Open Thread – Happy Darwin Day!
Happy Darwin Day!
Let me just say right off the bat, that this is a slightly out-of-character video for what I usually post. But, I just couldn’t help it. There was something about the brilliant deadpan seriousness of our “Republican” narrator that just gave me fits of the giggles. The satire was spot on. I think this is one of those things that you’ll either think is hilariously funny, or completely not funny at all. A couple of you may roll your eyes at me, but if a couple of you get fits of the giggles, let’s agree to call it a wash.
And for the traditionalists among you, here is a message from the International Darwin Day Foundation, and the American Humanist Association.
Why Celebrate Darwin Day? from American Humanist Association on Vimeo.
srry about spelling ignorant wrong, gotta go pee and was rushing it!
I daresay that one pet monkey hurting someone counts for less than all the people killed by ignorent humans espousing non-sensible crap! This wombat is probably a charter member in the flat earth society.
The My Wife… video is just on about the mishmash thoughts that run through the non evolution believers heads. I giggled Stunned by the logo. The creator of the video did a quality job on introducing soooo many topics.
Insisting we are monkeys is a stupid denial of the wonderful thing that is evolution. And by the way, I believe God made the system as it is wayyyyyyy to interesting and sensible than the denial theories which are man made.
LMAO
Thanks AKM. And happy Darwin Day to all. Remember, we didn’t “come from monkeys.” We just have a common ancestor. I mean, what kind of human would attack a drive through attendant? Oh, right, never mind. Those humans.
Thank you AKM…. and thank you Darwin!!
I just read on a RWNJ site that Congress cut 3 billion dollars from EPA budget for the rest of the fiscal year and Rethugs are trying to pass legislation to stop EPA from regulating climate controls,as of Friday afternoon in a continuing resolution. They use the same old tired excuse about costing jobs.
It is just unbelievable. I was listening to a replay of Thom Hartmann this afternoon from Thursday or Friday. He (Thom) was at the CPAC and was interviewing one of the congresscritters attending. I didn’t catch the beginning so don’t know who it was, but this guy was in favor of doing away with the FDA. His belief was that if we buy bad food or drugs, we won’t buy those things anymore and the market will take care of itself. Wow! Btw….he totally sounded like a clueless idiot and was laughing all through the interview. It is inconceivable to me how these people get elected into our government.
The problem with that theory is that, if the food or drugs are bad enough, we won’t be alive to buy any more of the good stuff either. I wonder how he’d react if his wife or child died from contaminated food or improperly made drugs. Somehow I don’t think he’d put quite so much trust in ‘the market’ after that.
Because we ALL know how responsible the big corporations are about keeping their products safe, making sure their workers are not hurt and taking care of the environment when nobody’s looking.
I’d prefer to put my trust in the EPA, FDA, NHTSA, FCC, FTC, USDA, CDC, OSHA, etc, thank you very much!
“Glenn Beck’s hysterical rants about Egypt play on fear”
“What seemed like a joyous and hopeful turning point to most others in the media, including some of his Fox News colleagues, appeared to Beck, instead, as a foreboding and likely ruinous event for Egypt, for the Mideast and possibly for all of humanity.
The author, entertainer and onetime stand-up comedian has had many low moments in his relentless pursuit of the lowest common denominator, but this week’s embrace of fear and loathing may have been the nadir. Beck again proved he is the current exemplar of what political scientist Richard J. Hofstadter defined as the “paranoid style” in American politics.
In the case of Egypt and its democracy movement, the Fox News performer sees not the energetic amalgam of students, shopkeepers, bureaucrats, intellectuals and professionals who virtually every real journalist in Cairo has described in recent days. Beck’s evening chalkboard talks instead fulminate endlessly about the shadowy forces that will surely bring “the coming insurrection.””
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-onthemedia-20110212,0,7125172.column
happy Darwin Day. i wouldn’t mind being this gorgeous:
https://picasaweb.google.com/rotorbuh/2011?feat=featured#5569531142027375074
Bubbles if you were that vain you’d spend all your time talking to yourself in the mirror and no time entertaining the troops in the ‘flats. Heaven forbid you’d waste all that time admiring yourself.
LOL.
I am definitely celebrating Darwin Day! I hope that we might also celebrate Sir Isaac Newton Day and Galileo Day perhaps? A toast to science and inquisitive minds!
Pi Day is coming!
3.14 at 1:59
Make mine sweet potato
Or do they have red velvet pi?
Only on Archimede’s birthday.
I’m just speechless. BUT, I guess it shouldn’t surprise me with the amount of lime KoolAide being consumed now days.. This is one you just walk away from shaking your head….
Hysterical, thanks, AKM. A while back $P called for a “stampede of pink elephants”, and now this trumpeting logo…… Is it too early for a Bloody Mary? (monkey-free, of course)
Happy Darwin Day, all.
