Reg the Fronkey Farmer

@PopeBeanie Thanks, I have fixed the link. I think you will enjoy the video.

The idea for the 250th anniversary ‘celebrations’ came from a discussion I had with some Americans at the tailgate party for the “Steelers vs Vikings” game in Dublin. I should have put “lol” at the end of my comment….or maybe not 🙂

Next year the 250th anniversary of 1776 will see MAGA argue all their talking points to further justify what they are doing and politics will be fully aligned with Christian Nationalism. By the time of the next election there will be a visible military presence in most States. Trump won’t need to stand for election because of the ongoing domestic…[Read more]

Have a great week!!

Kimmel is back on the air soon!

Left and Right don’t apply to Islamic terrorism except that Islamists think that they are the only ones who are Right and should be the only ones who are Left.

I like that line 🙂

@Enco –  you wrote: I got lucky and was able to get a prescription for a COVID-19 vaccine, completely covered by my insurance, with only the hassle of going to my Primary Care Physician, who fortunately didn’t charge me for the visit. 

You needed a script from a physician to get a COVID-19 vaccine and it cost money? Did booster vaccines also cos…[Read more]

Hours spent on religious indoctrination (especially in schools that emphasize rote memorization of doctrine) are hours not spent on inquiry-based learning, STEM labs, or building critical reasoning skills. When students are trained to accept authority and revelation as the highest form of knowledge, they often carry weaker habits of skepticism,…[Read more]

Here is a useful site to verify images…..i.e. fake or taken from elsewhere and re-used.

https://tineye.com/

@jakelafort…. I used to have a t-shirt with that quote. I wore it back in the days when blasphemy was a thing in Ireland. It started  lot of rows and arguments….which was my intention 🙂

If you ever want a ‘different’ book to read, then I would recommend this one. I have it somewhere in the house. Reading the first page of the prologue…[Read more]

Have a great week!!

“If evidence is the engine of progress, magical thinking is the handbrake left on.” – me.

Yes, the fundamentalist position is where the religious should aspire to be. If one is ‘true believer’ then no reasoning is allowed in. NO point just being a “Sunday Christian”. Faith must become the totality of the brain process. Anything less is not acceptable to your peers.

At some point in the past I remember thinking that religious fundamentalism was a byproduct of whatever religion someone followed. But it is not. It is the natural destination to arrive at if you stay the course of the indoctrination process. There are just degrees of how “mental” people become once they reach the destination point.

I did not expect to find myself in agreement with Ted Cruz…..

Just about everyone outside China underestimates China.  They added about 357GW of wind and solar capacity in 2024. The total in the EU was about 80GW and the USA, a maximum of 60GW. China will probably be further ahead this year, around the 500GW mark. Yes, they are still investing in coal but have defined targets to phase it out in the long…[Read more]