tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4133507693074512852024-03-14T04:35:22.244-04:00Christ What A Blog "Every revolution tends to become the tyranny that it overthrew"The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.comBlogger227125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-48879564505252014042020-08-26T13:26:00.006-04:002022-04-09T14:52:46.539-04:00Dave Adams (Mojo Sam) Has Died<p><a href="https://mailchi.mp/zbs/vld44xfzmj-2481914?e=b021505dce">From Meatball Fulton</a>:</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><blockquote>I just wanted to let you know that last Thursday, Dave Adams died. I only heard about it yesterday. It was a heart issue. Most of you know Dave played Mojo Sam.</blockquote><p></p><blockquote><p>I’ll have more to say in the days to come. But for now, I just wanted to say, “Here’s to good ol’ Dave. So long, old friend.” </p></blockquote><p></p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.zbs.org">ZBS Foundation</a> broadcast <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/statspost/week/413350769307451285/3816466820418201045">this message </a>in early July:</p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><blockquote>Mr. Fulton has been wishing he could get the actors back into the studio. He has a new series ready to record, <i>Mojo’s Café for Lost Dreamers</i>. The series has twelve short stories that take place in Mojo’s cordial little coffee shop. His café is really a refuge from reality.</blockquote><p></p><p>This appears to the third and final attempt to give Mojo Sam the Yoodoo Man his own series. I greatly enjoyed <i>The Land Of Enchantment</i> and <i>Mojo's Vest Pocket Voodoo Adventures</i> but sadly they were never followed up.</p><p>I have an earlier post about Dave <a href="https://www.christwhatablog.com/2018/02/interview-with-dave-adams-mojo-sam.html">here</a>. It contains more history and a recording of Dave that every ZBS fan should hear. In particular he reads letters sent by fans after Robert Lorick (Jack Flanders) <a href="https://www.christwhatablog.com/2016/01/robert-lorick-has-died.html">died</a>.</p><p>I may update this post later. I'm not awake enough right now to make things nice and tidy.</p><p>It's truly the end of an era. </p><p><br /></p>The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-44686022321598377262020-05-20T13:49:00.000-04:002020-05-20T13:49:05.728-04:00Oh, The IronyI'm going to write a book. It's entitled <i>What People Who Tell You What Doctors Won't Tell You Don't Tell You.</i><br />
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Don't worry. They'll think of something. Always do. 💩The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-38164668204182010452018-02-18T16:15:00.002-05:002022-04-09T14:36:31.130-04:00Interview with Dave Adams (Mojo Sam)<a href="https://www.zbs.org/">ZBS Foundation</a> just posted an interview with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Flanders">Jack Flander's</a> friend, Mojo Sam. Or rather, Dave Adams who <i>portrays</i> Mojo.<br />
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We first encountered Mojo Sam the Yoodoo Man (a mixture of yoga and voodoo), in the second ZBS production <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Over_Morocco">Moon Over Morocco</a></i> (1974). In later adventures Mojo becomes Jack's closest and wisest friend. Jack describes him as "...more paranoid than I am."<br />
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About two years ago, we were contacted by a fellow interested in making a documentary about ZBS. Since this is our 48th year, we’ve accumulated a bit of history. The idea was to start with the radio commune days of the 70s, then continue thru the 80s & 90s, into this century, and finally to where we are now. He’ll be interviewing the original Zeebers, including Meatball Fulton & Tim Clark, as well as the actors, engineers, artists, and a few fans too. </blockquote>
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During a recent film shoot, Dave Adams (Mojo) came up from Philadelphia to be filmed in our studio. Dave talked about working with Robert Lorick (Jack) over all these years, what it meant to him, and how deeply it affected him. Before the interview began, Dave read a few of the letters we received after Robert’s passing. It’s very touching.<br />In these days of slickness & hype & endless streams of bullcrap, it may seem rare to hear someone speak so honestly. This is a powerful interview. We hope you will listen, its about 15 minutes, its pretty special too.</blockquote>
The <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=1opaKfn_pkW5i36a57a_hoeqhuWOy8480">interview is here</a> (MP3). It's great to see Dave after all these years and hours of hearing his voice. I have the <i>exact same pair of headphones</i> and use them to listen to Jack and Mojo every night before bed. 🎧<br />
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'On October 13, 2017 the Associated Press released an eerie recording of a mysterious sound that was said to have been part of a “sonic attack” on American diplomats in Cuba. In August, State Department officials reported that several personnel at the Havana Embassy had been sickened by an unidentified acoustical weapon. The number of those affected in the sporadic, ongoing attacks is now at least two dozen. Several Canadian diplomats have reported similar health complaints. Symptoms include headaches, dizziness, nausea, fatigue, difficulty concentrating and remembering, insomnia, tinnitus, confusion, vertigo, hearing loss and “mild brain trauma.” Conspiracy theories abound with talk of secret military weapons from a foreign power or rogue agents, possibly Russian. But delve deeper, and the government’s claims begin to unravel. </blockquote>
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'For starters, there is no concrete evidence of an attack. Experts agree that what is being reported is not consistent with how sonic weaponry works. A leading figure in the field of psychoacoustics, former MIT researcher Joseph Pompei, is adamant that the State Department’s claims violate the laws of physics. “Brain damage and concussions, it’s not possible,” he said, noting that to produce such an effect “Somebody would have to submerge their head into a pool lined with very powerful ultrasound transducers.”'</blockquote>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6A_k3eYn-WChnRKRt9MlvZaiIg5u9EzWuCLCKYDkQZMQr-QxDJ-66WIxhi2099HHmpNThE66Yo8NG7sENAnpX9k54jxubTO8oCl0F7Pg4Ct67fCk-mk-zGn22GB8F5o46L-jzzPkiwFA/s1600/mattoon_gasser-277x300.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="222" data-original-width="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6A_k3eYn-WChnRKRt9MlvZaiIg5u9EzWuCLCKYDkQZMQr-QxDJ-66WIxhi2099HHmpNThE66Yo8NG7sENAnpX9k54jxubTO8oCl0F7Pg4Ct67fCk-mk-zGn22GB8F5o46L-jzzPkiwFA/s1600/mattoon_gasser-277x300.jpg" /></a>"The panic played on the innate fears of many people in their beds at home at night: a prowler in the dark, unseen, with a terrible weapon. They were rendered paralyzed, helpless; unconscious and unaware; unable to call for help. It was Mattoon, Illinois, in the autumn of 1944. A number of residents reported waking in the middle of the night to a strange, sickly odor; experiencing various symptoms, including paralysis; and in some cases, seeing a prowler pumping some kind of gas into their house through an open window. The Mad Gasser of Mattoon was never caught, his victims never clearly diagnosed, his motives never revealed. Indeed, his very existence was never even proven. Some say it was merely mass hysteria, or some other skeptical claim."</blockquote>
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"Koro is a culture-specific syndrome delusional disorder in which an individual has an overpowering belief that one's genitalia are retracting and will disappear, despite the lack of any true longstanding changes to the genitals. Koro is also known as shrinking penis, and it is listed in the <i>Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders</i>. The syndrome occurs worldwide, and mass hysteria of genital-shrinkage anxiety has a history in Africa, Asia, and Europe. In the United States and Europe, the syndrome is commonly known as genital retraction syndrome."</blockquote>
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The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-50847903231645975082017-09-11T15:21:00.004-04:002021-09-25T13:59:22.914-04:00Richard Perle, Optimist<i>On this auspicious anniversary I feel it is a good time to take a break from all the hurricane porn on TV and look back...</i><br />
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The following paragraph sums up the enthusiastic mindset of the neo-conservatives, the Bush administration and its lap-dogs in the media, and a large chunk of the American electorate who fell for the whole scam:<br />
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"So the problems that affect Americans and Turks are, I think, largely behind us. The problems in Iraq are ahead of us, but we're doing better than people think. <i>And a year from now, I'll be very surprised if there is not some grand square in Baghdad that is named after President Bush. There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated. And it is getting easier every day for Iraqis to express that sense of liberation. </i></blockquote>
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I know you're not going to bother to read the entire transcript so I'll leave you with a section that also tickles the jaded funny bone:<br />
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"MS. : I have a question. I was reading [inaudible] a few days ago in the New York Times, and he said that the emphasis on our Ahmed Chelabi was too much. In fact, they tried to work with other Iraqis and build a post-war Iraq. But a great emphasis [inaudible] in Ahmed Chelabi, who is in exile. Did you read that article? What are your thoughts on that article? </blockquote>
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"I've known Ahmed Chelabi for more than a dozen years. He is a man, in my experience, of absolute integrity and courage, and he would be a great Iraqi leader. </blockquote>
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"I read stories all the time about how he has the backing of the Pentagon. Some of us who are connected one way or another to the Pentagon who know him have a high regard for him. But he doesn't have the backing of the Pentagon. Whatever he is able to accomplish in Iraq will be on the strength of his own abilities, his character, his intelligence, and his commitment to the freedom of the people of Iraq. </blockquote>
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"I can't imagine a leader who more fully embodies the values that caused the Americans to believe we should liberate Iraq. He believes in democracy. He believes in individual freedom. He's a Shia who does not want a theocracy in Iraq. And it pains me to see some officials of this government make disparaging remarks about him. For the most part, the disparagement comes from people who don't know him, who have never met him, and it's based on jealousies and in some cases embarrassment. Chelabi was right over many years when they were wrong. </blockquote>
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"So it's been troubling to see the disparagement of this great man. But I have complete confidence that his qualities will lead him into a position of leadership in Iraq."</blockquote>
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Let us give a big thanks to Archive.org and the Wayback Machine. The Internet never forgets. 🐘The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-71597887858505836732017-05-10T18:59:00.001-04:002017-05-10T19:02:30.631-04:00What's the matter, bubeleh?Are you feeling down in the dumps? Is the current political scene getting to you? Does the mere mention of the T-word make you wanna poopie in yer panties? Fear not old salt, other things are even worse.<br />
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Is <a href="http://guestofaguest.com/">Guest Of A Guest</a> the most evil website of all time? A gossip site exclusively aimed at filthy-rich NYC A-list assholes.<br />
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If you live in a small town in the midwest with a water system fed by an elevated water tower, there’s a good chance your next glass of tap water will be <a href="http://fox2now.com/2017/05/08/town-with-brown-water-has-no-record-of-cleaning-its-water-tower/">full of bacteria and sediment</a>. Plus this is a good reason to not live in Missouri.<br />
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Taser International has achieved something remarkable. It has <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170430/06344937270/taser-axon-separating-defense-lawyers-body-camera-footage-with-license-agreements.shtml">subverted the Fourth Amendment</a>, with the eager help of local police departments. Remember that your tax dollars are paying for this. Inevitably it will lead to a ruinous lawsuit.<br />
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A reporter was arrested for asking Secretary of Health Tom Price “<a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/watch-reporter-arrested-for-trying-to-ask-tom-price-questions-about-gops-obamacare-repeal/">rude questions</a>”. And it was barely mentioned by the “mainstream media”. Because they are far more obsessed with trivial shit. IMO it’s literally amazing that journalists aren’t being gunned down in the streets of ‘Murica every day. Someday soon maybe we’ll finally reach that Brazil level of real chaos. You won’t like it.<br />
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And the TSA Shit Factory has now <a href="https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/report-ban-on-laptops-in-planes-may-expand-to-europe/">banned laptops on all flights from “certain countries”</a>. Soon it will be a federal crime to take ANYTHING on a commercial flight. Imagine people being routinely stripped naked, cavity searched, and chained to their seats. And Your Fellow Americans will applaud it. Because T*E*R*R*O*R.<br />
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See? Didn’t mention the T-word once….metasonixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13224183744460116842noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-46501156728251975612016-12-17T18:02:00.001-05:002017-02-03T11:18:09.693-05:00Fake "Bomb Detectors"—AgainI've covered <a href="http://www.christwhatablog.com/2011/02/death-by-sucker.html">this issue</a> <a href="http://www.christwhatablog.com/2013/05/a-tale-of-two-charlatans.html">more than once</a> on this blog. I just learned about this recent story from the latest issue of <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i>:<br />
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"The wands were completely bogus. It had been proven years ago, even before 2013 when two British men <a href="http://doubtfulnews.com/2014/08/uk-couple-convicted-in-fake-bomb-detector-scam/">were convicted</a> in separate trials on fraud charges for selling the detectors... </blockquote>
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The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-77892370060643341192016-11-25T18:49:00.000-05:002016-11-25T18:49:46.096-05:00And now back to the show...We have a new contributor to my illustrious and inactive blog, <b>Metasonix</b>. You may find him/her/it to be even more cynical and jaded than I am but everyone needs a hobby.<br />
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Don't say I didn't warn you.The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-18913207996995187712016-11-25T16:20:00.001-05:002016-11-25T16:25:21.810-05:00Florence Henderson has gone to her Final RewardMeanwhile, the rest of us have been commanded by Jesus (or something) to go forth on Black Friday, and murder each other in Wal-Mart parking lots. With guns. Plus! Rupert Murdoch properties will tell you "violence is breaking out all over Amerika" because fear sells.<br />
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<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/11/25/black-friday-violence-breaks-out-across-america/">NY Post</a><br />
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The old joke about "all hat and no cattle" was invented either by Texans or Montanans (no one is really sure) and was <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/all-hat-and-no-cattle/article/5294">often</a> applied to George W. Bush. However, this is 2016, and the term seems to apply to this Christmas tree ornament. It is "popular" apparently.<br />
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N67D8HO">Amazon</a><br />
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The All-American Boy has been found competent to stand trial. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/25/us/dylann-roof-found-competent-for-trial-in-charleston-church-killings.html?_r=0">NY TImes</a> And if that is not disgusting enough, The Internet Archive has saved a <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150620134455/http://lastrhodesian.com/">copy</a> of his very disgusting website. <br />
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"A council has been swamped with suggestions after asking the public to give its new gritting machine a name. The local authority tweeted a picture of the brand new Mitsubishi Fuso and invited suggestions for a name.The
idea came after the Natural Environment Research Council asked for
ideas for a name for their new vessel - and Boaty McBoatface emerged as a
clear favourite.<br />
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"Now Oldham Council has received ideas including
Gritter Garbo after the classic Hollywood actress, Gritty Gritty Bang
Bang after the classic Disney film, Gritney Spears, and of course Gritty McGritface.<br />
