BligbiBligbi http://bligbi.com The ramblings of an atheistic mom residing in the lonestar state. Thu, 23 May 2013 22:47:59 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/bligbihttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with FeedLounge On Uppity Women… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bligbi/~3/EKylIbtOa4c/ http://bligbi.com/2013/05/23/on-uppity-women/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 07:47:33 +0000 Karen http://bligbi.com/?p=3817

When a woman tries to behave like a human being, they say she wants to be a man.

Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1949

]]> http://bligbi.com/2013/05/23/on-uppity-women/feed/ 0 http://bligbi.com/2013/05/23/on-uppity-women/ Scarlet Town – Bob Dylan http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bligbi/~3/vs6uF1TnGEU/ http://bligbi.com/2013/05/22/scarlet-town-bob-dylan/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 03:43:56 +0000 Karen http://bligbi.com/?p=3789 Heard this on Defiance a couple of weeks ago & it’s quickly become a favourite.

]]> http://bligbi.com/2013/05/22/scarlet-town-bob-dylan/feed/ 0 http://bligbi.com/2013/05/22/scarlet-town-bob-dylan/ An atheist in a tornado http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bligbi/~3/r1arRyjba5A/ http://bligbi.com/2013/05/22/an-atheist-in-a-tornado/#comments Wed, 22 May 2013 21:16:41 +0000 Karen http://bligbi.com/?p=3763 I’ve been ignoring most of the news on the tornado in Oklahoma as I don’t get off on watching others suffer, but this is something worth sharing:

Wolf Blitzer asked a survivor of the tornado if she had thanked God for the survival of her and her family to which she replied that she was an atheist.

The exact exchange:

Blitzer: Well, you’re blessed. Brian, your husband, is blessed. Anders is blessed… and I guess you gotta thank the Lord, right? Do you thank the Lord? For that split-second decision?

Vitsmun: I… I… I’m… I’m actually an atheist… [Laughs]

Blitzer: Oh, you are! [Laughs] But you made the right call!

Vitsmun: Yeah, yep. We are here! And, you know, I don’t blame anybody for thanking the Lord.

Blitzer: Of course not.

Like that she didn’t take the opportunity to be an ass about those who ‘thank the Lord’.

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Am I the only non-Republican who’s hoping no one wins the primaries so we can see the GOP Clown Car pie-fight it out at their convention?

Seriously.

I want to see that dipshit Perry make his case. I want Bootstrap Paul to defend his race war. Hell, I wanna see if ole Newt bothers to show up. And Romney & his magic underwear? Sell that one to the Protestants, darling.

And yes, I’m going nihilistic this coming election year.  Hateful cynicism feels better than depressed hope.

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For the rest of ya’ll, Merry Christmas.

]]> http://bligbi.com/2011/12/25/dust-in-the-wind/feed/ 1 http://bligbi.com/2011/12/25/dust-in-the-wind/ What could possibly go wrong? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bligbi/~3/voj4AH2UPj8/ http://bligbi.com/2011/08/30/what-could-possibly-go-wrong/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:31:04 +0000 Karen http://bligbi.com/?p=3736 So Mike Stahl, a pastor based in Florida, wants to create a registry just for atheists. Not to worry though. Physical addresses won’t be released. Just names & photos, organized by state & town. How could such a neutral thing be used for bad things? What reason would an atheist have to be, shall we say, leery of appearing on such a list?

How about using it to do this:

In which case we could begin to witness to them and warn them of the dangers of atheism . Or perhaps they are radical atheists , whose hearts are as hard as Pharaoh’s , in that case , if they are business owners , we would encourage all our Christian friends , as well as the various churches and their congregations NOT to patronize them as we would only be “feeding” Satan . (source - the good pastor has deleted the blog, the cache is here.)

Nothing wrong with that!  Only a faux-atheist would resent being proselytized badgered in such a manner. And surely it’s okay to threaten the income of people who refuse to believe the same thing you do.  Damn radicals should have stayed off your lawn out of your town to begin with, eh?

Richard Dawkins so made this up, right? He ought to be ashamed of himself!
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]]> http://bligbi.com/2011/08/27/long-time-no-post/feed/ 0 http://bligbi.com/2011/08/27/long-time-no-post/ An oil independant future? http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bligbi/~3/IHsFwo48--U/ http://bligbi.com/2010/10/15/an-oil-independant-future/#comments Fri, 15 Oct 2010 22:28:15 +0000 Karen http://bligbi.com/?p=3703 This is from back in June, but Jon Stewart knocks it out of the park once again on American presidents bitching about American dependence on “foreign” oil:

]]> http://bligbi.com/2010/10/15/an-oil-independant-future/feed/ 0 http://bligbi.com/2010/10/15/an-oil-independant-future/ The war on ‘culture’ isn’t over http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bligbi/~3/K-0XzfnOu1Q/ http://bligbi.com/2010/09/21/maddow-culture-war/#comments Tue, 21 Sep 2010 18:30:27 +0000 Karen http://bligbi.com/?p=3694 One of the ideas surrounding the Tea Party is that it’s about economic issues, not cultural issues such as reproductive rights and LGBT rights. That’s a lie.

As this video from Rachel Maddow shows (starting at about six minutes), the Tea Party is very much about continuing the war on women and gay people. They are, if anything, far more radical than traditional Republicans:

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