August 21, 2009
Mehta's blog post in which he exposed Higgins' irresponsible and absurd claims has yielded a singularly incoherent babbling response. Is there any doubt that The Illinois Family In Italics Institute should be deeply embarrassed?
Here's the "open letter." Ick.
August 21, 2009
Frank talked down to the audience!!! The previously posted video showing frank slapping down the wackaloon is here.
Note the use of the term "ideology" here. You are also seeing it more and more often in comments on this blog.
Hat Tip DMB
August 21, 2009
I just came across the following video, which brought back certain memories.....
The particular memory this brought back has to do with those stars you see all over the walls and ceiling at the beginning of the video. After the three day long party, a hand full of us cheerfully cleaned up the…
August 21, 2009
Lake Elmo, MN, Aug 27
Health Care Reform Public Forum
With special guest, Congressman Michael Burgess, M.D.
Thursday, August 27th
Doors open at 1:45 pm
Forum runs 2:45 pm to 4:00 pm
Oak-Land Junior High School
820 Manning Avenue North, Lake Elmo
Along with my special guest, Congressman Michael…
August 21, 2009
Feminist Majority Foundation reports on a positive development in a case of true over the top sicko right wing Republican offensive crapola. A law had been passed in the somewhat backwards state of Oklahoma requiring that prior to an abortion, the woman be subjected to a subjective description of…
August 21, 2009
You think I was over the top in my comments on Health Care Reform?
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3 Points, Rachel!!!!
Republicans ... they're the ones who are really over the top. In fact, listen to me for a second. If YOU have considered yourself to…
August 21, 2009
Apropos this, a repost:
The bodies of civil rights activists Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman were found after they had been missing for six weeks in the vicinity of Philadelphia, Mississippi, on this day in 1964.
From the bbc report of the time:
The three young men had left…
August 21, 2009
CALLING ALL ALLIES:
Hemant Mehta is the Friendly Atheist (that's a blog) and a math teacher. There are people who want him fired. This is not the first time he's been through this. Please visit his site and give him some support.
Click Here.
If you are a blogger please point to the above…
August 21, 2009
In my initial list of Falsehoods, I included these two closely related items:
Evolution has stopped for humans; and
Serious scientists often entertain the question: "Has evolution stopped for humans?"
I'll make the distinction between them clear eventually. For now, let's focus on the first: Has…
August 21, 2009
Mike: Yes there is too a link:
August 21, 2009
Ghostwriting, in the scientific medical literature, is the production of marketing literature which is then disguised as scientific literature. Part of this disguise is the appending of "authors" who are actual scientists who would normally write their own papers.
Newly unveiled court documents…
August 20, 2009
BioLogos was a foundatoin Collins started in an effort to reconcile science and religion. He just resigned from the foundation, saying "I want to reassure everyone I am here to lead the NIH as best I can, as a scientist. The NIH director needs to focus on science. I have no religious agenda for…
August 20, 2009
Let me tell you what I think about this:
Ridge was never invited to sit in on National Security Council meetings; was "blindsided" by the FBI in morning Oval Office meetings because the agency withheld critical information from him; found his urgings to block Michael Brown from being named head of…
August 20, 2009
Apropos recent news events, a repost
Scene: Berkeley, California, April 1986. A bar. Five conference attendees, myself included, grabbing a hamburger and a beer in a fern-bar on or near Telegraph.
All eyes are on the TV's mounted over the bar, where we watch footage of an air strike against…
August 20, 2009
The religious right is ramping up its campaign against health care reform, even joining with the "tea party" movement to encourage conservative Christians to swamp town hall meetings. Minnesota's religious right leaders say that the health care reform package is against God's plan for health care…
August 20, 2009
Unfortuntaely, Taitz was not born in the US... seriously. I'm not making that up.
August 20, 2009
Stephen Jay Gould and David Pilbeam wrote a paper in 1974 that was shown ten years later to be so totally wrong in its conclusions that it has fallen into an obscurity not usually linked to either Gould or Pilbeam. However, they were actually right in ways that they could not have anticipated.…
August 20, 2009
Mike Haubrich has an analysis that you should have a look at.
While I prefer a single-payer plan, I will also support a public option. Yes, this will drive some private insurers out of business. Considering the piss-poor way that they have been enacting the so-called "invisible hand" I don't feel…
August 20, 2009
I and the Bird #107 - We and the Bird ... is in full flight at Liza Lee Miller's Blog. CLICK HERE. Read it, digg it, stumble upon it!
August 20, 2009
Yesterday, I called Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar and expressed my support for the public option in Heath Care. If you are a Minnesotan, please do that too. Al's number is 651-221-1016. If you are not a Minnesotan, call Al anyway as he is on the Health Education Labor and Pensions committee. Use…
August 20, 2009
.. and another repost apropos our recent tornado activity:
Marilee Thomas of Beaver City, Nebraska. And a tornado. [source] Mid-Americans ... Minnesotans, Texans, Nebraskans and denizens of Arkansas, and everyone in between, understand tornadoes, but to varying degrees. There are differences…
August 20, 2009
Apropos the recent tornadic activity here, a repost:
This story:
10 tornadoes confirmed in Ga., including one with winds topping 160 mph
Ten tornadoes, one packing winds of more than 160 mph, touched down in parts of Georgia on Wednesday, the National Weather Service said Friday.
The storms caused…
August 20, 2009
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August 19, 2009
The gun toting at the Obama Talk were organized by a crazy right wing radio talk host. Also, there are links to a major terrorist group.
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August 19, 2009
A Des Moines bus driver has been suspended for refusing to drive a bus with a pro atheist ad on the outside. The story is here. There is also a poll at that location that you may want to answer. Hat tip Pharyngula.
Angela Shiel was suspended on Monday after she refused to drive a bus with an…
August 19, 2009
That is totally my old neighborhood. A shame to see so many trees down. A good day for people in the roofing business, though.
I also think that from now on a basic course in videography should be required of all humans.
August 19, 2009
Found: The secret map atheists use to find each other for ... meetups.
