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Dead Wild Roses: Freezing Children for God – The Immorality of Religion Hits Home.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be a believer? To put the mythology before reality, place higher regard for fiction over fact? This clip shows a ‘man on the street’ interviewer with a desperately poor couple, begging for money in front of a big box retailer. The interviewer offers them $20 […]
Dead Wild Roses: Another Gender Wage Comparison – Because People Don’t Like Facts.
More than anything, this is just a post as to have another handy reference when it comes to arguing with MRA’s and other assorted people about ‘equality’ and ‘parity’ in the work environment. A big thanks to Sociological Images for compiling the information in the post titled “Explaining Gender Inequalities in Salary Expectations”. The following […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Back to Basics – The bible is repulsive.
Why all the hate on christianity? We get often get that question here at DWR. Here is a little sampling of why we take christianity and religion in general to task. Short version: religion is bad for you and those around you. I’m feeling a bit under the weather, and brevity will be the theme […]
Dead Wild Roses: Got Paradox? – How Nutastically Schiztophrenic The Republicans Have Become.
Liberal Viewer, with the help of Bill Mahr and Steven Colbert poke at the fetid miasma aka the Republican Primary debates, and attempt to find coherence. Good luck with that.
Filed under: Politics Tagged: Nutty Republicans, Paradox!, Sad day for Hum…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Friday Classical Music Interlude – Haydn – Symphony in G Major No 92 “Oxford”
Greetings fair readers. A slightly different format for the DWR classical music interlude. Its Haydn, and all four movements in the same post. Commentary from wikipedia appears below. Enjoy. First movement Haydn distinguishes each section of the sonata form in this movement by use of strong contrasts of stability and instability. Before revealing the […]
Dead Wild Roses: If Canada had Ethical Standards We’d Arrest Cheney.
But we won’t. Complicity in torture and violating international law is the business of other countries, certainly not the U.S. “Human Rights Watch is urging the Canadian government to “be prepared” to bring criminal charges against former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney when he visits Vancouver on his book tour next week. The New York-based rights […]
Dead Wild Roses: Brad Utter Tosh errr..Trost raises the bar of douche.
In Utter Tosh’s own words: “A part of their [planned parenthood] mission statement is to support abortion, which I view as morally wrong,” he said.” Hey Brad your “Moral decisions” should stay the frack out of a woman’s business when it comes to her body. “Brad Trost, the MP for Saskatoon-Humboldt, says he will continue […]
Dead Wild Roses: Some Americans DO have a clue and are running for Public Office.
I would vote for Elizabeth Warren if I could, but I cannot. What I can do is help spread her rational message to the rest of my readership, a good percentage being American. Consider this your partisan announcement from Canada for the day. Filed under: Politics Tagged: Debt Crisis, Elizabeth Warren, Fair Taxation, Politcal […]
Dead Wild Roses: So, I’m not the Special Snowflake I thought I was.
More people than just I hazard this very routine.
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Ethics and Religion
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Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Socialism Works! – Blinkered Americans Can Safely Ignore this Post.
Having been pointed to a neat new site called Remapping Debate by Intransigentia, I’m please to share the treasure trove of fact laden articles with my fair readership here. Denmark is a social-democratic state, it believes in protecting its people and prioritizing the needs of a healthy society ahead of the corporate greed and unsustainable […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Boot the Godless from the US!
Filthy atheists going about ruining society for everyone. Unconscionable! If it ever happens, please feel welcome to come to Canada where we still know the value of a modern, secular society. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Atheists out!, Secularism is good for society, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Dead Wild Roses: How a President *Should* Handle the Religious – West Wing
I’ve never seen an episode of the West Wing, but I would have liked to been there for the episode that has this gem of clip contained within it. I’ve posted this before, but I like it so *poof* here it is again showing exactly why religion, without question, needs to be kept out of […]
Dead Wild Roses: The Friday Classic Music Interlude – Dvorak – Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” – 4th Movement.
Dvorak brings his symphony to a majestic close. In two parts due to youtube length limitations. Like the first movement, the fourth begins not with its main theme but with an introduction. 00:00:47 23. The main theme: an imposing march, introduced by trumpets and trombones, with timpani 00:00:48 24. The main theme, part two. A […]
Dead Wild Roses: Media Lens on How Misinformation Rules the Airwaves.
“Nothing is free.” Remember that golden nugget of advice given back when you were young? Of course you do, it made you wary of deals that seemed just perfect and produced nothing but unicorns and butterflies and the separation of you and your money once you made the agreement with the con artist in […]
Dead Wild Roses: Schrödinger’s Rapist – A guide for the Men.
This is a compete repost of what guest blogger Starling on Shapely Prose, says about our rape culture and how it works for the people who have no choice but to live within its confines. This is a “S2″ moment, as in Sit the frack down and Shut the frack up. This is how […]
Dead Wild Roses: Potholer54 – DMCA’ed but Still fighing the Creationist Stupid on Youtube.
When you have nothing to refute the truth, you DMCA on youtube. This video might not be up long, view it while you can.
Filed under: Religion Tagged: Creationist Fail, Dispellling Creationist Nonsense, DMCA, PotHoler54, Religion
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Charity?
Well, not charity in the most traditional sense of the word, but in the sense of regarding arguing with people about ideas and reaching a conclusion or at least more of a mutual understanding of what the other is saying. Inauspiciously, this rarely seems to happen on the internet, as the sectarian nature of […]
Dead Wild Roses: Rational Warrior’s Anti-Science Throwdown – NSFW
I am one for reasoned debate, but sometimes its nice change things up with a little musical rhetoric. *TW for language. Filed under: Music Tagged: Anti-Science Rationalist throwdown, Rational Warrior, Religion