The Orca’s Thumb

With the news of Sarah Louise Heath Palin inexplicably being chosen as a Vice-Presidential nominee, the attentive American public was also introduced to her character. Unfortunately for all of us, it was filled with multiple instances of backtracking and outright lies. While Alaskans had been giving her an 80% approval rating, recently 87% of Alaskans [...]

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Here’s what an Elizabeth Dole press release says, expressing disgust that Kay Hagan is actually going to meet with the Secular Coalition for America:
“Kay Hagan does not represent the values of this state; she is a Trojan Horse for a long list of wacky left-wing outside groups bent on policies that would horrify most North [...]

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The pope has condemned a silly sculpture as blasphemous, and Catholics are trying to get it removed from display.
The Vatican letter said that the work “wounds the religious sentiments of so many people who see in the cross the symbol of God’s love.”
One of the worst instruments of torture ever devised by man is an [...]

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Contrary to the claims of some of our political leaders, intelligent design is not an alternative theory to evolution. It’s a belief, and maybe - on a really good day - a hypothesis.
But it is not a theory.
To become a scientific theory, a hypothesis has to be developed into principles that not only explain what [...]

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When last we heard from Tom Willis, big-wig in the Creation Science Association for Mid-America, he was pondering whether evolutionists should be allowed to vote. Since Tom Willis is batshit insane, he decided that no, they should not, because they’re wicked godless atheists with no moral sense (theistic evolutionists aren’t spared — they are even worse).
Now he [...]

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This is so fucking stupid, I do not even need to comment on it.

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A prayer group in Washington DC is claiming the credit for the recent sharp drop in the US price of petrol.
“We don’t have anybody else to turn to but God,” Mr Twyman told the BBC. “We have to turn these problems over to God and not to man.”
I guess they’ve selectively forgotten about all the [...]

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A toddler whose remains were found inside a suitcase in Philadelphia this spring was starved to death by members of a religious cult, including his mother, in part because he refused to say “amen” after meals, police said.
Ria Ramkissoon, the mother of Javon Thompson, was charged Sunday with first-degree murder in the boy’s death, and [...]

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