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March 2002
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Fucking American zealots who hate atheists (or, how I learned to stop worrying and love George Bush Snr)
By Tim - 11:35 AM, Sunday, March 24, 2002 - 0 Comments |
"The following exchange took place at the Chicago airport between Robert I. Sherman of American Atheist Press and George Bush, on August 27 1988. Sherman is a fully accredited reporter, and was present by invitation as a member of the press corps. The Republican presidential nominee was there to announce federal disaster relief for Illinois. The discussion turned to the presidential primary:
RS: "What will you do to win the votes of Americans who are atheists?"
GB: "I guess I'm pretty weak in the atheist community. Faith in God is important to me."
RS: "Surely you recognize the equal citizenship and patriotism of Americans who are atheists?"
GB: "No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God."
RS: "Do you support as a sound constitutional principle the separation of state and church?"
GB: "Yes, I support the separation of church and state. I'm just not very high on atheists."
UPI reported on May 8, 1989, that various atheist organizations were still angry over the remarks.
The exchange appeared in the Boulder Daily Camera on Monday February 27, 1989. It can also be found in "Free Inquiry" magazine, Fall 1988 issue, Volume 8, Number 4, page 16.
On October 29, 1988, Mr. Sherman had a confrontation with Ed Murnane, co-chairman of the Bush-Quayle '88 Illinois campaign. This concerned a lawsuit Mr. Sherman had filed to stop the Community Consolidated School District 21 (Chicago, Illinois) from forcing his first-grade atheist son to pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States as "one nation under God" (Bush's phrase). The following conversation took place:
RS: "American Atheists filed the Pledge of Allegiance lawsuit yesterday. Does the Bush campaign have an official response to this filing?"
EM: "It's bullshit."
RS: "What is bullshit?"
EM: "Everything that American Atheists does, Rob, is bullshit."
RS: "Thank you for telling me what the official position of the Bush campaign is on this issue."
EM: "You're welcome."
After Bush's election, American Atheists wrote to Bush asking him to retract his statement. On February 21st 1989, C. Boyden Gray, Counsel to the President, replied on White House stationery that Bush substantively stood by his original statement, and wrote:
As you are aware, the President is a religious man who neither supports atheism nor believes that atheism should be unnecessarily encouraged or supported by the government."
For further information, contact American Atheist Veterans at the American Atheist Press's Cameron Road address."
Taken from the atheism FAQ (a very good read)
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Taxi drivers = teh suck
By Tim - 11:34 AM, Sunday, March 24, 2002 - 0 Comments
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So there I was, sitting at the traffic lights, when it goes green. The guy in front is a bit dozy, so I give him 5 seconds, he doesn't move, so I start rolling forward and give him a beep. He wakes up and starts moving when BAM, a taxi hits me from behind.
I pulled over to the side of the road, and got out to inspect the damage and exchange details, when I notice the taxi is just driving past. I watch him amazed as he yells out the window "don't worry mate, she's not scratched", at which point I turn to my car and see a bloody big "feathered" scratch right along the back with a bit of paint missing in the corner. Fuck that!
Talk about cheek... rang the cab company and apparently the guy will be in deep shit. Good. They'll supposedly call me tomorrow to sort it out.
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We saw a really fast cloud tonight!!!
By Michael - 2:55 PM, Monday, March 18, 2002 - 0 Comments
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Tonight, me and Miles went to have dinner at a Japanese restaurant, and we ate the food, and then we left, and on the way home, we saw a cloud, and it was moving really fast, heaps faster than all the other clouds, and Miles said "Wow, that cloud is moving really fast!" and I said "Yeah, it is!" and then we both said "Go cloud, go!" and I thought to myself "That cloud is going to be oookay." |
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Somewhere in the jungle...
By Koko - 6:48 AM, Monday, March 18, 2002 - 0 Comments
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Time to die, Koko.
By Michael - 2:25 PM, Thursday, March 14, 2002 - 0 Comments
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Koko. Steal. Girlfriend.
