Over at HorsesAss, “Deathfrog” spews: I’m not a Christian. I despise orthodoxy in all its forms. Religion has provided rationales for all sorts of mayhem and shit over the centuries that cannot be fathomed by rational people. I can not, nor will I ever respect a manufactured belief sys[...]
Archive for December, 2013
December 22nd, 2013 - 9:41 am § in Misc.
BARGAINS: Grow Stuff
The Awesome Home Appliance … Especially Where Pot is Legal! AeroGarden 7-Pod Indoor Garden with Gourmet Herb Seed Kit View comments | (283) | Share | �[...]
Anti-Semitic Carol Causes Uproar in Romania
ONLY IN THE CHIMNEY ……….. Advocacy groups are incensed after a Romanian government-owned channel broadcast a Christmas song glorifying the Holocaust and calling for Jews to be burned. The channel is blaming a local group for the performance. more… [ Comment ][...]
December 22nd, 2013 - 8:32 am § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
WHILE AMERICAN ACADEMICS BOYCOTT ISRAEL: Some Call This Slavery
Workers on Abu Dhabi projects including Guggenheim and NYU campus face destitution, internment and deportation The students of NYU Abu Dhabi might be the world’s most pampered undergraduates NYU has come under increasing criticism from faculty, driven by renewed questions about academic fr[...]
December 22nd, 2013 - 4:34 am § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Pope, committed to celibacy, pontificates on God’s will about sex..
LOOKING BACK TO LAST YEAR’s POPE Pope gives special holiday hate speech against gays because it’s Christmas by Kaili Joy Gray[...]
CHINA: Launches satellite for Bolivia
A Chinese Long March-3B carrier rocket blasts off with Bolivia’s first telecommunications satellite on December 21, 2013 from the Xichang satellite launch centre in China’s southwestern Sichuan province. The satellite, which is expected to be operational in March 2014, has cost [...]
December 21st, 2013 - 10:40 am § in Misc.
PRESIDENT ROMNEY: Christmas Vacation Amidst a Family Feud
Playa del Secreto, MEXICO (TA News) — President Romney has begun his annual winter vacation in Mexico. The President (whose father was born in our southern neighbor), first lady Ann Romney and what Press Secretary Tagg Romney calls “The HORDE OF Romney family” landed in Playa del [...]
December 21st, 2013 - 5:52 am § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: The Other Amazon Has Labor Troubles
Brazil World Cup 2014: builders strike at Amazon stadium Work had already been partially suspended at the stadium by a court order Continue reading the main story Construction workers at the World Cup football stadium in the Brazilian city of Manaus have gone on strike demanding better safety condit[...]
December 21st, 2013 - 12:53 am § in Misc.
Shabe Yalda: Happy Midnight in Iran
Iranians to Celebrate Longest Night of Year, Yalda TEHRAN (FNA)- Since many centuries ago Iranians home and abroad stay awake on Yalda night, the year’s longest night, to mark the victory of light over darkness. ( 14:05:49 – 2012/12/20)[...]
Proposed Revisions To UW Faculty Code.
HOW WELL DOES THE UW FACULTY CODE PROTECT ACADEMIC DREEDOM? A proposal (see document) has been sent to the UW faculty to revise our Code to address protections for Faculty Free Speech. My own opinion is that the proposal is weak and may even decrease faculty rights. The UW faculty do not ha[...]