1401. Should Strident British Atheist Richard Dawkins Dictate Education Policy to US States? Barbara Forrest Apparently Thinks So

Comment #197153 by mordacious1 on June 21, 2008 at 8:29 am

ferr0084

I thought Newton was a fig cookie.

1402. PZ Myers - Science and Atheism in the Blogosphere

Comment #197150 by mordacious1 on June 21, 2008 at 8:21 am

robotaholic

Yes, I agree with you about the Hedges interview. I didn't get mad, just rolled my eyes. But this is ok, we don't just need to hear things we agree with.

AtheistJon

Video debates: Have you ever seen a video of clearth..I mean David Robertson? That guy is hard enough to take in writing, without having to see and hear him. Way too much for my senses.

Ps. did you notice how, by the third post, I was able, not intentionally, to derail the thread? This is a problem, but sometimes it goes in a good direction. It is when you have a poster with an ax to grind, like DR, that the threads can be all on the same subject. Trying to make mincemeat out of DR, for example.

1403. Louisiana's Latest Assault on Darwin

Comment #197140 by mordacious1 on June 21, 2008 at 7:58 am

Now the discovery institute will put out something such as: "Strident Yankee newspaper wants to dictate to LA how to educate their kids. Say 'no' to this viscious attempt by liberal northeners to run your state".

1404. Should Strident British Atheist Richard Dawkins Dictate Education Policy to US States? Barbara Forrest Apparently Thinks So

Comment #197045 by mordacious1 on June 21, 2008 at 1:17 am

Steve

I pick lying.

1405. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #197043 by mordacious1 on June 21, 2008 at 1:04 am

Crap, I saw a camel race here locally once...that was some scarey shit, I'd never do it.

1406. PZ Myers - Science and Atheism in the Blogosphere

Comment #197042 by mordacious1 on June 21, 2008 at 12:59 am

Elles

I listened to that broadcast. High schoolers of today are extremely lucky to have various means to express their opinions. In my day, we had a stupid student newspaper, where the staff was chosen by the principal and reviewed by him. Now you have the internet, what a wonderful way of getting involved and actually being heard. Even though you were on the radio, your broadcast could be heard online around the globe. You are growing up during a wonderful time. Stay involved, always let your voice be heard.

1407. Should Strident British Atheist Richard Dawkins Dictate Education Policy to US States? Barbara Forrest Apparently Thinks So

Comment #197034 by mordacious1 on June 21, 2008 at 12:40 am

I was waiting for the backlash from the DI. I'm just suprised (though I shouldn't be) that they imply that Richard's foundation is behind this and leading a bunch of wild, godless foreigners to "dictate education policy to the states". It's a ploy aimed at the ignorant masses of religious sheep.

1408. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #197028 by mordacious1 on June 21, 2008 at 12:32 am

Fanusi

"...especially young boys for camel racing". Is this some kind of euphemism? I've never heard it called that.

1409. Should Strident British Atheist Richard Dawkins Dictate Education Policy to US States? Barbara Forrest Apparently Thinks So

Comment #197024 by mordacious1 on June 21, 2008 at 12:22 am

Hey, irate's link didn't work either. Now I don't feel so stupid, I've been having this problem all day and thought it was me (probably was actually).

edit: so irate, how did you go back and make your link work. I'm embarrassed to say that I can build a computer from assembled parts, repair any problem on a computer, but I'm new at blogging and suck at it. I'm always asking my kids how to do things.

1410. Should Strident British Atheist Richard Dawkins Dictate Education Policy to US States? Barbara Forrest Apparently Thinks So

Comment #197017 by mordacious1 on June 21, 2008 at 12:08 am

Richard

And darn it, there is no reason that you should.

I don't think that your foundation is a political action committee.

edit: I might add that there is no law in the U.S. or its states, forbidding foreign citizens from writing letters to political leaders.

1411. Should Strident British Atheist Richard Dawkins Dictate Education Policy to US States? Barbara Forrest Apparently Thinks So

Comment #197007 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 11:48 pm

8teist

I keep an empty beer bottle by my door. When the JW's or Mormons show up (for some reason they're always women here), I rip off my shirt, grab the beer bottle, open the door and slur, "Are you duh hookers I ordered?" They actually run to their van.

You'd think they'd put me on a list to avoid by now.

1412. Should Strident British Atheist Richard Dawkins Dictate Education Policy to US States? Barbara Forrest Apparently Thinks So

Comment #197001 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 11:22 pm

Fucktardism

I hate the word strident constantly being used to describe Richard. It rarely, if ever, fits. Passionate, OK. I wish the Discovery Institute would discover that they are a bunch of fucktards. Now that's strident.

1413. PZ Myers - Science and Atheism in the Blogosphere

Comment #196997 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 10:11 pm

Always love to listen to PZ, and Point of Inquiry does a good job interviewing.

...convert people to critical thinking. Tough job.

"...the conservative churches are force-feeding kids nonsense". Science gives them the ability to question this nonsense. Succinct.

