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International News Article | Reuters.com |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
8:00 am EST, Feb 23, 2006 |
Iraq's leading Sunni Muslim religious organization blamed top Shi'ite clerics on Thursday for fuelling sectarian tension in which dozens of Sunni Arabs have been killed over the past 24 hours.
ahhh the blame game the politics of the last atrocity International News Article | Reuters.com |
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Muhammad Cartoon for the Cartoon War |
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Topic: Arts |
7:38 am EST, Feb 23, 2006 |
terratogen enters the fray.... I had to make one. How can I grow old as an artist and have people ask "What did you do during the Cartoon War?" and have nothing to show for it except a thumb up my ass. How many calls to arms will artists get in a lifetime? Artists should have a duty to make their own personal Muhammad Cartoon! Causing fear is how terror extremist groups gauge if they are winning or not. The world needs to stop being afraid of these idiots and paint them up like clowns with guns. Any group which cannot respect another world view deserves to look stupid. They need to start taking themselves much less seriously. Remember The Guru Maharaj ji ? He ripped off his followers for decades and promised to levitate the Houston Astro Dome with "Green Energy"(where was this bastard during Katrina???). I understand that people like to believe in their magic little spiritual worlds, to get the rush you get when you feel self important for no good reason at all. And everyone should have every right to do so. However, not acknowledging fundamentals of reality makes you look like an idiot to people who see things differently. Do you think some people are stupid? So do I! It's not about morality, right or wrong, or any self-righteous platform... It's about TRUTH. If you want yours to Dominate someone else's, those people are going to look at you either like a big fat DUMMY or a God (as if you have to ask which you might look like!). Getting irate, belligerent, and violent doesn't change the fact that some people are not interested in your Kool-Aid! This goes for you neo-right-wing-jesus juice slurping-fascist-christians as well. If your spirituality is not a PERSONAL experience... There is a large chunk of the world who considers you an ASSHOLE and your way of life ANNOYING! If you don't like having your bible-bubble burst, then SHUT the fuck up and it's a non-issue! When you open the panel for discussion, you will learn that "religion" does not equal "reality" and you will deserve it. T-Shirts and other merchandise of my cartoon are available HERE. I think that the fact that I made one when there are Fatwas going around prooves that my balls are big enough to warrant your support.
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Very politically (religously) incorrect cartoon |
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Topic: Current Events |
5:03 pm EST, Feb 20, 2006 |
Oh dear. Just when you thought it was about time the extremists were going to cool down... They are just going to go apesnort over this. Let's hope the Internet isn't quite as widespread over there as it could be.
with my politically correct hat on i would say not all muslims can be stereotyped like this that said fucking excellent but they're so gonna get their lives threatened these guys have balls to do that now nice one Very politically (religously) incorrect cartoon |
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BBC - Science & Nature - Climate Change |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
11:57 am EST, Feb 18, 2006 |
We need the computer power you're not using. Join in the largest climate prediction experiment ever, developed by climate scientists for the BBC using the Met Office climate model.
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SPACE.com -- Congress Criticizes NASA Budget Request |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
8:33 am EST, Feb 18, 2006 |
The House Science Committee’s Republican chairman and senior Democrat told NASA Administrator Mike Griffin they had little interest in accelerating the U.S. space agency’s exploration plans at the expense of science and research.
SPACE.com -- Congress Criticizes NASA Budget Request |
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BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iraq 'death squad caught in act' |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
9:03 am EST, Feb 16, 2006 |
Iraq has launched an investigation into claims by the US military that an Iraqi interior ministry "death squad" has been targeting Sunni Arab Iraqis. The probe comes after a US general revealed the arrest of 22 policemen allegedly on a mission to kill a Sunni.
