D’Zhana Simmons is a heartless human being – or at least she was for 118 days straight. That’s 10 whole days longer than 6 of the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 were on the island on Lost. A custom-built artificial blood pumping device kept her alive until she was able to receive a heart transplant.
Too few too far apart? – Mark Crislip demolishes the ever popular “Too much too soon” argument employed by antivaccinationists.
Bet she didn’t see this coming -
“Sister Charlotte”, a self-proclaimed clairvoyant, tarot card reader, and palm interpreter has been banned from making claims she can’t prove in her advertising. Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority issued the ban in response to a complaint that Ms. Charlotte printed leaflets saying she could cure anything from depression to cancer by removing “negative energies” and replacing them with “positive” ones.
What if you had a conspiracy play – and nobody came? – 9/11 / New World Order conspiracy theorist puts out a play promoting this particular brand of nonsense. Funny thing is that even the 9/11 conspiracy theorists don’t care very much for it.
BMV accepts “BE GODS” license plate but being sued anyway -
“A Wayne County woman is moving forward with a lawsuit against the Bureau of Motor Vehicles even though the agency reversed a decision that disallowed the renewal of a license plate that reads “BE GODS.”
ATHEIST DISCRIMINATION:
Who better to blame for all the disasters of the Bush Administration but atheists? – Well technically I think Karl Rove is an atheist but that’s another story. Here are the words of one Daniel Henninger:
It has been my view that the steady secularizing and insistent effort at dereligioning America has been dangerous. That danger flashed red in the fall into subprime personal behavior by borrowers and bankers, who after all are just people. Northerners and atheists who vilify Southern evangelicals are throwing out nurturers of useful virtue with the bathwater of obnoxious political opinions.
The point for a healthy society of commerce and politics is not that religion saves, but that it keeps most of the players inside the chalk lines. We are erasing the chalk lines.
Feel free: Banish Merry Christmas. Get ready for Mad Max.
Mad Max? Really? Could this guy be any more arrogant, self-righteous, and ass-like? Replace “atheists” with “Jews” and we’ve heard this song before.
WHY FUNDIES CAN’T HAVE THE NUCLEAR CODES:
Exhibit A:
Exhibit B: Atheists taking over the military? What?! - This is what OneNewsNow, the bigoted American Family Association’s bogus news site, claims. Actually, they’re just pissed off that The Secular Coalition for America has held a conference urging President-elect Obama to enact fair policies preventing proselytizing and mandatory prayer. Though apparently this constitutes as “the first step toward Armageddon”:
Gordon James Klingenschmitt is a former naval chaplain who says, unfortunately, the Secular Coalition for America will eventually get its way. “There is a day coming in the end times when the military will be forced to be atheistic because, in order for the eventual man who is the man of sin — the Anti-Christ — as it is describe in the Bible, for him to come to power and to stamp out Christianity around the globe, he’s going to need a good strong atheist military,” he contends. “That is the first step toward Armageddon, and I’m concerned about that. And I pray that President (elect) Obama is not foolish enough to lead us down that road.”
“Everything’s the devil to you, mama!” -The Waterboy
The blog source of this article also touched on another headline found on OneNewsNow’s site:
‘Gay’ activists engage in ‘hate crimes’ against Christians
Apparently gay gets quote marks because they either don’t exist, their evil, or both. And they put quotation marks around “hate crimes” because no crime was actually committed. Rather this is their way of saying a bunch of legitimately pissed off gays along with many heterosexual allies expressed their fundamental American right to peacefully protest injustice outside of churches that supported the removal of civil rights. Fair and balanced indeed.
AND NOW FOR A MOMENT OF SCIENCE:
Concealed Glaciers Discovered On Mars – “Vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris persist today at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on Mars, says new research using ground-penetrating radar on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.”
Stem Cells Make New Retinal Cells In Tadpoles – “Pluripotent stem cells — those, like embryonic stem cells, that give rise to almost every type of cell in the body — can be converted into the different classes of retinal cells necessary for vision, according to a new study from researchers at SUNY Upstate Medical University.”
Pure Insulin-producing Cells Produced In Mice – “Singapore researchers have developed an unlimited number of pure insulin-producing cells from mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs).”
Another awesome example of pareidolia:
November 22, 2008 at 8:34 am |
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April 21, 2009 at 1:27 pm |
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