Among others are I’m a Celebrity, Grit Me Out of Here, Usain Salt and Grit Expectations."<br />
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But no headline for today wins quite as gloriously as this one.<br />
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"<a href="http://www.quintenews.com/2016/11/133265/133265/?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark">Truck hits bridge; bridge wins</a>" <br />
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(Posted by a fiend who is filling in for the St. Dr. temporarily. The really disgusting and disturbing stuff goeth on <a href="http://shitplanetblog.tumblr.com/">my</a> blog, blessed and sanctified therefore. Have a nice day and kill me.)metasonixhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13224183744460116842noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-86406333125886449762016-06-09T14:24:00.000-04:002016-06-09T14:24:55.902-04:00An obvious lack of activityIf you're one of the 2.5 people who actually look at this blog on a semi-regular basis you may have noticed that nothing is happening. This is largely due to a medication change which has drastically altered my regular schedule. At this point there will be no updates in the foreseeable future. If you would like to be notified in case I happen to post something subscribe or send me your email address.<br />
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Or kill me.The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-40749566728070088232016-03-22T17:55:00.002-04:002016-03-22T17:55:54.251-04:00Nixon's War On Hippies And Negroes<div class="tr_bq">
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'“You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”'</blockquote>
What a fucking surprise. (<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/nixon-drug-war-racist_us_56f16a0ae4b03a640a6bbda1">Huffington Post</a>)<br />
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<br />"...recruiting angry southern whites would not be enough for the Republicans to take the south. In many southern states more than 40% of potential voters were black. If they were allowed to vote, and if their votes were actually counted, all the reconstructed Democrat Party would need to hold the south would be a sliver of moderate white support. </blockquote>
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"That’s where the Drug War came in."</blockquote>
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On a related note, remember the day Elvis gave Nixon a pistol and Nixon gave Elvis a badge?<br />
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"The National Archives gets more requests for a copy of this photo of Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley posing in the Oval Office than for anything else in their archives — that includes the Bill of Rights and the Constitution."</blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Yeah, Yeah, I'm way behind. Thanks to some major changes (mostly medication-related) the December 2015 OWW was never finished. Some/A lot/Everything in this post is out of date and/or superseded by later events. Carly Fiorina has been out of the race for some time but she's still a priceless gift.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>Curiously, reading over this again for the first time in what seemed like an eternity but was actually only two months, it's remarkable how fresh it still is. Shit never goes out of style....</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>☃ </b>Merry Holidays <b>☃</b></span></div>
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Meadowlark Lemon dead at 83:<br />
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<a href="http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/14454993/meadowlark-lemon-was-also-ahead">ESPN</a><br />
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Lemmy killed by death at 70:<br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/dec/29/lemmy-lead-singer-of-motorhead-dies-at-70-after-battle-with-cancer">Guardian</a><br />
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Glenn Frey died, too. "Dirty Laundry" was a good song. Oh wait, that was Don Henley.<br />
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Kent Hovind is the winner of the first <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #e69138;">MFAEECIA™</span></i> Award of 2016!<br />
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“I would write the [bible] in such a way that those who don’t want to believe in me anyway would think they found something. ‘Aha, here’s why I don’t believe.' I would put things in there that would appear without digging to be contradictions. I don’t think that’s deceptive, I think that’s wise for the Heavenly Father to weed out those who are really serious.”</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/creationism-evangelist-god-put-contradictions-in-the-bible-to-weed-out-the-atheists/">Raw Story</a><br />
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A legend in his own mind. Of course god put those dinosaur bones there to fool... wait a minute, Hovind <i>believes in dinosaurs</i>. Oh well.<br />
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Speaking of contradictions in the bible, did you know that men and women have the same number of ribs after all?:<br />
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"The theory...suggests God made Eve from Adam’s baculum, or penis bone. Professor Zevit said this explains why man has no baculum, unlike most mammals, and why men don’t have an uneven number of ribs compared to women."</blockquote>
<a href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/singham/2015/12/30/where-did-eve-really-come-from/">Singham's blog</a><br />
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Family Research Council President and chief assclown Tony Perkins is upset with our recent diplomatic successes with Iran, so much so that he is losing his memory:<br />
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“Long gone are the days of Ronald Reagan when we said, ‘We don’t negotiate with terrorists.’ Now we make all kinds of deals and it just appears that America comes out on the short end of the deal."</blockquote>
But in fact Reagan did make a hostage deal with Iran:<br />
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'...the Reagan administration “got zero net hostages released, and one dead hostage’s body dumped,” by Iranian-linked terrorist groups in Lebanon “in return for 2,512 TOW anti-tank missiles, 18 Hawk anti-aircraft missiles and more than 240 Hawk spare parts"'</blockquote>
I remember all that. Where was Tony at the time? Up Reagan's asshole? (<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/tony-perkins-reagan-would-never-have-negotiated-iran">Right Wing Watch</a>)<br />
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I "know" you're there:<br />
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"Wathey takes the reader on a scientific journey to find the sources of religious feeling and the illusion of God’s presence. His book delves into the biological origins of this compelling feeling, attributing it to innate neural circuitry that evolved to promote the mother-child bond. Dr. Wathey, a veteran neuroscientist, argues that evolution has programmed the infant brain to expect the presence of a loving being who responds to the child’s needs."</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2016/01/16/why-people-feel-gods-presence">Dispatches From The Culture Wars</a></div>
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"Q-tips are one of the most perplexing things for sale in America. Plenty of consumer products are widely used in ways other than their core function — books for leveling tables, newspapers for keeping fires aflame, seltzer for removing stains, coffee tables for resting legs — but these cotton swabs are distinct. Q-tips are one of the only, if not the only, major consumer products whose main purpose is precisely the one the manufacturer explicitly warns against."</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/20/we-have-a-q-tips-problem">Washington Post</a><br />
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The psychopathology of Carly Fiorina is becoming increasingly clear (read all of this; it’s short and grimly hilarious):<br />
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"Carly Fiorina is unique among all the candidates in the Republican presidential field for her visceral, aggressive hatred for anything resembling truth. Other candidates lie, of course, but they at least go to the trouble of dressing up their lies with weasel words and other forms of qualifying language that allow them to squirm their way out of fact checks. Fiorina doesn’t care about any of that. She makes firm, declarative statements that are unquestionably inaccurate, and when confronted with inarguable facts that prove her wrong, she insists against all evidence that she is correct and bristles at the very notion that anyone might challenger her. She does not care. She does not pretend to care. As far as Fiorina’s concerned, the fact that she said it is what makes it true."</blockquote>
What's the difference between Steve Jobs and Carly Fiorina? He turned Apple around, HP didn’t have a prayer. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="JIVv3s9xm195kdR" href="http://www.salon.com/2015/12/17/carly_fiorina_is_a_liar_and_everyone_should_finally_just_say_it_loudly/" rel="noreferrer">Salon</a>)<br />
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‘...a Trump supporter shouted, “Light that motherf[u]cker on fire!” a reporter from MSNBC said a large middle-aged man shouted, “Sieg heil!”— while one protester was hauled away.’</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/it-gets-worse-trump-supporter-yells-sieg-heil-as-protester-violently-dragged-out-of-vegas-rally/">Raw Story</a><br />
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Ed Brayton goes to a Trump rally:<br />
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‘...they were playing Christmas carols. When “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas” came on, that seemed entirely appropriate to me. I’m still not entirely clear whether “Oh Come Let Us Adore Him” was about Jesus or Trump.” The whole thing really does have the feel of those 1930s news reels from Germany.’</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/12/22/i-went-to-a-donald-trump-rally-and-all-i-got-was-a-sinking-feeling/">Dispatches From The Culture Wars</a><br />
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‘...a Trump supporter shouted, “Light that motherf[u]cker on fire!” a reporter from MSNBC said a large middle-aged man shouted, “Sieg heil!”— while one protester was hauled away.’</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="Zh5scYnJaVY4Jb4" href="http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/it-gets-worse-trump-supporter-yells-sieg-heil-as-protester-violently-dragged-out-of-vegas-rally/" rel="noreferrer">Raw Story</a><br />
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Meanwhile, in Sarah Palin's world (watch the sanity-challenging word salad video):</div>
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'...on <i>The 700 Club</i> host Wendy Griffith asked Sarah Palin the question we’ve all been begging her to answer: “What would you do to defeat ISIS?” </blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">“You have to quit being this namby-pamby, kind of milquetoast, ‘let’s discuss things with them, let’s reach out and try to understand them,’ no, they’re the enemy, they’re evil”</span></blockquote>
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They're ain't human they ain't. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="JxhVVEEvDyp26mg" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/sarah-palins-plan-defeat-isis-stop-embracing-radical-islamists-and-stop-them" rel="noreferrer">Right Wing Watch</a>)<br />
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It’s official:<br />
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"Sony announced on Tuesday that after four decades, it will stop shipping Betamax(or Beta) and MicroMV video cassette tapes next March.”</blockquote>
Prices on eBay will now skyrocket. I’ve already made my lifetime purchase of Hi8 and miniDV cassettes. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="XgXPN3uL3YSb7Rp" href="http://en.rocketnews24.com/2015/11/11/sony-to-stop-selling-betamax-video-cassette-tapes-in-march/" rel="noreferrer">Rocket News</a>)<br />
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"Jane Mann, a retired science teacher, said she was concerned the [solar] panels would prevent plants in the area from photosynthesizing, stopping them from growing. Ms Mann said she had seen areas near solar panels where plants are brown and dead because they did not get enough sunlight. She also questioned the high number of cancer deaths in the area, saying no one could tell her solar panels didn't cause cancer.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="6yAdLG5fMfWCRwg" href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-town-rejects-solar-panels-amid-fears-they-suck-up-all-the-energy-from-the-sun-a6771526.html" rel="noreferrer">Independent</a><br />
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'However in August this year, a French court ruled that electromagnetic hypersensitivity to mobile and wifi waves is a "serious handicap", setting a legal precedent that lawyers say could lead to "thousands" of claims. Although France does not recognise EHS as a medical problem, a court in Toulouse decided that claimant Marine Richard should be awarded £500 a month in disability allowance as she displayed “irrefutable clinical signs” of suffering from a syndrome linked to electromagnetic waves.'</blockquote>
I see “irrefutable" clinical signs of an anxiety disorder. This is soooo easy to disprove. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="uSSXxtGBG0IwJ1f" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12025988/Mother-claims-wifi-allergy-killed-her-daughter-and-accuses-school-of-failing-to-safeguard-children.html" rel="noreferrer">Telegraph</a>)<br />
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'A gay-to-straight “conversion therapy” provider found by a New Jersey jury to have violated the state’s consumer fraud protections will permanently cease operations and dissolve its corporate entity as part of a settlement that precludes an appeal of a jury’s verdict in the landmark lawsuit.’</blockquote>
<a href="https://www.splcenter.org/news/2015/12/18/splc-suit-forces-new-jersey-group-cease-bogus-%E2%80%98conversion-therapy%E2%80%99-program-pay-damages#.VnQr-o_TPvE.facebook">SPLC</a><br />
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Deepak Chopra revises his earlier work à la Hal Lindsey:<br />
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'In the bibliography of the earlier printings of the book, [Deepak] Chopra writes “I enthusiastically recommend the following eleven books, all of which entered into my own education on these fascinating subjects.” Two of those eleven books are by Maharishi [Mahesh Yogi]. In the bibliography of the 16th printing, he also recommends eleven books, but he lists only nine! You can guess which two are missing. Chopra must have been in such a hurry to erase all traces of Maharishi’s name that he forgot to count the number of the remaining books in his bibliography!</blockquote>
<i>The Late Great Planet Earth</i> and the publications of the Watchtower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses) have received similar treatment over the years, erasing the embarrassing bits. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="8iMo50gXKRXueOR" href="http://rescuescience.scienceblog.com/17/mutilation-of-qt/" rel="noreferrer">Rescue Science</a>)<br />
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Thanks to that recent false flag operation in France even Democrats in the US are suddenly afraid, <i>very</i> afraid of helpless women and children. There have been calls for interment of refugees in camps <i>à la</i> native-born Japanese-Americans in WWII (with not a spy or terrorist among them). Congressmen, Governors and Mayors across the nation are vowing to refuse refugees outright. This presents a legal problem because George W. Bush (remember him?) signed a bill limiting the power to accept or reject refugees <i>to the President <b>alone</b></i>.<br />
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One person has replied succinctly:<br />
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"JESUS CHRIST THE SYRIAN REFUGEES AREN'T COMING TO WHATEVER GLORIFIED TRAILER PARK / FEMA CAMP / OPEN AIR METH LAB OR DYSTOPIAN INNER RING TRACT HOUSING AND STRIP MALL FART-FUCK OF A SUBURB YOU CALL HOME, THEY WOULD TAKE ONE LOOK AT YOUR SAD EXCUSE FOR A LIFE AND THINK "I'LL GO BACK AND TAKE MY CHANCES, DID YOU SEE THAT WOMAN WITH THE 'BAD BITCH' TATTOO HER TORSO LOOKED LIKE SOMEONE WAS BAKING BREAD IN A HALTER TOP." THE FACT THAT YOU GOT A SECOND HARDEES (NEXT TO THE PELLAGRA CLINIC) DOES NOT MAKE PIGSKNUCKLE COUNTY AN APPEALING TERRORIST TARGET, IF ISIS ATTACKS THEY WILL ATTACK A CITY BECAUSE CITIES HAVE LANDMARKS AND PEOPLE WHO WALK PLACES. WHY WOULD ANYONE EVEN BOTHER TRYING TO KILL YOU WHEN THEY COULD SIT BACK AND LET CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE DO THE JOB, BE SURE TO BUY MORE GUNS THOUGH THEY'RE REALLY KEEPING YOUR VINYL SIDED RANCH HOUSE SAFE. YES THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT TO GET YOU BUT THEY'RE NOT CALLED "ISIS" THEY'RE CALLED THE COLLECTION AGENCY AND YOUR GUNS WILL ONLY IMPRESS THEM TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY WILL FETCH SOMETHING AT AUCTION WHEN YOUR PROPERTY IS SEIZED TO PAY THE MEDICAL BILLS FOR YOUR LAST SIX ANGIOPLASTIES BUT YOU REALLY SHOWED OBUMMER BY NOT SIGNING UP FOR INSURANCE YOU DANIEL FUCKIN' BOONE RUGGED INDIVIDUALIST YOU.”</blockquote>
