You will enjoy yourself immensely watching Hitchens and Fry debating a pair of Catholic apologists. Click on the image below (you can see how the debate ended already)!
Oh. Unless you're a Catholic or other Christian — you won't enjoy that at all. You might want to go to church instead.
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1. He's said that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are part of a war on Islam.
2. He'd made posts comparing suicide bombers to soldiers who jump on a grenade to save their comrades.
3. He'd been placed on probation earlier in his career for trying to convert patients to Islam.
4. He was apparently so devout that he refused to even appear in his office Christmas photo, because that would require him to have his picture taken with a woman in the frame.
5. During a grand rounds presentation at a medical conference, he decided to regale the attendees with details of the punishments the Koran sets out for nonbelievers.
They have grand rounds, right? They, you know, dozens of medical staff come into an auditorium, and somebody stands at the podium at the front and gives a lecture about some academic issue, you know, what drugs to prescribe for what condition. But instead of that, he - Hasan apparently gave a long lecture on the Koran and talked about how if you don't believe, you are condemned to hell. Your head is cut off. You're set on fire. Burning oil is burned down your throat.
And I said to the psychiatrist, but this cold be a very interesting informational session, right? Where he's educating everybody about the Koran. He said but what disturbed everybody was that Hasan seemed to believe these things. And actually, a Muslim in the audience, a psychiatrist, raised his hand and said, excuse me. But I'm a Muslim and I do not believe these things in the Koran, and then I don't believe what you say the Koran says. And then Hasan didn't say, well, I'm just giving you one point of view. He basically just stared the guy down.
6. Witnesses report that he shouted "Allahu ackbar!" as he started firing.
How does Chris Matthews interpret all this? "We may never know if religion is a factor at Fort Hood."
I'm sorry to have to mention this again, but there's a chance the world will end on Wednesday. The same guy with the website that was designed to make you vomit from your eye sockets, who has been predicting the imminent end of the world over and over again, is predicting the apocalypse again.
Ho hum.
Anyway, I think he's been stung by his repeated failures, and this time he's imbedded his prediction in a conditional. Smart move. Expect further sliding deadlines for the apocalypse, all coupled to improbable pre-conditions. For instance, if a yeti starts nesting in my armpit hair, you should buy a lottery ticket, because you're guaranteed to win.
Here's the latest prediction.
WARNING:
If an economic collapse occurs on 11/9/2009,
THEN:
The Rapture takes place on 11/11/2009!
Color styles are preserved exactly as they are on the source web page, because that's what adds the weight of credibility to his words.
Read the comments on this post...I Don't think this was posted here, it's a review of The Power of Orange Knickers, one of my fav's of Tori's. I love it that it received a special attention, because it's such a wonderful song and deserves it so
(Knickers)
This week, Bridget brunches with singer and songwriter L.P., who performs a song on her ukulele and explains why snakes love her.
Bridget also introduces a musical performance by Lisa Rieffel and Killola.
And, of course, there are a couple of numbers by Dance Magic, including one by Bridget and Cat Davis that would make Mia Michaels cry proud.
[21 - 63] Sanctuary
[64 - 78] Stargate SG-1
[79 - 86] Dead Like Me
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clouded_sun this song is growing on me :)
Catholic defense for slavery? "We didnt know it was wrong and neither did anyone else at the time." Really? I thought you were in possession of universal morals.
And just wait til you hear their defense of child rape by priests.
The Audience was polled before and after the debate.
Before the debate the numbers were:
For the motion: 678
Against: 1102
Don’t know: 346
After the debate:
For: 268
Against: 1876
Don’t know: 34
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Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFTj9n40
Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-q8US0Q
Part 4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQRkfZzy
Part 5 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i391gBoE
The concern trolls are very concerned. They are responding to my posting of Sonia/Tanja/Rosa/Whoevera Jensen's crazy email — she's disabled! She's mentally ill! It's cruel to post her wacky screeds publicly where people will point and laugh! You're picking on her! <ChrisCrocker>LEAVE SONIA ALONE!!!</ChrisCrocker>
No.
