(2007-08-15) — Officials in the U.S. State Department are reportedly close to labeling Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps a “terrorist” organization. At the same time, sources also indicate that the State Department may soon label the Earth “round”.
“The Earth has all the hallmarks of a round or spherical object,” said one unnamed official at State. “The in-house debate is still vigorous and ongoing, but it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that we could come out with a definitive statement about the shape of our planet within the next year or so.”
Meanwhile, many in the State Department are still reluctant to use the “terrorist” label for an organization that equips, funds, and trains people to commit acts of terror against civilians and U.S. troops in Iraq because it could have “a chilling effect” on efforts to get Iran to halt its clandestine nuclear weapons program.
“The last thing in the world we want to do,” said one official, “is to offend people who are secretly plotting to destroy us.”
58 responses so far ↓
1 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 15, 2007 at 2:23 pm
God Bless America
2 Libby Gone // Aug 15, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Iran R.G. terrorists? I thought they were peaceful, religious people of faith! Jeeze whats next? I bet they try to tell us that the earth is NOT the center of the universe!
3 gafisher // Aug 15, 2007 at 2:36 pm
We’re in the age of Doublespeak; such definitions might actually become necessary.
4 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 15, 2007 at 2:55 pm
Okay. Now, while this makes for great fodder for the MSM, I just don’t get it–Iran has been on the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism since January 19, 1984.
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6 Darthmeister // Aug 15, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Hmmmm, this is on part with, “Me Tarzan, you Jane.” But then that might offend the homosexual lobby.
7 Darthmeister // Aug 15, 2007 at 3:32 pm
part = par. My bad.
8 Darthmeister // Aug 15, 2007 at 3:33 pm
… push
9 Shelly // Aug 15, 2007 at 3:38 pm
This could make Obama’s visit for tea a bit akward.
10 Shelly // Aug 15, 2007 at 3:40 pm
Maybe even awkward…
11 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 15, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Zeech, by the time I get to Scrapple updates the earth could be square or Octagonal. My guess is the world is rather like a Frizbee and when the gods toss us we all go for a splendid ride through the cosmos until the giant dog catches us and slobbers all over humanity.
The terrorist, well they are kind of like life’s soda jerks.
PS, What is happening with Labor Day?
12 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 15, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Heeellloooo?
13 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 15, 2007 at 6:46 pm
“Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich remembers well those who helped his struggling family while he was growing up, including a nun who rescued him from a particularly hideous pair of pants.
As a boy, the Ohio congressman was in charge of scanning the classifieds, looking for affordable apartments for his parents and six siblings. They moved 21 times — sometimes into their car — by the time he was 17.
“If people want to know what kind of president I’ll be, they only have to know my background to know who I’m in government to represent: those who aspire to decent jobs, a decent wage, health care, a roof over their heads, education for their children,” he said Wednesday after speaking with families involved in a program that provides transitional housing and support to the homeless.”
http://www.newsnet5.com/news/13902791/detail.html
14 Fred Sinclair // Aug 15, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Can’t resist – it’s kinda old nut highly pertinent:
The Iranian Ambassador to the UN had just finished giving a speech, and walked out into the lobby where he met President Bush.
They shook hands, and as they walked the Iranian said, “You know, I have just one question about what I have seen in America.
President Bush said, “Well, anything I can do to help you, I will.”
The Iranian whispered, “My son watches this show ‘Star Trek’ and in it there is Chekhov who is Russian, Scotty who is Scottish, and Sulu who is Chinese, but no Arabs. My son is very upset and doesn’t understand why there aren’t any Iranians on Star Trek.”
President Bush laughed, leaned toward the Iranian ambassador, and whispered back, “It’s because it takes place in the future.”
Heirborn Ranger
15 Hawkeye // Aug 15, 2007 at 9:36 pm
The earth are round? I thought pie are round… or is that pie are squared? Oh, never mind.
16 RedPepper // Aug 15, 2007 at 9:47 pm
Someone needs to inform the State Department about the widely acclaimed best-seller by Thomas L. Friedman, titled The World Is Flat .
I expect the Newsweek Special Issue, “The Flat-Earth Denial Machine”, to hit the stands at any moment.
17 mig // Aug 15, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Oh for sure. Let’s not get the terrorist mad at us. Can’t we just get along?
