1. Indian village proud after double 'honor killing'

Comment #181212 by Radesq on May 16, 2008 at 4:19 pm

JimmyL...If you see her again tell her to come home me an the kids miss her somethin' awful.

2. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #169013 by Radesq on April 25, 2008 at 2:10 pm

There really should be no other posts here but - Remnant when was the great flood? Answer the question or the discussion stops!

Actually, I don't care what he thinks about that or anything else at this point...but allowing this artless dodging is futile.

3. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #168951 by Radesq on April 25, 2008 at 1:29 pm

a-r

I thought Kasmir only beat up on the Red Sox?

I think I remember Rev. Dark asking Remnant about the flood like a week ago...you guys are still waiting for an answer. That guy is a waste of keystrokes. I don't see Epeeist still going at him (at least on this page)I think it might be long past time to declare victory and move on.

4. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #168185 by Radesq on April 24, 2008 at 5:21 pm

Troll feeding seems to be quite popular on this board?

5. Ben Stein Vs. Sputtering Atheists

Comment #165584 by Radesq on April 21, 2008 at 6:17 pm

Consider the source...

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Brent_Bozell

6. Mecca should become core to measure time zones: scholars

Comment #165580 by Radesq on April 21, 2008 at 6:04 pm

The conference was organised to introduce Saat Makkah (the watch of Mecca). The inventor of the clock, Yasin a-Shouk, said it runs anti-clockwise in the direction of Tawaf, the rotation around Kaaba.

7. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #165528 by Radesq on April 21, 2008 at 3:00 pm

navyjake95:

What the heck are you talking about? I know you, you're Jacob Kantrovitz who graduated from Paramus H.S. in Jersey in 1995. You've never ridden a horse and in your life and you're no redneck. Geesh you never would have joined the navy if your Bubbe didn't think you needed to toughen up a little bit. Stop talking tough or I'll post your senior drama club photo playing Kim from Miss Saigon.

8. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164874 by Radesq on April 20, 2008 at 7:14 pm

You mocketh me Diacanu? You just wait, I'll go back in time to when you're in the fifth grade and kick you in the nuts. :)

9. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #164872 by Radesq on April 20, 2008 at 7:12 pm

Atticus: Sounds very reasonable to me...good post.

10. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164865 by Radesq on April 20, 2008 at 7:05 pm

Dr. Steve: So that formula will plot your position in spacetime then? Sounds good to me but how do you test it? A math only problem I would guess.

11. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164860 by Radesq on April 20, 2008 at 7:00 pm

I'm glad you remembered that film rather than Arnold Schwarzenegger's "Last Action Hero".

12. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164855 by Radesq on April 20, 2008 at 6:53 pm

It's nice to see that Karda has stuck around and found a way to get ideas across without prompting too many responses beginning with "Kakashovel:"

Guilty of that myself. Not that I agree with any of it. However, isn't time considered another degree of freedom of movement similar to your x, y, z, axis'? We aren't currently able to travel along a time axis -- and I don't know how we could but that doesn't mean it is theoretically impossible does it? It would be like the character in a movie being able to travel outside the screen.

13. Open Letter to a victim of Ben Stein's lying propaganda

Comment #164851 by Radesq on April 20, 2008 at 6:45 pm

Morality like most things in the life of human beings takes its roots from tribalism. There are some things that are good in one group, tribe, clique, political party, etc... but are bad in another. What seems good to you is most likely whatever you are used to. There may be some universally held rights and wrongs. Looking at what little I know of history and different cultures -- I'm not so sure. You shouldn't call it moral relativism though because one can (and might just as well, I think) consider their own morality superior to other out groups until shown otherwise.

14. Sex for diploma offer caught on tape

Comment #164358 by Radesq on April 20, 2008 at 5:50 am

The only point worth noting is that you can avoid having to pass some sort of test and still get your diploma if you go to a religious school. So much for "I'm not really religious but I send my kid to the religious school for a better education."

15. Expelled Overview

Comment #164357 by Radesq on April 20, 2008 at 5:48 am

Still early here, haven't got the sarcasm meter warmed up yet.

16. Expelled Overview

Comment #164349 by Radesq on April 20, 2008 at 5:26 am

RE: 240. Comment #164342 by HaveEngngDegreeHeHe

That makes perfect sense given that some of the most fundamentalist religions allow men to have multiple wives (apparently as young as 13 or so). Solomon had how many wives concubines and children again? What are you thinking?

17. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164345 by Radesq on April 20, 2008 at 5:18 am

Epeeist:

This is the point at which you deliver the "coup de main". The best we were doing before was a "coup des deux veuves".

