Comments by Border Collie

Comment #229323 by Border Collie on August 13, 2008 at 11:24 am

The 'goddidit' paradigm snatches the awe of our world away from the individual and makes it a possession of the church. Then one can't get it back in its original form ... it's always tainted.

352. Judge says UC can deny class credit to Christian school students

Comment #229169 by Border Collie on August 13, 2008 at 7:36 am

antitheist ... No, believe me, Texas isn't listening. To most Texans, this is just another example of the 'liberal depravity' of California, otherwise referred to as the 'land of fruits and nuts'. Things like this simply make Texans dig their heels in harder. But, I'm sure, super-duper Texas Christians will be praying for those poor deluded Californians and the little victimized students of the satanically inspired course rejection.

353. Saudi Arabia Bans Dog Walking in Capital

Comment #228885 by Border Collie on August 12, 2008 at 5:18 pm

Has anyone figured out yet how many dog angels can dance on the edge of a dog tag? Also, given recent dog breeds, say, since the M-Guy died and being that they are not mentioned in the Q-Book, do these dogs actually exist? If they don't actually exist because they aren't mentioned in the Q-Book, how can they be correctly despised by the M's? I'd say dog breeds that have come into existence over the past few hundred years should be OK in S.A. being that they're simply imaginary anyway. What?

354. Saudi Arabia Bans Dog Walking in Capital

Comment #228741 by Border Collie on August 12, 2008 at 1:28 pm

Vesihiisi ... I can only say that the gods just ain't what they used to be after reading the link about Almighty Supremebeing Allah ...

355. Saudi Arabia Bans Dog Walking in Capital

Comment #228551 by Border Collie on August 12, 2008 at 7:40 am

maxamillion ... I'm pretty sure they killed the female goats to destroy the DNA evidence ...

356. Saudi Arabia Bans Dog Walking in Capital

Comment #228265 by Border Collie on August 11, 2008 at 5:23 pm

Man, you know, thirteen hundred years or so without an orgasm is just a little too long.

357. Saudi Arabia Bans Dog Walking in Capital

Comment #228245 by Border Collie on August 11, 2008 at 4:43 pm

Thanks for those three articles, Goldy. I guess if the M-guy said dogs were OK, then they're OK. I can relax now and keep my dog. And, thanks, decius ... I sprayed a mouthful of water all over my computer as I read your comment.

358. Saudi Arabia Bans Dog Walking in Capital

Comment #228235 by Border Collie on August 11, 2008 at 4:27 pm

I asked my border collie, Charlie, what he thought about this. He barked, loosely translated, "What a bunch of fucking wankers!" I think he barked something about fucktards also.

359. Charlie Brooker's screen burn

Comment #227985 by Border Collie on August 11, 2008 at 6:49 am

Is this for real? If so, I didn't know that you Brits were so competitive with the US in the sick 'reality' TV shows. It's too early to go vomit; I'll go later.

360. Father, son and holy toast

Comment #226998 by Border Collie on August 9, 2008 at 6:53 am

You guys who are constantly fighting with each other on this site ... GO TO YOUR ROOM, NOW!

Generally, w w w . n b c 5 i . c o m (spread out to prevent deletion) has has some stupid iconic-face-on-the-cornbread story about once a week if anyone feels like keeping up.

I just want to find a really, really good one and sell it on Ebay to some boneheaded fundamentalist for a few hundred thousand dollars.

361. How Our Culture Keeps Students Out of Science

Comment #226087 by Border Collie on August 7, 2008 at 5:22 pm

I'm not as well-versed in this as most of you guys are. I just see the two teenage boys in the house and their friends everyday. I did teach school a couple of decades ago, however. What I see today, which started in the 1970's, is a seeming inability to teach and or learn actual subjects like math, science, English, etc. However, pseudo-subjects as in self-esteem building, political correctness, white people are bad, all things are equal, multi-culturalism, etc., are prevalent. Both boys were in some sort of honors thing but I didn't see either of them crack a book all year and neither of them are anything like honors students in the old school version. They both know what to say and not to say in social situations but the simplest math or science baffles them.

362. How Our Culture Keeps Students Out of Science

Comment #226005 by Border Collie on August 7, 2008 at 3:21 pm

Great article ...
I see this every day with two highschoolers in the house ...

