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Hold on Loosely

Karen — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:30:18 +0000

Yep. It’s another music video. This one is Hold on Loosely by .38 Special. Nothing special about the video itself, but the song doesn’t abruptly end like the other uploads.

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Epic Atheist Rant on Park 51

Karen — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:46:31 +0000

In light of nearly 2/3rds of New Yorkers claiming Park 51 is “insensitive” and should be moved, I’d like to share this video by the Amazing Atheist:

The fact of the matter is it’s only insensitive if you think every Muslim on the planet is guilty of the murders (which included Muslims) which took place on 9/11. It’s like stating no church can go up near a school because Christians have murdered children.

It’s fucking wrong and shouldn’t be tolerated, even if *you* don’t like religion.

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Creationists concede defeat

Karen — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:11:20 +0000

The ICR has conceded defeat and given up its quest to issue MS degrees here in Texas:

Now, with the federal ruling against ICR, the Texas government may mandate that any private sector college, even those that accept no government funding, may be regulated by the THECB,
…
However, please know that, while ICR’s legal battle is over, we will not retreat from other public efforts to fight the “Dragon” and his minions.

Sorry, but I had to snip out all the crap about how not letting them piss on the furniture is discrimination. You can read the whole thing here.

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No eggs for you!

Karen — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:42:20 +0000

Evolution has been caught in the act. Scientists have discovered a group of yellow bellied three toed skinks in colder areas of Australia have more or less abandoned egg laying and are now giving live birth.towards live birth.

Their counterparts in warmer areas of Australia continue to use eggs as a means of reproduction.

From the National Geographic:

Along the warm coastal lowlands of New South Wales, the yellow-bellied three-toed skink lays eggs to reproduce. But individuals of the same species living in the state’s higher, colder mountains are almost all giving birth to live young.
Only two other modern reptiles—another skink species and a European lizard—use both types of reproduction.

Read the entire article at the National Geographic.

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Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd

Karen — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:07:17 +0000

So, this is probably the saddest song ever recorded, but it’s one of my favourite songs of all time.

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What to do with us pesky non-Jews

Karen — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:22:03 +0000

A rabbi in Israel wrote a book defending the murders of us non-Jews, whom the author describes as “uncompassionate by nature”, in order to curb our “evil inclinations”. The author also defends the intentional pre-meditated murder of babies.

What do you think some of his peers got together and did? If you guessed “defended it, of course”, give yourself a cookie (via: Alternet):

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Powerful video of 9/11 Firefighter

Karen — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:02:32 +0000

A firefighter talks about what he experienced while responding to the WTC site:

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Scary! MUSLIM! Scary!

Karen — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:54:39 +0000

This Modern World on the “news” networks behaviour recently (read the rest here):

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Give the lady a napkin

Karen — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 01:20:57 +0000

Funny video by ImprovEverywhere:

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Republicans: Obama ♥s Muslims

Karen — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:34:12 +0000

No matter what he does, the guy just can’t win:

… a new poll finds that Republicans are now taking that rumor one step further. A Newsweek survey released Monday found that a majority of Republicans believe that Obama “sympathizes with the goals of Islamic fundamentalists who want to impose Islamic law around the world.”
According to the poll, 14 percent of Republicans said that from what they knew of Obama, they thought such allegations were “definitely true”; 38 percent thought the allegations were “probably true.”
Meanwhile, 33 percent of Republicans thought they were “probably not true” and 7 percent thought they were “definitely not true.” Asked whether Obama favors the interests of Muslim Americans over other groups of Americans, 59 percent Republicans said yes, whereas 34 percent said he has “generally been evenhanded.”

I’m pretty sure the alleged favouritism has something to do with supporting the first amendment rights of Muslims. How about you?

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Video: Interviews with Beck’s fans

Karen — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:29:39 +0000

One guy at about seven minutes talks about how Muslims already have mosques in NYC and don’t need to build anymore. I wonder if I can use that one to stop a church from going up about a half mile away.

Afterall, there’s already 20 within a one mile radius and those are just the ones that show up on Google. Do they really need another one?

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Video: Take the money and run

Karen — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:24:34 +0000

Just another one of my favourite songs, Take the Money and Run by the Steve Miller Band:

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Taliban: Park 51 Protests Help Us

Karen — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:26:32 +0000

Anti-Muslim graffiti on side of mosque in TN telling Muslims to "go home"

Those who are supporting the anti-Muslim hatefest sweeping the nation may want to consider that the Taliban is seeing it’s support rise in the wake of the protests against the Park 51 community center:

Taliban officials know it’s sacrilegious to hope a mosque will not be built, but that’s exactly what they’re wishing for: the success of the fiery campaign to block the proposed Islamic cultural center and prayer room near the site of the Twin Towers in lower Manhattan. “By preventing this mosque from being built, America is doing us a big favor,” Taliban operative Zabihullah tells NEWSWEEK. (Like many Afghans, he uses a single name.) “It’s providing us with more recruits, donations, and popular support.” (via)

He goes on to say that they are expecting more western Muslims to join them and closes by predicting “the more mosques you stop, the more jihadis we will get”.

