A comment I wrote at the Washington Post. It's about Mississippi. They still live in the Dark Ages.

In the bill, lawmakers laid out two requirements for the flag’s eventual replacement: It cannot include the Confederate symbol and it must incorporate the phrase “In God We Trust.”

That's ridiculous. The god thing is not real.

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What someone else wrote:

Removing the hateful traitor emblem from their flag is a necessary and welcome step forward. But of course, this being Mississippi, they had to take that next step backward with the God stuff, didn't they?

Some more Richard Feynman Quotes

“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.”

“Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt.”

“I think it's much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong. I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of uncertainty about different things, but I am not absolutely sure of anything and there are many things I don't know anything about, such as whether it means anything to ask why we're here. I don't have to know an answer. I don't feel frightened not knowing things, by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”

“The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.”

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.”

“Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.”

"Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts."

“I have a friend who's an artist and has sometimes taken a view which I don't agree with very well. He'll hold up a flower and say "look how beautiful it is," and I'll agree. Then he says "I as an artist can see how beautiful this is but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing," and I think that he's kind of nutty. First of all, the beauty that he sees is available to other people and to me too, I believe. Although I may not be quite as refined aesthetically as he is ... I can appreciate the beauty of a flower. At the same time, I see much more about the flower than he sees. I could imagine the cells in there, the complicated actions inside, which also have a beauty. I mean it's not just beauty at this dimension, at one centimeter; there's also beauty at smaller dimensions, the inner structure, also the processes. The fact that the colors in the flower evolved in order to attract insects to pollinate it is interesting; it means that insects can see the color. It adds a question: does this aesthetic sense also exist in the lower forms? Why is it aesthetic? All kinds of interesting questions which the science knowledge only adds to the excitement, the mystery and the awe of a flower. It only adds. I don't understand how it subtracts.”

“We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.”

I would not want to live in a universe that had a magic god fairy. I prefer reality. Fortunately that's the way it is. God fairies and Easter Bunnies are not real.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Scientists

"Many people, including many important and well-respected scientists, just don’t want there to be anything beyond nature. They don’t want a supernatural being to affect nature."

This quote is from an asshole Christian. A professional moron who looks for hiding places for his god fairy. The stupid, it burns.

The asshole's name is Michael Behe. He sells books about sticking magic into science. I never met a Christian who wasn't a stupid fucking asshole.

If you're a Christian and you're reading this, you need to understand why scientists don't buy your god fairy bullshit. We have something called "reality". Don't be afraid. Reality is a good thing.

Richard Feynman quotes

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman

We scientists are clever — too clever — are you not satisfied? Is four square miles in one bomb not enough? Men are still thinking. Just tell us how big you want it!

It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the different planets, and all these atoms with all their motions, and so on, all this complicated thing can merely be a stage so that God can watch human beings struggle for good and evil — which is the view that religion has. The stage is too big for the drama.

The Magic Man did it.

Mississippi, which has the most obese people in the world, changed their state flag because the old flag was not politically correct. The new flag is still being designed but we know they are going to stick the Magic Man into it, the "In God We Trust" bullshit.

Obese people can't exist without their magic god fairy. The stupid, it burns.

Wikipedia - Flag of Mississippi

On June 28, 2020, the Mississippi State Legislature passed a bill to repeal the sections of the Mississippi State Code which made provisions for a state flag, mandate the removal of the former flag from public buildings within 15 days of the bill's effective date, and establish a commission to design a replacement that would exclude the Confederate battle flag and include the motto "In God We Trust". Governor Tate Reeves had said he would sign the bill into law if it were passed. After the Mississippi State Legislature passed the bill, Reeves signed it into law on the evening of June 30, 2020.

The best way to advertise a book is get someone to try to block it. It worked for me. I ordered it from Amazon.

Amazon - Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man Hardcover – July 28, 2020 by Mary L. Trump Ph.D. (Author)

The Washington Post

Publication of explosive tell-all book by Trump’s niece temporarily blocked by New York state judge

By Michael Kranish

June 30, 2020

A New York judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the publication of Mary L. Trump’s scathing book about her uncle, President Trump, which describes him as the “world’s most dangerous man,” saying no copies can be distributed until he hears arguments in the case.

The order leaves it uncertain whether the book will be published as scheduled on July 28.

Judge Hal B. Greenwald ordered a hearing next month on a request for an injunction by Trump’s brother Robert, who has argued that Mary Trump is not allowed to publish anything about her family as part of a settlement in an inheritance case.

