Two small centre parties – the Conservative Democrats and the Liberal Greens – are the winners of Sunday’s parliamentary polls ending years of increasing polarisation.
The rightwing Swiss People’s Party and the centre-left Greens suffered the biggest losses in the House of Representatives compared with the 2007 vote. The two main centre-right parties also saw their support slip, while the centre-left Social Democrats registered a slight gain. (read more)
Obviously the Swiss were fed up with the fear mongering and the hate politics. I feel very sorry for the Greens. They are the ones who should have profited from the increased interest in environmental issues in Switzerland, but the Green Liberal Party, which is basically promising to build a greener capitalism, so everybody can keep their Porsche Cayennes, outstaged them. The SVP (Swiss People’s (Tea-) Party) just got their due. Good riddance to some of their MP’s.
Here’s Swissinfo’s comments page, so you can get a glimpse into the Swiss Psyche. See any similarities?
This is our open thread, so open up!
TheZoo 
If ‘right’ and ‘liberal’ or ‘left’ mean the same in Switzerland as in the US, then I quickly am fed the impression that the most certainly terminal disease from which Amurka suffers is NOT purely a local problem in central North America.
What puzzles me, I guess, is that I’d think the Swiss would be more cognizant and fearful of what can happen under right wing supremacy. Or maybe too many have forgotten the events of the late twenties and early thirties — and the consequences thereof — in neighboring Germany?
One thing is beginning to appear to be a global certainty: the average mind of the human mass is not yet intellectually evolved enough to master even low levels of politic-think.
Is Anne Kornblut of the Washington Post a righty or lefty? I never can focus on what she’s saying. I just get lost in those big brown eyes. 😀
Agreed – who cares?
Hathos RED ALERT:
It’s nice they had time to film that on the guy’s smoke break, I wouldn’t have wanted it to take time away from something important!
You are so astute, House!
Note that:
This looks like a joke ad, but sadly, I think they’re completely serious.
“Herb” Cain is the new Sarah Palin.
Then there’s this:
“In the 1990s, when Herman Cain, owner of Godfather’s Pizza, was a lobbyist for the restaurant industry, he partnered with RJ Reynolds and Philip Morris to oppose smoking bans for restaurants. Cain helped lobby against local and state smoking bans on behalf of the tobacco giants.”
I thought you were kidding about the smoke break….. LOL
Next time sometome says to me ‘take this country back’ – I’m not going to ask the obvious question – ‘Why, who’s got it?’ – I think I’ll just start the rumble there and then.
Oligarchy: Taking the country back from poor Americans for hundreds of years.
Rudepundit is all over this Herman Cain ad and several others which you can watch through the links provided…..
Ditto Zooey – is this serious? I hope not
I really am wondering if Herman Cain is a joke that the Koch brothers are playing on everyone: “See, look who we can run for SPOTUS – next up – we’re going to run Dennis Miller, then maybe we’ll try Courtney Stodden …. we can get 25% of you to support anyone we want …. its so easy.”
Had to google ‘Mark Block’ – first thing that comes up? Americans For Prosperity.org/ staff
I really like that sly grin at the end. Says it all for Herm. “You all really are idiots”
Wow… looks like the Koch brothers bought themselves a black candidate.
I have a couple conflicts.
I grew up in Texas and followed the Texas Rangers growing up (but like the Mets….they were perpetual losers). After moving away from Texas, I lost track of them for a time, and kinda I hated them when (Payrod) Alex Rodriguez played for them, but I am excited for them now that they are leading the World Series 3 games to 2 over the St. Louis Cardinals.
My conflict? Every time they show the President and Mrs. Bush behind home plate, I secretly wish that the webbing between the field and the fans had been weakened just enough to let a potential foul ball squeeze through and smack President Bush on the noggin. Sort of a baseball noogie of sorts, if you will.
Thank goodness the Rangers head back to St. Louis now and I won’t have to see Bush sitting back there so smugly.
My other conflict? Part of me would really like the Rangers to win the World Series, and part of me wants the Rangers to lose because it would pain the Ex-President. (Petty, I know, but I’m human.)
