This creature is of course called the Blue-footed booby.

Wikipedia - Everything you always wanted to know about the Blue-footed booby.

The blue-footed booby is a marine bird native to subtropical and tropical regions of the eastern Pacific Ocean. It is one of six species of the genus Sula – known as boobies. It is easily recognizable by its distinctive bright blue feet, which is a sexually selected trait. Males display their feet in an elaborate mating ritual by lifting them up and down while strutting before the female. The female is slightly larger than the male and can measure up to 90 cm (35 in) long with a wingspan of up to 1.5 m (5 ft).

Richard Dawkins did something right. For numerous victims of religious brainwashing he fixed their problem.

Richard Dawkins has a website called "Converts Corner" which I found thanks to Jerry Coyne's website where he wrote this:

"I’d disagree with the general statement that science skepticism can’t be remedied by science education. It’s true, for instance, that teaching people about evolution, as I did in my book WEIT, can’t make most Americans accept purely naturalistic evolution (only about 20% do). But it can change some minds. I have emails to this effect, and of course Richard Dawkins has many more testimonies on his “Converts Corner” (see here; there are 159 pages!) about how his evolution books 'converted' people not just to Darwinism, but deconverted them from religion."

I recommend looking at the 159 pages of Converts Corner. These are from people who used to be extremely god-soaked (aka insane) and now they are hardcore atheists (aka normal). It's thanks to Mr. Dawkin's books about evolution and his book "The God Delusion". Evolution kills religious stupidity.

An example:

I was a born again, bible believing fundamentalist christian for over 20 years. I began questioning what I believed around five years ago as I learned more about science and philosophy. I first read the blind watchmaker and it shattered my belief in creationism. Later I read the god delusion and since then, I came out and declared myself an atheist. Thank you Dr. Dawkins for opening my eyes to reality, my life is so much better now that I don’t have to fear bronze age mythology.

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If Christian fucktards ever learned how to study science, especially evolution, they would learn how to grow up and face facts. Christians are Christians because they go out of their way to know nothing. It's a stupidity problem. No curiosity, no desire to understand how the world works. Almost always the stupid can't be fixed but some of these victims of religious brainwashing did fix their problem. They have my respect.

Trump wants a trade war against China which I think is a stupid idea. However this comment somebody wrote at the Wall Street Journal is interesting and maybe he's right.

Been to China and did business there for many years. You guys don’t get it, they are ruthless (which I actually respect). They know they have taken advantage of the West for many years, they laugh at our stupidity. They will raise heck and then cut a deal.

Call Trump an idiot, anything you want that makes you feel better. He is a business man and understands what will make China change far more than any traditional politician. They need us more than we need them. Their political stability is based on a growing economy.

Wall Street Journal - U.S. Moves to Finalize Tariffs, Investment Restrictions on China. Final list of tariffs on $50 billion in imports will be released by June 15.

Somebody else wrote this well done question for Christian fucktards. I never met a Christian who wasn't a fucking moron.

How does God win in the end?

Even according to the fairy tale, very few souls, and that includes from the very large amount of souls who truly believe, go to Heaven. Satan wins far more souls.

So how does God win, exactly?

What does the end days do to change anything, besides signal the end of the game?

It's often depicted as a godless time, but how is that any different than any other time? All gods exist exactly the same, as if they don't exist, so how is a specific godless era any different?

Or do they mean it will be a religiousless time? But what does that matter when religion doesn't instill good morals, only obedience to a set of rules that often promote immoral hatred and bigotry toward others for no good reason? Religious people with good morals would be good people with or without religion, they are not good *because of* it.

I'm digressing. So how does God win in the end? How is it considered a win, exactly?

Update: The X-Men aren't real either, but we can understand clearly how they win in their fictional stories.

I'm not seeing how we can consider it a win for the God character in that fictional story.

Update 2: "We choose heaven or hell by our own deeds"

This question isn't about who's responsible for us going to Hell. Please reread the question.

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If you're interested in extreme Christian stupid then I suggest click this.

Christians like to make assertions. Evidence is never provided.

Christians are Christians because they're cowards. Reality makes them cry.

Christians have numerous other problems. They're gullible, willing to believe any bullshit that makes them feel good.

