Woman credits God with her 18 children

This one should be filed under “Woman chooses to have sex with her husband, chooses not to take birth-control, credits God with her 18 children, and takes no responsibility for creating the situation”. ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia ( July 28 ) – A Romanian immigrant has given birth to her 18th child in British Columbia, making [...]

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Commenting on Blogs

I don’t know if anyone else does the same thing, but I tend to shy away from commenting on blogs when they have lots of comments. There’s something about it that makes me feel like my comment is always going to get buried, and there’s virtually no chance to respond to a comment, so I [...]

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Wear Science

These t-shirt designs made me laugh. Brought to you by the website with the “teach the controversy” t-shirts:

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Growing up Amish

Fourhourworkweek has an interesting couple posts written by a woman who grew up Amish, and then escaped. A quick excerpt: What were the positives of growing up Amish? -Growing up bilingual (Though I didn’t become fluent in English until after I escaped and I was always very self-conscious about my command of the English language) [...]

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Politics, Religion, and Pissing People Off

I stumbled on a Republican website today that was selling this shirt. All I could think is ‘wow’. (Admittedly, when I first read the shirt, I thought they were saying, “I’d rather be torturing another human being”, which is more offensive than the alternative: suggesting that they enjoy being waterboarded, and it’s not that bad.) [...]

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Rove: Your laws mean nothing to me

Karl Rove ignored a subpoena to appear this morning before a House panel that is investigating allegations that partisan considerations entered into hirings and firings at the Justice Department. The House Judiciary Committee had invited President Bush’s former political adviser to testify about a broad range of scandals. In response, his attorney sent lawmakers a [...]

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Amusing YouTube Christian

Welcome to circular logic theater. There’s a Christian guy making videos on YouTube. One of his recent videos (Why Choose Christianity over other Religions), he attempts to answer the questions: “Could you do a video on why Christianity is the only true faith? Why are there so many different religions if Christianity is the only [...]

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Death penalty for saying the wrong things on a blog?

On Wednesday, Iranian members of parliament voted to discuss a draft bill that seeks to “toughen punishment for disturbing mental security in society.” The text of the bill would add, “establishing websites and weblogs promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy,” to the list of crimes punishable by death. In recent years, some Iranian bloggers have been [...]

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The non-believers review of “The Case for Faith”, Objection 6, Part 2

Link to the Entire Review of “The Case for Faith” At this point, Strobel begins to raise nine objections about Hell. Objection 1: How Can God Send Children to Hell? People recoil at the thought of children languishing in hell. In fact, some atheists like to taunt Christians by dredging up writings by nineteenth-century evangelists [...]

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Rush Limbaugh still Popular?

I noticed in the news today that Rush Limbaugh signed an 8 year deal worth over $400 million – a record in the industry. I had no idea Rush Limbaugh was even popular anymore. A few months ago, I had messed around with my clock radio and ended up waking up to Glenn Beck. A [...]

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