"Other non-human mammals can produce Vitamin C. They don’t need it from their diet. Humans, on the other hand, have had ancestors that have been eating fruit for so long (which is high in vitamin C) that our vitamin C genes long ago mutated. We do, however, still possess its remnant in pseudogene form."

The imaginary magic god fairy of the disgusting Bible is a stupid fucking asshole, as are the Christian fucktards who suck up to it.

"Where's do atheists get their morals and good qualities from if they have no Bible for guidance?"

Atheists, unlike theists, have a brain and they use it. They have been able to figure out it's in everyone's best interest to be civilized.

The bible thumpers get their fake moral values from an imaginary god fairy who loves slavery and genocide.

One more thing: Our closest living cousins, the chimpanzee apes, have been observed being altruistic. And they didn't require a god fairy to figure out altruism is a good thing.

A question I asked and somebody's answer which was well done and another answer written by a insane Christian fucktard. It's about the moronic disgusting bible.

"If anything is absolutely, rock-bottom true, it’s that life evolved, beginning about 4 billion years ago, and that the creation myth of Genesis is completely wrong."
-- Jerry Coyne, University of Chicago biologist

Why do Christians call their Bible "The Word of God" even though it was written by primitive people who were obviously making everything up?

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"People would not believe it if it was called 'The word of some random guys a couple of thousands of years ago who wrote down some popular myths'. It does not have the same ring to it."
-- Jimmy C

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This is what a totally insane Christian fucktard wrote. This is extreme stupidity but it's typical in Idiot America.

Jerry Coyne is not God - not even close. Only God could have written the Holy Bible because the future of mankind was given to the prophets by God. Moses couldn't write about Adam and Eve because Moses wasn't there. God had to give Moses the Story of the Beginning. We can tell by the age of the Pyramids that they came through the Flood of Noah. We can tell by the Bible stories that the angels were God's first creation long before mankind. God even gave the prophets the stories of how Satan and the fallen angels came to be. Blood in the Holy Bible is a very powerful thing because blood contains life and God when He walked the earth as Jesus said "I am Life." We can tell by archeologists that giants roamed this earth both in the form of animals as well as man. It is written about the giants in the Holy Bible. Man didn't evolve. Man came down through the generations because of the life blood of God. Man is made in God's image. The animals didn't become man they came down generation after generation adapting to their environment. There is no creation myth and there is no Greek mythology. Greek mythology had strong truth in the breeding of human women and fallen angels as written in the Holy Bible. God attempted to destroy these evil spirits and their bloodline with the Great Flood of Noah, but angels are spiritual beings and the evil spirits of the fallen angels remain on earth today along with God's Holy angels. There is a lot more to the spiritual world than there is to this natural world.

This link has lots of interesting stuff.

I recommend this link because you would be able to find lots of interesting stuff: This blog has 303 posts about Jerry Coyne at Jerry Coyne.

Simon & Garfunkel - Kathy's Song

Wikipedia - Simon & Garfunkel

I hear the drizzle of the rain
Like a memory it falls
Soft and warm continuing
Tapping on my roof and walls

And from the shelter of my mind
Through the window of my eyes
I gaze beyond the rain-drenched streets
To England where my heart lies

My mind's distracted and diffused
My thoughts are many miles away
They lie with you when you're asleep
And kiss you when you start your day

And as a song I was writing is left undone
I don't know why I spend my time
Writing songs I can't believe
With words that tear and strain to rhyme

And so you see I have come to doubt
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you

And as I watch the drops of rain
Weave their weary paths and die
I know that I am like the rain
There but for the grace of you go I

The Magic Jeebus Man.

"How exactly do you have a personal relationship with Jesus?"

I'm a hardcore atheist but if I was one of the god-soaked morons who infest this place this would be my answer:

I believe the Magic Jeebus Man is real and he dropped dead for my sins, and also I know Jeebus listens to me talk to myself even though he's dead.

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I never met a Christian who wasn't batshit crazy.

Some more evidence for evolution.

Three Pieces of Evidence That Prove Evolution is a Fact

Evolution is not a hypothesis.

FUTURISMJULY 18TH 2014

For over 150 years—since the time of Charles Darwin—the Theory of Evolution has been through more scrutiny and rigorous investigation than just about any other scientific claim. And the theory has only been strengthened as more evidence has been accrued. While there are many that people who, for ideological reasons, want to make it seem like evolution is not widely accepted within the scientific community, this is not actually the case.

Across universities, research institutions, and scientific organizations, evolution is not only nearly universally accepted, it is also the basis upon which active, exciting, and important research is being done. Indeed, the scientific fact that is evolution is the basis of most of biology.

To that end, this is a complete overview of the most direct evidence in support of evolution.

Common Traits. Common Ancestor.

Think about your family. You and your closest relatives look more alike than you and your cousins. Likewise, you look more like your cousins than you do more distant relatives, and more like distant relatives that people on the other side of the globe. The closer you are related, by-and-large, the more similarities you share. Of course, these similarities extend well beyond the surface level, reaching into our genetics.

(Image source: Sinauer Associates, Inc.)

This patterning, like in your family, extends throughout all life on Earth. The patterning of the similarities speaks volumes. In evolution, these “similarities” are known as “synapomorphies.” They are characteristics that are present in ancestral species and are shared exclusively (in more or less modified form) by this species evolutionary descendants. Synapomorphies come in nested hierarchies that are related to the variety and intensity of the similarities.

Why is this the case? The similarities have been inherited from common ancestors, and the further back in time any two species shared a common ancestor, the more faded and distant the similarities become. It is important to note that, species with a large number of similarities tend to live near each other—penguin species only live in the Southern Hemisphere, marsupials live almost exclusively in Australia, cacti almost exclusively in the Americas, lemurs in Madagascar, etc. If evolution was not true, this geographic patterning would make absolutely no sense. Furthermore, these similarities often seem to be completely arbitrary, rather than having some selective advantage.

Illustrative example:

Insects, though unbelievably diverse, have 6 legs. There are likely several hundred thousand insect species and they all have pretty much the same body plan.
(Image source: Wikimedia Commons)

We See Species Changing Over Time

One of the most important discoveries that lead to Darwin’s Theory of Evolution was extinct animals found as fossils. Early paleontologists, like Charles Lyell and George Cuvier, noticed a very simple fact: Species that lived in the past are very often drastically, wildly different from anything alive today. Trilobites, dinosaurs, giant sloths, baculites, etc., they all suggest that life on Earth has changed quite a bit.

That would be interesting enough on its own. What makes it more interesting is that, the further back one goes, the more different the species appear when compared to today’s species. These overarching trends can also be seen on the individual level, as lineages can be seen changing over time.

How do we know, though, that fossil progressions don’t just represent separate, unrelated species?  First, they have similarities that suggest they are related (see above reasoning concerning similarities between species). Secondly, they represent a trend, also known as a progression of change. For instance, over time, the species go from low expression of a certain trait to intermediate expression to high expression. Like the evolution of legs, for example. In fact, since we are on the topic, there is no missing link in evolution.

