Posts Tagged ‘lies’


Expelled Exposed Live and in Color

April 15th, 2008 by Oskar Kennedy

  For those of you keeping track, the National Center for Science Education’s Expelled Exposed up and running. It digs into the lies and misrepresentations of the upcoming creationist propaganda film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.

  Expelled Exposed thoroughly explores the film’s junk science, and the mendacity (and laughable incompetence) of its producers. It refutes the conflation of Darwin with the Holocaust, and presents the laughable truth about the scientists who claim they’ve been punished for believing in “Intelligent” Design.

  If you’re curious just how hard the believers are willing to lie as they try to prop their fairy tales up against real science, check out Expelled Exposed. Then, keep a close eye on your local school board.

via Pharyngula

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Links For Brains: 8/6/2008

August 6th, 2008 by Oskar Kennedy
  • The New Humanist Blog does a little investigating, and concludes that the Birmingham, Alabama City Council web-flitering flap was probably caused by a software setting, rather than simple anti-atheist discrimination. (Atheists lumped in with Satan, Baba Yaga and the Boogie Man. Except, you know, real.)
  • FactCheck.org explains that the uranium shipped out of Iraq in July is left over from the end of Gulf War I: The Prequel, and had nothing to do with the still-elusive WMDs that the Bush administration invented out of whole cloth in 2003. (FYI, if you’re not reading FactCheck.org, you probably believe something that’s entirely untrue. If you are, you’re aware that being able to lie convincingly is a prerequisite for political office.)
  • Wired provides useful links and a poorly cropped photograph to point out that forensic DNA isn’t as perfect as the hype. (Nature just keeps right on building better fools.)
  • Some dinky blog seems to think that a lawsuit against a church for a faith-inspired injury isn’t as stupid as it sounds. (I am a filthy self-linker, and I deserve to have a belt sander applied to my genitals.)
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Obama Mia!

August 20th, 2008 by Waldorf Van Buren

I realize the title is overdone. The recent resurgence of ABBA’s hit has embedded the song in the mind of anyone who has a television, or who has seen the billboards that advertise the movie. But that overdone-ness serves a point. I get that there are a plethora of urban myths about Barack Obama, I get that he’s not perfect, and I get that the person who forwarded the email to me has NO idea what my political beliefs are. They must not have talked to me for more than five minutes.

I’ll tell you right here that I’ve voted for Republicans, Democrats, Reform Party candidates, Greenies, Socialist Reformers, Independents, Socialist Workers Party, and Libertarians. I’ve been registered as both a Republican and a Democrat. I’ve also had it, completely had it, with the current party system. But I’m not here to blog about that. I’m here to blog about email smearing.

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Coincidence (Unpleasant)

September 11th, 2008 by Oskar Kennedy

In my Advanced Legal Research class, we’re looking at resources for researching legislative history. This is the stuff that accumulates around a bill as it’s working its way through Congress: committee reports, floor debates, amendments, etc.

Right now we’re looking at a print resource called the U.S. Code Congressional & Administrative News, published by Thomson/West. It collects edited versions of that material for bills that seem to be of particular public interest. The professor passed out, at random, volumes of the October 2007 collection.

The first law in my volume is the Implementing Recommendations Of The 9/11 Commission Act of 2007. Meanwhile, the Bush administration is claiming denying, contrary to the Commission’s report, that Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the attack in the first place.

Does anybody else feel like all those people basically died for nothing?

EDIT: Sometimes my typing fingers get stupid when I’m choking with rage. See strikethrough above.

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