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The ICTY began the war crimes trial of Stanisic and Simatovic in 2008, and the ruling comes just days after the court convicted [JURIST reports] six Bosnian Croat political and military leaders of crimes against humanity. Thursday's acquittal marked the most recent setback for the prosecutors at the tribunal. In February Serbian general Momsilo Perisic [ICTY profile] was acquitted [JURIST report] of war crimes in Bosnia and Croatia on appeal. That followed the acquittal [JURIST report] last year of Croatian general Ante Gotovina [BBC profile].
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Similar laws have already passed in Maryland and California [JURIST reports]. Opponents to the Connecticut bill focused on the federal government's evolving immigration policies that they argued would make this measure unnecessary. One such act is the Senate Judiciary Committee's immigration reform bill [JURIST report], which creates a 13-year path to citizenship for the same group of undocumented immigrants. Similar laws [JURIST backgrounder] around the country have developed at the state levels over the past year to lessen the burden of obtaining documentation, especially for students who are the children of undocumented immigrants.
The UN has recently focused on the issue of violence against women in a variety of contexts and countries. In March more than 130 UN member states agreed to adopt new measures [JURIST report] to prevent and eliminate violence against women. This agreement came as a result of the UN urging [JURIST report] governments to take decisive measures to protect women's rights. In December the UN released a report [JURIST report] declaring that women in Afghanistan are still suffering abuse at the hands of men. In November the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly approved a resolution [JURIST report] that called for a global ban on female genital mutilation.
This is the most recent in the ongoing controversy surrounding the trials of Kenyatta and Ruto. Last week African foreign ministers requested [JURIST report] that Kenyatta and Ruto by tried in Kenya instead of by the ICC after the Kenyan Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC) [advocacy website] released a report [JURIST report] connecting Kenyatta and Ruto to the post-election violence. Earlier this month, Kenya's ambassador to the UN requested [JURIST report] that the charges against Kenyatta be dismissed. In April a judge overseeing Kenyatta's ICC case requested to be excused [JURIST report] from hearing the case. Even with charges for crimes against humanity pending against him, Kenyatta was able to win a controversial election [JURIST report] to the presidency in March. Kenyatta was sworn in as the country's fourth president following a ruling [JURIST report] from Kenya's Supreme Court that the election results were in fact valid.
Legal aid is an essential element of a fair, human and efficient system of administration of justice that is based on the rule of law. It is a foundation for the enjoyment of other rights, including the right to a fair trial and the right to an effective remedy, a precondition to exercising such rights and an important safeguard that ensures fundamental fairness and public trust in the administration of justice.
The right to counsel has been the subject of numerous court cases worldwide in recent years. In August the Supreme Court of India [official website] ruled [JURIST report] that persons accused of crimes are entitled to free legal representation in all courts, not just at the trial level. In February 2011 the Supreme Court of India ruled [JURIST report] that courts could not decide a criminal case without a lawyer present for the defendant, and should appoint counsel where the defendant cannot obtain a lawyer. In October 2010 the UK Supreme Court ruled that Scottish police could no longer question a suspect in custody [JURIST report] without the presence of a lawyer. A week earlier the French Court of Cassation ruled that all persons in custody of French law enforcement, including terrorism suspects, are entitled to consult with lawyers [JURIST report] from the outset of criminal proceedings. Also that month the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that Canadians do not have the right to have counsel [JURIST report] present during custodial interrogations under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms [text].
Voter ID laws [JURIST backgrounder] have become increasingly controversial and commonplace throughout the US. There are now more than 30 US States [NCSL backgrounder] that require voters to present some form of ID at the polls, including multiple states that have passed laws requiring photo ID. In April the Arkansas House of Representatives overrode [JURIST report] Governor Mike Beebe's veto [JURIST report] of a bill requiring voters to provide photo ID in a 52-45 vote, making the bill an official Arkansas law. In March Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell signed into law [JURIST report] legislation requiring voters in the state present photo ID prior to voting. Lawyers for Pennsylvania and the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania [advocacy website] reached an accord in February extending the temporary injunction [JURIST report] of the Pennsylvania voter ID laws and allowing state residents to vote in the upcoming primary and special elections without submitting ID.
