1. Sir John M. Templeton, Philanthropist, Dies at 95

Comment #206768 by Laurie Fraser on July 8, 2008 at 7:27 pm

I despise "philanthropism." It is an indictment on societies who refuse to look after their citizens. A cop-out: "Whilst we have these great philanthropists, our Vincent de Pauls, our Salvation Armies, our Mother Theresas, we can ignore universal health care, decent public housing, the extirpation of poverty, and universal public education." Bah!

Viva Hugo Chavez!

2. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #206765 by Laurie Fraser on July 8, 2008 at 7:18 pm

Well, that was a pleasant experience all round, ladies and gentlemen.

If you'll allow me to divvy up, I think Brian English (aka "Dawkins' Bulldog") takes the biscuit for sheer fortitude. (C'mon, Brian, admit it - you love it!)

3. McDonald's Makes Jesus Cry

Comment #206743 by Laurie Fraser on July 8, 2008 at 5:59 pm

As long as McDonalds keeps stuffing its putrid crap into the mouths of fundies, the more likely they are going to die prematurely.

Stop sponsoring gays, McDonalds!!!! ;)

4. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #206736 by Laurie Fraser on July 8, 2008 at 5:52 pm

I think ertu is Harun Yahya.

5. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #206729 by Laurie Fraser on July 8, 2008 at 5:42 pm

Sorry, Brian - you're no longer the "terrier". I've renamed you the "pit bull", in honour of your sheer tenacity. Bore it up the fucktards, mate!

P.S. Josh - I know my comrades enjoy sharpening their claws on these dills, but seriously, haven't we gone way past troll ststus by now?

6. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #206066 by Laurie Fraser on July 8, 2008 at 4:23 am

Right on, Tyler - I think the good prof makes some references to what would be a good set of commandments. Mine would be "Develop your critical thinking skills and don't take anything for granted."

7. Churches' secret talks to stop gay surge

Comment #206062 by Laurie Fraser on July 8, 2008 at 4:09 am

News from Oz: Catholic archbishop of Sydney implicated in cover-up of priest's sexual molestation of boys and young men (this is on the eve of World Youth Day, it's all over our media tonight).

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/pell-denies-sex-abuse-coverup/2008/07/08/1215282796740.html

Why does none of this surprise me?

P.S. Peter Jensen - fucktard of the highest order.

8. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #206057 by Laurie Fraser on July 8, 2008 at 4:03 am

Trolls, all three of them. Ignore them and they might go away. There is nothing surer than they post here because it's the only place they get any attention, even if all they get is the [fucktard] button.

9. Conversation between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox

Comment #205947 by Laurie Fraser on July 8, 2008 at 12:58 am

whoo, boy - I don't know where Richard gets the patience. I was ready to get physical by about 1/3 of the way through.

10. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205944 by Laurie Fraser on July 8, 2008 at 12:34 am

Tells you a little about the priorities of some publishing houses, Richard.

11. Origin of the Novel Species Noodleous doubleous: Evidence for Intelligent Design

Comment #205912 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 9:56 pm

Rational_G

ROFL...best comment of the day!

12. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205894 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 8:51 pm

Gotta go, too. Later, guys.

13. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205890 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 8:47 pm

No, 8teist, TURN IT UP!

14. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205886 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 8:45 pm

Yeah, good links, Goldy, if depressing. That's the thing about all this shite. While we have trolls like ertu proclaiming, amidst their creationist delusions, that Allah is merciful, or some such idiocy, you have this imaginary hobgoblin's acolytes engaging in murder and mayhem. (And that goes for Dubya and his gang of "Christian" terrorists.)

15. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205878 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 8:39 pm

Jeepers creepers, 8teist; say what you mean, why don't you?

16. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205869 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 8:35 pm

Or a beergut (that's gotta be a sapient organism) saying "I'm gonna be a terrier". QED, my friend.

17. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205866 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 8:31 pm

"This secret is that all living beings have bowed to Allah's will and follow the fate determined by Him. This is why the honeybee makes honey and the silkworm produces silk."

Hahahahahahahahahaha! What a fucking brilliant, intelligent, rational explanation!

Why not "This is why the terrorist kills himself and thirty innocent children."

18. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205833 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 8:07 pm

8teist: agreed. I'm not happy with these threads being invaded by cretinists who will not actually engage with the debating team, but insist on simply throwing one dogma after another into the ring, as if that constitutes debate. I suggest we all troll him.

19. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205822 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 8:00 pm

I don't know about Lamarck, Brian, but you have obviously got terrier in your genes! ;)

20. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205811 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 7:52 pm

And I thought my heart was a muscle for pumping blood around my body. How silly of me!

21. Origin of the Novel Species Noodleous doubleous: Evidence for Intelligent Design

Comment #205808 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 7:50 pm

Is it not obvious that the observed insertion is the first step in an early form of sexual reproduction?

22. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205798 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 7:35 pm

Marking as troll - won't respond to legitimate questions.

23. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205788 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 7:28 pm

erty-poo,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plagiarism
(For your edification)

24. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205773 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 7:20 pm

I think you've nailed it, Brian. My son is a brilliant guitarist because I spent all of those years practising guitar. Ergo, he has lovely long fingers. Works for me!

25. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205768 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 7:14 pm

Brian,
"all my kids will have beer guts, because they are fuel tanks for love machines"

PLEASE!! I was just about to have lunch.

26. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205763 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 7:06 pm

ertu, I can find these blithering idiot websites all by myself. I don't need you cutting and pasting from them (without acknowledgment).

27. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205755 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 7:02 pm

ertu,
When I asked you to clean up your prose, I didn't mean you should do it by plagiarising:

www.evolutiondeceit.com/chapter15

28. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205748 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 6:55 pm

Come on, Goldy - you know Genesis has it scientifiacally correct. Haven't we found that life came about as a consequence of clay molecules becoming self-replicating? Hmm... maybe god had to add some water to the dust of the ground.

29. [UPDATED] Venomous Snakes, Slippery Eels and Harun Yahya

Comment #205744 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 6:50 pm

ertu,
Normally, one doesn't mind the odd typo or grammatical slip, etc. in these threads, but might you please just tidy up your FUCKING PATHETIC PROSE?

30. Harper says new mosque shows 'the true and benevolent face of Islam'

Comment #205712 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 5:44 pm

I get it - "Goldy" short for "Goldfinger". Pheeeeww! The plot thickens, 007!

31. Churches' secret talks to stop gay surge

Comment #205711 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 5:39 pm

Steve,

I wonder what a "surge" is? Perhaps it is the collective noun for a group of gay men at a concert and how they react when Take That come on stage...

32. Harper says new mosque shows 'the true and benevolent face of Islam'

Comment #205704 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 5:23 pm

How did the carburettors go?

33. Harper says new mosque shows 'the true and benevolent face of Islam'

Comment #205695 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 5:08 pm

Goldy,

Maybe working with oilmen in Alberta coloured my views

34. Harper says new mosque shows 'the true and benevolent face of Islam'

Comment #205319 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 4:47 am

Splitters!

35. Religion's role in the climate debate

Comment #205317 by Laurie Fraser on July 7, 2008 at 4:43 am

Come on, AKirkland - we Aussies don't give a rat's about CJD. We just don't want any feeble Pommie blood weakening our rugged, manly juices!


Jonjermey - I think the evidence is already overwhelming. In any event, even if global warming was a natural event, it would still be incredibly foolish to keep pumping crap into the atmosphere like there's no tomorrow.

36. Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection

Comment #205209 by Laurie Fraser on July 6, 2008 at 7:51 pm

Mordacious -

I just received my RDF coffee mug in the mail, so if I take a picture of it and figure out how to avatar it, I can put my "mug" up for all to see.

37. Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection

Comment #205203 by Laurie Fraser on July 6, 2008 at 6:45 pm

WTF! I wake up to find that this thread has been seriously derailed! Here we were, having a cosy chat about the niceties of music, and Steve, Carto et al have to come along and create havoc with the feeble minds of a couple of god botherers.

Sheesh! Talk about chaos theory...

38. Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection

Comment #204935 by Laurie Fraser on July 6, 2008 at 8:23 am

Apathy - great comment! Yeah, you're showing your age. Don't worry - one of the benefits I've found from getting older (and there are precious few of them) is that your tastes really do mature. It's a progression - just as you are no longer content to hum "Mary Had a Little Lamb" anymore, so your musical taste will grow and diverge as you get older. And that's a good thing. All I can suggest is to be open to new music as it comes along. It's worth it! (And listen to the classics - very important!)

39. Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection

Comment #204934 by Laurie Fraser on July 6, 2008 at 8:12 am

Aw, whitepearl, give the guy a break! If he wants to listen to four guys in tight pants and extremely long hair playing indiscriminate riffs at a million miles an hour, who are we to stop him? (Not to mention Black Sabbath's lyrics!)

P.S. whitepearl, get your hands on some Bela Fleck. He'll blow you away!

40. Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection

Comment #204912 by Laurie Fraser on July 6, 2008 at 7:07 am

D'Arcy - second that. The "Mass" is sublime. I'll go further: no-one has bettered Bach.

Apathy Personified - I'm sure you're talking about the Clash . Queen? Sorry, don't hold a candle to Beatles, Steely Dan, Stones, and especially the impossibly great Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. And need I mention Zappa?

Alan - thanks. Spong is a conundrum for me. Brilliant and savvy, why won't he go the whole hog?

41. Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection

Comment #204878 by Laurie Fraser on July 6, 2008 at 3:44 am

henning - I was having an old muso's joke. As I said - doesn't matter what genre, when it's good, it's good.

42. Crack annoyance squad wanted

Comment #204875 by Laurie Fraser on July 6, 2008 at 3:30 am

Well, not predominantly Catholic, Brian, but it was certainly easier for educated catholics to get executive positions in the public service than in what was essentially a protestant private sector.

43. Crack annoyance squad wanted

Comment #204869 by Laurie Fraser on July 6, 2008 at 1:58 am

No, Mordacious - we've only ever banned immigration to the Asian hordes. We used to have a "White Australia Policy" (can you believe it), wherein an opposition leader once egregiously remarked that "two Wongs don't make a White." I swear I'm not making this up. As for the Micks, they were the bulk of the transported convicts in the early days of the invasion.

44. Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection

Comment #204866 by Laurie Fraser on July 6, 2008 at 1:37 am

moderndaythomas - agreed. I've got a little gig in that very ambience tomorrow night with a cool quartet, two of whom I haven't played with before. Can't wait, and will have a Jack for you.:)

henning - sorry, mate, metal doesn't qualify as music ;)

45. Christians challenge teaching of evolution

Comment #204864 by Laurie Fraser on July 6, 2008 at 1:28 am

Excellent, epeeist. Reminds me of the time the Australian Museum in Sydney had a huge display on evolution, and hung a great big banner out the front saying, simply, "Evolution is a FACT".

46. Richard Dawkins on Doctor Who

Comment #204863 by Laurie Fraser on July 6, 2008 at 1:24 am

Robotaholic - I'll preempt Clearmind: all of those evils are a product of original sin. If we hadn't partaken of the fruit, we'd still be frolicking in the garden. (This begs the question, of course, that if everything is designed by god, he must have designed these evils as a particular set of punishments for the unlikely "crime" of desiring knowledge. What a cunt clearmind's god must be.)

47. When too much Rapture is barely enough

Comment #204858 by Laurie Fraser on July 6, 2008 at 1:16 am

Thanks, Rodger - it's a pretty good song, if I do say so myself. If I can eventually get my relcalcitrant band members into the studio, I'll see if Josh will put it up on the site.

48. Richard Dawkins on Doctor Who

Comment #204835 by Laurie Fraser on July 5, 2008 at 10:05 pm

Crap, clearmind - your logic is abysmal: one never-ending non-sequitur, wherein you do not, or cannot, bring yourself to utter the unspoken premise, i.e. "Faith is fundamental to any "proof" of the existence of god." Admit that, and I might just see you as merely delusional, rather than hypocritically mendacious.

EDIT: OOps - I got the two "clears" mixed up. Nevermind, my comment applies to both.

49. Tablet Ignites Debate on Messiah and Resurrection

Comment #204819 by Laurie Fraser on July 5, 2008 at 8:30 pm

Yep - all genres are good when they're good, even country. :)

50. Prayer refusal pupils 'disciplined'

Comment #204815 by Laurie Fraser on July 5, 2008 at 8:18 pm

That's great, Mordacious! Now, get some turps, wipe that primer off your hands, and let's see a nice snap of you on screen, there's a good boy.