Also, here's a picture of today's delicious kalua pork -- thanks Jay!
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Sunday, July 11, 2010
Getting My Groove Back
Also, here's a picture of today's delicious kalua pork -- thanks Jay!
Monday, March 08, 2010
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Friday, February 19, 2010
Least Effective. Ad Placement. Evar.
At the bottom of a Planet Atheism page in Google Reader -- an ad for Mid-America Christian University.
As if!
- T
Sunday, February 14, 2010
Talk Amongst Yourselves
So, today during church services in a Bay Area church, hooded gunmen entered the church, fired off a bunch of rounds, and wounded two parishioners.
Therefore, either god is all-powerful and knew this was going to happen and did nothing to stop it -- and is obviously evil
OR
he didn't know it was going to happen and took no action, or he knew it was going on and yet didn't have the power to do anything about it -- and either way he is, by all reckoning, not a god.
In the prophetic words of our savior Linda Richmond, "Talk amongst yourselves."
Saturday, January 02, 2010
Happy 2010 To All
Simples Neujahrslied
Vorüber ist das alte Jahr,
Ich wünsche Glück zum neun!
Was euch das alte noch nicht war,
Soll euch das neue sein.
Ich greife zu dem vollen Glas,
Und trink es aus und sag,
Ich wünsche Jedem Alles was
Er selbst sich wünschen mag.
Ich wünsch euch Alles, was auch euch
Befriediget und reizt,
Und dass mit euern Wünschen sich
Der meinen keiner kreuzt!
So treten wir ins neue Jahr
Getrosten Mutes ein -
Und was im alten noch nicht war,
Erfülle sich im neun!
- Ludwig Eichrodt, 1827-1892
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Happy Halloween!
I haven't posted in a while and, since it's now Halloween (albeit very early in the morning), I thought I'd post a creepy picture to entertain ya. Plus, it goes along with the zombie jesus theme of the previous post.
(It was either this or some cannibalism image of a bunch of christians chomping down on their savior, but I though the zombie image was more Halloween-y.)
- T
Zombie Jesus: Only the Living Dead Can Give You Eternal Life
Photo © istockphoto/Birgitte Magnus; Poster © Austin ClineTuesday, August 11, 2009
Friday, June 26, 2009
Kook Christians, YOU ARE WICKED AND YOU SUCK!
From God Is For Suckers: a disgusting example of Christianity's backwards, 15th-Century attitudes and practices - - in the year 2009.
Just try and tell me there is anything redeeming about a religion that treats people -- no, CHILDREN -- in this way.
I demand you Christians never speak another word of proselytization to ANYONE until you freaks clean your own house. This includes ANY form of child abuse: the laying on of hands instead of the use of modern medicine, forcing children to attend your weird worship services, demanding your children wear religious garb of any sort in order to make them the laughing-stock of their peers -- I'm talkin' to you, yarmulke and burka fashion disasters.
And, most of all, torturing your children because they may exhibit signs of being -- GASP! -- gay or lesbian.
How dare you bring your ridiculous ancient beliefs into our modern world. Leave these silly, dangerous activities in the caves of the Negev Desert where they came from.
- T
Just try and tell me there is anything redeeming about a religion that treats people -- no, CHILDREN -- in this way.
I demand you Christians never speak another word of proselytization to ANYONE until you freaks clean your own house. This includes ANY form of child abuse: the laying on of hands instead of the use of modern medicine, forcing children to attend your weird worship services, demanding your children wear religious garb of any sort in order to make them the laughing-stock of their peers -- I'm talkin' to you, yarmulke and burka fashion disasters.
And, most of all, torturing your children because they may exhibit signs of being -- GASP! -- gay or lesbian.
How dare you bring your ridiculous ancient beliefs into our modern world. Leave these silly, dangerous activities in the caves of the Negev Desert where they came from.
- T
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Peggy Noonan Steps In It ('it' being shit)
Oh, Peggy Noonan.... As the leader of your Grizzled Old Party, Michael Steele, so eloquently put it: you've 'stepped in it big time' this time, haven't you?
Speaking Sunday the 17th of May on Meet The Press, Peg was expounding on the way 'forward' for the Republican Party. She'd just finished telling us all what a big tent the Republican Party was and what big tent poles the Republicans are when she then said this:
MS. NOONAN: I think the way for it to go is to try to be serious with regard to Mr. Obama's proposals, react seriously, react by speaking the English language--which is something the administration has, has not been doing so good--and by tying all of its views to philosophy in a way that is understandable to normal human beings.
Really? REALLY?!
Nooner, you really thinks that the current administration has not been speaking the English language 'good'?! Really.
First off, Nooner: the word you were stuttering about trying to find is 'well', not 'good'. I believe most 4th or 5th grade students in the US learn not to use an adjective when an adverb is required.
Second: just where have you been during the past 4 months?!? Have you heard ANY of the speeches the current President has given?!? How about his acceptance speech in Chicago last November?!? Maybe you heard the speech he gave during the inauguration?!? No? Been hiding out somewhere licking your GOP wounds with cotton in your ears?!?
And third: have you developed some debilitating form of memory loss? Have you so quickly forgotten the blundering, floundering, stammering fool your party propped up as president for the previous eight years?!
Have you forgotten such wonderful quotables as:
I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.
I've been in the Bible every day since I've been the president.
We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood.
I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it.
And we mustn't forget the cream of the crop:
They misunderestimated me.
There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.
Before I arrived in President, During I arrived in President.
And my personal all-time favorite:
I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.
