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Current Mood:“In Philadelphia, I inadvertently came upon an edition of Robert Ingersoll’s Essays and Lectures. This was an exciting discovery; his atheism confirmed my own belief that the horrific cruelty of the Old Testament was degrading to the human spirit.” — Charlie Chaplain, My Autobiography (1964), cited in Who’s Who in Hell by Warren Allen [...]

Current Mood: Contemplative & Reflective“I brought the case because I wanted to encourage toleration among my children. I certainly did not want teachers who have control over my children for at least eight hours over the day to . . . program them into any religious philosophy.” — Ishmael Jaffree, acceptance speech for “Freethinker of [...]

Current Mood:Some Observations from a fund raising email of his : A month ago, I wrote a note called “The Myths That Are Killing Us” – the hard myths that no Republicans, and very few Democrats, ever challenge. Here was my list: The Government can’t create jobs. (Tell that to FDR, who created four million [...]

Current Mood:“A religious person is a dangerous person. He may not become a thief or a murderer, but he is liable to become a nuisance. He carries with him many foolish and harmful superstitions, and he is possessed with the notion that it is his duty to give these superstitions to others. That is what [...]

Current Mood: Reflective & Contemplative“I cannot believe that any religion has been revealed to Man by God. Because a revealed religion would be perfect, but no known religion is perfect; and because history and science show us that known religions have not been revealed but have been evolved from other traditions.” — Robert Blatchford, God [...]

Current Mood: AnnoyedAs you may have noticed, I do more tweeting then blogging now.  Much quicker on getting out my thoughts.  Yesterday I tweeted this link : The FBI’s Restrictive Definition Of Rape and stated that this needs to be changed. I received a comment back asking “have you something to talk about you are [...]

Current Mood: ReflectiveI’m sadden by the passing of Ted Kennedy.  I’m not a big fan of the Kennedy family legacy stuff and Camelot talk. JFK & RFK each had potential, but  it was not realized so why go on about it what could’ve been.  And honestly with out the political capital that LBJ got with [...]

Current Mood: Funny & Good IdeaWhat timing…..Martin Luther King Jr yesterday, our 1st African-American Commander-in-Chief today and it was also my late grandma’s birthday….miss you grandma.  On Thurs Jan 22nd…will be the 36th anniversary of Roe Vs Wade.  With our new President hopefully he will undo all the damage that Bush did to women’s rights [...]

Current Mood: FunnyWith Obama about to become President, I have hope as everyone else.  But at the same time, I’m very nervous of people building expections too high that they are going to set him up to fail.  I truly believe that he can and will make things better, but he is not all powerful. [...]

Current Mood: FunnyI got my walk in yesterday.  I did a trail that was suggested by our neighbor.  I had a small climb and then the rest of the trail was behind the houses of a subdivision.  After a very long walk in through the subdivision, I came out 9 blocks from our place.  So [...]