I’m celebrating Darwin Day because it reminds me that even in this day and age a Quitter Ex-part-time Guv, who herself was the daughter of a former “science teacher” can be ignorant enough to advocate for teaching creation science in the classrooms… Of course we all know who I’m talking about… Here’s the link
http://www.adn.com/2006/10/27/217111/creation-science-enters-the-race.html
The only creation science I advocate teaching in the schools is the one wherein the Sumerian deities Enki and Ninhursag create humans out of clay and blood to do work for the gods, who later want to kill them off because they’ve become so noisy and bothersome. So they send a flood and only the good and righteous Ziusudra and his kin and the animals get saved because Enki has a change of heart and tells Mr Z to build a big boat and load up the kin & critters.
I mean… if we’re going to teach creation science, let’s stick to the oldest known stories!
dang straight.
That is one of the funniest YouTube channels I’ve ever seen. Bookmarked.
As G_d is my witness, I shall never look at a p**is the same way again! beth.
(Does rather give a new way of analyzing the 1970 Judy Blume classic: “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret” — no wonder so many Conservs want the book banned from school libraries.
b.)
I’m planning on visiting the kid’s school library this week. I will have a look to see if Judy Blume’s book is available, (something in me guesses it’s not) Where I live , in the interior of Alaska, there seems to be a lot of people that would ban books. This makes me wonder what books the quitter wanted out of the Wasilla library.
Costco has Red Velvet cake on sale.
On a more serious note, Glenn Greenwald’s latest on Wikileaks is worth wading through. I know, I know, his stuff is always a tough read and likely to leave you wanting to chew the edge of your table … so have a Red Velvet cake on hand to plunge your face into instead!
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/02/11/campaigns/index.html
“That’s why this should be taken seriously, despite how ignorant, trite and laughably shallow is the specific leaked anti-WikiLeaks proposal. As creepy and odious as this is, there’s nothing unusual about these kinds of smear campaigns. The only unusual aspect here is that we happened to learn about it this time because of Anonymous’ hacking. That a similar scheme was quickly discovered by ThinkProgress demonstrates how common this behavior is. The very idea of trying to threaten the careers of journalists and activists to punish and deter their advocacy is self-evidently pernicious; that it’s being so freely and casually proposed to groups as powerful as the Bank of America, the Chamber of Commerce, and the DOJ-recommended Hunton & Williams demonstrates how common this is. These highly experienced firms included such proposals because they assumed those deep-pocket organizations would approve and it would make their hiring more likely.
But the real issue highlighted by this episode is just how lawless and unrestrained is the unified axis of government and corporate power. I’ve written many times about this issue — the full-scale merger between public and private spheres — because it’s easily one of the most critical yet under-discussed political topics. Especially (though by no means only) in the worlds of the Surveillance and National Security State, the powers of the state have become largely privatized. There is very little separation between government power and corporate power. Those who wield the latter intrinsically wield the former. The revolving door between the highest levels of government and corporate offices rotates so fast and continuously that it has basically flown off its track and no longer provides even the minimal barrier it once did. It’s not merely that corporate power is unrestrained; it’s worse than that: corporations actively exploit the power of the state to further entrench and enhance their power.
That’s what this anti-WikiLeaks campaign is generally: it’s a concerted, unified effort between government and the most powerful entities in the private sector (Bank of America is the largest bank in the nation). The firms the Bank has hired (such as Booz Allen) are suffused with the highest level former defense and intelligence officials, while these other outside firms (including Hunton & Williams and Palantir) are extremely well-connected to the U.S. Government. The U.S. Government’s obsession with destroying WikiLeaks has been well-documented. And because the U.S. Government is free to break the law without any constraints, oversight or accountability, so, too, are its “private partners” able to act lawlessly. That was the lesson of the Congressional vesting of full retroactive immunity in lawbreaking telecoms, of the refusal to prosecute any of the important Wall Street criminals who caused the 2008 financial crisis, and of the instinctive efforts of the political class to protect defrauding mortgage banks. “
“because who doesn’t love cake?” Not me, not me…I LOVE me some cake!!!!!
As I am perusing the latest choice tidbit from our beloved AKM, I am also glancing out the nearby window. The weather report says we’re having ‘light snow’ but I cannot see the house across my relatively narrow street.
In the spirit of Darwin Day, I will NOT claim that this heavy snow disproves global climate change!
Happy Darwin Day, mudpups (and watch out for those Pepsi-stealin’ monkeys!)!
God speaks through What?! (I had to listen a few times)
Yes, Republican men should keep their genes pulled up.
… and zipped!
Bwahahaha! Genes up, zipped and a carefully measured “stance”.
*cracking up with laughter here*
Who knew so many ‘pups are comedians?
They’re good, aren’t they?
LOL! fanned and faved
“Every couple deserves to have a child free of monkey blood”.
I’ll have to remember that line. Priceless.
“Sex organs don’t belong to us”? That could explain the spate of republican sexual misadventures.
I had to try to not blow coffee out of my nose watching it.
That’s right. They can now claim “I didn’t do it”.
You know CO Native, I think you are right. “Sex organs don’t belong to us. They belong to the collective.”
Sounds like Socialism to me, and I don’t want any collective in charge of my sex organs.
It does expain a few things about those on the religious right doesn’t it?