I think it can take quite a bit of brain power to try and squish science and the bible together into some kind of festering model of the world.

18. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164247 by Radesq on April 19, 2008 at 8:27 pm

Holy comic character confusion Diacanu! Surely you meant to say Dick Grayson. I'll do my best to take care of these jokers in your absence.

19. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164242 by Radesq on April 19, 2008 at 7:44 pm

I don't believe this guy is for real D. If you read through the posts (which I don't advise unless you are trying to counteract an overdose of blood pressure medication) it is like ticking off a list of popular ways to present as completely oblivious to reality. He is either a fraud or is very upset because his child brides have been taken away by the state of Texas.

20. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164209 by Radesq on April 19, 2008 at 5:49 pm

Remnant:

Genesis 34:30 (King James Version)
And Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, Ye have troubled me to make me to stink among the inhabitants of the land,


Now piss off.

21. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164191 by Radesq on April 19, 2008 at 5:23 pm

You see remnant aka assface: you can't prove that the words in a book of fiction aren't the word of god because the same arguments you would use would prove that your gospels are pure fiction as well. Are they worthless...no, but can you prove they are the word of god emphatically no. So you decide to throw insults as well, that's easy enough So go "f" yourself you ignorant schmuck.

22. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164181 by Radesq on April 19, 2008 at 5:12 pm

Remnant I thought you were talking about science or more correctly the antiscience of creationism/ID. Now you just want to assert that scripture is the truth -- God's truth. Says who?

Those old and new testaments are about a false God just like all the Gods before him. Eru the true God did not interact with man until the 20th century when his inspired words were written down by JRR Tolkien in what would later become known as the Ainulindale a part of the greater Silmarillion.

Don't believe me? Prove it.

23. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164165 by Radesq on April 19, 2008 at 4:49 pm

remnant you are not a real creationist. You are pretending. No real creationist would throw out all these softballs for us to hit over the fence -- and then tie ID to the gospel. Thanks but we don't need the help - fraud.

24. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164126 by Radesq on April 19, 2008 at 3:19 pm

Remnant;

Perhaps you think you are clever using terms like blind faith, false religion etc... to describe belief in the theory of evolution (if so you are alone in that thinking). Maybe you think that attacking modern science for its lack of critical thinking will turn heads. Ooh I'll throw their own words back at them...they will be so confused. Unfortunately for you your propagandizing and doublethink does not ring true at all. Your words are so easily turned back on you that it isn't even fun to do it. As Epeeist has been pointing out to you (with no refutation) ID has no value as science it makes no predictions, is not falsifiable (testable) and makes little attempt to explain anything about the world around us. It is nothing more than a disingenuous critique of evolution and it is more of an anti-science than anything else.

25. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #164047 by Radesq on April 19, 2008 at 1:04 pm

What can men do against such reckless ignorance?

26. I'm gonna be a MOVIE STAR

Comment #163726 by Radesq on April 18, 2008 at 10:10 pm

"I must say that your first venture onto this site seems a trifle brusque. Would you not rather try some courtesy,..." -- Styrer

Wiley is not likely to answer your question; and of course he doesn't really need to you know who his designer is. But it is only slightly more likely Styrer that you will be able to keep up that gentlemanly facade in your last post. You may have retracted the claws for the moment, but it won't last.
Best,
Radesq

27. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #163680 by Radesq on April 18, 2008 at 6:59 pm

apbooking: You must spend a great deal of energy keeping the real world at bay. Evolution is a process...there is ample evidence that this process has been occurring in living organisms for millions and millions of years. The mechanism that makes evolution work is genetic mutation, (you could just say change if the word mutation sounds scary) change happens. Look around you, there are new breeds of dogs and cats wheat and corn all the time. Granted, this has been done "purposefully" for the most part. Given the time frames involved -- is it so hard to understand the change becoming so dramatic that the resulting plant or animal can be considered a new species? Look at a great dane and a chihuahua -- they once had a common ancestor and not very long ago on an evolutionary time scale. The same applies to humans and apes; quite a bit longer ago (the scientists here could be more specific on just how many million years)they had a common ancestor. Some of the ancestors became the great apes of today and some became early humans. Some of those early humans became modern man (some died off).

28. Gods and earthlings

Comment #163646 by Radesq on April 18, 2008 at 5:25 pm

"If we could land a jumbo jet beside a medieval village, would we not be worshiped as gods?"

Perhaps, or maybe the villagers would be whipped into a xenophobic frenzy so that within a week they would kill us and destroy the jumbo jet with axes.

