I just had to post this nonsense.

racocn8 comments on Oct 26, 2022:

Shapiro is a fast-talking asshole specializing in wing-nut propaganda.

I don't know about you but this has put me right off piercings forever! :-D

racocn8 comments on Oct 26, 2022:

That is one half-assed vasectomy...

John decided to go skiing with his buddy, Keith, so they loaded up John's minivan and headed north.

racocn8 comments on Oct 26, 2022:

The nine months reference being the red herring...?

Has Globalization Failed? - Freakonomics

racocn8 comments on Oct 20, 2022:

I've yet to hear of an economic philosophy that focuses on how technological innovation creates wealth. Meaning, economists don't grasp and won't appreciate the one feature that has propelled our civilization for the last 200 years. Thus, almost all economic theories are badly flawed to the point of usually being useless. We also know that climate effects will shortly disrupt the economies of most countries, and have allowed the oil industry to impede research into alternative energy research (by underfunding said research). Globalization is a red herring. While it doubtless helped millions improve their lot, but it was always within a context of continued used of oil, which is unsustainable. Thus, whatever the US has done to aid these economies will whither as the US slips into isolationist fascism.

As the religiously unaffiliated rise, a new atheist podcast network launches in Los Angeles A new ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 20, 2022:

Unfortunately, Evan Clark has adopted all the worst behaviors of Wokeism including denouncing as Nazis anyone who disagrees with him and intolerantly blocking everyone who voices an opinion that he can't legitimately address. I found this out the hard way in challenging him on giving Trans people special treatment that trample female women's rights. He can dish it out, but he can't take it.

🤔hmmm I say

racocn8 comments on Oct 20, 2022:

Also, mass murder, rape, kidnapping, perjury and suborning perjury, espionage, bribery, election tampering, malfeasance,.... (and a lot more...)

How to say 'my meal is bad' the British way. 😆

racocn8 comments on Oct 20, 2022:

I went to a Japanese restaurant that seemed fancy, but the menu had all sorts of dishes, all prepared out of scary sounding foods. The choices seemed akin to pigs feet and prairie oysters. The waitresses were all in kimonos, but I had the worst time with that menu...

Corporations Using Inflation As Cover To Raise Prices [youtu.

racocn8 comments on Oct 20, 2022:

While Marxism and Leninism may well provide concise descriptions of our economy, citing them as sources is problematic. Marxism and Leninism may serve an historical use, but so much propaganda has been deployed to demonize these notions that they now act as ***red*** flags to most people that they should stop reading. I suggest more contemporary sources.

Same thing

racocn8 comments on Oct 20, 2022:

Something died and has arisen again, but it ain't a fucking god.

God's word

racocn8 comments on Oct 20, 2022:

What a charming non-entity...

No shortage of chumps.

racocn8 comments on Oct 20, 2022:

They are chumps, but they were willing and eager to be chumps. They may have thought being part of a coup could be a fun outing, but they are traitors who should get 20 years each.

What we suspected was true: Trump forced the CDC to paint a rosy picture of COVID-19 "I remember...

racocn8 comments on Oct 20, 2022:

It is abundantly clear that the worst enemy are our MAGA neighbors who approve of the destruction of the government and the country. (Anything to own the libs...)

Christian Nationalists Say Their God Wants The Earth To Burn Rich Schmidt, a Christian ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 19, 2022:

On another platform, I was challenged when I claimed that religion causes mental illness. I'm pretty sure this is one of innumerable good examples.

Is marriage overrated?

racocn8 comments on Oct 19, 2022:

Yes. Having a close loving relationship is not. Marriage is a bargaining chip used by disenfranchised women. But as long as this arrangement strongly favors women, men wiil (or should) be reluctant to agree. No marriage should happen without a prenuptial agreement.

Technically is it correct to classify Putin as a mass-murderer?

racocn8 comments on Oct 19, 2022:

All of those terms fit. The media tap-dances around such terms in the name of diplomacy. Doing so is a disservice to honesty.

