This is almost too surreal to watch. I've seen some audacious things come out of the Religious Right but this video takes the cake.
The video begins by introducing the environmental movement as one of the greatest deceptions of our day. Funny how the most notorious brainwashers can accuse anyone of deception.
They have the nerve to make the following statements:
"Environmentalists have a long history of believing and promoting exaggerations and myths."
"Exaggeration, myths and outright lies are commonplace in the environmental movement."
The Chief Myth Makers are accusing science of promoting myths and lies? How do people like this live with themselves? What is it like to teach fairy tales to children and intentionally and deceitfully drive them away from facts and the truth? I have to know what that is like.
Scaring little children? You mean telling them to believe in stories and imaginary friends or else suffer by being tortured forever?
The war on the poor? Who will suffer the most when our environmentally unsound culture finally catches up to us? The Poor. The Religious Right needs the poor to justify their existence through charity under false pretenses.
Its time to step up the efforts and educate the young. My mission in life is now to stop this bullshit and eradicate religion by teaching my own children to dismiss religious mythmakers and liars and steer them towards reason and science. They will in turn pass that down on to their own offspring and we'll propagate religion out of existence.
I vowed to never lie to my children which is why we are a completely secular family. This is war, and our primary weapon used against our enemy will be information. The religious can only run from the truth for so long.
Monday, December 20, 2010
King Missile
I couldn't agree more. I can only imagine how much better my life would be today if the Son Of Man was playing on the Giants punt coverage team yesterday afternoon.
I've Always Hated HP Printers
This is why I buy Canon Printers, but then again I have never utilized their tech support. The best part of the video clip is the voice at the very end...
Friday, December 17, 2010
We Call It Football
OK, I'm getting tired of the whole "we-call-it-Football", "its-not-Football-its-Handegg-proper-Football-is-played-with-the-feet" controversy.
Here's the dilly: Amongst ourselves, we call it "Football" and the foot game "Soccer." When we're around others from elsewhere we'll call our game "American Football" so you won't get it mixed up with what you call "Football." OK?
Fair enough.
I don't know why a game with more resemblance to Rugby was allowed to use the name "Football" without considerable ridicule but that's the name the inventors gave it. They should have called it "American Rugby" but they didn't.
"Soccer" and "Football" can be used to describe the same thing just as "toilet" and "shitter" can be used to describe the same thing in different regions. Here's another example: picture a sandwich that's on a 12'' long roll with meats and cheeses, lettuce, tomato, onions, oil and vinegar, oregano, salt and pepper. In New York City they call it a "Sub." in Philadelphia its a "Hoagie." Same sandwich, different regions, different names.
Conversely there can be two different things with the same name. I don't feel like thinking up any examples. Use your imagination.
Unlike most Americans I have no problem using the "Football / American Football" differentiation because it helps avoid confusion. Just don't give me that shit about American Football being a sissy game because its a goddamn dangerous game.
Ask any wide receiver how safe it is leaping into the air to make a catch, and before he regains control of his body some psychopath like Asante Samuels barrels into him with full force leading with his helmet and he falls to the ground like a broken limp dick with stars circling his head and church bells ringing in his ears.
Google "Joe Thiesman Broken Leg Video." and report back. I once watched while a player with a broken neck had to be given CPR on the field.
This is not to take anything away from Soccer (Football) where players are unprotected running up and down the field (pitch) and collide with full force where any number of injuries can occur. My wife's cousin is a fantastic Soccer (Football) player and has had several concussions.
I love the way Soccer (Football) players have to be forced to leave the game when there's blood pouring from their heads. That's tough. That's dedication. That's fucking sports (sport). It's the mark of a champion and I freakin' love it.
Both are great games, both have unique characteristics, both are equally dangerous to the players, complete with concussions and broken bones. We all have to concede that point.