So I ask you: What’s a gal to do? Should I try to rise about my emotions and root for the Rangers? Or give in to my basest desires to want to poke George W. in the eye?
Root for Nolan Ryan. I am.
And Tony LaRussa is usually insufferable.
ll, root for the Rangers and do what would hurt W most, forget him in all eternity.
That’s good advice, EV.. thanks.
The next time, and only time, I want to see or actvely look at his face again, is when he is sitting in the dock in the Hague. Otherwise I won’t waste my beautiful mind even acknowledging his existence.
Listen on the radio and catch the video highlights on the news!
You’d never have to look upon the ‘chimp’!
You mean baseball season isn’t over yet? It’s about as bad as presidential election ‘season’ for chrissake! 🙂
Last night on Hardball we learned why a flat tax will create jobs. According Republican Strategist John Feehery, “It worked in Estonia.”
I can think of no adequate response that doesn’t require a flush toilet.
Baseball season isn’t over, but the NBA season is going to be delayed for two more weeks. I can’t remember if it’s a strike or a lockout. 😆
And football isn’t over yet either, right?
We’re about halfway through football season.
It’s called ‘hand egg’ in my house
Since it’s supposed to snow here tomorrow I’m guessing hockey is underway too? And the only reason all four won’t be on at the same time is either a players strike or an owners lockout in basketball?
It could be that dude in California was right about the world ending, that he just missed the date by a few weeks!
It was a few years ago (2004), the Turtles were in Vancouver for the days leading up to new year.
Sitting in Starbucks before watching a candlelight parade, SammytheTurtle (aged about 7) asks her father, “Dad, what disasters can happen in Canada, volcanoes and earthquakes?” – this was the Christmas of the tsunami.
Dad: “Well they did cancel the hockey season due to a strike a few years ago”
(sounds of coffee snorting through the nose in the booth behind me)
I remember when the NHL team from Winnipeg moved to Phoenix a decade or two ago. There were many in both cities who felt that action signaled the soon-to-be end of the world. Unfortunately, they were all wrong. Phoenix still has the Coyotes (who now “play” in a new hundred million dollar taxpayer-funded arena in the suburb of Glendale), and seems to me I remember that Winnipeg got a new franchise. Wonder where it will move to?
“Tax cut for fat cats” – Mitt ‘I’m one of you’ Romney on the flat tax……
Of course, John Feehery, everything else about Estonia is exactly the same as the US, so naturally their system of taxation should work here if it worked there. What an idiot!
Well Estonia is a Paradise on the Baltic
I’ve never been to Latvia, Estonia, or Lithuania, but I am intrigued to note that the structure of the female body there seems to be very close to that which I’ve observed in other locations. That’s a good thing. A VERY good thing.
Still, the fact that the flat tax in Estonia apparently worked to create jobs there is probably not as much a global universal as is the structure of the female; more research is needed. Anyone, feel free to study the impact of tax structure even as I work to uncover more info on the impact of the female. Structure.
I don’t think that the association changed anyone’s opinion about blondes in that clip. 😉
We’d be fine in this country if everybody had started off even only twenty years ago, like Estonia.
Stop drooling – you’ll short-circuit the board! ;>
I’m not drooling over Terry’s blondes. I mostly go for brunettes, Jennifer Granholm excepted, of course.
I know, right? Used to be over the first week in October… now… it goes on and on and on….
I hate pro sports, refuse to follow or give a damn about any team in any league or conference, period.
If they’d pay for their own bloody stadiums and arenas I still probably wouldn’t care less about their schedules, seasons, or existence, but at least they’d be legitimate. It bugs the bejeebers out of me to know that some of my tax money in AZ was wasted on two arenas, a baseball stadium, and a foosball stadium — at a time when the schools my kids went to had leaky roofs among other maintenance problems, were understaffed, classroom size was quite often ‘overpopulated’, etc. etc. No money to repair schools but were able to scratch up a billion bucks to pay for prof. sports facilities. And that was just Maricopa County in AZ — same thing happened all over the place, and why? LA was the smartest city on the block. It got rid of the Rams, didn’t build a new stadium, and has been without foosball for what, ten years now? And LA still exists, last I heard.
