes my own admiration for the american system of federal governmentnational, yet federal, as in sharing power with the more local level, the states. He specializes in civil rights issues, particularly police misconduct, education policy, and transparency in government. In the fine tradition of using catastrophes to ones own advantage, the church of scientology has decided that haitians injured in the recent earthquake require their dubious pseudomedicine. Please stop using the fire in a crowded theater metaphor ed. There are times when what we journalists see and intend to write about dispassionately sends a shiver down the spine, shaking us from our neutrality.
It is therefore quite difficult to capture every skirmish that erupted over this fiasco, between bloggers. Just quicklyrae at subversive muse has written a series of posts from a critical leftwing perspective on atheism, science and religion. But still not white, as all hes got going for him is his fathers name and the money hes made as a financial advisor. Trump has practically waged his own personal war against any and. Dec 05, 2017 joe mcken is a progressive civil libertarian and thirdwave atheist stuck in suburban quebec, canada, where he spends his time composing, writing, drawing, nursing a laymans passion for science and technology, speaking out for social justice, and poking idjits with a sharp pointy stick. Jim lee is a contributor to make magazine, and is interested in turtles and bamboo. According to the games narrative director, mark thompson, ghale learns the history and culture of kyrat along with players. We all know that christians are commanded to go and make disciples of all nations, and as a rule, they generally feel compelled to convert as many people as possible to their own form of their religion. He also has a soft spot for crazy ideologues, namely joseph farah and his menagerie.
Of course ones take on falwell will depend on where one stands on the political and religious spectrum. One of the functions of oldfashioned religion was to scare people by sometimes what might be regarded as myths into behaving in a way that longrun civilized life requires. Oct 30, 20 related posts from dispatches from the culture wars. I will add anyone to my blogroll who adds me to theirs, whether conservative, liberal, moderate, libertarian or albigensian, with the exception of spam or porn bl ogs or anything else your mother would be embarrassed to read. Wsj publishes suzanne somers column on health care ed. Each wideeyed gaze or cry of pain and each heart broken we cannot take a backward. Political debate in illinois for the past few years primarily has been about debt, budgets and unions, but we could be returning to a time of culture wars with abortion, immigration and marriage equality back in the spotlight with the inauguration of presidentelect donald. Its that time o the year again, that joyous and irreverent turning up our inkstained noses at the fools who think banning books is a good idea. Oklahoma state legislator sally kern is back in the news. Im not judging the person im judging the value of preserving the lounge atmosphere.
The center for humanist activism fund has started the freethought equality fund pac, creating the countrys first ever political action committee dedicated to promoting the rights and concerns of nonbelievers. Its a far cry from the way we thought wed share it. Americas gun culture collapse of industrial civilization. I do not address arlenes flowers in the book since the appeal was not granted until after we were far. At the request of several readers, this is a separate thread just for the jessica ahlquist college scholarship fundraiser if you want to help her, please contribute.
And i simply know far too many very intelligent religious people to believe this. So how much nuttier can she get she is now saying that our countrys problems are due to obama not being religious enough, the godless heathens and their pornography, and of course those sodomizing gays. This weeks short story comes from the wellknown fantasysf author ursula leguin. Although this is a conservative blog i have a liberal blogrolling policy. And technically i suppose its not pop culture, either, unless you. King aardvarks kick in the nuts turgid ideas about science, engineering, religion, and politics. This has been a killer meeting in orlando, with the schmoozing starting at 8am and then nonstop talks and then everything dribbling away into exhaustion somewhere north of 11pm. It describes a utopian civilisation in which the happiness and good fortune of its citizens depends upon the misery of a child kept locked away in an underground dungeon. Of all the endlessly repeated conventional wisdom in todays washington, the most lazy, stupid, and ubiquitous is that our politics is broken. Rohrer conflates preachers and politicians 3 hours ago. Certain aspects of far cry 4 were inspired by the nepalese civil war, and the. Military religious freedom foundation protecting the constitutional guarantee of separation of church and state in the united states military. Jul 11, 2007 the ones who walk away from omelas is an allegory. Oh and also 1 may 2003 shall go down in american history along with november 11, may 7 and 8, and august 15 and april 12.