Any American who claims that Soccer (Football) isn't a sport, or is a sissy game is an ignroant douchebag. It's a fantastic game, thrilling to watch and has plenty of injuries to satisfy one's blood lust. Just because you never played it or don't understand it doesn't mean that it sucks. If you don't like it, fine, but on behalf of 99% of the sports fans in the world, maybe you should broaden your horizons a little.
And occasionally in Football (American Football) the ball is kicked.
Football.
Go Giants.
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Monday, December 13, 2010
Fw: Fw: Fw: The most incredibly important thing ever! Share with everyone you know!
Think of all of the things you can learn from the emails that your grandfathers or great aunts send you. What a crazy world we live in, eh? That Nancy Pelosi, she's such a witch! Funny how the mainstream media never reports on this stuff. Especially because 99.9% of it is total bunk. But not for certain folks who continue to spread and recycle the same messages for years.
I still maintain that there is a think tank for this stuff somewhere in an underground bunker 1,000 miles below Dick Cheney's house. It just HAS to be. Who makes all of this stuff up?
I've been actively using email at various jobs since the mid-90's and have found similar characteristics in email forwards that have remained consistent from about 1997 until present day:
1) almost all of them fail to produce a single element of truth. The sources for verification are readily available on the "internets," yet the sender almost never avails him or herself of these resources. Some of them are even brazen enough to list a source that if you actually take the time to visit it, will show how the claims in the email are wrong. I guess they assume if the link is there it will APPEAR to have been verified by someone along the way, and therefore is true.
2) the sender is always over the age of 50
3) the sender is from the conservative side of the political spectrum. I find this attribute to be the most interesting and revealing.
3) there has been one, repeat ONE email forward that I received with a political angle that was a liberal point of view. Since 1997 I have been receiving email forwards from various elders and ALL BUT ONE has been politically biased against the left. ONE. It was about IQ's of recent US Presidents and it tried to show that George W. Bush was stupid and Bill Clinton and Al Gore were geniuses. It was bogus.
I have tried and tried and tried to educate these people. I have occasionally debunked the claims by showing them from actual sources (not just Snopes.com) how the subject of the email is untrue and I have chastised them for passing along lies and falsehoods without verifying the claims for themselves. They continue to pass them along anyway. I give up.
I will begin occasionally posting them to vent my frustration to my imaginary audience. Here's text from a recent example. Its fucking funny as shit, or scary, depending on what you glean from it:
Fw: Military Pay
CINDY WILLIAMS was appointed by Obama as an Assistant Director for NATIONAL SECURITY in the Congressional Budget Office..... Military Pay
This is an Airman's response to Cindy Williams' editorial piece in the Washington Times about MILITARY PAY, it should be printed in all newspapers across America .
Ms. Cindy William wrote a piece for the Washington Times denouncing the pay raise(s) coming service members' way this year citing that she stated a 13% wageincrease was more than they deserve.
A young airman from Hill AFB responds to her article below. He ought to get a bonus for this.
"Ms Williams: I just had the pleasure of reading your column, "Our GI's earn enough" and I am a bit confused. Frankly, I'm wondering where this vaunted overpayment is going, because as far as I can tell, it disappears every month between DFAS (The Defense Finance and Accounting Service) and my bank account. Checking my latest earnings statement I see that I make $1,117.80 before taxes per month. After taxes, I take home $874.20. When I run that through the calculator, I come up with an annual salary of $13,413.60 before taxes, and $10,490.40 after.
I work in the Air Force Network Control Center where I am part of the team responsible for a 5,000 host computer network. I am involved with infrastructure segments, specifically with Cisco Systems equipment. A quick check under jobs for "Network Technicians" in the Washington , D.C. area reveals a position in my career field, requiring three years’ experience in my job. Amazingly, this job does NOT pay $13,413.60 a year. No, this job is being offered at $70,000 to $80,000 per annum............ I'm sure you can draw the obvious conclusions.
Given the tenor of your column, I would assume that you NEVER had the pleasure of serving your country in her armed forces.