I agree that it has been a problem. To carry your argument to it’s logical conclusion, I think that Pro sports teams holding cities and states hostage for stadiums began a horrible trend for other businesses to do the very same thing by shopping their headquarters and plants to other states for tax breaks. Good for the company’s bottom line and investors’ pocketbooks, but bad for workers all over the place.
i.e. Boeing is now in Chicago, JC Penney moved from Illinois to Texas years ago…
Had the pro teams not been able to get away with it, maybe other companies wouldn’t have done the same thing.
I agree. In fact, isn’t Boeing planning to move much of its manufacturing to S. Carolina soon? Wouldn’t surprise me to see much of the American MIC move to China one of these first days. Cheap labor and all.
Money rules. Why is that?
Are we sure he didn’t say “Elbonia’?
(a very soft heh, heh)
Maybe he meant, Eurasia? Or maybe Eastasia? Possibly Oceania?
I hope he wasn’t talking about DIlbert’s favoritest country in the world. 🙂
Not a swift move:
A bit of irony?
The Occupy Oakland has been a city withing a city: set up a library tent; child care tent, etc.
Across the street: Goldman Sachs office – an interviewed worker said the Occupy Oakland have even been mowing the lawn around their encampment!
At ~4a.m. the police state took over – herding and arresting the peaceably assembled! It will not deter that’s for sure. The cops need to pay attention to situations that are detrimental to the citizenry – a camp dedicated to social change is not.
Reports of Tear Gas, Rubber Bullets, Sonic Cannon: Police Attack #OccupyOakland
It’s a damn Police State. Rousting people from sleep to arrest them.
Reminds me of the Feds going after established Medical Marijuana shops – how effen ‘brave is that’ to eradicate illegal drugs?
They can’t seem to find/detect tunnels going from U.S. to Mexico to actually stop the flow of hard drugs (and marijuana)
Many of them couldn’t find their own butt with both hands in a well-lit room if they had rubber necks.
If only they would all wear brown shirts …….
Well, if you can’t go over the large electrified fence? I guess you gotta go under it…
Border fences are job creators for Mexico. Build a twenty foot fence and voila, create a huge market for 21 foot ladders. Electrify in and the tunnel industry suddenly expands to answer the demand. New use for old motto: “Build it and they will come.”
If our politicians weren’t so effing stupid, we could solve the problem in a month or two. No chance of that, given our politicians.
I learned not to whizz on the electric fence either..
I’ll take your word for that. I don’t have the correct equipment to test that out. 😉
Ah, so you’re from Estonia then? Latvia? 😉
The advantages of being Estonian seem self-evident…
Bill of Attainder and a drone sent to her house. Worst NSA ever.
That’s disheartening to hear about OccupyOakland. WTF is an “unlawful assembly”?
Anything the police deem it to be – well with the help of the city attorney and the health department. All declared lies were truth..
nothing new for a police state!
As mentioned – a Goldman Sachs office is directly across the street – employees watching the Occupy say it is peaceful and that the tent city was organized and fairly clean. The Occupy people even mowed the lawn!
If it was a health issue then it would have been cheaper to supply port-a-johns then pay for SWAT teams. This is what a police state looks like. Send the Oakland police brown shirts.
oooo, pete was this the beauty you left us for last evening?
Yes. I was up until almost 3:00 AM. It was not just bright enough to outshine the local light pollution but even showed through the intermittent high cirrus clouds. I may have seen brighter displays while way out in the boondocks but I’ve never seen them so bright in town.
The Unseriousness of the GOP continues….
Herman needs to make up his mind. Is he saying stupid shit because “It’s a joke,” or does he just need more sleep? Pretty soon, the dog will eat his homework.
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/10/25/352453/cain-lack-of-sleep/
It’s apparent the dog did eat his homework and he’s attempting to re-connect the pieces from the other end.
No matter – it’s all excrement!
The part that I find amazing is that he’s still leading in the polls. I guess there isn’t anyone else left in the “anyone but Mittens” sweepstakes. I don’t know how anyone could listen to KochCain for more than a half-minute and say; “gee! I think I could vote for this guy”.