363. Richard Dawkins, the naive professor

Comment #226003 by Border Collie on August 7, 2008 at 3:19 pm

I really just noticed the title of this article ... mentally glossed over it at first.

Richard Dawkins, the naive professor ...

That must be one of the most patently stupid things I've ever read ... she should have stuck with the usual ... strident, outspoken, blah, blah ... naive, hardly ...

364. Richard Dawkins, the naive professor

Comment #225961 by Border Collie on August 7, 2008 at 2:34 pm

Exactly ... Professor of the Public Understanding of, hello, Science ... He never claimed to be the Professor of the Public Understanding of the Contrived and Manufactured False Controversy Between Evolution and Creationism ... but, hey, RD is an easy target, as is almost anyone in the public eye in the world today who hasn't succumbed to wallowing in superstition.

365. Congresswoman Slams Religious Right's Assault on Science's 'Edgier' Side

Comment #225944 by Border Collie on August 7, 2008 at 2:18 pm

Americans aren't just against, afraid of, resentful of 'science' ... they are afraid of any thought, question, reason ... anything that could even remotely possibly undermine anything they believe by a nanometer ... and it's not just in religion, sex, etc., it's in business, education, whatever, also ... don't question anything, don't even ask a neutral question, just go along with the paradigm with your mouth closed ... go balls-to-the-wall until it explodes or collapses then blame it on liberals, gays, minorities, scientists, environmentalists, media, whatever ...

366. Praying for health

Comment #225524 by Border Collie on August 6, 2008 at 5:37 pm

As before, seems a bit of a stretch to me. Some unconscious evo/religious force pushing groups apart? Maybe correlational? Maybe just groups separating due to resource scarcity and then differing "religions" popping up within the separate groups? I'm gonna quit thinking about it.

367. Call to teach biblical creation as science

Comment #225468 by Border Collie on August 6, 2008 at 3:47 pm

Just when you thought it was safe to come to Texas and eat some barbeque and have a beer or two (I think TWP's family and mine must be competing for Wingnut Family of 2008) ... I just learned from my sister that my mother can now ascertain when a person is actually dead wherein she KNOWS when the soul leaves the body. And, that's not all! People from her church are actually calling her to come to the hospital, AFTER the doctor has declared a family member dead, just to make sure. I wish that I was making this stuff up.

368. Call to teach biblical creation as science

Comment #225455 by Border Collie on August 6, 2008 at 3:33 pm

I started to say ... Set your phasers on VAPORIZE WITH EXTRA PAIN ... I was trying to be nice for a change though.

369. Call to teach biblical creation as science

Comment #225448 by Border Collie on August 6, 2008 at 3:24 pm

Steve Z ... Thank you for standing up for yourself! Damn good comments. Inspiring! Don't feel alone, however. The fundies here in Texas treat everyone who is outside their narrow spectrum of 'normalness' with equal disdain. You don't have to be gay ... just don't wear the right clothes or don't drive the right car or happen to mention an environmental or political issue or don't bow your head just right in church or don't mow your grass just right ... anything will do to rouse their patronizing, sanctimonious ire. And, they really do believe that they have a God-given right and duty to say things like 'God loves you even if you're gay.' They leave out the part about 'We'll cut your fucking heart out if you don't go straight', though ...

370. Call to teach biblical creation as science

Comment #225433 by Border Collie on August 6, 2008 at 3:06 pm

Set your phasers on STUN, people ... follow me.

371. More than 100,000 rare gorillas found in Congo

Comment #225081 by Border Collie on August 6, 2008 at 7:08 am

Who is that idiot telepreacher who does his 'sermon' with a T-rex skull on the stage with him and bleats about dinosaurs still being extant in the Congo? Have they found the dinos yet?! Maybe the gorillas are helping them hide.