His attorney, Charles J. Harder, said in a statement Tuesday that he would seek the “maximum remedies available” for the “truly reprehensible” actions of Mary Trump and her publisher, which he said have caused “enormous damages” to his client.

“Short of corrective action to immediately cease their egregious conduct, we will pursue this case to the very end,” Harder said.

Mary Trump’s attorney, Theodore Boutrous Jr., said in a statement that while the judge’s order is temporary, “it still is a prior restraint on core political speech that flatly violates the First Amendment. We will immediately appeal. This book, which addresses matters of great public concern and importance about a sitting president in an election year, should not be suppressed even for one day.”

Simon & Schuster said it also plans to appeal.

“We are disappointed that the Court has granted this Temporary Restraining Order,” the publishing house said in a statement. “We plan to immediately appeal this decision to the Appellate Division, and look forward to prevailing in this case based on well-established precedents regarding prior restraint.”

The book, titled “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” has already ascended to the top of bestseller lists based on presales, underscoring the intense interest in a rare insider account by a Trump family member.

In promotional material for the book, the publisher said Mary Trump “shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.”

Mary Trump spent years pursuing an education that led her to become a clinical psychologist, as The Post recently reported.

Mary Trump once stood up to her uncle Donald. Now her book describes a ‘nightmare’ of family dysfunction.

Using that background, she explores the “nightmare of traumas” within the Trump family, according to the publisher.

“She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald,” according to the book’s description.

Mary Trump’s father, Fred Jr. — the older brother of President Trump — died of an alcohol-related disease when she was 16 years old in 1981, an event that had a deep impact on the family.

President Trump said in an interview with The Post last year that he made mistakes in dealing with his brother and regretted pushing him to join the family business.

Mary Trump was involved in a bitter dispute in the family over an expected inheritance when her grandfather Fred Sr. died in 1999. She and her brother, Fred III, said in court papers that someone in or connected to the Trump family got Fred Sr. to change his will and give them less than they expected.

After all sides exchanged a bitter round of accusations in court papers and the newspapers, a settlement was struck, and Mary Trump signed a nondisclosure agreement. Robert Trump, in asking the court to block Mary Trump’s book, said its publication would violate the nondisclosure deal.

In his ruling, Greenwald did not discuss the specifics of the arguments of either side. Instead, he said that the merits of Robert Trump’s petition deserved to be heard in court before the book can be published.

He ordered that the parties present their arguments on July 10 or as soon as possible thereafter. He said that it will be up to Mary Trump and the publisher to show why an order to block the book should not be made.

Robert Trump had originally filed his petition in Queens County Surrogate’s Court, but a judge rejected the request on grounds that the court did not have jurisdiction. Robert Trump then filed his petition with the state Supreme Court.

This afternoon I went outside to take out the garbage and visit my plants. I saw a huge bee, a species I have never seen before, and a butterfly doing their thing with my beautiful plants.

Wikipedia - Pollination

Pollination is the transfer of pollen from a male part of a plant to a female part of a plant, later enabling fertilization and the production of seeds, most often by an animal or by wind. Pollinating agents are animals such as insects, birds, and bats; water; wind; and even plants themselves, when self-pollination occurs within a closed flower. Pollination often occurs within a species. When pollination occurs between species it can produce hybrid offspring in nature and in plant breeding work.

Don't forget your mask.

This is not my problem. I have been obeying the rules. But it looks like too many people are fucking everything up. Of course it's Trump's fault. Everything is Trump's fault. We got to get rid of Trump so let's choose another moron for the job, Joe Fucktard Biden.

The Washington Post

Fauci says U.S. may reach 100,000 coronavirus cases per day ‘if this does not turn around’.

Anthony S. Fauci issued a dire warning at a Senate hearing Tuesday about the rate of the coronavirus pandemic’s spread amid a spike in new cases, noting that new cases may reach 100,000 per day if the United States continues on its current trajectory.

The nation’s top infectious-disease expert gave the warning in response to questioning from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) on what the overall U.S. death toll is likely to be.

“I can't make an accurate prediction, but it is going to be very disturbing,” Fauci replied. “I will guarantee you that, because when you have an outbreak in one part of the country, even though in other parts of the country they're doing well, they are vulnerable.”

He added: “We are now having 40-plus thousand new cases a day. I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around. And so I am very concerned.”

