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 […]
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Dead Wild Roses: So, I’m not the Special Snowflake I thought I was.
More people than just I hazard this very routine.
Filed under: Humour Tagged: Computer Addiction, Humour, Rage Comix
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Ethics and Religion
Distribute freely my pretties! Spread the word.
Filed under: Ethics, Religion Tagged: ethics, Morality, Religion
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
Dead Wild Roses: The Friday Classical Music Interlude – Dvorak – Symphony No. 9 “From the New World” – 3rd Movement.
Fantastic movement, keeps you on the edge of your seat. Follow along with some of the musical highlights. 1. Dvorak, Beethoven, and the Scherzo. Dvorak purposely confuses the listener’s expectations. 00:01:54 2. Using a little fanfare, Dvorak further builds up expectation before revealing the main theme. 00:00:21 3. When the theme is revealed, we find […]
Dead Wild Roses: Oh Nom Nom Nom Nom! – A super massive blackhole devours a nearby star.
If was actually good at mathematics, I think I would have been an Astrophysicist. They have such amazing questions to work on.
Filed under: Science Tagged: Astrophysics, Black Hole, Science
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Happiness, Equality and Security – The True Measures of a Society; not GDP.
The ongoing media campaign to make the economy the monofocus of our societies continues on unabated. Do almost any news search and you will see economic principles overlaid and tied to the idea that somehow they are related to how healthy and how “good” a society actually is. Economic health is but one part […]
Dead Wild Roses: Rape in the Bible – An easy guide.
Ah, the moral paragon that the bible claims to be, yet not one Commandment such as “thou shall not rape”… Pretty easy for an all knowing, all powerful being to foresee no? Apparently not.
Filed under: Religion Tagged: biblical stup…
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Thunderf00t – Why go to chruch?
Tfoot has been on a roll as of late, another quick gem of a video from him explaining the possible evolutionary and societal benefits of believing in magic.
Filed under: Religion Tagged: Church, Evolution, Social Psychology, Thunderf00t
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Objective Morality? – Not the christain god, not ever.
The problem with making a reasonable argument is that it takes time and patience to construct properly. Nonstampcollector makes a great video showing exactly how unonbjective the christian god actually is. Guaranteed to make the religious cringe as they face contradiction after contradiction, and precisely why the video appears on this blog. Filed under: Religion […]
Dead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Religious Disservice – Heaven’s Promise, christian fools.
One of the problems with christianity (and other made up bullshite) is that if given the time to actually think about what believing in it actually entails, you can easily end up among the growing ranks of the unwashed atheist hoard. The problem is squaring with what you been told with what actually is. If […]
Dead Wild Roses: Lewis Lapham – 9/11 Revisited, mythology exposed.
The stories woven by official narratives often have little to with the reality of the situation. Lewis Lapham, editorially in Harper’s Magazine, was bold enough to contradict the official version of events. He lost subscribers, was labelled “unamerican” and worse, for his views. Listen to what he has to say as we near the approved […]