In Idiot America most Christians are evolution deniers. Science makes them cry. The Christians who accept evolution are admitting their dead Magic Jeebus Man was an uneducated moron, aka creationist, but they don't want to talk about that.

Christians are assholes. They can't mind their own fucking business. They have to stick their nose into other people's private lives.

Also Christian assholes are constantly telling biology teachers how to do their jobs. In Idiot America there is a never ending war against science education, especially evolution.

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

JUDY COLLINS ~ Tomorrow Is A Long Time

"Tomorrow Is a Long Time" is a song written and recorded by Bob Dylan.

If today was not an endless highway
If tonight was not a crooked trail
If tomorrow wasn’t such a long time
Then lonesome would mean nothing to you at all
Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin’
Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin’
Only if she was lyin’ by me
Then I’d lie in my bed once again

I can’t see my reflection in the waters
I can’t speak the sounds that show no pain
I can’t hear the echo of my footsteps
Or can’t remember the sound of my own name
Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin’
Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin’
Only if she was lyin’ by me
Then I’d lie in my bed once again

There’s beauty in the silver, singin’ river
There’s beauty in the sunrise in the sky
But none of these and nothing else can touch the beauty
That I remember in my true love’s eyes
Yes, and only if my own true love was waitin’
Yes, and if I could hear her heart a-softly poundin’
Only if she was lyin’ by me
Then I’d lie in my bed once again

The religion of peace.

Jihad Report  May 19, 2018 - May 25, 2018 Attacks 36 Killed 157 Injured 153 Suicide Blasts 5 Countries 12

Numerous atheists disgrace atheism. They don't even know what a real atheist is.

A wimpy fake atheist wrote "Atheism is lack of belief in God or gods."

Do you have a lack of belief in the Easter Bunny? Lack of belief is for wimps. I'm 100% certain magic god fairies and Easter Bunnies are not real.

Theists are fucking morons. Agnostics are fucking morons. Atheist wimps are fucking morons.

Anyone who isn't 100% certain magical beings are not real is a fucking moron.

Wikipedia - List of school massacres by death toll

For people who are interested in stupid fucking assholes, wikipedia has a list of 120 school massacres with 120 links for all of them including atrocities in the United States and other countries.

Wikipedia - List of school massacres by death toll

Evolution makes Idiot America cry.

The stupidity of Americans is breathtaking. Some anti-science bullshit from a professional asshole for the Magic Jeebus Man. The uneducated moron calls evolution (aka the strongest fact of science) a religion. And he thinks his childish magical creationism fantasy is science. There are some people who need to be locked up and forced to wear straightjackets.

Church News: May 26, 2018

Creationism trip with Russ Miller — Miller is the only full-time creation science speaker in Arizona and is now in his 18th year. His web site is: www.creationministries.org.

As well as speaking at churches, camps and conferences, Russ Miller shares this information on all day creation tours of the Grand Canyon, where he shows proof that the global flood created the Grand Canyon in only days, and not the millions of years, as we are told. He shows where the strata layers that have been deposited by the global flood meets the creation rock, or where judgment meets creation as he likes to say.

This trip is the best way to learn creation science and be able to defend your faith against the religion of evolution as taught in government schools. There is a trip leaving from Prescott at 8 a.m. and returning at 7 p.m. Saturday, May 26, and another one on Sept. 8. To get more info on these trips or to sign up, contact David McNabb at 928-771-1218 or mcnabbprescott@aol.com.

The Catholic Church business is losing customers in civilized countries so the man with the funny hat and expensive dress has been selling his disgusting cult in developing countries. Poverty is the pope's friend.

New York Times - Pope Looks South as Ireland Joins Sprint From Catholic Fold

By JASON HOROWITZ

Pope Francis seems resigned that a devout and Catholic Europe has largely slipped into the past, and Ireland is clearly part of the trend after its vote to repeal an abortion ban. Instead of sounding alarms, Francis has shifted his focus to the global South.

A Wall Street Journal article: Remember the Age of Paper Ballots? It’s Back. To maintain election integrity, local governments are looking to the past to make sure the future is secure.