Stop holding back. Tell us how you <i>really</i> feel. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="b0pvvRAZyR0UBr3" href="https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10153945516451677&id=359134596676" rel="noreferrer">FaceBook</a>)<br />
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Meanwhile, somewhere over Syria:<br />
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“...astrophysicists Tom van Doorsslaere and Giovanni Lapenta of the Belgian KU Leuven used some simple Newtonian mechanics to show that both the Russian and Turkish accounts of what happened with the downed jet can’t be right. Using video of the incident and the maps provided by Turkish and Russian officials, they show...that what went down couldn’t possibly have happened as both parties present it.”</blockquote>
"both parties present it” should be “either party presented it." (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="koaLtLkiyjUgwe2" href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/belgian-physicists-calculate-that-everyone-is-lying-about-the-downed-russian-jet" rel="noreferrer">Vice</a>)<br />
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'"What I have said is that I would be in favor of monitoring a mosque or any church or any organization or any school or any press corps where there was a lot of radicalization and things that were anti-American," Carson told reporters during an appearance at a justice forum in South Carolina. He did not expound on just how an administration would determine what constitutes "radicalization" or "anti-American." </blockquote>
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'Carson added that funding for FBI surveillance activities should be increased. He said the agency currently can only afford to monitor "30 to 60 people," numbers he did not explain before aides steered him away from reporters.'</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="gfg5nMldSw3FYU0" href="http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/11/ben_carson_says_he_would_suppo.html" rel="noreferrer">NOLA</a><br />
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"67 percent of Americans think [abortion] clinic attacks are domestic terrorism. More Democrats (77 percent) called the attacks domestic terrorism than either Republicans (54 percent) or independents (66 percent), but a majority of Republicans still said yes.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="3N8SqHxwJx87f8d" href="http://www.vox.com/2015/12/2/9835690/poll-abortion-domestic-terrorism" rel="noreferrer">Vox</a><br />
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"Furious with her daughter, Gibbons rushed to the school and forced her daughter to submit to an 11-panel drug test—which came back completely negative. Yet when she contacted the school to give them the test results and say the whole thing had been a misunderstanding, Klein officials wouldn't budge, and wouldn't reverse the suspension. In fact, they said she must have been on acid—the only drug not covered in the test.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="6sNxB9fxsclaqrc" href="http://www.houstonpress.com/news/drug-test-proves-high-school-girl-wasnt-high-school-suspends-her-anyway-7926436" rel="noreferrer">Houston Press</a><br />
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"The newly released research, conducted by Christian research group LifeWay at the behest of pro-life group Care Net, paints a very different picture of those seeking abortions than you might imagine. The study interviewed 1,038 women who had received an abortion. Surprisingly, a full 70 percent of these women were Christian. </blockquote>
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"We can fully expect many right-wing individuals to claim that these women aren’t really Christian. That seems to be the go-to argument when Christians engage in behaviors contradictory to the image many would have us believe."</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="sxqO9tLvAFDoSOv" href="http://reverbpress.com/religion/abortion-rates-highest-among-christians-according-stunning-survey-results/" rel="noreferrer">Reverb Press</a><br />
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"A founding pastor of a Singapore megachurch was sentenced Friday to eight years behind bars after he was found guilty of fraud and embezzling $35 million in donations to bankroll his wife's pop star career...”</blockquote>
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So Hilary Rodham Clinton weathered an 11 hour grilling by the Benghazi witch hunt committee, making them look like fools in front of god and everyone. But <i>that</i> was all part of her <i>insidious</i> plan: <br />
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‘...the chairman of the committee...wanted to interview her in private...and she said, ‘No, I want to do this in public’”<br />
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'“Now to me, that was us stepping in a trap because we should have known that she was going to go on and just stall, debate, filibuster, on these answers to make it go as long as possible, so we would look cruel”'</blockquote>
No, you looked like the dickless old coots that you are. She came out smelling like a rose. Thanks for the publicity. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="17QCSeQEx5ZWKox" href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/meganapper/benghazi-committee-member-clinton-made-hearing-long-so-gop-w" rel="noreferrer">Buzzfeed</a>)<br />
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The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-53749141648959583842016-02-29T12:40:00.001-05:002022-04-09T14:40:52.663-04:00Limited Edition CD—The Fourth Tower Of InvernessZBS is re-releasing a limited-edition CD of The Fourth Tower Of Inverness:<br />
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"We don’t know how long we’ll have it, so if you’d like a copy, for yourself, or for a gift, or to pass on to your great-grandchildren, now is the time to seize one! Or two. This historic recording, the very first Jack Flanders adventure, may never be re-released on CD. "</blockquote>
More info at the <a href="http://us8.campaign-archive2.com/?u=c186a4c8574a3e1f6afbe614f&id=594ce86461&e=b021505dce">ZBS</a> site.<br />
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I already have the first edition CD plus the cassette tapes. I sure would like to have those 26 reels, though.The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-11022989679105072252016-02-27T11:57:00.000-05:002016-02-27T12:32:09.356-05:00How to sell an Android appInduce paranoia. From a viral email I received today:<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This video is very Important if you are using the flashlight on your smartphone.</span></i></blockquote>
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Wow, that interview on Fox News about the insecurity of Android flashlight apps being "bigger than ebola" sure was scary...<br />
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...Here's the second thing I found with Google:<br />
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'The saying goes “If you’re not paying for a product, you are the product” and that remains true when it comes to something as simple as a flashlight app. It’s also true of SnoopWall itself, which has been pushing its own flashlight app (as a replacement for all the ones that are trying to overthrow the U.S. government, naturally) and the oddly named Privacy App which is designed to highlight any other apps on your Android device that are a security risk and could do you harm. </blockquote>
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'While the app promises to “find all the apps that are spying on you,” the user reviews suggest it’s not doing much good. The entire front page of the app’s Google Play listing is filled with reviews saying that the app produces nothing but false positives. SnoopWall’s app highlights the Google Play Store app, the Google Maps app, and even proper antivirus software apps as being huge risks. If Google Maps is a virus, we're all in big trouble.</blockquote>
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'In fact, with so many negative written reviews it was shocking to see that the app still holds an overall solid rating of around 3.5 out of 5. I did a bit of digging and found the reason for SnoopWall’s above average Play Store status. It seems the app score is being buoyed by a massive chunk of ratings that all landed at the same time, including one day where the app received nothing but perfect five-star reviews.'</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.dailydot.com/technology/flashlight-app-snoopwall-reviews/">Daily Dot</a><br />
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As always Snopes is a font of information:<br />
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'SnoopWall's "threat assessment report" suggested that flashlight apps are more prone to requesting access to unneeded permissions and data than any other category of app, but as <i>Wired</i> noted, many other types of apps "want access to information they probably shouldn't," and the fact that a given app has access to data doesn't necessarily mean the app is actually stealing that data and transmitting it to internatonal cybercriminals.'</blockquote>
<a href="http://www.snopes.com/computer/internet/flashlight.asp">Snopes</a><br />
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FUD. Fake reviews. <i>Bogusware</i>. <br />
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<i><span style="font-size: large;">And the icing on the cake</span></i><span style="font-size: large;">:</span> did you notice that the close-up in the video was of an iPhone, which has the flashlight function built-in?<br />
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The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-13505186900083950852016-01-25T14:58:00.000-05:002022-04-09T14:40:40.961-04:00Robert Lorick has diedFrom ZBS Foundation head honcho Tom Lopez:<br />
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<a data-jsbanchorprepared="KhHNi3iots6ysPJ" href="http://us8.campaign-archive1.com/?u=c186a4c8574a3e1f6afbe614f&id=9f6826db52&e=b021505dce">In Memory Of Robert Lorick</a><br />
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Here are Robert's <a data-jsbanchorprepared="ROh8HrBrcY1BJPU" href="https://www.voices.com/people/rlorick#demos">demo reels</a>—you may recognize one or two. Share the fantasy.<br />
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I have the entire Jack Flanders series from <a data-jsbanchorprepared="5314JE0wlcQP4zV" href="http://www.zbs.org/index_new.php/store/jack_flanders">ZBS</a>. I had just finished <i>The Green Velvet Chair</i> and started <i>The Fourth Tower Of Inverness</i> when I received the news. This is beyond tragic.The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-89923483536288133152016-01-15T16:44:00.000-05:002016-01-15T16:44:47.093-05:00I'm still aliveWaiting for you latest fix? There is a new post on the way. Stay tuned...The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-579185425738679392015-11-08T17:35:00.000-05:002015-11-10T14:53:11.397-05:00Our Wacky World—11/8/2015Thank “Bob” we have 12 months before the election. There is <i>so much more</i> to learn about front runner Ben Carson, M.D:<br />
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'At the core of his narrative of spiritual redemption are his acts of violence as an angry young man — stabbing, rock throwing, brick hurling and baseball bat beating — that preceded Carson's sudden transformation into the composed figure who stands before voters today.<br />
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'...nine friends, classmates and neighbors who grew up with Carson told CNN they have no memory of the anger or violence the candidate has described.<br />
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'Carson's campaign adviser and business manager, Armstrong Williams, declined repeated requests by CNN to provide details… "Why would anyone cooperate with your obvious witch hunt?" Williams wrote in an email last Friday. "No comment and moving on...... Happy Halloween!!!!!”'</blockquote>
It’s a “witch hunt” to ask for corroboration of odd statements a man running for president has made publicly? (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="zhTroamlW1tOZRJ" href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/05/politics/ben-carson-2016-childhood-violence/index.html" rel="noreferrer">CNN</a>)<br />
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The funniest thing about about religion and politics over the last 35 years is how “christians” who traditionally hate each others’ guts have come together to fight their perceived common enemies. In 2012 they finally embraced a Mormon, now it’s a Seventh-Day Adventist. I suppose the Jehovah’s Witnesses will enter the fold in 2020.<br />
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Back to Ben:<br />
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"Ben Carson claims that the Egyptian pyramids were constructed by the biblical Joseph to store huge quantities of grain and were not, as is commonly believed, tombs for the pharaohs.”</blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">'Carson claims that he came up with the idea for a musical based on the story of Joseph and his coat of many colors during a surgical consultation with a patient named Jacob Brandman… in 1998, 30 years after [the musical] <i>Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat</i> premiered. However, when pushed for comment on this issue, Carson responded that he was in fact aware of the existing musical production in 1998, but that </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">“The Bible calls it a coat of many colors, but in those days the only colors were black and white, as you can see in old television footage. My belief is that the coat was black, white and brown – the first time anyone had ever seen brown. That story has yet to be told.” </span></blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="9eGWJwCz0jI6FyP" href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/nov/05/fact-check-ben-carson-claim-pyramids-store-grain" rel="noreferrer">Guardian</a><br />
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He’s not the first to make such an astute chromatic observation. From <a data-jsbanchorprepared="KpjM3hmQDsu9Vqa" href="http://www.christwhatablog.com/2012/07/our-wacky-world7282012.html" rel="noreferrer">a story I posted in 2012</a>:<br />
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"Our moon, he explains, is not a grey-colored object as we have been led to believe. Our moon is a full color body, but NASA has only released black-and-white photos of it. However, an amateur astronomer in Texas named Bill Bryson has been able, using his telescope and a $68 Chinese-made camera, to reveal our moon in all its full-color glory."</blockquote>
So umm...what color was Noah's rainbow? Anyone? <i>Hello…?</i><br />
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"Ben Carson’s campaign on Friday admitted, in a response to an inquiry from POLITICO, that a central point in his inspirational personal story was fabricated: his application and acceptance into the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="DqsAjgEjmImaLWn" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/ben-carson-west-point-215598" rel="noreferrer">Politico</a><br />
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'Carson shrugged off critics, scientists and other experts who have dispute his theories. </blockquote>
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'"Some people believe in the Bible like I do and don’t find that to be silly at all"'</blockquote>
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Where is this in the bible? (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="ogqXER22XbspCIy" href="http://www.rawstory.com/2015/11/ben-carson-my-ideas-about-creationism-and-pyramids-are-not-silly-at-all-theyre-in-the-bible/" rel="noreferrer">Raw Story</a>)<br />
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Dr. Carson is also an astute user of social media:<br />
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So if you need brain surgery don’t go to a professional neurosurgeon… like Dr. Carson. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="Jw6NklM9vRDyQx2" href="https://twitter.com/RealBenCarson/status/659777986854559744" rel="noreferrer">RealBenCarson</a>)</div>
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'Ben Carson responded to those who says [<i>sic</i>] he doesn’t have enough experience to be president with this staggeringly ignorant statement: “Every signer of the Declaration of Independence had no elected office experience.”</blockquote>
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‘[in fact] most of them had elected office experience. But what cracks me up is how he is trying to cover up his ignorance, by changing it to “federal elected office experience.” Uh, Ben….of course they didn’t have any federal elected office experience. You know why? Because there<i> wasn’t a fucking federal government then</i>.’</blockquote>
Emphasis in the original text. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="YGN2DPUTx30bOyh" href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/11/07/carson-signers-of-the-declaration-had-no-elected-office-experience/" rel="noreferrer">Dispatches From The Culture Wars</a>)<br />
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Next he trots out the old "christian nation" shiboleth:<br />
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'This nation — the United States of America — one of the few nations in history to claim God in their founding documents — we talk about in our Declaration of Independence certain inalienable rights given to us by our Creator, every one of our coins, every one of our bills says ‘In God We Trust.’”…</div>
