You can see all six videos as a YouTube playlist here.

No evidence, huh?

By Judith Shapiro

In 1963, when I was graduating from college, a book was published entitled Anti-Intellectualism in American Life, by the noted historian Richard Hofstadter.

In exploring anti-intellectualism as a major current of American culture, Hofstadter examined various facets of our nation’s history over time. He described how those living in rural areas grew suspicious of urban life. He analyzed how utilitarianism and practicality, associated with the world of business, were accompanied by a certain contempt for the life of the mind. He devoted special attention to evangelicalism, although we should perhaps more specifically define his target as fundamentalism, a literal-minded approach to the Bible that involved hostility to all forms of knowledge that contradicted scripture or sought to interpret it as a set of historical documents reflecting the context of its production. He noted how all of this combined to make the term “elite” a dirty word.

This exploration of American national character, which was very much a product of his times, notably the atmosphere of fear and distrust that characterized the Cold War, is still quite timely today. Which is why I felt compelled to re-read Hofstadter’s book last summer. And why I was particularly interested in reading an update and homage to Hofstadter by Susan Jacoby, whose book The Age of American Unreason was published just this year.

Jacoby brings Hofstadter’s arguments into the present, illustrating them with examples from the times in which we live today. She talks about the powerful role played by fundamentalist forms of religion in current America; about the abysmal level of public education; about the widespread inability to distinguish between science and pseudoscience; about the dumbing-down of the media and politics; about the consequences of a culture of serious reading being replaced by a rapid-fire, short-attention-span-provoking, over-stimulating, largely visual, information-spewing environment.

She, like Hofstadter, invites us to consider how all of this has affected the great venture that is American democracy? So, let us do so.""

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The other day I was reading a blog that piqued my interest on a debate between Dinesh D'Souza and Christopher Hitchens, a Christian and Atheist debater, respectively. Naturally, I googled them to find out more which led me to these debates on Youtube. The entire debate spans over 90 minutes so it's a bit lengthy but well worth the watch.

"Hitchens, D'Souza Debate Book TV"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-NduvegITQ

I thought both sides had some pretty good points based on their perspectives. I would love to see the both of them sit down for a day and just work through their entire lifetime of experiences that has brought them to where they're at now. I guess, for me, it always comes back to the relational aspect. As riveting as the debate is, I'd love to see some sort of connection beyond arguing. Personally, I don't think you're ever going to convince or win over someone like Hitchens with words or debate alone. There has to be something beyond that. A supernatural experience perhaps? Or maybe just genuine, Christian love.

One of the things I'm not fond of during debates/arguments is it's hard to sympathize with the opposing side without somehow conveying that as weakness or guilt. Neither side can really give any slack or even function in humility because it's viewed as defeat. Although, I think it goes a long way to own up for the things we haven't got right. When you have a certain level of honesty and transparency to you I think people feel more comfortable and can drop their guard. Again, it brings it closer to this relational aspect I care so much about.

So if anyone actually has the time to watch the debate in its entirety or has previously seen it I'd love to see what you think.

Note: the debate spans ten separate ten minute videos so be sure to find and view them in sequential order. ]]> http://ld624.wordpress.com/?p=37 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:49:18 +0000 ld624 http://ld624.wordpress.com/?p=37

John McCain is interested in creating lots of industry in AMERICA. This is the best thing about him. He cares about US! And he wants to foster tremendous innovation here, in terms of how we produce ENERGY. He is aware that we need both short and long term plans for this, and so he offers actual SOLUTIONS for right now!

I feel that John McCain is thinking "America First" when I look at this ad. He is a maverick who won't play along the pork barrel party line, like others have and are. We need a President we can TRUST. McCain's stance is solid, balanced, and he brings fresh ideas in a time when American's need a joyful burst of cultural Nationalism. This makes him a rogue, but also, VISIONARY!

One thing I loved in this ad above, was the honeycomb motif. I think all the time about the "colony collapse" disorder facing our bees, globally. To see this in the ad, shows me that the Republican Party is also aware of this. McCain has to manage the "old grid" while building "the new grid." His nature is PROGRESSIVE, BALANCED, INTEGRATED and PLANNED.