Conservatives lash out at 'satanic' middle school mural drawn by teen

racocn8 comments on Oct 19, 2022:

Christians can dial it back or face arrest for creating a disturbance, as many times as it takes.

What was a turning point in your life?

racocn8 comments on Oct 19, 2022:

Agreeing to go on a second date with my future ex-wife even after she said she was in therapy.

Yellow flowers are uplifting. What's your favorite flower color?

racocn8 comments on Oct 18, 2022:

Some brown flowers...

They're so quick to accuse us of being offended by their religion

racocn8 comments on Oct 18, 2022:

Especially beliefs that have been disproved many decades ago...

I'm a fungi [scitechdaily.com]

racocn8 comments on Oct 17, 2022:

The similarity of psilocybin and other drugs to neurotransmitters demonstrates an exquisite selectivity achieved by receptor proteins....

Well of course that's what he's doing, you can do anything you like in your imagination, create a ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 17, 2022:

This is what comes from cognitive dissonance (stupidity).

Are there really UFOs flying over Ukraine? [livescience.com]

racocn8 comments on Oct 17, 2022:

A research team using infrared sensors tracked objects from two different locations. The evidence was persuasive, but they couldn't get a definitive range. Avi Loeb who supports research into UAP suggested they were artillery shells and some people were satisfied with that explanation. More work needs to be done. Nothing to do with the photo above.

I heard that a massive cold wave was on the way.

racocn8 comments on Oct 17, 2022:

That's some hot shit... (Or the consequence of a scented candle left on a plastic tank cover).

I thought it was the twist

racocn8 comments on Oct 17, 2022:

With his schvanstucker...

Let's be cheery

racocn8 comments on Oct 17, 2022:

I used to perform linking rings using circular coils of barbed wire. I'd have a magnet in my shorts that the ring would stick to for laughs. I love magic effects that involve blood...

As a redhead, I have to agree.

racocn8 comments on Oct 17, 2022:

Lots of RCH's below...

One, two, three, crunch

racocn8 comments on Oct 17, 2022:

No one can make it to the center of a tootsie-pop...

What the Hell Happened to the Republican Party? - YouTube

racocn8 comments on Oct 17, 2022:

Project Paperclip laid the groundwork to subvert the military industrial complex. Operation Mockingbird. Then the Koch brothers, Rush Limbaugh, Leonard Leo, Rupert Murdoch, and Putin. And ...

I ain't nothing but a hound dog, and I fly on a Big Ugly Flying Fucker, After 6 years, I was ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 17, 2022:

What is the attached object in the first photo?

Today's "What a maroon" Trumper Browning had a fake twitter but accidentally posted this to his real...

racocn8 comments on Oct 17, 2022:

Hey, He identifies as Black. Who are we to question his identity?... Oh, he's a Trumper? OK, proceed....

"We think we're looking for enlightenment, but we're all just looking for intimacy.

racocn8 comments on Oct 17, 2022:

Except that absolutely nothing is meant to be.

You had ONE JOB!!!

racocn8 comments on Oct 17, 2022:

In college, I bought a refrigerator for $5 that had a tricky door latch so it could be opened in both directions. It looks like this door might pivot on the posts visible at the bottom of the door.

A man dies one day and finds himself in Hell, much to his surprise.

racocn8 comments on Oct 17, 2022:

The notion of hell is one of Christianities most evil mind-fucks.

Black Hole Lights Up Years After Ripping Star to Shreds – “We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This...

racocn8 comments on Oct 15, 2022:

They mention how the TDE generates significant radio emissions. But what would cause an ORC? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_radio_circle Perhaps a quasar? Or two quasars merging? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasar

Once again the old adage is proven true, That the once persecuted invariably become the best at ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 15, 2022:

That's how it works.

I think we can all agree that it's time that we hunted down this crazy god thing and exterminate it ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 15, 2022:

Attack of the 50 ft nothing...

Honestly, it's just House but it makes a lot of sense.

racocn8 comments on Oct 15, 2022:

House is half-right. It is a disease, but it spreads via behavior/memes.