Crazy people — and I don't mean clinically ill people who need medical/psychiatric help — are everywhere, and they are saying and doing stupid things, and they are sending their nonsense to me, and they are engaging in their foolishness in public places where they affect the normal, non-crazy, mostly sensible people. Announcing that they are mildly nuts is not a reasonable excuse to hold off on criticizing them. That logic would mean we'd have to restrain ourselves from mocking Glenn Beck or rebuking Michele Bachmann. They're no less crazy than Sonia Jensen, after all.
My mailbox would depress you. I think I am notified about just about every dufus who pops up and demands public respect for his delusions. Take the bus driver in Atlanta who decided he wouldn't let passengers off his bus if they wouldn't pray with him.
A MARTA bus driver is on suspension following allegations that he forced passengers to pray before allowing them to exit the bus.
Christopher James was one of those passengers. James said, initially, he thought something was wrong when he rang the bell to get off the bus and the door didn't open.
James said the bus driver asked him and three other passengers to join hands in prayer. James said the driver prayed with the group for about four minutes.
Suspend him or <ChrisCrocker>LEAVE THE BUS DRIVER ALONE!!!</ChrisCrocker>?
Or how about the schoolteacher who thinks the Book of Revelation has warned her about fingerprints?
A 22-year veteran kindergarten teacher in the Texas Bible Belt could lose her job for refusing, on religious grounds, to give fingerprints under a state law requiring them.
The evangelical Christian, Pam McLaurin, is fighting a looming suspension, claiming that fingerprinting amounts to the "Mark of the Beast," and hence is a violation of her First Amendment right to practice her religion. Her case is similar to a lawsuit by a group of Michigan farmers, some of them Amish, challenging rules requiring the tagging of livestock with RFID chips, saying the devices are also the devil's mark.
The latest case is the first in which a teacher is refusing fingerprinting on religious grounds, the woman's lawyer said. The U.S. Supreme Court has yet to decide whether the First Amendment is implicated in fingerprinting, especially at a time when states, local governments and civic organizations are increasingly making them mandatory for anyone wanting to drive a car or coach a youth basketball team.
McLaurin's lawsuit against the Texas Education Agency cites various passages of Revelation, the final book of The Bible:
He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand and on their foreheads, and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.... Then a third angel followed them saying with a loud voice -- if anyone worships the beast and his image and receives his mark on his forehead or on his hand he himself shall also drink of the wine of the wrath of God.... He shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.
Fire her or <ChrisCrocker>LEAVE THE SCHOOLTEACHER ALONE!!!</ChrisCrocker>?
I also get email from Tim Wildmon of the American Family Association. He's very excited; Christmas is victorious!
Governor gets message, big victory for Christmas!
Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear did not like a Christmas tree being called a Christmas tree. So he changed it. According to the Associated Press, Gov. Beshear recently decided the tree on the Capitol lawn in Frankfort, for 2009, should be called a "holiday" tree.
American Family Association immediately went to work against the forces of political correctness who wanted to remove the word "Christmas" from the Christmas season. Within hours, we sent an email alert into the Bluegrass State asking our 38,370 AFA Action Alert friends to call and e-mail Governor Beshear.
Point and laugh, and call the tree we atheists put up in our homes a Christmas tree too, or <ChrisCrocker>LEAVE AMERICAN FAMILY ASSOCIATION ALONE!!!</ChrisCrocker>?
Or how about this one? It turns out that Iraqi police are searching for bombs…with dowsing rods. A British company is making bank selling these useless gadgets to gullible — and now endangered — people with a risky job.
Despite major bombings that have rattled the nation, and fears of rising violence as American troops withdraw, Iraq's security forces have been relying on a device to detect bombs and weapons that the United States military and technical experts say is useless.