18 Fred Sinclair // Aug 15, 2007 at 10:07 pm
For those gullible enough to have joined “The Church Of Manmade Global Warming” with their High Priest and Prophet, The Left Reverend Algore preaching his gospel of Leftwing Bull(feathers), my suggestion is that they have the courage of their convictions and all can inhale deeply, one last time, and then stubbornly refuse to emit any further CO2 into the air. It should be as effective as Jim Jones and his Kool Ade. Bringing the “Manmade” Global Warming Hoax to an abrupt demise.
Heirborn Ranger
19 Darthmeister // Aug 15, 2007 at 10:52 pm
Hawkeye,
Some wise acre will probably remind us that the Earth isn’t just “round”, it’s spherical … actual its an oblate spheroid.
So I guess that makes me the wise acre.
So sue me!
20 Darthmeister // Aug 15, 2007 at 10:54 pm
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard must have stolen my post. They probably think all roads lead to Mecca, too.
21 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 16, 2007 at 7:36 am
“Thank you. Thank you very much.”
22 gafisher // Aug 16, 2007 at 8:00 am
Shelly re #9; Perhaps the two Whirled Leaders will enjoy a nice Bass dinner together. Goes well with the Akward.
23 gafisher // Aug 16, 2007 at 8:04 am
Ms. RW re #11 — That reminds me of the underlying Doctrine of the Frisbeeterian Church: when someone dies their soul goes up on the roof and nobody can get it back down.
24 boberinyetagain // Aug 16, 2007 at 8:13 am
Y’all are making me giggle today, thanks!
I always heard the earth was kinda pear shaped anyway.
And, I would have been right there, with stone in hand, to address those that claimed the Earth goes around the sun when anyone can plainly see the every day the sun comes up “over there” and goes down on the other side.
Well, maybe not a stone, but surely some derisive comments.
25 Darthmeister // Aug 16, 2007 at 8:59 am
bober,
It may entirely be possible that in another 100 years, most all politics and ideology will hopefully be stripped out of science and students will be laughing at those intellectual neanderthals back in the first part of the 21st century who actually believed man evolved from a common ancestor to the ape and that this smart-arsed “ape” actually had the audacity to believe their puny efforts was actually heating up the planet Earth … buwahahahahahaha … what morons!
Those blinded by the “light” of what passes for present day science often don’t live long enough to find out how wrong they were. Look at all the evolutionists who died believing they were embracing the pinnacle of evolutionary thought just one or two generations ago. They would be appalled to find out all their detailed but quaint ideas about uniformitarian Darwinism (Lamarkian theory, Gouldian theory, the recapitulation corollary, etc) have been discarded by today’s researchers in favor of even more fantastic schemes like mutagenic evolution, gradient evolution, and punctuated equilibria theory.
Of course that future generation will have their sacred cows they self-assuredly embrace, too.
26 R.A.M. // Aug 16, 2007 at 9:03 am
If this trend keeps up, we may soon be warned by our government that we should be careful what products we use from China.
I’m just glad they didn’t make pencils when I was in elementary school. I used to chew those things REAL GOOD!
27 Libby Gone // Aug 16, 2007 at 9:08 am
R.A.M.
Me too! Plus I used to drink from the Garden Hose! Now my hose has a meter on it and someone from the IRS comes out to take readings.
28 boberinyetagain // Aug 16, 2007 at 9:15 am
Hank, amen to that. Science (not unlike myself) should stand in awe of what they obviously don’t know.
The older I get the more assured I am that I know a tiny fraction of what there is to know about a tiny fraction of subjects there are to study and, even given that, my baseline (what I used to think I knew was never all that much) was rather modest at the start so…
Not a pretty picture. It does afford the opportunity to have a bit of fun watching the “experts” tell us what they “know” though, that’s something. As you point out, those or other “experts” quickly (in the scheme of things)discover that they were at least a bit off if not completely mistaken about most everything.
Weather forecasting is a fine, real time, everyday example but the same mistakes demonstrated in that field hold true for most any subject.
29 Maggie // Aug 16, 2007 at 9:33 am
Speaking of Orbs or things round,did you get a gander at the picture of Al Gorb next to this thread?
Gafisher (re 22 and 23)
I’m with boberin,you also made me giggle :>)
30 GnuCarSmell // Aug 16, 2007 at 9:35 am
You could say the earth is “Hillary-shaped,” but with less cleavage.
31 Maggie // Aug 16, 2007 at 9:57 am
Gnu……re#30
Stop It!…..hahahahhhhhhahaahahhahah….coff…coff…..
32 R.A.M. // Aug 16, 2007 at 9:59 am
Libby Gone: We “Hoosiers” in Indianapolis have been told to stay away from the garden hoses, not because of the drinking danger, but because of the lack of rain.
