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8th of July, '09 07:36 pm

Wow ... from Faux News discussing a study that finds that married people are at a lower risk of alzheimer's. Arguing about why it doesn't apply to Americans. Very bigotted "reasoning" ...

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30th of April, '09 02:47 pm What the hell, Ireland?

Ireland's making blasphemy a crime?!

Speaking after an Oireachtas committee meeting, Mr Ahern yesterday defended a fine of up to €100,000 that will be imposed on blasphemers.

The Government moved to revive the crime by placing it onto a fresh statutory footing following advice from the office of the Attorney General.

Gardai will now have the power to seize blasphemous material from the home or any other premises used by a person convicted of blasphemy.


This is in Western Europe?! I wouldn't be surprised to see a law like that in the Middle East, but Europe?

"Blasphemy" is the most absurd "crime" ever devised by humans. If there is some kind of higher power, it's absurd to imagine that it would need mere humans protecting it. Why would it care if some human insulted it? And if it did care, it could deal with blasphemers itself. And considering that folks like Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and so forth are alive and well rather argues against any hypothetical Higher Power caring about that kind of stuff.

A longer editorial on the issue: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2009/0430/1224245681506.html

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19th of March, '09 01:01 pm Douglas Adams' Electric Monk is real!

What ... the ... hell?

http://www.informationageprayer.com/index.html

Information Age Prayer is a subscription service utilizing a computer with text-to-speech capability to incant your prayers each day. It gives you the satisfaction of knowing that your prayers will always be said even if you wake up late, or forget.

We use state of the art text to speech synthesizers to voice each prayer at a volume and speed equivalent to typical person praying. Each prayer is voiced individually, with the name of the subscriber displayed on screen.



I'm dumbfounded. I thought the whole idea of prayer was the idea that God wanted a personal relationship or whatever. Seriously, if there were some kind of God, don't you think that would be rather insulting to him? "What, you think I can't tell the difference between a computer voice synthesizer and an actual human being praying to me?" *SMITE*

This isn't a joke, either. There's an actual working paypal button for subscribing!

This one amuses me
The morning prayer is meant to be said each morning. A nice, short prayer, it has all the basic essentials important in a daily prayer. Subscribe to tell God that you think of him each morning!


They really do think God is an idiot, it seems.

Ooh, and even better, under the "Muslim" selection:
All Muslim prayers are voiced in English, with the computer speakers facing Mecca.


The speakers are facing Mecca! *Laughs* And why in English rather than in Arabic?

Current Mood: amused

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20th of January, '09 08:09 pm

Ugh. The nurse in this article is disgusting.

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12th of December, '08 12:00 am

Santa Clause will take you to Hell!

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6th of December, '08 08:45 pm

How have I never seen the utterly bizarre and totally senseless Time Cube web page?

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4th of December, '08 10:22 pm

iBoobs!

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4th of December, '08 12:51 pm

This is horrifying. :-(

Court Ruling on Rapists Draws Anger )

I have no words for this. I just can't believe any court in a modern civilized nation would issue such a ruling. We're not talking about Saudi Arabia or something here.

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29th of November, '08 09:01 pm

I ... am speechless http://thewomanofvirtue.blogspot.com/2008/08/slavery-is-not-wrong.html

This woman is arguing that slavery is not wrong because the Bible doesn't condemn it.

Yes, it's true that the Bible doesn't condemn slavery, but that's rather an argument against the Bible, isn't it? At least, against taking everything in the Bible at face value.

To make matters worse, look at her profile picture! She's Black and she's making pro-slavery arguments! This isn't some white-supremecist neo-nazi skinhead, this is a Black woman!

It's completely mind-boggling. I wish I could believe that this is a satire, but if it is, she's extraordinarily consistent. I'm afraid that she's genuine.

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28th of November, '08 09:10 pm

This is probably the most blatant violation of the 1st amendment I've seen in a great long while.
Anti-terror law requires God be acknowledged )

Have they never heard of the First Amendment? Seriously?!

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8th of November, '08 03:25 pm

This is absurd. People are already producing "Impeach Obama" shirts and hats and bumper stickers and the like! He hasn't even been innaugurated!

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2nd of November, '08 05:51 pm

Wow, this lady's insane



Seriously, whatever your political views, leave the kids out of it!

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28th of October, '08 04:23 am

Wow ... this is just completely insane http://www.heaventhegame.com/

It's some computer game that's coming out where you play this astronaut who finds himself in heaven ... it doesn't say much about the plot other than that (at least, not that I've seen, I've only checked out a little of that site). It's kind of funny, actually. I don't know what those people were thinking. :-)

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19th of March, '08 09:58 pm

I saw this article on [info]randomposting's LJ: Man convicted of possession with intent to sell for vicodin - which he had a legitimate prescription for and no evidence of any intent to give it to anyone else.

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12th of March, '08 11:22 pm

Wow ... this article is just ... weird.

Woman sat on toilet for two years )

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5th of February, '08 12:38 am

Seen on azalynn's LJ: Two Teen-Aged Girls Steal From Girl Scout

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"We went through all that effort to get it, we got all these charges and we had to give the money back. I'm kind of pissed," one of the girls told WPBF. Wow ... someone needs to smack some sense into that brat. >:-(

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2nd of February, '08 02:33 pm

This is crazy! Seen on neuroelectric's LJ

Expensive Coffee Comes From Strange Source )

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9th of December, '07 10:51 pm

I ... have no words to describe this. The Haruhi Dance done by PRISONERS in the Philipines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzBUGmEsmnA

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4th of October, '07 06:48 pm

"If we took away women's right to vote, we'd never have to worry about another Democrat president. It's kind of a pipe dream, it's a personal fantasy of mine, but I don't think it's going to happen." - Anne Coulter

Oh, Anne ... such a clear, logical thinker </sarcasm>

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