Commentary, news, and rants on the evils and stupidity of belief in the big invisible daddy in the sky. Illuminating and watchdogging the widespread attempts to institutionalize the theocratic rule of the US. Making fun of believers everywhere.
“We know we can affect positive change outside government at this moment in time on another scale and actually make a difference,”
However, this move raises speculations that this decision will free up her time to allow her to travel about the country without the responsibilities as governor. She would be better able to focus on a run for the White House in the 2012 race. Will she be back, or is she gone from the political arena for good? We can hope for the latter, but I think we haven’t seen the last of her.
Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell will be inaugurated at the governor’s picnic in Fairbanks at the end of the month, Palin spokesman Dave Murrow said.
The 2009 Global Peace Index has just been released. It’s basically a ranking of how turbulent and warlike a country is. They put it together by assessing 23 criteria, including foreign wars, internal conflicts, respect for human rights, the number of murders, the number of people in jail, the arms trade, and degrees of democracy (Guardian). You can see a world map of peace at the Vision of Humanity website, and also take a look at country rankings for 2009, as well as earlier years. New Zealand came top this year. Hmm, New Zealand is a pretty secular country. In fact, if you eyeball the rankings, the top few countries are all pretty secular. What I’ve done in the figures here is to take data from the World Values Survey on the percentage of people in each country who say they are a committed atheist, and also on the percentage of people who say that they go to a religious service at least once a month. Then I split the sample into two equal groups, based on their score on the Global Peace Index. The ones in the ‘Peaceful’ group are countries with a GPI score less than 1.8. Sure enough, peaceful countries have more atheists and fewer regular worshippers. The difference is highly statistically significant (P=0.001 or less) - in other words it’s real, not just a chance finding.
Tiller, 67, was shot just after 10 a.m. in the lobby of Reformation Lutheran Church at 7601 E. 13th, where he was a member of the congregation. Tiller was serving as an usher at the church, one of six ushers listed in the church bulletin. He was handing out bulletins to people going into the sanctuary minutes before being shot. A church member who did not want to be identified said the gunman threatened another person at the church after the shooting.
On Friday, November 3, 2006, Bill O’Reilly featured an exclusive segment on his show, The O’Reilly Factor, saying that he has an “inside source” with official clinic documentation indicating that George Tiller performs late-term abortions to alleviate “temporary depression” in the pregnant woman. According to reporting data provided to the Kansas Board of Healing Arts for the year 1998, all of the post-viable partial-birth (dilation and extraction) abortion procedures performed in Kansas during that year were performed because “the attending physician believe[d] that continuing the pregnancy [would] constitute a substantial and irreversible impairment of the patient’s mental function.
And, as usual, you won’t be seeing any characterization of this as “xian terrorism.” Because, as we all know, xians can never be terrorists…
But Bill-O’s role in this, if any –
O’Reilly calls Tiller the “so-called baby killer” below. He calls his outfit a “death-mill, which is exactly what it is”
Very honest and disturbing video from a victim of the Irish Catholic Church Terror Cell…
(Just gotta love live TV — and YouTube, of course)…
It just amazes me when I think what all of this would have been like if religion wasn’t involved…
When I look at my kid (around the age of many who suffered abuse at the hands of the church), and imagining him going through what so many kids went through, and then having to live through all that fucking shit — well, it just makes me want Bill Donohue to die from pancreatic cancer…
President Obama is expected to name Souter’s replacement soon, and the Religious Right are already preparing negative attacks against anyone and everyone Obama may be considering. In the process, far-right-leaning organizations are hoping to bring in millions of dollars in donations for television, radio and Internet advertisements that might reunite conservatives in a confirmation battle. As Rob Boston states, “One thing Religious Right leaders do best is fling mud.”
However, despite all the negativity and poo-flinging, Obama’s choice will prevail the long, hard way:
We already know how this will end. Most likely, Obama’s court nominee will win Senate approval. Viguerie and company are determined to make the nation endure a summer of slime attacks to get there.
I have to wonder if Viguerie and his ilk even care that Obama is likely to emerge victorious. After all, they get paid either way.
South Bend- The board that runs South Bend’s city bus system has agreed to allow ads on buses from an atheist group.
The ads by the Indiana Atheist Bus Campaign read, “You can be good without God.”
The group had hoped to have the ads installed on 20 Transpo buses before President Barack Obama’s appearance at the University of Notre Dame on Sunday. But the advertising agency that handles bus ads said it needed approval from the Transpo board, which met on Monday.
Board chairman Chip Lewis said Transpo has accepted ads from religious organizations, and so to deny the atheist ads would be inconsistent.
I know, I know — the actual slogan is a little on the tame side (i.e., as opposed to the UK one, “There’s probably no God”), but I’ll take it.
Of course, many xian idiots are going to take offense anyway — so, like, that’ll be fun, at least…
Is it really any surprise? 
Just love that connection between xianity and morality…
President Obama is expected to name Souter’s replacement soon, and the 