I see businesses watering every night though. Must have some friends in the government?
Personally, I don’t mind the lack of rain. My lawn has only been mowed about 4 times this whole summer!
33 R.A.M. // Aug 16, 2007 at 10:05 am
Off topic:
I finally bought some of the new light bulbs that use less energy. It says to not throw them in the trash, but to recycle them because they contain mercury.
If America cannot stop kids from throwing trash out their car windows, what chance is there for recycling these bulbs, and won’t that make the cure worse than the disease?
34 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 16, 2007 at 11:46 am
The problem with the National Academy of Nonscientific Discoveries was all the core group of astronomers employed in the 1950’s were forced to use Etch A Sketches in order to save money for company picnics and other group outings. Now I ask have any of you readers ever tried to draw the earth or map the universe with the forerunner of Apple Computers.
Not easy, especially if you were right handed challenged.
(www.etch-a-sketch.com )
35 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 16, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Those compact flourescent lights (CFL) cannot be put in your trash nor in your ordinary neighborhood recycle bin–they are hazardous waste (mercury).
Funny how the manufacturers and the environmaniacs don’t mention that–or that those light bulbs do not, in reality, actually last any longer than what we’ve been using for the last hundred years or so.
36 onlineanalyst // Aug 16, 2007 at 12:29 pm
Just a quick drive-by from OLA re the Scrappleface Rally/Scrapple Rally weekend over Labor Day weekend at Kooser State Park–
Our numbers are half of those who originally expressed an interest last spring. Life happens: health and family obligations take preference.
What I need to know is if any of you have reserved a cabin for that weekend because all of them are booked. If you can tolerate two more rustic cabin crashers in your reserved abode, I would truly appreciate hearing from you ASAP.
I think that tenting sites are still available. I don’t have tenting equipment, alas.
There are some inexpensive motels in the nearby Somerset area.
If you want further information about our maiden adventure in Scrappleface fellowship, give a holler here, and I will post information again.
What is on offer besides our getting to know each other more personally and the chance to chill out with conversation?
We can swim or fish at the park’s lake or hike on nearby trails. Not too far away is Seven Springs Ski resort that offers a variety of restaurants and clubs. I believe that there is a huge craft fair over Labor Day Weekend, too.
Laurel Caverns nearby offer opportunities, both commercial and unexplored sections. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and Kentuck Knob are within driveable distance.
Whitewater rafters can take on the adventures of floating on the Ohiopyle River. On the banks of the river is a section of the Yough River bicycle trail.
Another short drive away is Ft. Necessity, important to French and Indian War history. If you want to do further exploring not too distant, the Flight #93 Memorial and the site of the Quequeg (sp?) mine disaster are fairly close by.
These are but several activities that come to mind.
37 onlineanalyst // Aug 16, 2007 at 12:31 pm
I think that I should have proofread that first paragraph better, but you get the drift.
38 Darthmeister // Aug 16, 2007 at 12:40 pm
#30 … muwa … muwahahahahaha (gasp) hahahaha!
GnuCarSmell, go to your corner and quit being the class clown! You’re disrupting our pointless stream of consciousness.
BTW, does anyone remember sniffing the mimeographic fumes off the tests the teachers handed out and getting carbon paper residue and Whiteoutâ„¢ on your fingers while doing term papers in high school and college? I wonder how many years that stuff took off our lives? I’M SUING … in triplicate!
39 onlineanalyst // Aug 16, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Oh, I forgot about the public golf courses in the area, too.
MsRW, Ink: You bring up an interesting point. Are you left-handed, too? So am I. I wonder how many of us Scrapplers are, as well.
Boberin: Belated birthday best wishes. Are you thinking of joining us over Labor Day?
Our dear leader Maestro Ott had told me some time ago that he might join us in fellowship. I hope that our dwindled numbers do not discourage him.
40 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 16, 2007 at 1:18 pm
I’m not sure about the Scientific world but the agri-world has blessed me with a beautiful peck of peaches. Mmmm, peach cobbler coming up.
I so love this time of year when God so loves his folks that He gives harvest to our labors. The Farmers Market is located right across the street every Wednesday. How convenient is that.
My desire before the end of September is to take a boatload of baked goods over to sell, but for me, it is more a thought than a reality.
41 Just Ranting // Aug 16, 2007 at 2:56 pm
Gnu re:30
Did you forget about Death Valley?
