1. Some non-Christians feel left out of election

Comment #121667 by Recalcitrant on February 4, 2008 at 12:03 am

Okay, let the fun begin. I'm an atheist Republican. As an issues guy I was for Fred Thompson...he's out. On issues I'd then take Romney...he isn't going to get the nomination because of being Mormon....nunquam's "Earnhardt crowd" won't go for it. Huckabee is Carter(baptist)/Clinton(Arkansas) Lite. McCain blew it with most Republicans because 1. McCain/Feingold is a blow to freedom of speech and should've been labeled: "Incumbent Protection Act" 2. McCain/Kennedy (failed) was a "doors wide open come on in" immigration bill.....some liberals feel that Mexicans should be protected but they forget that cheap labor equals no unions in homebuilding and as Catholics the ones who are legal strongly voted against gay marriage.....

After affirming my atheism and looking at candidates on church/state.....Thompson got nailed because he didn't jump on the church wagon but guess who else is not on the church wagon so much?....Ron Paul. I got to looking at Dr. Paul and holy shit I wanted to cry for joy.....he's the best of Reagan on domestic issues. What has really got Ron Paul screwed is: Iraq (though I agree with him now even though I was all for the invasion...I think we should've left after we pulled Saddam out of his rathole) and God (Ron Paul ain't churching it up like the others)

If there was a woman and black man running for president here in the US I'd rather it be (politically viable candidates not long shots) Kay Bailey Hutchinson and J.C Watts (former black Republican rep/former football player? I think, from Oklahoma who didn't seek re-election) the guy is in his early forties now and would make Obama look like an idiot) Even old dyed in the wool rascist good ol boys from my dad's generation like JC Watts as a politician...because he's conservative. Both Hutchinson and Watts don't come off as especially beholden to the Baptist, Pat Robertson crowd.

As much as I hate to do it I will hold my nose and vote for McCain because he's a damn sight better than Billary or Hussein Obama.

2. God vs. Gridiron

Comment #121601 by Recalcitrant on February 3, 2008 at 7:18 pm

In Texas football is damn near a religion...in one high school I went to the cross country team had a training run interupted and we were told to go load the football team's gear on a bus...like sheep the rest of the the team was going to do it until I told the assistant coach in colorful language forget it and to go forget himself...you'd have thought I committed blasphemy. Its an interesting study in contradictions when the sweet little cheerleaders can be held up as role models on Sunday mornings and then whored out on Friday night....there are alot blank stares when you point out the pagan tribalism of the whole thing.

But still, I like to watch a good game...even if the bastards make more money in a year than I do in ten and the owners bamboozle the church going electorate into building multi-million dollar stadiums while shutting down libraries.

3. Scientists discover way to reverse loss of memory

Comment #118726 by Recalcitrant on January 30, 2008 at 10:00 pm

Annabanana, do I really need fundies running around who can spout the bible verbatim? Its bad enough already. Imagine the I-35 group with these things...they'd sprout up on I-40 also. They'd also start into grand theft auto and then spout off verbatim about Jesus stealing a baby donkey to ride into Jerusalem as a defense. Now if you could wire these people up with OnStar while you're at it that might be nice. Read off their mark of the beast bar code or RFID tag number while they're proselytizing mid sentence and they shut down....bad joke. Unfortunately, all they'd be motivated to learn would be more nonsense. We need to wire these people for common sense or something to satiate/suppress their god center of the brain.

4. MySpace: No place for Atheists?

Comment #118099 by Recalcitrant on January 30, 2008 at 10:42 am

Must be a marketing issue. Either the loss of good will from the theists is more than the revenue from the atheists OR MySpace is completely blind to the marketing potential of the atheists.
Could also be that we're a niche market that crosses too many demographics and is hard to track and sell to. Who owns MySpace and how do they make their operating revenue?

5. A Letter From Hell

Comment #115898 by Recalcitrant on January 25, 2008 at 2:23 am

Wow, imagine if the democrat national party ran the same kind of ad without the dying but used the voter registry instead of the "Book of Life." Sorry, you're not a registered Democrat and you didn't give to Green Peace, we're going to put you in a holding cell and then have two PETA members escort you to a gas furnace, toss you in and slow roast you. You're allowed to dictate one letter out to the electorate while your skin blisters off..... the public and Republicans would have a frakin shit fit! But hey this is "winning souls" for Jesus were talking about so don't criticize that! Only someone who is cognitively dissonant could be outraged at the example above but then turn around and defend this video.

6. Heath Ledger Death: Baptist Group To Protest At Memorial

Comment #115831 by Recalcitrant on January 24, 2008 at 10:28 pm

It would be interesting for Dr. Dawkins to do a study on reaction time of fringe groups to certain news events. You would have to set up the official start time as the point when either the news breaks or reaches a certain market saturation point. From there one could assign a numerical value to certain topics: gay, DNA, cloning, God, etc. It would be a really interesting statistical study on a case by case basis or overall. If statisticians are hired by a politicians to track these things then I'm sure that somewhere there has to have been some work done on this or maybe Dr. Dawkins knows some kind of media people who have specialized in this. It would be really interesting to see the results in one of his articles or books.

7. Airline sacrifices goats to appease sky god

Comment #115829 by Recalcitrant on January 24, 2008 at 10:07 pm

Wow! This makes waiting 3 hours at Bush Intercontinental for union workers to change a circuit breaker in the cockpit of a 737 look better and better. Wonder if they'll keep a spare goat for in-flight emergencies or does it pull double duty as the in-flight entertainment and if so is it like waiting in line for the lavoratory?

8. Highway to hysteria

Comment #115825 by Recalcitrant on January 24, 2008 at 9:50 pm

I live here in Texas and deal with these kinds of people on a daily basis. What you read all of Isaiah 35 in an online Bible and look at King James and NIV versions there is mention of ferocious beasts (NIV) and dragons (King James)not being found on this highway (I-35) in Isaiah 35:9. Funny, I live 200yds from I-45...I haven't been attacked by any ferocious beasts or dragons on any other interstate or roadway in Texas. I drive these roads approx 30000 miles a year in both a truck and on a motorcycle. I even ride a bicycle quite a bit and haven't seen any. In Isaiah 35:6 is says that the lame will leap like deer....if thats the case then maybe that was a transformed lame person that dented the brush guard on my truck last year. When driving near Laredo or Del Rio you'll see signs that say "This is God's country, don't drive like hell through it." in small towns. If thats the case then why are Mexicans breaking into my hunting cabin for water when it says that "the burning sand will become a pool" in verse 7? Also in verse 7 it talks about reeds and papyrus...no I hunt in plenty of cactus and scrub cedar. When I point this out to literalists they'll tell me my heart isn't in the right place and I need to pray....the rest of us roll our eyes and carry on.