1. Hamas 'Mickey Mouse' calls for Muslim domination on kids' show

Comment #39081 by jomo87 on May 10, 2007 at 12:22 am

Iowa Guy - there are some non-Jewish Israelis, and many non-Israeli Jews. It's theoretically possible to hate the Israeli occupiers (though *most* of them are Jewish, to be fair) without hating all Jews.

Having said that, it's pretty clear that in the case of Hamas, they only talk of their "hatred of the occupiers" as a thinly veiled cover for their anti-semitism. They still have "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", a proven forgery, in their Mission Charter for Christ's sake!:

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Hamas_Covenant#Article_Thirty-Two:

Basically, they know it's more acceptable to say you're being oppressed and to then hate the oppressors than it is to indiscriminately hate an entire people, so they put on a front.

2. A Bunch of Monkeys

Comment #38536 by jomo87 on May 8, 2007 at 2:11 pm

themanchoo and Boogie - thanks, I was certain I knew the tune, and I have heard of that before! I guess I'm a a bit of an idiot for not bothering to wait until the credits to post, though... :p

3. A Bunch of Monkeys

Comment #38414 by jomo87 on May 8, 2007 at 3:46 am

I'm not so sure it's nee-che or nee-chu, though both of those phneticizations are a little ambiguous, to be fair. Here's how it should sound, with the last vowel being a schwa:

http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/pron/N0100100.wav

Does anyone know the name of the song used in this excellent piece? I know I know it, and it's really bugging me!

4. The Great British Literary Census

Comment #31524 by jomo87 on April 13, 2007 at 5:29 am

I misread the title of this article as "The Great British Literacy Census". Which is quite ironic, really...

5. Out of Africa, in the Gut

Comment #21768 by jomo87 on February 11, 2007 at 3:20 am

Excellent. I am astounded at how often geneticists seek new data which, if it had turned out differently, would seriously shake modern scientific thought. And yet, the new data ALWAYS reinforces the current view (so far, at least!).

These are in essence the types of "predictions" that can be made by Evolutionary Theory, and yet Creationists and ID supporters STILL have the gall to say that Evolution is untestable!

6. Root of All Evil? Discussion

Comment #20359 by jomo87 on February 2, 2007 at 1:19 am

I'm 5 minutes in and already my blood is boiling from the inanity of the first two commenters!

That woman going on about "what if God is love?"! She should realise that Richard is arguing against the notion of a supernatural omniscient being, rather than against an ill-defined concept such as Nature, or Love etc... Right at the start of TGD, he makes it very clear that he's not attacking the Einsteinian notion of God, just the Judeo-Christian type ones.

To be fair to her, I can't remember if he said so in the film, but even so she ought to know better than to just shift the goalposts like that, and to imply Richard is unloving by saying "is Richard then saying he doesn't believe in love?" was flat out rude, I thought...