1. Muslims outraged at police advert featuring cute puppy sitting in policeman's hat

Comment #203830 by ivellios on July 3, 2008 at 6:43 pm

I say step up the K-9 Patrols!

2. Common New Atheist Fallacies

Comment #200483 by ivellios on June 27, 2008 at 5:50 pm

I think that he fails to realize that not only do atheists believe in god, but we think that religion is separate from god and that if you do believe you should be ridiculed at times.

I don't think that Hitchens really does much arguing about the existence of a god and really does argue against the premise of any religion.

3. Creationist critics get their comeuppance

Comment #200009 by ivellios on June 26, 2008 at 3:42 pm

I believe his response can be boiled down to, "I said, 'Good day, sir!'"

What a roast!

4. Mormons urged to back ban on same-sex marriage

Comment #199620 by ivellios on June 26, 2008 at 4:40 am

Has anyone given thought to the fact that this may be an issue from the Insurance lobbyists.

Who has more to gain by not allowing gay couples to join? This halves their coverages.

I do believe that is is all about rights and that in some cases their commitment should be recognized. During hospitalization is it not also in the best interest of the patient to be visited by loved ones?

During my dad's hospital stay I'm sure that it made him feel better to have me and my brother there and he's not the slightest bit gay. Same for my mother when my wife visited her.

Religion blinds people to ways of thinking that really should be common courtesy.

5. God hates Mars

Comment #199612 by ivellios on June 26, 2008 at 4:19 am

Don't get too worked up. Not only is he wrong but he's a loud mouthed, crack-pot who's probably got more teeth than braincells.

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/forum/read.html?id=14441&skip=15#comments

Any of the wordsmiths here would have a heyday with him.

6. Scientists confirm that parts of earliest genetic material may have come from the stars

Comment #192668 by ivellios on June 13, 2008 at 10:06 pm

Yes, Yes. That's good and all, but who created it on the meteorite? It can't have just spontaneously sprouted.


It's not like I follow biology religiously but it is becoming increasingly hard to avoid the fact that some molecules just "like" to come together and form more complex systems.

The Id'rs like to state that form and function cannot come from chaos but don't we see that everyday? When a tornado or hurricane forms isn't that a more complex system rising out of chaos?

Am I mistaken?

7. John McCain: America a Christian nation, needs Christian president

Comment #190276 by ivellios on June 8, 2008 at 4:58 pm

IMHO McCain will be GB part 3. And none of us will be better off for it. Can any of you honestly say that you are better off then you were before GW took office?

If Obama is just really good at reading a teleprompter then it says to me that he will at least listen to his aides and not be a "stick to his guns jackass" even when he has been proven to be wrong.

What we need is someone who can get us back on even terms with the rest of the world AND bring us back together as a nation. Also, we need to get our troops home, from everywhere, ideally. McCain is not the one who can do any of this.

8. Prayer to feed the hungry

Comment #190257 by ivellios on June 8, 2008 at 4:23 pm

Haven't the Ethiopians been starving for years?

Seriously, I've seen those crappy commercials interrupting my cartoons since Loony Tunes was new!

They say that any civilization is three meals away from chaos. So, logically if you enter GMO into the equation in areas of instability and the "have not's" are suddenly "haves" as well, you stabilize the area.


Those that are afraid of GMO and cloned meat need to wake up. There was an article in WIRED a few months ago about clones. #1 in my mind after reading, clones are already in the food stock regardless of FDA.

Finally, shame on Monsanto for even bringing that to court. Just like any other drug, they want to get you on the comeback.

EDIT: It's telling to me that out of the hundreds of people that pass through a particular off ramp, an atheist, me, went out of my way to get a homeless person a large cup of hot coco and a meager amount of food.

I sure didn't see any christians lining up to help, as the person was holding up a sign that read, "god bless you." But I suppose that's god directing an atheist to do his work. Wait, I have free will...oh well.

Maybe cause I work outdoors, I couldn't stand to know that that poor person would have to stay the night outside in 10F weather. If I had had more time a proper meal in a restaurant would have been given.

9. 'In Our Time': Trofim Lysenko

Comment #190019 by ivellios on June 8, 2008 at 7:46 am

This support was a consequence, in part, of policies put in place by Communist party personnel to rapidly promote members of the proletariat into leadership positions in agriculture, science and industry.

10. A moral test for true believers, Rudd style

Comment #189154 by ivellios on June 5, 2008 at 2:49 pm

But now the Prime Minister faces a decision that may alienate socially conservative Catholics and born-again Protestants.

