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This is a great two-for-one. On the one hand, it aims a slap at all those people who want their god to solve their problems for them. And on the other hand, it's a great fucking comeback to those militant atheists who insist that things like the "permit the suffering" argument negate the point of religion.

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Here's something for the Twitterers among you:


Kansas governor tattles on teen's tweet


Seems Sam Brownback just can't STAND the fact that a kid made a joke about him on Twitter. He got all OFFENDED OMGWTFBBQ!!!11!!! and called her princpal on her. So the kid got in trouble at school just because she made a lame joke. Talk about pathetic!

Here's my proposal: All you here who do Twitter, please go immediately and make a snarky remark about Brownback. Then encourage all your friends to do the same. Spread the word! We'll see how OMG IMPORTAAAAAANT it is to him when his staff has to spend all day tracking down 500,000 tweets!

Christ, the CRAP these people spend their time and the TAXPAYERS' MONEY on. It's disgusting.


Feh.

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Good morning! On this, the last day of existence, I hope you're all having a nice day. As we wait for the Rapture - got your popcorn handy? - here's a little video exploring the ramifications of this greatly awaited Event:

The End of the World - from The Secret Policeman's Ball
"Will this wind be so mighty as to lay low the mountains of the earth?"

Peter Cook and Rowan Atkinson discuss the coming of the Apocalypse.


Please remember to wear your galoshes and keep an umbrella handy to protect yourself from the torrents of Joyful Tears raining down from the flying faithful!

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Richard Dawkins reads his hate mail aloud


Hilarious.

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Special Comment for August 15, 2010:

A comment on the inaccurately-described "Ground Zero Mosque"...


Damn, I love this man.

I'm constantly boggled by how easily Americans will roll over and do EXACTLY what the insane followers of Bin Laden and others like him want them to do. They work themselves up into a xenophobic lather, willing to shred the Constitution and turn this country into EXACTLY the kind of hateful, dictatorial, bigoted theocracy the terrorists accuse it of being. That any of them can so breezily complain that our standards aren't the same as SAUDI ARABIA? Just...ARGH STABSTABSTAB DIEDIEDIE...

One other thing: as a Spaniard-American, I feel very very sad that the builders of this cultural center felt the need to change the name of the place from "Cordoba House". Cordoba was one of the great cities of Muslim Spain, a beautiful place and a place where many faiths co-existed peacefully, learning from each other. I've been there. I've also been to Granada and seen the Alhambra, the glorious Muslim palace and grounds, filled with exquisite tilework and self-regulating water gardens that still function on their own a thousand years later. I would sooner live there than any tacky American McMansion ever made, no matter how big and swank.

Did you know that it was the Muslims who rescued the knowledge of ancient Greece - the writings of Aristotle and Plato, the geometry of Euclid, etc. - from obscurity? The Christians BURNED it. That the Muslims were the first to develop from it sophisticated forms of mathematics, architecture, and other sciences? That it wasn't until wandering monks sat down with the Muslims in Spain and worked on translating THEIR books (which they FREELY SHARED with everyone, by the way) that Christians even heard of weird concepts like, say, zero? Goddess' own truth - the Europeans had no concept of zero until they learned about it from the Arab sages. They were still using the Roman style of counting, which made their math extremely limited. This is why their architecture sucked so much. The Muslim learning revolutionized the very foundations of European culture. Our numbers - 1, 2, 3, 4...? There's a reason they're called Arabic numbers. Mathematics is littered with words straight from Arabic like algebra, azimuth, and the aforementioned zero, because they had no possible translation in any of the European languages, because the concepts didn't even exist up in the supposedly "godly" countries of Europe. The Muslims GAVE this knowledge to any who were interested. Think about that.

So you see why "Cordoba House" would have been a perfect name for a place dedicated to interfaith dialogue and peace. And the FUCKING IGNORANT YAHOOS that have the ear of the national media in this country managed to scare these folks into changing it.

I could not possibly put into words the utter disgust I feel these days at what passes for discourse in this country. We have no guts anymore. We allow our nation to be hijacked by stupid troglodytes who have no interest in learning or knowing the slightest thing about the real world we live in. They shame this country, they shame their religion, they shame the very human race.

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Jesus Fucking Christ!


Jobless hit with bank fees on benefits


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Is there nothing off which these vampires are not allowed to make money?

And then the simian dittoheads cry Socialism! Yeah, I'm crying Socialism! too, right about now. As far as I'm concerned, IT CAN'T COME FUCKING SOON ENOUGH.