Daily Blend: Saturday, October 09, 2010

Michael Caine

• Civil and military scientists finally find possible answer to the massive honeybee die-off in recent years.
  (via The Daily Grail)

• ATHEISTS WILL KILL YOU ALL AND EAT YOUR BABIES!!!11!
  (via @PaulFidalgo)

• State or federal, it makes no difference: Wherever you look, too many prosecutors are incompetent and dishonest. And the courts want to give them absolute immunity?

• Unexpected good news: Bank of America indefinitely halts all foreclosures across the US, forcing others to do the same, giving clients a few weeks of breathing room.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Dr. Michael Mann, climatologist constantly targeted by anti-science witch hunts from Virginia’s crank Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, speaks out in the Washington Post: “[T]hey want to continue a 20-year assault on climate research, questioning basic science and promoting doubt where there is none.”
  (via @BadAstronomer)

• Muslim father whines that his daughter swims with both boys and girls at school. Token stupid quote: “Anyone's religious beliefs should be respected.” No, they bloody well should not. If your beliefs are stupid, irrational and detrimental, such as in this case, then they must and will be derided.
  (via @religionnews)

• American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist To Push Interests In Congress. The Onion can be cruelly right sometimes.
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Fox News, where all the relevant, hard-hitting questions are … replaced by this shit. (10/18 questions devoted to bashing Obama.)
  (via @todayspolitics)

• Michael Caine [pictured] reveals he secretly helped his suffering, terminal father die in hospital and expresses his support for voluntary euthanasia. Good on him.

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Tags: honeybees • atheists • anti-atheism • prosecutors • absolute prosecutorial immunity • Bank of America • banks • foreclosures • Michael Mann • Ken Cuccinelli • climatologists • Muslims • Rehan Mirza • Zainab Hussain • The Onion • lobbyists • US Congress • Fox News • Fox Nation • Barack Obama • Michael Caine • assisted suicide • voluntary euthanasia