Im angry that atheist conventions have to have extra security. Would i actually decline the chance to blog alongside so many of my. Members of the network do not know his true identity due to the groups culture of internal secrecy. Religion still holds some power over me because i fear. While other people are isolating themselves to slow the spread of the epidemic, michigan republicans pushed through an exemption to allow churches to have gatherings of 50 or more people meanwhile, in florida, this pompous ass is encouraging his congregation to hug each other and promises that hell never close his services. Let the media know that there are a lot of us who support what shes done and who want to make her future better than her present by giving her the opportunity to go to college without worrying about things like tuition and books.
The childs parents originally took the case to court to adjudicate their disagreement on which surname they should give the infant. Half of americans think bible should influence laws 20 hours ago greta christinas blog showgirls, and some history of sex in cinema 9 months ago maryam namazie. Other humans are appalled and trying to do away with it. Ireland proposes laws to ban online fake news preliator. The pac will back humanist, atheist and agnostic candidates at all levels of government. Oh and also 1 may 2003 shall go down in american history along with november 11. For those who might be wondering how ed brayton cofounder of ftb blogs and dispatches from the culture wars blogger is hes posted a. The current crop of vampires seem to be a far cry from the days of bram stokers dracula. Yet the corporate media seems to think white isshould be a frontrunner, while castigating democrats as bum steers for their generational ineptitude.
This has been happening to me frequently of late as one story after another drives home the fact that the delusional is no longer marginal but has come in from the fringe to influence the seats of power. But of course he doesnt have to make those things a big issue. Sep 11, 2011 the blog wars were broad in scope and battles were fought across hundreds of blogs, comments sections, and forums across the internet. Sao paulo has the most cases and deaths so far of coronavirus in brazil. So, it seems as though information should always be free. Blacklist every last one of them mari uyehara gq alexandria ocasiocortez demonstrated the power of young women in politics li zhouli vox no one will believe baboon complaints racist abuse in immigration detention on the rise in trump era, report says aida chavez the intercept. A far cry from the heady, ultraprofitable years of 2003 2005. Ed brayton is a civil libertarian blogger and former comedian who writes at dispatches from the culture wars. Aug 12, 2011 phil johnson said in that case, perhaps youll explain what the term, open minded, means. Look, was i really gonna say no when the opportunity to get all of my beloved geobloggers in front of more interested eyeballs was presented to me. It seems a far cry from where we are today wrt to how we think about refugees, asylumseekers, and those who are seeking not just to stay alive but some semblance of a better life. A fundraiser for jessica ahlquist hemant mehta friendly. Three keywords atheist, agnostic, freethinker, two websites freethought blogs and atheist revolution, and the new york times frequencies are increasing through most of the period, peak around 2012, stay strong for a few years after that, and decline around 2016. Its a far cry from the world we thought wed inherit.
Rape culture is perpetuated through the use of misogynistic language, the objectification of womens bodies, and the glamorization of sexual violence, thereby creating a society that disregards womens rights and safety. I could even get behind the metaphysics of ascension and all. It is not up to believers to tell atheists that were going too far with the anger and need to calm down. Whats with this religious crap in stargate universe i thought i drew the line in the sand at line in the sand back with sg1. Posts about americas gun culture written by xraymike79. Because the biblical promises and exhortations for righteous rape are so numerous, i will only post a small sampling here.
In the wake of the manner in which christians such as marion pat robertson have used the haiti earthquake to advance their own agendas, scientist and outspoken critic of religion richard dawkins is using the comments of christians both robertsons, and those who try to distance themselves from him to expose the reality of the religion they worship. I always laugh when i hear some americans cry they dont want the government between them and their doctor, because insurance companies. It does not teach the basic patriotic values of the united states, said judy brown, 64, a retired merchandising and. So while the press, everanxious to assign blame for high oil prices, highlights the enormous profits that oil companies are making, the fact is that much of those profits owe to producing oil from wells drilled in a much cheaper era and selling it in the new highpriced era. Mar 19, 2008 i am proud to declare on my blog super duper iraq victory day.