Something like that

racocn8 comments on Oct 15, 2022:

Or as is most often the case, nothing at all but grief.

What do you think of this intellectual cutie?

racocn8 comments on Oct 15, 2022:

Whatever the body might be, if the personality isn't there, forget it.

Scientists Can No Longer Ignore Ancient Flooding Tales [hakaimagazine.com] .

racocn8 comments on Oct 15, 2022:

Pretty cool modeling, but un-narrated... https://iafi.org/ice-age-flood-simulation-video/

Been seriously thinking about making a trip back to my old hometown one of these days.

racocn8 comments on Oct 15, 2022:

What does the fence keep out?

[dailymail.

racocn8 comments on Oct 15, 2022:

Plainly she has a bias that blinds her to reality and motivated to hurt people to further the conservative value system of fucking people up with Christian brainwashing and sexual child molestation.

Christian Nationalism is the belief that an ancient religious leader in western Asia wanted ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 15, 2022:

...And use them to kill anyone they want. And to establish the US as a white-ONLY, Dominionist-ONLY, hetero-ONLY male controlled society.

Leavin' it right there

racocn8 comments on Oct 15, 2022:

Walker lies just as quickly and continuously as Trump, and it's certain that from one pathological liar to another, they bond on that.

I'm ba-a-ack!

racocn8 comments on Oct 15, 2022:

I had a coworker whose buttocks were almost a yard wide. I'm sure that must be difficult.

Why are pseudosciences so appealing? [onlysky.media]

racocn8 comments on Oct 15, 2022:

Pseudosciences are marketed for commercial gain. The promoters seek to make them appealing. What is concerning is when quasi-scientific organizations promote bogus unscientific 'debunking' of other presumed pseudoscience in favor of political orthodoxy. As example, the way CFI promotes debunkers like Mick West, Joe Nickell and the rest. They assume interstellar travel is impossible and presume to dismiss all evidence that goes against their assumption, even when the evidence comes from multiple witnesses and sensor platforms. And even when the military itself has admitted that UAP are real but that the disinformation program is needed to preserve social stability (Christianity).

The incredible science behind dogs’ sense of smell | Ed Yong [m.youtube.com]

racocn8 comments on Oct 14, 2022:

Here are some close-ups of my dogs nose. They look like eroded escarpments.

A sea cadet is being examined: "Suppose you're at sea and a storm comes up, what would you do?

racocn8 comments on Oct 14, 2022:

Hitchens told this story all the time.

Prosecutors ask jury to recommend death sentence for Parkland shooter.

racocn8 comments on Oct 14, 2022:

I liked the point made by one of the parents that: If the death penalty doesn't apply for this case, when would it ever apply?

STATE CANNABIS UPDATES 10/14/2022 Indiana Gov.

racocn8 comments on Oct 14, 2022:

Gov. Gavin Newsom 🍸 touted actions that a task force he convened took to destroy illegal cannabis worth an estimated retail value of more than $15 million. Separately, the attorney general tweeted, "The people being forced to live and work in squalid conditions at illegal grow sites aren’t the ones profiting from the illicit cannabis market. They’re being exploited by a bigger, more organized machine. Horse Shit. California's cannabis regulation has been and continues to be a complete fiasco. By imposing a mass of complicated and very costly regulations, those who have been in the business cannot begin to compete against the wealthy corporations; corporations that came in to try to displace the existing black market. Racists instituted prohibition to imprison non-whites and Newsom's policies continue that racism.

Freya or Frigg is also the source of the name for Friday but let's just pretend that the Dead God on...

racocn8 comments on Oct 13, 2022:

There's no such thing as a Christian. Because there's not a shred of documentation. Our calendars are based on all sorts of myths and non-Christian vernacular. When was the last time you signed a calendar? Every time someone says they believe in a god, you're looking at a pathetic brainwashed fool lie to themselves out of fear.

Things are not looking too good for Trumpty Dumpty: [bbc.com]

racocn8 comments on Oct 13, 2022:

What an utter sideshow waste of time and focus. It would be better to list the crimes and statutes defining them. The one good thing is that it dethrones him and forces him to sit down like the common person he is, even if it's only to plead the 5th.

