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Banned from donating for wearing a hat

November 22nd 2008 17:35
I guess being a bigot is all well and good but for that extra touch why not turn down donations for the poor?

"She said, 'Sir, you have to take your turban off. This is the United States,'" Khera recounted. "That made me a little upset. I am a United States citizen."

Roanoke Rapids charity rebuffs turban-wearing donor



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The most vocal crowd of any ideology has the same thing to say, 'if only everyone believed what I did there would be peace'. I don't care if you're Muslim, Buddhist, Christian, Atheist, whatever, this is common to all of them.

This kind of loathing for other ideologies can be masked in any number of ways. The one I've been seeing more of is from the Atheist/secular humanist crowd where the advocation of said ideologies is done through the casual dismissal of other ideologies. This is a kind of reverse of how things work, usually it's 'my beliefs are better than yours so you should give yours up and start thinking like I do' wherein here we have 'your beliefs suck so you should give them up and start thinking like I do'.


Here's a real-world example:

Secular Humanists do not wish to take over the world by force, they have no desire to control and tyrannise. They simply hope that one day, humanity at large will realise the we have the capacity to improve our world and own lives by rejecting ideologies that divide us such as nationalism and religion and embracing in their stead, our own humanity and mortality and simply "living for today".

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Sounds dreamy, no? Lets switch secular humanists with Muslims,

Muslims do not wish to take over the world by force, they have no desire to control and tyrannise. They simply hope that one day, humanity at large will realise the we have the capacity to improve our world and own lives by rejecting ideologies that divide us such as nationalism and (non-Islamic) religion and embracing in their stead, Allah and Muhammad as well as all the prophets before him and "living for today".

Yes it works just as effectively, just because 'secular humanism' is about not accepting religion does not make it any less of an ideology and those who start with the 'secular humanism is the way to happiness!' routine they'd be no better than anyone else who decides he/she holds the one true belief that will save the world.
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How to Spot a Racist Prick

November 7th 2008 15:51
I came across this article by way of this link.

The title of the article is: "4 Marines Charged in Murder of Sergeant, Wife"

The title on the link to the article is: "4 Black Marines Executed Their Interracial Sergeant & Wife"

Erhem, so that isn't implying race had something to do with it? Or did you just bring it as a conversation piece? Or where you subtly implying that racism was involved and the 'MSM media' is too 'afraid' to 'speak the truth'.

Well lets look into the article itself,

The couple's home was ransacked and jewelry and other items were taken. A fire was set, apparently in an effort to destroy evidence. The Camp Pendleton-based Marine sergeant and his wife were tortured before they were shot execution-style, according to a published report.

Race was a motivation? Racism? A hate crime? No where in the article does it ascertain it had anything to do with race.

The person who submitted the link to digg had this to say:

Please be respectful.

Most the mainstream media is covering up the details of this story, which is bias and negligent journalism.

The people deserve to know the facts, thanks to Digg this is possible.

I don't think the terrible 'mainstream media' is 'covering up the details of this story', race is not exactly a relevant 'detail' until its proven to be a relevant detail. Do you really think the terrible 'mainstream media' would say 'hey these crimes were hate crimes by black men on a white guy!' only to later catch themselves out in the open when the investigation concludes race had nothing to do with it?

You sure are grasping at straws 'they're black therefore it was a hate crime! OMG, finally an excuse to be racist again!' In your defense you will say something about being 'respectful', quite the statement for someone who liberally draws concrete conclusions from circumstance.
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McCain has won the election

November 5th 2008 04:34
No]Really Long Link really, he has.
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Colbert Endorses Obama

November 2nd 2008 18:19
Like this wasn't coming,

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I feel sorry for the far right, they've been 'relevant' for so long that they are having a hard time adjusting now that reality has caught up with them.

There was a time they could accuse a man of being linked to Al-Qaeda with no evidence, put him in solitary confinement for 76 days, tourcher him and even Jon Stewart wouldn't question them


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There has been breaking news coming out of Chicago this morning. Police have found the 1994 white Chevrolet Suburban that they were looking for in connection to the search for Jennifer Hudson’s nephew, Julian. There was also a body of a boy found inside the vehicle. It hasn’t been confirmed that it is Jennifer’s nephew, but the boy is said to be around the same age as Julian.

All we can do is keep praying that the body isn’t Julian and that he’s still out there alive.

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With the exception of oil rich Texas states red states do not contribute to most of the USAs economic strength, in fact they have forever been impeding the blue states.

A letter from the Blue States sent to the Red States


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Two killed in US campus shooting

October 27th 2008 09:42
VIA ABC:

Two people were shot and killed and a third wounded on an Arkansas university campus on Sunday night, according to university and hospital officials.

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Anne Coulter on Womens Voting Rights

August 25th 2008 09:41
Anne Coulta
The far right think only old rich white men should be allowed to vote because only they are level headed enough to be rational. Everyone else just hates America and is just out to destroy it. Still, I would think Anne Coulter would at least disagree here but no, this is so deliciously ironically stupefyingly hilarious that I'm going to let it speak for itself:

“If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat president. It’s kind of a pipe dream, it’s a personal fantasy of mine, but I don’t think it’s going to happen. And it is a good way of making the point that women are voting so stupidly, at least single women.

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In the world of politics one thing is for certain: your policies don't matter, your delivery is everything. When Ronald Reagan won the presidency he did not do it by winning voters over with common sense or sound reason, no, he won it by standing up for his principles and saying 'this is my policies, you better like them, because you're going to be stuck with them for the next 8 years'.

He was not ashamed of being a conservative, he got up and put it bluntly, he hurt middle income earners, gave big businesses massive tax breaks and charged the middle and lower class to pick up the slack, debt increased under him and yet he was voted for again


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Something like rehabilitation for drinking would be more appropriate, perhaps thrown in with public humiliation and maybe two or three years in the slammer. Hey, had she stuck to her story like she was planning to because she was afraid of what would have happened to her, the accused would have lost his family, his work, and been put in prison for years.


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If You Drink, Don't Complain

August 2nd 2008 14:59
Alcohol has always been the most destructive substance in existence yet has found itself being socially acceptable more times than not throughout the course of history. It acts as a poison to kill off the drinkers inhibition, in other words theira bility to tell right from wrong, safe from unsane, it basically kills off the drinkers ability to reason.

It is the most dangerous substance that plagues our society, more so than cocaine or heroin, it has certainly destroyed more lives


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There are two types of censorship

July 28th 2008 02:32
One bans information, one bans bad taste.

One is dangerous the other is a mild inconvenience to some people


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