Today at school I was finishing my third paper for my English class. It's a critique of an essay in our textbook, and mine was one I chose at semi-random, called "The Galileo of Global Warming." When it's done and turned in, I may post it, but right now I wanna tell you about the little bit of research I was doing on the article itself.

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Back in 2002, Binyam Mohamed was captured in Karachi, Pakistan for collaborating in an alleged terrorist plot with actual terrorist Jose Padilla. After spending time in prisons in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Morocco, Mohamed was finally transferred to Gitmo in 2004 as part of extraordinary rendition, and all the while he was tortured repeatedly ( Read more... )

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Didn't we have a Supreme Court ruling for this like 40 years ago?

A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have. Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do ( Read more... )

YOUR LORD AND SAVIOUR

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I say we should consult Brother Maynard on this.

YES! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!

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Funny, I never pictured Satan with manboobs. But I figured he'd fuck hippos.

The third and final part in this series I drew from this dude's forum post. The first two are here, "Tuned In" and here, "Supernaturally Yours,"

Later while talking with me, he attempts to call the Big Bang a miracle:

[W]hatever sparked the Big Bang had to have been outside the laws of physics ( Read more... )

Hey I need this... to keep up with my crazy:

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Warning: Another long post, though given the subject it's hard to say how it can be short.

Last year I wrote this article on the various forms of creationism, inspired from Brain Dunning excellent Skeptoid episode on it, and how, when people refers to themselves as "creationists", they aren't all followers of Kent Hovind or Ken Ham. However, the ( Read more... )

Because I don't need God ( Read more... )