Next to the pretzel/cigarettes.. how inviting..

racocn8 comments on Oct 13, 2022:

Nyotaimori - "serve (foods) on the female body"), often referred to as "body sushi", is the Japanese practice of serving sashimi or sushi from the naked body of a woman." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyotaimori

Christian Nationalism is the belief that America should be governed according to the whims of ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 13, 2022:

Also, the racism that claims that Aryans or other white people as being superior have absolutely no basis in fact. Racism is chest-thumping, raw hatred, and yes, insanity.

Mrs. Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian - The Herschel Walker Exception [youtube.com]

racocn8 comments on Oct 13, 2022:

By their definition, Walker is an accomplice to multiple murders, and if the laws he wants to be on the books were there, he would be liable for arrest and prosecution.

Danielle Smith; the new Premier of Alberta, says that the unvaccinated are the "most discriminated" ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 12, 2022:

This all just so much virtue signaling... It is an expression of hate of liberals more than anything else, and should be given as little attention as possible for that reason.

Been a follower of The Atheist Experience and other ACA productions for about two decades.

racocn8 comments on Oct 11, 2022:

I have concern that various left-leaning organizations have come under pressure, social and financial, to favor and promote certain points of view. This form of corruption is universal and can only be addressed on a case by case basis. ...It should be our goal that those entities using money and media can be leveraged, and thus reduce their malignant influence. Matt specializes and is extremely good in logic and reasoning. It is unwise for these people to disrespect him. I've seen organizational coups a few times. They are often personality driven, said personalities not being particularly mature in their behavior. I believe Matt as being truthful, so shame on the ACA board members. May their actions dog them.

Why were we taught to be scared of witches instead of the people that burned women alive ?

racocn8 comments on Oct 10, 2022:

The real monsters are the kids...

Which US Senator is the worst racist bigot?

racocn8 comments on Oct 10, 2022:

What do we do with psychopaths who will not be reasoned with?

Lauren Boebert mocked as her ‘two words’ anti-Biden tweet backfires [independent.

racocn8 comments on Oct 10, 2022:

She is the flag-bearer for the best Republicans - - The apex of her kind.

Too close to true to be funny…

racocn8 comments on Oct 10, 2022:

Looks like a good quality candidate to me... (Better than most that are running, and he's a celebrity...)

But kitty, you can trust me… ( as I say “I’m going to get your toe beans!” )

racocn8 comments on Oct 10, 2022:

Hope you know your blood type. You might need a transfusion...

See, it makes perfect sense.

racocn8 comments on Oct 10, 2022:

Makes sense to me...

Mass migration from poor countries to more successful countries is now rife and ever rising! Is this...

racocn8 comments on Oct 10, 2022:

Some are looking for a free ride, but some just want an opportunity to succeed. Still others try to escape murdering militias or regions decimated by climate change... The latter will become a bigger share all too soon as sea levels rise.

One evening an old farmer decided to go down to the pond,as he hadn't been there for a while,and ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 10, 2022:

On a Nova program a lady ecologist is checking out a wild dog den to find out why it was abandoned. She's looking inside when a 10 ft rock python slithers next to her face and then into the den it had taken over. Scary.

[tiktok.com] Here u have it , here is the crew

racocn8 comments on Oct 10, 2022:

Exactly...

I'll just leave this here.

racocn8 comments on Oct 9, 2022:

They're not about to comment on one of the ugliest things they foster because it serves their interests. In spite of the horrific carnage, they get rubles from the NRA and votes from gun nuts. And, they benefit from the intimidation of non-Republican populations. As the victims are usually being non-white, Republicans offer thoughts and prayers, and then wink and nod to their bigot supporters.

Photographed 10/8/22 in Montana's Glacier National Park by my good friend Jim Wesser.

racocn8 comments on Oct 9, 2022:

The water is a perfect mirror...

