Friday, August 28, 2009

Strange Story...

Common myna (Acridotheres tristes) attempting ...Image via Wikipedia

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32592133/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/

"When investigators entered the house after her death, they found plastic bags "everywhere," according to Romankow. It took months of interviews before they were able to piece together what happened.

"The case leaves many unanswered questions for investigators."

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Monday, August 10, 2009

Perp

http://picktheperp.com/

Pick the Perp names a crime and shows you a set of mug shots - you get to guess which perp did the crime.

Just when I think the internet has already done everything....

Friday, August 7, 2009

Even More Christianity

When people are idiots in one way, like being creationists, you can usually assume that they are idiots in another way...

http://www.theweek.com/article/index/99359/Unemployment_catches_a_break_Tax_troubles_in_creationist_paradise


Like thinking they don't have to pay property taxes.

"a federal judge approved the sale of creationist theme park, Pensacola’s Dinosaur Adventure Land, because owners Kent and Jo Hovind,owe $430,400 in back taxes. The Hovinds argue that since they are employed by God, they needn’t pay income or property taxes."

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Thursday, August 6, 2009

I See Dumb People

Dr. Jerry Falwell (en, d. 2007), the founder o...Image via Wikipedia

http://www.alternet.org/story/106551

"The change from a print-based to an image-based society has transformed our nation. Huge segments of our population, especially those who live in the embrace of the Christian right and the consumer culture, are completely unmoored from reality. They lack the capacity to search for truth and cope rationally with our mounting social and economic ills. They seek clarity, entertainment and order. They are willing to use force to impose this clarity on others, especially those who do not speak as they speak and think as they think. All the traditional tools of democracies, including dispassionate scientific and historical truth, facts, news and rational debate, are useless instruments in a world that lacks the capacity to use them."

Dead on correct.

This article absolutely nails what has happened to America since, I would say, the very early 1980s - the campaigns of Ronald Reagon in other words. And it is highly informative reading in a context of our current, and critical, "debate" about our health care.
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