1. Ayaan Hirsi Ali asks for protection

Comment #128959 by Linda_K on February 18, 2008 at 11:11 am

Comment #128171 by Paine

Yeah, I'm completely embarrased. It's not right. And the way things are done here it makes you feel completely helpless. Like you're swept away in the tide as our government keeps fucking it up. The majority of Americans say that we should just get out of Iraq. What does Bush do?

You're raised on the belief that America is "for the people, by the people", and when you grow up you realize how much of a lie it really is.

And yeah, I'm in the process of trying to get a new job. No, I don't work at wal-mart, but maybe I should, they make more money than I do.

2. Ayaan Hirsi Ali asks for protection

Comment #128165 by Linda_K on February 16, 2008 at 11:39 am

"That's exactly the kind of nonsense that makes the US look even stupider than it is. If India can afford to protect Taslima, Im sure the US can afford to protect Ayaan."

Sometimes I really hate where I live. But, if I had the money, I would be living somewhere else. I know the media likes to portray american citizens who make $500k a year in their houses with the white picket finces in the nice suburbs and 2.3 kids.

The truth is, I never grew up in that life. I lived in a cabin in the woods. My parents couln't afford to send me to the private school they wanted, so they sent me to public school. Compared to most europeans, I would be considered stupid, but I try my best to educate myself about anything. Right now, I'm trying to learn sign language and to get better at math.

The only job I can work is retail and I'm struggling just to make it. I'm ashamed because I CAN'T give money to Ayaan. My entire paycheck (BTW: $340 dollars every two weeks) goes to rent and gas, I can barely afford food and I use the computer at work to catch up on all my news. A lot of us aren't so rich.

Yeah, I know America is evil, but it's home. Someday, hopefully after college, home can be somewhere else, but until then I will have you know that I didn't vote for Bush and I never wanted any of this. If I could, I would have Ayaan safe in this country, protected from her enemies.

Sometimes, I get really offended when people call me "stupid" and "cheap" just because I'm an American. The truth is, whenever Ameica gets involved in something, everyone says, "Mind your own business." Until the world needs help, and then it's, "Where the hell is America? They should do something about this!" Damned if you do and damned if you don't.

So, thank you to all who have wisely blamed the government and not the whole of America's population. I wish people would stop roping me in with all of this bull shit.

3. George Scales, War Hero and Generous Friend of RDFRS

Comment #113757 by Linda_K on January 20, 2008 at 12:56 pm

Hell yeah! Congrats, you deserve it!

4. The OUT Campaign has its own Flea!

Comment #107409 by Linda_K on January 4, 2008 at 1:12 pm

Lame. EPIC FAIL!

Same color, but perhaps not the same font. Frankly, it reminds me of the "Campbells(sp)" noodle soup logo...or a version of the chik-fil-a logo(except witout the chicken features).

For those of you who are going to start wondering, Chik-fil-a is a fast food restaraunt that specializes in chicken sandwiches. Usually you find these places in the American south. I live in Georgia, so LOTS of Chik-fil-a's around here.

5. Mother Nature is Not Our Friend

Comment #106106 by Linda_K on January 2, 2008 at 11:14 am

I mostly agree with Diacanu. (BTW- Love your user pic, love that anime, love your sense of humor)

Enter genetic engineering and out goes individuality for whatever the fad of "fit" is. Then suddenly, everyone will be blonde and skinny with blue eyes. Society will probably go for the plain looking brunette(like me) because now she's the exotic one.

Okay, now I'm outta here...before my boss discovers me surfing...

6. Borders Tags Atheist Book with 'O Come All Ye Faithless' Cards

Comment #101342 by Linda_K on December 20, 2007 at 8:59 am

Boo frickin' hoo I SAY! BOO FRICKIN' HOO!

Oh, if only Christians really were punching bags...Nevermind, we should just go old school on their ass an feed them to lions in front of thousands of pagan spectators. Now, that's a tasteless joke.

7. MORE GOOD NEWS for US taxpayers

Comment #74990 by Linda_K on October 1, 2007 at 9:50 am

This news just made my day! I can get off the internet and back to "work". And by "work", I mean reading 'The Blind Watchmaker'(retail can be so slow) and explaining to my co-worker that not all RD books are 'The God Delusion' in a different form.

8. Group Threatens to Sue Pentagon Over Military Role in Evangelical Festival

Comment #46765 by Linda_K on June 1, 2007 at 12:45 pm

I live close to Stone Mountain...I need to move.

