July 2010
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Want more skeptical atheist women? Defend us |... →
Yes.
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North Korean football team shamed in six-hour... →
Ugh, this is terrible. They were in the group of death, for goodness’ sake!
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Officials Say the Darndest Things →
ProPublica has a Tumblr!
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Cenk Uygur: Imagine if We Never Ended the War on... →
Remember we did have a War on Alcohol. It was called Prohibition. In fact, we took that far more seriously than our War on Drugs. We even passed a constituional amendment about it. Of course, the gigantic difference is that we realized that was a mistake and reversed course.
These days it doesn’t seem politically possible to ever change course.
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“Unmarried women, 70% of unmarried women, voted for Obama, and this is because...”
– Conservative activist Phyllis Schlafly - Dems Call On GOPers To Renounce Phyllis Schlafly Over Remarks About ‘Unmarried Women’.
…Schlafly, president of Eagle Forum and infamous for her opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment.
continue reading and audio… tpm
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Unmarried women:...
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Ladies, you need to listen to what Christian guys... →
The boys are asked to judge whether an item of clothing is something that might cause them to think wicked thoughts…so once again, the women are to blame for inciting men’s behavior by wearing tight jeans or a strapless dress.
Well, this is disturbing. Taking a quick look over the survey, I discovered that apparently “A girl bending over and exposing her lower back is a stumbling...
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President Obama to Sign Law Targeting Sexual... →
thecurvature:
In the U.S., there is currently an epidemic of sexual violence against Native American women — the rate of rape against Native women is 2.5 that of all other women in the U.S., and more than one in three Native American women will be raped in her lifetime. While some perpetrators are indeed Native themselves, a vast majority of the rapists (86%) are non-Natives, usually white...
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“Imagine what Tony would think, standing there on his brand new feet on the brink...”
– Tim Minchin (via justjasper)
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Boy stranded at O'Hare for 8 hours - Chicago... →
4th-grader waiting in supervised area reserved for unattended young fliers is forgotten by workers and misses connecting flight to Canada
They FORGOT him. Nice going United.
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Creation Tips
stfubelievers:
“Creation Tips: A Christian site looking at God’s creation.”
Where did Cain’s wife come from you might ask?
Facepalm, that’s where. The land of Facepalm.
(Thanks Amelia)
Bwahaha! I love how they just make up rules about genetics out of thin air. “Yeah… incest was totally okay back then… because… because… they were so perfect, dammit!”
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Secret Email Reveals more Homeopathic Killing in... →
Abha Light in Kenya [is] an organisation that sells a homeopathic product called MalariX. This sugar pill is used to treat and prevent malaria. It does not work – it is a simple sugar pill with no active ingredient. As such, encouraging people to use this deceptive treatment puts them at great risk from a deadly disease.
This is beyond scary. Their goal is to “introduce natural medicine and...
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“Creationism, intelligent design, and other claims of supernatural intervention...”
– National Academy of Sciences
The most succinct answer I could find to the question, “Why is creationism/intelligent design not science?”
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Woman has her top pulled off and the video goes on... →
jonathan-cunningham:
Credit to Jezebel for finding the link:
A St. Louis Circuit Court jury deliberated 90 minutes before ruling against the woman, 26, on the third day of the trial. Lawyers on both sides argued the key issue was consent, with her side saying she absolutely refused to give it and the defense claiming she silently approved by taking part in the party.
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“I am stunned that...
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“They [Fox News] were looking for the result they got yesterday. I am just a...”
– Shirley Sherrod
Never forget: They are after a bigger thing.
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WatchKeith Olbermann’s Special Comment on Shirley Sherrod, Fox News, and the media and administration’s handling of the situation.
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BBC News - Israeli Arab who 'raped' a woman says... →
According to the complaint filed by the woman, the two met in a Jerusalem street in 2008 and had sex that day.
When she discovered he was not Jewish, but an Arab, she went to the police.
WTF? Apparently there’s some precedence in their courts for charges of fraud in these situations, but rape? I think the judge desperately needs a dictionary.
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“The processing of language involves many of the same cognitive skills as music:...”
– Steven Novella, NeuroLogica Blog » Music and Brain Plasticity
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Open Letter To The Women Of The Catholic Church →
Hear hear!
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“A lot of people are spending a lot of energy to get folks like the Spooners and...”
– Joan Walsh (via soupsoup)
So true.
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Whooping cough epidemic spurs calls for the... →
They have seen more infections in counties such as Marin, where more parents have opted out of vaccinating children, he said.
Yep, that’s the county where I grew up. Craptastic.