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‘[Carson] has the history here completely reversed. In fact, nearly every western nation “claimed God” in their founding documents for centuries until the United States [<i>didn’t</i>].’</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="MRRUJRSZTpQyZY7" href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/11/08/more-terrible-history-from-ben-carson/" rel="noreferrer">Dispatches From The Culture Wars</a><br />
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I’m stopping here. I’m not even going to go into his involvement in a “nutritional supplement” marketing scheme, which he denied at first and later...<br />
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More on the "christians who hate each other while they need each other" theme mentioned earlier—a protest at a “satanic” church wasn’t entirely peaceful:<br />
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"There was a heavy police presence, and the protests were largely peaceful, except for a few moments before dark when members from two groups of protesters — one Catholic organization from Pennsylvania, and the other consisting of some sort of doomsday-preachers from Las Vegas — began arguing with each other over whose sect of Christianity was correctly following Jesus.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="fbZ7LgABQdEVgXR" href="http://www.houstonpress.com/news/greater-church-of-lucifer-opens-to-protests-in-old-town-spring-7896102" rel="noreferrer">Houston Press</a><br />
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"We've seen some questionable crowdfunding campaigns in our time, but this one might take the cake. A Russian outfit is raising money for <i>USB Killer,</i> a $99 dongle that thwarts data thieves by... electrocuting your USB port.”</blockquote>
Seems a bit expensive to me but what do I know? (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="JxlqcWT6iLdJabp" href="http://www.engadget.com/2015/11/08/usb-killer/" rel="noreferrer">Endgadget</a>)<br />
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Roger Waters fears Hilary Clinton:<br />
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"I have an awful worry that she might become the first woman president to drop a fucking nuclear bomb on somebody”</blockquote>
As opposed to the first man president? (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="7572rM5hskAYH2V" href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/roger-waters-loves-bernie-sanders-fears-hillary-clinton-20151026" rel="noreferrer">Rolling Stone</a>)<br />
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Which oath to uphold?<br />
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"The Montana Supreme Court’s Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC) recommended Thursday that Elmer “Stewart” Rhodes, Montana lawyer and founder of the [paranoid far-right group] Oath Keepers, be disbarred for violating his attorney oath”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="UzB4QEr71OIFXJc" href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jjmacnab/2015/11/02/oath-keeper-founder-at-risk-of-being-disbarred/" rel="noreferrer">Forbes</a><br />
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Absolutely mind blowing:<br />
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‘...recently I had this young woman, 15 maybe, and we did the procedure. I said, ‘Your uterus is empty, the procedure is over. I have to go check to make sure we got everything,’ and I left the room to examine the tissue. Then I came back and told her, ‘Everything’s fine, your uterus is healthy.’ And she said, ‘So … when are you going to use the steel ball?’ I picked my jaw up off the floor and said, ‘Steel ball?’ She said, ‘Well, I went to the crisis pregnancy center and they told me you’re going to put a steel ball that’s covered with sharp blades into my uterus and twirl it around.’ And this kid still came! I was thinking, How did you ever make yourself walk in the office believing I was going to do that?”’</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="BIH7RHyV6PQwxif" href="http://nymag.com/thecut/2015/10/first-legal-abortionists-tell-their-stories.html" rel="noreferrer">NY Mag</a><br />
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Now let’s get down and dirty. Another horny “christian” male tries really hard to get his dick wet but ends up sticking it in his mouth:<br />
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'Let me try and explain this in another way. In Greek mythology there was a monster woman named Medusa. She was a cursed and hideous creature and if men looked upon her face they were turned to stone. I know you love your wife, most men love their wives. But sin is ugly. Your beautiful bride’s face becomes ugly during this sinful time that she is grudgingly giving you sex as she grimaces wanting you to “just hurry up and get it over with”.</div>
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'So like the men who could not look at Medusa’s face otherwise they would be killed, realize that if you look on your wife’s face when she is displaying a sinful attitude toward sex it will kill your sexual pleasure and may actually make it much more difficult for you to achieve the physical connection and release that you need. Again you know you want that emotional connection too, but your wife is the one who is in sinful rebellion against God’s design for sex in your marriage and is refusing to emotionally connect with you.’</div>
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He goes on and <i>on</i> like this. In order to explain his utterly <i>fucked</i> “christian” version of the minefield of marital sex he has to invoke a <i>Greek</i> myth! The sound of ass. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="MKw6R1fzY5Ul9Xo" href="http://biblicalgenderroles.com/2015/10/18/how-a-husband-can-enjoy-sex-that-is-grudgingly-given-by-his-wife/" rel="noreferrer">Biblical Gender Roles</a>)<br />
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"A key ingredient in a CVS homeopathic medicine, the kind people choose when they want something more "natural" than an over-the-counter product, is alcohol. The packaging on CVS's homeopathic constipation relief describes it as safe and non-habit forming. The bottle, which listed 20 percent alcohol as an inactive ingredient, is sold over the counter with no age requirements.”</blockquote>
Contains no pharmaceutical substances but it does a nice kick to it. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="f1rIN3YidVNc7W3" href="http://www.nbclosangeles.com/investigations/I-Team-Store-Alcohol-Purchase-Drug-Regulations-337551261.html" rel="noreferrer">NBC</a>)<br />
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Don’t give your kids an education because… The Rapture™:<br />
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"17-year-old Tori McIntyre ran away from home because she wanted an education, but was unable to provide any information about what level she was at. The El Paso school district put her in 9th grade and asked the family to prove that their kids were getting a basic education. Requests to the parents for cooperation were rebuffed, so the district eventually filed truancy charges.”<br />
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"Chief Justice Ann Crawford McClure of the 8th Court of Appeals wrote: “No parents have ever prevailed in any reported case on a theory that they have an absolute constitutional right to educate their children in the home, completely free of any state supervision, regulation, or requirements.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="AKhM04OsK6G7wB6" href="http://reverbpress.com/religion/texas-couple-kids-dumb-rapture/" rel="noreferrer">Reverb Press</a><br />
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Depressingly familiar:<br />
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"She would later tell a judge she was splayed outside the patrol car for a pat-down, made to lift her shirt to prove she wasn't hiding anything, then to pull down her pants when the officer still wasn't convinced. He shined his flashlight between her legs, she said, then ordered her to sit in the squad car and face him as he towered above. His gun in sight, she said she pleaded "No, sir" as he unzipped his fly and exposed himself with a hurried directive. "Come on," the woman, identified in police reports as J.L., said she was told before she began giving him oral sex. "I don't have all night." </blockquote>
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"In a yearlong investigation of sexual misconduct by U.S. law enforcement, The Associated Press uncovered about 1,000 officers who lost their badges in a six-year period for rape, sodomy and other sexual assault; sex crimes that included possession of child pornography; or sexual misconduct such as propositioning citizens or having consensual but prohibited on-duty intercourse.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="ZJnBSBvantA65nz" href="http://bigstory.ap.org/urn:publicid:ap.org:fd1d4d05e561462a85abe50e7eaed4ec" rel="noreferrer">Big Story</a><br />
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The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-24843197822296911172015-10-26T19:19:00.000-04:002015-10-26T19:19:10.539-04:00Our Wacky World— 10/26/2015Almost a Darwin Award:<br />
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<a data-jsbanchorprepared="2wdTGSuLBWt898r" href="http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/article39003903.html" rel="noreferrer">Kansas City Star</a><br />
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Matt Drudge: idiot, liar, both?<br />
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"I had a Supreme Court Justice come up to me and say to my face it is over for me. Matt, it is over for you, they've got the votes to enforce copyright laws, you're out of there. They're going to make it so you can't even use headlines.To have a Supreme Court Justice say that to my face, that it is over, they've got the votes. It means time is limited. Time is not forever, how many more moons and sunrises will you see in your life rise and fall, not that many, it is a small amount.”</blockquote>
Both. And a narcissist. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="QSGGyBfeMUOB5fc" href="http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a38646/5-craziest-conspiracy-theories-drudge-jones/" rel="noreferrer">Esquire</a>)<br />
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The comments to this are great. The usual idiots show up:<br />
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"With the rise of both marijuana use and public support growing, this could make for a precarious political issue for politicians in a presidential election year. Forget about the chicken in every pot, these citizens just want the pot.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="tXd4JRXQdoBc7BV" href="http://jonathanturley.org/2015/10/22/gallup-poll-58-of-americans-want-marijuana-legalized/" rel="noreferrer">Jonathan Turley</a><br />
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Ben Carson M.D., who like so many right-wing talking heads has bafflingly become relevant in our time, rather like comets appearing from out of nowhere one night on Fox News (or returned from purgatory after an unexpectedly less-than-perpetural period of public disgrace). Carson is the classic intelli-educated screwball in whose mind all things make sense without a requisite basis in fact:<br />
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"What is it with brain surgeons? The strange ideas of leading GOP presidential candidate and retired brain surgeon Ben Carson have been making the headlines a lot lately… The statements that Carson has made are staggeringly ignorant for a man with an advanced science education.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="d1Mc88SvM0jGOT3" href="http://www.skeptic.com/reading_room/ben-carson-brain-surgeon-or-brain-addled/" rel="noreferrer">Skeptic</a><br />
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And now he’s being "threatened" by “progressives”:<br />
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“I’d prefer not to talk about security issues but I have recognized — and people have been telling me for many many months — that I’m in great danger, because I challenge the secular progressive movement to the very core” </blockquote>
People have been "telling him." (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="ZvC2RJGOloc4hJn" href="http://www.patheos.com/blogs/dispatches/2015/10/25/carson-i-need-secret-service-protection-because-of-secularists/" rel="noreferrer">Dispatches From The Culture Wars</a>)<br />
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'A regular guest commentator on Fox News who has been lying for years about working for the Central Intelligence Agency was arrested on Thursday...by federal authorities following his indictment by a federal grand jury for allegedly committing major fraud, wire fraud, and making false statements to the government. Simmons claims to have worked for the CIA from 1973 to 2000, and "used that false claim in an attempt to obtain government security clearances and work as a defense contractor, including at one point successfully getting deployed overseas as an intelligence advisor to senior military personnel”'</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="r7ZcXSh9HsE16wk" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wayne-simmons-arrest-cia_561fd787e4b028dd7ea6fd43?o3v26gvi" rel="noreferrer">Huffington Post</a><br />
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"China was tired of the Nobel people giving a human rights price to human rights advocates, particularly Chinese dissents or the Dali Lama. So it created its own prize to give those hard-working dictators an opportunity to shine. So this year, China is honoring a man who has destroyed the economy of Zimbabwe, starved his people, oppressed dissidents, and maintained one of the most disgusting levels of corruption and personal excess of any dictator in the world.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="N5t8DumE6HHSfCK" href="http://jonathanturley.org/2015/10/23/china-awards-mugabe-human-rights-prize/" rel="noreferrer">Jonathan Turley</a><br />
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Carly Fiorina has a moment of startling clarity:<br />
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“Finally my degree in medieval history and philosophy has come in handy… because what ISIS wants to do is drive us back to the Middle Ages, literally.”</blockquote>
So your degree was worthless before? (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="JK0PRxsJHbvpnaO" href="http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/7/72/1939876/fiorina-touts-medieval-history-degree-weapons-isis" rel="noreferrer">Sun Times</a>)<br />
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'But the session became violent, the police chief said. "Both brothers were continually subjected to physical punishment over the course of several hours in the hopes that each would confess to prior sins and ask for forgiveness” ...Leonard was taken to the hospital after church members found he wasn't breathing, Inserra said. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.’</blockquote>
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‘… [an] ex-member denied reports the church is a cult. "I realize this situation makes it look like this," she said, "but if you listen to the teachings, they are accurate to the Bible.”'</blockquote>
But then everyone does "what the bible says," don't they? (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="bxBqjA3GSFMAj7P" href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/14/us/new-york-church-assault-case/index.html" rel="noreferrer">CNN</a>)<br />
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"Lucas Leonard, a 19-year-old whose family was immersed in Word of Life’s secretive practices, said that he was the [witch], that he wanted church elders to die and that he had considered making a voodoo doll of a church leader.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="XXyDYKLecKfHC8E" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/17/nyregion/word-of-life-fatal-beating-new-hartford-police-lucas-leonard.html" rel="noreferrer">New York Times</a></div>
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The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-63437564667784348762015-10-04T20:28:00.000-04:002015-10-07T18:28:41.230-04:00Our Wacky World—10/4/2015From the great and... well, the terrible Rush Limbaugh:<br />
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“Don't know how long it's going to take, but this news that there is flowing water on Mars is somehow going to find its way into a technique to advance the leftist agenda.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="Vv0gYE3F5u5oSGH" href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/09/rush-limbaugh-mars-leftist-plot-214179" rel="noreferrer">Politico</a><br />
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"‘Dems and Leftists’ Want to Genetically Modify Us to Combat Climate Change”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="x7AcpPGtyGlKeUI" href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/limbaugh-dems-and-leftists-want-to-genetically-modify-us-to-combat-climate-change/" rel="noreferrer">Mediaite</a><br />
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Yogi Berra, <a data-jsbanchorprepared="P7fbj3ccPmPGqhH" href="http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/09/23/really-didnt-say-everything-said-very-best-yogisms/" rel="noreferrer">great philosopher</a>, dead at 90. "It ain't over 'till it's over” is one worthy of Sun Tzu. Rene Déscartes? Also-ran.<br />
