I've had a lot to complain about for the last six months, but DAMN, the man is one of the most inspiring speakers I've ever heard.

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I get some (not a lot) heat from Republican friends of mine who say I'm too harsh on their party.

I get some (not a lot) heat from Democrat friends of mine who say I'm too harsh on their party.

Guys, I have to be honest here: the difference I see between the Dems and the Pubs is that one party can't keep it's dick in it's pants and the other party has no dick. And they both suck from the same corporate teat.

Bill Maher's observations on the same issues:


 

 An amazingly fantastic episode (and one that hits home hard at the end).

Check it out.

Part 1



Part 2




Part 3

 WASHINGTON — Sarah Palin's bombshell that she is resigning as Alaska governor actually has boosted her a bit among Republicans, a nationwide USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds...

Two-thirds of Republicans want Palin, the party's vice presidential nominee in 2008, to be "a major national political figure" in the future.

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Republicans: The Party of Stupid.

Protests outside the David Letterman show.

 

 Revealed to us by the Prophet, John Stewart. And when I say "complete and utter" and mean "complete and utter." As in, you just can't find any way to justify it at all.

Please, share it with your Fox-loving friends.

 

Forbes Magazine did a study on the impact of gay-marriage on the national economy. What they found was a "Gay-Marriage Windfall."

Reception, Catering and Wedding Planning
Up, $4.7 billion

Gifts
$3.94 billion

Honeymoons
$1.7 billion

Engagement Rings
$1.66 billion

The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, estimated the impact of extending marriage to same-sex couples on the California budget, and found the following bumps over the course of three years:

2200 new jobs
$64 million bump in tax revenues
and $9 million in marriage license fees alone

And the biggets part of this: most of this cash would go to local businesses.

Olbermann puts all of this into a brilliant perspective.


(thanks to dracowayfarer  for the link!)

This video demonstrates a few things. First, it demonstrates the complete failure of the new Republican sound machine about "enhanced interrogations." It also demonstrates that the blonde on The View is getting her notes from the RNC. She's using identical verbage I've heard from Republicans on Fox, MSNBC, CNN, etc. IDENTICAL VERBAGE. Lastly, it demonstrates that when Jessie's on, he's fucking on.

(thanks to savageplanet  for the link)

(thanks to innocent_man   for the link)

Okay, he's a bit of a nut (he's right on the edge of the whole 9/11 Truther thing), but here is with the best damn line in the whole torture debate debacle.

... until you learn to laugh at yourself.


Love and kisses,


Libertarian John
(who turns into Democratic Socialist John when he's around  trekhead -- curse you, Heinig!!!)
 

 Okay, watch this. Then, we'll talk.


Done? Good. Let's talk.

Last things first. "The Discovery Institute does not support Creationism." The Discovery Institute is the heart and soul of Creationism. They were key actors in the Kansas Evolution Hearings, the Santorum Amendment and the now very famous Dover v Board of Education case. In that last case, the presiding judge called intelligent design a hoax, a fraud and speculated on the morals of those who advocated it. The judge was appointed by George W. Bush, by the way, so let's not talk about "activist judges."

You know, those same "activist judges" who ruled that the Second Amendment means private citizens have the right to own firearms. Because that's not what the Amendment actually says, the judges had to interpret it that way.

But I digress.

So, right off, we've got this loser from the Discovery Institute lying. That's because the Discovery Institute has gone to court again and again and again trying to put their religious ideas in public schools, and they've lost again and again and again. 

Second, there is no "heated debate" about the theory of evolution among those who actually practice science. The Discovery Institute doesn't practice science. Science is about studying natural phenomenon and reporting the results regardless of whether you like the results or not. The Discovery Institute starts with its conclusion--God created the world--and cherry picks their data to prove their already arrived to conclusion.

Oh, sure, they'll say they're all about "intelligent design," but the fact of the matter is a bit different. Intelligent Design is nothing more than Creationism in a tuxedo. One book, supported by the Discovery Institute, called Pandas and People was originally a Creationist text, but when a Federal judge ruled the book was a religious text and not a scientific one, they went through with a copy/paste command and replaced the term "Creator" with "Intelligent Designer," which lead to some interesting typos. Typos like this one (emphasis mine):

"Evolutionists think the former is correct, cdesign proponentsists accept the latter view."

All they did was go through the book and copy/paste "creator" with "designer." Otherwise, the book is nearly word-for-word from its previous edition.

The asshole interviewer throws so many softballs, I have to assume he's gonna get a sex change and try out for the Olympic team next year. This whole thing is completely disingenuous. And you know why there's nobody on the show to argue for the other side?

Because the other side has the facts. They'd bring up how every court case has ruled that Darwin's little theory is the basis for everything we understand about biology. You want to throw that out, you'd better throw out the theory of gravity as well.

In fact, why don't creationists ever bring up the holes in the theory of gravity? We actually know less about gravity than we do about biology. And quantum mechanics are making us look at physics in a completely new light. We may have to re-write everything we know about time, space and matter because of the things we're learning about right now.

So, why don't creationists argue about gravity? They've got a better case.

I'll tell you why: because they're terrified. They're terrified of the real age of the Earth. They're terrified of common ancestry. They're terrified by the notion that humanity is no different than any other life form on the planet. They're terrified that the Earth isn't the center of the universe and that God isn't watching us and taking care of us and they're terrified we just might be alone in universe.

They're afraid, so they're going to ignore the outcome of scientific observation.

And that's the whole point of science: whether you like the outcome of the experiment or not, there it is. And you have to deal with it.

So deal with it.



Signed,


The Monkey who Knew he Was a Monkey and Knew He was Going to Die and Is Perfectly Okay with That and Doesn't Want Anything to Do with Your Self-Centered, Ignorant, Wishful Thinking Faerie Tale, Thank You Very Much

After making veiled threats of secession, the Governor of Texas is asking Washington DC for a few thousand flu vaccines.
Sorry, we don't have any, but we do have a few thousand tea bags.

Ah, cherry picking*. You are my favorite form of logical fallacy...


*otherwise known as "lying"

And then there's this. I can't imagine a better use of the word "irresponsible."