Lastly, the fossils are dated and organized by direct means (like radiometric dating) or indirect means (like relative dating using unique marker layers, fossils, or other techniques).

Example fossils:

Human evolution. (source)

Fossils aren’t the only way that we can see species changing.  We can see it in a laboratory, across geographic distribution as a species spreads, or through artificial selection performed by humans.

Examples of species changing in recorded history:

All these common vegetables were once wild mustard. (source)

The Remnants Of Past Generations

Turn over a manufactured product today, and you are likely to see a small sticker or tag that says what country it was made in. Like those tags, species bear the marks of where they came from. These signs of origin might come in the form of repurposed traits, traits that hurt a species chances of surviving or reproducing. Put simply, species are flawed, and it’s these flaws that clearly tell of their natural origin.

Examples:

If you didn’t know any better, you might think this was a flattened elephant foot. Well, that’s not far from the truth since manatees are closely related to elephants. The West Indian manatee (Trichechus manatus) has fingernails on its flippers and hair on its body (visible in this photo).
(Image source: Fritz Geller-Grimm)

Other non-human mammals can produce Vitamin C. They don’t need it from their diet. Humans, on the other hand, have had ancestors that have been eating fruit for so long (which is high in vitamin C) that our vitamin C genes long ago mutated. We do, however, still possess its remnant in pseudogene form. (source)

What’s so powerful about learning these three basic facts about evolution is that you now have the ability to look at any species and ask yourself these questions:

• Does this species share similarities with other species that might suggest that they are closely related?
• Are there progressions of change for this species that we can see in the fossil record, recorded history, or across geography?
• Does this species have any traits that are the remnants of past generations?

Those three simple questions can, if you let them, transform the way you look at the biological realm around you. Go ahead. Ask away. Biology will never look the same.

Are human apes more developed than a cockroach? Of course not. These 3 quotes explain why.

There is no species that is “more developed” than another. In the end, the soupy mess of organisms that are alive today are all on the same level, having evolved to fit the specific ecological niches that they inhabit.
-- https://futurism.com/three-main-pieces-of-evidence-supporting-evolution/

You know, there's this pervasive idea in biology that I think is wrong. It goes: we humans are at the pinnacle of the evolutionary tree, and as you get up that tree, brain size must get bigger. But a fly is just as evolved as a human. It's just evolved to a different niche.
-- Jeremy Niven

Humans aren't high on the evolutionary scale...there is no evolutionary scale. We aren't the pinnacle of anything.
-- PZ Myer

Want to know the best way to kill a cockroach? Well, first inject some powerful neurotoxins directly into its brain. This will make the bug compliant; it won't try to fly away and will bend to your will. Second, slice off one of its antennae and drink the goo that comes out. For snack purposes, you understand. And then lead it off to your lair by the stump, like a dog on a leash. You're going to bury this zombie in a hole in the ground. But just before you close up the tomb, lay an egg on the bug. Your progeny can have the joy of eating it alive.

Bejewelled pest control: Who wouldn't approve of the work of Ampulex compressa?

Wasps, bees, sawflies and ants all belong to a grouping of insects known as Hymenoptera - and Gavin Broad is an enormous fan

BBC Science & Environment

Click this if you want to watch a video about wasps: Wasps: If you can't love them, at least admire them

By Jonathan Amos
Science correspondent

15 September 2019

Want to know the best way to kill a cockroach?

Well, first inject some powerful neurotoxins directly into its brain. This will make the bug compliant; it won't try to fly away and will bend to your will.

Second, slice off one of its antennae and drink the goo that comes out. For snack purposes, you understand.

And then lead it off to your lair by the stump, like a dog on a leash. You're going to bury this zombie in a hole in the ground.

But just before you close up the tomb, lay an egg on the bug. Your progeny can have the joy of eating it alive.

Dr Gavin Broad relishes these stories about how wasps will parasitise other critters. He's the principal curator in charge of insect collections at London's Natural History Museum, which means he's got plenty of material to work with.

He has drawer after drawer of wasps, gathered from all corners of the globe. Ok, I can already hear you saying, "I hate wasps even if they kill roaches". But spend just a few minutes with Gavin and I promise you your views will evolve.

You'll marvel at their skill and in quite a few cases you'll be stunned (not stung) by their beauty.

That destroyer of cockroaches, for example - Ampulex compressa - has an extraordinary iridescent exoskeleton. You can see why they sometimes call it the jewel wasp.

"But every wasp is glorious," says Gavin, as he urges you to move beyond the PR spin that's got us to prefer beetles and bees instead ("Bees are just furry wasps that turned vegetarian").

Wasps have their role in Nature and it's not to pester humans in the autumn. Ignore those "yellow jackets" getting drunk on cider in September orchards; they'll soon be gone.

No, wasps have very useful functions, one of which is to keep other insects in check. Every insect you can think of probably has some wasp that will attack it. If that wasn't the case, we'd almost certainly be using more pesticides than we already do on our farms.

It's the parasitoid wasps that do this work for us and their methods - like those of Ampulex compressa - are often ingenious.

I'm fascinated by a splendid European wasp - Rhyssa persuasoria (sabre wasp). In part, I think, because I can't ever recall actually seeing one in the wild. They frequent British forests.

It has a remarkable ovipositor. That's the multi-function "hypodermic needle" at the end of the abdomen, and, in this instance, it doubles the length of the wasp to about 8cm.

The Rhyssa hunts the larvae of sawflies hiding under the bark of trees. When it senses one, it uses the ovipositor to drill through the wood fibres, to sting the grub and then lay an egg on it. Again, the wasp doesn't immediately kill its target; it uses venom merely to immobilise its prey.

"The key to success for parasitoid wasps is keeping your meat fresh," says Gavin.

He calls me into the next room, a cavernous opening full of those floor-to-ceiling museum cabinets that move on wheels. Gavin knows exactly which drawer he's after.

We don't really do "big" in the UK, so as you might expect there are even more impressive versions of Rhyssa from elsewhere in the world. Meet the aptly named Megarhyssa.

Species in this group have ovipositors that can reach 15cm in length. They store them in a bag. Megarhyssa will spend a couple of hours drilling through wood to get to its victim.

That's a lot of energy to expend, especially if you miss your target, or, as occasionally happens, another wasp comes along with a slightly narrower ovipositor and uses the exact same drill hole to replace the egg you've just laid. Hello to the group of wasps called Pseudoryhssa.

Nature works like that sometimes. Species will use every trick in the book to survive and thrive. Constant warfare.

Gavin closes the drawer. There's even a wasp that will lay its egg inside the larva of another wasp that's already inside a caterpillar, he tells me. That sounds a bit like an entomologist's Christmas dinner: a duck inside a turkey, inside a goose.

So, what's the biggest wasp? Probably one of the tarantula hawks like Pepsis. When Gavin gives talks to schoolchildren, this is always their favourite.

