This is must see tv.
Bill Nye Debating Some Creationist WingnutPost + Comments (63)
by John Cole| 63 Comments
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This is must see tv.
Bill Nye Debating Some Creationist WingnutPost + Comments (63)
by $8 blue check mistermix| 90 Comments
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This video from BYU Housing and Student Living explains why turning in your roommate for jacking off is just like fighting in one of “the battles of the great war”.
We wouldn’t need a Keystone pipeline if we could figure out a way to harness the energy created by putting a few thousand teenage and twenty-something kids in close proximity and forbidding them from having sex or even rubbing one out.
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The new session of the OK legislature isn’t even a week old, and we’re off to the races!
In the wake of the OK National Guard divesting itself completely of the responsibility and capability to issue ID cards to ANY member or dependent in order to avoid issuing ID cards to same sex married Guard personnel, and the recent ruling in the Federal District Court in Tulsa striking down Oklahoma’s laws against gay marriage, a bill has been introduced in the legislature to ban the state of Oklahoma from recognizing any marriages at all.
OKLAHOMA CITY -State lawmakers are considering throwing out marriage in Oklahoma.
The idea stems from a bill filed by Rep. Mike Turner (R-Edmond). Turner says it’s an attempt to keep same-sex marriage illegal in Oklahoma while satisfying the U.S. Constitution. Critics are calling it a political stunt while supporters say it’s what Oklahomans want.
A State District Judge has ruled a law requiring parental consent or a prescription from a doctor for teens to purchase OTC emergency contraceptives violates the state constitution:
The law, contained in House Bill 2226, prevented girls under the age of 17 from getting Plan B One-Step without first seeing a doctor.
The drug is also known as levonorgestrel. It is taken after sexual intercourse to prevent pregnancy, but is not capable of terminating an existing pregnancy.Oklahoma County District Judge Lisa Davis issued a temporary injunction to block the law last August.
Davis on Thursday said that the law did not adhere to the single-subject provision of the state constitution.
I’ve noted before that frequently the legislature will waste time and money passing laws that are popular with certain segments of the population in such a was as to violate the state constitution and therefore be void. Violating the single-subject amendment–laws may only address one subject– is the easiest way to do this.
A proposed law would allow persons to carry firearms openly without a license in the state of Oklahoma. Currently the only legal way for a gun owner to carry his personal weapon is to take the training and pass the background check and pay the fees to get a concealed carry permit.
OKLAHOMA CITY — State Sen. Nathan Dahm has filed a bill that would allow people to carry weapons openly in Oklahoma without a license.
The Tulsa Republican filed Senate Bill 1473 and titled it the “Piers Morgan Constitutional Right to Keep and Bear Arms Without Infringement.”
In return, Morgan has invited Dahm via social media to come on his television show to discuss the issue. Dahm accepted and said he will appear Monday night.
I wonder if it ever occurs to these jackasses that the reason real estate is so cheap here might have something to do with the fact that millions of people don’t want to live here.
Oooooooooook-lahoma, where the derp goes sweeping down the plain!Post + Comments (86)
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The Soonerdaughter is off her liquid diet as of yesterday! She’s so pleased. And today, we are…fitting her for braces.
Now that the Satanist temple in New York is pushing hard–they raised $20,000 in five days–to put their monument on the state Capitol grounds near the ten commandments monument, other groups, some of them actual religions, like a Hindu group, have submitted designs to the state for their proposed monuments. I’m designing a monument to Bill-and-Tedism, myself. It will be a phone booth with the inscriptions “Be excellent to each other” and “party on, dudes” on the base. Demands to remove the ten commandments are coming from some interesting quarters, as well. A VERY devout friend of mine has been calling the offices of his state Senator and Assemblyman and the Governor to register his displeasure. Since it’s been pointed out that the state is going to spend a lot of money to lose in court and have to remove it anyway, a lot of people are asking that it be removed. Of course, this being Oklahoma, more people are demanding that the state fight this thing. I’m buying extra popcorn.
Open Thread.
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I’m an atheist, as you all know, but I really don’t get the point of this nonsense. Here’s a billboard on display in Times Square this year:
I thought one of the real benefits of being an atheist is that you didn’t have to get into pitched battles with people about what they believed in- I didn’t realize that because I don’t believe, I have to choose some side and work to convince people there is no God. That’s not what I signed up for. I just thought the whole thing was nonsense, and left it at that. I didn’t realize by taking that stance I had to actively work to convince other people there is no God. What’s the point in that, and why is this good for me and them?
I don’t believe in a lot of things. I don’t believe in unicorns or Santa Claus, but I don’t feel like i have to go out and actively work to persuade people they don’t exist. Why do I have to take on this endeavor?