42 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 16, 2007 at 3:23 pm
Mm-m-m-m-m…..Cob-bler…..drool…..,
43 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 16, 2007 at 4:42 pm
re:36
Just as an incentive, I am bringing a crate of World Famous Chocolate Chip Cookies to the Scrapple Fair. You stay home and you loose.
44 boberinyetagain // Aug 16, 2007 at 4:57 pm
OLA, thanks for the well wishes, I can use all I can get.
Scrapplefest…camojack has been making quite a case for that event (we live relatively near each other) but I can’t say for sure. I’m not a camper either, was considering the cabin but just read a few posts up that those are gone and budgetary constraints are quite real.
That and the Mrs. doesn’t know much about this (has met camo) site and takes a dim view of my time here already (and we do most everything together, even after our just past 28th anniversary on Aug 11th) so…
While I’m certain that it would be amusing and I know it would be great to meet you folks (even if you were to make good on the “boberin piniata” scenario) I’m just not at all certain that’s it doable.
Is there a specific spot in the park where a gathering can be found? Most state parks are quite large so just showing up probably won’t “get er done” so to speak.
45 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 16, 2007 at 5:11 pm
RE: #43~~
Ms RightWing, Ink~~
Maybe next year, if there is another such event, you folks wouldn’t mind my wife and I cutting in on what sounds like a truly glorious retreat–I’ll combine it with a trip to OH (a bit north and northeast of Columbus) to visit (maybe) my daughters and my two half-grown grandkids.
I believe I mentioned that my wife and I went to the Daytona 500 earlier this year and, well, the well is, like, still sor-r-rta dry.
I’m not obnoxious in person, honest. I don’t own any weapons. I don’t drink.
But…..
I am addicted to Chocolate, which is what prompted this totally off-topic comment.
46 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 16, 2007 at 5:18 pm
…..weapons as in firearms et al, of course…..
If the Islamofascists, for example, ever encroach upon my newly-sodded yard, I will take them on with my hammer, my utility knife and my Dodge Pickup.
It won’t be pretty.
47 Maggie // Aug 16, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Darth…re#38…lol
You’re not so bad yourself.
48 onlineanalyst // Aug 16, 2007 at 7:27 pm
Okaaaaay! The Scrappleface Rally/Scrapplefest is on! We first-timers may be smaller in number than originally planned, but nothing ventured, nothing gained. We’ll try to have enough fun to share with those of you who will miss the gathering this year. And hope that we can make a gathering a yearly tradition that grows over time.
I’ll pass along meeting logistics after I scope out the venue more closely this coming week.
49 Godfrey // Aug 16, 2007 at 9:11 pm
Hi Scrapplers. Hope life is treating you well these days.
Hank and Boberin: Once again I feel compelled to stick up for science, or at least to call you on your mischaracterization of it.
In post #28 Boberin said: “‘experts’ quickly…discover that they were at least a bit off if not completely mistaken about most everything.”…
…and in post #25 Hank said: “Look at all the evolutionists who died believing they were embracing the pinnacle of evolutionary thought just one or two generations ago. They would be appalled to find out all their detailed but quaint ideas…have been discarded by today’s researchers…”
Both of these statements betray a refusal to acknowledge (and perhaps an unwillingness to comprehend) how science actually works. Science is a methodology in which new and more detailed information constantly replaces old. It is a field wherein ongoing testing and attempts to replicate others’ findings constantly obviate prior assumptions. Scientific methodology is constructed precisely in order to call attention to and eliminate erroneous conclusions.
People who are accustomed to forming their ideas about the universe using other forms of “discovery” (i.e. philosophy, religion) often find it difficult to adjust their thinking enough to appreciate the scientific method (and I’m not necessarily presuming anything about you guys personally here…I don’t know you well enough).
Those other methods aren’t held to the rigorous standards mentioned above, so naturally the information they provided never changes much. This tends to give them a veneer of credibility, but from a verification standpoint this inability to change makes those systems of discovery less valid, not more valid, than science.
The ability to adjust to new information is what gives science its real power, and the lack thereof is what hamstrings more primitive methods of discovery. I’m not saying that religion and philosophy don’t have their place but from the standpoint of verifiability science, while imperfect, is by far the most accurate explanatory method available to mankind.
Scientists of a few generations ago would most assuredly not have been appalled that their ideas have been superceded by new ones…in fact they’d be appalled if they hadn’t been. That’s how science works, and they knew it as well as anybody.
Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
50 Darthmeister // Aug 16, 2007 at 11:17 pm
bober, congrats on your 28th anniversary. We’ll be celebrating our 30th in January 2008. It’s sad that marital longevity and faithfulness seems to be the exception rather than the rule nowadays … or so it seems.
