There Is Nothing Worse Than A Hopelessly Uninformed Republican (Talking)

GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger Says ‘Nobody Actually Believes’ Election Was Stolen From Donald Trump, even though A) there was a years-long Russia Hoax, orchestrated by the Clintons - that no Democrat has paid a price for - and B) it can take years to unravel a stolen election.

 

Best Of Luck, You Two

"Is this proof Meghan visits a psychic like Diana did? Make-up artist publicly thanks royal bride-to-be for recommending a ‘truly gifted intuitive’ (who charges $250 an hour)"

"Prince Harry and Meghan Markle had regular appointments with an acupuncturist in the lead-up to their wedding."

"Meghan Markle takes an array of supplements,...Meghan is a fan of alternative medicine,...'I have been a longtime believer in acupuncture and cupping,..."

TMR Only Covers Topics I Know (So I Can Be Right,...)

This is only going to matter to me, and long-time readers, but I told you so:

   “I did come to realize that there is often a paralysis of thinking among Scientologists. Given the mix of euphoric states caused by the hypnotic procedures and the vicious internal policeman installed into the heads of all believers, it is no wonder that Scientologists take so much longer to recover, when they do, indeed, recover.

Even after the language is gone, the concepts generally remain, simply translated into New Age...”

A connection, I think, only I have made previously - as I've done for years,...

Go Here Or There: It's Ignorance Of Biblical Proportions

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, we being the higher primates -- Homo Sapiens has been on this planet for at least a hundred thousand years. 

In order to be Christian you have to believe that for ninety-eight thousand years our species suffered and died, most of its children dying in childbirth, most other people having a life expectancy of about twenty-five, dying of their teeth, famine, struggle, viciousness, war, suffering, misery, all of that for ninety-eight thousand years, heaven watches it with complete indifference. 

And then, two thousand years ago, thinks, "That's enough of that. We should, it's time to intervene. The best way to do this would be by condemning someone to a human sacrifice, somewhere in the less literate parts of the middle-east." 

Not "Let's appear to the Chinese.",  for example, where people can read and study evidence and have a civilization. "Let's go to the desert and have another revelation there." 

This is nonsense. It can't be believed by a thinking person.

- Christopher Hitchens

Facts Society Ignores (In Order To Run Things Wrong)

"The last stage in the career of a believer has been reached when hardly anything that he or she is convinced of resembles reality any longer,...

...The final stage on the journey from ‘sceptic scientist’ to delusional disciple is characterised by an incessant stream of incoherent statements of vile nonsense that beggars belief. It is therefore easy to recognise and, because nobody can possibly take the delusionists seriously, they are best viewed as relatively harmless contributors to medical comedy,...

Many homeopathy-fans are quasi-religious believers who, in my experience, have degressed way beyond reason. It is therefore a complete waste of time trying to reason with them. Initiated by a highly emotional epiphany, their faith cannot be shaken by rational arguments. Similar but usually less pronounced attitudes, I am afraid, can be observed in true believers of other alternative treatments as well (here I have chosen the example of homeopathy mainly because it is the area where things are most explicit).

True believers claim to have started out as sceptics and they often insist to be driven by a scientific mind. Yet I have never seen any evidence for these assumptions. On the contrary, for a relatively trivial episode to become a life-changing epiphany, the believer’s mind needs to be lamentably unscientific, unquestioning and simple.

In my experience, true believers will not change their mind; I have never seen this happening."

Swinging Dicks: Cultural Wreckage Of Weak Hydraulics

A little girl cornered a McDonald's CEO to complain about the menu.

 I know a Vegan couple that'd be glad to have her.

Wanna Life Lesson in Fighting the Culture of Bullshit?

Go around telling everybody How JFK secretly ADMIRED Hitler. It's a start.

Antoine Dodson has given up the Gay for God - to be good.

Even the Pope knows being good is the point, not announcements about your sex life.

Except for my not agreeing with the choices, why 10 Rap Cult Classics You Need to Hear?

Because your collection's full of freaks, that's why.

Is there new evidence in the Manson case? I don't know.

I do know men think women with tramp stamps are easy, but women eventually forget it.

Their husbands suffer in silence for a lifetime.

But all they have to do is look around this great country of ours to know they're not alone.

Like so much else these days, it's a way of life,...

 

Hitch Explains Why I Use The "Stupidity" Tag So Much

Organic Planet-Saving NewAge Bible-Thumping Morons

 

My bugaboo for the day is believers claiming we're spirits in the material world.

Look at (what they think to be) The Boston Bomber:

   

 So, based on the evidence - once stripped of belief systems - we're material in the spiritual realm:

   

And believers should be embarrassed at how far science is ahead of them,...

 

This Is The Darkest Place The NewAge Has Ever Been Today And It Will Get Darker As We Keep Heading Down

The Crack Emcee and "Mike" (in the hat) 1/1/13 at Justine's Brasserie:

Actually, it's alright to quit now. Kick back, watch a zombie movie, pretending love is real. 

Smile to yourself, since there will be no one else. Squander.

That's fine. It's your time. Go with the flow. Why make waves?

Since there's nothing you can do, about an accident, can't your existence be an accident, too? Doesn't it explain always being outnumbered? NewAge? You can believe what you want to believe. 

Somebody said so.

Really, go ahead. We're alone and need entertainment.

BREAK.

 

I'm Starting To Feel That Whole Science-y Thing Again,...

ADDED:

After: "I Won't Get Into Great Detail About Elections,..."

Awww. Don't you know “I believe in God and God is going to make sure Mr. Romney wins” can just-as-easily be construed as “I believe in God and God is going to make sure believers look like idiots”?