You know the routine by now: the wasp lands on the spider, stings it to a standstill, and then positions an egg where the hatched grub can burrow its way inside. What's so impressive is that the larva will make sure it doesn't consume too early those organs that keep the tarantula alive.

And the smallest wasp? Well, that would be the fairyfly wasps. Creatures like Kikiki and Tinkerbella. Gavin is holding a card with some imperceptible dots on it. These wasps are about 0.2mm in length. Absolutely tiny - you need a microscope to see them.

They're so small in fact, they're probably at the very limits of what's possible in terms of miniaturised flight. And yet fly they do, to find and parasitise the eggs of other species and single-celled organisms.

My hour with Gavin is almost up but he won't let me go until he's shown me some of the most impressive nests in the NHM's collection.

"Wasps probably gave us the idea for paper," he says. They chew up wood and build the most exquisite papier-mâché structures.

Even your classic autumn annoyance, Vespula vulgaris, is an accomplished architect. The paper envelope that surrounds its comb nest will have intricate swirls and waves. The more diverse the wood sources, the more unusual the patterns.

The NHM collection even has a 1940s wasp nest made partially from wool. The wasps had recycled a nearby scarf.

Gavin's passion for his subjects is obvious and immense. So what does he say when people tell him they hate wasps. "I just cry." He laughs. "Why don't people already love wasps? They're the lions of the insect world."

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Anyone who still thinks a god fairy is real or might be real is a fucking moron.

What I wrote at the New York Times:

"I don't understand why the Catholic Church (and every other primitive religious cult) still exists in the 21st century. These days we have something called science which has repeatedly shown a god was never necessary for anything."

Look at what's out there.

"If God is good and omnipotent why would he allow children to agonize and die of cancer?"

If I wanted to throw out reality and pretend a magical master of the entire universe was real, I can't imagine why the thing would be interested in this insignificant planet in a universe of countless trillions of solar systems.

"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
-- Carl Sagan

"I can't believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to be too simple, too local, too provincial. The earth, he came to the earth, one of the aspects of God came to the earth mind you, and look at what's out there. It isn't in proportion."
-- Richard Feynman

Two things: I found an interesting website. Something I wrote at the New York Times.

I recommend this website: Art, Photos, Stories

The paintings, the photos, the stories, everything well done.

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What I wrote at the New York Times. It's about the best way and probably the only way this country can get rid of Fucktard Trump.

"I hope, despite the odds, Michael Bloomberg changes his mind about becoming a candidate. He is pro-business, for free trade, and he's an environmentalist. He would easily defeat Trump because Democrats, Republicans, and Independent voters would vote for him. He would also be the best president this country ever had."

Another Doonesbury comic strip about Fucktard Trump.

A 2011 comic strip (Pearls Before Swine) about a religious atrocity in Israel. A cowardly Muslim asshole blew himself up, killing 6 children on a bus.

Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No.1

I have a list of a few hundred of my favorite quotes. This quote belongs on the top of the list. What Jane Goodall said is very important and everyone needs to understand why.

Did working with chimps teach you anything about humans?

That we’ve been very arrogant in thinking that we’re so separate. Chimps turned out to be, not only behaviorally so like us, but also biologically like us, sharing 98.6 percent of DNA, similarities in immune system, blood composition, anatomy of the brain. We’re not, after all, separate from the animal kingdom. We’re part of it.

-- Jane Goodall

This post is about the breathtaking stupidity of Muslim morons. These fucktards for Allah are famous for their stampedes and other things even more fucking stupid.

This blog is never politically correct and that's a good thing.

What is a stampede? I looked it up.

stampede: a sudden panicked rush of a number of horses, cattle, other animals, and Muslim morons.

Here is some more evidence for the insanity of Muslim assholes:

A quote from the New York Times: "Muslim fucktards were beating their chests and lashing themselves with chains."

Do Jews, Christians, or atheists stampede like cattle? No, of course not. Only Muslim fucktards have stampedes.

Do Jews, Christians, or atheists lash themselves with chains? No, of course not. Only Muslim morons do this.

Do Jews, Christians, or atheists blow themselves up to murder women and children? No, of course not. Only cowardly Muslim assholes blow themselves up and they do it every day.

The rest of this post: 2 New York Times articles about the breathtaking stupidity of Muslim scum:

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New York Times - Stampede at Iraqi Shrine Kills at Least 31

By the Associated Press

September 10, 2019

BAGHDAD — At least 31 people were killed in a stampede on Tuesday at a shrine near the Iraqi city of Karbala, where tens of thousands of pilgrims were observing the holy day of Ashura, officials said.

About 100 people were injured in the panicked rush, which began when part of a walkway collapsed, two officials said.

Hundreds of thousands of people converge every year on Karbala, which is about 50 miles south of Baghdad, for Ashura, which is one of the most sacred events for Shiite Muslims.

The day commemorates the killing of Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, by a rival Muslim faction in A.D. 680, an event that is said to have cemented the schism between Shiite and Sunni Islam. Shiites consider Hussein and his descendants the rightful heirs of the prophet.

Extremist Sunni militants have attacked Ashura processions in recent years, but the commemorations on Tuesday were peaceful until the walkway collapsed.

The collapse happened during the so-called Tweireej run, when tens of thousands of pilgrims run toward the shrine of Imam Hussein.

That run symbolizes how maternal cousins of Hussein’s half brother ran more than a mile from the nearby village of Tweireej intending to rescue him, but found that he had already been killed.

Earlier in the day, Ashura processions were held amid beefed-up security in both Karbala and Baghdad, the capital. Hundreds of thousands of people marched through the streets, some beating their chests and lashing themselves with chains in a symbolic expression of grief and regret.

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New York Times - Bloody and Belittled Shiite Ritual Draws Historic Parallels

By Ben Hubbard

November 4, 2014

BAGHDAD — The blood oozing from the cuts in the top of Ali Rassoul’s head on Tuesday had crusted in streaks around his eyes and ears and soaked the front of his long, white gown.

But his wounds had nothing to do with the car bombs and urban battles that have torn Iraq apart. Instead, they were his way of commemorating a much older battle: that of Karbala, where in the year 680, the army of Yazid slaughtered Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, and cut off his head.

For many Iraqi Shiites who commemorated the death of Hussein on Tuesday in an event called Ashura, the current threat against their community from the extremists of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS, has profound historical parallels.

“This year Ashura is more important because of the threat against us from ISIS,” said Mr. Rassoul, who runs a woman’s shoe store and had a long dagger in a shiny scabbard hanging from his shoulder. “They have come to kill us, just like Yazid came to kill Hussein.”

Mr. Rassoul spoke from a street in the Kadhimiya district of northwest Baghdad, in front of an ornate mosque that houses the tomb of a martyred Shiite leader.

While millions of Shiites across the world observe Ashura, Kadhimiya is one place where a minority pays homage to Hussein through the contentious practice of self-cutting called tatbir.

As the sun rose, hundreds of mostly young men gathered in a street here dressed in white robes. While a few beat drums, the crowd chanted, “Haidar! Haidar!” invoking Hussein’s father, Ali. Some waved colored flags. Others carried long knives brought specifically for tatbir.

