Links With Your Coffee - Monday
- In The Know: Situation In Nigeria Seems Pretty Complex | The Onion - America's Finest News Source (video)
- YouTube - Texas Legislation One Man One Vote
- New Chess Champion Dominates in Mexico - New York Times A good guy wins.
- The Raw Story | The Daily Show's Jon Stewart to anchor Ted Koppel: You make me want to do better
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart appeared at the podium to pay loving tribute to veteran news anchor Ted Koppel at the 28th Annual News & Documentary Emmy Awards this week -- but in the process seemed to lampoon the mainstream media.
- Anti-evolution movie is deceptive by design - The Carpetbagger Report
Ben Stein’s new documentary attacking evolution titled “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.” It now appears that Stein and the group that produced the film may have employed deceptive tactics to trick evolution proponents into appearing on camera. Three noted evolution supporters came forward this week to say they were misled.
- Creationism out of the classroom | Science | Guardian Unlimited (tip to Adam
The new guidelines could not be clearer:
Creationism and intelligent design are not part of the science National Curriculum programmes of study and should not be taught as science.
That doesn't mean it cannot be mentioned of course, but the guidelines state that it should only feature as part of discussions about what does and does not make a scientific theory.
The use of the word 'theory' can mislead those not familiar with science as a subject discipline because it is different from the everyday meaning of being little more than a 'hunch'. In science the meaning is much less tentative and indicates that there is a substantial amount of supporting evidence, underpinned by principles and explanations accepted by the international scientific community...Creationism and intelligent design are sometimes claimed to be scientific theories. This is not the case as they have no underpinning scientific principles, or explanations, and are not accepted by the science community as a whole.
- Christian Conservatives Consider Third-Party Effort - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog
- Book Banning Efforts Bring on Title Fights - CommonDreams.org
- Hersh: "The President Has Accepted Ethnic Cleansing"
The Surge means basically that, in some way, the president has accepted ethnic cleansing, whether he's talking about it or not. When he first announced the Surge in January, he described it as a way to bring the parties together. He's not saying that any more. I think he now understands that ethnic cleansing is what is going to happen. You're going to have a Kurdistan. You're going to have a Sunni area that we're going to have to support forever. And you're going to have the Shiites in the South.
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Stein also thinks there was nothing wrong with what Nixon did.
All but one of Sunday's links were repeated. Computer hiccup maybe?
RE: Christian Conservatives Consider Third-Party Effort
Would be quite interesting if that actually happened, I really can't see the relationship between Conservatives and Christians in any other way then some strange parasitic/symbiotic union. One side is using the other, but just as long as they is a steady stream of BS to feed it.
According to the Hersh interview, the solders in Iraq are part of the problem—at least that's what I inferred from it. If removal of the troops is the best option, it's the best of the a bunch of bad options. An article in the New Yorker told about a secular scholar who dreads the day the troops leave. He said he men with long breads and black turbans will come in and make everyone think and dress the same.
It now appears that Stein and the group that produced the film may have employed deceptive tactics to trick evolution proponents into appearing on camera.
Like the way Michael Moore got in to interview Charlton Heston? Yeah, that's a neat trick. And why would their answers be different if they had known Stein's POV? Criticisms of or arguments against ID are fine, but stay on point. It does a disservice to the cause.
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