By Michael - 10:17 AM, Wednesday, March 13, 2002 - 0 Comments
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From Bustybonnie:
Our honeymoon fell on the anniversary I was supposed to have with Koko's not-so-bitter counterpart Ches. This could be considered to be unfortunate, but Koko is happy, and frankly is more fun than Ches. Koko is not obsessed with console games and hardware and really knows how to treat me: Bananas and afternoon naps. Mmmmmmmmmmm... Bustybonnie provided these fantastic holiday snaps:
     Ed's note: Isn't Koko a girl? Bustybonnie, are you not telling us something? :) |
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Attention. All. Humans.
By Koko - 7:21 PM, Monday, March 4, 2002 - 0 Comments
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Ever notice how Ches always has the same expression?
By Michael - 5:15 PM, Monday, March 4, 2002 - 0 Comments
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See Ches, now I'm being a bastard.
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There is no subject in this subject line.
By Miles - 5:01 PM, Monday, March 4, 2002 - 0 Comments
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Bits and pieces from around the web... (since I'm not cool enough to do funny photoshop pictures or amusing articles :( )
So you don't believe in God eh? BLASPHEMER!!!!
Some woman lied about her son being a genius. Nhray.
Bored? Know your FP adders from your FP multipliers, and whether they're super-scalar or not? Why not get a run down on how the PS2 works? Always a bit of fun :) (No, I don't have a girlfriend.... hellllllloooooooooooooo ladies!!)
He. He. He.
BTW - We've been rejected by Slashdot for ANY of our stories something like 10 times now. What's with that? Hasn't Michael's Office for GBA article got enough funny for them? Not enough nerdiness? I say it's got both in buckets!
Oh yeah, and we'd love to get some feedback on how people reckon the site could be laid out better. What we should do more of. What. Gets. You. Hot. Yeeeeaaaah. |
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This is still later.
By Miles - 12:05 PM, Monday, March 4, 2002 - 0 Comments
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I told you I'd post more.
Not so much news around today as it's just a Monday, which means the American sites haven't updated. Because I'm a slack arse I don't have any amusing articles to put up either. Mind you, all our articles seem to just be funny photoshop stories, and only one of us can use Photoshop (Guess who!!).
 Anyway, my fish died today. :( Poor little guy. Rest in Peace "Fighty"...
You make us proud in fish heaven little buddy... |
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Ben is a crazy mofo
By Tim - 11:09 AM, Monday, March 4, 2002 - 0 Comments
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From: "Ben McG" <*****@csee.uq.edu.au>
To: Tim
Subject: RE: Howdy
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 14:29:57 +1000
Organization: ITEE, University of Queensland
... and just in case you think the only thing I do at uni is surf the
net...
Current playlist (I'm firing up for a run this afternoon)
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Ben McG, PhD Student
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4 Bitter what?
By Ches - 9:01 AM, Monday, March 4, 2002 - 0 Comments
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I think Michael may be trying to goad me into making a newspost by posting unflattering images of me on the main page.
Bastard. |
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Goodbye Mild Summer, Hello Indifferent Autumn
By Michael - 2:17 PM, Friday, March 1, 2002 - 1 Comment
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Ahh, there's nothing quite as exciting as a news post about the weather, is there? For those of our readers out there who live in Australia, you'll know what I'm talking about. For those of our readers who live in Melbourne, Australia, you'll DEFINITELY know what I'm talking about.
That's right, I'm bitching about the weather. My freakin' 28 degrees celcius (88 degrees farenheit, for those of us too poorly educated to understand the metric system) 15 metre swimming pool has been sitting there waiting for something (other than a volvo) to dive into it, and only about 6 times this entire summer has its wish been granted.
 Summer -- or as I prefer to call it, I Can't Believe It's Not Winter -- has had about as much gusto as me when I'm pissed. Summer failed to feature any of the attractions on the right, instead deciding to provide us all with cheap winter clothes. Which would you have preferred?
Oh, and by the way, I steal all the retarded people images off Something Awful. Have a look. :) |
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