Here is what he had to say over at the The Wall Street Journal right before the Fourth of July:

“...To get our economy back on track, we must enact a jobs-first economic plan that supports job creation, provide immediate tax relief for families, enact a plan to help those facing foreclosure, lower health care costs, invest in innovation, move toward strategic energy independence and open more foreign markets to our goods,” McCain said in a statement..."

When I read this next part of the article it was music to my ears, and I bet, music to a lot of Green Progressives' ears as well! He believes in Green Ideas for the long run in our country. Since we have such VAST resources available in terms of solar (the sun in our deserts) wind, (our deserts, mountains and passes) and water (the sea, and our rivers) McCain will COMMAND all of these natural forces to produce the energy AMERICA needs.

"...He acknowledged the challenges facing the U.S. economy, and reiterated his plan to use energy alternatives to boost the economy. “I believe the green technologies in the United States of America will create millions of jobs, if not hundreds of thousands. I believe that green technologies — whether it be nuclear power or hybrid cars, or battery-driven cars, or wind and solar or tide – are directly the factor that will improve America’s economy and get us on our feet again,” McCain said..."

Using the power of the sea and tides is a very positive step to a green future. I was thinking of the time McCain was at sea in the Navy, from his book "Faith of my Fathers" and so I wondered about how the Navy under John McCain's expert command, might take a look at this video, to see what is being done already to harness the immense power of the sea. This could be a part of McCain's extraordinary LEXINGTON PROJECT in the future, perhaps... (we already have such an incredible Navy!)...

Another look at this from "GreenPeace".... Progressives... and how it looks in action...

The place with Green Spirit, and renewables is here at "The National Renewable Energy Laboratory"

We already have the technologies available! McCain could harness all of this!

hat tip to: THE BLUE PLANET (Dynamics of the Oceans)

Things Bill Moyers had to say off "Grist" are here... it's a good piece for Greens, and new Green Republicans...

Now Hear This

an excerpt:

"...Meanwhile, over a billion people have no safe drinking water. We're dumping 500 million tons of hazardous waste into the Earth every year. In the last hundred years alone we've lost over 2 billion hectares of forest, our fisheries are collapsing, our coral reefs are dying because of human activity. These are facts. So what are the administration and Congress doing? They're attacking the cornerstones of environmental law: the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, NEPA [the National Environmental Policy Act]. They are allowing l7,000 power plants to create more pollution. They are opening public lands to exploitation..."

My sense is that McCain is both practical and a PROGRESSIVE at heart. Hence THE LEXINGTON PROJECT!

Coming from the same time Moyers did, Progressive Republicans would want the same reforms as Greens I bet. It's just that we all are aware of what faces our planet, right now. How to emerge from an "old grid" to a "new grid" is what McCain will be best at shepherding. It's on his web page, for all of us to see...

I think a lot of us feel very scared about nuclear, because of the waste. Could that industry make the shift, using all its engineers to a different model? Here is more on the power of the Ocean from "The Ocean Energy Council."

"...The waters off the Pacific Northwest are ideal for tapping into an ocean of power using newly developed undersea turbines. The tides along the Northwest coast fluctuate dramatically, as much as 12 feet a day. The coasts of Alaska, British Columbia and Washington, in particular, have exceptional energy-producing potential. On the Atlantic seaboard, Maine is also an excellent candidate. The undersea environment is hostile so the machinery will have to be robust.

Currently, although the technology required to harness tidal energy is well established, tidal power is expensive, and there is only one major tidal generating station in operation. This is a 240 megawatt (1 megawatt = 1 MW = 1 million watts) at the mouth of the La Rance river estuary on the northern coast of France (a large coal or nuclear power plant generates about 1,000 MW of electricity). The La Rance generating station has been in operation since 1966 and has been a very reliable source of electricity for France. La Rance was supposed to be one of many tidal power plants in France, until their nuclear program was greatly expanded in the late 1960's. Elsewhere there is a 20 MW experimental facility at Annapolis Royal in Nova Scotia, and a 0.4 MW tidal power plant near Murmansk in Russia. UK has several proposals underway..."

John McCain has already proven that he is concerned about conserving our natural resources, and he cares about the BEAUTY we in the WEST care so deeply about. Here is his take on that, from his own web page!