Pressed by Warren on the likely total death toll, Fauci again declined to say.

“I would really be hesitant to give a number that will come back and either be contradicted and overblown or underblown,” Fauci said. “But I think it’s important to tell you and the American public that I’m very concerned because it could get very bad.”

Normal countries. Idiot America is not on the list.

BREAKING NEWS

Balancing health concerns and politics, the European Union will open its borders to visitors from 15 countries. The U.S. is not on the list.

Tuesday, June 30, 2020

Travelers from Russia and Brazil will also be barred from the European Union, as the bloc puts into effect a complex policy. The list of approved nations includes Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

What I wrote for the liberal fucktards at the Washington Post.

Biden has a senile problem but he can read a speech. He should try to avoid being in a debate because he might forget what country he lives in.

Your Inner Fish by Neil Shubin - I'm reading it the 2nd time. The science deniers (Christian fucktards and Muslim terrorists) should read this book but thinking makes them cry.

Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body Paperback – January 6, 2009

by Neil Shubin  (Author)

Benjamin Franklin - “It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on.”

Benjamin Franklin Quotes - chess

ON THE MORALS OF CHESS(1779) Benjamin Franklin: "The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement. Several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired or strengthened by it, so as to become habits, ready on all occasions."

Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money.

By playing at Chess then, we may learn: First: Foresight... Second: Circumspection... Third: Caution...And lastly, we learn by Chess the habit of not being discouraged by present bad appearances in the state of our affairs, the habit of hoping for a favorable chance, and that of persevering in the secrets of resources.

You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour.

The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess.

2020

Faith is an excuse for cowardly morons to believe in any childish nonsense that makes them feel good.

Wikipedia - Faith - Criticism

Criticism

Bertrand Russell wrote:

Christians hold that their faith does good, but other faiths do harm. At any rate, they hold this about the communist faith. What I wish to maintain is that all faiths do harm. We may define “faith” as a firm belief in something for which there is no evidence. Where there is evidence, no one speaks of “faith.” We do not speak of faith that two and two are four or that the earth is round. We only speak of faith when we wish to substitute emotion for evidence. The substitution of emotion for evidence is apt to lead to strife, since different groups substitute different emotions. Christians have faith in the Resurrection; communists have faith in Marx’s Theory of Value. Neither faith can be defended rationally, and each therefore is defended by propaganda and, if necessary, by war.
— Will Religious Faith Cure Our Troubles?

Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins criticizes all faith by generalizing from specific faith in propositions that conflict directly with scientific evidence. He describes faith as belief without evidence; a process of active non-thinking. He states that it is a practice that only degrades our understanding of the natural world by allowing anyone to make a claim about nature that is based solely on their personal thoughts, and possibly distorted perceptions, that does not require testing against nature, has no ability to make reliable and consistent predictions, and is not subject to peer review.

Philosophy professor Peter Boghossian argues that reason and evidence are the only way to determine which "claims about the world are likely true". Different religious traditions make different religious claims, and Boghossian asserts that faith alone cannot resolve conflicts between these without evidence. He gives as an example of the belief held by that Muslims that Muhammad (who died in the year 632) was the last prophet, and the contradictory belief held by Mormons that Joseph Smith (born in 1805) was a prophet. Boghossian asserts that faith has no "built-in corrective mechanism". For factual claims, he gives the example of the belief that the Earth is 4,000 years old. With only faith and no reason or evidence, he argues, there is no way to correct this claim if it is inaccurate. Boghossian advocates thinking of faith either as "belief without evidence" or "pretending to know things you don't know".

Typical Muslim assholes. This BBC News article is from 5 years ago.

Islamic State 'beheads women for sorcery' in Syria

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Islamic State (IS) has beheaded two women in eastern Syria, the first time the jihadist group has decapitated female civilians, activists say.

The women were killed along with their husbands in the city of Deir al-Zour and the town of al-Mayadeen, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

All four were accused of sorcery.

IS has previously decapitated the bodies of Kurdish female fighters killed in battle. The group has also beheaded men for witchcraft in Iraq.

The group's extreme interpretation of Islamic law has also seen gay men thrown off buildings and women stoned for adultery.

Last week, IS militants in Syria hanged two youths from a beam by their wrists after accusing them of not fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

The killing of people for sorcery is not unique to IS. The authorities in Saudi Arabia have also beheaded both men and women on similar charges.