Before you take it upon yourself to once more castigate congressional and DOD leadership for attempting to get the families in the military's lowest pay brackets off of WIC and food stamps, I suggest that you join a group of deploying soldiers headed for AFGHANISTAN ; I leave the choice of service branch up to you. Whatever choice you make though, opt for the SIX month rotation: it will guarantee you the longest possible time away from your family and friends, thus giving you full "deployment experience."
As your group prepares to board the plane, make sure to note the spouses and children who are saying good-bye to their loved ones. Also take care to note that several families are still unsure of how they'll be able to make ends meet while the primary breadwinner is gone. Obviously they've been squandering the "vast" piles of cash the government has been giving them.
Try to deploy over a major holiday; Christmas and Thanksgiving are perennial favorites. And when you're actually over there, sitting in a foxhole, shivering against the cold desert night, and the flight sergeant tells you that there aren't enough people on shift to relieve you for chow, remember this: trade whatever MRE's (meal-ready-to-eat) you manage to get for the tuna noodle casserole or cheese tortellini, and add Tabasco to everything. This gives some flavor.
Talk to your loved ones as often as you are permitted; it won't be nearly long enough or often enough, but take what you can get and be thankful for it. You may have picked up on the fact that I disagree with most of the points you present in your open piece.
But, tomorrow from KABUL , I will defend to the death your right to say it.
You see, I am an American fighting man, a guarantor of your First Amendment right and every other right you cherish...On a daily basis, my brother and sister soldiers worldwide ensure that you and people like you can thumb your collective noses at us, all on a salary that is nothing short of pitiful and under conditions that would make most people cringe. We hemorrhage our best and brightest into the private sector because we can't offer the stability and pay of civilian companies.
And you, Ms. Williams, have the gall to say that we make more than we deserve?
A1C Michael Bragg, Hill AFB AFNCC
IF YOU AGREE, PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT OF THE AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN AND WOMEN. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
NEXT WEEK: an email about how Hillary Clinton likes to rape dogs
I still maintain that there is a think tank for this stuff somewhere in an underground bunker 1,000 miles below Dick Cheney's house. It just HAS to be. Who makes all of this stuff up?
I've been actively using email at various jobs since the mid-90's and have found similar characteristics in email forwards that have remained consistent from about 1997 until present day:
1) almost all of them fail to produce a single element of truth. The sources for verification are readily available on the "internets," yet the sender almost never avails him or herself of these resources. Some of them are even brazen enough to list a source that if you actually take the time to visit it, will show how the claims in the email are wrong. I guess they assume if the link is there it will APPEAR to have been verified by someone along the way, and therefore is true.
2) the sender is always over the age of 50
3) the sender is from the conservative side of the political spectrum. I find this attribute to be the most interesting and revealing.
3) there has been one, repeat ONE email forward that I received with a political angle that was a liberal point of view. Since 1997 I have been receiving email forwards from various elders and ALL BUT ONE has been politically biased against the left. ONE. It was about IQ's of recent US Presidents and it tried to show that George W. Bush was stupid and Bill Clinton and Al Gore were geniuses. It was bogus.
I have tried and tried and tried to educate these people. I have occasionally debunked the claims by showing them from actual sources (not just Snopes.com) how the subject of the email is untrue and I have chastised them for passing along lies and falsehoods without verifying the claims for themselves. They continue to pass them along anyway. I give up.
I will begin occasionally posting them to vent my frustration to my imaginary audience. Here's text from a recent example. Its fucking funny as shit, or scary, depending on what you glean from it:
Fw: Military Pay
CINDY WILLIAMS was appointed by Obama as an Assistant Director for NATIONAL SECURITY in the Congressional Budget Office..... Military Pay
This is an Airman's response to Cindy Williams' editorial piece in the Washington Times about MILITARY PAY, it should be printed in all newspapers across America .
Ms. Cindy William wrote a piece for the Washington Times denouncing the pay raise(s) coming service members' way this year citing that she stated a 13% wageincrease was more than they deserve.
