Get together with fellow Freethinkers at this seasonal bash sponsored by American Atheists!

The Venue: The Winter Solstice Gala venue is the luxurious Crowne Plaza Hotel (Grand Ballroom, 2nd floor), Clark NJ just off exit 135 of the Garden State Parkway, and two miles from the Rahway Train Station for convenient access to New York City. There is also the Metro Park Station for New Jersey Transit and AMTRAK. You may make shuttle arrangements with the Crowne Plaza. The hotel is located at 36 Valley Road, Clark, NJ 07066, phone 732-574-0100.

Atheists throwing a pagan-esque party. Interesting...

American Atheists - Winter Solstice Celebration 2006

skullaria wrote:
"Dr. Eric Keroack
On Monday, the federal office that oversees the nation's family-planning program got a new boss who doesn't believe in birth control. Eric Keroack is a Massachusetts obstetrician-gynecologist who argues that abstinence until marriage is the only healthy choice for women. Until recently, he served as medical director of a pregnancy-counseling organization that runs down contraception and gives out scientifically false health information—for instance, that condoms "offer virtually no protection" against herpes or HPV. Keroack also promotes a wacky piece of pseudoscience: the claim that premarital sex disrupts brain chemistry so as to create a physiological barrier to happy marriage. "

Apparently, you're just a hapless prairie vole who doesn't know what's good for her. :)

I loves dis corn... i want no udder"

RE: Bush appointee for family planning 'NO BIRTH CONTROL' WTF?

Rattle wrote:

Milton Friedman, the Nobel-prize winning economist who helped shape and define free-market economic theory, died Thursday at the age of 94 in San Francisco.

RIP.. We owe much to Friedman.

Do you think instead of going to heaven, that he became CopyBot on Second Life?

RE: Nobel economist Milton Friedman dead at 94 - Nov. 16, 2006

Over 2,500 dogs are already enjoying a better life at Dog Island. Separated from the anxieties of urban life, dogs on Dog Island are healthy dogs who live a natural, healthy and happy life, free from the stress and hardship associated with daily live among humans.

They live with almost limitless space, and tens of thousands of rabbits, rodents, fish and other natural prey. Surrounded by thousands of other dogs, this is the only place for them to be truly social and create healthy families.

Dogs at Dog Island have another chance.

They should make one of these for babies.

Dog Island Free Forever

Spychotic (spy-kot-ik) : Characterized or afflicted with irrational, malicious, intrusive behavior.

See also : Homeland Security.

Please use as opportunity arises.

If the Ninth Circuit does agree with Judge Pregerson that computer searches are "non routine," there's a decent chance that this case would be the first computer search and seizure case to get to the Supreme Court.

Sweet! I find the prospect of random laptop searches at borders to be offensive to the idea of a free society on many levels. Finally, someone has argued, and a court has accepted the arguement, that this isn't Constitutional. Now, we'll get to find out if the higher courts agree. Its on!

The Volokh Conspiracy - District Court Holds That Border Searches of Computers Require Reasonable Suspicion:

It's just a misplaced letter, but what a misplaced letter: Swapping a "D" for an "R" last night, Fox News and "The O'Reilly Factor" labeled disgraced pedophile Congressman Mark Foley, longtime Republican, as a Democrat.

Thanks Faux News. Why don't you just mislead people more.

Eat The Press |

The Public Expression of Religion Act - H.R. 2679 - provides that attorneys who successfully challenge government actions as violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment shall not be entitled to recover attorneys fees.

Erwin Chemerinsky - Legislating Violations of the Constitution - washingtonpost.com

Decius wrote:
Name this quote:

"I shall give a propagandist reason for starting the war, no matter whether
it is plausible or not. The victor will not be asked afterwards whether
he told the truth or not. When starting and waging war it is not right
that matters, but victory."

and...

Close your hearts to pity. Act brutally. Eighty million people must obtain what is their right. Their existence must be made secure. The stronger man is right. The greatest harshness.

RE: Godwin's Guffaw

(CNN) -- Police Monday responded to reports that a gunman opened fire at an Amish school, shooting several people, a state police spokesman told CNN.

No other details were available.

Lancaster County's 911 Web site reported dozens of emergency vehicles -- including at least nine ambulances -- were dispatched to Bart Township shortly before 11 a.m. for a "medical emergency."

Video of the scene showed several Amish young men wearing hats and suspenders sitting outside the school, surrounded by dirt roads.

At least one person was taken to a medical helicopter on a stretcher.

As rattle put it, not one to get pinned on videogames.

About the only thing these events seem to have in common is repressive religious climates.

CNN.com - Police respond to Amish school shooting - Oct 2, 2006