A comment I wrote:

"In an era rife with concerns about cybersecurity, election officials are increasingly turning to a decidedly low-tech solution: paper."

Eventually the only way to vote for all elections in America will be from the internet. What we are doing now is primitive. For example this paper thing, it doesn't belong in the 21st century.

Religion contributes nothing to human progress. It just gets in the way.

This is from "Why Evolution Is True" by Jerry Coyne:

Supernatural explanations always mean the end of inquiry: that's the way God wants it, end of story. Science, on the other hand, is never satisfied: our studies of the universe will continue until humans go extinct.

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This blog has 190 posts about Jerry Coyne at Jerry Coyne.

When I get bored I answer stupid questions at Yahoo.

"Why do people believe in God?"

A list of reasons:

They're gullible.

They like to believe stuff that makes them feel good.

They were brainwashed.

They know nothing about science so they say god-did-it.

Mostly it's a stupidity problem. Extreme stupidity.

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"How do you make sense of the world when there is no god, there's no objective meaning, morality doesn't exist and life is so mundane?"

Life is what people make it. A magic god fairy is not required.

The morality thing: Anyone with a brain can figure out it's in everyone's best interest to be civilized. The Magic Man is not required.

There is no magic in the universe therefore a magic god fairy is impossible. This is a basic fact of reality.

Worm food

2018 was not a good year for some people in Parkland, Florida which is 8 miles from where I live.

In Parkland on February 14, 2018 a stupid fucking asshole murdered students and teachers. Seventeen people – fourteen students and three staff members – were fatally shot and seventeen others were wounded, making the shooting one of the deadliest school massacres.

In Parkland on May 17, 2018 the universe killed a young woman. During a thunderstorm she was struck by lightning.

None of these people could have predicted they would be worm food at a young age, never to exist again.

Meanwhile in my Florida town a 16 year old moron was killed on May 12, 2018 during the night. His stupidity killed him. He wanted to cross the street to get to the other side so he walked in front of a car. The driver could not stop in time.

"Some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference."
-- Richard Dawkins

My favorite spider

Wikipedia - Golden silk orb-weaver

The golden silk orb-weavers (Nephila) are a genus of araneomorph spiders noted for the impressive webs they weave. Nephila consists of numerous species found in warmer regions around the world. They are also commonly called golden orb-weavers, giant wood spiders, or banana spiders.

golden silk orb-weavers AKA Nephila

Tomorrow, Monday May 28, 2018, is Memorial Day in America. Fanfare for the Common Man, New York Philharmonic, James Levine

Wikipedia - Fanfare for the Common Man

Aaron Copland, in his autobiography, wrote of the request: "Eugene Goossens, conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, had written to me at the end of August about an idea he wanted to put into action for the 1942-43 concert season. During World War I he had asked British composers for a fanfare to begin each orchestral concert. It had been so successful that he thought to repeat the procedure in World War II with American composers". A total of 18 fanfares were written at Goossens' behest, but Copland's is the only one which remains in the standard repertoire.

It was written in response to the US entry into World War II and was inspired in part by a famous 1942 speech where vice president Henry A. Wallace proclaimed the dawning of the "Century of the Common Man".

"Banana eel fish" looks identical to a banana.

The fucking Christian idiots of Idiot America in Arizona have, as expected, dumbed down science education. Evolution makes American morons cry.

I never met a Christian who wasn't a stupid fucking asshole. To defend their primitive anti-science cult they try to destroy education for all students, including students who might actually want to learn something about how the world works.

Drop dead Christian scum.

Here is the news from Jerry Coyne's website. I suggest click the link to see the whole thing.

Evolution largely omitted and diluted from Arizona’s new education standards

Arizona has revised its educational standards for the first time in 15 years: these guidelines cover kindergarten through grade 12 (age about 18), and they’ve watered down the evolution standards, deleting several mentions of the “e-word” and severely qualifying others. You can see the reports below, at The Hill (click on screenshot), at the Arizona Republic, or at The Scientist.

