Rand Paul has lined up, in a tippy-toeing twosidesing way, with Ted Cruz on free speech.

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]

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A new era of political violence? (I like the first comment… In a country of 330 million).

Once again, OnlySky is a lame as The Watchtower.

The alleged shooter…[Redacted]… comes from a white, conservative, gun-loving Mormon family. What’s more, the bizarre messages allegedly inscribed on his bullets showed he wasn’t just any c…

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Bad ethics is at the rotten core of MAHA vaccine policy. It’s so stupid that even Trump hits back against Ladapo.

To give an update on my earlier situation, 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 d…[Read more]

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Right-wing extremist violence is more frequent and more deadly than left-wing violence.

Annoying, simplistic articles like this tend to have a way of avoiding some of the more obvious examples.

What about all the violence done during the “Summer of Love” for Saint George Floyd in 2020? Or violence associated with protests of the Occupy…[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]

I was a little surprised that Mississippi is the number one most religious state considering they are almost always towards the BOTTOM when it comes to things like education, (bad) violent crime (high) and overall wellbeing (very poor) you would think the Christians would have had their shit together (not lol)

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]