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Nucular Maverick comin’ atcha, gosh darn it!

(I posted this as a response to some angry and unpleasant conservative’s blog post comment, and figured if i was going to do any research at all, i may as well reap the benefit of publishing it here as well, since that person might not be able to read very well anyway.)

McCain is 72 and has had melanoma. That means skin cancer. The average life expectancy in the U.S. is currently about 75 years for males. And he was a smoker for many years of his life, quitting in 1980 when he was about 44.

You do the math.

If McCain’s elected, we MAY very well wind up with a backstabbing moron who thinks dinosaurs and humans coexisted a mere few thousand years ago, speaks in tongues, believes in witches, can’t pronounce the name of the thousands of planet-killing warheads she’s going to have her hands all over, and thinks that the END of the fucking WORLD is a GOOD thing(?!!).*

But she winks and says something folksy (meaning, retarded and hillbilly) and mindless Republicans all over the country swoon.

It never fails to shock me how brutally ignorant conservatives are.

 

*in my book, anyone who WANTS the world to end is on the side of evil. Like Doctor Doom evil.

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Nucular Maverick comin’ atcha, gosh darn it!

Originally published at jeremyjarratt.com. You can comment here or there.

(I posted this as a response to some angry and unpleasant conservative’s blog post comment, and figured if i was going to do any research at all, i may as well reap the benefit of publishing it here as well, since that person might not be able to read very well anyway.)

McCain is 72 and has had melanoma. That means skin cancer. The average life expectancy in the U.S. is currently about 75 years for males. And he was a smoker for many years of his life, quitting in 1980 when he was about 44.

You do the math.

If McCain’s elected, we MAY very well wind up with a backstabbing moron who thinks dinosaurs and humans coexisted a mere few thousand years ago, speaks in tongues, believes in witches, can’t pronounce the name of the thousands of planet-killing warheads she’s going to have her hands all over, and thinks that the END of the fucking WORLD is a GOOD thing(?!!).*

But she winks and says something folksy (meaning, retarded and hillbilly) and mindless Republicans all over the country swoon.

It never fails to shock me how brutally ignorant conservatives are.

*in my book, anyone who WANTS the world to end is on the side of evil. Like Doctor Doom evil.

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Sarah Palin: unevolved

So… if Sarah Palin doesn’t believe in evolution… can we call her unevolved?? And nobody even gets upset??? Really?!

So... if Sarah Palin doesn't *BELIEVE* in evolution... can we call her NON-EVOLVED?? And nobody even gets upset??? Really?!
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“Fanatical Ignorance”

Exploring The Creation Museum – America’s New Mecca of Fanatical Ignorance
Excellent article on religious super-fundamentalism!

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Ben Stein: apparently, biggest idiot ever

Ben Stein, who we no doubt all know and love from his appearances on Ferris Bueller’s Day Off and Win Ben Stein’s Money, has made a little movie. It’s called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (my thoughts exactly), and it’s a cute little rickroll of an adventure flick with Pro-Nazi Chuck Darwin leading the hoary brigades on a fell mission of genocide and eugenics. Only problem is, it’s a big fat fart-sucking lie. Unfortunately for Mister Stein, he got all of his facts wrong. Well, nearly all, as the credits (both opening and closing) do appear to be accurate.

Here, then, is Scientific American’s John Rennie and Steve Mirsky, reporting on the pitiful, outright lies perpetrated in this ridiculous movie.

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Spore

Will Wright is an incredible genius! The man behind the “Sim” games, his new game, Spore, is most definitely going to be the most amazing and mind-blowing game ever created. It will be a very, very, very long time before anybody ever tops this one. Watch the entire video to get a sense of the sheer godawful scope of this gargantuan thing. Mere words simply cannot do it justice.

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Evolution

Most Americans Agree with Evolution – that’s a bit of a surprise, given the current climate in this country. Still, assuming you can still find a knuckledragging specimen of evolutionary failure, you can use this Scientific American article to knock them down a rung or fifteen.

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Richard Dawkins versus God

Guess who wins?

The God Delusion

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Denying reality in Washington

Global warming is all in our minds. Also an apparent figment of our imagination: more than 100 people (so far) who have died as a direct cause of the current heat wave sweeping California.

While NASA has actually removed the phrase “to understand and protect our home planet” from its mission statement, an obvious sign that the idiotic monkey-hear, monkey-repeat global-warming deniers in Washington have them under their ridiculously fat thumbs, they’ve also been cutting or delaying programs intended to figure this climate change thing out.

