Bacon and God: The Miracle?

Did Bacon really witness a miracle? Click cartoon to enlarge it.

The Hamas Victory: Thoughts and Predictions

No matter what anyone says, there was a distinct difference between the terrorist parties of Fatah and Hamas. Fatah was willing to negotiate with Israel and accept Israel as a permanent nation and most importantly a permanent peace.
Hamas on the other hand represents never ending terror and the ultimate goal of destroying Israel. They are a terrorist organization. To any rational human being on this planet, they were not an alternative to the corrupt Fatah party. By any rational rational human being, they should not have even been considered. But nobody has ever made the mistake of thinking that the Palestinian Arabs were rational human beings.
They voted Hamas. And I'm not buying that their victory resulted in the people making a statement about corruption. Gaza isn't Canada, and Hamas isn't the Progressive Conservatives. How could this be about corruption? Corruption is about money. A vote for Hamas most likely meant no money from the USA and no money from the EU. If Hamas gets it's funding now from Iran, another country bent on Israel's destruction, how long do you think it will take Israel to figure it out and make Iran's donations meaningless?
If terrorist attacks or rocket attacks occurred with a Fatah leadership, Israel would have been morally forced to give Fatah time before they completely spanked them. Now with Hamas running the show, any terrorist attack or rocket attack will be dealt with severely, more severely than ever before. Did the Palestinian voters not realize this? I've always said that Arabs in the Middle East can not think one step ahead. This is further proof of it.
As far as the future goes. The peace plan is dead as long as Hamas is in power. This will become more and more evident in the coming weeks. I expect a terror attack sooner than later, and I expect a severe Israeli response this time. Hamas won't be able to keep themselves from being what they are: TERRORISTS, nothing more and nothing less.
If Hamas isn't taken out soon, I think the Palestinians will become extinct, and it won't be pretty. I also expect to see a devastating bomb hit Iran very shortly, if their leader isn't taken out soon. Even Europe is scared of Iran.
Unfortunately sometimes major devastation and dead civilians is the only way to change things for the better. See WW2 Japan.
Back to Israel: the free world is shaking their heads in disbelief. Could Israel be right? The Palestinians really don't want a peaceful state? The voters have spoken.

One more thought: Now Israel can focus on putting down real borders and thanks to the Hamas victory, they are not under any obligation to negotiate where the borders go. Israel will now have defendable borders finally, and if Hamas attacks, which they will.....bye bye Palestinians.

Why Fundies Hate Gays?

This is just one reason. And most Fundies won't even get it, Mr. Garrison. But one thing I wonder about Fundies: If evolution is bogus, why did God create gays. Not very many people choose to be gay I imagine. God must love gays.

IF THE SMOKING GUN WAS AROUND 2000 YEARS AGO

James Frey had how many people fooled? Almost everyone who heard his story. He did have a great apostle going for him though: Winnie the Bookseller.
You know where I'm going with this....
It is the year 2006. We are in the INFORMATION AGE, yet Frey's story slips through the cracks of almost every investigative reporter for over 2 years. Why? It was plausible, no miracles, had support from Winnie the Bookseller and other high profile money making people, and it made Joe Shmoe feel good.
It only took around 6 weeks of real research by The Smoking Gun to find that Frey's whole story outside of the rehab centers were phonier than a 3 dollar bill.
Now lets turn the clock back around 2000 years. We have the Jews waiting on a Messiah. We also have lots of stories circulating on what the Messiah will do, how he will be born, what he will say and a whole lot of other things.
This is the thing that really bugs me. There was absolutely nothing, zero, nada written about Jesus while he supposedly was alive. 30, 40 years later, historians like Josephus wrote about him after hearing ORAL history. A few other dudes wrote about him 30-150 years after he supposedly died.
There is absolutely no archeological proof that Jesus walked on the planet either. I know this, I've looked into it. All we have is one ORAL line by Josephus and lots of Gospel writings, done many years after the fact.
If The King of The Jews/The Miracle Man was such a key figure during his times. Why was nothing written about him by historians who were alive when he supposedly lived? It makes no sense. Lots was written about Herod for example, during the time he lived too. Roman letters have been found, but not a sentence about Jesus.
It took James Frey only 2 years to get caught. And it is easy these days to nail someone when it comes to blatant lies.
How could anyone possibly nail the Jesus story as a lie 2000 years ago, especially since it took 30 years (almost an entire average lifetime in those days) after his death for one word to be written about him.
The day was ripe for the story, that is for sure.
How long did it take Jim Jones to find 900 people to drink Koolaid?
It doesn't take much for someone who wants to believe a story, to believe a story.
The case in Italy is starting on Friday where a Priest is supposed to prove that Jesus existed. If the court is not a kangaroo one, there is no way he will succeed. The evidence is just not there.

Oops, almost forgot the links to my newfound skepticism about the existence of Jesus:

Try here, or here, or here, or here, or here if you want to see excellent arguments against the existence of Jesus Christ.

The Hamas Barbie

The Hamas Barbie is the number one toy selling toy in Gaza right now, a favorite of 7 year old Palestinian girls.