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The Slope Has Slipped

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:11:26 GMT

Here's the thing about accusing people of using a slippery slope fallacy: sometimes the "absurd" conclusions actually occur, and next thing you know you're standing in a voting booth next to a monkey.

Spanish lawmakers pass measure that says apes have rights

The 15-year-old international organization argues that great apes, such as gorillas and chimpanzees, deserve the right to life, freedom from arbitrary deprivation of liberty and protection from torture because of their genetic and behavioral similarity to humans.

[http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/30/europe/EU-GEN-Spain-Apes-Rights.php]

Ironically enough, Spanish government officials are still silent on the whole bullfighting issue. I guess it's because bulls don't share that crucial 95%-DNA-similarity minimum requirement. I mean, we gotta have standards, right? The last thing we want to do is make these things entirely arbitrary and meaningless.

Germany turning Fascist, California turning German.

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:24:31 GMT

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Meanwhile:

A state appeals court has decided California parents without teaching credentials do not have a right to home-school their children.

The 2nd District Court of Appeals ruling could affect up to 200,000 home-schooled students in the state.

“The court is guilty of an imperious assault on the rights of parents,” said Dr. James Dobson, founder and chairman of Focus on the Family. “How dare these judges have the audacity to label tens of thousands of parents criminals — the equivalent to drug dealers or pickpockets — because they want to raise and educate their children according to their deeply held values?

"The case before them involved one couple — the ruling should have been confined to that one couple, not used to punish an entire class of people, the vast majority of them religious conservatives.”

This is just sick.

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:03:03 GMT

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/strange/news-article.aspx?storyid=93826

After an outbreak of pregnancies among middle school girls, education officials in this city have decided to allow a school health center to make birth control pills available to girls as young as 11.

Okay,

Our MIDDLE SCHOOLERS are having sex. A LOT of sex. WTF?
The use of "outbreak" with pregnancy makes this sound like a disease. Don't cough on me, I don't want to get pregnant! Having sex isn't a disease. Being retarded enough to have sex at 11? Maybe.
(I wonder how many of these were due to shopping malls. Maybe you have figures, H3W?)

...The other "no" vote Wednesday night came from Ben Meiklejohn, who said a parental consent form, which allows students to receive any kind of treatment at the school health center, does not clearly define the services being offered.

That might be important. You know, since it's a consent form. Why not just have the kids live at the freaking school after they're born? We could be like Sparta! Unfortunately, we need parents to pay for their food, clothing, and shelter. But the state gets their brains...

Some opponents cited religious and health objections.

Are you kidding? The nerve of some people. Those religious and health nuts. It's like they want to control the kids or something. Or tell them what's good for them. Or like... I don't know... maybe not expedite preteen sex?

From the Planned Parenthood website (and they wouldn't lie):

Risks From Using the Pill:
blood clots in the legs that can travel to the lungs;
stroke;
heart attack;
liver tumors
Short term side effects to the Pill may include:
nausea, vomiting;
breast tenderness;
weight gain or loss;
spotting between periods
Pill "Danger Signals":
sharp or crushing chest pain or coughing blood;
shortness of breath;
unusual swelling or pain in the legs or arms;
sudden severe headaches;
Changes in the frequency, severity, or associated symptoms of your headache;
eye problems such as blurred or double vision or loss of vision;
severe pain in the stomach or abdomen;
yellowing of the skin or eyes;
severe depression;
unusually heavy bleeding from the vagina;
lump in your breast;
no period after having a period every month
Note: Using the Pill does not protect against sexually transmitted infections and a bad infection could cause sterility.

Sounds like a bloody miracle. But I'm thinking if 11 year-olds are irrational enough to have sex at that age, then I doubt they're going to suddenly be conformist and insist that their "partner" use a condom. Apparently since there's been an outbreak of pregnancies, which means somebody or something screwed up [pun intended]. Or maybe that's just my crazy head talking.

What is up with the world.

It's a freaking miracle! Well, not a "miracle"...

Sat, 18 Aug 2007 18:21:41 GMT

If you buy a lottery ticket this week, what are the odds that you'll win the grand prize then get struck by lightning as you pop open the champagne? Vanishingly small, but still much higher than the odds that life on Earth first evolved on our planet, according to an ardent proponent of the notion that life came from space. [source]

But it must have happened because, hey, you're here, ain't ya?

lolzoos

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:37:53 GMT

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:38:45 GMT

What good times we had.

Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:00:25 GMT

Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:17:39 GMT

I think igualmente is my favorite Spanish word. Along with izquierda. And don't forget blujeans.

I also think that I'm now a progressive creationist. Read "Creation and Time", as well as "Beyond the Cosmos", both by Hugh Ross.

Yeah yeah, crucify the heretic.

**Edit**

I think this bodes well for my future.

Reading Romans...

Tue, 27 Feb 2007 12:10:25 GMT

If Gentiles have enough knowledge to be damned, does that also necessarily mean that they also have enough knowledge to be saved?

Monday, February 26, 2007

Mon, 26 Feb 2007 00:18:33 GMT

15 minutes.
The letters for "Chemistry," "H20," and a few random ones thrown in.

30 rapper names.