doublethink

MITT ROMNEY ON MEDICAL MARIJUANA (LONGER VERSION)

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:10:00 +0000

Bush admits that Iraq Had Nothing To Do With 9/11

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:07:00 +0000

1984

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 12:25:00 +0000

Bush on Contractors in Iraq

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:26:00 +0000

WTF!?!

What Are We Fighting For...

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:19:00 +0000

Ron Paul : Don't tread on me

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:16:00 +0000

Read A Book

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 22:27:00 +0000

READ A GOD DAMN BOOK!!!

If You're an American you should see THIS! for real

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 04:11:00 +0000

Dick Cheney '94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 03:31:00 +0000

What exactly has change between now and then that would make invading Iraq a go?

The Real Semame Street

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:11:00 +0000

I'm sorry I think this is hilarious and I had to share it with the 3 people that like to read what I have up.

Testimony from NYFD

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 06:01:00 +0000

Some how for me there is much about the 9/11 "attack" that doesn't fit. I'm not an all out skeptic because I do believe that a lot of people dislike us for many reasons, however the story doesn't seem to work from all sides. Check out this interview with one of NYFD's own.

In addition check out the accompanied article - 9/11 Commission Ignored Firefighter's Account of Explosions Inside WTC

BE NICE OR ELSE!!

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:45:00 +0000

First Hand Experiences from Iraq

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:11:00 +0000

Over at The Nation there is an article featuring first hand accounts of Iraq War veterans. While popular depictions of the War would have you believe all is going well over there rest assured that these veterans experiences tell a different story.

Except:
American troops in Iraq lacked the training and support to communicate with or even understand Iraqi civilians, according to nineteen interviewees. Few spoke or read Arabic. They were offered little or no cultural or historical education about the country they controlled. Translators were either in short supply or unqualified. Any stereotypes about Islam and Arabs that soldiers and marines arrived with tended to solidify rapidly in the close confines of the military and the risky streets of Iraqi cities into a crude racism.

Link - The Other War: Iraq Vets Bear Witness

Kansas Classrooms

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:45:00 +0000

I can't believe we are, either... yet... here we are

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:53:00 +0000

Self Explanitory

The Evaporation of the Powerful Mystique of Religion

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:24:00 +0000

The Evaporation of the Powerful Mystique of Religion

I�??m so optimistic that I expect to live to see the evaporation of the powerful mystique of religion. I think that in about twenty-five years almost all religions will have evolved into very different phenomena, so much so that in most quarters religion will no longer command the awe it does today. Of course many people�??perhaps a majority of people in the world�??will still cling to their religion with the sort of passion that can fuel violence and other intolerant and reprehensible behavior. But the rest of the world will see this behavior for what it is, and learn to work around it until it subsides, as it surely will. That�??s the good news. The bad news is that we will need every morsel of this reasonable attitude to deal with such complex global problems as climate change, fresh water, and economic inequality in an effective way. It will be touch and go, and in my pessimistic moods I think Sir Martin Rees may be right: some disaffected religious (or political) group may unleash a biological or nuclear catastrophe that forecloses all our good efforts. But I do think we have the resources and the knowledge to forestall such calamities if we are vigilant.

Recall that only fifty years ago smoking was a high status activity and it was considered rude to ask somebody to stop smoking in one�??s presence. Today we�??ve learned that we shouldn�??t make the mistake of trying to prohibit smoking altogether, and so we still have plenty of cigarettes and smokers, but we have certainly contained the noxious aspects within quite acceptable boundaries. Smoking is no longer cool, and the day will come when religion is, first, a take-it-or-leave-it choice, and later: no longer cool�??except in its socially valuable forms, where it will be one type of allegiance among many. Will those descendant institutions still be religions? Or will religions have thereby morphed themselves into extinction? It all depends on what you think the key or defining elements of religion are. Are dinosaurs extinct, or do their lineages live on as birds?

Why am I confident that this will happen? Mainly because of the asymmetry in the information explosion. With the worldwide spread of information technology (not just the internet, but cell phones and portable radios and television), it is no longer feasible for guardians of religious traditions to protect their young from exposure to the kinds of facts (and, yes, of course, misinformation and junk of every genre) that gently, irresistibly undermine the mindsets requisite for religious fanaticism and intolerance. The religious fervor of today is a last, desperate attempt by our generation to block the eyes and ears of the coming generations, and it isn�??t working. For every well-publicized victory�??the inundation of the Bush administration with evangelicals, the growing number of home schoolers in the USA, the rise of radical Islam, the much exaggerated �??rebound�?? of religion in Russia following the collapse of the Soviet Union, to take the most obvious cases�??there are many less dramatic defeats, as young people quietly walk away from the faith of their parents and grandparents. That trend will continue, especially when young people come to know how many of their peers are making this low-profile choice. Around the world, the category of �??not religious�?? is growing faster than the Mormons, faster than the evangelicals, faster even than Islam, whose growth is due almost entirely to fecundity, not conversion, and is bound to level off soon.