The sensor device, known as the ADE 651, from $16,500 to $60,000 each. Iraq has bought more than 1,500 of the devices. The small hand-held wand, with a telescopic antenna on a swivel, is being used at hundreds of checkpoints in Iraq. But the device works "on the same principle as a Ouija board" -- the power of suggestion -- said a retired United States Air Force officer, Lt. Col. Hal Bidlack, who described the wand as nothing more than an explosives divining rod.
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Aqeel al-Turaihi, the inspector general for the Ministry of the Interior, reported that the ministry bought 800 of the devices from a company called ATSC (UK) Ltd. for $32 million in 2008, and an unspecified larger quantity for $53 million. Mr. Turaihi said Iraqi officials paid up to $60,000 apiece, when the wands could be purchased for as little as $18,500. He said he had begun an investigation into the no-bid contracts with ATSC.
Scream and yell that their stupidity is putting their lives on the line, prosecute the con artists selling these cheap and useless gadgets, or <ChrisCrocker>LEAVE THE BOMB DOWSERS ALONE!!!</ChrisCrocker>?
I guess I'm one of those people who will continue to say that stupidity, ignorance, and even mental illness do not demand that people stand silent when victims of those afflictions thrust themselves forward and demand respect for their views. Polite silence and encouraging words of reassurance is how we got to Idiot America in the first place.
Read the comments on this post...It's always good to be able to categorize and explain relationships in the world.
I'm going to have to ponder this further, though. The Mummy is clearly in the same region as Frankenstein, but does the infectious nature of lycanthropy put the Wolfman in the same category as Dracula? I guess if zombies count as converters, so do werewolves. Curiously, the modern monsters of slasher flicks, the Freddies, the Michael Myerses (no relation), the Jasons, seem to have avoided the converter/contagion element of other movie monsters.
Discuss.
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Christmas — or at least Tori’s new music from the season — has come a little early this year: the twelve songs from the regular edition of Midwinter Graces are streaming at imeem for free!
Thanks to Steven, Suzy and Sally for letting us know!
There’s a side to the record when you listen to it that talks about what is the gold – what really is that? It’s valuing whom you have in your life, the relationships you’ve built. It’s not just about success – or it just isn’t all your material possessions anymore – it’s how you live your life, and that’s all included in the music.
Chris Azzopardi’s interview with Tori in which she talks at length about Midwinter Graces (which we had a teaser from last month) was published in the November 5th edition of “Between the Lines” and is now available online at PrideSource.
Thanks to Mark-Alexis Gabriel for the link!
The latest newsletter from the Canberra Theatre announced that all remaining tickets for Tori’s November 15th concert there have been reduced in price. A Reserve tickets have been knocked down to AUS$64.50 and the B Reserve tickets are now on sale at AUS$59.50. Additionally, ever ticket purchased will put you into a drawing to get an opportunity to attend a meet’n‘greet with Tori prior to the performance.
Thanks to onscarletswalk for letting us know about these changes (which, alas, are not exactly advertised on the Theatre’s website).
Some crazy lady in British Columbia named either Sonia or Tanja Jensen has me on a mailing list. I'm in good company; also on the list are the president of my university, Bob Bruininks, as well as Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, the Governor of Alaska, Greenpeace, Angela Merkel, and the German Balkan Trust. Strangely, NASA is not on the list. Without exception, all of her emails are raving mad. Here's her latest, which I think is one of the finest examples of her output.
Read the comments on this post...COULD NASA CAUSE THE SUDDEN DEATH OF EVERY LIVING THING ON EARTH? - "... the moon will not give its light ..." Matthew 24:27-29
DEAR NASA:
DO YOU REALIZE BOMBING THE MOON COULD CAUSE THE SUDDEN DEATH OF EVERY LIVING THING ON EARTH, INCLUDING MANKIND. YOU COULD ALSO INTERFERE WITH THE MOON'S ABILITY TO LIGHT UP THE EARTH AT NIGHT, SO DON'T COMPROMISE THE PLANETS BY RECKLESSLY BOMBING THE MOON!