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Muslims are crybabies. Muslims are stupid fucking assholes.

https://www.worldreligionnews.com/religion-news/blasphemy-capital-offense-countries-expunged-others

In 1988 Salmon Rushdie published The Satanic Verses, a book which Muslims thought disparaged Islam. Riots broke out in Muslim countries, and shortly thereafter, Iran’s leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a reward for the writer’s murder. Rushdie went into hiding, there were several assassination attempts and a translator of the book was murdered. The clash with Western ideas of freedom of speech and the press were striking. From the Western point of view, freedom of speech is a treasured right, and Iran should “just get over it.”

Then, in 2005, a Danish artist published some cartoons that made fun of Muhammad. All hell broke loose, with the cartoonist forced to go into hiding, and some 250 people killed in the resulting conflicts. The Danish constitution guarantees freedom of speech, as do most Western countries, but Muslims avoid depicting people, and Islamic art is primarily geometric and calligraphic. In addition, depicting Muhammad is seen as blasphemous, and to top it off, many Muslims thought the cartoons mocked Muhammad.

Our ancestor

One very important human ancestor was an ancient fish. Though it lived 375 million years ago, this fish called Tiktaalik had shoulders, elbows, legs, wrists, a neck and many other basic parts that eventually became part of us.

The south side of Chicago, another interesting weekend.

CHICAGO NEWS

Children among 16 dead, 47 injured in Chicago weekend shootings

Courtney Gousman, Dana Rebik

Posted: June 29, 2020

CHICAGO — Gun violence in Chicago over the weekend has left more than a dozen people dead, including three children.

From Friday evening through midnight Monday, 16 people were killed and 47 were injured.

Chicago Police Supt. David Brown is making a plea to the community for information that will help detectives arrest the gunman responsible for these weekend shootings.

Just before 10 p.m. Saturday night, a stray bullet came through the window of an apartment on the 3500 block of Dickens Avenue in Logan Square and struck Lena Nunez in the head. She was watching TV in the front room of her grandmother’s apartment. Police believe two opposing gang members fired at each other outside the apartment.

The youngest victim killed this weekend was 20-month-old Sincere Gaston. Sincere was shot in the chest while riding in his car seat near 60th and Halsted on Saturday. His mother was grazed by a bullet.

Police said someone shot into her car and were targeting the baby’s father, who was not in the vehicle but normally drives it.

Monday, Chicago police releasing surveillance video of the suspect’s vehicle, a grey Infinity.

In another shooting Saturday, 17-year-old Antiwon Douglas was shot and killed in the Humboldt Park neighborhood during a fight with someone in a large crowd, according to police.

An 8-year-old girl was also shot while sitting on the couch inside her home at 66th and South Wood in West Englewood. The girl suffered a graze wound to her head, but survived.

It was just last weekend when Chicago saw the worst gun violence of the year, 106 people shot, including 3-year-old Mekhi James and 13-year-old Amaria Jones, who were both killed.

Supt. Brown blamed low bonds, and what he feels is a failed electronic monitoring system for repeat offenders who he says continue to terrorize the city.

“I keep hearing you’re new here, I will never accept, never this level of violence. Never. Someone knows something about the murders. If you have any information reach out to our detectives,” Brown said during a news conference

According to the Chicago Tribune, after a drop in violent crime during the coronavirus stay-at-home order, shootings and homicides are now up 25% from this time last year.

A newly formed group of activists and entrepreneurs say they’re fed up. The group, called “I’m Telling Don’t Shoot” is now offering a $50,000 reward to help find the shooters in the cases of the youngest victims, Mekhi and Sincere.

The group is backed by Englewood Ald. Stephanie Coleman, and they even brought the cash reward to Sunday’s news conference.

To report information in those cases, call the tipline at (312) 747-8380.

Another $2,000 reward is being offered in the death of Lena Nunez. A GoFundMe has been created to help her family pay for burial and funeral costs.

Police said they plan to release surveillance video of suspect vehicles soon.

What I wrote at the Wall Street Journal about Christian assholes.

"The Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law restricting abortions."

This will make Christians cry. Christians can't exist without forcing everyone to obey their Christian rules.

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A Christian crybaby wrote this:

Do you believe only Christians do not see abortion as an unhealthy action for society? Are you saying only Christians want to force people to obey their rules?

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That is correct. The only people who complain about respecting women's rights are Christians. Everyone else minds their own business.