When the time came for the procession to start, Amer Matrouk, the leader of one group, drew his blade and the men, some of whom had shaved their heads, knelt before him so he could give them swift blows to their scalps, just enough to open the skin and start the bleeding.

“Not everyone knows how to do it,” said Mr. Matrouk, 63, who said he has been practicing tatbir since he was a child and had a row of straight scars on his scalp to show for it.

He rejected the idea that it could seriously hurt anyone.

“We have never had any accidents,” he said. “Sometimes there are those who are not very strong and they get dizzy from all the blood, but they are fine in the end.”

The practice of tatbir is debated among Shiites and many respected clerics have spoken against it. Some argue that it is a form of self-harm, which is religiously forbidden. Others have written it off as a folk practice, that may have seeped into Islam from Christian Passion plays about the crucifixion or from indigenous mourning rites that communities brought with them when they became Shiites.

Still others have argued that it makes Shiites look bad, which is reason enough to avoid it in a region where they are a minority and often looked on with suspicion by Sunnis.

“These practices used to be limited and no one paid attention to them, but they have started to spread and defame the image of the event in a huge way,” said Abbas Shams al-Din, a Shiite cleric and writer during an interview in his book-lined Baghdad home. “If you search for pictures on Google and type ‘Ashura’ or ‘Shia Muslim,’ you won’t see anything but blood. It’s terrible!”

Ayatollah Khomeini went on record against tatbir, and it has become punishable by law in Iran, although some still do it in secret.

Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah in Lebanon, too, has criticized it, and his movement has sought to channel the fervor in a more productive direction by holding Ashura blood drives. But other Shiite groups in Lebanon still do it.

And it persists in Iraq, where clerics who have spoken against it have faced popular criticism, Mr. Shams al-Din said.

“There are some who do not want to issue a fatwa because they know that people will do it anyway,” said Abbas Kadhim, a senior foreign policy fellow at Johns Hopkins University who has studied Shiite theology. “If you do this, you set them up to be sinners.”

But those arguments meant little to the hundreds of men marching in Kadhimiya, blood dripping from their heads, soaking their white robes and pooling in the street.

A woman who gave her name as Um Salah sat with two friends on the sidewalk, thumping her hand rhythmically on her chest as the procession passed.

“Yesterday, there were attacks and explosions, but we are still here,” she said, saying that the event showed the steadfastness of the community.

Two of her sons were serving in the Iraqi Army, she said. They never told her much about what they saw, other than calling to say they were fine and making progress “in the fight against the terrorists,” she said.

A short drive away at the Kadhimiya Blood Donation Center, an employee said that many people had come to donate.

“It can help the wounded person or the soldier,” the employee said, giving only his first name, Jassim.

But when a visitor observed that the clinic was deserted, he shrugged his shoulders and said, “People come.”

Others wish tatbir would go away.

“Why do they do it?” said Haidar Abu Yassir, a taxi driver, screwing up his face in disgust. “Did Hussein do that? No! He was cut into pieces!”

Mr. Abu Yasser said that he felt that donating was better than “letting all that blood drip off your head for nothing.”

But when asked if he knew anyone who had donated, he paused to consider the question.

“Nope,” he said. “They all want to do tatbir.”

Religious indoctrination is child abuse. The child abusers belong in prison.

This is something I wrote 6 years ago. It's about the Magic Man.

A good question to ask Christians retards who think their magic god fairy isn't a childish fantasy.

I never met a Christian who wasn't a fucking idiot. They are willing to believe any bullshit if it makes them feel good. They hide in their Dark Ages because reality makes them cry.

Christian fucktards, answer this question:

If the magical master of the universe (aka "God") dropped dead, would anyone notice it was missing?

Just when I thought Idiot America could not be more idiotic than it already is, I found this disgusting bullshit: "Creationists are in the classroom, and it’s not just the South. At least 25 percent of high school teachers in Minnesota explicitly teach creationism.”

This New York Times article was written in 2011 but America's denial of a basic scientific fact, evolution, is still a big problem today, or maybe worse because virtually everyone in Trump's cabinet is an evolution denier, aka god-soaked asshole for Jeebus.

New York Times - On Evolution, Biology Teachers Stray From Lesson Plan

By NICHOLAS BAKALAR

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Teaching creationism in public schools has consistently been ruled unconstitutional in federal courts, but according to a national survey of more than 900 public high school biology teachers, it continues to flourish in the nation’s classrooms.

Researchers found that only 28 percent of biology teachers consistently follow the recommendations of the National Research Council to describe straightforwardly the evidence for evolution and explain the ways in which it is a unifying theme in all of biology. At the other extreme, 13 percent explicitly advocate creationism, and spend at least an hour of class time presenting it in a positive light.

That leaves what the authors call “the cautious 60 percent,” who avoid controversy by endorsing neither evolution nor its unscientific alternatives. In various ways, they compromise.

The survey, published in the Jan. 28 issue of Science, found that some avoid intellectual commitment by explaining that they teach evolution only because state examinations require it, and that students do not need to “believe” in it. Others treat evolution as if it applied only on a molecular level, avoiding any discussion of the evolution of species. And a large number claim that students are free to choose evolution or creationism based on their own beliefs.

Eric Plutzer, a co-author of the paper, said that the most enthusiastic proponents of creationism were geographically widely spread across the country.

More high school students take biology than any other science course, the researchers write, and for about a quarter of them it will be the only science course they take. So the influence of these teachers looms large.

Randy Moore, a professor of biology at the University of Minnesota, was unsurprised by the study’s conclusions. “These kinds of data have been reported regionally, and in some cases nationally, for decades. Creationists are in the classroom, and it’s not just the South,” he said. “At least 25 percent of high school teachers in Minnesota explicitly teach creationism.”

“Students are being cheated out of a rich science education,” said Dr. Plutzer, a professor of political science at Penn State University. “We think the ‘cautious 60 percent’ represent a group of educators who, if they were better trained in science in general and in evolution in particular, would be more confident in their ability to explain controversial topics to their students, to parents, and to school board members.”

But Dr. Moore is doubtful that more education is the answer. “These courses aren’t reaching the creationists,” he said. “They already know what evolution is. They were biology majors, or former biology students. They just reject what we told them.

“With 15 to 20 percent of biology teachers teaching creationism,” he continued, “this is the biggest failure in science education. There’s no other field where teachers reject the foundations of their science like they do in biology.”

There is no cure for this Christian fucktard. He will be an uneducated moron for the rest of his pathetic know-nothing life.

"God is the Source of Truth and His words establish what the truth is."

The extreme stupid, it burns.

I have been a fan of Jane Goodall for a very long time so I'm putting this New York Times article in my blog for myself. It's about chimpanzees, our closest cousins, threatened with extinction.

One of the best comments:

As a biology instructor (first at the secondary level and now at university) I have always shown my students short clips of Jane's first movie, "Among the Wild Chimpanzees" by National Geographic.