The usual bullshit, they never say and do any of those things.

racocn8 comments on Oct 9, 2022:

Except that the GQP Orange Jesus says that U.S. Servicemen were fools and suckers, and disrespected them repeatedly. “Why should I go to that cemetery? It’s filled with losers.” “Who were the good guys in this war?” (WW2) Trump referred to former President George H. W. Bush as a “loser” for being shot down by the Japanese as a Navy pilot in World War II. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-americans-who-died-at-war-are-losers-and-suckers/615997/

Who's ready for some football?

racocn8 comments on Oct 9, 2022:

Skip the 'foot' part...

Genetically Modified Skeptic - Graphs of Christianity’s decline in America (and why it WON’T ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 9, 2022:

Still way too slow. They need to be deprogrammed biochemically. Cas-9, are you listening?

Pennsylvania school district created culture of anti-LGBTQ discrimination, complaint alleges

racocn8 comments on Oct 9, 2022:

I thought that discriminating against non-whites and LGBTQ was part of being a practicing Christian? Next they'll complain about lynchings...

Oh, to my __________ insert deity. These people are shameless.

racocn8 comments on Oct 9, 2022:

Freakin' yikes... Gross, and yet I feel some sadness. Poor thing? Messed up as much upstairs as on the outside. Ugh...

How deep does ‘anti-woke’ opinion go among atheists?

racocn8 comments on Oct 8, 2022:

"Although framed as an opening to debate and discussion1, the Dawkins tweet nonetheless fit a well-established pattern by which transgender identities are dismissed as fake and thus undermined." Except that the Dawkins tweet does NOT dismiss transgender identities as fake. The demand that trans males be able to compete against young women is a bridge too far and the Evangelicals, knowing this, have capitalized richly on it. Being Woke refers to many other issues, but the Trans agenda has also been well capitalized by wealthy advocates. There are so many other absolutely critical issues. Every second spent on this one is wasted and worse.

Trump Rally-Goers Blame Mysterious Bogeymen for Event Flop LINK: [msn.

racocn8 comments on Oct 8, 2022:

I've heard of MAGAs leaving Trump's speech before it was over, almost en masse. I'm reminded of the scene at the end of Conan after he beheads the cult leader.

Check out my new shoes...

racocn8 comments on Oct 8, 2022:

Plus, after a month, the've turned into pumpernickle. Just don't ask your dog to fetch them...

A study finally shows how COVID is much deadlier for Republicans.

racocn8 comments on Oct 8, 2022:

Sucks to be them.

B sharp. It's just A minor problem. 😆

racocn8 comments on Oct 8, 2022:

Give a little whistle... (Jiminy Cricket)

Student no longer attending Trinity High School following racist social media post ([wmur.

racocn8 comments on Oct 8, 2022:

Ugh. Spare me. A Catholic school ostracizing a bigot? Hey, I suppose it's a start. A teeny tiny atom of a start.

This church’s ‘I ❤️ hot youth pastors’ sticker raises many, many questions

racocn8 comments on Oct 8, 2022:

Sick/stupid/asshole

Doctors providing trans care are under increasing threat from far-right harassment campaigns

racocn8 comments on Oct 8, 2022:

The FBI is on it and I have a bridge you can buy for a song.

Areology noun The observation and study of the planet Mars.

racocn8 comments on Oct 8, 2022:

Or, The observation and study of Areolas (a hobby of many...)

I'm pretty sure that this is an example

racocn8 comments on Oct 8, 2022:

Extracts: "In 1924 a lie was circling the globe while a truth was “lacing its shoes on”. ...the rapid transmission of lies is often attributed to Mark Twain. Here are two versions: (1) A lie travels around the globe while the truth is putting on its shoes. (2) A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on" https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/07/13/truth/

3 Jewish women file suit against Kentucky abortion bans on religious grounds It's the third such ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 8, 2022:

My understanding is that life does NOT begin at conception, and numerous examples demonstrate that making that claim has little scientific support. For example, 1) swimming sperm are obviously alive and a woman's eggs are known to be alive; 2) identical twins where the egg then splits to form two individuals; 3) allophenic individuals where two blastulas fuse form a single body with two genetic types of somatic cells. 4) the general understanding that life is a continuous process. Challenge and Prediction: The anti-abortion faction cannot produce scientific evidence of life starting in a mammal. But the courts are corrupt now, so the truth will not necessarily will out...

