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Daily Archives: 11.04.2011
Papantonio: Tea Party OK With Sexual Harassment
What’s God got to do with it?
He may be invoked in the national motto, but God has nothing to do with why Americans are free and secure. . . The House voted 396-9 this week to reaffirm as the national motto the phrase “In God We Trust” and encouraged its pronouncement on public buildings and continued printing on the coin of the realm. The motto was made official in 1956 during the height of Cold War hysteria over godless communism and — in the words of Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper in “Dr. Strangelove” — “Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.”
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What Next?
It has become clear to everyone except the professional political class that things cannot go on this way. . . The most important fact is that the neo-liberal experiment of the last few decades, what one might call the Great Leap Backward, has failed. In fact this project must be considered to constitute as great a crime against humanity as Stalin’s or Mao’s. . . In economic terms the measure of capitalism’s failure is the growth of inequality. The gap between the global rich and poor has increased over the last few decades. Wealth does not ‘trickle down’, on the contrary it is siphoned up. . .
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Journey of Man: The Story of the Human Species
“Journey of Man” answers the question, “Where do we all come from?” Today, some six billion people are spread across the planet. Today, some six billion people are spread across the planet. But there was a time — not so long ago — when the human species numbered only a few thousand and the world was a single continent: Africa. Then something happened. A small group left their African homeland on a journey into an unknown, hostile world. Against impossible odds, these extraordinary explorers not only survived but went on to conquer the earth. Their story can finally be told through the science of genetics. Dr. Wells, a 33-year-old geneticist, is part of a team that has been re-writing history. He has been disentangling this epic story from evidence all people carry with them — in their DNA — inherited from those ancient travelers.
I recommend this documentary. One may choose to watch it in its thirteen parts available on YouTube, or check it out from your local library.
Atheists Do Not Need to Have All the Answers
. . . [H]ow ridiculous it is to assume that god must be the default answer for every unknown. I used to wonder why so many Christians seemed unable to understand this. I suspect now that these Christians did not want to think because doing so might jeopardize their faith.
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Starve the Beast
No doubt St. Ronnie McDumb Ass is looking up at us ever so proudly. And Grover, the confused size-queen, how is that government girth working out for you, is it yet down to the ideal volume where you can drown it in the bathtub?
An Investment Banker — In Zuccotti Park?
High ranking Chaplain leaves out ‘so help me god’
The Chaplain respectfully leaves off “so help me god” for the deployed atheist soldier’s re-enlistment ceremony.
Chaplain (Colonel) Strohm is overseeing Sergeant Justin Griffith’s re-enlistment ceremony. The Chaplain is a devout Christian with decades of active-duty service.
Sergeant Griffith is the Military Director for American Atheists, and is also spear-heading the groundbreaking atheist-themed festival ‘Rock Beyond Belief’ featuring Richard Dawkins at Fort Bragg, NC in 2012.
Always Question Authority 