29. Evolution fray attracts top scientist

Comment #162352 by Radesq on April 16, 2008 at 5:40 pm

Whitepearl, there's no point trying to get noticed for a job in the Bush administration now -- they are one their way out. ;-)

30. Victims: Pope Benedict Protects Accused Pedophile Bishops

Comment #162346 by Radesq on April 16, 2008 at 5:18 pm

Cartomancer please compare & contrast paedophile priest and church organist.

31. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #162335 by Radesq on April 16, 2008 at 4:18 pm

FF on the gold standard I don't disagree with your wish that it would in some ways be a nice thing to not have a baseless currency that can be inflated on a whim. This is again Dreamertarianism -- that ship has sailed, that horse is out of the barn, the genie is out of the lamp/bottle -- you can't get the toothpaste back in the tube, etc...ad infinitum.

Lastly private schools are competition for the public schools. There needs to be a robust public (free to poor people -- yes I know nothing's free we all pay property taxes for other peoples children blah, blah, blah)school system. The alternative is worse and will cost us all more dearly in the long run.

edit: I think at bottom we both feel like if only you were the CEO of America, Inc. you could run it right and the government could just butt out and everything would be great; or if only I were the King of America I would do it right and keep all these robber barons in line and everything would be just great. (ain't gonna happen and it almost certainly wouldn't work out anyway). I am probably closer to you on the personal freedom issue (bleeding heart that I am)but you can't go to theoretical extremes there either. I'd just hate to be satisfied with the current state of affairs where I could be spirited away to some detention facility without a word or a lawyer or a judge that could set me free until the NeoCons get bounced from office.

32. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #162333 by Radesq on April 16, 2008 at 4:10 pm

Diacanu:

I haven't read what all the fuss is about Richard Morgan. I take it from the posts above that he has been posting under various guises - and has supposedly been seduced by the dark side of the force?

I will forgive him if he resumes posting under the avatar with the bouncing pair in the black top.

33. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #162330 by Radesq on April 16, 2008 at 4:03 pm

Alright Falcon here's the problem, sales taxes even vat are regressive taxes, in that the poor have very little disposable income and have by necessity a relatively low savings rate (or at least ability to save). Therefore a much greater percentage of their income is spent (taxed). You might say -- well poor people are the ones who get all the benefits from the government so why shouldn't they pay the most in taxes. Well, for one thing it is just wrong...the defense department that you work for and State, Commerce, Interior, etc... all insure and provide a stable and safe economic business place where those with high incomes derive most of the benefits. The poor just slog along from welfare to dead end job, etc...until they can make the right business connection, get enough college credits to move up in the job market, or otherwise get some lucky break that moves them into the middle class (the taxpaying class). The well to do in America are dependent on America for the freedom to make their money -- they should pay the most freight.

I'm willing to listen to cutting deductions, flattening the brackets some if possible, and by all means lowering the brackets further if possible. How that money gets spent is another matter...you and I would probably have more in common in our views on waste fraud and abuse in government spending (just not on who is responsible and how to fix it).

34. Religious education as a part of literary culture

Comment #161942 by Radesq on April 15, 2008 at 9:03 pm

Teratornis:

We need that pulp forest land for growing miscanthus...

35. School bars same-sex partners at formals

Comment #161887 by Radesq on April 15, 2008 at 8:12 pm

The unedited version of the article almost certainly contained the line.

"We welcome homsexuals to our classrooms and welcome them in our churches, but we will not allow them anywhere near our balls; I'm afraid I'm quite firm on this."

36. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161873 by Radesq on April 15, 2008 at 7:59 pm

Dr. Steve: you keep using that word (sorry) -- I do not think it means what you think it means. ;)

37. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #161855 by Radesq on April 15, 2008 at 7:42 pm

Nice parting shot...drop a couple moabs like abolish the income tax and go back to the gold standard -- yawn, off to bed... I'll expect you to defend those wild eyed ideals upon your return.

Cheers,

Radesq

38. For sale: 13-year-old virgin

Comment #161850 by Radesq on April 15, 2008 at 7:29 pm

Dr. Steve:
That reminds me of variation of a story I remember from school. A priest, a lawyer and a scientist are having a discussion while riding on a train. They look out the window and see a dozen white swans floating in a pond. After they pass by the discussion turns to the question - What do we know about swans? The priest says "swans are white", the lawyer says "those dozen swans are white" the scientist says "those dozen swans are white on one side". So I suppose that the laws of physics and mathematics may not hold in some places we haven't observed yet. I have no reason to think so - but I am uncertain. He is confusing uncertainty with faith - I think.

39. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #161836 by Radesq on April 15, 2008 at 7:15 pm

FF: Thank you for your service.

On the founders and the private sector: this from Wikipedia-

"In the United States, government chartering began to fall out of vogue in the mid-1800s. Corporate law at the time was focused on protection of the public interest, and not on the interests of corporate shareholders. Corporate charters were closely regulated by the states. Forming a corporation usually required an act of legislature. Investors generally had to be given an equal say in corporate governance, and corporations were required to comply with the purposes expressed in their charters. Many private firms in the 19th century avoided the corporate model for these reasons (Andrew Carnegie formed his steel operation as a limited partnership, and John D. Rockefeller set up Standard Oil as a trust)."

About the only thing I trust less than the government is a large corporation created to amass wealth and practically speaking unaccountable to the public. Too many Enrons, Tycos, Adelphias, etc... Government often screws the public out of incompetence or indifference -- corporations that reach the bureaucratic size of governments seem to screw people on purpose. Pick your poison. Capitalism like Democratic Republicanism is a flawed system - it is just better than anything else that has been tried.

40. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #161831 by Radesq on April 15, 2008 at 6:48 pm

FF: You're right a greedy and incompetent government is not a good answer. Still, a marketplace is a competitive place. Like most competitive activities -- in order to have an organized competition you have to have rules. If you are going to have rules -- you'll need a referee to ensure that the rules are followed and that the competition is fair. That is the government's role. Poor referees can interfere too much or too little. If you don't like the government -- vote -- if you can't find anybody to vote for -- stand (run) for election yourself. If your party (Libertarian - although I recall you are not an actual member)can't win single member district elections lobby for multi-party elections. Holding contempt for the government (which sounds like a trait you and I share though I speak for myself)and wishing it would go away doesn't make it any better - quite the contrary.

edit: What a load of self righteous crap I just wrote...take it or leave it... your a grown up... you don't have to listen to me, after all it's still a free country (for the most part).

41. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #161815 by Radesq on April 15, 2008 at 6:03 pm

FF:

Both Rand and myself take for granted that people will act honestly, openly and with integrity.

42. For sale: 13-year-old virgin

Comment #161807 by Radesq on April 15, 2008 at 5:44 pm

Using the financial calculations in this article. Muslim martyrs should be able to purchase 72 virgins for about 26,000 pounds - no suicide bombing required.

43. Lying for Jesus?

Comment #161802 by Radesq on April 15, 2008 at 5:35 pm

bih4u

How would faith defined as "firm belief in something for which there is no proof" be of any use in finding the truth? One can have a firm belief in something that is false as easily as something that is true. Faith is superfluous.

44. For sale: 13-year-old virgin

Comment #161103 by Radesq on April 14, 2008 at 7:52 pm

Goldy "bedouins would be close" bedyoungins sounds closer.

45. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #161101 by Radesq on April 14, 2008 at 7:50 pm

Libertarian arguments always seem to boil down to -- "I really can't understand why you all think I'm nuts...must be something wrong with you."

46. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #161084 by Radesq on April 14, 2008 at 7:21 pm

Diacanu,

Athe-ism?

47. For sale: 13-year-old virgin

Comment #161083 by Radesq on April 14, 2008 at 7:18 pm

"Two of her sisters, Ritu, 35, and Manju, 25, have built one of the few stone houses in their village, for which they paid the equivalent of £14,600..."

"The normal rate is 100 rupees (£1.30)"

*shudder*

48. Hitchens vs. Hitchens

Comment #161073 by Radesq on April 14, 2008 at 6:31 pm

Ever notice that Christopher Hitchens bears a strong resemblance to Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus from the Pink Panther movies?

49. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #160233 by Radesq on April 13, 2008 at 8:41 pm

What about hemp Teratornis? Could we make oil out of hemp? That'd be far out man.
If we are about to have a world food crisis because of peak oil/ethanol. What about hydrogen cars? Worldwide water shortage?
No stationary power should be coming from fossil fuels there are enough alternatives for that out there. Solar, wind, geothermal, tidal, water, nuclear, landfill gases higher efficiency superconducting transmission wires or "heaven" help us microwave transmission of energy...

50. Richard Dawkins and Bill Maher

Comment #160225 by Radesq on April 13, 2008 at 8:31 pm

I only said "your" Militiamen because you first mentioned them. Best of luck to you FF, I won't be able to get any sleep if Mike Timlin continues to give up damn homeruns and loses this game for Dice K.