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Dog no, fucking Mississippi again :/
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57397760/miss-house-defiant-passes-personhood-bill/
Miss. House defiant, passes "personhood" bill
Fucking 'personhood' again. Trying to ascribe rights to a collection of cells that cannot exist independent of a human. Like trying to call a cancerous tumor a 'person'.
What I find most revolting are the women ( Read more... ) -
'8' -- the live reading
The live reading of '8', a play written from the transcripts of the Prop 8 trial, read by the all-star cast including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Martin Sheen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jane Lynch, Kevin Bacon, George Takei and others, and directed by Rob Reiner.
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This is BULLSHIT! :/
Judge rules against atheist attacked in costume ( Read more... ) -
NDAA suit filed
The reporter Chris Hedges has filed suit against the provisions of the NDAA that allow for the indefinite detention of US citizens. More power to him. This horrific and egregious abridging of rights guaranteed under the 4th & 5th amendments must be overturned.
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A Victory for Freedom of Speech
Geert Wilders may be a bigot, but his movie Fitna is spot-on regarding Islam as an intolerant, hateful religion. This whole trial should never have happened. -
An interesting 'conversation' on freedom of speech
So, yes, we all know the Westboro Baptist crazies won their legal challenge at the Supreme Court. And the whole country knows just how twisted Justice Alito is.
In an atheist discussion forum on this topic, I just had a rather successful conversation. Background: amongst many posts celebrating the decision (absolutely correct, IMO -- as is any ( Read more... ) -
Yes, this is what passes for a 'chaplain' in the US military
"Are not the daily devotions conducted by these legal ecclesiastics already degenerating into a scanty attendance, and a tiresome formality?" James Madison, being outvoted in the bill to establish the office of Congressional Chaplain ( Read more... )
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