Meet Valkyrie, NASA’s new “superhero” robot. Okay fine, it was designed to be able to access disaster areas and help rescue survivors. Let’s all hope for very slow disaster scenarios and that the bots can play Wagner.
All hail McDonald’s “unconventional wisdom”… or is it just outrightmendacity? Their stockholders better hope MickieD ain’t using that same “fuzzy math” on their balance sheets! Among the helpful tips McDonald’s offers to its employees:
don’t buy food
don’t buy clothing
don’t heat your home
don’t pay more than $600 in rent
don’t spend more than $20 on health insurance premiums per month
while you’re at it, better get a second or third job too, because you can’t live on what MickyD pays, and SNAP only goes so far!
Speaking of “oh, SNAP!”, it looks like Iowa State is turning out a lower grade of moron these days. Just read this mutton-headed idiotorial on “food stamp abuse”. ‘Many students may wish they had a little extra cash for groceries. However, food is an absolute priority for living’. Does Daddy’s precious little teabagger really understand the BS they’re spewing, or the proper use of ‘however’, even? I kept looking for the “Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?” line to be trotted out. Must not be an English major amongst the petty thugs that scrawled this piece.
Re-wiring the bankster brain: “If you are in any doubt about how little has changed on Wall Street since 2008, check out yesterday’s front page New York Times story about how banks like Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley profited wildly by hoarding and slowing the supply of various commodity metals like aluminum, driving up prices on the global market in the process”. Banks: anything they touch turns to evil™.
Get acquainted with the legendary Walter “Mad” Halliday (obit 1872) and his hobby of burying genuine Roman coins in odd places with the expressed idea of puzzling future antiquaries.
Talk about a self-defeating argument: On Tuesday, Deseret Newsflagged a post on Utah’s Republican State Sen. Aaron Osmond’s blog Friday where he says that Utah “should take a close look at repealing compulsory education.” Just what Utah needs: more idiots! I’m sure it would be beneficial for the GOP, though.
Once again the U.S. falls behind: China is ranked world’s fourth ‘horniest country’. “In the past eight years, 5,000 sex shops have opened in Beijing alone. Plus, China even has a Sexpo, where Chinese residents come to check out sex paraphernalia”.
I live in the very sweaty area just under the buckle of the Bible Belt. Having been an atheist from an early age, I frequently have had to deal with some very hostile religious people, particularly protestant christians. Perhaps because more cosmopolitan people from outside Indian Territory (you know, them fancy-pants folks that kin read and write and cypher and even critically analyze new ideas) make it a habit to AVOID THIS AREA LIKE THE PLAGUE, these hostile christians are a rather insular lot, unused to the norms of civilized life and are frequently deluded into thinking that they’re granted the divine right to accost, condemn and denigrate others over the same matters of conscience they are free to exercise in this country.
It’s very quaint in a “Children of the Corn” manner!
Just last night a lovely woman, a stranger to me, launched into a vitriolic diatribe over my identification as an atheist (may have been on pof.com). Seriously, if we’d been face to face, the depth of her ignorance and hostility were strong enough that I’d have had to consider the use of lethal force, because she was acting THAT scary-crazy. I can still smell burning heretics in the air.
Is there a “Stand Your Philosophical Ground” law in Oklahoma? -<Heavy sigh>-
Thank you Christwire.org for “Scooby Doo, The First Atheist Brainwashing Cartoon Reviewed“. I hated this cartoon (mostly due to a friend who insisted on imitating the title character’s speech impediment all the time), but in retrospect…
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