1414. Bright Chunks At Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice

Comment #196974 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 7:23 pm

Sent2Null

Thomas Gold, that's the guy. I guess I could of looked that up myself, but thanks. I didn't realize he was reviving a much older theory by the Russians. It did get alot of attention at the time though, and it seems the Russians still give it credence.

edit: I remember Gold saying that there could be oil on other planets and moons, without ever having life. This was his main point.

1415. Science teacher dissed evolution

Comment #196972 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 7:15 pm

Epinephrine

Sure, they fired him to cover their butts, but first they tried to get him a different job not teaching science. Probably would make a good P.E. teacher. He could chase the kids around the track with various painful electrical devices.

1416. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196963 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 5:46 pm

Tera

I'm not criticizing. I was a vegetarian for many years. It was a lot of work though (making sure you get all amino acids, etc) and I lived in a town that catered to vegetarians.

1417. Lawsuit filed over 'I Believe' plates in S.C.

Comment #196962 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 5:42 pm

I just watched Barry Lynn being interviewed by Laura Ingram on the O'Reilly factor over this. I just wanted to reach in my TV and slap that %^$#@ around. Statements like: It's people like you who drive people to vote for GW. What's wrong with a plate like this? etc S I C K E N I N G

They show this crap about 6 times a day, so you can probably catch it later, or tomorrow, if you can stomach it.

1418. Science teacher dissed evolution

Comment #196958 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 5:24 pm

I don't understand why people expect the kids to kick the guy in the nuts or punch his face in. The correct response would be to take the electrostatic device and burn a cross about 6 inches into his rectum.

1419. Bright Chunks At Phoenix Lander's Mars Site Must Have Been Ice

Comment #196956 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 5:13 pm

Sent2null

About a decade ago, a geologist was pushing the theory that the earth was formed with the oil already there, like iron, etc. He said it wasn't decayed anything. I thought it was BS at the time but a lot of people took him seriously. Ever hear of this?

Probably a cretinist trying to disprove dinos ever existed. Who knows?

1420. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196954 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 5:01 pm

Tera

You reminded of this:

http:www.last.fm/music/Steve Goodman/_/chicken cordon bleus

my link didn't work, and there are plus signs after Steve, chicken, cordon, and bleus

1421. Pastors Challenge Law, Endorse Candidates From Pulpit

Comment #196950 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 4:48 pm

edit: [errased] sorry, this posted on two threads, hey why am I apologizing?

1422. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196901 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 3:07 pm

I miss Berlin too. Haven't been back since before reunification, I'm sure it's changed.

black wolf

I have to admit, I was one of those beer breath guys on the streetcars.

1423. Thinking ahead: Bacteria anticipate coming changes in their environment

Comment #196895 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 2:58 pm

[rant]: If you've been reading these posts for awhile, you may realize that it is one of my pet peeves to attribute human atributes, like "deciding to grow a hard shell for protection", to other species. It's usually journalists translating science articles for the "laymen" and it pisses me off. Make the laymen more knowledgeable, not less. [Rant ended]

1424. 'My daughter deserved to die for falling in love'

Comment #196889 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 2:51 pm

I know that this woman was bravely speaking out, and doing some real good, but shame on the "Coalition Forces" (if they could ever be called that), for not getting her the F out of there. She had a target on her forehead. I think it would be good PR for the U.S. to protect people like her. This is very sad indeed.

1425. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196886 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 2:38 pm

If they only took a "real" science class, they'd learn that urine is to remove toxins from the body, not to be then replaced. Morons. Or are they whiz kids? hmmm

1426. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196881 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 2:31 pm

decius

Don't the Hindus drink their own pee? I read somewhere that some die of it.

Al

Agree with you on Citibank. Cheap now, cheaper by October.

1427. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196877 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 2:25 pm

Tera

I dated "smoking hot" women in Germany who fit Al's description. Everything was OK, but the lack of deoderant got to me, I'm very sensitive to odors. I was in an american PX once and I heard two German women trying to figure out what deoderant was. And the streetcars in the summertime...gag.

1428. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196865 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 2:10 pm

decius

I think the urinites are called pee-ons are they not? Although I was bitching at a guy for peeing in a gym shower one time and he said he was curing his athelete's foot. I prefer OTC meds myself.

1429. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196831 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 1:21 pm

Al

I have a ponytail and a beard, I hope you don't hold it against me. I hate granola, rarely wear sandals, and use lots of anti-persperant. Half of my friends say I'm a flaming liberal, the other half a right wing Nazi...I see myself as socially liberal and fiscally conservative. I'm a triangle, and there are only square and round holes.

1430. Lawsuit filed over 'I Believe' plates in S.C.

Comment #196815 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 1:07 pm

bluebird

If you tilt you head to the left, it looks like a fish fossel. Your avatar reminds me of something too, but I won't say what.

1431. Science teacher dissed evolution

Comment #196764 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 12:19 pm

Yes, this story is a bit old. If I was an attorney I'd be drooling to get this case. Ka-ching. The school claims the crossing burning was wrong, but there was no problem with his teaching. They are just CTA-ing. I wouldn't necessarily home school, but interviewing your child's teachers and talking to other parents about them is a real good idea.

