The Blame Game

You know, I get really sick and tired of liberal stupidity.  The idea that its nobody’s fault what happens to them and that everyone is a victim is utterly idiotic.  In fact, I would go so far as to say that it’s the source of most of the nation’s problems right now. Read More

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Natural Rights Craziness

Yes, those crazy libertarians are back with a vengeance.  If you’ve never noticed, a lot of libertarians wear “natural rights” around on their sleeve like it’s a magic incantation.  Anything they have to justify… natural rights.  They can’t explain what they are, where they come from, what they mean or how they know any of this, it’s just true, damn it!  Stop asking so many questions!

The problem is, natural rights don’t exist.  There’s no justification for their assertion.  Nobody can explain where they come from, how they are derived or how libertarians magically came to know what these rights are, they just do.  In reality, they are simply inventions because libertarians want an unchangeable authority from which to pontificate their position. Read More

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Social Networking Sucks

I just had someone ask to follow me on Twitter and was amazed to hear that I didn’t use it.  I also don’t use Facebook or any of the other newfangled social networking sites.  Why?  Because they all suck.  I have no interest in what they’re peddling.

I tried the “Great Twitter Experiment” for about 6 months a couple of years back and concluded that it was a complete waste of my time.  It was virtually all spam, even from the very few people I cared enough to follow and while I did get a couple hundred followers very quickly, the amount of quality content or discussion that came from any of them was virtually nil.  It’s hard to debate anyone seriously in 160 characters or less and it’s impossible to hold anyone accountable, they just vanish when they can’t answer the questions.  Sorry, I see nothing worthwhile in any of that.

See, way back in the day, this new thing called “messengers” came out.  AIM was the first and best known of the day and I, like most people, used it.  However, you ended up having to lock down your friends list pretty quickly or you’d get spammed into next week.  Sure, it was fun being able to talk to your friends any time they were online, but it suffered the same problem as Twitter in that it was hard to have a serious conversation due to limitations in message length.  It was easier, if you wanted to talk, to just pick up the phone and call.  As such, I haven’t used a messenger in years.

Facebook, you say?  What’s good about Facebook?  It lets people from your past find you?  Well hell, if I wanted them to find me, I wouldn’t have lost contact in the first place!  Add to that the fact that the vast majority of Facebook people I’ve seen are just vain asshats who think the world needs to know what music they’re listening to or what they’re doing every second of the day, I pass.  Sorry, I just don’t care.

If people want to contact me, there are many options.  They can e-mail me, although I will admit that I don’t check my e-mail as often as I should.  They can comment on my blog.  They can go to any of the forums I frequent and send me a message.  For closer friends, they have my phone number and can call or text  I’m not hard to get ahold of.  I just won’t follow them around on Twitter or hang out on their Facebook page.  I find both idiotic.

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Sexism: Dealing with Reality

We’ve been listening to the first podcast from Non-Prophets for the year and they talked pretty extensively on the whole sexism in atheism nonsense.

Apparently, there was a Top 5 list out there somewhere and Matt Dillahunty won.  While I certainly think he ought to be high on the list, he does a lot of good for the atheist community,  the problem was, according to many people, the list was flawed because there were no women on the list. Read More

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Battle of the Sexes

I guess I’ve written on this in the past tangentially, but over on Atheist Revolution, he’s handled it a couple of times and I thought that I ought to step in and examine it more in depth.  The question is, why are there more male atheists than female atheists and are female atheists being “abused” because they are female? Read More

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Animal Planet Alarmism

I really don’t get into most of the shows on Animal Planet.  My youngest daughter does, mostly because she likes watching the animals, but she’s really gotten into all of the Animal Control shows for some weird reason.  Today, she was watching Swamp Wars, a show about the snake and reptile control officers in Miami.  We’ve had reptiles on and off all her life so she’s very knowledgeable about them and I caught an episode or two of the show because I happen to really like herps as well.

