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Quote of the Week
At the end of the day, is magic underwear really that much crazier than giant arks or virgin births or talking bushes? You’re either a rationalist or you’re not. And the good news is, a recent poll found 20% of adults under 30 say they are rationalists and have figured out that Santa Claus and Jesus are really the same guy.
Now, 20% is hardly a majority, but it’s a bigger minority than blacks, Jews, homosexuals, NRA members, teachers or seniors. And it’s certainly enough to stop being shy about expressing the opinion that we’re not the crazy ones!
-Bill Maher, “Real Time with Bill Maher,” saying something that people are afraid to say in American society in 2007 – which is scary in itself.
It takes a lot of grains of sand to make a pearl
Those who still think it’s OK to consider gay people second-class citizens are on the wrong side of history. Too bad history takes so damn long.
Choice 9/11 quotes
From commenters at Kim du Toit’s weblog:
I will never forget or forgive and only wish my youth again so that I might kill Islams and “other fifthe columnist” we have as enemies…not as critics exersizing free speech but active agents attempting to take down America.
It’s been six years and I am STILL waiting for us to turn some deserving Middle Eastern shithole to molten glass. “Great Satan” indeed, if we can’t even make the training grounds in Afghanistan reach 50,000ºF with a nice orange tint…
Sometimes I pray they will overstep once again and their will be civilian payback by burning every mosques in this country and wholesale slaughter of Islams. I believe they will make that mistake. I am ready. Semper Fi
Afglassistan: home of the world’s largest glass-bottomed lake.
Iran: home of the worlds largest glass parking lot.
Syria: come see the inverted mountains and wide glass valleys.
Let’s keep these bastards on the run in their own backyards (not that I’m adverse to dropping them in mine – “Honey, someone is stealing the sheets and towels!?!” BLAM racka BLAM racka BLAM).
I was much too young to actually remember 12/7/41. But I’ve read and learned what Japs really are. There’s always a bit of contempt in my heart and in my eyes whenever I encounter a Jap. That’s what I still call them and I don’t care who it offends.