I wish for students to see the incredible similarities between the chimps and us, including vocal calls and facial expressions, but also hugs and even kisses.

The best part of a clip I show is a large male sitting beside a path when a very young chimp comes up and gives him a hug. Then, the adult male pats the younger one on its back several times. Pretty hard not to see the likeness between species!

I enjoy so much spreading Jane's special knowledge of the Gombe chimps to as many students as I can.

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My favorite quote from the article:

Did working with chimps teach you anything about humans?

That we’ve been very arrogant in thinking that we’re so separate. Chimps turned out to be, not only behaviorally so like us, but also biologically like us, sharing 98.6 percent of DNA, similarities in immune system, blood composition, anatomy of the brain. We’re not, after all, separate from the animal kingdom. We’re part of it.

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New York Times - Jane Goodall Keeps Going, With a Lot of Hope (and a Bit of Whiskey)

During her girlhood, Tarzan was her role model. When she realized how chimpanzee habitats were being destroyed, she turned into a crusader. At 85, she’s still preaching.

By David Gelles

Published September 12, 2019

Jane Goodall nursed a glass of neat Irish whiskey. It was the end of a long day of public appearances, and her voice was giving out.

That’s what Ms. Goodall does these days. She talks. To anyone who will listen. To children, chief executives and politicians. Her message is always the same: The forests are disappearing. The animals are going quiet. We’re running out of time.

Ms. Goodall, the celebrated primatologist, was in New York as part of her ongoing efforts to raise money for her institute and its affiliates. The nonprofit organization raises money for conservation efforts across Africa, and works with local communities to promote economic self-sufficiency and improve public health. It’s proven to be an effective model for preserving chimpanzee habitats, yet Ms. Goodall is worried it’s not working fast enough.

“One million species are in danger of extinction,” she said.

Her faltering voice was the result of arduous travel and relentless campaigning. Yet her energy didn’t flag. For more than an hour, Ms. Goodall, 85, spoke about her family history, her unconventional career path and how business leaders — and consumers — can make a difference. This interview was condensed and edited for clarity.

Where’s home for you these days?

Mostly hotels and airplanes. But I’ve got a home in England. It’s that house I grew up in. It belonged to my grandmother, she left it to her three daughters and they left it to me and my sister. The condition is that if any of the family doesn’t want to inherit the house, it can’t just be sold. Everybody has to agree for it to be sold.

What did your parents do for work?

My father was an engineer. As soon as World War II was declared, he joined up and went to build Bailey bridges in Burma. My mum looked after us. For some reason, Pa wanted me and my sister to grow up learning French. So he hired a house in Le Touquet. We’d been there about three months and war broke out. So that was the end of learning French. I think we got the last civilian boat out.

What was your first job?

My very first job was with my aunt who was a physiotherapist. She had a clinic, and I would go there and take down the notes when the doctors were examining her patients. I learned a lot there about how lucky I was to be born healthy.

And I’m so glad I grew up in the war. Children today, they take everything for granted. We had two little squares of chocolate — that was our ration for a week. One egg. We used to get food parcels from Australia, and the only time we were allowed to eat any of them was when an air raid lasted longer than an hour. I can remember opening a tin of peach halves.

In the war, you learned to take nothing for granted. Even continuation of life. My father’s brother, Rex, joined the air force and he was killed. That was a big blow to Mom, because they really liked each other a lot. I sometimes think she’d rather have married him than my father. One day we were in Bournemouth in the evening and suddenly she screamed, “Rex!” and started sobbing hysterically. And it was the very moment he was shot down over Egypt.

The war clearly affected you quite deeply.

I remember seeing the pictures from the Holocaust, and that completely changed my whole understanding of humans. It was shocking, shocking. I remember climbing my favorite tree in the garden, a beech, and looking at these pictures and thinking, How could anybody do this?

But here again, my mother was clever. Of course we hated the Nazis, and thought everything to do with Germany was horrible and evil. But after the war, my father’s sister married someone who was sent out to be in control of the British sector of Germany. So Mom sent me off to live with a German family, because she wanted me to understand Germans weren’t evil, it was the regime.

When did you know you wanted to make working with chimpanzees your life’s work?

I don’t know that I thought of it quite like that. There was no thought of becoming a scientist, because girls weren’t scientists like that in those days. And actually, there weren’t really any men going out there, living in the wild. So my model was Tarzan. I saved up my pennies, and spent hours and hours in this little secondhand book shop, and had just enough to buy this little book, and that was when my dream began. I will grow up, go to Africa, live with wild animals and write books about them.

How did you make it happen against such long odds?

When I dreamed of Africa, everybody laughed at me at school. How would I do that? We didn’t have money. Africa was far away. It was the Dark Continent in those days, and I was just a girl. But my mom said, “If you really want this, you’re going to have to work really hard. Take advantage of every opportunity, and don’t give up.”

When you finally got into the field, how did you approach the work?

I didn’t have any academic training, and so I didn’t have this reductionist way of thinking. But fortunately I just applied common sense. I knew that to find out about the chimps, I would have to get their trust. And that took months. They ran away. They’re very conservative.

I came to understand how like us they are. I knew their different personalities, almost like members of my family. I’d seen them using tools and making tools, and it was clear they had emotions like happiness, sadness, fear. That they had a dark and brutal side, but also love, compassion, altruism.

Did working with chimps teach you anything about humans?

That we’ve been very arrogant in thinking that we’re so separate. Chimps turned out to be, not only behaviorally so like us, but also biologically like us, sharing 98.6 percent of DNA, similarities in immune system, blood composition, anatomy of the brain. We’re not, after all, separate from the animal kingdom. We’re part of it.

Did becoming an activist come naturally to you?

No, I was very shy. It happened because I helped organize this conference in 1986. The purpose was to find out if chimp behavior might differ in different environments, or is it so innately chimp that you find it everywhere.

But we also had a session on conservation. And in all of these sites, forests were going, chimp numbers were dropping. It was the beginning of the bush meat trade, of chimpanzees caught in wire snares, losing hands and feet. Poachers shooting mothers to steal babies to sell as pets overseas, or training for circuses. The human population was growing, moving deeper into the forest with their diseases, to which chimps are susceptible, but haven’t built up resistance.

We also had a session on how chimps are trained for the circus, medical research, labs. After seeing that secretly filmed footage from a medical research lab, I couldn’t sleep. I went to the conference as a scientist, and I left as an activist.

What have you found to be some effective strategies to promote conservation?

When we went to find out about the chimps’ problems in Gombe, Tanzania, we also learned about the suffering of the people — poverty, lack of health care and education. They needed to find ways that they could make a living without cutting down the last trees in their desperate effort to either grow food or make charcoal.

So we set up micro credit, based on the work of Muhammad Yunus, and we quickly saw the effect on the women. We then got money for scholarships to keep girls in school, during and after puberty. We started restoring fertility to the overused farmland, bringing in better health education and family planning information.

