Highlights on the Show...December 28, 2009 - January 1, 2010

"Man of the Year" An Honor?

Please remember that Adolph Hilter was also named "Man of the Year" by Time Magazine. Ben Bernanke shouldn't feel flattered. According to Jim Kelly, Time Magazine managing editor:

"...the classic definition of TIME's Person of the Year is the person who most affected the events of the year, for better or for worse. I think what has happened over the years is that the Man of the Year title, Person of the Year title, has become non-honorific. It was never meant to be solely that."

http://img.timeinc.net/time/magazine/archive/covers/1936/1101360413_400.jpg

I agree with you it is counter productive.. And I do believe in positive atheism today.. I love your sign idea:

“Festivus for the Rest of Us”

But (FYI stuff) I understand why some atheists hold up the insulting/negative signs.. Because I have been there; its a phase many atheists go thru (typically after a rude awakening (fundies attacking our rights).. Atheists are typically, caught blind side and then thrust into protesting while extremely angry at the agressive fundys .. No one wants to stand around holding a damn protest sign (there is outrage that goes with it)..

bobbler

> Hi bobbler!
> I think atheists need to be more effective. If they tear down your sign,
> put up another one. If they aren’t inspired by your display, come up
> with a better one.
> Winning isn’t easy. If it was, you’d have already one.
> Remember last year when here in Washington State, there was an
> atheist holiday display that went beyond promoting atheism to
> insulting religion? It > was ineffective.
> In contrast, “Festivus for the Rest of Us” is effective because it’s
> funny, non-insulting, and makes a point.

Hi Bobbler,

Did you see this! I've played this a bizillion times even though I'm a ... well... what am I?... a poet/ story writer who loves mythology and wishes to believe in goddesses and gods... but instead writes about people who do.

This is so cool!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeY3QjgXGUI

> Did you see this! I’ve played this a bizillion times even though I’m a …
> well… what am I?… a poet/ story writer who loves mythology and
> wishes to believe in goddesses and gods… but instead writes
> about people who do.

Thanks.. I have been involved with such displayes before..

Its a lot of work, and expence (esp. with no church funding), and the fundies usually tear our displays down in the middle of the night..

If the fundies were not attacking religious freedom across the board, we atheists would probably blend in and spend time with friends and family like everyone else..

Fundies should put these displays in front of their own churches.. They own a lot of land, usually in prominent locations.. Think about why they want their displays on public land, typically at court houses (hint= theocracy)..

bobbler

Compulsory Private Health Insurance: Just Another Bailout of the Financial Sector?

By Ellen Brown

URL of this article: www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=16674

Global Research, December 28, 2009
Web of Debt - 2009-12-21

Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, is quoted as warning two centuries ago:
“Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an underground dictatorship. . . . The Constitution of this republic should make special privilege for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."
That time seems to have come, but the dictatorship we are facing is not the sort that Dr. Rush was apparently envisioning. It is not a dictatorship by medical doctors, who are as distressed by the proposed legislation as the squeezed middle class is. (For a withering analysis by an outraged M.D. of the nearly 2000 - page House bill, see here.) The new dictatorship is not by doctors but by Wall Street -- the FIRE (finance, insurance, and real estate) sector that now claims 40% of corporate profits...

I have come to a realization: Senator Joseph Lieberman provides the Obama Administration the identical service that he performed for the G.W. Bush Administration. Senator Lieberman acts as the Administration’s proxy; he is harbinger and water-bearer. Holy Joe is the lighting rod which draws all ire and allows the Administration to enact their mediocre, right-of-center, pro-corporatist agenda. He is the bellwether of campaign dollars and forecasts the stands the Administration will fall all over itself to fail to take.

Senator Lieberman beat the drums to save banks and the Administration obliged. Senator Lieberman defended the poor little health insurance industry and the Administration bent its sainted knee to warrant his holy cause. Senator Lieberman states that Yemen may be the next country to feel our collective wrath in the war on terror then behold the Administration has been bombing the crap outta third world goat-herders like crazy for the preceding six months.

With the full force of fact found in a demented Kabuki theater where the angels remove their masks and the demons are revealed, Senator Joseph Lieberman provides cover for the real demons in the mix. The truth is that Senator Lieberman is just another pissant Senator, less than a powerless trifle to be ignored. Unlike Vice President Biden, he found a way to avoid being relegated to obscurity. Senator Liebermann is closer to power and enjoys wielding power. When one types the words “Senator Joseph” into the Google box his name comes up only slightly less then the infamous Senator McCarthy. Senator Lieberman has divined the path to greatness . . . Even more importantly, in his case, the path to relevance.

Atheism holiday exhibits physically attacked
http://www.examiner.com/x-23325-Tampa-Deism-Examiner~y2009m12d28-Atheism...