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If you haven't bought, I would advise against it. The car looks and rides nice and has good sound systems, but reliablity sucks. Sucks big time. One giant money pit. If you don't believe me, read the posts on here. The car is an electrical nightmare! I've had Caddy dealer OWNER tell me that they quote high prices for repair work because they don't want anything to do with the car.
Well as mush problems I had, and still have, I love it. But honestly I would not buy another one, only if it have like 50000 miles.
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Oh, this is so A-Rod.
The New York Daily News reports that the reason Alex Rodriguez is rushing to get back on the field is because the embattled superstar wants to prove he can't play so he can retire and collect the $114 million remaining on his contract with the Yankees. The New York Post also reports that Rodriguez is looking to use his injured hip as a reason to retire.
With Rodriguez's chances of success in baseball dwindling — all the way from the current Yankees season to a possible performance-enhancing drugs-related suspension to Rodriguez's increasing unlikeliness of making it into the Hall of Fame — the Daily News says Rodriguez's plan is to get back into games as quickly as possible, then retire due to the hip injury. Rodriguez would get what remains of his five-year, $114 million contract.
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Vice City Soundtrack Update
Hidden codes to be revealed with the seven-disc set.
As has been reported before, Rockstar Games plans to release a series of seven soundtrack albums through Epic Records for its upcoming sure-fire hit Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. However, the publisher today announced that there will be an extra incentive to pick up the discs, aside from the fact that they're all chock-full of horrible '80s musical goodness.
Each disc will also serve as a key that unlocks a unique cheat code and other hidden game content on the Epic Records GTA website, Vice City Radio. For fans that absolutely have to have every one, there will also be a special box set released along with the seven individual albums, with extra packaging and a reduced price of $49.98.
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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has revealed striker Eduardo could be back in contention for a first-team return "in three weeks".
The Croatia international has been sidelined since he suffered a broken leg at Birmingham in February.
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That trade was more than three years ago, but with a Cleveland-Cincinnati series looming this weekend, Phillips still has some harsh words for Eric Wedge, his manager in Cleveland and still the Tribe's skipper today. Without being specific, Phillips says that Wedge and the Indians, "Wouldn't let me be me." More of his quote (from the Dayton Daily News) is after the jump
"When somebody takes the joy away from the game by wanting you to be a certain way and play a certain way, that's kind of hard for a player to perform ...So why, exactly, is Brandon Phillips criticizing a team he hasn't played four in almost four years? How the Indians are run really shouldn't concern him anymore. Sure, it's popular to pile on Eric Wedge right now and the guy will probably be unemployed by the end of the season, but he's really got to move on. I mean, sure Cleveland made a big mistake by basically giving him away to Cincy and for all we know, maybe they did really mishandle him. That was a long time ago, though, and still talking about it now just makes Phillips seem bitter.
[The Indians] got a new manager in 2003 (Eric Wedge) and I was put on standby. I had to be a totally different person. I couldn't do that."
"What they did to me was like the New York Mets going up to Jose Reyes and saying, 'Hey, you can't smile and you can't play the way you play.' There's no chance Reyes could do that.


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The Hotel Paradis is in a fabulous location. My traveling partner and I were sleeping in the middle of the city, a block from the beach. Other than that, there's not much to this small budget traveler's hotel.
A small doorway is the only thing that tells you that you have arrived at the hotel. It clearly has "two stars" marked on the sign, and I'm not quite sure why any hotel would advertise that! When we walked in, the staff was very friendly, and we made our way to the stairs – avoid the elevator, it holds no more than two pint-sized children and a Barbie suitcase.
The Hotel Paradis is charming. It's small, less than 20 rooms altogether. The hallways are pretty narrow, and the staircase twists around the elevator. The front reception area is tiled and has a mahogany-style desk, and every room has decorative wallpaper.
Our room was a bit of a surprise when we entered. It was cozy and had a TV, but we were booked for a four-person room and only found two beds. We ended up having to share one of the beds, and our roommates for the duration of our stay were two rowdy gentlemen.
We did have a large window that looked out on Rue Paradis, which has some excellent shopping on it. Our bed was quite comfortable, and the staff remained friendly throughout our stay. There may be better accommodations for the price we paid, but nothing is in a better location!