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"The man charged in a California kidnapping that police initially dismissed as a hoax told a television news reporter he had a psychotic break and a side effect from a vaccine was to blame in part for his behavior"</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="C2EDRr4EbaGUnsZ" href="http://doubtfulnews.com/2015/09/muller-talks-in-jail-while-fbi-listens-vaccine-isnt-a-good-excuse/" rel="noreferrer">Doubtful News</a> (original article unavailable)<br />
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An historic breakthrough:<br />
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"An English historian has come across the word ‘fuck’ in a court case dating to the year 1310, making it the earliest known reference to the swear word.”</blockquote>
Swear word? I thought it was an obscenity. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="U8kQokdGcLnJxnc" href="http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/10/the-earliest-use-of-the-f-word-discovered/" rel="noreferrer">Medievalists</a>)<br />
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'At a council meeting this month, Goodman explained how drooping denim is “disrespectful,” a bad example to children, and bars the wearer from gainful employment. He told his colleagues what he told a Daily Beast reporter: “I prayed about this. I know that God would not go around with pants down.”'</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="VlJ5V58T1eq4aHD" href="http://www.alan.com/2015/09/15/councilman-says-god-told-him-to-outlaw-saggy-pants/" rel="noreferrer">Liberaland</a><br />
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Carly Fiorina’s HP legacy is costing her contributions—from former employees:<br />
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“I don’t care if she’s a Democrat, Republican, or Independent. I would not support her for president,” Soderstrom said. “I would not give her two cents.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="UamYO5zcv4QRQiI" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/30/hp-employees-won-t-give-carly-fiorina-a-dime.html" rel="noreferrer">Daily Beast</a><br />
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"The Australian government is fighting back against the unrelenting terrorist threat that threatens to consume every Western nation. It, too, has noticed that youngsters and their SnapChats are particularly prone to radicalization from outside forces. As Richard Chirgwin of the Register points out, it has chosen to address this threat to Australian society in the way only a government agency can: with a blend of the bizarre and the tone deaf.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="hgv9HdX1b1ztGYq" href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150926/15474932374/australian-government-warns-that-alternative-rock-teenage-rebellion-could-lead-to-radicalization.shtml" rel="noreferrer">Techdirt</a><br />
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‘...public interest organizations raised alarm over his company buying a long-used medicine, Daraprim, in the treatment of AIDS and immediately raised the price of $13.50 a pill to $750 a pill. When a reporter asked him to explain the increase for a drug that has been on the market for 62 years, Shkreli called him a “moron” and refused to answer the question.’</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="DcryT0fs6dH2KP2" href="http://jonathanturley.org/2015/09/22/ceo-buys-rights-to-aids-medication-and-immediately-jacks-up-price-from-13-50-to-750-then-calls-reporter-a-moron-for-asking-why/" rel="noreferrer">Turley's Blog</a></div>
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"...hiking the price of a drug by 5,000 percent just because you can invites...government meddling, which is why the pharmaceutical industry isn't happy with Turing."</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="Q6YAROckyv3PloO" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/editorials/ct-daraprim-drug-price-gouging-turing-shkreli-edit-0928-jm-20150925-story.html" rel="noreferrer">Chicago Tribune</a><br />
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'Although the patient was recovering, it appears that the team was at a loss until the child’s parents revealed a game-changing piece of information later in the admission. Six months before his pain and other worrisome symptoms began, they had sought treatment for his eczema from a “natural health practitioner.”'</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="5iL58RjZUOqyClW" href="https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/a-natural-cure-for-eczema-leaves-a-young-child-in-agony/" rel="noreferrer">Science-Based Medicine</a><br />
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"Donald Trump spoke at the Values Voters Summit on Friday...and told the crowd that if he’s elected president, people will damn well say Merry Christmas in department stores because, in the bizarro world he lives in, no one says that phrase anymore."</blockquote>
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"If the goal of the pro-life movement actually were to end abortion, both tactics and results would be radically different. Imagine a fictional person whose chief life goal is to reduce abortion by, say, 90 percent over the next 20 years. It might come as a surprise to the audience of today’s antiabortion theater—but our protagonist’s goal is attainable. Armed with just the information and technologies available today, someone genuinely committed to reducing abortion by 90 percent in 20 years could map out a plan to get there—and even make people’s lives better in the process.”</blockquote>
But then that’s not what it’s about, is it? (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="dho8UoVs0KF0l3J" href="http://www.salon.com/2015/09/11/if_pro_lifers_wanted_to_end_abortion_rather_than_control_sex_their_tactics_would_be_radically_different/" rel="noreferrer">Salon</a>)<br />
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Let us once again visit one of my <a data-jsbanchorprepared="mhn6X6Z8K0VdYRV" href="http://ratcavemediacenter.blogspot.com/2011/01/ratcave-book-club-january-19-2011.html" rel="noreferrer">least favorite topics</a>—<i>the shit that will not die</i>:<br />
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“The fact that this asshole has the audacity to offer expert testimony today is amazing. Ultimately, an eight-year-old kid was murdered, and I feel the medical professionals involved in that case are culpable and they’ve never been held accountable.”<br />
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“Americans prefer black-and-white problems with simple answers… Part of the appeal of Satanic ritual abuse was that when someone we knew molested a child after our protection efforts had failed, it was easier to escape guilt by blaming it on an evil Satanist...”</blockquote>
So did a dingo ate the baby? Don’t even bother to Google that. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="zUClbQgCeDNtn8v" href="http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/make-a-cross-with-your-fingers-its-the-satanic-panic" rel="noreferrer">Pacific Standard</a>)<br />
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"Today, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that copyright holders like Universal must consider fair use before trying to remove content from the Internet. It also rejected Universal’s claim that a victim of takedown abuse cannot vindicate her rights if she cannot show actual monetary loss.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="A85PPVHL4MzFXuf" href="https://www.eff.org/press/releases/important-win-fair-use-dancing-baby-lawsuit" rel="noreferrer">EFF</a><br />
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'States that defended same-sex marriage bans...are now being asked to pay the legal fees for those litigants under a 40-year-old federal law that says the court “in its discretion, may allow the prevailing party … a reasonable attorney’s fee as part of the costs.” Or as Michigan attorney Dana Nessel put it: “It’s the price governments pay for defending bigotry.”'</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="72cYYV1CQjR1ubD" href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/9/10/states-that-fought-same-sex-marriage-charged-millions-in-attorney-fees.html" rel="noreferrer">al Jazeera</a><br />
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The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-73021575418933682382015-08-31T21:16:00.000-04:002015-08-31T21:23:03.328-04:00Our Wacky World—8/31/2015Oliver Sacks, M.D. dead at 82:<br />
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'Dr. Sacks discomfited some readers, who maintained that he capitalized on his patients’ suffering to form handy parables. Tom Shakespeare, a British disability rights activist, called him “the man who mistook his patients for a literary career.”'</blockquote>
Yeah, right. They said the same sort of shit about Carl Sagan's celebrity. Just can’t please everybody. <i><a data-jsbanchorprepared="tZs4Z3NRF9Tazar" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titicut_Follies" rel="noreferrer">Titicut Follies</a></i>, anyone?</div>
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"But by the end of September 2005, reporting by <i>The Times-Picayune</i> debunked many of these stories. In fact, officials only confirmed one killing at either site: Danny Brumfield, who was shot by police."</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="9IyZ7EZ5RmLOZKJ" href="http://thelensnola.org/2015/08/28/myths-surrounding-katrina-still-flow-from-visiting-media-politicians-even-after-10-years/" rel="noreferrer">The Lens</a><br />
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'One of the “rarest creatures in the world” has been spotted for only the third time ever off the coast of Papua New Guinea by a US biologist.’</blockquote>
We can photograph a rare animal in the wild but there’s not so much as a decent shot of Bigfoot, let alone any bones. <i>What does this tell you?</i> (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="AJcX1eGj0AZelHF" href="http://doubtfulnews.com/2015/08/rare-sea-creature-spotted-for-the-first-time-in-30-years/" rel="noreferrer">Doubtful News</a>)<br />
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The latest issue of <i>Skeptical Inquirer</i> has an apalling article by one of the “guerilla skeptics” saying that all the talk of a Wikipedia “conspiracy” is just a “myth.” Here’s an overview of what’s really happening there (among other things):</div>
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'...the only hard conclusion I can reach is rather simple: that Wikipedia as an active community is dying, and no one can stop it. Because it is based on lies. The content? Hell with that. It was just the "honeypot" to build the community.'</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="onukcL6309lnjKS" href="http://wikipedia-sucks-badly.blogspot.com/2015/08/guest-post-why-wikipedia-will-fail_25.html" rel="noreferrer">Wikipedia Sucks Badly</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans, Comic Sans MS, sans-serif;">'If I'm holding a rock in my hand and I educate you that it has always existed, since infinite time in the past, and it's going to be around for infinite time in the future, do I need to stoop and concoct some ridiculous fairytale as to "What created the rock ?” NO ! It has ALWAYS existed . . . Period ! When things don't have "beginnings" and "ends", there's no need to entertain juvenile thoughts of "Where did it all come from ?". </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans, Comic Sans MS, sans-serif;">'IF . . . you understand this, please help us. We are in a new era of atheism and need to unite this world. We can't be presenting ourselves as buffoons to the religious world. We're asking you for a puny $ 10 to assist us in spreading this HISTORIC awakening. 3 months from now you certainly won't be hurting that you gave 10 dollars, so why hesitate ?’</span></blockquote>
Are you saying that this theoretical “rock” has existed forever? As in “before our solar system formed” and “before the super nova that created the <a data-jsbanchorprepared="49L7JXW6EGoIaFd" href="http://elements.wongdavid.com/tag/transferric/" rel="noreferrer">transferric elements</a> in our solar system?”<br />
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans, Comic Sans MS, sans-serif;">'Our “Conspira-Sea Cruise and Seminar-at-Sea” takes place right on our luxury cruise ship during our seven-day cruise, in conference rooms on the ship, and during our port calls in Mexico. During this incredible, mind-blowing, truth-telling, spiritually enriching event, we will do our best to uncover the truth about things conspiratorial, including: </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: Comic Sans, Comic Sans MS, sans-serif;">'GMOs, Monsanto, bee colony collapse, ecology, global warming, climate change, fracking, HIV, autism, big pharma, medical suppression, vaccinations, flouridation [sic], political corruption, government corruption, forbidden archeology, forbidden religion, Federal Reserve, truth about money, World Bank, IRS, strawman, property title, admiralty law, martial law, Bohemian Grove, Skull and Bones, JFK, cover-ups, September 11, Star Wars agenda, nuclear plants, chemtrails, HAARP, crop circles, IRS, MK-Ultra, Fukashima [sic], NASA, NSA, Bilderbergs, sustainability, military industrial complex, pentagon [sic], Waco, Malaysia 370, Pan Am 103, TWA 800, Gulf Oil Spill, Halliburton, Obama, Ruby Ridge, OK City, Vatican, New World Order, false flags, Montauk, privacy, surveillance, Area 51, Dulce, Project Rainbow, Nazi Bell, Vrill, U.S.S. Eldridge, Iron Mountain, psyops, population mangement [sic], subliminal ads, Nibiru / Planet X, Cointel Pro, technology suppression, entity possession, electoral fraud, identity chips, 2nd amendment, and so much more.’</span></blockquote>
Did they forget anything? (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="PGCcvsrjfnkBjqh" href="https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-woo-boat-or-how-far-andrew-wakefield-has-fallen/" rel="noreferrer">Science Based Medicine</a>)<br />
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'“You know there isn’t a single hamburger to be found on Taco Bell’s menu,” Clem asked our interviewer rhetorically while adding, “there is nothing more American than a hamburger. So I have to ask, what is about America that Taco Bell hates?” Would it kill them to put a nice steak and potato meal on their menu? I mean, steak and potatoes is American as fuck. But no, it’s all taco this and burrito that. It’s offensive to me…'</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="vWypR3KGY1MeFVT" href="http://www.politicalgarbagechute.com/tennessee-republican-wants-taco-bell-shut-down-for-being-too-mexican/" rel="noreferrer">Hoax site.</a><br />
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Some good ones on Turlely's blog this month...<br />
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"Teixeira has been a regular critic of the mayor and officials in the City of Inglewood and has posted excerpts from city council video recordings. In an outrageous act, the city responded to the criticism by accusing him of infringing copyright laws in posting public meetings.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="sJHSO5fGRrQhNaO" href="http://jonathanturley.org/2015/08/23/federal-court-rules-that-city-of-inglewood-cannot-copyright-city-council-meetings/" rel="noreferrer">Jonathan Turley</a><br />
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"There is another gruesome case of practicing medicine without a license in Florida where Mark D. Schreiber, 60, is accused of mutilating a patient’s penis while attempting to remove an implant from it. It probably should have tipped off the victim that something was not quite right when he was sent to meet Dr. Mark at a warehouse to pay him $1,000 cash to remove the implant.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="sJHSO5fGRrQhNaO" href="http://jonathanturley.org/2015/08/06/penal-implant-florida-man-arrested-after-allegedly-removing-penile-implant-and-leaving-victim-disfigured/" rel="noreferrer">Jonathan Turley</a><br />
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"Florida Mom Jailed After She Allegedly Abandoned Kids In Running Car To Drink And Had 4-Year-Old Son Use Breathalyzer To Start Car”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="sJHSO5fGRrQhNaO" href="http://jonathanturley.org/2015/08/13/florida-mom-jailed-after-she-allegedly-abandoned-kids-in-running-car-to-drink-and-had-4-year-old-son-use-breathalyzer-to-start-car/" rel="noreferrer">Jonathan Turley</a><br />
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'Deaths related to the main pollutant...total 1.6 million a year, or 17 percent of China’s mortality level... “When I was last in Beijing, pollution was at the hazardous level: Every hour of exposure reduced my life expectancy by 20 minutes… It’s as if every man, woman and child smoked 1.5 cigarettes each hour.”'</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="X0VfrZ4eHl7QHVe" href="http://washpost.bloomberg.com/Story?docId=1376-NSWWR86JTSEB01-370R33HMQASFG2C351NS5DFK84" rel="noreferrer">Washington Post</a><br />
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"‘Fake’ Doctor Prescribed Ventura County Cancer Patient Bag of Dirt, Charged Her $2,000”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="WR1QPxwbGW9GyUr" href="http://ktla.com/2015/07/21/fake-doctor-prescribed-ventura-county-cancer-patient-bag-of-dirt-charged-her-2000-sheriffs-office/" rel="noreferrer">KTLA</a><br />
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Here’s the good “doctor”’s <a data-jsbanchorprepared="Tmx7dEuvK7goSJ6" href="http://www.natural-oncology.org/" rel="noreferrer">web site</a>.<br />
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"I got a phone call on the phone telling me to bring the delivery back, saying that I couldn't do the delivery," Bradley said... "I asked him why I couldn't do it and he said because you're black and they don't want you at the house… I thought that Lowe's would take up for me."</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="0ZGtpoQeenVAOx0" href="http://www.ibtimes.com/lowes-home-improvement-stops-african-american-driver-delivery-satisfy-customers-2046161" rel="noreferrer">IB Times</a><br />
