Buttle's World

21 June, 2008

It’s a very dangerous thing to believe in magic

Filed under: Posts — clgood @ 21:56

So said James Randi. He wasn’t kidding. Here’s the nightmare story of what happened to one mom because the school board believed a psychic. A psychic.

Heads should roll for this. But they won’t. Because it’s a school board. That’s the plural of moron.

Studying Sun Tzu at the Pentagon

Filed under: Posts — clgood @ 21:18

but not paying attention to him.

Quranic verses 3:28 and 16:106, as well as Muhammad’s famous assertion, “War is deceit,” have all led to the formulation of a number of doctrines of dissimulation — the most notorious among them being the doctrine of taqiyya, which permits Muslims to lie and dissemble whenever they are under the authority of the infidel. Deception has such a prominent role that renowned Muslim scholar Ibn al-Arabi declares: “[I]n the Hadith, practicing deceit in war is well demonstrated. Indeed, its need is more stressed than [the need for] courage” (The Al Qaeda Reader, 142).

You can’t blame global warming for everything

Filed under: Posts — clgood @ 10:58

but you can try.

Update:

Just because you have most of the media on your side doesn’t mean people are going to buy it.

“The majority of the British public is still not convinced that climate change is caused by humans – and many others believe scientists are exaggerating the problem, according to an exclusive poll for The Observer. The results have shocked campaigners who hoped that doubts would have been silenced by a report last year by more than 2,500 scientists for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).”

Shockingly, almost two thirds think it’s just a scheme to raise taxes.

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