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Obama’s Weekly Address of hope
This week’s ‘weekly address’ from President-elect Obama has a message of real change. Not in government, but in how humans work together to better each other instead of focussing on our own wants and needs alone.
President-elect Obama and Secular America
One of the many reasons I voted for President-elect Obama (I love saying that). I wanted a president that understands secularism and its importance in American government.
President-elect Obama’s full ‘Call to Renewal’ speech.
Wassup Obama!
True dat.
Pipe Wrench Fight!
What if the lyrics to those catchy 80s songs actually told the story that was portrayed in their whacked-out artsy videos? You might get something like this…
Be sure to check out their remake of Tears for Fears’ Head Over Heels as well.
Tip o’ the pipe wrench to the creators.
Via: Pharyngula
You F*cking GO GIRL!
*Swoon*
Oh, Hellzzz Yeah!
So, now that you have some proper motivation. Go! Post a blog entry, comment on one (or more), make a video or whatever you can. Make your voice heard. Stand up for your secular American rights.
You know who I’m voting for? ‘That One’
Palin on ‘Pyramid’
Be sure to check out all of Edward Current’s videos on YouTube.
Best. T-Shirt. EVAR!
And mine just arrived courtesy the XKCD store. Now, if only it came in a Dr. Horrible lab coat style.
I love you, Tina Fey
I had to edit this post due to NBC’s crap embed code that breaks my site design.
A little bit of logic…
… is all you need.
Personally, I still wouldn’t count Jesus as a friend simply because I never knew him. Maybe I’m strange, but I tend to reserve the designation of ‘friend’ to people I’ve actually met.
Via: The Friendly Atheist & Pablo Moroe
Do you know where your candidate stands?
As voter registration deadlines get closer, you may find yourself wondering just where certain candidates stand on the issues that you find important. One way to do just that is to find out how they voted on previous legislature. And Project Vote Smart has a simple system for doing just that. The site has profile pages for every incumbent and office seeking individual, highlighting their political career and previous voting records.
Go to Project Vote Smart’s website and enter your full Zip code for a complete list of office seekers (House and Senate) in your area and then check their voting records. You can also search for a specific candidate by last name as well as view all office seekers in your state.
So if negative attack ads have you worried about how your favorite candidate has performed in office, now you can go see for yourself.
Be sure to check out Obama and McCain’s profile pages and make sure you’re supporting the right person. If you’re supporting a different candidate, just hit up their 2008 Presidential Candidate page.
After all, “Knowing is half the battle.”
DO IT! Like, Nowsville.
I mean it. NOW! You’ve only got a few days left. So stop reading this and go register. I did. It only took me a couple seconds. You can spare a couple of seconds, right? For your future, I mean. Right?
Mythbusting the God hypothesis
If you don’t read “Least I Could Do“, you’re missing out on a daily dose of high-quality humor.
RAYNE FOR JESUS ‘08
Congratulations Space X!
A little bit of history was made Sunday evening at 23:16 GMT when Space X’s two-stage Falcon 1 rocket successfully made it into Earth orbit.
After three failed attempts, Space X has become the first privately owned company to send a rocket into orbit. A warm congratulations go out to everyone involved. I can’t imagine how excited they all must feel, but the cheers in the background of the video above give you some idea.
Awesome and utterly awe-inspiring! Keep an eye out around the 3:00 marker (after stage 1 separation) when the edge of Earth appears in the upper-left corner of the screen. I’m almost at a loss for words. This is just amazing.
Seriously… congratulations to everyone at Space X! You’re all heroes in my book.
On life, being jobless and my lack of recent blogging
A few readers have emailed me asking why I haven’t written any new posts or if something has happened recently. Well, yes…
I’m jobless.
During the last week of August, the owner of the company I worked for gathered everyone together for the first ‘mandatory’ meeting in the company’s history to announce that he’d sold the business. “Nothing will change.” was the mantra of the day. I heard it from his mouth several times during the meeting and continued to hear it as we were introduced to our new boss. The only problem was… something was changing. Mainly my job ceased to exist. And that’s a pretty big change for zero day’s notice.
I’ll spare you the slimy details and some rather mean-spirited ranting and just say that I’ve been having quite some trouble finding replacement employment during our country’s economic disaster.
Although I’m trying to keep my chin up, a depression of sorts has been hanging over my head like a bad cartoon cloud for the last month now and I’ve found it very difficult to focus on anyone else’s happy, job-filled life. To put it frankly, reading about other people’s vacations, family trips, purchases and day-to-day activities just makes things worse. So I’ve found myself just blazing through my feed reader, ignoring everything that wasn’t a job listing or a potential source of income.
I’m by no means angry at anyone (other than my ex-boss for not giving us a notice the company was being sold to a firm 30 miles away) but I am a little bitter all the same.
During this last week of Sept. and the first couple weeks of Oct., I’ll be moving out of the apartment I can no longer afford and regular blog posting will be very slight until things start moving for me again. I appreciate the kind words of encouragement I’ve already received and offers to put me up until I can find work. My housing situation is taken care of at the moment (thanks Mom) and all my time and efforts will be directed towards finding some form of regular employment.
With all that said, If you know of anyone seeking print or web design, please send them my email or direct them to my oDesk profile … or if you’re financially sound at the moment and just feel sorry for me, consider making a PayPal donation. Every penny helps.
Hopefully things will perk up here sooner rather than later and I’ll be able to continue daunting creationist IDiots, spreading the godless good news and ranting my usual rants. But until then expect posts to be short, few and far between.