I think a survey of cockroaches might be the only way to get to the bottom of the matter, since cockroaches are easily one step above GOoPers in the mental acuity department.
Cockroaches might be two or more steps above GOoPers. They’re pretty smart bugs and are definitely more evolved.
Found on the interwebs:
“First they came for the rich, and I said nothing. Because, you know, fuck the rich.”
I’ll second that sentiment!.
American Exceptionalism. boy howdy. Not only do we show the rest of the world we treat dissenters and protesters in pretty much the same way any totalitarian regime does, putting lie to our claims of wanting to ‘spread democracy’ around the world but we aren’t even bright enough to notice that the various countries who have already done this and toppled regimes outnumber the ones that have failed to do so.
Bye,all y’all. Gotta hit the road. I’ll check in when I can.
We thought you left hours ago/
I’m thinking the next candidate to toss their hat into the Repub circus ring will either be Statler or Waldorf. They would have more credibility because most people realize they are puppets and are expected to say silly things.
What about cartoon characters? Wile E. Coyote displays the same unflinching commitment to failed policies, thinks he’s a genius, and can’t outsmart a bird.
Oh btw, nine years ago today Minnesota Sen. Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash.
How different things would be with him still around.
It would be so easy to believe his death was no accident.
In light of Pat Buchanan’s increasingly rabid racism I’ve been sending MSNBC emails that say:
“Fire Pat now”!
I would like to start a trend.
Media Matters is doing something similar:
http://mediamatters.org/action/buchanan/?source=buchanan
Free Pat’s big ass mouth from national exposure!
That too!
I voted for “Pepper Spray Goldman-Sachs”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/arts-post/post/occupy-wall-street-signs-which-should-go-in-the-smithsonian/2011/10/24/gIQAvheZFM_blog.html
I voted for the leggy brunette with boots and the understated sign “I am very upset”
That was a good one. She didn’t even need a sign.
gummitch, frugal & turtle:
Debussy – Rêverie
Very good. Debussy a long-time favorite. For obvious reasons. 🙂
Mmm, speaking of brunettes…
Sorry, buttons were pushed.
It is very refreshing to see properly spelled signed with an understandable message!
Amy Goodman and Chris Hedges were on Charlie Rose, last evening – intelligent and very gently, kindly slapped down Charlie as he opined there really was no message.
Amy and Chris explained it all to Charlie.
There are no leaders. No hierarchy for reason – everyone feels empowered and that will fuel the OWS movement.
Did you see the men in suits with the “Brokers and Police for the Occupation” sign on pizza boxes? Amy pointed out the OWS were attempting to be as green as possible!
**signs**
I think one of the things that really scares the Right is that the OWS movement is so amorphous. There are no leaders to attack and discredit. There is no one agenda and the driving and uniting force is being pissed at the power structure. They have trying to push the ‘they don’t know what they are protesting’ meme and it just isn’t working.
That’s why they are falling back on the “take a shower and get a job” crap.
Where was:
“I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one!”
As we witness the authorities feeling compelled to deny the occupiers their first amendment guarantees, we know one thing.
The rulers are getting nervous.
I think they are becoming both nervous and short sighted. I suspect there is a feeling that as winter comes on, the protests will naturally diminish. This is probably true. Where the short sightedness comes in is with no serious relief in sight, this winter had better be awfully mild. Since the R’s aren’t allowing any economic help to happen, this winter is going to be pretty ugly. And the protests will not only continue but increase.
Satchel’s advice to jittery rulers:
Don’t look back…Something might be gaining on you..!
Are we close to “… then they fight you…”?
Winter will be brutal, especially if the Northeast gets a lot of snow like it did in the last two years.
We could well see a “Valley Forge” mentality as the occupiers find the strength in the righteousness of the cause.
One of the Occupy DC protesters who was interviewed by the WaPo was from Wisconsin. I expect he can hang on.
They are indeed. Witness little Eric’s scurrying away from his speech last week.
Eric of Weenie?
Sir Eric of Weenie to you peasant!