Hurricane Dean poses grave threat in Caribbean: Expected To Grow Into Massive Cat. 4 Storm!!!
Wow, imagine that a Category 4 hurricane during hurricane season. It must be global warming (wink, wink, nudge, nudge).
That may be true Godfrey, but the fact remains millions of ardent evolutionists died believing in a very, very flawed version of an unproven theory. The only real fundamental agreement among secular materialists and atheist “scientists” is evolution is propelled by random chance and “hopeful monsters” (Stephen Gould of Punctuated Equilbria fame) and they believe without a doubt that an intelligent Creator had absolutely nothing to do with the existence of the cosmos and the origin of life. Their position on the matter of the origins of life is little more than a priori philosophizing?
I don’t mind the pursuit of knowledge as to how living organisms were put together or how organisms have adapted at the micro-evolutionary level to their ecological niche, a handy survival trait designed into species I might add. What I do mind is the philosophic philandering that has crept into scientific pursuit which makes a priori judgments that a transcendant God can’t and doesn’t exist and couldn’t possibly be the intelligent designer behind the ordered universe in which we live.
Any honest appraisal of the evolution of evolutionary theory the last 160 or so years has to acknowledge evolutionary scientists are not dispassionate, completely logical human beings. They’ve proven time and time again when their pet sub-theories blow up in their faces, the principle that adherence to pre-existing theory prejudices the interpretation of the data in question. In the meantime entire generations of people are perishing believing in a flawed version of a controversial theory which in my opinion is little different than the flat earth theory.
Often what has passed for evolutionary research this last century has invariably violated several principles of the scientific method in that the very thing being investigated, random evolution, is not directly observable, is not repeatable and it certainly isn’t falsifiable since it’s main thesis has proven itself to be infinitely resilient and malleable in order to remain “scientifically relevant”. Evolutionary Theory continues to survive despite an endless number of “scientific” overhauls which end up undercutting the very foundations of the theory itself! And after hundreds of billions of dollars and billions of man-hours, Evolutionary scientists have yet to scientifically demonstrate a property of matter itself (or a series of known natural forces which conspire to evolve matter … simply invoking some mystical force called “evolution” is in the end a tautology) which first made the inanimate animate and then randomly “evolves” organisms into ever more complex and novel lifeforms.
You may be a big believer in Evolution, and I must say your faith in that regard is impressive, but I simply don’t have that kind of faith which ultimately believes from chaos comes order. And I still remain a skeptic having once been someone who seriously embraced cutting-edge evolutionary theory three decades ago. And I find what passes for macro-evolutionary theory today even less persuasive given the tools and financial resources available that should be able to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt what evolutionary scientists themselves believe … that is until the next evolution-based fad comes along and strikes their fancy.
51 Godfrey // Aug 17, 2007 at 2:49 am
Hank: “millions of ardent evolutionists died believing in a very, very flawed version of an unproven theory.”
No theory is “proven” as such…or it would be a law. Gravity is also a theory.
Actually, however, evolution represents thousands of converging lines of evidence. It’s far from “very, very flawed”. The fact that ideas are adapted to new information is, as I said in #49, part of the nature of science. There is a lot more agreement among scientists than you appear to realize.
…”they believe without a doubt that an intelligent Creator had absolutely nothing to do with the existence of the cosmos and the origin of life. Their position on the matter of the origins of life is little more than a priori philosophizing?”
Actually, evolutionary theory doesn’t address the “existence of the cosmos and the origin of life”. It merely postulates the process whereby organisms change over time.
Likewise for the “philosophic philandering that has crept into scientific pursuit which makes a priori judgments that a transcendant God can’t and doesn’t exist and couldn’t possibly be the intelligent designer behind the ordered universe in which we live.”
No scientist who asserts that “gods cannot exist” is speaking in his capacity as a scientist. If one pretends to be doing so, you are correct: he is acting beyond the scope of his role as scientist. The existence or non-existence of gods is a matter for epistemologists.
But any man, scientist or otherwise, is perfectly within his rights to point out that there are more plausible explanations for organisms’ development than those given by the folklore we inherited from our ancestors. Likewise, he is within his rights to require that such extraordinary claims…from folklore or from other sources…be accompanied by evidence.
“evolutionary scientists are not dispassionate, completely logical human beings.
True! There is no such thing as a completely logical human being. That’s part of the beauty of science as well: its methodology is designed to circumvent potential bias (although this often takes time).