9. Another Christian Science Fair embarrasses itself

Comment #46535 by Linda_K on May 31, 2007 at 3:06 pm

One last thing. If the dinosaurs were killed in Noah's flood, what about the swimming dinosaurs? They obviously didn't drown.

10. Another Christian Science Fair embarrasses itself

Comment #46534 by Linda_K on May 31, 2007 at 3:03 pm

I checked out that link about the dinosaurs (located on the second page). I have read the excerpts of the Bible regarding the bohemoth. I don't quite remember the details of the leviathan. Anyway, it sounded like an overexaggerated crocodile to me (I realize that crocs don't eat plants). Just like those pictures on the link, they looked like crudely drawn crocodiles. Funny, because I think that crocodiles look a lot like dinos. Correct me if I'm wrong, but weren't they around millions of years ago? Aren't they one of the closest things we have to dinos today? Forgive me for not researching this myself (at work).

11. Another Christian Science Fair embarrasses itself

Comment #45381 by Linda_K on May 27, 2007 at 1:43 pm

Wait...what? I don't think that I understand your logic. I'm sure the feeling is mutual.

People like devoled are best ignored.

(As I was posting that last statement, my boyfriend was reading over my shoulder like he always does, and tried to correct my grammar, "You shouldn't use the word 'like' in that sentence." I had to explain to him that "devolved" was a user name. "Oh," he said, "I thought you were saying that people who were not up to human standards should be ignored..." Sorry everyone, I laughed a whole lot about that so I had to post it. No offense to anyone intended.)

12. Flea Circus!

Comment #33163 by Linda_K on April 19, 2007 at 1:55 pm

To David "weefree",

I thought that the guy who shot up VA tech didn't say a word while he was killing people. That's what I read on msnbc.com anyway, I MUST have been misinformed. Where does it say that he went in there screaming that he hated religious people?

If you could post a link or something that would be great. Thanks.

13. The Empty Wager

Comment #33148 by Linda_K on April 19, 2007 at 1:41 pm

I have a subscription to Newsweek, and I remember reading the debate. You know how you're in an arguement with someone, and you pretty much have them beat, but they don't know it, so they keep talking and bringing up irrelavent things to try to get a grasp on you? That was how it was.

14. How to defend your faith with an electric wheelchair

Comment #31056 by Linda_K on April 10, 2007 at 8:16 pm

I can picture this escalating into a conflict much like "The Troubles" in Ireland.

Just Kidding ;)

Seriously though, there are people suffering all over the world, AIDS, hunger, preventable disease, infant mortality, and these people are fighting over who's going where when they die. Where is Jesus for those less fortunate? It's so much easier to believe when you have already been so blessed.

It's a shame they can't put their "Zeal" into improving their lives and the lives of those around them.

15. Mormons miffed over coffee-swilling angel image

Comment #27549 by Linda_K on March 25, 2007 at 8:51 am

Oh no! They've boycotted coffee! Big deal, they aren't supposed to drink it anyway. It's against they're beliefs to ingest caffiene.

16. Happy 50th Birthday to PZ Myers!

Comment #24790 by Linda_K on March 8, 2007 at 2:52 pm

Happy birthday, Mr. Myers!

17. She's No Fundamentalist: What people get wrong about Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

Comment #24789 by Linda_K on March 8, 2007 at 2:50 pm

Another related piece of literature everyone should look into is "Burned Alive: a Victim of the Law of Men" about a girl who gets pregnant outside of marriage, so her family decides to have an honor killing. They have a male cousin or someone like that, douse her with gasoline and set her on fire.

Whether they have been engulfed by flames or sliced open in their most private region, I find it disgusting to dismiss their suffering with "bombthrower". Like telling a woman it was her own fault for getting raped.

Anyway, I read a bit of the "Women Aren't Funny" article and was not offended, mostly because I don't think that it is entirely true. I always make my boyfriend, friends, parents and co-workers crack-up.

Whether it was put into the article to play on the feelings of sensitive women or not, the phrase, "This is not to say that women are humorless, or cannot make great wits and comedians. And if they did not operate on the humor wavelength, there would be scant point in half killing oneself in the attempt to make them writhe and scream (uproariously). Wit, after all, is the unfailing symptom of intelligence." I find true, considering I won't piss myself laughing when I see someone get kicked in the nuts(depending on the nuts: the nuts of Fred Phelps? Priceless.)