372. More than 100,000 rare gorillas found in Congo

Comment #225067 by Border Collie on August 6, 2008 at 6:49 am

Agreed with many of you guys ... this is a good news/bad news article ... I think it's wonderful that 125,000 more have been found ... now leave them the fuck alone! ... scientists only ... and not too many of them. I can see the bush-meat hunters licking their lips and loading their guns right now. I can see some so-called government opening up big game hunting for revenue. I guarantee you that some faction the big game hunting industry started setting up illegal, extremely expensive, hunts the minute after they read this article. I can hear my dumb-ass conservative friends bleating their broken-record bullshit about how since they're not so rare anymore, who gives a s&%t whether they're killed or not. Seems to me that every time humans even have an inkling that there is some sort of apparently inexhaustable resource out there, they'll go out and do everything they can to prove that it isn't. This information should be kept as secret as possible. Lastly, I can hear my fundamentalist friends praising God for creating new gorillas so that those poor starvin' Africans can have somethin' to eat. You think I'm kidding ...

373. Do they really think the earth is flat?

Comment #224734 by Border Collie on August 5, 2008 at 1:07 pm

blakjack ... GB will become president of the Flat Earthers on or about January 23, 2009. He'll first have to figure out what Earth he's on, however.

374. Do they really think the earth is flat?

Comment #224698 by Border Collie on August 5, 2008 at 12:07 pm

Quetzal ... thanks for the info. Those guys do seem to be a bit much. I understand now why I didn't know who they were ... I probably glanced at their posts and moved on. I don't read all the posts and I try to stay out of the arguments that crop up. Sometimes I rant a little, but I don't usually attempt to take issue with anyone, I try not to appear too stupid and do try to make a little sense when I can. I generally enjoy all of you guys and feel pretty honored to be able to chat with lots of guys and gals whose IQ's are a few standard deviations east of the center of the bell curve. I've been out of academics for years and years and have been in the business world, so this site is a very intellectually stimulating place for me ... something I've missed. It's also a good daily antidote for the oppressive religiosity of north Texas.

375. Do they really think the earth is flat?

Comment #224626 by Border Collie on August 5, 2008 at 8:51 am

OK, Quetzal, you've got me there. I'm too old to know who those guys are.

376. Do they really think the earth is flat?

Comment #224622 by Border Collie on August 5, 2008 at 8:41 am

Being that it will take a while to decide exactly at which point to leap from, given the circumference of the edge, I'll consider staying on this side while I'm deciding. I would miss the tea and biscuits. However, there's something up here also ... Jerry Springer ... what could be worse than Jerry Springer on the other side?

377. Do they really think the earth is flat?

Comment #224614 by Border Collie on August 5, 2008 at 8:19 am

Well, it appears from Quetzal's photo/map that I can go to Antarctica and jump off the edge. Goodbye, cruel world. I'm gonna go live with the Flying Spaghetti Monster. It's OK, I like pasta.

378. Do they really think the earth is flat?

Comment #224598 by Border Collie on August 5, 2008 at 7:56 am

Thanks, Quetzal, I feel much better now. Had I known about this sooner, I wouldn't wasted so much time studying science in high school and college. I'm gonna go walk around Antartica.

379. Do they really think the earth is flat?

Comment #224570 by Border Collie on August 5, 2008 at 6:45 am

I'd been wondering where the Flying Spaghetti Monster actually lived. Now I know.

If anyone in the Fort Worth/Dallas area would like to get a down-to-Earth lesson in flatearthism, go eat dinner at the Krishna vegetarian restaurant in Dallas, Kalachandji's. I mean, how DO you know the Earth is spherical? Have YOU been to outer space? OK, I give up.

My question is this ... If one jumps off the edge, how far does one fall and does one land on one's head or on one's feet on the other side or does one just keep falling? Is there another side? Is there an edge? Or, does one fall or just walk down the edge if there is one? I guess that if I was more of a physicist, I'd not have to ask such questions.

joshuaslocum ... YES ... The 'media' IS a flat earth society ... everything is treated the same, everything is equal, every piece of idiotic tripe is validated, everything is reported with the same idiotic smile ... it's all about nothing but selling soap. It all started in 1993 ... that's when I noticed it, at least.

Also, I started noticing in 1993 that the media started challenging scientific statements and validating superstitious statements. They stopped saying things like "This tribe or cult or whatever sacrifices a chicken because they believe that it does such and such." They would say "This tribe, etc. sacrifices a chicken because it does such and such." But, if a scientific statement was made, it was just the opposite, they started saying "Scientists believe, etc., etc." It all got reversed. I guess a stupid populace buys more soap.