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The Most Hated Family in America

Karen — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 19:54:17 +0000

Brave British reporter spends three weeks with the Phelps family (aka: Westboro Baptist Church):

MORE AT ATHEISTNATION.NET

Watching that video makes me grateful for my dad. He once showed up at the frontdoor with a loaded rifle in one hand. Why? He didn’t want members of our mother’s insane church on the property. Living with her was bad enough. Only the stars know what would’ve happened if he’d been a religious man.

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Video: Joy To The World

Karen — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:01:48 +0000

Here’s a funny video set to the nonsensical song “Joy to the World” by Three Dog Night:

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Islam, Italy & Women

Karen — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:02:58 +0000

It looks like the anti-Muslim bug that’s been going around has finally made it’s way to southern Europe. Apparently, Italy is one of those countries that not only gives money to religion, but has a list of “official” religions.

Islam is not one of them and, if the bigots have their way, won’t become one of them. What bugs me is that Italian lawmakers recently voted to deny Islam official status as a religion over, amongst other things,the treatment of women by Muslim men:

Islam is not an established religion in Italy and there is only one official mosque in the country, Rome’s Grand Mosque (photo). Politicians from the ruling coalition cite radical imams, polygamy and failure to uphold women’s rights by Muslims immigrants as obstacles to recognising Islam as an official religion in Italy (via).

This would be the same country that recognizes Catholicism as an official religion. A religion that has never upheld the rights of women. A religion that has members who do not uphold women’s rights. A religion that continues to actively works against the rights of women, not just in Italy, but throughout the entire world.

The Catholic church has opposed (and continues to oppose) the use of condoms in AIDS stricken areas of Africa (women constitute the majority of new infections). It has kicked out a mother for her support of her 9 year old daughter getting an abortion and defended it.

It also opposes birth control and abortion. Women are also officially banned from holding office in the church and any Catholic man who goes against this will be kicked out.

How do you say “Y’all are all a bunch of bloody fucking hypocrites!” in Italian?

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YouTube – Mr. Deity and the Denial

Karen — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:38:24 +0000

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Exoplanet Exploration: PlanetQuest

Karen — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:16:09 +0000

The NASA interactive multimedia timeline traces the search for extrasolar planets, from ancient philosophical speculation to modern discoveries:

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Buddhism: Not biased, just sexist

Karen — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 13:21:07 +0000

The next Dalai Lama?

Most religious groups balk at the idea of a woman being in charge. In fact, the Catholic church recently stating that ordaining women is on par with raping children. Other Christian groups have split because a woman was allowed to do more than clean the sanctuary.

Not so with Buddhism. None other than the Dalai Lama has stated that there’s nothing in Buddhism that would preclude a woman from taking his place.

As you can probably guess from the title of this post, there’s only one hitch. While having a vagina is alright, been less than physically appealing to men is not:

“And I also mentioned in case Dalai Lama’s incarnation one female comes then must be very attractive female. So the very reason, you see more influence to others, an ugly female then may not much effective,” added Dalai Lama.

Now, if I were the Dalai Lama, I’d make it a point to come back as an ugly woman and state that the next male Dalai Lama has to be a clone of Naveen Andrews.

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Team Jesus vs. Team Mohammed

Karen — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:39:56 +0000

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart

Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c

Extremist Makeover – Team Mohammed vs. Team Jesus

www.thedailyshow.com

Daily Show Full Episodes

Political Humor

Tea Party

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There is no Ground Zero Mosque

Karen — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:31:24 +0000

Keith Olbermann is not one of my favourite people, but his recent comments on the Islamic community center in NYC is awesome.

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It’s a mad world

Karen — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:29:37 +0000

Woke up this morning to the news that Adam Lambert had lost to what’s his face. To say that I’m angry would be an understatement. Apparently a bunch of fuckwit Christians decided to vote against Adam to suit their fucked up belief that gay people are sub-human (Melissa lays it out at her place).

Since I’ve got nothing to add to Melissa’s take on it besides a very long stream of cusswords, here’s Adam singing Mad World:

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Coffee Coffee Coffee

Karen — Sat, 02 May 2009 14:14:46 +0000

Having been raised a Baptist I often find Unitarianism to be somewhat annoying, however, there’s one thing I can agree with Unitarians on.

Coffee.

