And We Got a Muslim President With a Fake Birth Certificate Ed Darrell has a piece on which he does a takedown, a right “fis king” ; of the Obama Birth Certificate Conspiracy.  Check out Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub for more details. I don’t want to reiterate his post, but I do want to point to one of the links that Ed includes.  It shines a light on the paranoia of ele......
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Budgets and the “special treat.” The politics and emotions, a book noted . Human rights and its history . Afghanistan, a skirmish . Ukraine and NATO . Mill examined . Morals and multiverse . Missing the whole, howto ’splain it to your boss part . Debate and a man’s movement to faith . The effect of the CAPS key . Hmm , aliens again. Art . Support terror …......
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Good morning. Budgets and the “special treat.” The politics and emotions, a book noted . Human rights and its history . Afghanistan, a skirmish . Ukraine and NATO . Mill examined . Morals and multiverse . Missing the whole, howto ’splain it to your boss part . Debate and a man’s movement to faith . The effect of the CAPS key . Hmm , aliens again. Art . Suppo......
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Yesterday the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) held a hearing on new public school science curriculum standards, which is currently set to be finalized in March 2009. Here in SBOE District 10 we’ve become familiar with our current board member Cynthia Dunbar for some outrageous statements she made just before the election this month.  We’ll see that she continued that s......
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Good morning. The Christian carnival is up in fine fashion . “C reationist s” duck “the debate”? Is there a debate about any sort of science of God being Creator ? I hadn’t noticed. WIMPs in the news (WIMPs as in Weakly Interacgting Massive Particles). Verse . Abortion and the Jew . If you can’t get data … just use insults . Math jokes . ......
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Although this story has been reported on for over a week, EOW has waited until now to speak to the issue.  At issue are some destructive comments that Republican Cynthia Dunbar made in a recent editorial. This is pertinent to Williamson County because Dunbar currently represents State Board of Education, District 10, which covers the counties of Austin, Bastrop, Burleson, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayett......
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Is fifth grader Dalton Sherman the next Barack Obama ? Of course, it’s far too early to tell, but that’s how he refers to himself in an interview on the Ellen show, where my wife first saw this extraordinary young man who can teach us all something about inspirational speaking. This article reviews the keynote address at the Dallas Independent School District (D.I.S.D.) ......
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We didn’t have to wait long for right wing brains to explode into loopy, tangled strands of conspiracy theory nonsense. Creationist brains, already in a state of disarray, are already predisposed to this kind of inanity, so don’t be too shocked at what Cynthia Dunbar, creationist, Christian, and member of the Texas State Board of Education has to say : So we can imagine the blat......
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( YouTube link ) 4-year-old Truett knows how important it is for all US citizens to go cast their vote today. Now, out the door! -via Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub......
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Source: AFP A substantial 6.1 magnitude earthquake struck on Sunday just off the remote Aleutian Islands of the US state of Alaska, the US Geological Survey reported. The quake occured at 3:48 am local time (1348 GMT) about 53 kilometers (33 miles) underground, some 56 kilometers (35 miles) south-southwest of Atka Alaska and 1828 kilometers (1136 miles) from t......
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Be careful to take the right courses during the undergraduate years.   Of course this is easier said than done, as it is a rare undergraduate who really knows their future career plans when they arrive in college.  From the get-go you need to be focusing on getting good grades .  The odd, less than stellar performance won’t wreck your plans for attending graduate school the way it can play ......
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Here is the letter Ann Kilkenny from Wasilla, Alaska, wrote about Sarah Palin. You probably have heard of it this week as it made the news during the convention. A must read from someone that has known the governor for years. Here’s an unscripted Sarah Palin at church: Palinanity . Fundies are out of touch with reality, but many people, maybe even your neighbors, find this kind of drivel ......
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This is a terrifying video. It’s Sarah Palin going on and on in front of her Assembly of God church, talking about the war in Iraq as "a task that is from God", promising the congregants the gift of prophecy, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus…it ought to make any rational human being ill. But that’s not the scary part. The truly frightening prospect, and the thing......
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This is a terrifying video. It’s Sarah Palin going on and on in front of her Assembly of God church, talking about the war in Iraq as "a task that is from God", promising the congregants the gift of prophecy, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus…it ought to make any rational human being ill. But that’s not the scary part. The truly frightening prospect, and the thing......
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It is so nice teaching biology to adults when there are no (obvious) Creationists in the classroom. It does not always happen that way - I have had a couple of cases in the past - but this time it was really nice as I could freely cover all topics deeply within an evolutionary framework (not always seen in my public notes, though, as I try to gauge the class first and then decide ho......
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Good morning. Brett, a graph . Memory eternal, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has died . Mr Solzhenitsyn has had a strong influence on my recent political thinking, as readers of this blog well know. Democrats and gas . Unhappy about the term “tri nitarian&# 8221; … and not unhappy about Trinity btw. Terror in red and white and … bubbly ? Two posts on canon, old and new . In de......
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It’s been a while, eh? First, a note on the Tron 2 buzz that’s circulated since our last story . Jim Hill posted a somewhat breathless tale this week about the film’s production and how original TRON director Steven Lisberger had been taken off the project by John Lasseter, scrapping the years of development work that he had put in on the production. Lasseter, says Hill, was......
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Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub features a post about some debates I did with blogger Hercules Mulligan . This post is based off a comment I left there. In my last post I noted, though a minority, some folks do argue for a reading of the Constitution and the American Founding that privileges “Chr istianity& #8221; over other religions. This blogger is one of them. And, in making his c......
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I won’t go into any of the crass names that Fort Worth has been called, even by Texans (maybe, especially by Texans). But I truly doubt the Stock Yard Museum’s claim to an antique light bulb that’s been burning since September, 1908. What, no power outages in a hundred years? Bosh. When it comes to municipal brag, I prefer such as lowly Hutto’s claim that it is th......
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