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I'm adding this to my list of favorite quotes:

Here Douglas is duplicitously impugning the entire theory of evolution by lying: by implying that “evolution has been an ongoing debate”, meaning “whether evolution is true.” This woman does not belong on any committee having to do with education, as she’s a lying weasel, and I don’t say that lightly.
-- Jerry Coyne

The cowardly Mullahs in Iran are afraid of women. ‘Iranian police announced that “bad hijab” had led to 3.6 million cases of police intervention, more than any other type of crime. Then they stopped releasing figures.’

Wall Street Journal - The Mullahs’ Biggest Fear: Iranian Women

Protesters removing their headscarves in unprecedented acts of civil disobedience are fostering a crisis of self-confidence for the regime.

By Masih Alinejad May 25, 2018 141 COMMENTS

With the U.S. pullout from the nuclear deal, Iran will soon face renewed economic sanctions, compounding a crisis that has seen its currency go into freefall. On top of that, the Trump administration has signaled its readiness for political and perhaps even military confrontation with the Islamic Republic. These are very real pressures, but I would argue that they don’t threaten the ruling mullahs nearly as much as a growing domestic development: the prospect of unveiled Iranian women.

The Islamic Republic’s key vulnerability has always been its oppression of women. Since coming to power in 1979, the theocracy has imposed compulsory hijab laws, requiring women to securely wrap their heads in scarves in public. Over the past four years, however, with little help or notice from Western powers pressing the regime on other fronts, Iranian women have countered the most visible symbol of clerical rule. They have begun to remove their headscarves in unprecedented acts of civil disobedience, fostering a crisis of self-confidence for the regime.

I was a two-year-old in the northern Iranian village of Ghomikola when the Islamic Republic was formed after the overthrow of the Shah in 1979. Like every girl, I had to start wearing a headscarf at age seven. Iranian women cannot be judges or members of the council that vets laws, cannot travel abroad or seek divorce without their husband’s permission, and cannot attend sports events. In my own divorce, I lost custody of my son because the law favors men. Only Saudi Arabia is as restrictive, and it is loosening some of its rules.

In 2002, I became a journalist writing for reformist publications, but I was always aware that my hair was held hostage by the Islamic Republic. One day, wearing my hijab while in conversation with two members of Iran’s parliament, I was approached by a conservative lawmaker who immediately warned, “First, cover your hair or I’m going to punch you.” A few wisps had flown loose.

In 2009, I had to flee my homeland to avoid being arrested amid political tensions. Five years later, I began the online campaign “My Stealthy Freedom” from London and then New York, urging Iranian women to post images on my Facebook page of themselves removing their hijabs. Hardline newspapers predicted the movement’s speedy demise, but thousands of women sent me images of their quiet rebellion. Last year, we launched White Wednesdays as a weekly street demonstration in which women either publicly take off white headscarves or wear the color in solidarity.

The activism is clearly upsetting the regime. In 2014, when our movement began, Iranian police announced that “bad hijab” had led to 3.6 million cases of police intervention, more than any other type of crime; they then stopped releasing figures. The next year, according to an analysis by a University of Tehran professor, the government spent the equivalent of hundreds of millions of dollars to promote compulsory hijab, using state-owned media, billboards and leaflets. In 2016, the regime said it was deploying 7,000 undercover morality police in Tehran to enforce hijab laws.

But the propaganda and crackdowns have failed to stem the opposition. In 2016, we got men to join in by sending photos of themselves standing by women who had shed their headscarves. This February, Iranian police arrested 29 activists in one day for their involvement in White Wednesday, but the demonstrations continue. In April, a female university student in Tehran was slapped by a morality police officer for letting her hair show through a loosely wrapped hijab; the ensuing struggle was captured on a mobile phone and went viral. Three government officials, including the minister of the interior, apologized for the attack, but the officers involved were then promoted.

As police increasingly harass women wearing white, we have asked women to shoot video of these interactions; think of it as an Iranian version of the #MeToo movement. It has already led to one change: Security officers have threatened to arrest any protesters wielding mobile phones.

On International Women’s day on March 8, Iran’s Supreme Leader launched a tirade against women who challenge the hijab laws, and he blamed the West: Iran’s enemies, he said, had worked to promote the protest so that “a few girls would be deceived and take their scarves off.”

Women used to merely fear the Islamic Republic; now the Islamic Republic fears its own women. We want women to have the same rights as men in Iran. Perhaps we can manage to elect a woman president before the United States does. That is the regime change we want.

