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Joé McKen - Spread of Atheist Influence in Society

Joé McKen — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 20:03:30 +0000

I swear it’s not me! Maybe … [points finger at Uzza] Explain yourself!

Personal Failure - Spread of Atheist Influence in Society

Personal Failure — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:56:52 +0000

Who keeps leaving their Atheist Agenda out where nonatheists can find it?! Huh? Who?

Trencherbone - NYC okays 9/11-themed bus ads against “Ground Zero Mosque”

Trencherbone — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:35:28 +0000

Busting the multiculturalist myth of diversity bringing 'cultural enrichment': http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/multicultur... Islamists are already trying to restrict and destroy our culture - see additional links under 'Cultural Jihad' at http://crombouke.blogspot.com/2010/01/everything-...

Garth Marlorey - Basil Marceaux for Tennessee governor

Garth Marlorey — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 03:51:01 +0000

this man has a learning disability. Fo sho.

Joé McKen - Home Depot fires “patriotic Christian” whist supporting LGBT folks; AFA throws a fit. Mo

Joé McKen — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:24:48 +0000

You completely missed the point. As I said: Keezer wasn’t fired just because he wore a pro-Christian button. He was fired because he refused to take it off when his boss(es) told him to, several times, over a period lasting more than a year. It doesn’t matter who you are or what you do: If you disobey your bosses like that, you will be fired, whether you’re a “patriotic Christian” or pro-LGBT or whatever. Whereas, the reason why the employees with the pro-LGBT insignia weren’t fired is because what they did was allowed by Home Depot. They followed the rules and didn’t piss anyone off. But they still would have been fired if their bosses had told them to get rid of their pro-gay buttons and they had refused. And they should be, if they violate the dress code. And, no, I would not be “flying off the handle” over it, because if you disobey your boss that flagrantly, you deserve to be kicked out. It’s funny that you assume that “[I] tell an entirely different story” out of absolutely nothing at all, though, especially seeing as the exact opposite is true. Some might even think you were pulling it right out of your rear.

Macy - Home Depot fires “patriotic Christian” whist supporting LGBT folks; AFA throws a fit. Mo

Macy — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 01:13:50 +0000

I guess you are entitled to your opinion - yet, what if the boss was offended by the "gay apparel"? Would you have reacted the same? Or would you have flown off the handle by stating that these gay people had the right to express their views? I find most people who would agree with your article are the same ones who would flip out if the gay person had been the one fired. You talk about kissing up to the boss - yet, when the shoe is on the other foot - you tell an entirely different story!

Joé McKen - Home Depot fires “patriotic Christian” whist supporting LGBT folks; AFA throws a fit. Mo

Joé McKen — Mon, 9 Aug 2010 18:38:25 +0000

Can we send a flood of angry mail to MeanBoss?

Personal Failure - Home Depot fires “patriotic Christian” whist supporting LGBT folks; AFA throws a fit. Mo

Personal Failure — Mon, 9 Aug 2010 18:33:18 +0000

Rule #01 of holding down a job: Kiss your boss’s ass, no matter how unfair his/her demands may seem to be. Right on the nose, my dear. Considering the unbelievable shit I have to put up with at my job, I have little sympathy for Mr. Button. Also, there is a creditable difference between a gay film festival and promoting religion: religion. A gay film festival is a nonsectarian event, for most of us, equally open to atheists, christians, jews, hindus, muslims, pagans, whatever.

Ian Miller - Thought experiment: Would not bombing Hiroshima & Nagasaki have led to a different outcome?

Ian Miller — Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:05:36 +0000

I still think that it was a great example of swatting a fly with a buick. And I am still not inspired by the "would have..." and "could have..." and "should have..." arguments (e.g. second-guessing the mindsets of these people in order to show that they were completely unable to be reasoned with otherwise, etc.), since a person has to base all of them on counterfactual history (an interesting mind game, but it's nothing more than exactly that) rather than real history, and such evidence derived from the former is, by definition, contrary to fact.