Now they love us, and they have agreed to put up a buffer zone between Gombe and the villages, and now they’re creating corridors for the Gombe isolated chimps to interact with other chimpanzee groups. And if you fly over Gombe today, there are no bare hills anymore.

What’s your message to business leaders today?

One million species are in danger of extinction. So what I say to the business community is: Just think logically. This planet has finite natural resources. And in some places, we’ve used them up faster than Mother Nature can replenish them. How can it make sense if we carry on in the way we are now, with business as usual, to have unlimited economic development on a planet with finite natural resources, and a growing population?

But consumers, at least if they’re not living in poverty, have an enormous role to play, too. If you don’t like the way the business does its business, don’t buy their products. This is beginning to create change. People should think about the consequences of the little choices they make each day. What do you buy? Where did it come from? Where was it made? Did it harm the environment? Did it lead to cruelty to animals? Was it cheap because of child slave labor? And it may cost you a little bit more to buy organic food, but if you pay a little bit more, you waste less. We waste so much. And eat less meat. Or no meat. Because the impact on the environment of heavy meat eating is horrible, not to mention the cruelty.

David Gelles is the Corner Office columnist and a business reporter. Follow him on LinkedIn and Twitter. @dgelles

Vladimir Putin is the President of Russia but it would be more accurate to call him the dictator of Russia.

Alexei Navalny, a Russian opposition leader whose organization the Anti-Corruption Fund was raided by Russian authorities on Thursday.

Wall Street Journal - Russia Raids Offices and Homes of Political Opposition

Coordinated strikes against nearly 200 homes and offices in 42 cities target Kremlin opponents.

By Thomas Grove

September 12, 2019

MOSCOW—Russian authorities raided the homes and offices of political opposition activists across the country Thursday, detaining some for interrogation, seizing electronics and blocking personal accounts in one of the biggest ever coordinated strikes against the Kremlin’s political opponents.

Nearly 200 homes and regional offices in 42 cities affiliated with opposition politician Alexei Navalny ’s Anti-Corruption Fund were searched, according to members of the organization and independent lawyers. The searches stemmed from an investigation by Russian authorities into alleged money laundering by the organization, those people said. Mr. Navalny’s group denies the charges, which some critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin call politically motivated.

Mr. Navalny has used the fund as a platform to expose the corruption of individual Russian government officials. The organization has crystallized into the closest thing Russia has to a coherent political opposition force across the country.

Following months of protests in Moscow against Mr. Putin’s tightly controlled political system, Mr. Navalny led calls earlier this month to topple politicians associated with the pro-Kremlin United Russia party in Sept. 8 local elections across the country. By and large, the strategy worked in Moscow, where Mr. Navalny tried to turn the vote into a referendum on Mr. Putin, cutting the number of United Russia’s seats in the 45-seat city council from 38 to 25.

Though the city council is relatively toothless, members of the Anti-Corruption Fund say it shows the vulnerability Mr. Putin and his political cronies face at the ballot box.

“The more powerful our actions, the stronger the reaction,” Mr. Navalny’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh wrote on Twitter Thursday. “We’ve never had such a massive strike against the Anti-Corruption Fund and our organization and regional headquarters…We won’t stop.”

Critics said the raids against Mr. Navalny’s followers and other opposition groups appear to also be a strike against those seen as instrumental in organizing the protest movement that erupted in July, slowly turning into the biggest public show of dissent against Mr. Putin for the past several years.

Mr. Navalny, who was regularly detained ahead of planned rallies, was in the group’s Moscow office on Thursday, trying to reach out to regional offices to determine the size of the raids, “though the telephones of many of our colleagues have been seized,” Ms. Yarmysh said.

Opposition activists said Russia’s Investigative Committee was responsible for the raids. The agency didn’t answer phone calls seeking comment.

In some cases, authorities also searched the homes of relatives of Anti-Corruption Fund members.

The parents of Alexander Smirnov, the deputy of Mr. Navalny’s headquarters in the city of Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow, were awakened at 6 a.m., when more than a dozen Russian police personnel stormed their house, taking away the family computer and their telephones, Mr. Smirnov wrote on Twitter.

He said he himself was then taken to court to face disorder charges for his participation in protests in Moscow last month. He wasn’t reachable for further comment.

The investigation against Mr. Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Fund not only strikes against the personnel who run the organization across the country, but also gives Russia’s top security agency, the Federal Security Service, with headquarters on Moscow’s Lubyanka Square, insights into how they are funded.

“If I was sitting on Lubyanka, I would want to know how they’re funded, how they get their money, who’s giving it to them,” said Mark Galeotti, senior associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. “That’s how you really bring them down.”

The deputy of Mr. Navalny’s headquarters in St. Petersburg said the personal bank accounts of members had been blocked. Other accounts have likewise been suspended, according to Ms. Yarmysh, the spokeswoman.

Other organizations unaffiliated with Mr. Navalny were also targeted, including the vote-monitoring group Golos, and a branch of regional ecological activists, said Pavel Chikov, a lawyer associated with the human rights group Agora, which has helped many of the hundreds of people detained for participating in recent protests.

Write to Thomas Grove at thomas.grove@wsj.com

BARBER Adagio for Strings - Detroit Symphony Orchestra - This beloved work has been used famously in films and public moments of mourning, and Leonard Slatkin led it earlier in 2016 with the DSO.

Agnus Dei (arr. Adagio for Strings) Samuel Barber (1910-1981) Rotterdam Symphony Chorus & Laurenscantorij Wiecher Mandemaker - conductor

Science has a long history of killing religious fantasies.

Somebody wrote this question and somebody else wrote an excellent answer:

"Why, when biblical stories like the six-day creation and the story of Jonah used to be taken literally do Christians now say with certainty, science contradicting things like that, that they're allegorical?"

As science has continued to show that literal religious claims are wrong, the religious have two choices: Abandon their idiotic and factless delusions, or weasel into a position of claiming that 'it's not literal', as if that is in any way better. How does one work out what is allegorical and what isn't?

"It is difficult to free [slaves] from the chains they revere."

– Voltaire

I answered a question about reality.

"Are you scared of Death?"

There is no reason to be afraid of it. It's reality. Sometimes reality sucks but that's the way it is. Everyone has to drop dead. And by the way, there is no 2nd life. That's not reality.

I plan to drop dead at age 110. At that age, I'm not going to be concerned about it.

I found this quote a long time ago. It's about the religious implications of evolution.

Evolution, ruining the fantasies of retards since 1859.

What I wrote at the Wall Street Journal about the special substance.

"Inside his Carpinteria greenhouses, there is a four-acre green sea of cannabis plants."

Sounds like heaven to me.

In Illinois where I live, the special substance will be legal on January 1, 2020. I might buy a marijuana edible. Smoking is wrong.

Back in the 20th century I never imagined America would grow up and stop their ridiculous war against a plant.

What I wrote at the Wall Street Journal's 'Houses of Worship" also known as "Houses of extreme stupidity." What I wrote will make cowardly morons cry.