The Rudd Government is considering overturning the Howard government's ban on Australian overseas aid being used to fund abortions in poor countries.

11. Group wants Wi-Fi banned from public buildings

Comment #186148 by ivellios on May 29, 2008 at 6:00 pm

I have plant allergies, Please remove all parks. Also, I need all plants removed from the Zoo's and other public entertainment facilities.

12. Group finds Starbucks logo too hot to handle

Comment #181203 by ivellios on May 16, 2008 at 3:52 pm

Really, It's not as bad as what they have used in the past. This idiots memory must be as short as his, ahem, tolerance for offensiveness. yeah.

http://www.deadprogrammer.com/starbucks-logo-mermaid

13. Justice In The Brain: Equity And Efficiency Are Encoded Differently

Comment #178008 by ivellios on May 10, 2008 at 8:24 am

I suppose that this goes against, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."

So, people will have meals lost and the possibility of several kids starve in the name of equality instead of letting many survive for the sacrifice of one.

This correlates with another study I saw that people will donate more for one person in need,IE starving child, and donate less if there was more than one child in the picture. Something to do with thinking exponentially.

14. Evolution's Critics Shift Tactics With Schools

Comment #174797 by ivellios on May 3, 2008 at 2:41 pm

FUCK!!! I live in Missouri!

I'm definitely going to have to give a call to my friend. He's my Senator.

15. A New Jack Chick Tract: Moving On Up!

Comment #174795 by ivellios on May 3, 2008 at 2:37 pm

I feel much less intelligent after reading that.

He has not the first clue of what is going on.

16. Student's 'Be Happy, Not Gay' t-shirt ok

Comment #169179 by ivellios on April 25, 2008 at 3:32 pm

Irate and Quetz:

Here is your new slogan.

"You believe in Jesus, I believe you're a FUCKTARD!"

I think that it should be allowed under the same rules.

17. Tyrannosaurus rex protein proves dinosaurs evolved into birds

Comment #169159 by ivellios on April 25, 2008 at 3:21 pm

You guys have it all wrong.

This was just a little bit of bird that was left between his teeth after a meal. Of course, then he was totaled by the flood because he forgot to book his berth on the ark.

And of course he is deeper than any modern birds. He couldn't fly and he was very heavy so he sank and was buried way before any of the smaller creatures.



Ok, I've got it now. Religion is tantamount to an over-active imagination combined with a separation from reality.

18. Lynchings in Congo as penis theft panic hits capital

Comment #167184 by ivellios on April 23, 2008 at 5:40 pm

Yeah, That's my new excuse.

"No, really. A witch shrank it. It was much bigger before."

19. Gods and earthlings

Comment #166071 by ivellios on April 22, 2008 at 5:48 pm

tilting of the earth, the sun's perfect distance to the earth, earth's spinning around itself and around the sun to make us days and nights, do not need a designer

20. Gods and earthlings

Comment #164131 by ivellios on April 19, 2008 at 3:36 pm

Teratornis

One wonders how differently history might read, however, if someone in ancient Greece had thought to look through two convex glass lenses, and invented the spyglass. The Industrial Revolution might then have started 1000 years or more sooner, which would mean fossil fuels would have been exhausted for centuries by now. The population explosion and subsequent die-off might have already occurred, and instead of us there might only be scattered bands of miserable foragers, gazing with wonder at the decaying remains of shattered cities.

21. Evolution fray attracts top scientist

Comment #162831 by ivellios on April 17, 2008 at 2:20 pm

The bill's Senate sponsor, Ronda Storms, R-Valrico, says teachers and students feel too frightened to even discuss intelligent design.

Senate Majority Leader Dan Webster, R-Winter Garden, said the theory of evolution "had flaws."

22. The Art of Creating Controversy Where None Existed

Comment #160974 by ivellios on April 14, 2008 at 3:56 pm

Geoff

(m)Lion (f)Tiger = Liger
(f)Lion (m)Tiger = Tigon

While male ligers are sterile, female ligers can usually reproduce. Because only female ligers and tigons are fertile, a liger cannot reproduce with another liger or with a tigon. The sterility in males is caused by the fact that because of the unstable genes, male ligers never reach puberty. While they continue to age and grow they do not become sexually mature.

And also there are mules.

I guess you are saying that these are subspecies that may no longer be able to continue to interbreed at some point in the future.

While we can look at all forms of canine and suppose that as long as the pups will not be too big for the female to birth, (Ex. (m)Labrador and a (f)Chihuahua) we can expect to see all the pups fertile and able to pass along all genes effectively.