So, has the politicization of science gone from merely hurting children by denying the obvious reality of evolution to actually killing people by denying the obvious reality of the global warming catastrophe?

So who’s on the side of citizenry, if our government wants to roll over and play stupid while we roast in the ever-increasing temperatures that are currently making our little planet a little less inhabitable each day? (Certainly not Republicans, who defiantly show their disgust with the poor by continually voting not to increase the minimum wage, all the while voting to give themselves raises and give tax cuts to the poor rich people in this country.)

What’s the real deal here, then? Is the U.S. government trying to enslave its own people by creating an environment where we have no recourse or protection from calamity without paying? Has America finally been turned over to Big Business? Where has all this incredible ignorance come from, and why is it actively trying to take us back to the Dark Ages, when common people were literally at the mercy of all-powerful tyrants? And how is it that We, the People, are actually letting this happen to us?

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Things Creationists Hate

Things Creationists Hate

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Korea unveil’s world’s 2nd (life-like) android. I had no idea there was another, but there is: it’s Japanese.

Best Buy invaded by faux blueshirts! Hail Eris!

Security guards and managers started talking to each other frantically on their walkie-talkies and headsets. “Thomas Crown Affair! Thomas Crown Affair!,” one employee shouted. They were worried that were using our fake uniforms to stage some type of elaborate heist. “I want every available employee out on the floor RIGHT NOW!”

Student kicked out of private university for – get this – being gay! Honestly, wtf?!

This revolving kitchen is a serious space-saver. How awesome is that?

Superhero underwear fetish spoof! Female superheroes have always been objectified as so much T&A… now male superheroes can be fluffy C&B models!

German superhero Robin Hoods steal gourmet food to give to the poor!

“The Not Your Soldier Project gives youth the tools we need to stop the military invasion of our schools and our communities.”

Creationism dismissed as ‘a kind of paganism’ by Vatican’s astronomer.

Remix My Life in the Bush of Ghosts tracks!

3D pictures of 9/11.

The Skeletor Show. Yup. The Skeletor Show.

Terrorist video game mod is a hoax. Who knew? Anyone with half a brain, that’s who.

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from the Missing Link files: 375 million year old Fishapod fossil discovered. A fish with a freaking neck. Oh, and finger-like bones attached to wrist-like bones. Fuck you, Creationistas! (See also: Ray Troll’s related artwork)

“Dark Miracle: Trinity, the Manhattan Project, and the Birth of the Atomic Age”, a fabulous piece by Josh Ellis (see also: video of Ed Grothus’ Black Hole tour)

SXSW video coverage. Sweet.

Big Brother is (or will soon be) watching you, via SkySeer. Already this drone camera-plane is in use in L.A. skies.

Remember this, GWB? “Leaks of classified information are bad things. We’ve got too much leaking in Washington… I want to know who the leakers are.” Does anyone have a mirror for Mister Bush?

PS3 for $600-700?!

It’s All in the Mind, man: psychedelics research.

Israeli soldier murders journalist. From a related BBC News story:

“The inquest has heard that Mr Miller approached an armoured personnel carrier, carrying a white flag which he shone a torch on, calling out that he was a British journalist and wearing a helmet marked TV. He was shot in the neck, unprotected by his body armour.

He had been attempting to ask for permission to leave the area.”

So, yeah, just keep on supporting Israel, all you Left Behind-reading end-times obsessed know-nothing Revelationist fuckwits.

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The universe just gained a lot of weight: Neutrinos evidently have mass after all.

Speaking of fat: Homer now has to have a bigger screen.

Prayer probably powerless. Having heart surgery? Prayer won’t help you. Looks like regular exercise and a healthier diet is all that can save us now.

“Only three things are certain in life. MySpace, Taxes, and Death.”

Coolest. Case mod. Evar.

Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) on The Future of the Web (w/ mp3).

From the WTF!? files: Flying Spaghetti Monster (anti-ID spoof) on Al-Jazeera. Do not adjust your set; you read that correctly.

“Respectfully missing” David Byrne/Brian Eno …Bush of Ghosts track “Qu’ran” turns up as mp3 on blogs.

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and he’s a Democrat?!

Merrill Keiser Jr. is running for office, and he wants to kill gay people.

seriously: wtf? and what’s with the forfeiting of rights with the “belief” in evolution?

please… if you happen to support this man’s views: don’t vote. you’re an idiot. kill yourself now.

(thanks to the brilliant pope_guilty for the link)