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If you’ve never heard of The Onion… well you’re just not into satire. They are the kings of satire. No matter which side of the creation vs evolution debate you side with, ya gotta admit this is totally hilarious:

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I consider myself a rational person. When I have a question, I turn to science and logic to find the answer. Regarding the origins of life, science tells us that humans evolved from single-celled organisms to our current form through a process of natural selection that took billions of years.

This much is clear to anyone with any background in modern thinking. We can look at the fossil record and trace many of our genetic traits back to ancient species. In fact, scientific reasoning can explain nearly every stage of life from the Big Bang to the present day. I say “nearly” because the period that scientists claim lasted from roughly 205 to 250 million years ago, commonly known as the Triassic period, was quite obviously the work of the Lord God Almighty.

Don’t get me wrong: I’m not one of those religious nut cases who denies that evolution is real. Of course evolution is real, just not during the “Triassic period.”

This so-called Triassic period saw the formation of scleractinian corals and a slight changeover from warm-blooded therapsids to cold-blooded archosauromorphs. Clearly, such breathtakingly subtle modifications could only have been achieved by an active intelligence.

The secular Triassicists would have you believe that these changes were just the result of millions of years of nature favoring certain genes over others in order to adapt, the same way evolution worked prior to the Triassic. Obviously, that doesn’t make any sense. Think about it: I’m supposed to believe that the same process that we know slowly changed us from simple bacteria into highly advanced reptiles over the course of the Paleozoic era is also responsible for turning us into highly advanced reptiles with different body lengths? Do these people ever pause to think how ridiculous they sound as they advance these theories?

For a half-dozen million years, life advanced from prokaryotes to primitive fish to mammal-like reptiles via natural selection, and we’re supposed to believe that that just continued happening? I don’t think so. Isn’t it much more likely that a formless, invisible deity intervened, temporarily stopped the course of evolution, and shaped each and every trilobite over a period of six days? Of course it is, at least to any objective observer.

So, if you follow my reasoning to its logical end, the only sound conclusion is that, at some point, God paused evolution and stepped in, made a few modifications, and boom! Pterosaurs. There is simply no way evolution alone could be responsible for the giant leap between archosaurs and other, different archosaurs with better developed hip joints and slightly differently shaped teeth.

Everything about the Triassic period points to divine involvement. Let me ask you this: Could some kind of random genetic chance make the population of shelled cephalopods grow significantly? No, of course not. So the only logical explanation is that there was an infinite and all-knowing cephalopod creator who modified their mollusk foot into a muscular hydrostat that eventually, on the sixth day, became a tentacle.

So, when I tell you that after the Paleozoic era, Ceratodon lungfish became relatively common, it naturally follows that someone created that lungfish by hand and then took out one of its lungfish ribs and combined it with the dust of the Earth to create a female lungfish.

In the beginning, there were a few billion years of speciation and gene drift. And then nothing. And then, God made the lungfish and the trilobites, the ichthyosaurs and ammonoids with more complex suture patterns. He also made a couple new ferns.

And the Lord saw that these slight modifications were good, and allowed evolution to resume as normal in the Jurassic period and on up to the present day.

Now that I’ve inarguably proven the truth, we need to take a stand against these pseudoscientists who are misrepresenting 300-million-year-old fossils as 230-million-year-old fossils and claiming the Earth is 44 million years and 51 weeks older than it really is.

We need to get the Triassic period expunged from our public schools’ evolutionary textbooks. I don’t want my children to be exposed to this blasphemous Triassic garbage, and I assume you don’t want your children to be, either. They need to know that God is watching over them always, and that he has a plan for each and every one of them—a nonlinear, probabilistic plan he set in motion more than three billion years ago with single-celled organisms, ended with a group of small, lizard-like herbivores, infused with a bunch of miracles, and then restarted.

We can no longer ignore the empirical evidence.