A scientist can “say” anything he wants. But if his ideas are unsound they will eventually be outed. It is a mistake to treat scientists as a monolithic group; in fact they have very little loyalty to each other.
In fact, most scientists would kill to be known as the guy who disproved a major theory such as evolution. Yet after over a century the theory remains remarkably intact. I suspect that most people who rail against the theory do so because it conflicts with their previously held beliefs. I also suspect that if the theory of gravity conflicted with those beliefs, they’re rail against that too. All the evidence in the world won’t budge a mind that doesn’t want to be budged.
I guess that’s just the way we evolved.
52 Effeminem // Aug 17, 2007 at 3:57 am
Yosh, Godfrey, why are you still up?
If anyone’s interested in evolutionary theory itself, rather than the trite BS that gets tossed around on the Dilbert blog (for example), this is pretty interesting. I was interested in genetics as a wee lad, but then I found my true calling as an unemployed cyberpunk.
For what it’s worth, I would totally go to Scrapplefest and all except for 3 things:
1) I intentionally post here without saying anything that could engender affection
2) It would blow my cover
3) The schoolgirls won’t ogle themselves, donchaknow
53 onlineanalyst // Aug 17, 2007 at 5:57 am
FWIW: http://www.drsanity.blogspot.com/ has a recent thread “Progressive Science Goes Boink” (August 15). It includes an interview link with a Turkish physicist who discusses the state of science under Islam.
Re the Scrapplefest/Scrappleface Rally: Of course, spouses are welcome. (They have to be reassured somehow that they are not the only ones married to eccentric individuals.) Think of our own courage in “blowing our covers”. We run the risk of having a Hillary mole taking names and putting a kibbosh on our Vast Right Wing Conspiracy©. LOL
54 Beerme // Aug 17, 2007 at 6:15 am
I’m not obnoxious in person, honest. I don’t own any weapons. I don’t drink.
Comment by JamesonLewis3rd — August 16, 2007 @ 5:11 pm
Heh-heh! Guilty of all three especially when they are all done together!
For what it’s worth, I would totally go to Scrapplefest and all except for 3 things:
1) I intentionally post here without saying anything that could engender affection
2) It would blow my cover
3) The schoolgirls won’t ogle themselves, donchaknow
Comment by Effeminem — August 17, 2007 @ 3:57 am
What cover is that?
Godfrey,
Have you considered showing up at the Scrapplefest?
55 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 17, 2007 at 7:47 am
re:54
The Scrapplefest! Ha, when you see me, my covers come down. Hey, whataya expect from a crippled 59 year old woman. Who do you expect Jennifer Lopez?
Okay, enough bashing the fest.
Baked goods for all who show up. I’m no longer a looker but I still know my way around the kitchen. He, he
Oh, by the way I went to the drive-in last night and saw the Simpsons. Noticed I didn’t say I went to see the Simpsons. I love the drive-in and generally don’t have much of an opinion about the movie.
But stay away. It is an Algore cartoon with bad hair
56 Darthmeister // Aug 17, 2007 at 8:55 am
Gravity is just a theory? That’s news to me. Why is it called Newton’s Law of Gravity?
The very real effects of gravity are directly observable. Gravity experiments are are repeatable and falsifiable. Such is not the case with the Theory of Evolution.
BTW, the theory of evolution “remains remarkably intact” because special creation and intelligent design are loathesome alternatives to those philosophically committed to evolutionary dogma.
57 Darthmeister // Aug 17, 2007 at 9:12 am
Also, where did Christendom “rail” against gravity research? I’m not aware where investigations into the nature of fire or gravity or rocks or into questions why physical phenomena act the way they do was opposed by most sincere and educated Christians. In fact early Christian scientists like Newton, Galileo et al found it a privilege to, in Kepler’s words, “Think God’s thoughts after Him.”. And the same is true today.
Flat Earth theory didn’t originate with the historical church of Jesus Christ but rather was promoted by a few adherents who claimed to be speaking on behalf of the universal church because flat earth was the most prevalent “science” of its day … just like Pope Gregory and Pope John Paul embracing a theistic version of evolution.
Despite dishonest secular historical revisionism , most of Christendom did not take an authoritative stand on the flat earth theory. It’s a myth modern seculars have created to slime Christians for being superstitious and anti-science. We must remember flat earth, geo-centrism and pyro-centrism were also embraced by ancient “scientists”, pagans, and skeptics as being self-evident to the common man.
58 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 18, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Ooops wrong page
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