Duce Boner of Orange?
Talk about pathetic. A homophobic group used a photo of an Obama rally as if it was their own. Sheesh.
uh, oh – they forget about the googles where just about anything/everything can be ‘found out’.
It is just not fair that they can’t find pictures of large gatherings of crazy religious people. Maybe it’s because they are too busy hiding in their closets…praying, of course.
Thankfully, the world will end in 2012…
HONOLULU — Up to 20 million tons of tsunami debris floating from Japan could arrive on Hawaii’s shores by early 2013, before reaching the West Coast, according to estimates by University of Hawaii scientists.
A Russian training ship spotted the junk – including a refrigerator, a television set and other appliances – in an area of the Pacific Ocean where the scientists from the university’s International Pacific Research Center predicted it would be. The biggest proof that the debris is from the Japanese tsunami is a fishing boat that’s been traced to the Fukushima Prefecture, the area hardest hit by the March 11 disaster.
Refrigerators float? Who could have guessed? I wouldn’t want to open THAT after it’s been at sea since March.
As for the world ending. I’m beginning to think that it’s us humans that will be ending… the world will go on with the next incarnation of “dominant species.”
I hope the next one does better than us. Humans (and our detritus) are the future oil fields of the earth.
“As for the world ending. I’m beginning to think that it’s us humans that will be ending… the world will go on with the next incarnation of “dominant species.”
If you’ve ever seen The History Channel’s Life After People you know that’s a certainty.
I have often thought that the world would be a better place if evolution had stopped once the big cats showed up. Since that ship has sailed I’m willing to give the scorpions and/or cockroaches a crack at being the dominant species. At least there’s virtually no chance that they could actually make the earth uninhabitable for anything else.
Don’t tell that to my ex in Phoenix. A sewer roach or two made her bathroom uninhabitable! I suggested tossing in a couple of scorpions to get the roaches, at which time the house itself was basically deemed, for me, uninhabitable.
Bugs, arachnids, and other assorted invertebrates don’t faze me. I find them fascinating. I have a “pet” spider with a web in my reading lamp. During the summer months I leave the lamp on and the windows open so she gets a few “noseums” but I don’t think she’ll last through the winter. I have seriously considered raising some fruit flies for her. When I get bored with the computer and the fish and I don’t feel like reading I love to watch her tending her web.
I just caught the meaning of your last sentence. When I had my house in the woods I lost a few lady friends who freaked out whenever one of said wood’s denizens moved in. Bugs, bats, mice, chipmunks, assorted birds, and even a few snakes found their way in over the years. I caught a baby bull snake in the garage and kept him for years. I fed him with mice, shrews, and voles that I caught in the tool shed with a live trap. The only critters that ever bothered me too much were the bats because of the risk of rabies but the cats kept the others in check.
The weird part is that the ladies weren’t put off so much by the critters as by my refusal to freak out. Sigh… I never managed to find a single woman who would let me touch her after I picked up a snake.
I like all critters with but a handful of exceptions including mosquitoes, gnats, houseflies, horseflies, fleas, and lice (my older daughter brought some of those home once, a genuine pain i.t.a. Snakes don’t concern me, nor do lizards, spiders, scorpions, etc. Cockroaches are interesting, but I’d rather they move in with the neighbors and stay there. In Phoenix, a mouse sneaked in one day and I managed to corner it in the pantry. But coaxing it out was impossible so I had to do the little critter in. I felt very bad about that, still do. Much worse than I’d have felt had it been a Republican even.
I don’t mind people holding snakes or when they are behind glass in the zoo. It’s when they are on the ground or in the water or trees that I get the willies.
Maybe you should skulk around a College Biology Building — find a nice woman scientist….
Another reason to root for the Rangers…
Tony LaRussa’s daughter called Rangers’ manager Ron Washington “a crack head.”
http://aol.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2011-10-25/tony-la-russas-daughter-removes-offensive-tweet-about-ron-washington
I still can’t do it. I can’t force myself to root for Dubbya’s team. Actually, I can’t stand LaRussa either so I couldn’t care less who wins the series. Well, I couldn’t care much less. At least the Cards have two former Twins who I don’t think the Twins should have let go so I’m kinda rooting for them to do well.