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"At least 3,500 Americans have been detained inside a Chicago police warehouse described by some of its arrestees as a secretive interrogation facility, newly uncovered records reveal. Of the thousands held in the facility known as Homan Square over a decade, 82% were black. Only three received documented visits from an attorney, according to a cache of documents obtained when the Guardian sued the police.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="qJqK9PW10WjTp7x" href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/05/homan-square-chicago-thousands-detained" rel="noreferrer">Guardian</a><br />
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The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-68846279789366568302015-08-03T21:44:00.000-04:002015-08-03T21:44:30.060-04:00Our Wacky World—8/3/2015We came in peace for all Whitemankind:<br />
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'While the parade of Confederate flags were passing through [the 77% black] town, video captured what appeared to be a bottle of water being thrown at Oliver's truck. "My initial reaction was, 'What the hell?'" Oliver recalled, adding that he could not understand why he had not been welcomed into the community.’</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="dIKQwIygKnxcWHR" href="http://crooksandliars.com/2015/07/man-calls-cops-mostly-black-town-hurt-him" rel="noreferrer">Crooks & Liars</a><br />
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Jesus is down with oral sex because god made men horny:<br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">“...most doctors advice [<i>sic</i>] women not to have vaginal intercourse for 6 to 8 weeks after giving birth. If a man were to try and have vaginal sex with his wife during this period it would be highly painful for her and it might cause complications with her healing process. But that does not mean a woman cannot meet her husband’s sexual needs in other ways during this time. God has given her the ability to manually or orally satisfy her husband in order to meet his sexual needs...”</span></blockquote>
Very small penis and an apparently bottomless ass. He digs the hole deeper in the (mostly very negative) comments so you might want to appall yourself even more by reading them:<br />
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"Look up Stockholm Syndrome, Sarah, because what you and the writer of this blog are advocating fall under that disorder. If there is a war against Christianity, you people are on the forefront of the destroying army; this swill turns more people against Christ."</blockquote>
Gosh, what <i>would</i> Jesus say? "Bloody<i> WANKERS</i>" (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="hFcyPtAKZzyFokA" href="http://biblicalgenderroles.com/2015/07/11/is-my-husband-raping-me/" rel="noreferrer">Biblical Gender Roles</a>)<br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">"Rene Quinton did experiments on abandoned dogs in 1897. In one experiment he completely removed a dog’s blood and replaced it with diluted seawater. The dog developed an infection and fever, but recovered and by the eighth day had become exaggeratedly exuberant and ran about wildly. Five years later the dog was still alive and well. </span></blockquote>
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"Based on this experiment, some people have suggested sea water could be used as a substitute for blood transfusions, which would be a great boon for Jehovah’s Witnesses if it worked.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="crvFFQYoAhM0teR" href="https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/asea-ormus-and-alchemy/#more-38193" rel="noreferrer">Science Based Medicine</a><br />
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Looks like the free ride is over in the UK. Cameron speaks:<br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">“For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens: as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone. It’s often meant we have stood neutral between different values. And that’s helped foster a narrative of extremism and grievance.”</span><br />
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'It is hard to see how much unpopular speech would not pose a “risk of harassment, alarm, or distress.” I am not even sure what “creating a threat to the function of democracy” means. More importantly, speakers will not know what the government will view as violating such ill-defined terms.'</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="Dob38D4azQqp3fq" href="http://jonathanturley.org/2015/07/23/cameron-calls-for-a-break-from-a-passively-tolerant-society-and-allow-for-the-criminalization-of-a-wide-array-of-speech/" rel="noreferrer">Jonathan Turley</a><br />
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"Ninety-five percent of women who have had abortions do not regret the decision to terminate their pregnancies… The conclusion comes after a three-year research period involving nearly 670 women of all social backgrounds"</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="EsRlMIAxHKtBmJZ" href="http://time.com/3956781/women-abortion-regret-reproductive-health/" rel="noreferrer">Time</a><br />
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The great Kevin Trudeau payback is about to begin:<br />
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'The plan greenlighted by U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman calls for the Federal Trade Commission to send several rounds of checks to purchasers of the hit book <i>The Weight Loss Cure 'They' Don’t Want You to Know About</i> using an address list turned over after the government sued Trudeau for lying about the contents of the book in his infomercials.'</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="fWLGmJuXivamPDn" href="http://doubtfulnews.com/2015/07/kevin-trudeau-must-pay-back-millions-of-dollars/" rel="noreferrer">Doubtful News</a><br />
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What a fucking surprise:<br />
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"Arizona tested more than 87,000 welfare recipients in the three years after the program began. The total number of drug cheats caught was exactly one — a single positive result, which saved the state precisely $560. </blockquote>
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"The net savings reaped from withholding benefits for those who either tested positive or failed to complete a drug test was around $3,500, once the $500 cost of testing the 19 is factored in, according to one state agency report. The haul is especially unimpressive when you consider the $1.7 million in savings state officials promised when they unveiled the program.”</blockquote>
Be sure to read the rest of it—it just increases in stupidity. Of course, their big mistake was not being conservative enough. They’ll try harder next time. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="ePN7KnVEHPzYsP3" href="http://mic.com/articles/122607/arizona-drug-tested-welfare-recipients-here-are-the-shocking-results" rel="noreferrer">Policy Mic</a>)<br />
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"God bless Ms. Coulter and hopefully some churches can throw in a prayer or two that she never has to sniff a fart by some uncouth immigrants in a crowded New York subway car, and her soul be saved from perdition. Maybe, a hymn can be rendered immediately to have her finely toned legs walk only on the finest of Persian red carpets in rooms full of Italian chandeliers instead of what Dominique Lapierre endured in the Pilkhana slum in Calcutta, living amongst lepers, to write the <i>City of Joy</i>. May degenerate peasant cultures never intrude on her lifestyle as she eats some artisan bread made by ‘peasants’."</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="n9q4P2kKWowlK70" href="http://www.americanbazaaronline.com/2015/06/16/anne-coulter-you-are-such-an-idiot-a-xenophobe-and-literally-tall-liar-on-immigrants/" rel="noreferrer">American Bazaar</a><br />
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"Can you please not criticize Ann Coulter by talking about her prominent Adam’s apple, or saying she looks like a man? It’s sexist, and it’s transphobic. It’s sexist because you’re criticizing a woman in the public sphere by insulting her appearance, when that shouldn’t be relevant. And it’s both sexist and transphobic to insult women by saying they look like men: it reinforces the rigid gender binary, and reinforces the gender policing of trans people. There are approximately 879,500,403 legitimately negative things you can say about Ann Coulter. There’s no need to resort to sexism and transphobia. Thanks."</blockquote>
Yeah. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="FSXzt8W6cPFmL8I" href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/greta/2015/07/21/some-notes-to-progressives-on-criticizing-conservatives/" rel="noreferrer">Greta Christina</a>)<br />
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An exciting new form of ancient Chinese reflexology!:<br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">"Pimples between the brows indicate an overloaded liver. People with pimples between the brows experience chest tightness, heart irregularity. May also be caused by bangs/hair fringe, as filth and bacteria accumulation from dirty hair stains the skin.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">"Pimples near the eyes and nose indicate poor liver function. You are probably very tired, sleep very little, and are under constant stress. Your diet lacks essential nutrients."</span></blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="IbFzS9dKhrUTYqQ" href="http://bunbunmakeuptips.com/acne-and-health-what-your-body-is-trying-to-tell-you-with-pimples/" rel="noreferrer">Bun Bun Makeup Tips</a><br />
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"At the Y-12 facility, in addition to the three fences the protestors had to cut through with wire-cutters, there were cameras and motion detectors. But we too easily forget that technology has to be maintained and watched to be effective. ...20 percent of the Y-12 cameras were not working on the night the activists broke in. Cameras and motion detectors that had been broken for months had gone unrepaired. A security guard was chatting rather than watching the feed from a camera that did work. And guards ignored the motion detectors, which were so often set off by local wildlife that they assumed all alarms were false positives.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="to1OwUXLs4fBds5" href="http://thebulletin.org/how-next-us-nuclear-accident-could-happen8441" rel="noreferrer">The Bulletin Of The Atomic Scientists</a><br />
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'A French court on Tuesday jailed a woman, known as "Madame Yoghurt" for three years for conning thousands into buying a kit to make "magic cheese" that they could sell back to French cosmetics companies for use in luxury beauty products.'</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="GUIs5lSR63i3DV8" href="http://www.thelocal.fr/20150707/frenchwoman-jailed-for-magic-cheese-scam" rel="noreferrer">The Local</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">"Dr. Schwartz started working with sub-audible sounds that interact with the same frequencies of human, biological cells. Being able to reprogram our cellular biology has led to major advancements in some of today’s most challenging health conditions. As Dr. Schwartz’s own research progressed, he began exploring the healing effects of musical instruments and other audible frequencies on the human body. This profound work provided the foundation for Bioharmonic Technologies and served as the origin of the Tonal Alchemy Series. Bioharmonic Technologies is currently working on a wide variety of healing music projects. Each CD will provide the customer with a unique listening experience while creating a lasting, therapeutic effect on one’s physical, emotional, and spiritual body."</span></blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="7x5z3Ct2JgmdKhR" href="http://bioharmonictechnologies.com/about/" rel="noreferrer">Bioharmonic Technolgies</a><br />
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"The Raelian Movement...made a formal request to the government of Portugal asking it to build an embassy for extraterrestrials in the country. This space would serve not only as a diplomatic mission but also for the landing of spacecrafts. In a total area of 4,000 square meters (approximately 43,056 square feet), there would still be an expansive lawn, swimming pool, meeting room and accommodation aimed to the rest of the intergalactic visitors."</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="U1ZdPlKzzFZfdoj" href="http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/world/2015/07/1652603-a-group-proposes-to-the-portuguese-government-the-construction-of-an-embassy-for-extraterrestrials.shtml" rel="noreferrer">Folha de S.Paulo</a><br />
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<br />The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-8904263207299223622015-07-08T18:27:00.001-04:002015-07-08T18:27:32.909-04:00Our Wacky World—7/8/2015<blockquote class="tr_bq">
"Donald Feathertone, creator of the iconic pink plastic flamingo that has decorated lawns for decades, died Monday… Featherstone died one day before National Pink Flamingo Day, a day created in his honor in 2007 by Dean Mazzarella, mayor of Leominster, Massachusetts, to honor the 50th anniversary of the plastic flamingo's creation in his town."</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="V1qqSoCQ8oLJqjH" href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/23/living/pink-flamingo-creator-donald-featherstone-dies-feat/index.html" rel="noreferrer">CNN</a><br />
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Safety last; so little time, so many ways to die:<br />
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'Russian Interior Ministry concerned about the increasing incidence of trauma and even death when trying to make a unique self. Each of these cases can be prevented. To this end, the Russian Interior Ministry memo created "Safe Self", designed to draw attention, first of all young people to this problem. We have tried to visualize, in the form of icons, represent the most traumatic cases the creation of self, thus to warn citizens against undue risk for a memorable picture. </blockquote>
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'When a person is trying to take a picture of himself - he scattered attention, he lost his balance, he does not look around and did not feel in danger. Do Self, making sure that you are in a safe place and your life is not in danger!'</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="ZDIlUO2vSW2mZZA" href="https://mvd.ru/safety_selfie" rel="noreferrer">MVD</a><br />
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The high resolution pdf of the entire brochure is <a data-jsbanchorprepared="Peqq6168SQII6TT" href="https://mvd.ru/upload/site1/folder_page/006/158/477/Selfie2015.pdf" rel="noreferrer">here</a>.<br />
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"Despite the fact that Dinesh D’souza is a convicted felon and a serial liar, he is still something of a folk hero on the far right... To his followers, whether or not his attacks against Democratic political leaders are accurate or not is largely irrelevant… However, by circulating a doctored photo of Hillary Clinton, Dinesh D’Souza has merely confirmed what was already obvious to all but the cable news networks and his most ardent right-wing supporters. Dinesh D’Souza lacks intellectual honesty and critical discernment, and he doesn’t have an ounce of integrity."</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="VjzC1OG9EUOx297" href="http://www.politicususa.com/2015/07/07/felon-dinesh-dsouza-spreads-fake-photo-hillary-clinton-posing-confederate-flag.html" rel="noreferrer">Politics USA</a><br />
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“...Gavrilo Princip. Most of the world view him as a fanatic who triggered World War I with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. However, Serbia just honored him with a statue — commemorated by President Tomislav Nikolic, who heralded Princip as a freedom fighter and hero.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="sQnL9Z92uvDSQy3" href="http://jonathanturley.org/2015/06/30/serbia-erects-statue-to-honor-assassin-who-triggered-world-war-i/" rel="noreferrer">Jonathan Turley</a><br />
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What dyslexia looks like:<br />
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"A graphic designer, ...he designed a typeface that is intentionally difficult to read. Because it slows down reading time, it's meant to simulate how it feels to read with dyslexia."</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="l577pxPNMdEpuTu" href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/17/living/dyslexia-graphic-design-typeface-daniel-britton/index.html" rel="noreferrer">CNN</a><br />
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"Some 553 patients were given the unnecessary cancer treatments to 553 patients before Fata was arrested in 2013. He was accused of $35 million in Medicare fraud. He pleaded guilty in the fall to fraud, money laundering and conspiracy charges.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="sQnL9Z92uvDSQy3" href="http://jonathanturley.org/2015/07/08/doctor-faces-175-years-after-pleading-guilty-to-ordering-unnecessary-cancer-treatments-for-hundreds-of-victims/" rel="noreferrer">Jonathan Turley</a><br />