"We gave him 10% of our income—which he used to buy a Jaguar, snakeskin boots and a house on the Rio Grande."

How is this any different from the Catholic Church and every other branch of Christianity?

Religion is a business. The customers are suckers. They sell the ridiculous magical-2nd-life fantasy. Cowards buy it.

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UPDATE:

The Wall Street Journal vaporized my comment. I probably made a stupid fucking asshole cry. Or perhaps the Wall Street Journal is infested with assholes who love censorship.

Christianity is bullshit and that's why censorship is required to defend it.

I never met a Christian who wasn't a stupid fucking asshole.

I'm adding this to my list of favorite quotes. It's about the cowardly god-soaked morons who are afraid of reality.

All believers are in one way or another afraid of reality, facts, truth. That's why they choose to believe instead of choosing to know.

-- Red Fox

What I wrote and what someone else wrote about how the Democrats can win or lose the 2020 election.

What I wrote:

It would be a disaster for the entire planet if Trump wins again.

There is a lot of good advice in this article which I agree with.

Also, to make sure Trump loses, please don't nominate extremists like Senator Sanders and Senator Warren.

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What someone else wrote which was well done:

I am a Republican and believe Axelrod makes many good points. Trump is his own worst enemy. If the Dems offer up any reasonable candidate they will win hands down. However, if they select Sanders or Warren they will lose. Both are running to completely remake the US economy and neither has run even a lemonade stand. Trump may be vile but his policies are pretty much status quo. I’ll choose the devil I know over the devil I don’t.

I answered a question about Christian fucktards.

"If all mentions of punishment were removed from the Bible, would Christianity still work? Or is punishment too fundamental to be taken out?"

Maybe or maybe not. However, if the ridiculous heaven fantasy was not in the bible, there would be no Christians. The childish heaven fantasy is what cowards want and that's what both Christianity and Islam offer.

Theists and agnostics are insane, not to mention just plain fucking stupid.

"How come religious people are so crazy and spiteful?"

The spiteful thing I don't care about.

Anyone who still thinks a magic god fairy is real is totally insane. This the 21st century FFS. There is no excuse for being so stupid, insane, and cowardly.

Anyone who is not a hardcore atheist (100% certain magic god fairies and Easter Bunnies are not real) is totally insane.

One more thing: If you're an agnostic you are insane. Grow up and make a decision you fucking retard.

Variations On A Theme From Pachelbel's Canon In D Major

Hong Kong in 2013.

Idiot America's Christian assholes want to make this country a theocracy. If they were successful there would be a civil war and the Christian fucktards would be killed.

"Should the separation of church and state be abolished?"

In other words, should we throw out America's Bill of Rights?

Fuck no. If you Christian assholes try to make America a theocracy you will be killed.

I answered a good question about Idiot America.

"Do only Christians get elected in the U.S.?"

In Idiot America our politicians, if they are normal (aka atheist), have to pretend they are god-soaked if they want to win an election. That's how President Obama got the job. His mother was an atheist so most likely Obama is an atheist.

President Fucktard Trump was never interested in religion until he decided to get the president job. He went out of his way to suck up to Christian scum to get their votes.

Another interesting fact: The Vice-President of the United States is a know-nothing god-soaked evolution denier as is most of Trump's cabinet. I'm not making this up. This is Idiot America.

Muslim fucktards like to blow themselves up but that's not their only problem.

Muslims are uneducated morons. They know nothing about science. Evolution by natural selection makes them cry. Muslims have been brainwashed to believe their imaginary Allah magically created the human species out of nothing.

Christian fucktards have the same problem. However some Christians accept evolution if they can make the Magic Jeebus Man one its mechanisms. They call their moronic fantasy "theistic evolution" and that's bullshit.

The Muslims never accept the ridiculous theistic evolution bullshit. They all totally reject evolution. To make sure Muslims will always be know-nothing science deniers, the Muslim theocracies do not allow the teaching of evolution. So Muslims never learn anything unless they look things up.

The good news is some Muslims did look things up and what they found (evolution is the strongest fact of science) made them realize Islam's most important fantasy (magical creationism) is bullshit and therefore Islam is bullshit. So they throw out Islam and always they replace Islam with reality, aka atheism. They don't join some other moronic religious cult. Instead, they become normal people, aka atheists. And this is a good thing.

Muslims are scum but ex-Muslims have my total respect. They are risking their lives because they know their own relatives would kill them if they throw out Islam.

In Idiot America we have a Christian war against science education. Muslim theocracies have the same problem. Fortunately, people can look things up and then realize Allah is not real.

Ground Zero 9/11 memorial

America's Christian fucktards are part of the religious violence problem.

Why do cowardly Muslim morons blow themselves up every day? The idea is if they kill lots of women and children for Allah, then they will have a magical 2nd life in a magical paradise for lunatics after their bodies are in a thousand pieces. Not to worry because Allah will magically put them back together again.

Of course this is bullshit. Dead people don't go anywhere after they drop dead because they're fucking dead.

Our cowardly Christians didn't get the memo. They agree with the terrorists. They believe in the exact same magical heaven fantasy.

I looked it up. 72% of Americans are 100% certain they will have a magical 2nd life.

How do we tell the Muslim morons there is no heaven if American Christians believe the same bullshit? The way it is now the Muslims think they are normal because even Americans believe in the heaven thing.

In a world without the heaven fantasy, there would be no more suicide bombings and those 3,000 dead Americans would still be alive today. And we would not have to waste more lives and more money for these idiotic religious wars that never end.

On September 10, 2001, the day before the genocide, America was not at war with anyone. There were no problems at all. Now we will continue these never-ending religious wars, all thanks to the ridiculous heaven fantasy the American Christians share with terrorists.

One more thing: I never met a Christian who wasn't a stupid fucking asshole.

Thousands of Muslims cheered the attack in those parts of Israel under the control of the Islamic terrorists of the Palestinian Authority. They shouted, “Allahu Akbar” and handed out candy.

EVERYTHING I NEEDED TO KNOW ABOUT ISLAM I LEARNED ON 9/11

How September 11 made me what I am.

September 11, 2017
Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical left and Islamic terrorism.

“In the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, the Most Compassionate,” a terrorist declares on the Flight 93 cockpit recording. That’s followed by the sounds of the terrorists assaulting a passenger.

“Please don’t hurt me,” he pleads. “Oh God.”

As the passengers rush the cabin, a Muslim terrorist proclaims, “In the name of Allah.”

As New York firefighters struggle up the South Tower with 100 pounds of equipment on their backs trying to save lives until the very last moment, the Flight 93 passengers push toward the cockpit. The Islamic hijackers call out, “Allahu Akbar.” The Islamic supremacist term originated with Mohammed’s massacre of the Jews of Khaybar and means that Allah is greater than the gods of non-Muslims.

Mohammed Atta had advised his fellow terrorists that when the fighting begins, “Shout, 'Allahu Akbar,' because this strikes fear in the hearts of the non-believers.” He quoted the Koran’s command that Muslim holy warriors terrorize non-believers by beheading them and urged them to follow Mohammed’s approach, “Take prisoners and kill them.”