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Most people who talk to me would call me a Democrat. I’m not, in fact I think calculated olarization that both parties attempt to get votes is revolting. People would consider me a Democrat because the last 8 years I’ve openly bashed the current administration… which just happens to be Republican. I’ve never considered the current administration “conservative” by any stretch of the imagination. There is one stand out Republican that is making waves, and who’s views I think are pretty spot on. From what I’ve seen so far, if he gets the Republican bid I’d vote for him.

Heres the top 10 highest rated Ron Paul videos on YouTube:

Ron Paul on Tucker

Neo-CONNED! by Congressman Ron Paul - Part 1 of 11

A Fox, a Wolf, and a Whole Lot of Bull (1 of 2)

Part 1 Congressman Ron Paul on The Korelin Economics Report

Ron Paul on Federal Reserve, banking and economy

Ron Paul : Stop Dreaming

Ron Paul Speech at Fundraiser In Austin May 19th Part 1

CNN Lou Dobbs Interview of Ron Paul

Ron Paul 0wnz the Federal Reserve

Ron Paul - Gulf of Tonkin

Congressman Paul’s consistent voting record prompted one of his congressional colleagues to say, “Ron Paul personifies the Founding Fathers’ ideal of the citizen-statesman. He makes it clear that his principles will never be compromised, and they never are.” Another colleague observed, “There are few people in public life who, through thick and thin, rain or shine, stick to their principles. Ron Paul is one of those few.”

www.ronpaul2008.com

Remember all the “evidence” we had about why we needed to go to war with Iraq? Remember the threat of WMD’s? We HAD to take them out right?  Well, turns out only six senators and a few House members are logged as ever reading the report that provided the so-call “intelligence” that indicated Iraq had WMD’s. Turns out in order to read the report members of Congress had to go to a secure location on Capitol Hill. I suppose the threat of war wasn’t enough to get them off their asses to go read the evidence before pulling the trigger. Most claimed they were briefed on the report and/or read the executive summary.John McLaughlin, then deputy director of the CIA said the intelligence report did contain passages that raised questions about the weapons conclusions. He also said that if the Senate and House members had read the entire report “they would walk away thinking the intelligence community generally thinks he has weapons of mass destruction, but there are quite a bit of differences.” He also said dissenting views by the State Department, Department of Energy and the Air Force made up about 10 to 12 pages of the report — but critics say those dissents were not highlighted.

So what we have is a report with the general “ya we think he’s got’em”, with a sprinkling of “hey we’re not so sure about that” by other agencies. What’s mind boggling is that our elected officials decided to just go on the word of the Executive and not READ the report themselves before deciding to give the authority to declare war on another nation.

Let me start by saying that I love the country I live in. However, I am very critical and suspicious of governement. I think our founding fathers intended us to be; clearly they were and that’s why we have three branches of governement to keep one another in check. Some disturbing news has recently hit the streets. For instance: Records obtained from the immigration courts under the Freedom of Information Act show that only 0.0015 percent of the total number of cases filed by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were terrorism related. Read that again, not 15%, not 1.5%, but 0.0015%. The DHS and our trusty “Patriot Act” has scared the living snot outta me since Bush put them in place. From 2004-2006, $127.8 billion has spent on Homeland Security. Out of that $127.8 billion dollars we’ve had 4 sustained charges. That $31,950,000,000 per charge. Either the terrorist threat to America is vastly over hyped, we’re REALLY pathetic at catching terrorists. The other possiblility is that DHS isn’t really intended to thwart terrorism. DHS spokesman Russ Knocke called the TRAC report “ill-conceived” and said the group “lacked a grasp of the DHS mission.” Knocke said that, “by clamping down on all forms of immigration, DHS has made it difficult for terrorists to come to the United States.” What country is this guy living in? I think it’s common knowledge that we have droves of illegals coming to this country every year. The only shining light in the Republican party is Ron Paul, who said he’d want to eradicate Homeland Security the rest are apparently all for it.