The secret of happiness is t... Please continue the sentence. 😆

racocn8 comments on Oct 7, 2022:

tit massaging for oxytocin.

I'm pretty sure that this is an example

racocn8 comments on Oct 7, 2022:

Or two or three or infinity as the bullshitter typically has their fingers in their ears and is on to the next lie...

Obviously. All Republicans are now terrorists. [washingtontimes.com]

racocn8 comments on Oct 7, 2022:

When the Republicans repudiate (fill in the blank) instead of embracing it... violence, insurrection, rigging elections, disregarding elections, Putin, racism, bigotry, hatred of women, hatred of LBGTQ, hatred of Jews or Muslims, hatred of immigrants, hatred of democracy, hatred of democrats, not applying the rule of law to them, and a whole lot of others... Terrorists? Were all the German Nazis terrorists?

Republicans Hail 'Patriotic' FBI Agent Who Refused To Work On Jan.

racocn8 comments on Oct 7, 2022:

This scumbag doesn't think the insurrectionists that stormed the Capitol committed crimes? That could only happen if the jerk has more loyalty to Trump than to his oath. He should be discharged as unfit, and possibly investigated for wrongdoing during his employment. This insurrection is not over, and the country should be act accordingly to root out and disenfranchise the traitors.

Louis DeJoy: Changes made by Postmaster General before 2020 election harmed US Postal Service, judge...

racocn8 comments on Oct 7, 2022:

Trump installed his saboteurs everywhere and Biden should have swept them all out as soon as he got in. Failing that, they've continued to undermine the country everywhere they can.

Kind of a trend here

racocn8 comments on Oct 7, 2022:

I like the "We're not gonna make it..."

When the Republican Party dedicated itself to the promotion of one religion above everything ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 6, 2022:

The cross is just an abbreviated swastika. And in league with Putin/GRU.

I live in a country reportedly of 35% fools.

racocn8 comments on Oct 6, 2022:

Pretty sure it's higher than that...

OMG!!! I am a determinism guy now!! FREE WILL IS NOT REAL!!

racocn8 comments on Oct 6, 2022:

In a largely virtual probabilistic universe, how can you tell...

Biden to pardon all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession

racocn8 comments on Oct 6, 2022:

Fucking finally... (And why couldn't he have done this 20 months ago?)

Myself and others here called this one looooong long long before the missing texts were discovered.

racocn8 comments on Oct 6, 2022:

Was that the one phone call from the White House to a militia member that was discussed a couple of weeks ago?

"There was a time when I professed to believe.

racocn8 comments on Oct 6, 2022:

Not much humanity in religion. Religions are their own form of multi-organism life-form using mega-memes as RNA...

Russian conscripted soldiers demand payment before mobilisation to fight in Ukraine ! [youtu.be]

racocn8 comments on Oct 6, 2022:

Pay first, desert later. And some may even join the Ukrainians.

Letters From An American 10/05/2022

racocn8 comments on Oct 6, 2022:

The production cut will stimulate the hell out of the oil industry here. But mainly, this should be viewed as a coordinated attack on the US by Putin (NS2) and the Saudis. Boosting inflation helps Republicans in the election, and they are running with it. The Republicans are in bed with these enemies, and also love the oil companies, yet all this corrupt gouging is blamed on the democrats??!!!

I knew it would come to this by 2024 election time. Trump is a grifter and a conman.

racocn8 comments on Oct 6, 2022:

Tell me why this shit show of a country, and species, doesn't deserve Trump?

I’m making my bedtime post earlier than usual tonight because I’m posting the entire Bond Theme ...

racocn8 comments on Oct 5, 2022:

The quality of the songs/music after Roger Moore seemed to not be nearly as good. Maybe it's just my taste...