Seattle Sees Worst Mass Killing Since ’83

If your little fucked-up fantasy ends with you killing yourself, may we recommend you just start by killing yourself? We would all really appreciate it and it would be a lot less trouble on your part as well.

We abhor the thought of suicide and we applaud the many individuals and organizations who work to prevent suicide. We take no joy in saying it but we’ll say it again: do not kill a bunch of people and then kill yourself. Just kill yourself. If you are going to kill yourself anyway, please do not pull innocent people into your fucked up psychosis. Get help, or off yourself, but do not kill other people.

Thank you,
The Rest of the World

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U of M study finds atheists are least trusted

This is a fantasy that people have in their minds that in no way relates to reality. They think atheists are scary because they are scared of the notion that when they die they might just be dead. They project this fear on to people who are, on average, incredibly moral, compassionate, peace-loving, tolerant and patriotic.

(Courtesty of the the Church Sign Generator)

I think Condoleeza Rice should call this radio station and tell them to give this guy his job back. It was a slip of the tongue and he was trying to compliment her. It is not as if he was ripping her a new one and had a Freudian slip. We can’t go condemning people for things like this.

This reminds me of when there was a big uproar because some economist used the word niggardly, which is not a racial slur nor does it have any racial roots.

Sometimes people just don’t think straight about this stuff.

I am conflicted. I am against the death penalty. I don’t believe it is an effective deterrent, I don’t believe the state should be in the business of killing its citizens, I believe that prison is a harsh sentence in itself, I believe that some criminals can in some small way make amends for their past crimes, I believe that the risk of executing innocent people is very real and I believe that the penal system must leave open the possibility of reform.

But I am happy that this fucking scumbag is going to die. I think it would be more just, though, if we gave this poor girl’s father a baseball bat and let him beat this fucking scumbag to death. That would be justice. A humane death is too good for this fucking scumbag.

I have not one ounce of mercy for people who hurt children. The fact that this fucking scumbag dares to plead for leniency because he has a family is utterly contemptible — somehow he was willing to harm someone else’s family in the most cruel and wicked way.

This fucking scumbag dying won’t really make anything better. But I have a hard time granting mercy to those who so cruelly denied it to others. Justice would be the baseball bat.

I was chatting with my Dad today and he made a really good point. The Bush administration is no longer in their sweet spot in terms of their expertise. Their expertise is winning elections. It is not leadership or government. They are not subject matter experts when it comes to governing. Thus, history will probably remember this administration as tough political adversaries but as complete incompetent failures when it comes to leadership.

The roll call of failures goes on and on, but just to name a few:

1. Bush at the helm for the worst attack on American soil in history.
2. Bush engaging in nation building in Iraq. A story that is not yet over but that can only be described as a complete and utter failure.
3. Bush illegally spying on the American people.
4. The Bush administration’s deadly and very public failure during Katrina.
5. Bush at worse lying and at best being completely misled about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction capabilities.

These guys totally suck at this stuff, to the point that even rapid Republicans are starting to distance themselves from the aura of incompetence.

And we have 3 more years of this loser!

(This was supposed to be a comment on this post on Pharyngula but it wouldn’t post for some reason so here it is…)

Face it — we do need to convert some swing voters here or we are fucked.”

Then we’re fucked, and for all eternity. Swing voters are a hopeless, witless cause.

With all due respect, this is the kind of attitude that drives me crazy around here — the intelligence of everyone that disagrees with us is always called into question.

If we want to achieve our goals in politics and public opinion we have to frame the issues in a way that allows us to succeed. The notion that all Christians are stupid is wrong, the notion that swing voters are stupid is wrong and the notion that we can continually insult the beliefs of 90% of this country and still have a thread of political power is completely fucking wrong.

I am an (almost) atheist and a raging liberal yet most of what I see in these comments is fuel to make our agenda completely irrelevant.

I don’t think we should pander to religious people but nor can we afford to alienate them. This should be self-evident. The secular movement can’t be successful without the participation of the privately religious but publicly secular.

The Star Tribune is reporting that South Dakota’s Governor has signed the abortion ban into law.

Isn’t it funny? The Republicans get Alito and Roberts on the court and they rush headlong into a constitutional battle. What a bunch of fuckwits. So eager to subjugate the rights of women. So eager to insert law enforcement into the doctor’s office. These people are religious and they want us to honor their religion, too. They are sick of us having sex and having a good time. It’s blue law time, baby! Let’s set the clock back to some failed backwards-ass ideal of the 1950’s. We can fix this whole immoral country if we just incarcerate a few more people!

They will be trying to put the Bible back in public schools real soon now…

This video of Keith Olbermann ridiculing Bill O’Reilly is hilarious.

O’Reilly has shown over and over, as Olbermann implies, that he has major double-standards. If you are going to be a complete and utter Type-A asshole, I would think you would have some small awareness of it and take a little bit of care to not seem like a complete hypocrite.

Apparently if you even say Olbermann’s name to O’Reilly he gets his panties in a bunch.