March 2012
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Republican Party Goes Off the Deep End →
Fighting contraception. Stopping domestic violence protections. Extending tax cuts for the wealthy, while hiking taxes on the middle class. Welcoming white supremacists to a conference, but banning gay conservatives. The GOP has followed its extremist fringe off the deep end, leaving the rest of us back in the reality-based world befuddled. Their strategists warned them not to do this, but it...
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“Is scientific monism in conflict with religious dualism? Yes, it is. Either the...”
– Michael Shermer, The Believing Brain
February 2012
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Tell Your Senator to Reject the Blunt Amendment
As you might have already heard, the U.S. Senate is expected to vote Thursday on a proposal by Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) that would allow employers and health insurance providers to exclude any coverage that they deem immoral or contrary to their religious beliefs. The measure, S. 1813, would amend the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to read that:
“… a health plan shall not...
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“How arrogant and self-centered some members of our species can be to believe...”
– David Zeigler: What is the Purpose of a Sponge?
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“The key to understanding who and what we are is that our futures, as ...”
– Paul Kurtz: The Faith of an Empathetic Humanist
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Pimping my blog: Life, Madness, Science & Art:... →
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I’m a disabled activist, an agnostic and a skeptic. I don’t like workfare and I don’t like changes to the NHS and welfare system that are going to chop them up into exploitable markets. I’m not a member of any group per se but merrily join in with social media actions against everything from…
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“I use the verb “accept” instead of the more common expression “believe in”...”
– Michael Shermer: Why Darwin Matters
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“You know what my concern is about Congress? I checked these numbers: 57% of...”
– Neil DeGrasse Tyson (via yo-soy-yossarian)
Maureen Dowd from NYTimes takes a shit on... →
marmoulak:
A great and hilarious article by the New York Times columnist Maureen Down about Santorum’s religious fanaticism.
Rick Santorum has been called a latter-day Savonarola.
That’s far too grand. He’s more like a small-town mullah.
“Satan has his sights on the United States of America,” the conservative presidential candidate warned in 2008. “Satan is attacking the great...
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Activate the Mechanism!: Transvaginal Ultrasounds... →
keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus:
I keep wanting to scream, “TRANSVAGINAL ULTRASOUNDS ARE ALREADY HAPPENING RIGHT NOW TODAY IN TEXAS!!!!”
Texas has THREE times as many people as Virginia AND they already have mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds before abortions (I also have no hard data but…
Tell Congress: Overturn #CitizensUnited and end... →
We deserve a country where our elected officials are not bought and paid for by big corporations.
But the Citizens United vs. FEC Supreme Court decision overturned over a century of precedent and opened the floodgates for unlimited amounts of corporate money to flow into our political system.
Please sign this petition!
Via religiousragings
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“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest...”
– RICHARD FEYNMAN: SURELY YOU’RE JOKING, MR. FEYNMAN, 1974
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“I worry that … pseudoscience and superstition will seem year by year more...”
– CARL SAGAN, THE DEMON-HAUNTED WORLD
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“When the Terri Schiavo controversy first turned into a full-blown national story...”
– First Thoughts: Shades of Schiavo? (via ryking)
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Nontheists unite against blood cancer →
Nontheists unite against blood cancer
Foundation aims to raise $1 million for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Foundation Beyond Belief is proud to announce an initiative to raise $1 million for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) this year through its popular Light The Night Walk fundraising program.
“This is one of the biggest giving efforts of its kind in the history of our...
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January 2012
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Thank President Obama for standing with Planned...
VICTORY! President Obama stood strong to protect insurance coverage for birth control for millions of women. Planned Parenthood is sending him a thank-you card for doing the right thing, and I added my name. You should sign, too:
http://ppaction.org/refusalthanks
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Americans United Hails Obama Administration Ruling... →
Church-State Watchdog Group Says President Was Right To Resist Sectarian Pressure
January 20, 2012
Americans United for Separation of Church and State today praised the Obama administration for ruling that church-affiliated institutions must abide by provisions in the health care law and include free birth control for employees in insurance plans.
Health and Human Services Secretary ...
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Confessions of a Reformed Libertarian →
Great piece!
Excerpt:
Anyone with an ounce of self-awareness realizes that no matter how strong or rich we are, all of us will eventually become weak, get injured, lose our job or home, get sick, get old, and die. In their hubris, libertarians are loathe to admit that though they may have long ago left behind their diapers and pureed food, it’s overwhelmingly likely at some point they’ll...
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Military Chaplains Deny Soldier the Right to... →
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lackofbelief:
This entire website involves the plight of atheists in the military. These men and women have rights, and those rights should be respected. There is no reason why atheists willing to be in the military should be subjected to crap like this.
A very good friend of mine who is also a nonbeliever served for eight years, some of the stories he’s told me are fucked...
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56 years ago Emmett Till was brutally murdered for... →
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deliciouskaek:
Graphic image of Emmett Till’s body (bust) at burial behind link: [x]
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anotherdyingtobedead:
-56 years ago Emmett Till was brutally murdered for whistling at a white woman… his mother refused to let his murder be be swept under the rug by having and open casket televised funeral…”Look what they did to my boy,” you’ll forever be...
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