No? That never occurred to you? Wow: 

 I thought of it immediately,...

 

We're On A Spinning Planet (And Don't Need Any Help)

For a voter with a skeptic’s eye rather than a believer’s faith, that eye would tell that neither side is being entirely honest,…

-- A highly-edited Ross Douthat in The New York Times, saying something I agree with, in a newspaper I do not trust.

Now that, in disgust, I'm sitting out an election for the first time in my life, the partisan deceptions of the political Right and Left are simply amazing to witness. What's actually occurring out there is both sides are lying as fast (and as often) as they can, with no one interested in displaying anything even close to resembling the truth. In that way, no matter what they claim they're doing it for (opposing the Left-wing bias of the media, standing up to the Religious Right, etc.) they're ALL deliberately failing us - and doing so brilliantly.

Today I finally took another gander at Professor Glenn "I don't care" Reynolds' partisan claptrap, Instapundit, and followed a link to another professor - Victor Davis Hanson, who can be quite good - as Hanson had just posted a piece called "Do We Believe Anymore?" which is just the sort of question I, naturally, find to be catnip. Hanson begins with this:

We live in an age of disbelief, in which citizens increasingly do not believe what their government says or, for that matter, what is accepted as true by popular culture.

Hey - that's me! But, unlike Hanson, being an atheist who regularly rails against the very concept of belief - whether in politics, or religion, or anywhere else - I certainly don't think a lack of it is a bad thing. I view the collective lack of critical thinking skills - and the fact so many fill the void with assumptions based on conventional thought, outright fraud, and (for lack of a better term) "magic" - as the evil of our time.

I found my position easily justified - and immediately so - while reading Hanson's essay, as most of it was filled with bogus anti-Obama musings of the most obvious sort. Actually, my "spidey sense" started tingling long before I got to them, since it didn't take me that long to realize I was dealing with the outrageous idea of a conservative lamenting a skeptical view of government.

What kind of fool does Hanson, or Reynolds, take this conservative for? Oh yeah:

The kind who will see Romney as somehow different than Obama - because he's on "our side" - which, I'll remind you - as Americans in a crisis - doesn't exist.

What's that saying Reynolds repeats about the "global warming" crowd?

I'll believe there's a crisis when they start acting like it?

Based on all I've read - and I read a lot - here are the most salient facts about Romney, it's pretty obvious, both Hanson and Reynolds are reluctant to mention in the Obama pile-on:

A) Romney's job description is "politician" - just like Obama.

B) Romney hasn't been forthcoming about his plans - just like Obama.

C) Romney conveniently has a record of nobody knowing what the Hell he stands for - just like Obama (when he started) and,…

D) The only thing about Romney we can be 100% sure he's ever done, as reported, is lie on behalf of his "church" - just like Obama.

"Do We Believe Anymore?" In anything? 

As Hanson's (and my) friendly acquaintance, the late Christopher Hitchens, would say - not a chance.

A big conservative story today is that all the bad guys are endorsing Obama, but I clearly remember - when Obama was running in 2008 and all the good guys were endorsing him - the convincing Right-wing mantra was "other countries can't vote."

So which is it, guys?

Get your story straight:

Because, from what I've observed - if a lack of belief is of anyone's real concern - this sea of liars aren't doing anything to change it,…
 

"Idiot" Is Becoming Such A Truly Important Word,...

This is the kind of nonsense that currently passes for political discourse in my country.

And, I think, they get away with it because there's so few atheists around,...

 

Stalin Killed Them - They Loved Him (What's Changed?)

I started watching a documentary on the Russian Revolution last night - don't ask why, I just did - and that led to the one above on Stalin, today. (O.K., I'm attempting to stop doing something I shouldn't - which has driven me to eating this crazy-sweet, multi-colored kid's candy - which has made me hyper with "big thoughts," fueling a need to know everything - so sue me,...)

Anyway, I'm watching this thing, and it occurred to me that people - not just Russian people but all people - have been pretty much the same throughout history:

They get told things from the top, and "believe" them, and only decades later does the truth come out - which they could've investigated for themselves - or realized by refusing to "believe" things in the first place because, you know, there was mass murder, or something, going on all around them.

It woulda got my attention.

On the Left, they "believe" we have to re-elect Mr. Spend-It-All (AKA Mr. Spend-What-We-Don't-Have) or else we - that would be, specifically, black people - are going to end up "back in chains."

On the Right, it's "believed" two men with a weakness for cults are somehow going to set us free. 

And no matter which way I look - like a scary child attempting to cross a busy intersection - their "followers" seem to be in love (or falling in love) with them, completely oblivious to the dangers.

And that's the way they are because that's the way they want to be.

It explains religion anyway.

It's taking me a while - I've spread it over several nights because it's so achingly liberal - but I've also been watching "Selling God" (trailer above) which is really unfortunate for whoever left a flyer on my doorstep asking:

"Do you know that if you died today, you would go to Heaven? 

If you could know for sure, would you do what the Bible says?"

Of course, getting to Heaven would depend on me doing whatever the fine folks with the flyers say, and - since I'm already hyped-up on glow-in-the-dark sweets and Russian dictators - that would never sit with me. Plus, putting a probe on Mars has blown the "Heaven" concept, probably forever more.

Shit, speaking of my aversion to liberals, here's a troubling question:

Why is Jon Stewart more likable, now that the Republicans have ensured I can't vote? I'm seeing his clips and they no longer hold the revulsion they used to, and I think it's because - in a climate where everyone's determined not to tell the truth - listening to a fake newscaster is all that remains for me.

(There's something very Soviet Union-y about this whole set-up.)

That's what I'm thinking anyway,...