Sunday, October 28, 2007

Saturday, October 27, 2007

"A dumb mistake."

"Scientific American is reporting on an 82 year old chemist who is being used as a pawn by Right wing Creationists science haters.

Scientist to creationists: "Don't quote me" Is the small essay.

Former chemistry professor Homer Jacobson has requested that two passages be retracted from a 1955 paper he wrote on the origins of life after discovering that creationists were using them to support their arguments. The 84-year-old scientist told the New York Times that he made the discovery when, on a whim, he decided to Google himself and quotes from his paper popped up on creationist sites such as Darwinismrefuted.com and Evolution-facts.org. To bolster their case, the sites zeroed in on his statements that amino acids couldn't form spontaneously without energy—Jacobson says today that he failed to mention that energy sources most surely existed billions of years ago—and that life could arise only under very specific conditions, which he now calls "a dumb mistake." His retraction request appears in the November / December issue of American Scientist, which published the original paper. (NYTimes; American Scientist)

His exact words were:

In January 1955, American Scientist published my article, "Information, Reproduction and the Origin of Life" (Vol. 43, No. 1). I ask you to honor my request to retract two brief passages, as follows:

On page 121: "Directions for the reproduction of plans, for energy and the extraction of parts from the current environment, for the growth sequence, and for the effector mechanisms translating instructions into growth—all had to be simultaneously present at that moment [of life's birth]."

On page 125: "From the probability standpoint, the ordering of the present environment into a single amino acid molecule would be utterly improbable in all the time and space available for the origin of terrestrial life."

Grand Ol' Pedophile Convention Logo (Parody)


Our poor kids...

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

CNN Should Fire Lou Dobbs.

...so that Faux Noise Channel can hire him. "Media Matters" points out another "blunder" by Sen. Barack Obama. Well, well... Patriotism truly is the last refuge of scoundrels.

The Google News Repug Shill is Back.



Yeah, sure. This was another Google News "mistake". First it's Rep. Henry Waxman with a Iraqi flag behind "him" and now king georgie iv with a f*cking halo.
Right. "oOooPs, hOneSt mistake..."
Uh-huh. Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.

A Letter to the Republican Shill "Lou Dobbs"



Dear Sir,

I've had it.
I'm sick of it.

I've had a streak of irritably and discomfort for a while. A long while. It is not because I'm wearing an American flag Lapel pin, since I'm not wearing one. The anger and discomfort, sir, is like a white noise in the background. Both my friends and family have noticed it. My mother and father. My sister. My girlfriend. My friends. I'm as irritable as hell. It's not that I show anger all the time but it seems I express anger that is amplified. There's a stale edge to it as if I had it stored deep inside of me and allow it to seep out with the moment that I find... ...convenient.

For the last few years I have been hit with some of the most radical propaganda I thought I never would see in this country. Is it because I'm simply paying attention? I don't think so. I do want to make a point and dispel a myth that you are a journalist. You are far from it. You are anything but a journalist. A journalist would check his facts. Not color his remarks or infer meaning of remarks made by another party which they did not intend nor speak outright.

Sir, I am going to give you a juicy piece of outright BS propaganda. It is the same piece you gave us all.

You said:
"Sen. Barack Obama put away his lapel flag pin. The senator says instead of a flag pin, his words will be a testament to his patriotism. I don't know what's wrong with the senator or why he can find any discomfort at all, but that's his right as an American."

Sen. Obama said:
"The truth is that right after 9-11 I had a pin, shortly after 9-11, particularly because as we're talking about the Iraq war, that became a substitute for I think true patriotism, which is speaking out on issues that are of importance to our national security. I decided I won't wear that pin on my chest.

He did not express discomfort. There is nothing wrong with him. There is no sign of anything wrong, sir.

Continuing;
Obama: "Instead, I'm going to try to tell the American people what I believe will make this country great, and hopefully that will be a testament to my patriotism."

I STILL don't see anything wrong, sir. I don't hear "discomfort" or Sen. Obama expressing "discomfort." He only wishes to express his patriotism in what he believes in, in what he believes will make this country great by his vision of America.

Yet sir, you said this:
"But any politician of any political party who believes their words can be an adequate substitute for the symbolic power of the American flag is sadly arrogant and horribly mistaken."

There were a few men in this country, not too long ago, who had a belief in what made this country great, sir. A vision. They not only believed in it, they risked everything by saying it. There were only a few "silly" words written. The in-"adequate" words were these:

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Now sir, I'm sure you believe that the above "sadly arrogant and horribly mistaken" use of words above are a pale comparison to that little lapel pin of yours. They're only words, after all, made by men who too did not have those wonderful patriotic pins of yours. They were only expressing their "silly vision" of America by way of an in-"adequate substitute" of words.

Now, sir. Do you see why I'm angry as hell? Is your "flag" pin "Made in America" sir? Did you bother to even CHECK, sir?

I do believe you OWE Sen. Obama an apology, sir.

Saturday, October 06, 2007

Google Bites.


I've been noticing iGoogle's "LiBeRaL" Right-wing bias in their News' thumbnails and "news" in general on their starter page. Our puppet Maliki in Iraq looks like Rep. (D) Waxman? Is that it? What's going on?...Is it the Iraqi flag?