You are right, AKM, a delightful giggly way to start the day.
Nothing says Love like a ringing red Elephone.
It might just become a new Valentine symbol. Hearts to ya!!!
That was wonderful! My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed starting our day with it. Thank you so much.
Nothing like starting the weekend with tears of laughter streaming down one’s face! Great fun! I wonder how many people would think this was real? It really could be, considering some of the conservatives I’ve met.
Couldn’t get the second clip to play, but I just liked the friendly faces. Nice foil to the first clip.
In the spirit of viciousness,I’d like to extend a large middle finger to those good folks on the right that beleve violence is the way to bring about change in leadership. The citizens of Egypt have done in short weeks what years of occupation and bombs and suicides and mass civilian casualties has not accomplished in Iraq-the neo-con way.Not to mention trillions of dollars and 5000 American service members lives wasted. Have no fear. The next RWNJ Potus will surely correct Egypt’s mistakes by an all out war on Democracy. I can’t seem to get the video to play and will keep trying. I need a good laugh every day.
There you go again,Mike. The voice of reason.
Happy Darwin day. I am going to bake a red velvet cake and spend time adoring my dog.
Is it true that red velvet cake exists?
It is! It began eons ago as a regular chocolate cake and evolved to its present form.
Well, in honor of Darwin day, here’s a brief description of one theory of the evolution of red velvet cake.
Red velvet cake originally began when someone noticed the chemical reaction between buttermilk or vinegar and cocoa – which turned the batter a slight reddish brown. It’s the anthocyanin, a red pigment found in foods like red cabbage or cocoa that causes the reaction. That reaction has since been enhanced by the addition of a small bottle of red food coloring. beet juice or maraschino cherries. Most folks just dump in the artificial food coloring, particularly if they only have Dutch (alkaline) cocoa because that softens the color of the chemical reaction.
It is usually thought of as a southern cake, but according to some food historians and the 2006 cookbook, “The Waldorf Astoria Cookbook” by John Doherty and John Harrisson, the cake was developed at NYC’s Waldorf Astoria in the 1920s.
Unfortunately (if you don’t care for artificial colorings), you can now see red velvet cakes, cupcakes, even ice cream being offered by upscale restaurants and home cooks alike. It really doesn’t affect the taste so much as the aesthetics (at least that’s my opinion). Plus, I suspect the name “red velvet” adds to its allure making it sound more exotic or more delectable (if one is given to eating cloth, i.e.).
By the way, ks, I am sitting here finishing up some paperwork and listening to Kansas’ own Kelley Hunt. Have all her CD’s, see her when we can, and have done the NYE in Lawrence with her several times. That woman can sing the Blues like nobody else in my opinion.
We have a dairy in our region that goes beyond offering simple chocolate or strawberry milk. Throughout the year they put out limited editions of specialty flavors. Most recently they gave us “Red Velvet Cake”. They couldn’t keep it on the shelves. It ran for 6 weeks and then, gone! My poor son is still going through withdrawal.
Oh yes! One of the few recipes my dearly departed (and wretched cook) mother could make successfully- and I have a copy, complete with overload of red food coloring. I will buy the yummy cupcake version tomorrow at church, to support MetroCaring, a great organization that supports those in need with a food bank, and connections to assistance- helping those help themselves.
Happy Darwin Day, mudpups!
Oh yes, it does exist and is absolutely delicious.
It exists, but its lifespan is about three bites.
Flippin’ the bird with ya
Right ya are mike and it seems the states that elected GOP governors will now have to worry about becoming police states Our new Governor said he would call out the national guard because of peaceful demonstrations he did not want. Taking a step to follow AZ in as police state rhetoric
http://politicalgates.blogspot.com/2011/02/michael-glassner-palins-new-chief-of.html#disqus_thread
Um… isn’t this a bit strange??? And stranger still, none of the other reports on this actually mention Glassner’s history.
Well, I guess they don’t want for people to think her campaign/PAC is being run by an alleged crook. Why, that might reflect poorly upon Sarah’s judgment, don’t-cha-know. Gawd, Sarah Palin knows how to pick ’em, doesn’t she — Joe Miller, Sharon Angle, Rachel Mansour, Sean Parnell — winners all.
Progressive would be wise to take this move seriously — Glassner is the guy who led Bob Dole’s campaign and landslide victory in the 1996 Presidential election.
Oh, wait…
i assume it’s the same person. makes sense really – someone who knows corruption and how to do it.
What a wonderful day to follow the fools birthday! Yeah Darwin
Bringing sanity back to life.
Good morning! Happy Darwin Day to all Pups. I think I will go make a pan of monkey bread for breakfast! Have a lovely day.
Totally funny. Especially the money getting his pepsi. My first cup of coffee so not too bright yet.
Happy Darwin day to you all.
giggles… guffaw
more giggles…
yes, Happy Darwin day!
Please MR wizard i want to crawl back into the swamp. Or give me a 60 thou parachute. OK i will settle on slugging it out with these folks at the flats. Could be worse could be rainin.
SLOG NOT SLUG–sorry.