A young airman from Hill AFB responds to her article below. He ought to get a bonus for this.
"Ms Williams: I just had the pleasure of reading your column, "Our GI's earn enough" and I am a bit confused. Frankly, I'm wondering where this vaunted overpayment is going, because as far as I can tell, it disappears every month between DFAS (The Defense Finance and Accounting Service) and my bank account. Checking my latest earnings statement I see that I make $1,117.80 before taxes per month. After taxes, I take home $874.20. When I run that through the calculator, I come up with an annual salary of $13,413.60 before taxes, and $10,490.40 after.
I work in the Air Force Network Control Center where I am part of the team responsible for a 5,000 host computer network. I am involved with infrastructure segments, specifically with Cisco Systems equipment. A quick check under jobs for "Network Technicians" in the Washington , D.C. area reveals a position in my career field, requiring three years’ experience in my job. Amazingly, this job does NOT pay $13,413.60 a year. No, this job is being offered at $70,000 to $80,000 per annum............ I'm sure you can draw the obvious conclusions.
Given the tenor of your column, I would assume that you NEVER had the pleasure of serving your country in her armed forces.
Before you take it upon yourself to once more castigate congressional and DOD leadership for attempting to get the families in the military's lowest pay brackets off of WIC and food stamps, I suggest that you join a group of deploying soldiers headed for AFGHANISTAN ; I leave the choice of service branch up to you. Whatever choice you make though, opt for the SIX month rotation: it will guarantee you the longest possible time away from your family and friends, thus giving you full "deployment experience."
As your group prepares to board the plane, make sure to note the spouses and children who are saying good-bye to their loved ones. Also take care to note that several families are still unsure of how they'll be able to make ends meet while the primary breadwinner is gone. Obviously they've been squandering the "vast" piles of cash the government has been giving them.
Try to deploy over a major holiday; Christmas and Thanksgiving are perennial favorites. And when you're actually over there, sitting in a foxhole, shivering against the cold desert night, and the flight sergeant tells you that there aren't enough people on shift to relieve you for chow, remember this: trade whatever MRE's (meal-ready-to-eat) you manage to get for the tuna noodle casserole or cheese tortellini, and add Tabasco to everything. This gives some flavor.
Talk to your loved ones as often as you are permitted; it won't be nearly long enough or often enough, but take what you can get and be thankful for it. You may have picked up on the fact that I disagree with most of the points you present in your open piece.
But, tomorrow from KABUL , I will defend to the death your right to say it.
You see, I am an American fighting man, a guarantor of your First Amendment right and every other right you cherish...On a daily basis, my brother and sister soldiers worldwide ensure that you and people like you can thumb your collective noses at us, all on a salary that is nothing short of pitiful and under conditions that would make most people cringe. We hemorrhage our best and brightest into the private sector because we can't offer the stability and pay of civilian companies.
And you, Ms. Williams, have the gall to say that we make more than we deserve?
A1C Michael Bragg, Hill AFB AFNCC
IF YOU AGREE, PLEASE PASS THIS ALONG TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE AND SHOW YOUR SUPPORT OF THE AMERICAN FIGHTING MEN AND WOMEN. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
NEXT WEEK: an email about how Hillary Clinton likes to rape dogs
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Kentucky Bellwether
According to an article in Salon.com, The World Economic Forum ranked the US at "a mediocre 52nd among 139 nations in the quality of its university math and science instruction in 2010."
The article, How America will collapse (by 2025), lays out several scenarios in which the role of United States as a world superpower will diminish in the coming decades. While gigantic economic and foreign policy missteps may be the most to blame, the growth of technology in developing nations such as India and China are seen as contributing factors, exacerbated by the astonishingly poor quality of the American education system.
Support for legitimate science education seems to be waning, with a growing concern that a certain "alternate worldview" as it is sometimes called, is not given adequate attention in schools. This worldview (I won't name it, as I'm sure you can infer for yourselves what it is) is often said to be the victim of suppression by the "scientific elite" or "liberal-drive-by-gotcha media," or whatever sinister reality-based influence responsible for attempting to properly inform the public and our children, that is tantamount to a violation of the First Amendment.