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Jinping-I Hydropower Station
Jinping-I | |
Official name | Jinping-I Hydropower Station |
Location | Liangshan, Sichuan, China |
Coordinates | 28°11′07″N 101°37′42″E / 28.18528°N 101.62833°ECoordinates: 28°11′07″N 101°37′42″E / 28.18528°N 101.62833°E |
Purpose | Power |
Status | Partially operational |
Construction began | 2005 |
Opening date | 2013 |
Owner(s) | Ertan Hydropower Development Company, Ltd. |
Operator(s) | MWREP |
Dam and spillways | |
Type of dam | Arch, double-curvature |
Impounds | Yalong River |
Length | 568.6 m (1,865 ft) |
Height | 305 m (1,001 ft) |
Spillway type | Crest, bottom outlets, flood tunnel |
Spillway capacity | Crest: 2,993 m3/s (105,700 cu ft/s) Bottom outlets: 5,465 m3/s (193,000 cu ft/s) Tunnel: 3,651 m3/s (128,900 cu ft/s) |
Reservoir | |
Creates | Jinping-I Reservoir |
Total capacity | 7,760,000,000 m3 (6,290,000 acre·ft) |
Active capacity | 4,910,000,000 m3 (3,980,000 acre·ft) |
Catchment area | 102,560 km2 (39,600 sq mi) |
Surface area | 82.55 km2 (31.87 sq mi) |
Power station | |
Commission date | 2013–2015 |
Turbines | 6 × 600MW Francis-type |
Installed capacity | 1,200 MW |
Annual generation | 16–18 TWh |
The Jinping-I Hydropower Station (also known as the Jinping-I Dam, Jinping 1st Cascade or Jinping No.1 Hydraulic Power Station) is a large hydroelectric project on the "Jinping Bend" of the Yalong River (Yalong Jiang) in Liangshan, Sichuan, China. Construction on the project began in 2005 and when complete, it will have a 3600 MW capacity to produce between 16 and 18 TW·h (billion kW·h) annually. Supplying the power station will be a reservoir created by a 305-metre-tall arch dam, the tallest in the world. The project's objective is to supply energy for expanding industrialization and urbanization, improve flood protection, and prevent erosion. The dam began to impound its reservoir on 30 November 2012 and the first two of six 600 MW generators became operational on 30 August 2013.[2] Full electrical power capability will not be installed until 2015.[3]
Harnessing hydropower on the Jinping bend of the Yalong River has been in planning for decades. The length of bend is 150 km but the downstream part of the river on the opposite side is only separated by 16 km. Between that distance, there is an elevation drop of 310 m, creating an excellent situation for hydroelectricity production. Two projects were planned for the bend, the Jinping I and Jinping II with a combined capacity of 8,400 MW. Planning for the projects began in the 1960s under the former Sichuan and Shanghai design institutes along with the Ministry of Water Resources and Electric Power. They produced the "Reinvestigation Report on The Yalong River bend (Jinping)". In July 1965, the Jinping Hydropower Engineering Headquarters was set up and designs for the Jinping 1 and Jinping 2 would progress with the East China Investigation and Design Instititute.[4]
Construction began on 12 November 2005. First power was generated in 2013 with the remainder of the work to be completed by 2015.[5]
The Jinping 1 power station is on the border of the Yanyuan and Muli districts in the autonomous Liangshan Yi area of the Sichuan province. The Yalong River, which the dam will control, is the largest tributary of the Jinsha. For the project, approximately 7,500 inhabitants will be relocated.
The 305m tall and 568m long arch dam supplies the power station with water from a 7.7 billion m3 reservoir, of which 4.9 billion m3 is active or usable storage. The dam itself has a structural volume of 7.4 million m3. To control flooding the dam is equipped with a controlled spillway on its crest with four gates and the capability to discharge up to 2,993 m3/s (105,700 cu ft/s). Five bottom outlets on the dam's orifice capable of discharging 5,465 m3/s (193,000 cu ft/s) and a tunnel with a discharge capacity of 3,651 m3/s (128,900 cu ft/s) with augment flood control as well. The power station will contain six 600 MW Francis turbines. Water discharged from the power station is then diverted downstream by the Jinping 2 Dam to the Jinping 2 Hydropower Station.[1]
See also[edit]
- Jinping-II Hydropower Station
- List of tallest dams in the world
- List of tallest dams in China
- List of dams and reservoirs in China
- ^ a b "Jingping". Chinese Committee on Large Dams. Retrieved 23 August 2011.