Stewards of Our Nation's Rich Natural Heritage

"...John McCain has a proud record of common sense stewardship. Along with his commitment to clean air and water, and to conserving open space, he has been a leader on the issue of global warming with the courage to call the nation to action on an issue we can no longer afford to ignore.

America has been blessed with a rich and diverse natural heritage. In the tradition of his hero, Theodore Roosevelt, John McCain believes that we are vested with a sacred duty to be proper stewards of the resources upon which the quality of American life depends. Ensuring clean air, safe and healthy water, sustainable land use, ample greenspace - and the faithful care and management of our natural treasures, including our proud National Park System - is a patriotic responsibility. One that must be met not only for the benefit of our generation, but for our children and those to whom we will pass the American legacy..."

Click on that link above and you can watch him speak in a video, right on the page!

They don't call John McCain "The Straight Talk Express" for nothing. This is why people LOVE him, especially reporters. He isn't going to doublespeak. He isn't going to waffle around, hoodwink, baffle or bamboozle AMERICA.

He's a WESTERNER. HE HAS ETHICS! He has CHARACTER! He is going to be honest with Americans, and straight with his plans. Don't miss his video! And read about how he feels about the earth!

A WESTERNER IS ALWAYS GOING TO GIVE YOU STRAIGHT TALK! ALWAYS!

That's why I place my trust in John McCain, why I have left the Democratic Party, and have decided to devote my energy and ideas to the GREEN REPUBLICANS from now on! I have seen the absolute corruption within the Democratic Party and its Dirty Politics. I don't want any part of that, EVER AGAIN.

As far as I am concerned Hillary and Bill Clinton were the last decent Democrats. And the Democratic Party tried to ruin Hillary, before my very eyes in 2008.

I'm picking a PRESIDENT who understands just what we need in America. John McCain!

This is a platform I can believe in!

"REFORM, PROSPERITY, PEACE"

]]> http://thankyoubetheajenner.wordpress.com/?p=119 Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:10:50 +0000 Bethea Jenner http://thankyoubetheajenner.wordpress.com/?p=119 "Thank you, Bethea for your continued words of support and wisdom. I am indeed very grateful for such useful and valuable "eye openers" I have had the pleasure and benefit of applying to my daily life. Thanks, again

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Well, if you're an atheist then you must naturally find some falsehood in the Christian claim for the existence of their God. You can argue it philosophically or through science. It's really easy to find fallacies and contradictions in their belief on your own, there are so many.

First off you have to know that it is the duty of the person making a claim to prove it, not the person in disbelief. So logically the first argument is there is no evidence of their God.

They make scientific claims that God is the creator of everything in the universe and argue in particular earth's creation. Since referring to the bible as evidence would be a circular argument, they either use the philosophical argument called "the watch maker argument", whose author is William Paley or the psudoscientific of "intelligent design". The" watch maker" is the origin of "intelligent design", a very old argument put to rest long ago disguised as science. He compares the complexity of a watch to that of the universe and thus since a watch has an intelligent maker (humans) so must the universe. Paley's argument was thoroughly put to rest by another philosopher named David Hume, 40 years before Paley even wrote it. Paley's biggest mistake is in the comparison of the two. If comparing two objects, the strength of your argument relies on how similar the two items are, thus this argument is considered very weak. You can obviously notice how disparate the two are. Secondly, he fails to realize that one can obtain similar results from different causes. For example, you can die from a viral infection or in a car crash. Very different causes same result. So there is an obvious error in presuming the universe and a watch have similar causes. This argument is seen in many versions; many replace the watch with paintings of the Mona Lisa or a Coke-Cola can. They will say things like "it's obvious something intelligent created this". However the fundamental errors are the same. This is a very brief summary; you should go more into depth.

Since we live in the age of science and information, the biblical account of creation can be put to shame. Of course, the theory of evolution is the most opposed to by Christians because it is the most threatening to their entire dogma. Not just because it proves the bible is an unreliable source of information and not the word of an all knowing God, but because it supports the idea that we are here without the aid or over sight of a deity. No need for a God to explain our origins. It also takes away from the anthropocentric view of Christian religion. We are not the reason why the universe exists and it does not exist for us. Humans are not any more special in origin than any other animal. We were not created in God's image and frankly there is no heavenly purpose to life other than the one you give yourself, not to mention how impersonal God would be if despite the evidence he existed. It also obliterates their dogma; with out original sin what need for Jesus is there?