I love it and most them apparently do also. So much in fact, that one of their reverends wrote a song about it (sung to the tune of Holy, Holy, Holy):

Coffee, Coffee, Coffee,
Praise the strength of coffee.
Early in the morn we rise with thoughts of only thee.
Served fresh or reheated,
Dark by thee defeated,
Brewed black by perk or drip or instantly.
Though all else we scoff we
Come to church for coffee.
If we’re late to congregate, we come in time for thee.
Coffee our one ritual,
Drinking it habitual,
Brewed black by perk or drip instantly.
Coffee the communion
Of our Uni-Union,
Symbol of our sacred ground, our one necessity.
Feel the holy power
At our coffee hour,
Brewed black by perk or drip or instantly.

People who love coffee have to alright, right?

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How to fail at calling someone out

Karen — Fri, 01 May 2009 13:00:07 +0000

Should you ever wish to call someone out for inappropriate behaviour, there’s a simple rule you should keep in mind when doing so.

Do not engage in the behaviour you’re calling the other person out for.

For example, if you want to call someone out on things they’ve said or written about women you should refrain from referring to women as somehow inferior to men. As strange as it may sound, once you call someone else a misogynist, it’s considered hypocrisy (at the very least) to precede to engage in misogyny yourself.

Take, for example, Mike S. Adams who called out Perez Hilton’s continuous use of misogynistic words in a faux-apology I found post at One News Now.

About three-fourths of the way through the column and well after he called Perez a misogynist, the following sentence can be found:

I am sorry that gay men are self-loathing enough to allow other men to treat them as women.

Now exactly how does a man treat another man like a woman? Give up? It’s quite simple. A man treats another man like a woman when he screws him and being screwed is one of the most awful things that can happen to a person who isn’t a woman. You have to positively hate yourself to want to be treated like a woman.

So, now you know how to fail out calling someone out. Any questions?

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100 days of Reproductive Justice under Obama

Karen — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:49:58 +0000

Here’s a slide show on reproductive accomplishments (and failures) during Obama’s first 100 days:

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Christianity’s latest (absurd) whine

Karen — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:06:24 +0000

A few weeks or so ago a British man managed to get the Church of England to officially recognize that he was no longer a member. As a result of the publicity somewhere around 100 thousand Brits have downloaded the form requesting the church quit counting them as members.

As you’ve probably guessed from the title of this post, there’s at least one Christian whose got a problem with this. According to Thomas A. Flynn, requesting that a group quit counting you as a member is an attack upon that group.

The National Secular Society in England has launched an initiative to request a certificate of de-baptism. So far they say that 100,000 Brits have downloaded the document from the Internet, disgusted by the idea of being called a Christian. Some are calling baptism “a form of child abuse”, as if the gift of faith we equivalent to the atrocious situations of violence in the home that we all know so well.
This is just the latest attack by atheistic groups around the globe. Pro-atheism advertisements have been draped on buses in several countries with phrases like “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” These, alongside the extensive array of anti-God best-sellers by authors like Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens, announce that atheism is on the march.

All these Brits are doing is requesting that a group they do not consider themselves a part of quit counting them as members. Nothing more, nothing less. How is that an attack by atheists?

It’s only an attack if you think that anything but absolute silence is an act of persecution. Christians may not be as violent as Muslims, but they are far from the democracy supporting freedom loving sweethearts they insist they are.

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Clinton vs. Smith on Family Planning

Karen — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:20:37 +0000

I saw this video a few days ago and I thought I’d share. It’s Hillary Clinton responding to the faux-concern of some white dude named Christopher Smith on providing abortion services to women of colour in other countries:

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Adventures in medical care

Karen — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 17:37:52 +0000

Just wanted to pop in for a moment to say I probably won’t be posting much for the rest of the week.

The reason being our daughter was hospitalized over the weekend after having a seizure. She’s alright now (already back at school) but I’m still exhausted and would probably sleep this week away if I could, but there’s follow-ups to do and medicine to “instill”.

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The storm is coming…

Karen — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:56:25 +0000

Stephen Colbert has released his own anti-gay marriage ad.

Best Line: “Oh God! The Homo Storm got me!”

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There’s a bullet with your name on it

Karen — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:35:19 +0000

Answer’s in Genesis is “an an apologetics ministry, dedicated to enabling Christians to defend their faith and to proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ effectively.”

It’s also the source of the following video depicting a white kid aiming a loaded gun at the camera while some man states that “if you don’t matter to God, you don’t matter to anyone”:

The message, of course, is “if it weren’t for my firm belief in the existence of Hell, I’d shoot your ass”, which is a rather common brand of fuckwittery amongst Christian apologists and extremists.

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The Selective Sceptic

Karen — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:31:03 +0000

Here’s a funny cartoon about people who are selectively sceptical:

Via: Cectic