Ah, progressive religious thought in action. In another unsurprisingly putrid religious offering, the devout offer a lovely pastiche illustrating the misogyny, pettiness, and insular sectarianism that makes religion so repugnant to the rationally inclined. “A shy eight-year-old schoolgirl has unwittingly found herself on the front line of Israel’s latest religious
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Dead Wild Roses: TED Talks: There are no mistakes on the Bandstand
One way of understanding Jazz. Filed under: Music Tagged: Jazz, Music, No Mistakes, TED Talks
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Reason for the Season
Sometimes Calvin says it best. For a wordier explanation see this video Take care everyone. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Be Kind to Others, Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Hey I found a christmas Video that makes sense – White Wine in the Sun
A lovely sentiment for the season… Filed under: Music Tagged: Christmas Music, DWR Holiday Message, White Wine in the Sun
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Christmas Eve – In Excelsis Deo – The West Wing
Never forget what is important, what matters, what is real. We here at DWR do our best to avoid the unruly scourge of the capitalist driven christmas season. On this day we need to remember not everyone is celebrating, not everyone is sharing in good spirits, not everyone is waiting
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Classical Music Interlude: The Hallelujah Chorus – Flashmob Style
Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus accessible full of life and joy accessible for all. This is a repost, but too bad, the awesome has not lost its glow. Filed under: Arts, Music Tagged: Flash Mob, Friday Classical Music Interlude, Hallelujah Chorus
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Farmers – How is that voting Conservative working out for you?
Harper and his mercurial band of autocrats are merrily stomping on the neck of democracy. Sadly, this isn’t news, but rather par for the course as dissent, reality based or not (I’m looking at you prison bloat omni-bus bill) will be passed hell or high water. What makes the Wheat
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: America: Killing Brown Children for your Security – Rejoice!
I know of a few parents who having a decidedly unmerry christmas this year, and every year after because their children were murdered by U.S drone aircraft. Grabbed from Alter.net – After Jon Brennan, President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, claimed in June that no civilians had been killed in US
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Liberal News Media? – Capitalism is Trampling on Journalism.
People still cling to the idea that we have a liberal news bias in the media – Let’s look to the problem of global warming in an example from Media Lens. “[…] Equally disturbing is the variation in media performance across the globe. A wide-ranging Reuters study on the prevalence
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Prison Forever, Legalized – The Dark Age Ahead for Western Freedoms
You would think someone spiked the punch in the US Congress – they recently signed into a law (pending presidential approval) that would allow anyone (citizens at home and abroad) to be held indefinitely until war like conditions are over. “Provisions in the bill codify an approach that allows
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice presents The Tomfoolery of WLC – The Moral Argument
As WLC says – A pretty strong argument… Thanks to NSC for the interpretation. Well after a little browsing ,here is the extended smackdown WLC so richly deserves, along with more evidence of the contortions necessary to believe the bible is a moral work. Filed under: Religion Tagged: Arguments
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bradley Manning – A lesson in Ethics
Ethics are what make people stand against tyranny. Saying “no” to the crowd is one of the most difficult challenges we face as social animals. Bradley Manning had the courage to make an ethical stand, we all possess similar characteristics, we just choose to dismiss these ethical impulses. When
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Christopher Hitchens – We Shall Remember and Continue the Struggle
Thank you for your powerful words and the courage modeled in dismantling the rotten specter of religion. That is all. Christopher Hitchens 1949 – 2011. Filed under: Education, Religion Tagged: A time to remember, Atheism, Christopher Hitchens, RIP
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Friday Classical Musical Interlude – Beethoven, Symphony No.9, Fourth Movement.
The final movement of the Beethoven’s 9th has recently been released by Stephan Malinowski. Catch the third movement here. Presto; Allegro molto assai (Alla marcia); Andante maestoso; Allegro energico, sempre ben marcato. Duration approx. 24 mins. The famous choral finale is Beethoven’s musical representation of Universal Brotherhood. American pianist
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Crazy Sauce – Is Newt Gingrich a felon?
Hey, if that is a question you have to ask about a potential candidate do you think that he/she should be in the race? Nominating Gingrich would require any last vestiges of ethical conduct possessed by the Republican Party to be taken quietly into the nearest closet and strangled to
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Rick Perry and The Vagina Bill
Is it just me or does every republican politician preach racism, sexism and bigotry to appeal to the wack-a-loon conservative “value voters” ( *sproing* my irony meter just imploded) and once their votes are secured by promising to disenfranchise demonized minority X (women, homosexuals, PoC, etc) they promptly ignore said
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Religion – The Bad Parent
Theramin Trees is notable for his particularly pellucid discourse when it comes to the topics of religion and atheism. The relationships we have and maintain necessarily change over the course of our lives it is unfortunate that religion wants to put us back in the role of the needy, compliant
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Old Republic – Beta Evaluation Part 2 – Character Creation
The Old Republic (TOR) does many things right when it comes to structuring the MMORPG experience, that being said, character creation is an area sadly neglected as choice is limited and inconsequential other than for strictly aesthetic purposes. They are as follows: Chiss, Cyborg, Human, Miraluka, Mirialan, Rattataki, Sith
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice – Creationist Mouse meet Atheist Sledgehammer
Skepticon has proven to be a most valuable source of rational thought and interesting fodder for the Sunday disservice. In this episode, PZ Myers takes one creationist talking point and knocks it down, utterly and completely. Plus a small primer on molecular biology, all in under 50 minutes. Enjoy. Filed
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The War On Christmas – A strangled gurgle from the oppressed majority.
Christmas concert banned, replaced by holiday concert! – “Happy Holidays” replacing “Merry Christmas”! – Christmas Trees not allowed in school! Stay tuned for more stories about the oppressed majority desperately clutching their peals throughout the holiday season. People will certainly get themselves tied up in knots over the strangest
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