Those who are secular can encourage their own children to drink from the well of knowledge wherever it leads them, confident that only a small percentage will rebel against their secular upbringing and turn to one religion or another. Cults will rise and fall, as they do today and have done for millennia, but only those that can metamorphose into socially benign organizations will be able to flourish. Many religions have already made the transition, quietly de-emphasizing the irrational elements in their heritages, abandoning the xenophobic and sexist prohibitions of their quite recent past, and turning their attention from doctrinal purity to moral effectiveness. The fact that these adapting religions are scorned as former religions by the diehard purists shows how brittle the objects of their desperate allegiance have become. As the world informs itself about these transitions, those who are devout in the old-fashioned way will have to work around the clock to provide attractions, distractions�??and guilt trips�??to hold the attention and allegiance of their children. They will not succeed, and it will not be a painless transition. Families will be torn apart, and generations will accuse each other of disloyalty and worse: the young will be appalled by their discovery of the deliberate misrepresentations of their elders, and their elders will feel abandoned and betrayed by their descendants. We must not underestimate the anguish that these cultural transformations will engender, and we should try to anticipate the main effects and be ready to provide relief and hope for those who are afflicted.

I think the main problem we face today is overreaction, making martyrs out of people who desperately want to become martyrs. What it will take is patience, good information, and a steady demand for universal education about the world�??s religions. This will favor the evolution of avirulent forms of religion, which we can all welcome as continuing parts of our planet�??s cultural heritage. Eventually the truth will set us free.

DANIEL C. DENNETT via Edge.org

Take a Deep Breath

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:31:00 +0000

An interesting attempt to view the workings of life on earth; Breathing Earth is a real-time presentation based on data from the World Factbook and the United Nations that displays the worlds carbon dioxide emissions as well as birth and death rates.

Link - Take a Deep Breath

American Leadership and War

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 20:45:00 +0000

Bible Warning Lable

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 15:09:00 +0000

"I Support The World But I'm Not Going To Serve Because Its Not For Me"

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 00:16:00 +0000

However completely bias this account may be, it definitely shows the outright hippocracy that this country is capable of and that people can and will believe anything.

How to make an Angry American

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:23:00 +0000

Makes you want to stop and think twice about what the government wants you to believe...

glumbert.com - How to make an Angry American

History of Religion

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 03:10:00 +0000

If Your Not Outraged; Your Not Paying Attention

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 22:50:00 +0000

I don't claim to know much but I have seriously thought about the future of America in relation to the rest of the world. However indivisible we think we are as a nation, I think it is necessary to remember that all great empires have fallen. Consistent in all history books are stories of great nations and empires that have ruled much of the known world and yet have fallen victim to such things as dabbling in the wrong part of the world or over stretching their limits. All I can say is that we need to take a serious look at our country and redefine our values as a nation and try to move forward.

clipped from agonist.org

America as a beacon of personal liberty and defender of freedom is like a maiden who has lost her virginity but insists on lecturing all others about her moral superiority.

how are these average Americans, steeped as they are in complete ignorance of the world outside their borders, and utterly unfamiliar with any other language or culture, going to be successful in fighting an insurgency in the Middle East

How can the U.S. be taken seriously in the discussion of Global Warming if its own government is in complete denial of its possibility?

In a functioning democracy there would be outrage over these travesties, demands for a war crimes trial for George Bush and his administration, and insistence that the Republican Party, which has treated the Constitution as if it were toilet paper, put itself out of existence. But this is an America which shudders in fear at the name of Bin Laden, and distracts itself with a fascination for celebrity culture.

"THIS CD HAS BEEN POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL!!"

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:14:00 +0000

Hilarious dialog about a possessed computer...

TRG> so, my mom was putting in her CD with church pics but it wouldn't work on her computer
TRG> so she put it in mine
TRG> now, the last thing I watched on windows media player was hardcore lesbian porn
TRG> that got into the action right away
TRG> so my mom puts in the cd into my computer
TRG> opens up windows media players
TRG> and the porn starts playing
TRG> and when I realized what was happening I was like "oh fuck"
TRG> but then...
TRG> she goes berserk
TRG> she was screaming "THIS CD HAS BEEN POSSESSED BY THE DEVIL!!"
TRG> and she took out a HAMMER
TRG> and smashed the fucking CD
TRG> it was the best thing ever
TRG> not only was I completely off the hook
TRG> you have to love the awesome displays of religious apeshit
TRG> I think if god existed, he put people like my mom on this earth to entertain us

-Original

The Bible Spoiler...

noreply@blogger.com (Ryan) — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:10:00 +0000