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iraq 'death squad caught in act' |
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BBC NEWS | England | London | London remembers US broadcaster |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
5:53 pm EST, Feb 15, 2006 |
A US journalist whose broadcasts from London helped rally American public opinion to Britain's side during World War II has been commemorated. A blue plaque has been unveiled at Edward R Murrow's old home, Weymouth House in Hallam Street, central London.
we brits hail an American hero BBC NEWS | England | London | London remembers US broadcaster |
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RE: Our faith in letting it all hang out - Editorials & Commentary - International Herald Tribune |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
4:43 pm EST, Feb 15, 2006 |
Stanley Fish wrote But a firm adherent of a comprehensive religion doesn't want dialogue about his beliefs; he wants those beliefs to prevail. Dialogue is not a tenet in his creed, and invoking it is unlikely to do anything but persuade him that you have missed the point
Decius wrote a responsible believer wishes his ideas to win in the open marketplace of ideas rather then through force.
he is rejecting dialogue and liberalism he seems to be arguing for some sort of apocalyptic war? perhaps? he doesn't argue for anything but rejects liberalism he rejects the idea of a responsible believer Stanley Fish wrote the morality of a withdrawal from morality in any strong, insistent form
this is his description of what liberal editors are doing by being "concerned only to stand up for an abstract principle - free speech" but excuse me blasphamy is an abstract principle. He's just condeming decadent liberal ideology and sounds like a jihadist, Christian/Muslim who knows for sure. The belief in the therapeutic and redemptive force of dialogue depends on the assumption (central to liberalism's theology) that, after all, no idea is worth fighting over to the death and that we can always reach a position of accommodation if only we will sit down and talk it out.
this to me is scary and the guy is a law professor! he's rejecting this! RE: Our faith in letting it all hang out - Editorials & Commentary - International Herald Tribune |
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Pew Research Center: Are We Happy Yet? |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
8:23 pm EST, Feb 13, 2006 |
Married people are happier than unmarrieds. People who worship frequently are happier than those who don't. Republicans are happier than Democrats. Rich people are happier than poor people. Whites and Hispanics are happier than blacks. Sunbelt residents are happier than those who live in the rest of the country.
Get rich, get married, get religion, get a gun, get a place in Miami, and vote for Jeb... One wonders if Democrats are less happy because they spend more time thinking about poor people, gun violence, and the long term impacts of foreign policy rather then enjoying low taxes and military ass kicking. Pew Research Center: Are We Happy Yet? |
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Our faith in letting it all hang out - Editorials & Commentary - International Herald Tribune |
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Topic: Miscellaneous |
8:03 pm EST, Feb 13, 2006 |
in the public sphere, the argument goes, one's religious views must be put forward with diffidence and circumspection. You can still have them and express them - that's what separates us from theocracies and tyrannies - but they should be worn lightly. Not only must there be no effort to make them into the laws of the land, but they should not be urged on others in ways that make them uncomfortable. What religious beliefs are owed - and this is a word that appears again and again in the recent debate - is "respect"; nothing less, nothing more. The thing about respect is that it doesn't cost you anything; its generosity is barely skin-deep and is in fact a form of condescension: I respect you; now don't bother me. This is, increasingly, what happens to strongly held faiths in the liberal state. Such beliefs are equally and indifferently authorized as ideas people are perfectly free to believe, but they are equally and indifferently disallowed as ideas that might serve as a basis for action or public policy. Strongly held faiths are exhibits in liberalism's museum; we appreciate them, and we congratulate ourselves for affording them a space, but should one of them ask of us more than we are prepared to give - ask for deference rather than mere respect - it will be met with the barrage of platitudinous arguments that for the last week have filled the pages of newspapers.
this scary argument is from nyt and i found it in the International Herald Tribune Stanley Fish, a law professor, seems to be arguing for theocracy and failing to understand that liberalism emerged out of the religious conflicts which followed the Reformation. In England we had a civil war and Christmas was banned by the Puritans, fundamentalist Protestants. From the English Civil War we get the philospher John Locke and the birth of liberal philosophy, the birth of human rights thinking and a theory of government as something which rises up from the people and builds upon individual liberty. Individuals bind together to form a commonwealth, thence authority rather than the Divine Right of Kings, a top down theory. Attempts were made and failed to allow religious diversity in England. As a result of the reactionary backlash which was the attempt to introduce uniformity to religious belief and practice post 1688 many Christians of diverse sects fled to America in search of religious freedom. As inheritors of a philosophical school which had seen religious wars and persecution, the American founding fathers choose free speech. Free speech is not simply an idea it is perhaps a meta meme in that it is the provision of a space in which memes can interact. What Stanley Fish dismisses as a museum is a rich and vital ocean with diverse tides, currents and eddies. Strongly held religious beliefs are fine unless and until they impinge on the rights of others. In the idea space all ideas are not s... [ Read More (0.3k in body) ] Our faith in letting it all hang out - Editorials & Commentary - International Herald Tribune |
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