Genetic and geographic evidence both support evolution and rebut creation. Different animals fossils are specific to different layers of earth. Each layer of earth is equivalent to a specific time period in earth's history. Humans are found in the upper most layers indicating that they arrived later in earth's history. If the biblical account of creation were to be true, all animals should be found in all the different layers since they were all created relatively simultaneously. Which is why the biblical creation myth does not prove true and is why human remains are not found alongside a dinosaurs'. Genetically we are almost identical to chimpanzees and bonobos. We share 98-99% similar DNA with them, implying we shared a common ancestor. This does not mean we came from monkeys, it means we are evolutionarily related. Just like you and you cousins share a common relative. There is a plethora of evidence sustaining evolution and refuting creation, check them out. Don't be scared by "intelligent arguments", like "there is no instance where genetic information is added to DNA sequence in any natural process", "there aren't any transitional fossils "or "evolution has never been witnessed". These are false, check out www.EvoWiki.com for reference. Most of the time, Christians are ill informed or repeat lies and misconceptions of evolution. Know your shit if you don't want to look stupid and leave Christians with the illusion that truth has triumphed. Remember that the fallacy they live by is: if you can't explain or answer a question, they are right by default. Which is a warped assumption since the burden of proof is on the person making the claim; it's not your burden to prove God doesn't exist. There are stock piles of science that refutes biblical claims.

Thirdly most common argument is that of morality. Where does morality come from? What is moral? Again if you can't answer they assume they are right by default. These philosophical questions were addressed by Plato in his classic work "Euthyphro" (www.wikipedia.com ), where Socrates is famously quoted as asking "Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious? Or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?" In Greek, piety meant more than just religious devotion; it was more along the lines of justice and morality. The second part of the question is called the "God command theory", implying that an action is deemed moral or virtuous merely because God says so. In which case, any action can be moral regardless if it is unjust and causes undeserved pain and suffering. There is no clear way of defining what is moral if this is the argument made, there is no reference to judge actions by, one is even unable to judge if God is all-good or evil. This way of thinking has been adopted my Islamic terrorist who defend their actions as righteous because God approves it in the Koran. The first half of Socrates question implies that God approves of morality because of its intrinsic virtue, meaning that morality exists independent of God's judgment. This allows us to define morality by use of reason. If this is true, what need for God is there?

A general rule of thumb for knowing what moral is "The Golden Rule", "do onto others as one would have others do onto you". Of course Christians would claim that this is biblical and thus commanded by God. But the Idea transcends religion. In essence this has its origin in empathy, In other words, placing oneself in another person's place. This is not original to Christianity; in fact it's not even original to the human species. Primates such as chimps, gorillas and bonobos have been observed as showing this trait. There is an account in Frans de Waal's book "Our inner ape", where a bonobo rescues a bird that had flown into the wall of his enclosure. The bird was in shock and could not fly. The bonobo gently picks the bird up and climbs to the top of a tree and releases the bird. The bird falls but the bonobo continued to look after the bird, protecting it from a younger curious bonobo until the bird regained its motor skills and flew away.

Another account in his book is that of an 8 Year old gorilla coming to the aid of a 3 year old boy who has fallen into her enclosure and was injured. The gorilla runs to the boys rescue, cradles him in her arms and begins to pat his back; later giving the boy up to Zoo attendants. The truth is empathy is a trait we have inherited from our evolutionary ancestors. We are predisposed to empathetic behavior, but our environment, circumstance, and culture influences are behavior. Also empathy is not an absolute we are also able to be apathetic and cruel. Morality is much more complex of a subject and the Golden rule is much too general to encompass all our social scenarios. This is where philosophy and reason play their part is solving the moral conundrums that plague our world. In all honesty morality is a highly debated subject by philosophers. There are debates such as Utilitarianism versus individual rights. However the ground work has been accomplished through reason not divine intervention.

