Is the earth getting warmer, or cooler?

Are you as confused as I am about global warming? This link takes you to an article that says it depends on the source of your data as to whether the earth is getting colder or warmer.

Sign me:

Confused in Dayton

Emoose out

The Mormon Bigfoot?

It may not be the first controversy tackled by new Mormon President, Thomas S. Monson. But the article's author, Matthew Bowman cites a 1919 manuscript describing Hawaiian missionary E. Wesley Smith "being attacked by a huge, hairy creature, whom Smith drives off in the name of Christ" the night before the mission was dedicated. His brother tells him the attacker must've been Cain. ("Now therefore cursed shalt thou be upon the earth, which hath opened her mouth and received the blood of thy brother at thy hand...a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be upon the earth.") And then he refers him to a story by a celebrated Mormon martyr who was one of Joseph Smith's original twelve apostles.

Just when I thought Mormonism couldn't get any weirder.

Give that guy a bicycle, a bow tie and a name tag and he is ready to roll.

Indian baby dropping ritual

Apr 30 - Muslims in western India have been observing a bizarre ritual - they've been throwing their young children off a tall building to improve their health.

Remember a few years ago when Michael Jackson pretended to drop his kid? Where's the outcry about this?

The Fifty All Time Greatest TV Shows

This leaves much room for debate. Obviously a U.K. bias is apparent.

Afghan women raped, then jailed for adultery

A woman fleeing domestic violence or accusing a man of rape herself often ends up the guilty party in the eyes of judges and prosecutors in Afghanistan. In parts of Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan, where stern social codes prevail, a woman who runs away from home is typically suspected of having taken a lover and can be prosecuted for adultery

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Found guilty of racial harassment for reading a book?

Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) have revoked their finding that a student-employee was guilty of racial harassment merely for publicly reading the book Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan. Following pressure from the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE), IUPUI has declared that Keith John Sampson's record is clear and said it will reexamine its affirmative action procedures relating to internal complaints.

"Just when you'd thought you'd seen every crazy act of censorship a college administrator can dream up, along comes a case where a student is found guilty of racial harassment simply for reading a book," FIRE President Greg Lukianoff said. "Thankfully, with time and public outrage, IUPUI's administration recognized Keith John Sampson had done nothing wrong and acknowledged that the First Amendment protects not only what you say, but also what you read."

Shades 0f 1984, George Orwell just rolled over in his grave and said,"told you so".

2nd Coming in 2015?

A minister who promotes the Old Testament roots of Christianity suggests a rare string of lunar and solar eclipses said to fall on God's annual holy days seven years from now could herald what's come to be known as the "Second Coming" of Jesus.

This guy is more believable than the Jehovah's Witnesses predictions(not much more).

BREAKING: Woman believed to be 'D.C. madam' kills herself

A woman police believe to be convicted Washington escort service operator Deborah Jeane Palfrey committed suicide officials said Thursday...
Let's see....hmmmmm, a woman with the goods on dozens of government big shots commits suicide, no nothing suspicious here!
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Saudi Arabian Court Ratifies Beheading Of Turkish Barber

HATAY - A Saudi Arabian court on Thursday ratified the conviction of Turkish barber Sabri Bogday, who was sentenced to beheading in Saudi Arabia on charges of "cursing the name of God."

If God is all powerful, why is he so sensitive?

Anti-Evolution Film Misappropriates the Holocaust

New York, NY, April 29, 2008 … The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today issued the following statement regarding the controversial film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed.

The film Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed misappropriates the Holocaust and its imagery as a part of its political effort to discredit the scientific community which rejects so-called intelligent design theory.

Hitler did not need Darwin to devise his heinous plan to exterminate the Jewish people and Darwin and evolutionary theory cannot explain Hitler's genocidal madness.

Using the Holocaust in order to tarnish those who promote the theory of evolution is outrageous and trivializes the complex factors that led to the mass extermination of European Jewry.

What is a generation?

An excellent Video about Watchtower doctrine. Jehovah's Witnesses view at your own risk. After you watch it just add it to long list of reasons why I am now an Agnositc.

23 "the book was better" movies

Number one is The Shining. Just kidding.

How about a "Movies that were as good if not better than the book" review? I can think of two right off the top of my head: "Maltese Falcon" and "The World According to Garp".

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NYT: Hagee is as Bad as Wright, McCain Overdue to Denounce

prominent African-Americans are regularly called upon to explain or repudiate what other black Americans have to say, while white public figures are rarely, if ever, handed that burden.McCain has continued to embrace a prominent white supporter, Pastor John Hagee, whose bigotry matches that of Mr. Wright. McCain has not tried hard enough to stop...
I actually have more respect for Wright than Hagee, At least Wright is right half the time.
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An Iranian's vision of Jesus' life stirs debate

The Iranian director's new film is based on the Islamic version of the life of Jesus, depicting the man Christians believe to be the messiah and son of God as a tormented Judean prophet foretelling the coming of Muhammad, the founder of the Muslim faith.

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Teen Plots to Kill Jesus

Federal authorities say a South Carolina teen accused of plotting to blow up his high school told police that he wanted to die, go to heaven and kill Jesus.

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Roving Defender of Evolution, and of Room for God

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Chas Metivier

SCIENCE AND THEOLOGYFrancisco J. Ayala says that belief in evolution does not necessarily rule out belief in God,

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An evolutionary biologist and geneticist at the University of California, Irvine, he speaks often at universities, in churches, for social groups and elsewhere, usually in defense of the theory of evolution and against the arguments of creationism and its ideological cousin, intelligent design.

Usually he preaches to the converted. But not always.

Half man, half chimp - should we beware the apeman's coming?

He said if a female chimpanzee was inseminated with human sperm the two species would be closely enough related that a hybrid could be born.

They are already here and they all live in Dayton.

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Couple loses child custody over Mike's Hard Lemonade

A University of Michigan archeology professor takes his son to a Baseball game and buys his son a bottle of Mike's Hard Lemonade, unaware of the alcohol content. His son was subsequently placed into foster care over the honest mistake.

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April 29, 1964: Godzilla, Mothra Clash for First Time

1964's Mothra vs. Godzilla is seen by many as the ultimate Godzilla movie.
Film still: Toho Kingdom

1964: Mothra vs. Godzilla makes its screen debut in Japan. Or was it Mothra Against Godzilla, Godzilla vs. Mothra or Godzilla vs. The Thing?

Wis. parents who prayed as diabetic daughter died charged

WESTON, Wis. (AP) -- Two parents who prayed as their 11-year-old daughter died of untreated diabetes were charged Monday with second-degree reckless homicide.

Family and friends had urged Dale and Leilani Neumann to get help for their daughter, but the father considered the illness "a test of faith" and the mother never considered taking the girl to the doctor because she thought her daughter was under a "spiritual attack," the criminal complaint said.