—Ms. Alinejad is the author of “The Wind in My Hair: My Fight for Freedom in Modern Iran,” published by Little, Brown.

Appeared in the May 26, 2018, print edition as 'The Mullahs’ biggest fear? Iran’s Women.'

Women wearing headscarves pass on the street in Tehran; allowing some hair to show could put them afoul of the compulsory hijab laws that can lead to fines or arrest.

Tehran-based Shaparak Shajarizadeh, arrested twice for taking off her headscarf, contributed this photo to the White Wednesdays campaign earlier this year.

I always thought this was true: "Meanwhile, on Thursday Australia and the Netherlands formally named Russia as the culprit that downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, killing 298 innocents in 2014. Investigators from Australia, Belgium, Ukraine, Malaysia and the Netherlands—which lost the majority of people in the shootdown—said they’re 'convinced' based on 'extensive comparative research' that the Buk missile used to down MH-17 originated from a Russian Army anti-aircraft brigade in Kursk, Russia."

Wall Street Journal - A Crackdown on Russian Money

British MPs call for sanctioning Putin’s oligarchs in London.

By The Editorial Board May 25, 2018 39 COMMENTS

Vladimir Putin is often portrayed in the press as a wily manipulator who always gets his way, but lately the Kremlin’s schemes are backfiring. His meddling in the 2016 U.S. election has created a bipartisan American backlash, and the March attack with a nerve agent in Salisbury, England, is now producing a cross-party British call for a crackdown on Russian money sheltering in London.

On Monday an 11-member committee of the House of Commons issued a report that must have Russian oligarchs worried about where they can safely put their money. The report—“Moscow’s Gold: Russian Corruption in the UK”—pulls back the political veil about the extent that London has become a safe haven for the loot Mr. Putin’s billionaire cronies have taken out of Moscow.

As the report notes, “The contemporary oligarchs owe their wealth to the President and act, in exchange, as a source of private finance for the Kremlin.” In April the Trump Administration sanctioned several in Mr. Putin’s inner circle, including industrial tycoon Oleg Deripaska, for exactly this reason. But the U.K. government has long been more circumspect, perhaps because of the many Londoners who benefit from Russian business.

Maybe not anymore. The report notes that the government “responded robustly” to the nerve-agent attack on former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in March. “But despite the strong rhetoric, President Putin and his allies have been able to continue ‘business as usual’ by hiding and laundering their corrupt assets in London,” the committee writes. The Kremlin can then call on that money “at any time” to “support President Putin’s campaign to subvert the international rules-based system.”

This is welcome candor, not least because it comes from MPs in the Tory, Labour and Scottish National parties led by Tory MP Tom Tugendhat. Theresa May’s government recently declined to renew Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich’s visa. But the MPs want to do more, noting that “the size of London’s financial markets and their importance to Russian investors gives the UK considerable leverage over the Kremlin.”

They suggest tightening financial regulation to prevent sanctioned companies from raising funds in London, creating an ownership registry for overseas companies investing in Britain, tackling money laundering in British territories, and publishing a list of Russian human-rights violators, among other measures.

Perhaps most significant, they recommend that the U.K. “sanction more Kremlin-connected individuals” under the authority in the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Bill that passed Parliament this week. The law is a broad national-security tool and can also serve as a British version of the U.S. Magnitsky Act that has allowed the U.S. Treasury to sanction Kremlin oligarchs.

Meanwhile, on Thursday Australia and the Netherlands formally named Russia as the culprit that downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, killing 298 innocents in 2014. Investigators from Australia, Belgium, Ukraine, Malaysia and the Netherlands—which lost the majority of people in the shootdown—said they’re “convinced” based on “extensive comparative research” that the Buk missile used to down MH-17 originated from a Russian Army anti-aircraft brigade in Kursk, Russia.

The Kremlin still denies all responsibility, but the MH-17 news is further evidence that the U.K. and other free nations are right to follow and sanction the money of Mr. Putin’s Kremlin coterie.

Army officers remove the bench, where Sergei Skripal and his daughter were found, in Salisbury, Wiltshire, Britain, March 23.