Saturday, August 22, 2009

Laurie Higgins Wants Parents to Know a HS Math Teacher is an Atheist

A call to arms for the godless, for the sake of our CHILDREN!

Laurie Higgins of the Illinois Family Institute Sends an Open Letter to the Friendly Atheist - Repost of my comment on Hemant’s blog:

This makes my blood boil. Who the hell does this woman think she is? Christian busybodies injecting their views into educational settings BY COMPLAINING about things their small minds find “offensive” is a reprehensible tactic that’s proven effective more often than not.

The reason the so-called “New Atheist” movement is an absolute necessity (like yesterday), is because these fundamentalist crybabies like Laurie Higgins have enjoyed 30 years of empire-building in the media, accomodation, appeasement and outright, illegal government endorsement allowing them to manipulate public policy in their favor. They insist on their First Amendment rights while seeking to restrain everyone else’s. They’re out of control and it’s long past time to remind them of their place. In church and homeschooling, if they’re so determined to raise generations of Jesus-bots devoid of intellectual curiosity.

With the sorry state of affairs in American education – in large part due to the dumbing down of our curriculum in order to not piss off Christians – I’m thrilled to have good teachers out there, and what they say or do outside the classroom is none of my concern.

These bullshit “Family” organizations are an obstacle to our kids’ education and a threat to the First Amendment liberties of every citizen. I consider this attack upon the Friendly Atheist (a teacher, no less!) yet another call to arms for all the rest of us, from closeted to militant. Ladies and gentlemen get those arms in (ergonomically correct typing) position and fire at will. No quarter given.
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Here’s hoping my geek mojo’s strong…

I’ve missed doing a few upgrades to Expression Engine, and am going to attempt to catch up. This should be fun… or frustrating as hell! Either way, it needs doing, so here I go…

Downtime’s doubtful, but always a possiblity.

Ciao for now!

UPDATE (11:25 PM): It seems to have worked.  Oh JOY!!!

Thursday, September 28, 2006

OB’s life in pictures…

I just installed this new gallery software.  No doubt I’ll be dicking around with it a bit but for now it seems to be working just fine!

Photo Gallery

Take a gander, and if you find anything weird or funky, let me know.

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Death, Debt, Deployment… Depression

Emotionally, the past month has been an especially brutal one for me.  Within 3 days’ time, tragedy struck two families I know, leaving two barely-past-newlywed, pregnant widows; one of whom I felt compelled to defend from attacks in the public sphere due to her celebrity status.  Then I was forced to come to terms with our dwindling finances (blecch!). Last, but certainly not least, I learned that a dear friend of mine is going off to war for a year an a half.

Oh yeah, and I’ve been having a few health issues, too.  I fainted one night; I think it’s the second time in my life I have done so.  The first time probably shouldn’t even count, as it was most likely directly related to the substances I’d ingested that night.

I suppose it says something about my state of mind that it’s 10:30 PM and I’m still in the little dress that serves as a nightgown that I put on last night.  I’ve been sitting outside with my laptop, smoking cigarettes while reading and posting on Pharyngula since I woke up at 7 AM, even though it was 114° here today.

But it’s time to write things down, so I can get my feelings out, get myself together and carry on.  The anti-depressants seem to work fairly well to keep the “normal” stresses from hurtling me into the abyss, and to tell the truth, even these more severe stresses seem to affect me differently now than I’d have expected.

I don’t have that crushing despair type of feeling, or constant dread; but I’ve noticed that I’ll quite suddenly feel overwhelmed with emotion to the point of crying, or nearly so. And it’s not just feelings of sadness or even only negative feelings that wash over me in such a way that I can’t speak without a sob escaping or at least a catch in my voice.

These recent emotional stressors or events are important enough, to me at least, to warrant separate posts.  Especially since they’ll be more like stream-of-consciousness ramblings and attempts to put into words those things which have of late caused deep feelings to rise to the surface, and have driven me either to tears, or to sit behind this monitor and keyboard and read/write about something… anything that provides an escape from the realities I don’t want to deal with at the moment.

Gotta get a grip… and get back to something like “normal"…

Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Celebrating 6-6-06

I’m all for celebrating (and capitalizing upon,) any and all “holidays,” and god DAMN, I wish I would’ve planned better for today!  Then I could do cool shit like Les does Check it out:

(width=666 muahahahahaha!)

I just heard on the news that Stanton LaVey, the grandson of ol’ Anton himself is getting married in Hollywood tonight at the Music Box theatre in Hollywood, where there’s going to be a show featuring Goth/Satanic bands.  Good for all of them!

Of course, the remake of The Omen comes out today, and the fundy news source is linking to all sorts of articles about 666 and Christians.  Oh yeah, and Ann(ti-Christ) Coulter’s book is also hitting the shelves today.  No link for that hateful, ugly cunt!

Well, time for me to get to work… where I sell “sin” for a living, wallowing in my godless liberalism.  I’ll be wearing my CJ shirt in honor of the holiday!