8/3/2014::More news than you can use

Science and Scientific Theories vs. The Fraud of Religion; Exposing Creationist Charlatans and their Intelligent Design Lies, Causing a Pandemic of Scientific Illiteracy and Ignorance

The creationists and ID movements always claim to be separate and different. Both movements almost never discuss their own claims, other than fraudulently attacking facts of Science. Creationists and intelligent designers have the exact same hypothesis. Yes, hypothesis. It is not Scientific, even though both movements claim to be Sciences. Their hypothesis is nowhere near a Scientific Theory. Their hypothesis is from the bible and it is called Genesis. It has never been tested and no tests can be performed using their hypothesis.

Genesis is a completely unproven, unsubstantiated, and untested religious claim, written by anonymous jews, anywhere between 1400 BCE and 70 CE. The section that contains the creation claim is 56 verses long and fits on 2 pages of paper. It contains no research and no evidence. It was not developed using any Scientific Method, process or peer-review. It boils down to some anonymous guy made a religious claim. Nobody really knows when, why, how or even who made-up the Genesis story. It is completely unscientific and naturally impossible. Genesis defies common sense, logic, reason, rationality and reality. The dubious Genesis religious claim is Scientifically illiterate.

America 'Ended Slavery, We Didn't Bring Slavery To North America' Says Top Baptist Leader

"Movies and books like Dinesh D’Souza’s book ‘America’ are so important," Land told his audience, "because if you are younger than forty and you’ve been taught in the public schools, you have not learned the real story of America."

What is the "real" story?

"You have been taught a lie about America as a colonial power, as a rapacious power," Land claims. "As Dinesh points out, we ended slavery, we didn’t bring slavery to North America. Slavery was there, the Native Americans were enslaving each other before we got here. Eventually, we ended slavery. We have been a civilizing influence in the world."

Kramer uses campaign funds to fight sex assault accusations

A campaign finance report shows republican lawmaker Bill Kramer used donor funds to pay an attorney $10,000 to defend him against sex assault accusations.

"There is no way on earth that campaign funds should be able to be used by an official to defend that official against sexual assault charges," Executive Director Mike McCabe of the watchdog group Wisconsin Democracy Campaign tells 27 News.

The finance report for Rep. Kramer (R-Waukesha) lists payments to to Gatzke & Ruppelt SC for "Legal Fees-Compliance/Administrative" of $5,000 on March 22, and $5,000 on June 2. Attorney James Gatzke was publicly identified as Kramer's attorney after a woman's accusations of sexual assault surfaced. And police records show Gatzke accompanied Kramer to Muskego for a police interrogation three days after the March campaign payment.

Kramer has been charged with two felony counts of sexual assault. Authorities say Kramer sexually assaulted a former political aide after a republican event in Muskego in 2011. Authorities say the woman came forward after two other women accused Kramer of sexual harassment earlier this year.

Substitute Teacher Fired for His Music Video Mocking Religion Finally Gets Some Justice

He was a long-term substitute teacher at a school district in Sandwich, Massachusetts, and once administrators found out about his video last December, he was unceremoniously fired from his job — and blacklisted from subbing anywhere in the district. Why? Because… well, they had no good reason. It’s not like Hurley was talking about religion in the classroom. The fact that students could access the video online should have been irrelevant. (***Edit***: Just to clarify, it doesn’t look like anyone complained specifically about him. The administrators decided to preemptively remove him from the classroom.)

Hurley got in touch with the state’s ACLU in January and they worked together to remedy the situation. I can’t imagine it was that difficult a case. Even the town’s lawyer “very quickly acknowledged this was wrong.”

This week, I’m happy to say, the two sides agreed on a settlement,,,

Ron Paul-backed NV candidate vows to defund government to fight fluoride and chemtrails

A Ron Paul-endorsed candidate for county commissioner in Nevada outlined her conspiracy theory-informed vision for local governance in recently posted video.

Cindy Lake, a Republican candidate for Clark County commissioner, said she became active in politics because Paul – the former Texas congressman and failed presidential candidate – mentioned during a debate that he supported the right to drink raw milk.

“I think you have a right to put whatever you would like to put into your body, if you’re a grown adult,” Lake said during a candidates forum in April, which was posted online Thursday. “I don’t think the government should tell any of us what we should eat, drink, or how to raise our children.”

Religious Effort To Halt Climate Change Puts Rabbi Moti Reiber Behind Church Pulpits

"My feeling is that I’m the only person these people are ever going to see who’s going to look them in the eye and say, ‘There’s such a thing as climate change,’” Rieber said. “I’m trying to let them know it’s not irreligious to believe in climate change.”

He is at the vanguard of religious efforts — halting in some places, gathering speed elsewhere — to move the ecological discussion from its hot-button political and scientific moorings to one based on theological morality and the right thing to do.

Where allowed behind the pulpit in a United Methodist or Lutheran church, Rieber can sense a restless shifting in the pews as he draws parallels between God asking Adam to tend the Garden of Eden and humankind’s stewardship duty to the environment.