But one thing I will say though, that show is horribly alarmist. Read More

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Santorum is an Idiot

Yeah, that’s no surprise whatsoever, but he does prove, once again, what’s wrong with the modern Republican party.  Rick Santorum was at the College Convention in New Hampshire and questions about gay marriage came up.  While I’m at least somewhat happy that he didn’t immediately leap into a religious defense of his anti-gay marriage stance, Santorum revealed himself to be an idiot anyhow, as if that’s a surprise.

His entire line of “reasoning” is that we ought to have a good reason for changing the marriage laws and he just didn’t think there could be a good reason for doing so.  That’s stupid.  It’s like Lincoln saying “we need a good reason to change the slavery laws…”

Of course, the audience wasn’t much better.  Someone asked about the “right to happiness” for someone wanting to marry someone else of the same sex.  Sorry, no such thing.  That’s a liberal lie.  There is no right to be happy.  There’s a right to pursue happiness, but no right to actually achieve it.  Santorum came back with “what if someone needed to marry five people to be happy”.  Um, okay.  Let them marry five people.  Doesn’t bother me in the least.  Granted, there are some serious potential legal issues with polygamous marriage that would need to be worked out first, but in principle, I don’t care who you marry or how many you marry and it has nothing whatsoever to do with happiness, it has to do with equality.

If we’re going to have legal marriage in this country, it needs to be equal.  Anyone above the age of consent must be able to marry anyone else above the age of consent, assuming both parties actually consent to the marriage.  I don’t care if it’s a man and woman, man and man, woman and woman or 47 people.  It shouldn’t matter.  It’s nobody else’s business except theirs.

This keeps bringing us back to the core of traditional conservatism.  Small government and keeping the government the hell out of people’s lives.  Santorum and the modern Republican party favor neither.  While I’m sure the majority of people in the audience at the College Convention were liberals, it’s good that they booed Santorum.  He deserves it.  He’s an unmitigated ass.  We all know why he holds the position he does, it’s because he has an imaginary friend in the sky who he thinks demands it.

That, in and of itself, disqualifies the man from any position of power in my opinion.

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Emotional Train Wreck

Have you ever noticed that a lot of people, and I think this applies to a large degree to liberal theists, that they just don’t think about what they believe, they “feel” it.  Specifically, they make unsupported assertions and when asked to back them up, they declare they “feel” them to be true, therefore they must be.

It’s a massive load of horse shit.

These are people who haven’t got a rational or intellectual bone in their body.  They live their lives through their emotional state.  All that matters is feeling good.  All they care about is being happy.  They could believe demonstrably ridiculous lies, they wouldn’t care so long as they get their ego stroked.

These people are fucking morons. Read More

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Have Yourself a Kaiju Little Christmas!

Why don’t we have cool trees like that?

Hope everyone has a happy holiday and a safe new year!

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Merry Freakin’ Christmas Eve

We used to get this happening all the time, people driving too fast, being idiots, getting into accidents and rolling into our yard.  Once the city finally put in a stop light on our corner, it went from a once-a-month thing to a once-a-year thing.

Today was that day.

As you can see, two cars decided to get into it at high speed.  One rolled into our mailbox.  The post, luckily, is sunk in 3 feet of concrete, it won’t move.  Our mailbox, on the other hand, wasn’t so lucky, we’ll have to get a new one.  At least that was all the physical damage we suffered, usually we get cracked curbs, etc. that the city never comes out and fixes.  Fortunately, they didn’t take out the phone pole that carries our phone and Internet connection.  That would have pissed me off.

Nobody was killed, luckily, although there was a lot of blood involved.  All parties were taken to the hospital and hopefully will make full recoveries.  Crappy way to spend Christmas.  In the gray SUV, there was a box of three newborn puppies.  We found two of them right away, the third one managed to go from the back of the SUV to up under the dashboard somehow.  It took us 20 minutes to find it, but luckily, all of them were completely unharmed.

This is just more evidence that Christmas makes people stupid.

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