The only reason I would be happy if the Rangers won is for Oliver (reliever of 20 odd years) and Washington. Not a fan of Nolan Ryan and of course the Bush connection. It does pain me to see the Cards in the final AGAIN, but they sure put on a good run to get there.
Well, we’re Mets fans first, of course, and probably Red Sox fans second, For Whoever is Playing the Yankees, third, and, after that, the Underdog.
Too bad about the Tigers.
At University there is the yearly vote for the president of the Student Union. One year back in the day (I hate that saying, so why use it!?) we nominated Pillar. Pillar was a stand out in our home room (we actually had a home room which was where we all had a personnel desk and some lectures common to the group were given – they don’t have those anymore). Those that sat behind Pillar couldn’t see squat. People were constantly posting notes on Pillar. This was very helpful if you were looking for the location of the Saturday party.
Pillar was made of concrete and was basically immovable. It was not the first and not the last joke candidate. There were always people that were very serious about the job and you could tell by listening to them.
Now with the GOP it seems the race is full up with joke candidates!
Back in MY day, Pillar was always very accommodating. Immovable, Pillar could be depended upon to steadfastly hold position, enabling me to avoid confrontational and or dirty looks. A master strategist could count on her rock solid position to support flirtatious activity as well.
I’m pretty sure I’ve missed something…
I ran out of replies so I’m replying to LibertyLover here:
I’ve met women who like snakes but they’ve been married and/or in a committed relationship. Well, there was a gal who worked for me who had a snake, a scorpion, a tarantula, and a parrot who almost bit her nose off but she was a bit too young and I’ve never been in favor of “screwing the help”.
Reminds me of this gem.
Aw crap! Dolly doing the little girl act reminds me of Victoria Jackson. You’ve messed up a perfectly good sexual fantasy, dycker.
Dang. Maybe ah coulda shoulda gonta Missoura this winter…
(Sorry. Inside joke I’m the only one who gets.
Been to Branson in the winter. Deader than the Jesus they nail up every Thursday afternoon at the Passion Play.)
Rick Perry doesn’t like snakes either.
He actually said he was afraid of them.
Scary Perry.
Perhaps someone can introduce pRick to:
The Church of God with Signs Following is the name applied to Pentecostal Holiness churches that practice snake handling and drinking poison in worship services, based on an interpretation of the following biblical passage:
You’ll just have to convert someone then, I suppose. Snakes are like Republicans, once you spend some time around them or come to understand them, they aren’t so bad. No, I take that back. Snakes are nothing like Republicans.
There’s no “lower” animal that’s as foolish as Republicans. There are snails that get infected by worms that make them suicidal and that’s about the best analog for the stupidest 25% of the population.
Frankly, I’ve never really desired a permanent mate or children. I seduce someone a few times a year in order to exercise my biological imperative and I have no regrets. I’m a good uncle and mentor but I’m not parental material. My philosophy on child rearing is: if I don’t kill the little bastard he, or she, will drive me to suicide.
New breeding site for coelacanths found near Tanzania
The oceans are truly a fantastic place. While kayaking about a mile offshore I saw a large (rayed) dorsal fin flopping above the surface. Cautiously approaching, I found an ocean sunfish lolling about at the surface. Only having seen them before in pictures, I was simply amazed.
I haven’t been out paddling in over a week because a great white shark attacked a surfer just south of Newport, the surfer survived unscathed, miraculously, but the nose of his board had a two foot semi-circle taken out of it…
The ocean sunfish is oddly beautiful – grand you were able to meet one in its home!
Hadn’t expected to see one in the northern Pacific, I had thought they were a warm water fish. It saw me and slowly dropped down out of sight.
They have a grace and ethereal beauty that has to be experienced to appreciate. It’s a bit like watching a jellyfish combined with a plastic bag blowing in the wind.
The Monterey Bay Aquarium have Molas – that’s the only place I’ve ever seen them.