Last but not least is a classic argument specific to the monotheist Judeo-Christian religions. Their belief is that of God who is Omniscient, Omnipotent, and Omnibenevolent. There is an obvious discrepancy in this absolutist view of God. We live in a world full of evil, which is defined as undeserved pain and suffering inflicted by other humans as well as natural disasters like famine and volcanoes. If God is all-good then how can he allow evil to exist. Either he is not all good or he is not powerful enough to stop it. It is either one or the other but he logically cannot be both. This concepts brings about questions like "if God is all-powerful could he make a mountain he could not move", if he can't make one he is not all powerful and if he can't move it he is not all powerful. Similar questions can be asked about his "all-knowing" mind.

The truth is Christians rarely come up with original arguments. They repeat the same old mistakes they made in the past. Unlike science that is always expanding its knowledge of our universe, this religion is stagnant and encapsulated in the same old rhetoric and presumptions. Don't be surprised if you find yourself shaking your head, rolling your eyes and yawning in a debate. I call their faith a delusion because they maintain their belief despite of overwhelming evidence and rational ineptitudes of their dogma. They lack the ability to be objective and self-reflective. Reality is relative to what they want it to be and not what it actually is. Some compartmentalize their faith, as I once did; the laws of logical reasoning expire at the gates of their faith.

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Voilà donc un autre fait marquant en faveur des autoroutes en super-2.  Avec seulement deux voies, sur une seule chaussée, veux, veux pas, on ne peut pas faire des miracles.  Mais au lieu de dévier la circulation, dans la direction la moins fréquentée, par les routes 232, et 132, afin de contourner le chantier, et laisser l'unique voie disponible en mouvement, on a préféré fonctionner comme sur un vulgaire chemin de campagne, où il passe trois véhicules à l'heure.  L'enquête dira ce que faisait le conducteur du camion-remorque qui est venu faucher les véhicules en attente, mais il est d'ores et déjà clair, dans la tête de beaucoup de gens, que c'est encore "un de ces maudits camions dangereux, qui prennent la route pour eux tout seuls".  Évidemment.  Ça saute aux yeux.  Pourtant, aucun ingénieur intelligent ne mettrait en place de la circulation en alternance sur une autoroute.  Qu'est-ce que ça fait là, de la circulation en alternance, sur une autoroute?

À moins qu'il ne passe que trois véhicules à l'heure, sur l'A-20, à Rimouski...

J'aimerais bien voir la ministre, Julie Boulet, aller dire aux membres de la famille de la victime de ce carambolage que les autoroutes en super-2 sont effectivement des routes sécuritaires, juste pour voir la réaction, dans leur visage.  Bien sûr, madame la ministre ne se prêtera pas à ce genre d'exercice.

Alors ceux qui croient que la future A-50, entre Gatineau et Lachute, sera une belle route sécuritaire, je vous propose de bien lire ces articles, ci-haut mentionnés, parce que vous risquez de voir, à la télé, ou d'entendre, à la radio, en attendant de lire, dans les journaux du lendemain, des nouvelles du même genre.  Et cela parce que des in-gné-gneurs se disent que l'on peut faire de la circulation en alternance sur une autoroute sécuritaire, construite en super-2.

Dr. Seuss goes Science and Slams Intelligent Design in a fun slide show.

Arianna Huffington, eine Griechin, die es irgendwann einmal nach Amerika gezogen ist, hat mit ihrem Blog die gesamte Medienwelt umgekrempelt. Während des demokratischen Vorwahlkampfes haben Obama und Clinton, noch bevor sie sich an die NYTimes oder ähnliches wandten, ihre Standpunkte in den Huffington Post erklärt.

Der Blog solle nun einen Marktwert von über 200 Millionen Dollar haben, durch den Präsidentschaftswahlkampf wird dieser Wert wahrscheinlich sogar noch steigen. Und obwohl man bemerkt, dass Obama der Wunschpräsident der Redakteure der Huffington Post ist, berichten sie auch objektiv über McCain und kritisieren, wie auch jetzt gerade unter dem Titel "Moving to the middle is for Losers", Mister Obama.

Ich bin beeindruckt, welche Fähigkeiten in Blogs vorhanden sind. Sie können Leute mobilisieren und Meinung machen. Natürlich ist diese Macht auch gefährlich, aber im Medium Blog gibt es noch so unglaublich viele Möglichkeiten. Und Miss Huffington ist jetzt wenigstens auch reich. Und nicht nur reich, sondern mächtig.