380. Richard Dawkins branded 'secularist bigot' by veteran philosopher

Comment #224122 by Border Collie on August 4, 2008 at 6:37 am

'branded a bigot' ... One of the two primary sanctimonious 'weapons' utilized by the PC Whiner Police in the 21st century. The other is 'I'm offended'. Who pays these people anyway?!

381. Embracing goodness, without God

Comment #223857 by Border Collie on August 3, 2008 at 2:26 pm

I've been having arguments about the difference between belief and conclusions based on observation of evidence with my fundamentalist family and relatives since I was five or six years old. They still don't get it.

382. Why Islam Is Unfunny for a Cartoonist

Comment #223713 by Border Collie on August 3, 2008 at 9:30 am

Aaahhh, Sunday morning in Fort Worth .... The TV is full of rapturously constipated, stern-faced, telepreachers. Even though they are mostly preaching economics (Send me money!), at least, I see no vest bombs on the congregations and they're not preaching about killing anyone. It's supposed to be about 107 F today. Maybe it's the heat that causes the brain damage here in Texas. I don't know. Have a nice Sunday everyone.

383. Review interview: Richard Dawkins

Comment #223530 by Border Collie on August 2, 2008 at 4:23 pm

I say ... Chew them down to their ankles, Richard! As most of you know, there was a solar eclipse in northern climes this past week. Almost every article I read about the eclipse spent at least half of the article discussing, as you might guess, the superstitions, religious connotations, omens, fears, etc. associated with eclipses. Of course, I'm fairly certain that Bigfoot, the Loch Ness monster and other well-known denizens of TV world came out while it was dark, so that only fuzzy photos could be taken. Nevertheless, usually, somewhere toward the end of the article they might have a line or two actually explaining what an eclipse is. I'm glad that there's a person like Richard in the world to take issue with the incessant, prevalent BS.

384. Why Islam Is Unfunny for a Cartoonist

Comment #223528 by Border Collie on August 2, 2008 at 3:59 pm

Damn, I get you guys up, pack your lunch and send you to school and what do you do? You eat the books and fight with each other.

385. Why Islam Is Unfunny for a Cartoonist

Comment #223480 by Border Collie on August 2, 2008 at 2:11 pm

Well, thank Mr. Jesus! At least they don't have TWP confined to a burkah (sp?) yet. There is still hope and beauty in the world!

386. Why Islam Is Unfunny for a Cartoonist

Comment #223472 by Border Collie on August 2, 2008 at 2:02 pm

InYourFaceNY ... That's probably perfectly true and accurate. However, no matter how passionately the Dutch government ass-kisses the Muslims, the Muslims are going to blow it up anyway.

387. Why Islam Is Unfunny for a Cartoonist

Comment #223456 by Border Collie on August 2, 2008 at 1:37 pm

'a serious struggle of ideas going on for the future of Europe' ... If Islam takes over, there will be no European future ... well, not as we hope it might be ...

'How to handle Muslim sensitivities' ... You'll never get it 'right', so why try? It can't be done. Religious neuroses have no end and can never be satisfied.

'diversity officer' ... my ass.

'an attempt by authorities to soothe Muslims' ... again, religious neurosis cannot be 'soothed' ... it is a disease, an addiction ...

This is just the start. The 'political correctness industry' will simply become more and more obtuse in its enforcement of whatever it's enforcing and freedom will become more and more eroded.

388. Richard Dawkins branded 'secularist bigot' by veteran philosopher

Comment #223390 by Border Collie on August 2, 2008 at 6:46 am

Appealing to what Einstein 'believed' or not makes no difference to me. Why get stuck on that fulcrum and teeter-totter up and down? We're getting into who has the biggest team and or who has the team with the most authoritative players. Winning or losing an argument with a wingnut or an atheist doesn't prove or disprove the existence or not of God. Let the wingnuts continue to give themselves emotional enemas. They're not listening to us anyway. Like teratonis said in another post (sort of paraphrased) ... we try to be reasonable, rational, etc. and they exist on emotion. Not that we don't have emotions and not that we can't empathise with them. But, generally, they don't/ can't crossover into the reasonable/rational world.

