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Posted by Paul Constant on Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 8:22 AM
Economic News: All over the map, but Bernanke says recovery hinges on the markets.
Racist and Classist: That's what lawsuits filed yesterday against Seattle school closures say.
Tit for Tat: Obama suggested a trade to Russia for assistance with Iran.
That's Not Cricket: Gunmen kill 8 in assault on cricket team in Pakistan.
Let's Talk: U.S. to begin discussions with Syria.
Him Again?: Bush memos reveal abuses of power.
Boat Tabs: Seattle possibly reviving excise tax for ferries.
No Funds to Raise: UW cuts 70 jobs from the fundraising department.
Yelping in Pain: Complaints about Yelp's review system increase.
That'll Sway Them: Vatican Cardinal calls atheists "absurd."
Pot Is Evil: Man faces charges for stuffing his cat into a bong to mellow it out.
Pot Is Funny: Via the Rumpus, we learn that "toke" doesn't mean what Lawrence Welk thought it meant:
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Recipe Of The Day
THE INCREDIBLE SULK'S ROLLING STONES BROWN SUGAR SURPRISE
Serves one right
Ingredients:
1 (one) cup of brown sugar
1/4 (one-quarter) cup of water
1 (one) "bowl" of "Tha Chronic"
1 (one) copy of "Sticky Fingers" by the Rolling Stones, preferably on vinyl, "OG"-style
Instructions:
1. Place small saucepan on stovetop
2. Place brown sugar in saucepan
3. Pour water over brown sugar
4. Stir mixture until texture is consistent
5. Turn heat on high
6. Leave kitchen; go turn on stereo
7. Put on "Sticky Fingers"
8. Crank it up, dude!
9. Place "Chronic" in bong bowl
10. Take bong hit
11. Lie down on couch
12. Fall asleep
13. When smoke from kitchen (SURPRISE!) fills rest of house or apartment, wake up
14. Call 9-1-1
15. Extinguish fire on stovetop, by any means necessary, preferably water from the nearby tap
16. When fire department arrives, apologize for false alarm
17. Repeat as necessary, and/or until your stash of brown sugar and/or "Chronic" runs out
THE INCREDIBLE SULK'S ROLLING STONES BROWN SUGAR SURPRISE WILL MAKE YOU THE LAUGHINGSTOCK OF YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND GET YOU SO "GLIMMER-TWINNED" YOU WON'T EVEN FUCKING CARE!
And no, I don't feel like letting it go.
THE INCREDIBLE SULK'S ROLLING STONES BROWN SUGAR SURPRISE
Serves one right
Ingredients:
1 (one) cup of brown sugar
1/4 (one-quarter) cup of water
1 (one) "bowl" of "Tha Chronic"
1 (one) copy of "Sticky Fingers" by the Rolling Stones, preferably on vinyl, "OG"-style
Instructions:
1. Place small saucepan on stovetop
2. Place brown sugar in saucepan
3. Pour water over brown sugar
4. Stir mixture until texture is consistent
5. Turn heat on high
6. Leave kitchen; go turn on stereo
7. Put on "Sticky Fingers"
8. Crank it up, dude!
9. Place "Chronic" in bong bowl
10. Take bong hit
11. Lie down on couch
12. Fall asleep
13. When smoke from kitchen (SURPRISE!) fills rest of house or apartment, wake up
14. Call 9-1-1
15. Extinguish fire on stovetop, by any means necessary, preferably water from the nearby tap
16. When fire department arrives, apologize for false alarm
17. Repeat as necessary, and/or until your stash of brown sugar and/or "Chronic" runs out
THE INCREDIBLE SULK'S ROLLING STONES BROWN SUGAR SURPRISE WILL MAKE YOU THE LAUGHINGSTOCK OF YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND GET YOU SO "GLIMMER-TWINNED" YOU WON'T EVEN FUCKING CARE!
And no, I don't feel like letting it go.
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I'm an agnostic and a geologist and I actually have to defend the guy. His statement was that evolution doesn't disprove the existence of god and claiming it does is absurd. I actually wish that Dawkins and his ilk (as well as the Discovery Institute) would quit making evolution some sort of criteria for belief in god or non belief.
I can't believe I'm siding with the church on this one, but there it is.
I can't believe I'm siding with the church on this one, but there it is.
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Read the story about the cardinal. He didn't say atheists are absurd, as your headline implies. What he said was that certain theories are absurd.