Fear not.
The state of Kentucky has given its blessing for the construction of a new attraction that will help enlighten the public and stimulate their quest for knowledge. As reported in the New York Times, the Ark Experience, a Noah's Ark theme park is in the planning stages.
In the NY Times article Mike Zovath, a senior vice president of Answers in Genesis, one of the organizations responsible for this wellspring of wisdom, is quoted as saying “it’s our opportunity to present accurate, factual biblical information to people about a subject that they’re really interested in.”
Constitutionality of state support for this park is already in question but the problem runs much deeper than that. What's most worrisome is that this park is being given serious consideration as a means to educate.
When you take a good hard look at this project and the organizations behind it, and discover how well-organized their campaign is, you won't have too much difficulty drawing the line between this and the larger crisis we face as a society that is in a very obvious decline.
Wouldn't it make more sense to empower our citizens with real knowledge rather than teaching ancient mythology as fact? Shouldn't we be giving our children real tools to help them compete and succeed rather then replacing truth with fairy tales and stories of magic?
This should be a wake-up call for anyone raising a family. I'm worried that one day we may all wake up and realize that we are being led by people who ACTUALLY believe that the world was created by an old man in the sky 4,000 years ago in only 6 days.
Ummmmmmm....
hmm...
Nahhh.... people aren't that stupid, are they?
The link for the Salon.com article is here...
http://www.salon.com/news/us_economy/index.html?story=/news/feature/2010/12/06/america_collapse_2025
and the NY Times article is here...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/us/06ark.html?_r=1
The article, How America will collapse (by 2025), lays out several scenarios in which the role of United States as a world superpower will diminish in the coming decades. While gigantic economic and foreign policy missteps may be the most to blame, the growth of technology in developing nations such as India and China are seen as contributing factors, exacerbated by the astonishingly poor quality of the American education system.
Support for legitimate science education seems to be waning, with a growing concern that a certain "alternate worldview" as it is sometimes called, is not given adequate attention in schools. This worldview (I won't name it, as I'm sure you can infer for yourselves what it is) is often said to be the victim of suppression by the "scientific elite" or "liberal-drive-by-gotcha media," or whatever sinister reality-based influence responsible for attempting to properly inform the public and our children, that is tantamount to a violation of the First Amendment.
Fear not.
The state of Kentucky has given its blessing for the construction of a new attraction that will help enlighten the public and stimulate their quest for knowledge. As reported in the New York Times, the Ark Experience, a Noah's Ark theme park is in the planning stages.
In the NY Times article Mike Zovath, a senior vice president of Answers in Genesis, one of the organizations responsible for this wellspring of wisdom, is quoted as saying “it’s our opportunity to present accurate, factual biblical information to people about a subject that they’re really interested in.”
Constitutionality of state support for this park is already in question but the problem runs much deeper than that. What's most worrisome is that this park is being given serious consideration as a means to educate.
When you take a good hard look at this project and the organizations behind it, and discover how well-organized their campaign is, you won't have too much difficulty drawing the line between this and the larger crisis we face as a society that is in a very obvious decline.
Wouldn't it make more sense to empower our citizens with real knowledge rather than teaching ancient mythology as fact? Shouldn't we be giving our children real tools to help them compete and succeed rather then replacing truth with fairy tales and stories of magic?
This should be a wake-up call for anyone raising a family. I'm worried that one day we may all wake up and realize that we are being led by people who ACTUALLY believe that the world was created by an old man in the sky 4,000 years ago in only 6 days.
Ummmmmmm....
hmm...
Nahhh.... people aren't that stupid, are they?
The link for the Salon.com article is here...
http://www.salon.com/news/us_economy/index.html?story=/news/feature/2010/12/06/america_collapse_2025
and the NY Times article is here...
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/us/06ark.html?_r=1
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