389. Richard Dawkins interviewed about 'The Genius of Charles Darwin'

Comment #223381 by Border Collie on August 2, 2008 at 6:08 am

'Outspoken, controversial, (typically strident also)' ... can't they think of any new descriptions of RD? I reckon not.

390. On TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin: Presented by Richard Dawkins

Comment #223379 by Border Collie on August 2, 2008 at 6:00 am

Richard of York ... What about the American colonies?

391. On TV: The Genius of Charles Darwin: Presented by Richard Dawkins

Comment #223209 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 7:27 pm

The History Channel in the US is showing Evolve. I missed the first episode but it's repeated I think on 8/5/08. They and National Geo do have some other good stuff like Raw Science, Universe, etc. However, most of the programming on Discovery, NG, History & A&E consists of: Bigfoot, Sharks, Snakes, Crocodiles, Bible 'History', UFO's, Animal Attacks, Ghosts, Alien Abduction, Loch Ness Monster, other monsters, giant squids ... what did I miss? Seems as if they 'balance' an hour or two of good science programming with twelve hours of tripe.

392. 'Major discovery' from MIT primed to unleash solar revolution

Comment #223142 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 3:05 pm

Sign me up.

393. The Trolls Among Us

Comment #223141 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 3:01 pm

The Internet is a modern day freak show inhabitated by millions of sociopathic dipshits ... who doesn't know that?

394. The moment of truth

Comment #223138 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 2:44 pm

Imagine a country of orangutans ... no people. Now, some of our little red-haired friends are Christian, some are Muslim, some are Jewish, some are Buddhist, some are Hindus, some are atheists and some are confused and or just don't give a damn. Did I leave anybody out? Absurd, isn't it?

Like Pat Condell says ... 'freedom from ALL religion ALL of the time' ... seems to be a better answer than 'conversion' ...

However, I must confess ... I'm a Seven Day Adventurist. Something new happens to me every day.

395. Vicar supports Life of Brian ban

Comment #223034 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 10:01 am

I'm waiting for 'Life of Mohammed' ...

Oh, fatwa list?
Get in line.

396. Is Killing Liberals a Hate Crime?

Comment #223026 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 9:36 am

Unfortunately, I'm certain that I know people who really believe that this sort of shooting is OK and or that it's excusable because the shooter killed 'liberal' people from a church that is open minded and supports an open minded ideology. They'll rationalize it by believing that the UU's 'brought it on themselves' by supporting gay rights, womens' rights, allowing atheists to come to their church and on and on. God's retribution in the form of a sick fuck with a shotgun. Of course, it would have been a tragedy to them had he opened fire at a Baptist church because he hated conservatives.

397. Vicar supports Life of Brian ban

Comment #223017 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 8:59 am

This is specifically why God invented Netflix ... or whatever you guys have over there in the UK.

398. Is Killing Liberals a Hate Crime?

Comment #223013 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 8:54 am

Wingnuts and guns have always been a dangerous combination. This guy was just another sick fuck asshole. If he wanted to commit suicide by cop, why didn't he just go down to the police station and start shooting? Well, like all cowardly sick fucks, he had to rationalize his cowardly sick fuck actions to himself. Don't get me started.

399. Workers' Religious Freedom vs. Patients' Rights

Comment #223009 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 8:41 am

The Bush Admin is completely about the scarcity model of existence ('it's scarce and we control the supply of it to you and it's going to cost you alot to get it'). This includes oil/energy primarily and, of course, everything else. Now they're getting into medicine. It's all about creating scarcity whether it exists or should exist or not. And, give me a break, it's all about them and what they want. The American people aren't even considered in the equation except as we can be sodomized.

400. What's wrong with science as religion

Comment #223001 by Border Collie on August 1, 2008 at 8:25 am

'What's Wrong with Science as Religion' ... uh, everything? Hey, which one of you guys invented the word 'fucktard'? I want to thank you for such a perfectly descriptive word for writers of such articles as this and for giving me a word to add to my vocabulary. It is one of my favorite words currently. I thought Texans had the handle on such, but apparently you Brits have a pretty deep well also. Fucktard, fucktard, fucktard! I love it!