Obama is fair game.
Just think, our best possible outcome is to get another pro-banker militarist in office this year!
Pharyngula
Evolution, development, and random biological ejaculations from a godless liberal
Obama is fair game.
Just think, our best possible outcome is to get another pro-banker militarist in office this year!
I hope so.
Ben Shapiro got his start in right-wing media by justifying Trayvon Martin’s death — from there he’s gone on to make countless Islamophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, and all-around hateful remarks. Here’s how the child violin prodigy became a conservative darling 🎙 @JoeMande pic.twitter.com/D5iaaGoGvH
— NowThis (@nowthisnews) August 20, 2020
All he has as a talent is the ability to talk really fast without thinking.
The Fraternal Order of the Police is very unhappy about this cartoon by David Wayne Fitzsimmons being used in an eighth grade school lesson.
That is an EXCELLENT cartoon. Gold star to the artist and to the teachers! Make sure it goes national!
Oh man but the cops are pissed off. They demanded that the school retract the cartoon and make an apology, which, of course, the craven administrators promptly did.
A police representative accepts their apology, but says, the damage is done.
“It’s completely abhorrent. It’s disturbing and it never should have been included in any kind of assignment,” FOP National Vice President Joe Gamaldi said.
The truth hurts, and it hurts bad. Fuck the cops, make them see the injustice until they cry.
There are two fun projects you can do right now.
At least I’m going to get out and take photos of Minnesota invertebrates today, even though my wife snuck around and erected another bird feeder right outside my office window.
This vertebrate does not count.
It’s not exactly a day of celebration. Apostasy Day is a time to reject oppressive dogmas.
22 August is being chosen as Apostasy Day because it is the UN Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief. Moreover, late August marks the start of a second wave of mass executions of apostates in Iran in 1988 after brief “trials”. Thousands who responded negatively to questions such as ‘Are you a Muslim?’, ‘Do you believe in Allah?’, ‘Is the Holy Qur’an the Word of Allah?’, ‘Do you accept the Holy Muhammad to be the Seal of the Prophets?’, ‘Do you fast during Ramadan?’, ‘Do you pray and read the Holy Qur’an?’ were summarily executed.
On the newly established Apostasy Day, we renew calls for the:
• commemoration of the victims of apostasy laws
• an end to the criminalisation and the death penalty for apostasy in countries under Islamic laws
• an end to shunning, threats and honour-related violence from families of apostates
• affirmation of freedom of thought, conscience and belief as well as opinion and expression in compliance with the United Nation Declaration of Human Rights (Articles 18 & 19).
Speak out! You can add your name to the list of signatories, at the very least.
He’s been arrested for fraud. Is anyone surprised?
Federal prosecutors in New York on Thursday unsealed criminal charges against Stephen K. Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, and three other men they alleged defrauded hundreds of thousands of donors using an online crowdfunding campaign that was advertised as raising money to build a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.
In a news release, prosecutors said Bannon and another organizer of the campaign, Air Force veteran Brian Kolfage, claimed that they would not take any compensation as part of the campaign, called “We Build The Wall,” but that was a lie. Bannon, prosecutors alleged, received more than $1 million through a non-profit he controlled, and Kolfage received more than $350,000.
I think the president and his cronies face the same prospects after the election. The whole kit and kaboodle ought to be arrested now for a lifetime of grift, but somehow, it’s not happening.
I’ve been skipping the Democratic National Convention altogether, since I know exactly how it’s going to turn out, making it a farcical charade, and they’re also bringing on a few people who would do nothing but diminish what little fervor I have for supporting the Democrats at all — so have you seen anything interesting or worthwhile? Any substantive policy discussions, or is it just a long-winded coronation?
Unfortunately, I think the Republican National Convention is going to be far more entertaining, like a reality TV show about passengers on a train hauling full used septic tanks chugging towards a toxic chemical plant fire. I’m almost tempted to tune in.
The Aristocrats!
I stopped believing in gods, but I haven’t yet acquired an appreciation of the cunning work of Satan. I’m kind of liking the view from the intermediate point of evolution, so I don’t know that I’ll ever move on to satanism.
You know the arguments against design are pretty good at defeating Satan, too, right? Maybe we should use that as a selling point more often: “Get an education, Satan hates science!”
They were just soldiers fighting for their country, right? Not Nazis. Comrades in arms, brave fighters, etc.
Three Arrows says no, and I learned a lot of things. The Holocaust and WWII were not separate things.
The officer class was fully enrolled in the antisemitic agenda, and were explicitly committed to genocide and enslavement. They kept their soldiers informed of the same, and they all knew exactly what they were fighting for. In particular, you have to sympathize with how Russia was shaped by this event: the Eastern Front wasn’t just a war, it was a campaign to exterminate the native population and enslave the few survivors to serve as captive labor to German colonizers. The Wehrmacht knew this. How could they not?
Don’t get cocky, fellow Americans. He ends on this quote from an American president.
Ow.
Dinesh D’Souza consistently proves himself to be one of the dumbest political commentators on the planet. He’s gone on the attack against Kamala Harris. His weapon of choice is racism.
A shocking claim was made by American conservative author and commentator Dinesh D’Souza some days ago when he claimed, or, in his words, ‘revealed,’ that Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s nominee for the post of Vice President, is a descendant of one of Jamaica’s slave owners. This has, as expected, caused a storm, especially on social media.
I do have to wonder if the marriage of the white slaveowner to the black woman who was his slave was the social event of the season on Jamaica that year? Or if his black descendants are proud to trace their lineage back to a rapist? As the article points out, though, the relationship is a bit ambiguous, because tracing ancestry through the tangled lines of unacknowledged children of rape is no doubt tricky. Not to D’Souza, though!
Has anyone been watching Lovecraft Country? Phenomenal story, great acting, horrifying monsters, all the stuff we want from Prestige TV on HBO. It’s also centered on the relationship of a black family to a deeply racist community, HP Lovecraft and Lovecraft fans — oh wait, no, I accidentally slipped into the meta dimension there for a minute. The first episode has ended with three black characters, bold people who travel about writing travel guides for other black people, ending up at the door of a mysterious grand mansion deep in a small rural town after harrowing experiences a sundown town, a sadistic sheriff, and a swarm of many-eyed monsters. They are greeted by the whitest, most Aryan-looking dude at the door.
I’ve read the book, so I know what’s next, so I’m about to spill the most minor of spoilers.
