Dispatches from the Culture Wars: Florida Committee Passes ID Bill

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National Secular Society - Saudi King wants monotheisms to unite to defeat atheism

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Sam Harris: What Obama Could Not and Should Not Say - On Faith at washingtonpost.com

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nanopublic: Religion and nano … what the data show
Why would consumers and citizens have moral qualms about a technology they know little about?

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Obama UCC IRS Flap
“This investigation smacks of the Bush administration using the IRS for political purposes.”

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Bod4God: Faith-based fitness

The founder of Bod4God, Reverend Steve Reynolds, says, “Jesus Christ was not obese.”

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In this issue of the Urban Dharma Newsletter, my favorite monk takes an oblique stab at explaining just how it is that the Buddhists have the closest major thing to the Church of What’s Happenin’

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236 - The Room - Logical Fallacies: Correlation vs. Causation

“Think about this for a second. What do Osama bin Laden, Ted Kazinski, Mao Zedong, Joseph Stalin and Charlie Manson have in common? The FBI was unable to read their emails.”

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One Nation, Under Gods

As one church leader in Yelwa put it, “Our God is different than the Muslim God … If he were the same God, we wouldn’t fight.”

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Because a magical superhero in the sky said so

“I mean, if we’re opening the door for competing ideas here, then it means that finally, the door is open for the teachings of the great Flying Spaghetti Monster to be taught in earnest in our schools. Hey, you pick your magical superhero in the sky and I pick mine, you mouth-breathing fuckwit.”

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Blogs are great, except when people write all those comments on them.

clipped from forums.fark.com Tampa Bay newspaper published article about Scientology protests on Feb. 10, then systematically removes almost every public comment about the story. All hail (this word removed by site staff)

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FaithNews Network

…’Cause He done rigged the game!

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Online Bookies Back Barack Obama in US Election - 02-15-08

Leading online gambling website, Bodog, is offering odds on who will be named Democratic candidate for the 2008 US Presidential Election. As of today ‘[02-15-08], Bodog is offering odds of 3.33 for Clinton and 1.27 for Obama.

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AlterNet: Rights and Liberties: John McCain Sells His Soul: Backs Off on Torture Ban

Has there ever been a more repugnant example of political pandering than John McCain’s decision to vote against a bill banning waterboarding, putting hoods on prisoners, forcing them to perform sex acts, subjecting them to mock executions, or depriving them of food, water, and medical treatment?

Prologue to Anus Sale- A Bush Smear Campaign

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March 19 Iraq War Blogswarm

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Hating Islam Is the Same Thing as Hating Muslims

He calls Islam “the ideology of a retarded culture”…

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On The Media: Transcript of “FOIA’s Foil ” (February 8, 2008)

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Romney Quits — ‘This is a Great Day for our Nation and Many Unsuspecting Souls’ Says Founder of Liveprayer.com - Christian Newswire

The world’s leading Internet evangelist, Bill Keller of Liveprayer.com, was the first national Christian leader to speak out against Mitt Romney’s bid to become America’s next President when he launched his now infamous statement, ” A vote for Romney is a vote for Satan” last spring.

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The Buzz: Florida Politics | tampabay.com - St. Petersburg Times

A St. Petersburg Times poll found 50 percent of registered voters want only faith-based ideas in the curriculum.

Only 22 percent want public schools to teach an evolution-only curriculum, while 50 percent want only faith-based theories such as creationism or intelligent design, according to a new St. Petersburg Times survey.

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Opinion: Florida facing key test on science
By wide margins, Floridians question the legitimacy of evolution as the sole scientific explanation for the origin of species and nature’s diversity, even though there is no debate on this point within the scientific establishment. Evolution is the basis of modern biology, and the fact that so many Floridians don’t accept its validity does not suggest the state should ease off the teaching of evolution, but rather underscores the need to devote more educational resources to it.

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Possible reprisals from Florida’s many hick parents are to blame, to paraphrase. I’m shocked, personally.

State: The evolution of a sensitive lesson

“I am one of the teachers who is willing to talk about evolution in the classroom. But I’ve been advised by other teachers, ‘Don’t touch that subject.’ They say, ‘I’m afraid the parents will be angry. I’m afraid of the feedback I’ll get.’” Michael Simmons, a biology teacher at Osceola High School in Largo.

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Travel guru Rick Steves, ACLU team up on marijuana | ajc.com

Travel writer Rick Steves and the American Civil Liberties Union of Washington have formed a partnership to tackle a topic they call the equivalent of the prohibition of alcohol in the 1920s: the criminalization of marijuana.

While listening to Rick Steves’ podcast last year I discovered that he is much more than the affable dweeb he presents on Public Television

All that time talking to them foreigners has evidently done him good. And now he is takin’ it to the streets, keepin’ it real, and stickin’ it to to whitey. Good on ya, ya big lug. Now maybe we can get the cast of This Old House to go after war profiteers or something.

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See the Contest on SkepChick!

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verywide.net » Evolving, A Mind

It is, frankly, horrifically despicable to inflict upon a child the notion of damnation, to fill his or her head with images of an all-powerful “God” condemning unbelievers and failed persons to eternal torment. When you consider that one of the people threatened with this endless wailing and gnashing of teeth is one of the child’s parents…. Well, it’s sickening. How could that not be damaging to a child’s developing mind? What a din of cognitive dissonance! How could that not create an unbearable helplessness and thus necessitate a split from the parent ostracized by “God”? How could that not succeed at being isolating in terms of the child’s sense of place in the greater world? A scarring shame should be visited upon any adult so selfishly motivated (by delusion or stratagem) as to poison the healthy development of a mind. And yet it is that a great many people around this country would consider me to be in the wrong.

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Hospital boss arrested over al-Qaeda attack by human boobytraps - Times Online The acting director of a Baghdad psychiatric hospital has been arrested on suspicion of supplying al-Qaeda in Iraq with the mentally impaired women that it used to blow up two crowded animal markets in the city on February 1, killing about 100 people.

Finally, the insane are pulling their weight, and our ally in the war on crazy loafers, Iraq, is taking the lead! Who will greet them in paradise?

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