Huffington Post

1. Improving the customer experience, enterprise-wide.




2. Implementing an intelligent, multi-channel communications approach.




3. Demystifying and leveraging Web 2.0 technologies such as social networks and online communities.

It’s no coincidence that points 2 and 3 really tie into, and support, the overall customer experience agenda.

As these themes unfolded it was clear the Financial Services industry shares some things in common with an industry Knotice is very familiar with: Cable and Telecom.

A short list of some of the traits and challenges the Financial Services industry and the Cable and Telecom industry share:

• Both providers typically index very low in overall customer satisfaction surveys. On average, customers just don’t like their providers.




• Both legal and regulatory compliance issues beyond those of most other industries.




• Both have a relatively limited portfolio of services and products (lines of business), with marketing success tied closely to cross-selling these services to all customers.




• Both industries widely recognize the need to break down silos between lines of business to enable a more cohesive and customer-centric communications approach.




• Both are taking a closer look at some key Web 2.0 technologies and wondering aloud, “Is there value in this for our customers and for our brand?”

Take a close look and ask yourself, “Is there value in this for our customers and for our brand?”

What we know from our legacy in Cable and Telecom is that relevant communications can drive effective marketing while at the same time improving the overall customer experience. There is a very simple litmus test. Simply ask, “Does this tactic add value for our customers?” If a marketer takes an unfocused or lazy approach to development of the message and targeting requirements the answer, with few exceptions, will be, “No, this is not valuable to our customers.” The communication is serving the marketer’s interests only.

When communication is carefully planned, business rules are clearly followed, there is a targeted execution to ensure relevancy – a well-timed cross-sell offer, for instance – the answer is usually, “Yes, this adds value for our customers.” We find that this approach, with a simple litmus test to validate, meets the marketer’s goals.

This is the first of three posts from Bryce Marshall highlighting some key insights from Forrester Research's Financial Services Forum Jun 23-24, 2008.

In an article of his, he talks about the Higgs boson and completely distorts what the Higgs boson actually is. It's not a particle to prove god. It's something that exists in the insane field of quantum physics. The physics of how things work at a sub-atomic level. Quantum physics is largely theoretical, so we're still trying to directly prove something that we know exists via mathematics.

But what is it?

The answer can be found by doing something called a google search. I found this through a google search that lead me to Wikipedia:

The Higgs boson (sometimes referred to as the God particle by the media) is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics. It is the only Standard Model particle not yet observed, but would help explain how otherwise massless elementary particles still manage to construct mass in matter. In particular, it would explain the difference between the massless photon and the relatively massive W and Z bosons. Elementary particle masses, and the differences between electromagnetism (caused by the photon) and the weak force (caused by the W and Z bosons), are critical to many aspects of the structure of microscopic (and hence macroscopic) matter; thus, if it exists, the Higgs boson has an enormous effect on the world around us.

Source: Wikipedia, Higgs boson

In normal human terms, the Higgs boson is what keeps all matter in the universe together. If you look deep enough, you'll find that everything is made of... nothing! Usually I lose people after that part, so if you're still with me, what we find when we look deep enough in something is that there's empty space. A ton of it. So much empty space that you could essentially equate it with infinity. This, as you can imagine, is a big, big problem. The Higgs boson was calculated mathematically to exist as the force that keeps everything in the universe afloat. Nothing exists, but the Higgs boson keeps all of this nothingness together.

Still with me? No? I'm not either, don't worry.

Quantum mechanics (and physics) is probably the weirdest thing in the universe. Erm, literally. You want to explain something you can't see? Invoke quantum physics to explain it until you can. Most insulting is that Rush trivializes all of the hard work in order to prove these theoretical particles:

"The 78-year-old's original efforts in the early 1960s to explain why the force, dubbed the Higgs field, must exist were dismissed at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research.  Today, the existence of the invisible field is widely accepted by scientists, who believe it came into being milliseconds after the Big Bang created the universe--" there's no way that anybody could possibly know this.

Again, mathematical calculations are central to science. Einstein, before being able to prove the existence of things such as black holes, proved them with mathematical calculations. By the logic of Mr. Limbaugh, there's no way that Einstein actually did this.

Another insulting moment is when he says this:

Snerdley just said to me there are a lot of physicists that believe in God.