I saw on the OCTOBER 9, 2009 news that NASA has been bombing the moon to see if there is water on it. You can't find water by bombing! See the article below.
I heard the bomb did not detonate and is lodged inside the moon's crater. I heard NASA sent another bomb to the moon last week (October 31), but the rocket malfunctioned.
If there is a live, unexploded bomb in the moon's crater and another bomb is driven into it, this could cause a large nuclear reaction on the moon, perhaps causing a huge chunk of the moon to dislodge and hurtle through space.
That's not a good idea, as the bomb could push the moon out of orbit and cause part or all of it to crash, with a worst case senario, to crash into the sun or the earth!
A collision of moon rock with the earth could cause such a dust cloud, that it could affect the earth's atmosphere and destroy our air supply.
NASA has an underground bunker with life support, the human race does not. Don't euthanize the human race by bombing planets!
NASA, you don't have the right to destroy the human race by driving pieces of planets into space or into the earth, affecting us all.
The Bible prophesied the moon would not give it's light at the end time at Matthew 24:27-29:
"For just as the lightening comes from the west, so shall the coming of the son of man be ... the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from the sky and the powers of the heavens will be shaken."
Jesus said at the 'end time', mankind would be separated into the 'wheat' and the 'weeds'. In other words, if we don't repent of our reckless chicanery, we will be destroyed.
HARVEST
"Gather My Godly Ones to Me"
Psalms 50:5,6 says: "Gather My Godly ones to Me, those who have made a covenant with Me by sacrifice. And the heavens declare His righteousness, for God Himself is judge."
"Be Ashamed of Your Harvest"
Jeremiah 12:13 says: "They have sown wheat and have reaped thorns, they have strained themselves to no profit. But be ashamed of your harvest because of the fierce anger of YHWH."
"The Workers are Few"
Matthew 11:37 says: "The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field."
"Allow Both to Grow Together"
At Matthew 13:26-30, Jesus said: "But when the wheat sprouted and bore grain, then the tares became evident also. ... And he said to them, 'An enemy has done this!' The slaves said to him, 'Do you want us, then, to go and gather them up?' But he said, 'No, for while you are gathering up the tares, you may uproot the wheat with them. Allow both to grow together until the harvest; and in the time of the harvest I shall say to the reapers, 'First gather up the tares and bind them in bundles to burn them up; but gather the wheat into my barn'."
"The Harvest Has Come"
Mark 4:26-29 states: "The Kingdom of God is like a man who casts seed upon the ground and goes to bed at night and gets up by day, and the seed sprouts up and grows, how, he himself does not know .... But when the crop permits, he immediately puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come."
"He Who Does Not Gather With Me Scatters"
Luke 11:23 says: "He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me, scatters."
"The Crop for Eternal Life"
John 4:35-38 says: "I tell you, open your eyes and look at the fields. They are ripe for harvest. Even now the reaper draws his wages, even now he harvests the crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may be glad together. Thus the saying 'One sows and another reaps' is true. I sent you to reap what you have not worked for. Others have done the hard work and you have reaped the benefits of their labor."
GATHER THE ELECT
"His Spirit Has Gathered Them"
Isaiah 14:16,17 says: "Seek from the book of YHWH, and read: Not one of these will be missing; none will lack its mate. For His mouth has commanded, and His spirit has gathered them. And He has cast the lot for them, and His hand has divided it to them by line. They shall possess it forever; from generation to generation they shall dwell in it."
"For the Sake of the Elect, Those Days Will Be Shortened"
Jesus said at Matthew 24:21,22: "For then there will be great distress, unequalled from the beginning of the world until now - and never to be equaled again. If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.
"So as to Mislead, if Possible, Even the Elect"
Matthew 24:24 says: "For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect."
