Bullshit // Current

Sexing Up The PG-13 Vampire ... But Not Too Much

Unless you've been living under a cultural rock, you probably know that New Moon, the... more

atomiclegion
added this
6 days ago
|
3 comments

The Islamopandering, Obama-esque “2012″

So, while the movie shows the destruction of the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel and St.... more

mrEddie
added this
9 days ago
|
1 comment

Obama Admits He Is a Muslim

Obama admits that he is a Muslim. Obama bowing before a Muslim king. Obama talking... more

bielski
added this
24 days ago
|
9 comments

Kellogg claims that cereals can boost immunity

Yeah right! Kellogg, the nation's largest cereal maker, is being called to task by... more

KSirys
added this
22 days ago
|
10 comments

What I go in the mail today...

Hi current! I got this today, don't know why they would think I'm Suzanne.... lol..... more

KSirys
added this
26 days ago
|
7 comments

Penn and Teller - Bullshit - War On

Watch the whole episode here

copperdragon
added this
28 days ago
|
0 comments

The President Says Marijuana is Medicine. Change the Schedule

DESCRIPTION/OVERVIEW The main active chemical in marijuana is THC... more

hunzedog
added this
1 month ago
|
51 comments

Founder of Human Rights Watch on Israel

In a nutshell, Human Rights Watch's founder says they have lost touch, are out of balance, ignore arab massacres and abuses, and is in serious need to a reality check...

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In a New York Times opinion piece, Robert L. Bernstein, who served as Human Rights Watch chairman from 1978 to 1998 and is now its founding chairman emeritus, wrote that with increasing frequency, the watchdog casts aside its important distinction between open and closed societies.

"Nowhere is this more evident than in its work in the Middle East," he said. "The region is populated by authoritarian regimes with appalling human rights records. Yet in recent years Human Rights Watch has written far more condemnations of Israel for violations of international law than of any other country in the region."

He said Israel was home to at least 80 human rights organizations, a vibrant free press, a democratically elected government, a judiciary that frequently rules against the government, a politically active academia, multiple political parties and probably more journalists per capita than any other country in the world.

On the other hand, he said, the Iranian regime, and most Arab regimes, remained "brutal, closed and autocratic, permitting little or no internal dissent."

He said Human Rights Watch's Middle East division could be greatly beneficial to citizens of those countries, but they were instead being ignored as "report after report on Israel" was compiled.

He said the group had "lost critical perspective on a conflict in which Israel has been repeatedly attacked by Hamas and Hizbullah, organizations that go after Israeli citizens and use their own people as human shields."

Bernstein stressed that those terror groups were backed by Iran, which has called for the annihilation of Israel and the Jews, and said such incitement to genocide was a violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

"Leaders of Human Rights Watch know that Hamas and Hizbullah chose to wage war from densely populated areas, deliberately transforming neighborhoods into battlefields," he wrote. "They know that more and better arms are flowing into both Gaza and Lebanon and are poised to strike again. And they know that this militancy continues to deprive Palestinians of any chance for the peaceful and productive life they deserve. Yet Israel, the repeated victim of aggression, faces the brunt of Human Rights Watch's criticism."

Published days after the Human Rights Council endorsed the Goldstone Commission report that accused Israel of committing war crimes and possible crimes against humanity during last winter's Operation Cast Lead in Gaza, the opinion piece notably points out that there was a difference between wrongs committed in self-defense and those carried out intentionally.

"In Gaza and elsewhere where there is no access to the battlefield or to the military and political leaders who make strategic decisions, it is extremely difficult to make definitive judgments about war crimes," Bernstein went on to say. "Reporting often relies on witnesses whose stories cannot be verified and who may testify for political advantage or because they fear retaliation from their own rulers.

"Only by returning to its founding mission and the spirit of humility that animated it can Human Rights Watch resurrect itself as a moral force in the Middle East and throughout the world. If it fails to do that, its credibility will be seriously undermined and its important role in the world significantly diminished."In a nutshell, Human Rights Watch's founder says they have lost touch, are out of... more

datamined
added this
1 month ago
|
3 comments

Palestinians Murder 24 At Point Blank Range

Two Israeli television stations on Monday night broadcast a video showing Hamas forces... more

datamined
added this
3 months ago
|
5 comments

“ALLAH ‘S FURY WILL FALL ON WOMEN IN POSITIONS OF POWER”