Are these the examples of "no great leaps?"

23. Religion 'linked to happy life'

Comment #146011 by ivellios on March 18, 2008 at 1:25 pm

If ignorance is bliss, then wipe the smile off my face.

I agree, deluded people are more happy. Mainly, because they are too stupid to know they are being crapped on.

24. Richard Dawkins on The Alan Colmes Show

Comment #144178 by ivellios on March 15, 2008 at 9:11 am

Colmes - You have a constitutional right to offend people in this country.

Woman - No you don't!

Colmes - Yes you do.

Dawkins - (Chuckle)

Woman - Not according to my religion!

Colmes - No. You have a constitutional right to offend people.

Woman - No, I don't think you do.

Colmes - Oh, I see. Where in the constitution does it say that you are not allowed to offend anybody?

Women - Changes subject. Says he missed the point and leaves in a huff.

That was a classic back and forth. I loved it!!!! What better proof than, "Not according to my religion," do you need?

25. God, power and money

Comment #137958 by ivellios on March 3, 2008 at 4:47 pm

Fat Max

The issue that you miss is that Hinn is duping people in the name of god for his own benefit.

How does anyone justify that or even compare it to capitalism?

26. Bill Maher on Larry King Live

Comment #125617 by ivellios on February 11, 2008 at 5:39 pm

I am continually amazed at the amount of people who cannot even do a cursory check about the arguments they are trying to win. A simple google search can lead you to a wealth of information that could easily answer any question you may have.

For example - A search for Polio Comeback brought me to this page. #1 in my search. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060912-polio.html

Page 2 has some interesting paragraphs.

A global UN vaccination campaign launched in 1988 to eradicate the disease has been 99 percent successful, reducing the number of worldwide polio cases from more than 350,000 in 1988 to less than 700 in 2003.

And

But rumors about the side effects of the polio vaccine may also be amplifying the outbreaks...Some communities believe the polio vaccine makes children impotent and sterile. Press reports in Urduâ€"the language of many South Asian Muslimsâ€"have helped propagate the myths. In some areas of Moradabad, vaccination teams have even been attacked for trying to administer immunizations.

In Nigeria Muslim leaders suspended vaccination campaigns in 2003 because of rumors that the vaccine was laced with HIV and infertility drugs.

Which leads to

The latest estimates by the UN's World Health Organization (WHO) place the number of polio cases in India this year at 249, compared to just 35 in 2005.



To me that is a direct correlation between disease and vaccinations. And also the effect that a few people can have on the administering of said vaccinations.


It also seems that the benefit of same vaccinations outweigh the potential dangers that may or may not exist. Especially with the assumed # of people dying to be around 100,000 in the US when compared with the potential of 350,000 children under 5 contracting polio.

The same fears/rumors about autism and vaccines ALMOST made me not vaccinate my own children. Until I actually looked up some info and realized it was hogwash.

BTW the polio story links to a brilliant one about measles.

To shorten it

The World Health Organization estimates that some 450,000 people worldwide, mostly children, die from measles each year.

Another measles outbreakâ€"the largest in the U.S. in ten yearsâ€"occurred last year, when a 17-year-old Indiana girl contracted the disease on a trip to Romania.

After her return, the girl, who was not vaccinated for the disease, attended a church function with many others who were also unvaccinated.

Sixteen parishioners were infected, and they in turn infected others with whom they had contact.

Thirty-four people eventually got the measles, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The Indiana outbreak struck another group of Americans at special risk from the measlesâ€"those who refuse to be vaccinated.

Some people shun vaccination because they believe that vaccines preserved with thimerosal, a mercury compound, can pose health risks such as autism.

The Washington, D.C.-based Institute of Medicine reports that no link has been established between thimerosal and autism and that the ingredient is being phased out of most childhood vaccines.


And to say that medicine cannot reduce the number of diseases is obvious and misleading. There will always be undeveloped countries in the world and rogue communities that will harbor these pathogens to be unleashed on some future unsuspecting people.

27. Ore. Court: Boy Has Say in Circumcision

Comment #116349 by ivellios on January 26, 2008 at 9:38 am

Also remember...

We were created in his image, perfect. At least that is what they teach. So why does the foreskin have to be cut off if that is the case?

Mental

28. It was a bad year for God.

Comment #109261 by ivellios on January 8, 2008 at 4:58 pm

"In the Japanese language, kamikaze (Japanese:神風), usually translated as "divine wind" (kami is the word for "God", "Spirit", or "Divinity"; and kaze for "wind"). The word kamikaze originated as the name of major typhoons in 1274 and 1281, which dispersed Mongolian invasion fleets."

