Sapere Aude
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We are deeply concerned about the ability of the United States to confront the many challenges it faces, both at home and abroad. Our concern has been compounded by the failure exhibited by far too many Americans, including influential decision-makers, to understand the nature of scientific inquiry and the integrity of empirical research. This disdain for science is aggravated by the excessive influence of religious doctrine on our public policies.
this one ought to be shouted from the rooftops
heh, i didn’t know one of my acquaintances had moved to canada after the bush reelection
The purpose of the Center for Inquiry is to promote and defend reason, science, and freedom of inquiry in all areas of human endeavor.
this nonpartisan polling site is now being used by all political parties to shorten the feedback loop for new ideas (instead of them being rejected at national votes). they are buying adwords to make people aware of it đ
with caretaker in Pentagon, Baker now takes over de facto control of the war, as almost his own national security adviser, SECDEF AND SECSTATE.
we need ben adida. love how a grandma sleuthed this out.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBymDWYNZ9fmDg8PyZv1AlQ
Now that the election is behind us, and the Democrats control both houses of Congress, there’s no reason not to admit it: the Right was right about us all along. Here is our manifesto for the new Congress:
- Mandatory homosexuality
- Drug-filled condoms in schools
- Introduce the new Destruction of Marriage Act
- Border fence replaced with free shuttle buses
- Osama Bin Laden to be Secretary of State
- Withdraw from Iraq, apologize, reinstate Hussein
- English language banned from all Federal buildings
- Math classes replaced by encounter groups
- All taxes to be tripled
- All fortunes over $250k to be confiscated
- On-demand welfare
- Tofurkey to be named official Thanksgiving dish
- Freeways to be removed, replaced with light rail systems
- Pledge of Allegiance in schools replaced with morning flag-burning
- Stem cells allowed to be harvested from any child under the age of 8
- Comatose people to be ground up and fed to poor
- Quarterly mandatory abortion lottery
- God to be mocked roundly
- Dissolve Executive Branch: reassign responsibilities to UN
- Jane Fonda to be appointed Secretary of Appeasement
- Outlaw all firearms: previous owners assigned to anger management therapy
- Texas returned to Mexico
- Ban Christmas: replace with Celebrate our Monkey Ancestors Day
- Carter added to Mount Rushmore
- Modify USA’s motto to “Land of the French and the home of the brave”
the program for congress
By refusing to remove “In God We Trust” from currency and repeal the religious motto, the government continues to act in paranoid fits as it did in the 1950s.
But alas, this love affair between Galactica and the right was not to last: in its 3rd season, the show has morphed into a stinging allegorical critique of Americaâs 3-year occupation of Iraq. The trouble started at the end of the second season, when humanity briefly escaped the Cylons and settled down on the tiny planet of New Caprica. The Cylons soon returned and quickly conquered the defenseless humans. But instead of slaughtering everyone, the Cylons decided to take a more enlightened path by âbenevolently occupyingâ the planet and imposing their preferred way of life by gunpoint. The humans were predictably not enthused about their allegedly altruistic rulers, and they immediately launched an insurgency against them using improvised explosive devices and suicide bombers. Needless to say, this did not go over very well in the Galacticon camp.
lol. right-wingers tried to see themselves favorably in BSG, a plan which has backfired
Gregor J. Rothfuss 