So, Ms. Noonan, mind your p's and q's and adverbs and adjectives, retract your statement about the current administration's English - - and, most of all, do NOT forget what tormented language the most recent GOP president spoke while making our ears bleed.
- T
Speaking Sunday the 17th of May on Meet The Press, Peg was expounding on the way 'forward' for the Republican Party. She'd just finished telling us all what a big tent the Republican Party was and what big tent poles the Republicans are when she then said this:
MS. NOONAN: I think the way for it to go is to try to be serious with regard to Mr. Obama's proposals, react seriously, react by speaking the English language--which is something the administration has, has not been doing so good--and by tying all of its views to philosophy in a way that is understandable to normal human beings.
Really? REALLY?!
Nooner, you really thinks that the current administration has not been speaking the English language 'good'?! Really.
First off, Nooner: the word you were stuttering about trying to find is 'well', not 'good'. I believe most 4th or 5th grade students in the US learn not to use an adjective when an adverb is required.
Second: just where have you been during the past 4 months?!? Have you heard ANY of the speeches the current President has given?!? How about his acceptance speech in Chicago last November?!? Maybe you heard the speech he gave during the inauguration?!? No? Been hiding out somewhere licking your GOP wounds with cotton in your ears?!?
And third: have you developed some debilitating form of memory loss? Have you so quickly forgotten the blundering, floundering, stammering fool your party propped up as president for the previous eight years?!
Have you forgotten such wonderful quotables as:
I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system.
I've been in the Bible every day since I've been the president.
We've got a lot of relations with countries in our neighborhood.
I don't particularly like it when people put words in my mouth, either, by the way, unless I say it.
And we mustn't forget the cream of the crop:
They misunderestimated me.
There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.
Before I arrived in President, During I arrived in President.
And my personal all-time favorite:
I know how hard it is for you to put food on your family.
So, Ms. Noonan, mind your p's and q's and adverbs and adjectives, retract your statement about the current administration's English - - and, most of all, do NOT forget what tormented language the most recent GOP president spoke while making our ears bleed.
- T
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Thank You, Robert Ingersoll
Secularism means food and fireside, roof and raiment, reasonable work and reasonable leisure, the cultivation of the tastes, the acquisition of knowledge, the enjoyment of the arts, and it promises for the human race comfort, independence, intelligence, and above all liberty. It means the abolition of sectarian feuds, of theological hatreds. It means the cultivation of friendship and intellectual hospitality. It means the living for ourselves and each other; for the present instead of the past, for this world rather than for another.- Robert Ingersoll
Sunday, April 19, 2009
American Religious Identification Survey
I'm a bit behind-the-times here. The results of this survey have been out for a few weeks now.
Life's busy, work's busy.... Too much going on in a too-short 24-hour day. (Can you say "VACATION!"? Because I need one....)
Nonetheless, from Newsweek:
According to the American Religious Identification Survey that got Mohler's attention, the percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 percentage points since 1990, from 86 to 76 percent. The Jewish population is 1.2 percent; the Muslim, 0.6 percent. A separate Pew Forum poll echoed the ARIS finding, reporting that the percentage of people who say they are unaffiliated with any particular faith has doubled in recent years, to 16 percent; in terms of voting, this group grew from 5 percent in 1988 to 12 percent in 2008—roughly the same percentage of the electorate as African-Americans. (Seventy-five percent of unaffiliated voters chose Barack Obama, a Christian.) Meanwhile, the number of people willing to describe themselves as atheist or agnostic has increased about fourfold from 1990 to 2009, from 1 million to about 3.6 million. (That is about double the number of, say, Episcopalians in the United States.)
Bold emphasis mine.
See the entire article here.
- T
Life's busy, work's busy.... Too much going on in a too-short 24-hour day. (Can you say "VACATION!"? Because I need one....)
Nonetheless, from Newsweek:
According to the American Religious Identification Survey that got Mohler's attention, the percentage of self-identified Christians has fallen 10 percentage points since 1990, from 86 to 76 percent. The Jewish population is 1.2 percent; the Muslim, 0.6 percent. A separate Pew Forum poll echoed the ARIS finding, reporting that the percentage of people who say they are unaffiliated with any particular faith has doubled in recent years, to 16 percent; in terms of voting, this group grew from 5 percent in 1988 to 12 percent in 2008—roughly the same percentage of the electorate as African-Americans. (Seventy-five percent of unaffiliated voters chose Barack Obama, a Christian.) Meanwhile, the number of people willing to describe themselves as atheist or agnostic has increased about fourfold from 1990 to 2009, from 1 million to about 3.6 million. (That is about double the number of, say, Episcopalians in the United States.)
Bold emphasis mine.
See the entire article here.
- T
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Thursday, March 05, 2009
Great SD Blog!
Hey, 619ers! Got a great blog for ya to read. This guy covers new plans and projects around the city, new architecture, restaurants, etc.
His most recent entry is about Seaport Village -- and mirrors what I've been thinking for a while. (Which is: "What is this great stretch of San Diego bayfront property doing masquerading as a Fresno strip mall?" [No offense intended, Fresnonians!])
And, no -- I'm not a fan of the all-lower-case style. But, since I really like the content, I can read past it.
- T
His most recent entry is about Seaport Village -- and mirrors what I've been thinking for a while. (Which is: "What is this great stretch of San Diego bayfront property doing masquerading as a Fresno strip mall?" [No offense intended, Fresnonians!])
And, no -- I'm not a fan of the all-lower-case style. But, since I really like the content, I can read past it.
- T
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