Quoted from Wiki.

At least read what you are going to use as an argument. They believed that this was the work of some supernatural force, ie their "god," and some believe that their Emperor is the living god much like the ancient Egyptians did.

So, to sum up, they did what their god told them to do.

29. Stop House Resolution 888

Comment #107831 by ivellios on January 5, 2008 at 12:55 pm

I urge you to vote against H.Res. 888 and do all you can to prevent its passage.

Ostensibly aimed at "[a]ffirming the rich spiritual and religious history of our Nation's founding and subsequent history," the resolution offers an erroneous, incomplete, and unbalanced description of our nation's history and founding principles. Some of the items touted in the resolution, moreover, are unwise, unconstitutional, notorious missteps of our past, including, for instance, the insertion of the phrase "under God" into the Pledge of Allegiance in 1954. Our government has no business promoting religion, and it certainly should not couple our nation with god(s) when calling on us to pledge allegiance.

The resolution seeks to undermine the secular nature of our government. It should be rejected.

Also, look into the executive order allowing funding for "religious charities," I believe it to be unconstitutional. If someone wants to donate to religious charities, fine, but religious institutions already benefit from tax breaks, and they most certainly do not need our tax dollars to further insert themselves into our government.

Please do some informative research before rubber stamping yet another bill filled with, at best, empty rhetoric and at worst, outright lies. Please don't follow the herd as you did with Bill 847.

Thanks,

Matt


Posted to my Illustrious CongrASSman Hulshoff Who did vote for Bill 847.

The only comfort for me, I guess, is that I'm already smack in the middle of the new eden, which I lovingly refer to as the butthole of America.

The persecuted get more ballsy by the day.

30. Can Atheists Be Parents?

Comment #107470 by ivellios on January 4, 2008 at 3:08 pm

I think it is a misprint since the link from Rudism states the first child was 3.

And they did get to keep her.

31. The OUT Campaign has its own Flea!

Comment #106358 by ivellios on January 2, 2008 at 6:07 pm

Can somebody please explain to me why they continue to act like they are out numbered and need to "come out."

I just don't get all the articles. It's like they feel that if they say they are winners over and over again that makes it true.

32. 'Christian God is not to blame'

Comment #102653 by ivellios on December 23, 2007 at 11:18 am

Bah, just more propaganda about how they are persecuted and everyone else is really to blame.

Let us not forget that the suffering brought on by Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and the like were introduced by individuals who wanted to be worshiped themselves and not by a sanctioned GROUP of society that proclaims themselves legitimate and doing "God's" will. Do not mention the Inquisition, Witch burnings, The Crusades, many past aggressions and the current world situation that has been directed by "God," by Bush's own admission.

I really tire of the same BS pushed by every corner of Christianity.

33. The History of Creationist Thought

Comment #102434 by ivellios on December 22, 2007 at 6:34 pm

I like the general perspective that it gives. Very telling that the belief can be boiled down to a "magic man."

34. Blair converts to Catholicism

Comment #102432 by ivellios on December 22, 2007 at 6:26 pm

Catholicism, WOW! What a tool.

The best that can be hoped for for him is that the change opens his eyes to all the inconsistencies.

35. Romney's Mormonism is fair game

Comment #90371 by Ivellios on November 24, 2007 at 9:51 pm

However, having grown up as a mormon, I can tell you that the average mormon is a very considerate, kind, thoughtful citizen of which ever country he comes from. The fact that they are delusional and seriously wrong has nothing to do with the society as a whole.

Well, I'm sure the same could be said about the Muslims.

IMHO - LDS and Scientologists belong in the same group as the Heaven's Gate folk. Crackpot Loonies with Cult status. It's just unfortunate that they didn't follow the same path as the HG folks.

36. War in Heaven: Hitchens Meets D'Souza on Home Turf

Comment #81456 by ivellios on October 24, 2007 at 6:57 pm

As I read these comments, 1 thing sprang to mind.

In recent events we have the continued war in Iraq. Do the religious not concern themselves with the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein? He murdered whole towns in the name of his Muslim religion. BTW between Shiite and Sunni which, in my mind, is akin to Catholics attacking Methodists.

Also, could the subsequent hanging of Saddam be put to the side of Christianity? Especially since it seems that we are now fighting what amounts to a Holy war, at least by one side.

I for one would love to see this brought up in future debates with the "religious right."