Toss in the fact that our government potentially set up illegal wiretapping of it’s own citizens and the picture becomes more frightening. The illegal NSA domestic surveillance was first revealed by the New York Times on December 16, 2005, followed by further revelations in the NY Times, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times, showing that the NSA has gained access to major telecommunications switches inside the US, giving it essentially unchecked access not only to international communications but to purely domestic emails and phone calls. The non-partisan Congressional Research Service’s analysis concluded that “it appears unlikely that a court would hold that Congress has expressly or impliedly authorized the NSA electronic surveillance operations” through the AUMF, and a group of 14 highly respected constitutional scholars and former government lawyers found “no basis for finding in the AUMF’s general language implicit authority for unchecked warrantless domestic wiretapping.”

So now we have a money gobbling DHS which produces little results in the arena of terrorism, and a government that has the capability to wiretap… everybody. So what right? It’s all for our safety. Let’s hope that’s the case… but since the beginning I’ve said that the fear is that an unchecked governement could abuse those powers. They could be used… oh let’s say to focus on and eliminate political adversaries. Perhaps these newfound powers could be used to target States Attourney’s who don’t follow in step with the current administration. Oddly enough we’ve seen the dismissal of eight United States attorneys, all belonged to the “other” political party. Everybody’s favorite Latino, Alberto Gonzales dismissed the matter saying they were all fired based on performance. But emails have been found showing he worked closely with the White House on developing the list of attourneys to be fired. The depth of this are still coming to light. This is the same Alberto Gonzalez found in connection with a series of memos concerning the treatement of terror suspects and the use of torture sanctioned by our government, we literally tossed the Geneva Convention out the window. Never in our history have we sanctioned torture, until now.

If you’re not scared yet, or at least a questioning “could our government REALLY be up to crazy ass shit like this?” then wait until you hear what came about about the 60’s. “In the early 1960s, America’s top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.” The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba’s then new leader, communist Fidel Castro. The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and were presented to President Kennedy’s defense secretary, Robert McNamara, in March 1962. But they apparently were rejected by the civilian leadership and have gone undisclosed for nearly 40 years.

Before you get all crazy on me, I’m not saying we had anything to do with 9/11 or anything of the sort. Obviously, the 1960’s plan was never allowed to happen. But the Senate Foreign Relations Committee published its own report at the time on right-wing extremism in the military, warning a “considerable danger” in the “education and propaganda activities of military personnel” had been uncovered. Scary huh? What’s really scary is that it took 40 years for this to come out? What’s going on now and do we have the checks and balances in place to ensure that a run away grab for power, under the illusion of protecting us, doesn’t endanger the very way of life we want them to protect?!

Silvestre Reyes (D-TX), the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, this week announced his intention to hold hearings that will probe the extent of the cooperation between telephone companies and the NSA.

After resistance from the White House last year, the Republican-controlled Congress chose not to examine the issue, but it has been raised once again by a recent Bush administration request for immunity for the phone companies. That retroactive immunity was included in the government’s most recent House and Senate funding requests for US intelligence services, and it would grant the telephone companies immunity regardless of the legality of their actions.

Before granting such immunity, though, Reyes is determined to find out exactly what these companies might have done. In a statement issued by the Intelligence Committee, Reyes said, “Before granting immunity for any activities, it will be important to review what those activities were, what was the legal basis for those activities, and what would be the impact of a grant of immunity.”

To find out, Reyes plans to hold hearings in June to determine the nature of the NSA’s surveillance program and to find out whether it was legal. The hearings will also consider the issue of whether laws need to be changed to allow intelligence agencies to better track terrorist communications.

Reyes says that he “will not prejudge the outcome of these hearings,” but the fact that he has serious questions about the retroactive immunity suggests that he won’t be easily persuaded to sign off on it. That’s good news for organizations like the EFF, which is embroiled in a lawsuit with AT&T over the issue. Even if the administration doesn’t get its way in Congress, it will continue to push for the courts to throw out such cases on the grounds that they will expose state secrets. Thus far, though, the combined case against the telephone companies remains alive.

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