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Entries from October 2008

I do not know about you, but…

October 27th, 2008 · No Comments

After reading this:
Dear friends, In these times, with extremely serious, complicated crisises confronting us both economically and internationally, we need to have intelligent, educated people as president & vice president: 
Educational Background:
Barack Obama:
Columbia University - B.A.
Political Science with a Specialization in
International Relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna Cum Laude
Joseph Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in History [...]

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Tags: Politics

Apple Says “Vote ‘No’ on Prop 8″

October 25th, 2008 · No Comments

In a rare political move, Apple today officially announced that is is donating $100,000 to California’s No on 8 campaign that seeks to change California’s State Constitution and ban same-sex marriages in the land of Schwarzenegger.
Apple is publicly opposing Proposition 8 and making a donation of $100,000 to the No on 8 campaign. Apple was among the first California companies to [...]

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Tags: Apple · Politics

Clenched fist salute for Philadelphia

October 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Philadelphia sports fans booed Sarah Palin.
No need to say more about it.

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Tags: Politics

A perfect representation of creationist thought

October 13th, 2008 · No Comments

Perry Marshall put up a quick guide to Intelligent Evolution.
His “proof” that DNA was designed by (a) god is simple:

DNA is not just a molecule – it is a coding system with a language & alphabet, and contains a message
All languages, codes and messages come from a mind
Therefore DNA was designed by a Mind

Three lines, [...]

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Tags: Creationism

Lesbians are god’s favourite people

October 7th, 2008 · No Comments

Do you have any other explanation, why homophobics always seem to give’em a free pass. Like Asshole Reverend Peter Mullin:
[...] “Let us make it obligatory for homosexuals to have their backsides tattooed with the slogan SODOMY CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH and their chins with FELLATIO KILLS.”
Yes he actually wrote that. And other amazingly stupid [...]

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Tags: Religion

Jenny McCarthy’s logical defense

October 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Remember Amanda Peet? The one talking about the antivaccination nonsense for Cookie magazine?
Jenny McCarthy sniped at Amanda Peet with an interesting (and telling) argument:
“(Peet) has a lot of [nerve] to come forward and be on that side, because there is an angry mob on my side, and I like the fact that I can say [...]

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Tags: Antiscience