Joé McKen - Thought experiment: Would not bombing Hiroshima & Nagasaki have led to a different outcome?

Joé McKen — Sun, 8 Aug 2010 23:19:00 +0000

[Comment by Veritas, reposted with his permission.] No. This is one of the situations in which I think it is important to remember PZ is a biologist, not a historian. His solution sounds really, really good (nuke an island! scare the Japanese!). Unfortunately, it simply would not work. Why? The Japanese could never have seen the destruction of a remote island. As PZ himself has noted, by the time the nuclear bombs were dropped on the two Japanese cities, the Japanese were essentially paralyzed. They had no naval or air power remaining. Their island outposts were completely isolated, and in many cases, starving to death. There's no island the Americans could have vaporized that would have been communicated to the Japanese High Command in a believable fashion. The Americans could have chosen to not utilize the bomb, and hope that their firebombing campaign and starvation campaign, both of which had already killed ten times the amount of Japanese the nuclear bombs killed, would end the war without an invasion. A negotiated peace that allowed the Japanese Empire to continue existing was not feasible, for reasons that would take a year to explain. If those options didn't end the war, then the Allies would have had to invade. A million dead Allied soldiers, and the total destruction of Japan, a scouring and ethnic cleansing that would make Hitler look like an amateur, would have been required to win the war by invasion. So…I don't see an alternative. Not one.

Joé McKen - Daily Blend: Sunday, August 08, 2010

Joé McKen — Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:20:11 +0000

Thanks, hun. *hugs back* Leaving just now.

@jakiking - Daily Blend: Sunday, August 08, 2010

@jakiking — Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:09:54 +0000

I'm sorry about your grandfather. Medicine is pretty amazing nowadays, so hopefully you will be able to see him quite a few more times. *hug*

Ian Miller - BREAKING: Prop 8 overturned as “unconstitutional”!

Ian Miller — Sun, 8 Aug 2010 15:17:06 +0000

Mayhaps!

bmjt - O’Reilly attacks Maddow, Maddow kicks his ass, take 2

bmjt — Sun, 8 Aug 2010 09:33:56 +0000

I find it incredible that Big Bill can slate Maddow for a lack of logic or evidence...Hello!? - Religion! Where the fuck is his concern for both of those elements there.

LiamW - Balko debates sex offender registries

LiamW — Sat, 7 Aug 2010 20:48:41 +0000

Wow. This Murphy is a wacko! She makes no cogent position. At one point she dramatically and accusingly says "Who are you to tell the public not to judge rapists harshly?!" and then when Balko says he wants rapists and predators locked up for life, she turns around and chides him for being too harsh. Balko indeed makes very reasoned and rational arguments. And like he says, the root of the problem is treating all "sex offenders" the same, whether it's a 16-year-old girl who "victimized herself" by taking a topless photo of herself and then charging her with creating child porn, or a grown adult who abducts and rapes a child.

iota - That which will happen again … someday

iota — Fri, 6 Aug 2010 19:17:29 +0000

Irked, riled, vexed, pissed, enraged, and yes, disgruntled. Just kidding. Iota is easier to type and all of the good names are taken.

iota - Christopher Hitchens talks about his cancer

iota — Fri, 6 Aug 2010 19:04:51 +0000

Hitchens is a class act, drunk or sober, and I wish him well personally. But I also wish him well in a selfish vein. We really need his clear voice just now.

iota - Bill Donohue on Anne Rice’s departure from Christianity

iota — Fri, 6 Aug 2010 18:24:32 +0000

...meddling in other people’s business is their business. Exactly! And this point should be repeated ad nauseam.

Joé McKen - BREAKING: Prop 8 overturned as “unconstitutional”!

Joé McKen — Thu, 5 Aug 2010 14:22:09 +0000

Or mebbe a special, extra-long EEKy post for you? ;-)

Ian Miller - BREAKING: Prop 8 overturned as “unconstitutional”!

Ian Miller — Thu, 5 Aug 2010 10:51:12 +0000

YAAAAAY! This calls for 20 rounds of hawt lezbian secks and "G6" in German!