"They Will Gather His Elect from the Four Winds"
Matthew 24:31 says: "He will send his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other."
"Lead Astray, if Possible, the Elect"
Jesus warned at Mark 13:22: "... false Christs and false prophets will arise, and will show signs and wonders, in order to lead astray, if possible, the elect."
"Justice for His Elect"
Luke 18:7 says: "Will not God bring about justice for His elect who cry to him day and night, and will He delay long over them?"
If we bomb the moon, we could throw it out of orbit, it could terrify mankind. Luke 21:25,26 confirms this:
"Men will faint from terror ..."
Please find attached my bible summary. Please look up END TIME in my summary attached and see that Jesus, the true prophet, and our Saviour, prophesied about these things occuring over 2,000 years ago.
The Bible's message does offer hope, as at Daniel 2:44, God promised a kingdom that 'will never be brought to ruin' and that he would 'wipe the tears from our eyes' ... 'death and mourning will be no more'
Please look these scriptures up in my attached Bible summary!
God loves each and every one of us and the Bible offers hope for all!!
Let's start to follow the Golden Rule and 'love god and our neighbour'!
Here's the article about the bombing of the moon that I took from the internet:
[There was no link to any article actually included--pzm]
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Who gave NASA permission to bomb the moon? Is it legal for NASA to bomb the moon?
It is not like their latest quest to mine for water on the moon was based on the major consensus of the American people. I think I speak for many when I say I was horrified by NASA's latest expedition.
It reminded me of the 2008 Olympic event held in Beijing, where Chinese officials strategically attempted to control the weather with cloud seeding. They had rockets filled with pellets of Silver Iodide on stand by just in case any rain clouds were to approach Beijing. If ominous weather
were to threaten the Olympic events Chinese officials would give the OK to shoot the rockets into the atmosphere in order to make the rain clouds dump out all of its precipitation before reaching Beijing. What ramifications would this have had on the atmosphere we share? How would traces of silver iodide impact our lungs, our ozone, our water, or those with sensitive respiratory ailments, etc?
U.S. flags have been emblematically planted on the Moon, although no nation can claim ownership of any part of the Moon's surface. According to the World Space Guide there are currently 11 countries sponsoring space agencies with space launch capabilities. 4 of those 11 countries have space agencies with manned spaceflight capability.
Reasonable men know it's wrong to travel to the moon, bomb it or otherwise interfere with it's orbit, as it is a lights for our night sky, influences the tides and is a valuable planet.
Let's not interfere with the ecology of the moon!
Sincerely,
Tanja Jensen
thoughts?
ps. im not a mod lol
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Today is Carl Sagan Day — I think that means you are officially expected to be filled with awe of the cosmos all day long, while also being thoroughly skeptical of the supernatural. Hang on…I think that means I celebrate Carl Sagan Day every day.
If I want to do something different, maybe I should make an apple pie from scratch.
Another thing you can do is consider the importance of science on social policy. It could be a very busy day!
Read the comments on this post...Lord Sacks blamed Europe's falling birth rate on a culture of "consumerism and instant gratification". He said the continent was "dying" and accused its citizens of not being prepared for parenthood's "sacrifices".
The 61-year-old, who took his seat in the Lords last week, said: "Wherever you turn today - Jewish, Christian or Muslim - the more religious the community, the larger on average are their families.
"The major assault on religion today comes from the neo-Darwinians."( Read more... )
(Full article here)
This article seems like a combination of:
"ZOMG religious people are turning into atheists/heathens/heartless materialists!/ Won't anyone think of the foetuses!"
"ZOMG the Muslim immigrants are taking over"
and finally
"ZOMG why aren't more Jews using my Beth Din court on which my whole status as Chief Rabbi depends. Is there no decent sense of morality in the world anymore?"
(Via ontd political)
( Under the pink and glitter in case of spoilers.. )
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