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Now for the <i>really</i> fun stuff. Let’s start off with the latest twist in the Duggar Family Molestation Saga™:<br />
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"A non-Duggar family molestation victim is preparing to file a civil suit against Josh Duggar, sources tell <i>In Touch</i> magazine exclusively in the new issue on newsstands today. </blockquote>
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"The shocking development means that Josh and his parents Jim Bob and Michelle could be forced to give depositions and testify about Josh’s molestation scandal. The Duggars likely will have to answer every question as they will <i>not be able to invoke their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination</i> because the criminal statute of limitations has expired.”</blockquote>
Emphasis added. Let the amnesia begin. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="pMnzpIfIYSPc25Z" href="http://www.intouchweekly.com/posts/duggars-facing-lawsuit-from-nonfamily-molestation-victim-62115" rel="noreferrer">In Touch Weekly</a>)<br />
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Religiosity vs. secularism—the latest poll results and the reasons for the changes in America:<br />
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"Just a generation ago, if you had religious doubts but lived in small-town America, you had no one to talk to. You had to keep your ideas to yourself and stay in the closet.<br />
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"Now, thanks to the Internet, you can connect with virtual communities of secularists all over the globe. In this day of instant information, any bizarre claim by religion [or anything else] can be instantly Googled. In many cases, the sites debunking religious claims will be in the top few hits (e.g, Scientology). Anyone with just a bit of curiosity or doubt, especially among the younger generations, can find things in just a few seconds that I never encountered in years of reading and searching when I was young and questioning my family’s Presbyterian faith.</blockquote>
No shit. Add to that paranormal bullshit artists like von Däniken and Berlitz as well. Astrology and the Bermuda Triangle. Debunkers were in short supply back then. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="MLTalpVidOrtxyI" href="http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/15-07-01/#feature" rel="noreferrer">Skeptic</a>)<br />
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Ex-Baltimore cop sees the light:<br />
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“...sitting in the van and watching people just living their lives, I started to see that these were just people. The main difference is that as a white kid growing up in my neighborhood, I was never going to get arrested for playing basketball in the street. I was never going to get patted down because I was standing on a street corner. There was no chance I was going to get a criminal record early on for basically being a kid. </blockquote>
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"When you watch people for hours and hours like that, you start to see the big picture. You start to see the cycle of how these kids get put in the system at a young age, often for doing nothing wrong, and how that limits their options, which pushes them into selling drugs or other crime. You start to see that they never had a chance."</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="6jQER6Czlz0gfmu" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/06/25/an-interview-with-the-baltimore-cop-whos-revealing-all-the-horrible-things-he-saw-on-the-job/" rel="noreferrer">Washington Post</a><br />
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Boy does this refrain sound familiar:<br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">'But what if your dog or cat doesn’t tolerate BARF World pet food? Not to worry. Some may exhibit brief symptoms of “detox,” like diarrhea and vomiting, but this is normal, especially when converting from a “processed diet.”</span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">'BARF World also sells a lot of other CAM stuff for your pet, such as Kefir and “Eastern Medicine” herbal supplement formulas. For example, “G.I Tract Herbal Formula for Dogs,” “harmonizes the stomach,” and, as an added bonus, “helps maintain contentment during travel” for dogs that have digestion issues, as well as those who “don’t want to travel in a vehicle.” You can even get a consultation with a “holistic” vet.'</span></blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="kgMAAFgygsKQnKX" href="https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/fda-cdc-find-raw-pet-food-unpalatable/" rel="noreferrer">Science-based Medicine</a><br />
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Another day, another doomed victim of cancer + quacks:<br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">'In addition, I did 4-5 coffee enemas per day. The vegetable juices act like magnets, pulling toxins out of the cells and into the bloodstream. The body's entire blood stream filters through the liver once every three minutes. With so many juices, my liver was capturing and managing a lot of toxins. The coffee enemas force the liver to open up and release its' accumulated toxins. I learned pretty quickly that the coffee enemas were a good thing. If I went too long without one, I experienced abdominal pain or headaches. </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[like caffeine withdrawal?]</span><span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;"> My Gerson doctor said the pain was caused by toxins in my bloodstream pushing on nerve endings. Once I took a "coffee break", the pain went away. (We began using the term "coffee break" consistently in our home after we learned that our two and four year old daughters were running around the neighborhood telling everyone that mommy was in the house doing coffee enemas)’</span></blockquote>
Yeah, that was a long quote but <i>MAN</i> (*facepalm*). She’s doing the infamous “Gerson protocol”, among other things.<br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">'In the alternative world </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">[aka the "not real world"</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">]</span><span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">, doctors realize it's not stable cancer cells that kill people, it's proliferative, active cancer cells that kill. So, if I could keep the disease stable, I could live a very long life.’</span></blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="Zev2n1lZuYJTvNE" href="http://curingmyeloma.blogspot.com/p/about-me.html" rel="noreferrer">Curing Myeloma</a><br />
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Eddie Van Halen on oral cancer:<br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">“I used metal picks -- they’re brass and copper -- which I always held in my mouth, in the exact place where I got the tongue cancer,” he says. “Plus, I basically live in a recording studio that’s filled with electromagnetic energy. So that’s one theory. I mean, I was smoking and doing a lot of drugs and a lot of everything. But at the same time, my lungs are totally clear. This is just my own theory, but the doctors say it’s possible.”</span></blockquote>
Right. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="VXejbbwfOQHvYSl" href="http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6605231/eddie-van-halen-addiction-david-lee-roth-touring" rel="noreferrer">Billboard</a>)<br />
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The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-82976379543062159242015-06-16T21:08:00.000-04:002015-06-16T21:08:00.488-04:00Our Wacky World—6/16/2015<span style="font-size: large;">Update</span> to my <a data-jsbanchorprepared="QKbIEKqKXxYlCVZ" href="http://www.christwhatablog.com/2015/05/our-wacky-world5302015.html" rel="noreferrer">previous post</a>: Some Russian government types have been <a data-jsb_prepared="mg151tjqww" href="http://www.rferl.org/content/mccain-bomb-fifa-parody-russia-duped/27043838.html" rel="noreferrer">pwned</a> by that satirical article.<br />
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'We already wrote this morning about the ridiculous claims by <i>The Sunday Times</i> that Snowden's documents had been either given to the Russians and Chinese or that they had cracked the encryption to get them… One of the links we pointed to was Glenn Greenwald himself challenging many of the claims in the <i>Sunday Times</i>. </blockquote>
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'Many people have been asking if the <i>Sunday Times</i> will say anything about the myriad problems with the article, and we now finally have a response. And it's... to send a DMCA takedown notice to Greenwald's publisher'</blockquote>
Wankers. (<a data-jsbanchorprepared="4eEsiarHC1wjRso" href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150615/09463331342/news-corp-sends-dmca-notice-over-glenn-greenwald-trashing-sunday-times-ridiculous-snowden-story.shtml" rel="noreferrer">TechDirt</a>)<br />
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More info at <a data-jsbanchorprepared="JFcZO1Z7JuCit8l" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/15/russia_china_cracked_snowden_cache_controversy/" rel="noreferrer">The Register</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">"How did the gays and lesbians get us in such a lock-grip where we accept to whatever they do to us now as just another incremental destruction of our civilization? It started with the seat belt...”</span></blockquote>
<a data-jsb_prepared="mb0yjvmpno" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/michael-savage-blames-lgbt-rights-seat-belt-laws" rel="noreferrer">Right Wing Watch</a><br />
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Sick of "the fags" "taking away" your “marriage" “rights"? Get a divorce, in Jesus’ name:</blockquote>
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"The Christian couple have been happily married for over a decade, have no intention of separating and hope to have more children. ...in a novel protest against any successful move to legalise same sex-marriage in Australia, Mr Jensen wrote... that they are prepared to divorce.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsb_prepared="zr09ob5t5c" href="http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/relationships/nick-jensen-threatens-to-divorce-in-protest-of-gay-marriage-in-canberra-citynews-article/story-fnet09p2-1227391644573" rel="noreferrer">news.com.au</a><br />
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Here’s Nick’s <a data-jsb_prepared="nziciauoyo" href="http://citynews.com.au/2015/gay-law-change-may-force-us-to-divorce/" rel="noreferrer">original statement</a>—I had trouble getting it to load but it’s an amusing read (hint: he’s a wanker)<br />
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Anyway, that’ll show ‘em. There is, however, one little snag in their highly-principled protest which they may not have considered:<br />
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“...to apply for divorce [in Australia] you have to prove that you have been separated for 12 months, and there is no reasonable likelihood of resuming married life. While you can live under the same roof and still be considered ‘separated’, you need to provide evidence that married life has broken down irreparably.<br />
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"Given that Nick and Sarah have as publicly as possible said they’re going to still refer to each other as ‘husband’ and ‘wife’, are going to try to have more children together and that for all intents and purposes, their lives will continue unchanged as a de facto couple, I’m pretty confident they have zero chance of getting a divorce."</blockquote>
<a data-jsb_prepared="xq9ycz42lc" href="http://www.couriermail.com.au/lifestyle/uninvited-why-gay-marriage-protester-nick-jensen-is-not-welcome-at-my-wedding/story-fniz91ns-1227394515155" rel="noreferrer">Courier Mail</a><br />
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'In a February talk at the Montana Bible College about how to find "godly purpose" in work, Gianforte explained why retirement isn't consistent with biblical teachings. "<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">There's nothing in the Bible that talks about retirement. And yet it's been an accepted concept in our culture today</span>"' </blockquote>
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'"<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">The example I think of is Noah," he continued. "How old was Noah when he built the ark? 600. He wasn't like, cashing Social Security checks, he wasn't hanging out, he was working. So, I think we have an obligation to work. The role we have in work may change over time, but the concept of retirement is not biblical.</span>”'</blockquote>
Hey, let’s play that “what does Leviticus say?” game one more time, shall we? Wanker. (<a data-jsb_prepared="koy3uxkkxt" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/09/greg-gianforte-montana_n_7536568.html" rel="noreferrer">Huffington Post</a>)<br />
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Some good news—Purveyor of “<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Miracle Mineral Solution</span>” (aka bleach) found guilty:<br />
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"According to the instructions for use that Smith provided with his product, nausea, diarrhea and vomiting were all signs that the miracle cure was working.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsb_prepared="14wz2z33mp" href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/seller-miracle-mineral-solution-convicted-marketing-toxic-chemical-miracle-cure" rel="noreferrer">Justice News</a><br />
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"Police and trading standards have been alerted to the plans for a two-day ‘seminar’ organised by the Genesis II Church, which has been accused of claiming that its <span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">Miracle Mineral Solution</span> (MMS) - banned by the Food Standards Agency - can cure diseases such as cancer, HIV and malaria."<br />
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'Undercover reporters infiltrated a meeting hosted by Mr Kishon in Sussex last month where he was filmed advising a cancer patient that his post-treatment check-ups were "unnecessary”.’</blockquote>
<a data-jsb_prepared="mq97gpjyeq" href="http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/controversy-over-genesis-ii-churchs-9395293" rel="noreferrer">Get Surrey</a><br />
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'Research involving a former brain-eating tribe from Papua New Guinea is helping scientists better understand so-called prion conditions such as Parkinson's disease and dementia. "This is a striking example of Darwinian evolution in humans, the epidemic of prion disease selecting a single genetic change that provided complete protection against an invariably fatal dementia"'</blockquote>
<a data-jsb_prepared="pdoyior4ds" href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-11/former-brain-eating-papua-tribe-offers-clues-on-prion-conditions/6538100" rel="noreferrer">ABC</a><br />
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"Not all psychopaths are criminals. They are in business, government, academia and media. You'll find lots of these people, but they're not committing criminal acts. They will take advantage of people.”</blockquote>
<a data-jsbanchorprepared="OV5MjKeh3LdEXgR" href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/06/16/health/birth-of-psychopath/index.html" rel="noreferrer">CNN</a><br />
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Just experimenting on the troops, nothing to see here:<br />
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'...participants were provided eight shots of rum in 10 minutes. About an hour later, they were allegedly injected with ketamine. ...one intoxicated participant received a penile nerve block, a type of anesthesia... </blockquote>
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'"I have been working in trauma centers for 30 years and I have never done a penile nerve block," said Dr. Mark Brown, an emergency room physician in Lancaster, California. "And why would you ever mix alcohol and drugs? It's very puzzling.”'</blockquote>
<a data-jsb_prepared="hi5zb8m5my" href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/08/us-usa-doctor-probe-idUSKBN0OO2E720150608" rel="noreferrer">Reuters</a><br />
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"Two ultra-Orthodox Jewish schools have backed down on a proposed ban on mothers driving children to school after the Equality and Human Rights Commission warned them that it was unlawful and discriminatory.</blockquote>
<a data-jsb_prepared="ljzlug6g7s" href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/05/ultra-orthodox-jewish-schools-drop-ban-on-mothers-driving" rel="noreferrer">Guardian</a><br />
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Professional fake psychic James Van Praagh has a new old racket:<br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">"In this once-in-a-lifetime online certification course, James shares the tools you need to deepen your gifts, become a clear channel for readings, and create a fulfilling, successful spiritual business. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">"Now's the time to finally become the masterful psychic or intuitive you've always dreamed of being - all from the comfort of your own home!"</span></blockquote>
Did you notice that he’s not actually in the lotus position? Hell, even I can do that. Wanker. (<a data-jsb_prepared="5ochi1h1r5" href="http://www.jvpschoolofmysticalarts.com/jvp-psychic-and-intuitive-certification-level-1/" rel="noreferrer">JVP School Of Mystical Arts</a>)<br />