1432. Lawsuit filed over 'I Believe' plates in S.C.

Comment #196681 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 10:25 am

Where's my "Belief is Stupid" license plate?

edit: I'd be more likely to flip off a driver with one of those...just when I was getting my road rage under control.

1433. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196675 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 10:20 am

Al

The West provides them with lubricants, paid for by the taxpayers.

edit: Is this why Islamic countries have the most petroleum reserves?

1434. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196663 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 10:06 am

Al

I think we know you were being facetious, just joining in.

edit: oh, gotta go...Judge Judy is on. "The cases are real, the people are real, Judge Judy's hair color is..oops." See what I do when my back is out and I could be reading "Modern Science Writing" that I just got in the mail? Gosh I feel like such a moronic american when I do that.

1435. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196658 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 9:56 am

Al

Off topic, but: I was talking last year to a chief of one of the tribes here that runs casinos. He told me that he never knew there were so many of his tribe left, until the money started rolling in. He spends alot of time and money deciding if "Joe Smith" has a legitimate claim to membership.

My point was, the guilt that you were talking about led to the monopoly that the NA now have on gambling.

1436. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196652 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 9:42 am

During the colonial period, people still believed that disease was transmitted by "bad air" or probably a plague from god. The germ theory, as stated above, wasn't around...so giving the Indians a hanky and some blankets couldn't have been thought of.

Ward Churchill has claimed that the U.S. Army gave contaminated blankets to the indians in 1837.
This BS has no foundation and has totally been debunked in numerious academic publications. The more likely cause, was transmittal by normal contact, and from drinking polluted water (from cattle, etc.).

Podaar...the book you're reading is great, I don't remember it mentioning this though. I could be wrong.

edit: The real "genocide" of the Native Americans came from being displaced. The destruction of their food sources by encroaching settlers, the disruption of traditional culture, along with disease that came unintentionally from the Europeans, was what combined to cause their demise.

1437. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196612 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 8:22 am

Al

I really tore up my back working yesterday, and your comments about Bruce Lee and German bar brawls aren't helping. Ever trying laughing during a back spasm?

1438. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196446 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 1:34 am

Fanusi

Waiting for you to jump in on "It Doesn't Take an Einstein" thread.

1439. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196443 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 1:28 am

crabsallover

Don't they have a treatment for that? Sounds yucky.

1440. Teen's death blamed on faith healing

Comment #196442 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 1:25 am

Urn

I think most of them don't read the dictionary, they are waiting for the movie to come out.

G of course.

1441. Thinking ahead: Bacteria anticipate coming changes in their environment

Comment #196435 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 12:47 am

One can define heaven anyway they want, since it doesn't exist, and I'm sure the lower GI tract is Nirvana for them.

1442. Thinking ahead: Bacteria anticipate coming changes in their environment

Comment #196432 by mordacious1 on June 20, 2008 at 12:29 am

8teist

Well I know E. Coli don't need religion. There's enough crap where they live.

1443. Probe lands on Mars, NASA says

Comment #196419 by mordacious1 on June 19, 2008 at 11:35 pm

They recently dug below the surface, found some white stuff, and watched it disappear. We have ice under the surface, as well as the cap.

1444. Thinking ahead: Bacteria anticipate coming changes in their environment

Comment #196413 by mordacious1 on June 19, 2008 at 10:57 pm

Hey, these little guys have survived for a wee bit of time now, and will be here when we are long gone. The fact that they are adaptable this way doesn't suprise me. Finding the evidence that they sense cues is good stuff.

I wonder why god made them this way? She sure thought ahead, since...oh, wait, she produced mankind and bacteria at the same time, forgot.

1445. Teen's death blamed on faith healing

Comment #196399 by mordacious1 on June 19, 2008 at 9:35 pm

Frankus1122

Podaar. Is that you?

1446. Teen's death blamed on faith healing

Comment #196397 by mordacious1 on June 19, 2008 at 9:30 pm

Most religious people say that their god answers prayers. These guys only seem crazy because they actually believe it.

1447. Muslim countries win concession regarding religious debates

Comment #196394 by mordacious1 on June 19, 2008 at 9:15 pm

What a bunch of piss ant prairie pups.

1448. The Mother, The Child, The School Board And The Psychic

Comment #196282 by mordacious1 on June 19, 2008 at 3:24 pm

bachfiend

Roundabout was put out in 1971...some 37 years ago. For its time it was extremely progressive. It's hard to hear a song for the first time after such a long period without rolling your eyes. Rock music has moved so far past where they were.

1449. The Mother, The Child, The School Board And The Psychic

Comment #196264 by mordacious1 on June 19, 2008 at 2:45 pm

Kaiserkriss

So it's the tennis shoes that are preserving the feet as opposed to the hands, I've just never heard of anything like this before. Probably doesn't happen in warmer waters because a shark would eat shoe and all.

1450. It Doesn't Take an Einstein

Comment #196253 by mordacious1 on June 19, 2008 at 2:16 pm

William P

Why are you posting about Einstein when this thread is obviously about...Oh, it is about Einstein.

So my question is: Was Einstein in any of those tanks bulldozing buildings? Just kidding, hey Fanusi where are you?