I am not a creationist and I am definitely a heretic, but I agree with him on this point. You can believe in evolution and god at the same time, and many people do.
I am not a creationist and I am definitely a heretic, but I agree with him on this point. You can believe in evolution and god at the same time, and many people do.
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Sounds like the Cardinal understands what "proof" means just fine. If Dawkins really said that then the Cardinal is right.
Levada said the Vatican believed there was a "wide spectrum of room" for belief in both the scientific basis for evolution and faith in God the creator.
He said that while the Vatican did not exclude any area of science, it did reject as "absurd" the atheist notion of biologist and author Richard Dawkins and others that evolution proves there is no God.
Sounds like the Cardinal understands what "proof" means just fine. If Dawkins really said that then the Cardinal is right.
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hey, it's cheating to expect accuracy or fairness on slog.
headlines are routinely distorted to cast religion in a negative light.
it's what we do.
hey, it's cheating to expect accuracy or fairness on slog.
headlines are routinely distorted to cast religion in a negative light.
it's what we do.
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I don't think Dawkins ever said/wrote that evolution proves that god doesn't exist. That's not like him, he typically avoids claiming proof of anything and in fact says that it's the church that makes the mistake of saying things are proven or not.
Anyway, I'm not convinced he said it... or if he did, he was probably drunk or stoned or both (yay!)
Anyway, I'm not convinced he said it... or if he did, he was probably drunk or stoned or both (yay!)
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Fire it up at will, Sven. No, not at Will, though you're welcome to fire away at him too if you want.
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If a Christian decides to become an atheist because he read about Evolution, that's the Christian throwing out what he thinks the religion says about god and creation. If the creationists are going to be absurd and deny Evolution, that's people taking one theory over another. It depends on how literal the believers have to take their own religion. (What kind of threat is made because they believe in Evolution.)I don't see Atheism having a creation story. Is their a name/label for people who don't believe anyone's creation theories?
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All this fuss about creation theories. I had a bad night and threw up the universe, alright? Give me a break.
I'm tired. Please don't wake me up again.
I'm tired. Please don't wake me up again.
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@12 Huh? All Catholics did was move back the "creation" to life-forms existing before humans came into the world and allow for some evolution. Which, since we don't know exactly how "life" actually first started, pretty neatly fits into Genesis. Only the most evangelical sects take the word of Genesis literally.
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PS> I HATE defending the Catholic church. There's so much to dislike, stick to stuff that's true.
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I hate it when I ridicule Rush Limbaugh's Dittoheads for intellectual dishonesty and then I find that the blogs I read do the same thing.
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Chip@10- just so I'm clear: I can talk about Octopussy lactating all over Ron Jeremy while she massages his prostate, just so long as I don't take the Lord's name in vain? Gotcha.
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@17... second.
even more significant, when i was younger trying to figure out what i believed things like this actually made it difficult to think either the "left" or the "right" were being honest.
even more significant, when i was younger trying to figure out what i believed things like this actually made it difficult to think either the "left" or the "right" were being honest.
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@14:
Only the most fringe religious sects... them and one of the two biggest political parties in the United States.
Only the most fringe religious sects... them and one of the two biggest political parties in the United States.
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“We can’t referee factual disputes,” responded Mr. Stoppelman. “Why believe the business owner who has skin in the game?”
The Yelp CEO has obvious contempt of business owners.
Another little known fact is that the "enthusiastic volunteers" are encouraged to run out and review as many places as possible, giving reviews so as to trigger the ad reps in SF to start soliciting the business for ads and using the reviews in their pitch: "See how many people are looking at your business?" Regardless of whether they are positive or negative reviews, but they tend to be over-the-top positive.
These people don't get paid but they get little perks like parties or other social get togethers and they also get to pad their profiles with compliments and other review votes. Its almost a competition and it leads to some pretty obnoxious attempts at creative writing.
The Yelp CEO has obvious contempt of business owners.
Another little known fact is that the "enthusiastic volunteers" are encouraged to run out and review as many places as possible, giving reviews so as to trigger the ad reps in SF to start soliciting the business for ads and using the reviews in their pitch: "See how many people are looking at your business?" Regardless of whether they are positive or negative reviews, but they tend to be over-the-top positive.
These people don't get paid but they get little perks like parties or other social get togethers and they also get to pad their profiles with compliments and other review votes. Its almost a competition and it leads to some pretty obnoxious attempts at creative writing.
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