merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 31 2009 | news, charles darwin, darwin, religion
Cool
Quoted: On Jan. 29, 1839, in the little chapel in the English village of Maer, a religious, 30-year-old woman named Emma Wedgwood put on a green silk dress and got married. She believed firmly in a heaven and a hell. And she believed you had to accept God to go to heaven. She married Charles Darwin.
merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Apr 26 2009 | bush, government, news
Paul Krugman on American torture accountability.
Quoted: America is more than a collection of policies. We are, or at least we used to be, a nation of moral ideals. In the past, our government has sometimes done an imperfect job of upholding those ideals. But never before have our leaders so utterly betrayed everything our nation stands for. “This government does not torture people,” declared former President Bush, but it did, and all the world knows it.
merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 14 2009 | law, news, 4th amendment, Supreme Court
Your 4th amendment rights are getting screwed as police now benefit from police errors that can help them make an otherwise illegal search.
Quoted: When police mistakes leading to an unlawful search are the result of isolated negligence attenuated from the search, rather than systemic error or reckless disregard of constitutional requirements, the exclusionary rule does not apply,
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merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Aug 30 2007 | news
The Forbes 40
Quoted: We looked at 40 of the largest urbanized areas in the country and judged them on culture, nightlife, job growth, the cost of living alone, ...
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merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 13 2007 | news, funny, global warming, dumbass
"Condoms don't belong in school, and neither does Al Gore. He's not a schoolteacher," said Frosty Hardison, a parent of seven who also said that he believes the Earth is 14,000 years old. "The information that's being presented is a very cockeyed view of what the truth is. ... The Bible says that in the end times everything will burn up, but that perspective isn't in the DVD."
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merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Jan 10 2007 | news, global warming
Well, what can I say besides that I hate the cold and global warming has never been so good. We are .07C over 1998's previous record high average year. We can do better this year so grab your aerospray bottles and go buy yourself an SUV and we might actually have a good shot at beating the record next year if we can just get those darn gas prices down. They say that we have 20% less coverage in the arctic than we did 20 years ago and if we continue this way we may have a very real shot at an Ice free summer arctic ocean by 2040! Hooray for global warming!
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merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 04 2006 | news, legislation, law, pregnant womenLet me guess which party put this bill together.
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merovingian | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 19 2006 | newsDefending your freedom?
Quoted: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales contended Saturday that some critics of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program were defining freedom in a way that poses a "grave threat" to U.S. security.
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