In reality, the real world in which we live, there are a lot of physicists who use the term 'god' metaphorically for the universe. Of course Rush will never admit this, because in his monkey brain it's true. There's no reasoning with these people.

Naturally, Mr. Limbaugh continues his embarrassing tirade and trivializes science to everyone who listens. That's a lot. Even though Rush is a gigantic faggot and one of the dumbest people in the world, he has a gigantic following. Conservative fundamentalist Christians love him. As you can see, there's reasons for why they love him. These reasons are mostly bullshit, -- actually all bullshit -- but they continue to follow him.

I think my favorite comedian and philosopher, noted as "Chomsky with dick jokes..." can sum up my thoughts on Rush.

I won't even get into Expelled and Ben Stein, both excruciatingly wrong. But I will say this, we have a new inductee into the List of Creationist Failures!

1. Kirk Cameron (Lying for Jesus: Kirk Cameron Edition)
2. Dr. Jason Lisle (Reading Answers in Genesis: Probably easier when high.)
3. Lee Strobel (Lee Strobel: Ex-Atheist or just ignorant?)
4. Ray Comfort (Banana: Proof of creationism., Ray Comfort has a blog, Ray Comfort: What the fuck, man?)
5. Rhonda Storms (Fuck Rhonda Storms)
6. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (DO SOMETHING IN LOUISIANA! QUICK!, Now the Candle Burns at both Ends)
7. Rush Limbaugh

Give a warm welcome to our number seven! (I should induct Ben Stein some time soon... or maybe Bill ORLY.)

----------So How Does the Brain Works?

Researchers have now discovered that in the brain are connections called synapses which are like building blocks which control functions such as incoming information, expressing emotions and learning language. So to answer the above question , how are these connections fabricated? they are built both by genetics and also by stimuli from the environment.

These connections are like an internal wiring system that will determine and affect your child's abilities for learning, communication and interacting.

But what does it mean?

The term mutually assured destruction is one that I would reference. The reason why the US doesn't destroy Russia or Russia the US is because they know that whoever made the move first would have started a war that ends in nuclear war. At least, this seems likely. Nuclear war means no more humans. Instead of one losing the battle, they both lose out. That's the basic tenant of mutually assured destruction.

For things like Academic Freedom, a bill which was recently passed by gigantic fuck up, Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal, it goes a little bit like mutually assured destruction.

Imagine Bobby Jindal as the middleman. He has the power to pass or veto bills such as the Academic Freedom bill he has just passed. He's the center of the candle. But this candle is unique as it has two wicks.

In the case of Kitzmiller vs. Dover, there was a candle, but it was burning from one end. In this case, the conservative fundamentalists were absolutely thrilled, so the fire started when the critical thinkers of Dover spoke out. They ignited the wick and it was, for all intents and purposes, a countdown to extinction for not the law itself, but for creationism itself in the state as a platform. It was simple enough: the creationists formed the base of the candle where they had solidified themselves in schools, the critical thinkers started a fire that would end up destroying the plans that the creationists had.

The concept of the candle burning at both ends is slightly different. As I said, supreme fuck up Bobby Jindal is at the center of a double ended candle. He's a creationist, acting for creationist purposes, but says he's encouraging free inquiry, free thinking, anything with free on it, when it's obvious to those same people that he's doing the exact opposite.

With how the law is defined, both crowds will get offended and one or the other will ignite a fire, and both sides will be fighting. Sadly, Jindal doesn't get his until the case is entirely resolved.

One of these two will happen;

1. Atheistic teachers oppose creationism in class and support the so-called controversial subjects, thus making the consevative fundamentalist crowd mad; or
2. Creationist teachers oppose the so-called controversial subjects, and the free thinkers of the communities get mad.

Either case ends in a lawsuit and a huge legal battle, likely as big as Dover. Not on a national scale, but to an extent where it will define the future regardless of decision or judgment for both Louisiana and other states.

Bobby Jindal has set a horrible precedent for the state, yet when this goes down, neither him or his buddies at the Disco tute will be anywhere to be found.

Apparently they forget not to bear false witness against thy neighbour.

In a nutshell: Bobby is the middle, creationism and free thinking are each their own wicks, one side ignites the fire, then the other, and as they melt down to the middle, both sides lose no matter who wins.