The 9/11 ringleader quoted the Koran again. “No prophet should have prisoners until he has soaked the land with blood.”

On Flight 93, the fighting goes on. “Oh Allah. Oh the most Gracious,” the Islamic terrorists cry out. “Trust in Allah,” they reassure. And then there are only the chants of, “Allahu Akbar” as the plane goes down in a Pennsylvania field leaving behind another blood-soaked territory in the Islamic invasion of America.

Today that field is marked by the “Crescent of Embrace” memorial.

Thousands of Muslims cheered the attack in those parts of Israel under the control of the Islamic terrorists of the Palestinian Authority. They shouted, “Allahu Akbar” and handed out candy.

But similar ugly outbreaks of Islamic Supremacism were also taking place much closer to home.

On John F. Kennedy Boulevard, in Jersey City, across the river from Manhattan, crowds of Muslim settlers celebrated the slaughter of Americans. "Some men were dancing, some held kids on their shoulders," a retired Jersey City cop described the scene. "The women were shouting in Arabic."

Similar Islamic festivities broke out on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a major Islamic settlement area, even as in downtown Manhattan, ash had turned nearby streets into the semblance of a nuclear war. Men and women trudged over Brooklyn Bridge or uptown to get away from this strange new world.

Many just walked. They didn’t know where they were going. I was one of them.

That Tuesday was a long and terrible education. In those hours, millions of Americans were being educated about many things: what happens when jet planes collide with skyscrapers, how brave men can reach the 78th floor with 100 pounds of equipment strapped to their backs and what are the odds are of finding anyone alive underneath the rubble of a falling tower. They were learning about a formerly obscure group named Al Qaeda and its boss. But they were also being educated about Islam.

Islamic terrorism was once something that happened “over there.” You saw it on the covers of Time or Newsweek back when those were staples of checkout counters and medical offices. But even after the World Trade Center bombing, it wasn’t truly “over here.” But now it was. The war was here.

Each generation is born into history out of a moment of crisis. We are defined by our struggles. By the wars we fight and do not fight. On a Tuesday morning in September, my generation was born into history.

Some of us were born into it better than others.

At Union Square, I passed NYU students painting anti-war placards even as the downtown sky behind them was painted the color of bone. They ignored the crowd streaming up past them and focused intently on making all the red letters in NO WAR line up neatly on the white cardboard.

In the years since, I have seen that look on the faces of countless leftists who ignore the stabbers shouting, “Allahu Akbar” in London or the terrorist declaring, "In the name of Allah, the merciful," among the bloody ruin of a gay nightclub in Orlando. Instead they focus on their mindless slogans.

“NO WAR,” “Stop Islamophobia” and “Refugees Welcome.” The world of the cardboard sign and the simple slogan is an easier and neater one than a sky filled with the ashes of the dead.

On September 11, some of us opened our eyes. Others closed them as hard as they could.

That Tuesday irrevocably divided my generation. Some joined the military, the police or became analysts. Others turned left-wing activists, volunteered as lawyers for terrorists or converted to Islam.

The passengers on Flight 93 who took the lead were in their thirties. But the two firefighters who made it to the 78th floor of the South Tower, Ronald Bucca, who did duty in Vietnam as a Green Beret, and Orio Palmer, a marathon runner, were in their forties. Those men and women had the most meaningful answers to the old question, “Where were you when it happened?”

I was just one of countless people moving upstream away from Ground Zero.

The great lesson of that Tuesday morning was that it wasn’t over. It wasn’t over when we understood that we wouldn’t find anyone alive in that twisted mass of metal and death. It wasn’t over when the air began to clear. It wasn’t over when the President of the United States spoke. It wasn’t over when the planes began to fly again and the TV switched from non-stop coverage of the attacks and back to its regularly scheduled programming. It wasn’t over when we were told to mourn and move on.

It still isn’t over.

After every attack, Boston, Orlando, San Bernardino, New York, Paris, Manchester, London, Barcelona, we are encouraged to mourn and move on. Bury the bodies, shed a tear and forget about it.

Terrible things happen. And we have to learn to accept them.

But Tuesday morning was not a random catastrophe. It did not go away because we went back to shopping. It did not go away with Hope and Change. Appeasing and forgetting only made it stronger.

Everything I needed to know about Islam, I learned on September 11. The details of the theology came later. I couldn’t quote the Koran while the sirens were wailing. But I learned the essential truth.

And so did you.

“Where were you?” is not just a question to be asked about September 11, 2001. It is an everyday question. What are you doing today to fight the Islamic terrorists who did this? And tomorrow?

I found my answer through my writing. Others have made a more direct contribution.

But it’s important that we keep asking ourselves that question.

The 9/11 hijackers, the members of Al Qaeda, of ISIS, of the Muslim Brotherhood and the entire vast global terror network, its supporters and fellow travelers asked themselves that question every day.

They are still asking it.

From the Iranian nuclear program to the swarm of Muslim Brotherhood organizations in America, from the Muslim migrant surge into Germany to the sex grooming gangs of the UK, they have their answers.

Our enemies wake up every day wondering how to destroy us. Their methods, from demographic invasion to WMDs, from political subversion to random stabbings, are many.

A new and terrible era in history began on 9/11. We are no more past it than we were past Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway. Its origins are no mystery. They lie in the last sound that came from Flight 93.

“Allahu Akbar.”

We are in the middle of the longest war in American history. And we still haven’t learned how to fight it.

September 11 has come around again. You don’t have to run into a burning building or wrestle terrorists with your bare hands. But use the day to warn others, so you can answer, “Where were you?”

A comment someone wrote at the Wall Street Journal about the stupid fucking assholes who attacked America.

We were visiting family in another state and watched on the TV in our hotel room the horrible events unfolding. Our return air tickets were for the next day or two and of course all aircraft were grounded. We rented a car from Hertz who waived all one-way drop-off fees and drove the thousand miles back home. Words can't describe the weirdness of being in a large airport with zero air traffic.

Never forget what happened America.

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18 years ago.

When I turned on the TV there was only one tower left standing. Then, as it happened, I watched the 2nd tower cave into itself. I watched Muslims murder more than 1,000 Americans as it happened.

Cowardly Muslim assholes murdered about 3,000 Americans that day. For the next several days there were no planes in the sky except for warplanes.

The Muslim assholes took over 4 planes that day. Two planes attacked New York City, one plane crashed into the Pentagon, a 4th plane was going to destroy the White House but the plane crashed when the passengers were trying to kill the cowardly Muslims.

Every day since this genocide on September 11, 2001, Muslims have been blowing themselves up.

Muslims are scum. Every Muslim is an asshole. If they had any sense of decency they would have thrown out their violent disgusting cult a long time ago.

Get off my planet you stupid fucking assholes.

One more thing: The only people who are worse than Muslim fucktards are the stupid fucking assholes who suck up to them. If you're one those liberal fucktards, get off my planet you fucking moron.