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Scott Walker, quite possibly America’s lamest governor (now that Sarah Palin is out of office):<br />
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"Governor Walker and his allies in the Madison statehouse have found one corporate sector where they’re willing to raise taxes: bicycles. Though they have beenhesitant to consider boosting taxes on gasoline or vehicle registration fees, state lawmakers have been pushing a $25 tax on the sale of all new bicycles in the state...”</blockquote>
<a data-jsb_prepared="kereqdteh2" href="http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/scott-grinch-walkers-war-christmas-morning" rel="noreferrer">Crooks & Liars</a><br />
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Meanwhile, the business-friendly paradise that is Wisconsin is <a data-jsb_prepared="307noe5yu8" href="http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/walkers-wisconsin-dead-last-new-businesses" rel="noreferrer">dead last</a> in creating new businesses. But there’s a silver lining in the cloud, and that’s the sweetheart Milwaukee stadium deal that Walker’s fellow conservatives are all… uh, well:<br />
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'Perhaps most mortifying for Walker is that the plan is being publicly panned by the Wisconsin chapter of Americans for Prosperity. It was AFP that came to Walker's aid when his anti-union legislation sparked massive rallies and protests in 2011 and again when Walker came close to being ousted from office in a recall effort. But Wisconsin's AFP chapter is vociferously dumping on the stadium deal. </blockquote>
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'"The current deal is based on fuzzy math, complicated accounting and millions of taxpayer dollars," AFP state director David Fladeboe <a data-jsb_prepared="wzubq5w0hi" href="http://americansforprosperity.org/wisconsin/article/final-buck-stadium-proposal-no-deal-for-wisconsin-taxpayers/" rel="noreferrer">said</a> last week. "This proposal needs to be rejected and the people of Wisconsin need to be protected."'</blockquote>
<a data-jsb_prepared="ftlf600ejs" href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/06/scott-walker-stadium-bucks-afp-koch" rel="noreferrer">Mother Jones</a><br />
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And then:<br />
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"The lawyer representing six protesters who won a combined $44,830 in damages from the State of Wisconsin earlier this week believes the total cost for unconstitutional arrests and fines handed out by Capitol Police since 2011 could ultimately run over $1 million."</blockquote>
<a data-jsb_prepared="71vax17s7l" href="http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/walkers-fascism-could-cost-taxpayers-1" rel="noreferrer">Crooks & Liars</a><br />
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Walker turns up, having done something else stupid, virtually every day. He’s really on a roll. I’m sure the Koch bros. will pour millions into his (hopefully equally lame) presidential campaign. Wankers 2016!<br />
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The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-8951430802317791732015-05-30T20:32:00.000-04:002015-05-30T20:38:30.379-04:00Our Wacky World—5/30/2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Man with very small penis outraged by new <i>Mad Max</i> film (that everyone else is raving about):<br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">"men in America and around the world are going to be duped by explosions, fire tornadoes, and desert raiders into seeing what is guaranteed to be nothing more than feminist propaganda, while at the same time being insulted AND tricked into viewing a piece of American culture ruined and rewritten right in front of their very eyes."</span></blockquote>
Umm, it's Australian, semi-dude. Probably didn’t like <i>Aliens,</i> either. (<a data-jsb_prepared="ebr4x0w6qn" href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/15/entertainment/mad-max-fury-road-boycott-mens-rights-thr-feat/index.html" rel="noreferrer">CNN</a>)<br />
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'Calling the Obama Administration’s actions against the soccer organization “weak and ineffective,” Senator John McCain on Thursday proposed military action to “dismantle and destroy FIFA once and for all.”’</blockquote>
(hint: satire) <a data-jsb_prepared="rp7un5nbd7" href="http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/mccain-urges-military-strikes-against-fifa" rel="noreferrer">New Yorker</a><br />
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5 Ways Atheists Argue Their Cause (That Aren't Helping):<br />
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'Once upon a time, Richard Dawkins was the closest thing the world had to a pope of atheism. ...But then, slowly but surely, he revealed himself to be an asshole.<br />
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'A movement that's supposed to be about rational thinking has fallen into the same "vagina emotions make chicks a bunch of crazy broads" trap as your friend who got into the pick-up community and reeks like an Axe factory. You can't claim to be a proponent of science and reasonable thinking, only to regress to hacky sitcom stereotypes about women being humorless harpies who bring sexual assault upon themselves.'</blockquote>
It just goes downhill from there. And as with any good train wreck, you just have to look. Over over 2700 comments the day it was posted. (<a data-jsb_prepared="6egiqothk1" href="http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-ways-atheist-community-hurting-itself/" rel="noreferrer">Cracked</a>)<br />
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Another hip-o-crit taken down—steamy screen grabs aplenty:<br />
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"The married father of five from Midland, Michigan doesn’t just preach Jesus’ love and help with bake sales. He also uses his position of authority and respect in his community to broadcast his self-loathing view on same-sex attraction."</blockquote>
<a data-jsb_prepared="yb1x41tnjz" href="http://www.queerty.com/exclusive-grindr-screenshots-reveal-antigay-pastor-is-a-top-who-likes-to-cuddle-20150518" rel="noreferrer">Queerty</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">"When I first had to confront my wife with these types of issues, I would confront her, and then just leave the sex to happen another night, because after all, I like most men don’t prefer to have sex with my wife when she acts grumpy about it. But I realized that the sex still needs to occur, that sex is not about being in the mood, and it is not about feelings, it is about doing what is right… God wants us to do the right thing, even when we don’t feel like it."</span></blockquote>
♬ "Fuck 'er one more time for Jesus, fuck 'er one more time... " ♬ (<a data-jsb_prepared="h7nrsow50b" href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/butterfliesandwheels/2015/05/when-you-own-the-cow/" rel="noreferrer">Butterflies and Wheels</a>)<br />
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Wishfool thinking from Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker:<br />
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'Walker argued that when Reagan fired air traffic controllers (from the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization) over their illegal strike, he was sending a message of toughness to Democrats and unions at home as well as our Soviet enemies abroad”… "Similarly, Walker believes his stance against unions in Wisconsin would be a signal of toughness to Islamic jihadists and Russia's Vladimir Putin.”'</blockquote>
<a data-jsb_prepared="05w6ke87xx" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/28/scott-walker-ronald-reagan_n_6775184.html" rel="noreferrer">Huffington Post</a><br />
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'In his new book <i><a data-jsb_prepared="u0xh88yu33" href="http://amzn.com/1941393063?tag=skepticcom-20" rel="noreferrer">The Gluten Lie: and other myths about what you eat</a></i> Alan Levinovitz examines the diet myth phenomenon from a refreshingly different viewpoint. </blockquote>
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'The same memes keep repeating. Good vs. evil. Natural vs. manmade. Magical thinking: you are what you eat. The scary technology of the modern world vs. the idealistic Eden our ancestors supposedly enjoyed (they didn’t!). Evolutionary “Just So Stories” that convert what we think our ancestors ate into what we should eat or argue that since evolution didn’t equip us with sharp fangs, we shouldn’t eat meat. ...Clean, pure, virtuous foods vs. “unclean” forbidden foods, toxins, and sinful indulgence. We are being manipulated for profit by evil big corporations to the detriment of our health. Subconscious Puritan values kick in: if it’s pleasurable, it must be bad. Religious-like mantras divide the world into simplistic binary categories. Following the strict guidelines of the in-group proves you are a good person. Moral and religious vocabulary is inappropriately applied to scientific questions.'</blockquote>
Sound familiar? (<a data-jsb_prepared="4q765wfepm" href="http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/15-05-20/#feature" rel="noreferrer">Skeptic</a>)<br />
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Obamacrats doom man to blindness—wring hands, bitch & moan, etc.:<br />
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'...after 10 days of an unrelenting headache, Lang went to the emergency room... He says he was told he’d suffered several mini-strokes. He ran up $9,000 in bills and exhausted his savings…. </blockquote>
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'That’s when he turned to the Affordable Care Act exchange. Lang learned two things: First, 2015 enrollment had closed earlier that month. And second, because his income has dried up, he earns too little to get a federal subsidy to buy a private policy. Lang, a Republican, says he knew the act required him to get coverage but he chose not to do so. But he thought help would be available in an emergency. He and his wife blame President Obama and Congressional Democrats for passing a complex and flawed bill.'</blockquote>
Apparently going blind hasn’t helped him to see things any better. Just think, with Republican support they could have passed a better bill…which is, in fact, a true statement. (<a data-jsb_prepared="esz3gkz20h" href="http://crooksandliars.com/2015/05/he-said-no-obamacare-and-now-hes-going" rel="noreferrer">Crooks & Liars</a>)<br />
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‘...a pair of sociologists are putting what they call the “final nail in the coffin” of the much-criticized study by University of Texas sociologist Mark Regnerus that purported to show that being raised by gay and lesbian parents harms children.<br />
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'By eliminating suspect data — for example, a 25-year-old respondent who claimed to be 7’8” tall, 88 pounds, married 8 times and with 8 children...and correcting what they view as Regnerus’ methodological errors, Cheng and Powell found that Regnerus’ conclusions were so “fragile” that his data could just as easily show that children raised by gay and lesbian parents don’t face negative adult outcomes.’</blockquote>
<a data-jsb_prepared="vul2rjavbb" href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/new-research-further-debunks-regnerus-study-gay-parenting" rel="noreferrer">Right-wing Watch</a><br />
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Thanks to Pam Geller for all the recent traffic on this blog:<br />
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The St. Dr. Oscarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03469636116178340744noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-413350769307451285.post-46868391108332105382015-05-02T19:39:00.000-04:002015-05-02T19:39:18.723-04:00Our Wacky World—5/2/2015Pictures of your boobs all over the Interweb? Try <a data-jsb_prepared="ykwf9ygk9r" href="http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/26/technology/copyright-boobs-revenge-porn/index.html" rel="noreferrer">copyrighting them</a>.<br />
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Pam Geller decided to tackle the <a data-jsb_prepared="x298jum1kh" href="http://crooksandliars.com/2015/04/fed-judge-rules-pam-gellers-anti-muslim" rel="noreferrer">dangerous terrorists</a> in our subways. And then some pesky liberals <a data-jsb_prepared="ocbqm0pv50" href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/campaign-lampooning-anti-muslim-posters-debut-subways-article-1.2201434" rel="noreferrer">came along</a>. The good news—the MTA decided to ban <i>all</i> political advertising.<br />
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Another day, another idiot from the DEA smoking something:<br />
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"DEA warns Utah lawmakers that legal pot could lead to stoned rabbit attacks"</blockquote>
Rabies would be more likely. Really reaching, aren't they? Sort of like religious fanatics. (<a data-jsb_prepared="a1eapgccqt" href="http://blog.sfgate.com/smellthetruth/2015/03/03/dea-warns-utah-lawmakers-that-legal-pot-could-lead-to-stoned-rabbit-attacks/" rel="noreferrer">Smell The Truth</a>)<br />
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The increasingly irrelevant Dr. Oz continues his downward spiral into bogusland:<br />
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"...on Tuesday’s installment of <i>The Dr. Oz Show</i>. Oprah discovery Mehmet Oz will welcome famed psychic medium John Edward"</blockquote>
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'<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">So, basically, we had John on the show because I’m all about learning. I’ve always liked the guy. He seems authentic, not at all like a charlatan. I’ve learned in my career that there are times when science just hasn’t caught up with things, and I think this may be one of them.'</span></blockquote>
Remember, the more intelligent and educated you are the easier it is to fool yourself. Thanks for confirming that, doc. (<a data-jsb_prepared="5f7pe97qs4" href="http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2015/05/01/dr-oz-and-john-edward-con-man-meet-con-man/" rel="noreferrer">Dispatches From The Culture Wars</a>)<br />
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How to start a "riot" in Baltimore:<br />
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"...if I were a Douglas student that just got trapped in the middle of a minefield BY cops without any way to get home and completely in harm's way, I'd be ready to pop off, too."</blockquote>
Works every time. (<a data-jsb_prepared="pvjxyfalpm" href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/04/how-baltimore-riots-began-mondawmin-purge" rel="noreferrer">Mother Jones</a>)<br />
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Remember the pick-up artist who said rape should be <a data-jsb_prepared="lpbqsb3bxp" href="http://www.christwhatablog.com/2015/02/our-wacky-world2282015.html" rel="noreferrer">legal on private property</a>? Here's his latest display of wisdom:<br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">"If a woman cuts her hair to a short length, or shaves it outright in a Skrillex haircut, we can now confidently say that she is making herself appear less fertile, less beautiful, and less healthy. A woman cutting off healthy hair is one step away from literal cutting of her skin with a sharp object, because both behaviors denote a likely mental illness"</span></blockquote>
I'd post a link to blacktown.net here but the site is gone (parts are still on archive.org). The owner used to bitch about black women who weren't "black" enough. "Piss yellow hair" really set him off.<br />
(<a data-jsb_prepared="i4izg6xhvw" href="http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/04/15/pickup-guru-roosh-v-women-who-cut-their-hair-short-are-committing-self-harm-and-should-be-monitored-by-authorities/" rel="noreferrer">We Hunted The Mammoth</a>)<br />
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">"ResolveHerpes is cost effective when compared to the expensive monthly ongoing prescription costs. After completing the detox you will not need to worry about these prescriptions for herpes anymore. Taking ResolveHerpes detox is all that you should need in your life time. </span></blockquote>
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<span style="font-family: comic sans, comic sans ms, sans-serif;">"Are you tired of using natural products which are not giving you the relief you are looking for, or do you want an alternative to using chemicals and medications?"</span></blockquote>
<a data-jsb_prepared="jmt0og9o0h" href="http://www.resolveherpes.com/" rel="noreferrer">Resolve Herpes</a><br />
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Federal intelligence apparatus types are unhappy about the future of data encryption:<br />
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"Why do you think Apple and Google are doing this? It's because the public is demanding it. A public does not want an out-of-control surveillance state"</blockquote>
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"Apple and Google don't have coercive power. District attorneys do, the FBI does, the NSA does, and to me it's very simple to draw a privacy balance when it comes to law enforcement and privacy: <i>just follow the damn Constitution</i>. And because the NSA didn't do that and other law enforcement agencies didn't do that, you're seeing a vast public reaction to this."</blockquote>
Emphasis added. (<a data-jsb_prepared="ti9d88mhdu" href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/05/01/congress_gives_bipartisan_bollocking_to_fbi_over_encryption_backdoors/" rel="noreferrer">The Register</a>)<br />
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