Back when I used to fish off of San Diego, 1969-1974, the ocean sunfish, and just about every other denizen of the West Coast, would appear during the mating season for squid. The first time we spotted one we thought it was the head of a decapitated shark (Back in those days and, all too often today, sharks were exterminated as vermin.). Squid season also afforded opportunities to view: killer whales, false killer whales, pilot whales, three or four different species of dolphin, and all kinds of sharks including one Great White that seemed to be bigger than our 20ft. boat! We even caught a couple salmon. It was a magical time of the year.
As a fisherman I think the best part was that every species of fish went into a combined frenzy and torpor. The frenzy part was that anything that looked a bit like a squid would get a hit as soon as it touched the water. The torpor part was that the fish that were hooked could barely swim and would just regurgitate all the squid they had eaten while being reeled in. Alas, as of the last time I visited the places we used to fish, the numbers and diversity of species have been greatly reduced.
Saw a full sized one of these at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Wash. D.C.
Interesting creature.
I find this fascinating, a supernova that occurred 2,000 years ago…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15445688
2,000 years ago. Why does that sound so familiar?
I’m guessing they’ll soon determine whether it would have been visible in the East.
Well, yeah – the Shepherds and Three Wise Men will vouch for that/
The idea that the “Star of Bethlehem” was a nova, supernova, or comet has been bandied about for years. In other exciting cosmological news: a planet that hasn’t even finished forming has been imaged. It’s estimated to be less than 100,000 years old. Of course, the creationists will bleat out that we can’t prove the validity of said observations until and unless we can capture the whole process, from beginning to end, in a time lapse that is collected in a single human lifetime. I think it’s one of the most exciting discoveries yet.
http://www.universetoday.com/90226/baby-planet-caught-in-the-act-of-forming/
BillO would just burst his “little grey cells” attempting to fathom this without the ‘help of god’.
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This is an exciting time when a planet is discovered in the formation stage.
(To this day I recall my third grade teacher saying we’d never make it to the Moon – it wasn’t in God’s plan).
My delight on July 20, 1969 – by then I was in high school – to see the landing of the Moon – on T.V. is what started my thought–that there might not be a ‘God in Charge’.
I don’t remember who said it but there’s an old quote that goes something like: “It takes an enormous ego to be truly stupid”. Bill0 is a perfect example.
Also…
Bill0 can’t figure out the tides. I think I was six or seven when I got stranded on a rock while exploring tide pools. That night, after Dad rescued me from the rising water, he explained the tides to me. God was not even the smallest part of the explanation.
A bit off track – are the Northern Lights dancing in the sky again this
night?
Alas, it’s a cloudy night and spitting rain so I’ll return to the earlier subject.
I have always found that no anthropomorphic God could ever create the wondrous universe we live in. Hypothetical gods can perform miracles but it takes a force far more wonderful to make everything make sense once it’s explored, and understood, in detail. For the life of me; I can’t understand why that frightens so many people. When they apply their arbitrary gods it makes it impossible to truly understand much of anything.
Scientology War on South Park!
(absurd)
Always stand back from your dumpster when opening the lid, in case any raccoons or Thetans are inside pawing through your trash.
And look overhead too, Tom Cruise might be ready to drop down from the branches…
Tom Cruise is scarier than snakes.
He’s gotten very weird.
He’s a tiny, little, man who has been paid millions to portray guys who can kick ass. The poor guy never had an opportunity to be anything close to “normal”.
Religions in general seem to lack a sense of humor.
A sense of humor requires that one can laugh at oneself and just about everything else. Religions require that one kills those who laugh.
Religion seems to stifle any creativity… everything needs to be stern; uncaring; humorless.
It teaches god is serious business with no sense of fun.
If he does exist and created everything then he must have a sense of frivolity.
Repugnant/teapottiers can’t seem to win by being truthful. They must ‘borrow’ and skew facts.
Stossel’s Attacks On Public Education Feature Misleading, Out-Of-Context statistics to tout charter schools as a preferable alternative to traditional public schools.
(he’s so idiotic and childish – this is a stunt done in elementary school to ‘win’)
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Massive Lego Man Washes Up on Florida Beach
He’s his own roboat!