Such woman should think again of gaining political recognition and respect in... more

nocompromise
added this
1 month ago
|
9 comments

International terrorist military attack against Romania IV

International terrorist military attack against Romania In December 1989 the U.S. was... more

manoliuval
added this
1 month ago
|
4 comments

Oslo: Girl fined for Koran fight

A court in the Follo suburb of Oslo (Norway) sentenced a Muslim girl to pay 10,000... more

bielski
added this
1 month ago
|
0 comments

Full Flash + Actually Playable HD Videos for Every Smartphone ... But Sorry, Not for iPhones

A ton of good news about new Adobe Flash 10.1: Adobe says that full Flash will be... more

beatnik_kid
added this
1 month ago
|
3 comments

Vatican say that sexual abuse of children isn't REALLY pedophillia

Rather than take active measures to prevent the "1.5-5%" of clergymen sexual abusing... more

PureEm
added this
1 month ago
|
34 comments

Salma Hayek and the Invisible Bra

I’m always amazed by the tricks a woman can pull so that she can look good even... more

fashionista83
added this
2 months ago
|
5 comments

Dylan Ratigan Provides Rare Fact Check Of Wilson (VIDEO)

Over at Media Matters, Eric Boehlert calls out the media for covering Rep. Joe... more

slarabee
added this
2 months ago
|
3 comments

(OBAMA APPOVED MESSAGE): “You are about to be ruled by the black man, cracker!”

Mr. Bartle Bull, a former civil rights lawyer and publisher of the left-wing Village... more

adamsmithfreedom
added this
3 months ago
|
76 comments

Is Richard Dawkins an atheist?

So, is Richard Dawkins an atheist? He seems more like a God-hater than a genuine atheist. That’s why my colleague, Jonathan Sarfati, invented the word ‘misotheist’ (hater of God), which he has applied to Professor Dawkins and other fanatical opponents of the God of the Bible.

George Orwell identified this sort of ‘atheist’ in the character of Bozo, in Down and Out in Paris and London: ‘He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him)’. Interestingly, in The God Delusion, Dawkins carries on about what he doesn’t like about the God he doesn’t believe in.

Dawkins likened himself to ‘the Devil’s Chaplain’, the title of a compilation of his essays. However, the Devil does not disbelieve in God; he knows only too well that God is real (cf. James 2:19). The Bible indentifies him as ‘a liar and the father of lies’ (John 8:44); so what of ‘the Devil’s chaplain’? Perhaps Dawkins did not think very carefully about this biblical allusion!

If Dawkins really believed what atheists supposedly believe, he should just put his feet up with a bottle of scotch and just enjoy himself as he waits for his death and his consumption by worms so he can fertilize the grass. Getting his blood pressure up over people believing in God all seems rather futile, if atheism is true. But perhaps it isn’t? Ah, there’s the rub.

The fool says in his heart, ‘No God’. (Psalm 14:1).

[But] Dawkins’ proselytizing ways remind me of my pimply youthful days at boarding school where those into smoking cigarettes and boozing (worse was yet to come) seemed to be really keen to get others to follow their destructive and illicit behaviour. Why did they try to coerce their fellow students into doing such things? Was it ‘safety in numbers’, that they felt a little guilty for their behaviour and would feel more secure if they could get more to join in their little rebellion?

Professor Dawkins’ obsessive campaign to try to convince others to be atheists reminds me of those days. Perhaps it is not that Dawkins really believes that there is no Creator-God, but that he wishes there were not and if he could just convince enough others to agree with him, then he will feel more secure. Has he confused his wishful thinking for reality? Perhaps ironically, the Humanist Manfesto III says, ‘We accept our life as all and enough, distinguishing things as they are from things as we might wish or imagine them to be.’ Dawkins’ wishful thinking comes out in his definition of biology, where he wishes away the evidence for design (a Creator): ‘Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose.’

Another self-professed atheist, Thomas Nagel, Professor of Philosophy at New York University, put it rather candidly:

‘I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and well informed people I know are religious believers. It isn’t just that I don’t believe in God and naturally, hope there is no God! I don’t want there to be a God; I don't want the universe to be like that.’

Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World and grandson of T.H. Huxley, ‘Darwin’s Bulldog’, was even more explicit:

‘I had motive for not wanting the world to have a meaning; consequently assumed that it had none, and was able without any difficulty to find satisfying reasons for this assumption. The philosopher who finds no meaning in the world is not concerned exclusively with a problem in pure metaphysics, he is also concerned to prove that there is no valid reason why he personally should not do as he wants to do, or why his friends should not seize political power and govern in the way that they find most advantageous to themselves. … For myself, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation, sexual and political.’

...it's a good article, making some important distinctions in "atheist" affront.So, is Richard Dawkins an atheist? He seems more like a God-hater than a genuine... more