Now don’t get me wrong, I’ll be as uppity as all get out when the religious nuts decide they think their deity should dictate how I and my friends live, but otherwise, I really don’t care- as long as you are not affecting me, whatever blows your trumpet, I say.
And is there any other group in the world other than atheists.org whose organizing principle is not believing in something? Whole thing just seems weird and counter-intuitive. Basically, being an atheist isn’t a license to be a total fucking dick.
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We’ve got two headliners today.
First up, child labor cheerleader Jack Kingston, a congressman from Georgia now looking for a promotion to the Senate, claimed that he’s no hater of the poor for saying this:
“Why don’t you have the kids pay a dime, pay a nickel to instill in them that there is, in fact, no such thing as a free lunch? Or maybe sweep the floor of the cafeteria — and yes, I understand that that would be an administrative problem, and I understand that it would probably lose you money,” Kingston said at a Jackson County Republican Party meeting, according to video surfaced by the Huffington Post. “But think what we would gain as a society in getting people — getting the myth out of their head that there is such a thing as a free lunch.”
But nah, that wasn’t aimed at shaming and constraining the poor, swears Kingston (R-eternally misunderstood). Rather,
“This is not targeted to any one group,” Kingston said. “It would be very helpful for kids in any socio-economic group to do chores and learn the work ethic….I never did say poor kids.”
Over to you, M. Anatole France:
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
And then there is that noted scholar of the Civil Rights era, Ian Bayne, a Republican candidate running for the nomination to challenge Rep. Bill Foster, an actual smart person and a Democrat representing Illinois’s 11th district. Mr Bayne identifies the ties that bind two characters most observers of lesser penetration would never have uncovered:
“In December 1955, Rosa Parks took a stand against an unjust societal persecution of black people, and in December 2013, Robertson took a stand against persecution of Christians,” Bayne wrote in the email. “What Parks did was courageous.”
Bayne added in the email that “what Robertson did was courageous too.”
That would be Duck Dynast Phil Robertson, who, as we all know, is convinced that African Americans with whom he worked in the pre-Civil Rights era were, as he put it “Pre-entitlement, pre-welfare, you say: Were they happy? They were godly; they were happy; no one was singing the blues.” And who says in the context of a current civil rights struggle, that gay men and women are bound not for equality before the law, but for Sheol:
“Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers–they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t deceive yourself. It’s not right. [via Ta-Nehisi Coates]
So, let’s recap: Rosa Parks risks jail, bodily harm, quite possibly death to secure the minimal rights of citizenship for Americans who have been subjugated through a reign of terror for a century since the end of outright chattel slavery. Some guy spouts hate at blacks and gays.
Just the same.
Ladles and Jellyspoons: Your modern GOP. A party that does not vomit out such characters cannot be allowed anywhere near the reins of power.
Or, as my man Cato would say, Factio Grandaeva Delenda Est
Image: Thomas Kennington, Orphans,1885.
by $8 blue check mistermix| 131 Comments
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It seems like the new Pope isn’t spending time prettying up his papal vestments and shoes like the last one. Instead, he’s cracking down on the nuts who want to fetishize the Latin Mass:
Pope Francis may have been named Time magazine’s Person of the Year, but he has come under scathing criticism from a growing number of traditionalist Catholics for cracking down on a religious order that celebrates the old Latin Mass. The case has become a flashpoint in the ideological tug-of-war going on in the Catholic Church over Francis’ revolutionary agenda, which has thrilled progressives and alarmed some conservatives.
[…] The Vatican in July named the Rev. Fidenzio Volpi, a Franciscan Capuchin friar, as a special commissioner to run the order with a mandate to quell the dissent that had erupted over the liturgy, improve unity within its ranks and get a handle on its finances. In the same decree appointing Volpi, Francis forbade the friars from celebrating the old Latin Mass unless they got special permission, a clear rollback from Benedict’s 2007 decision.
[…] And on Dec. 8, he took action, issuing a series of sanctions in the name of the pope that have stunned observers for their seeming severity: He closed the friars’ seminary and sent its students to other religious universities in Rome. He suspended the activities of the friars’ lay movement. He suspended ordinations of new priests for a year and required future priests to formally accept the teachings of the Second Vatican Council and its new liturgy or be kicked out. And he decreed that current priests must commit themselves in writing to following the existing mission of the order.In a letter detailing the new measures, Volpi accused friars loyal to Manelli of seeking to undermine him and accused some of embezzlement. He denounced a cult of personality that had grown around Manelli, saying it “reveals a great spiritual poverty and psychological dependence that is incompatible with” the life in a religious community.
Speaking of spiritual poverty and psychological dependence, I liked Frank’s response to Rush Limbaugh’s accusation that he’s a Marxist:
The ideology of Marxism is wrong. But I have met many Marxists in my life who are good people, so I don’t feel offended.