- ^ "The world's highest arch dam Jinping first production unit" (in Chinese). Economic Times Network. 2 September 2013. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
- ^ World's Highest Arch Dam Begins Reservoir Impounding in China
- ^ The Big River Bend and The "Jinping Dream"
- ^ "SDIC Electric Power: impoundment Jinping Hydropower Station" (in Chinese). Economic Times Network. 4 December 2012. Retrieved 10 December 2012.


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How does LIBOR affect us in Dallas?
Put another way: Wall Street is ruining America.
We've been hearing a lot about the Libor scandal lately, and as I'm sure most of you know, the LIBOR rate affects many home mortgages. The London Interbank Offered Rate, or LIBOR, is a benchmark interest rate on which a whole lot of loans and financing is based. The scandal, which started in good ole' London, is a self-reported estimate of how cheaply banks can borrow very-short-term money from other banks. It's like the honor system. Only guess what — the banks involved were not honest, and the financiers violated honesty in the interests of profits.
They lied.
And how does it affect us in Dallas? Do you have a credit card?
A student loan or adjustable rate mortgage? About half of all variable-rate student loans are tied to Libor. Out of all adjustable-rate mortgages, 45% of prime loans and 80% of subprime loans are tied to it. State and local governments have exposure to Libor when they use interest-rate derivatives to control their credit exposure. And many types of consumer loans are tied to the rate.
I love this piece by Anthony Mirhaydari at MSN Money, but I disagree with him on a few fronts. Mirhaydari says the answer is more regulation.
I do not think you can regulate honesty. The more laws you enact, the more these weasels will find ways around them with their never-ending armies of CPAs and Harvard-educated attorneys.
The takeaway is that we need tighter regulation and capital requirements for large, global institutions, despite worries from the industry and some on the right that this will reduce profitability and tighten lending.
The 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform, which addressed the problem with tools like the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, was criticized by Republicans as being too harsh. In reality, the package was too lenient, because it failed to address Wall Street titans' too-big-to-fail status.
I think we need way tougher punishments. While part of me thinks we could just go back to old-fashioned hanging, why not get them where it hurts: the money. Consider this: "Barclays' disgraced CEO Robert Diamond was forced out by British authorities for his failures — yet was about to get a 'you're fired' bonus of as much as $31 million before public rancor forced him to relinquish it."
Let him get the bonus. Then turn around and fine him $32 million.
The idea of socialized lending — that is, the state creating lending funds, or actually going into the mortgage business, scares the hell out of me. The Post Office cannot even stay solvent. Apparently this has been done before in history, it worked, and it would put the banks out of the mortgage business:
"… one remedy would be to bypass Wall Street completely and have the government issue mortgage loans at 0.25%, the upper end of the Fed's short-term policy-rate window."
Banks are getting money at 0% right now, then lending it to us — or not lending it to us — for 3% to 4%.
I also think the largest banks in this country should be broken down, as large corporations have been forced to break up when they became monopolies. If the government lent to us at highly discounted rates, that could stimulate the economy:
"On a typical 30-year $250,000 mortgage, a drop in rates from 3.5% to 0.25% would slash payments by 30%, from $1,435 to around $1,000."
That's an extra $435 a month a family could spent on food, education or health care. I don't like the notion of the government becoming a bank. But historically, whenever we have had eras of greed and excess, socialist policies tend to follow to rein it all in.
I myself prefer the noose.
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I second the noose...or maybe a firing squad.
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Don't be so generous. Let's just use an oubliette.
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So if you have a mortgage that was impacted by the manipulated LIBOR does that mean because of the fradulent aspect of the document, the manipulated rate of interest, the mortgage can be invalidated and set aside?
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Robert H. Jackson, the only Supreme Court justice who didn't graduate from any law school, began his climb as a successful lawyer in New York State. He was appointed to federal office by President Roosevelt in 1934 and first served as general counsel to the IRS. Jackson was a great defender of procedural due process. He is best known as the chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. He died in 1954.
Early Life and Career
Born on February 13, 1892, in Spring Creek, Pennsylvania, Robert H. Jackson was a member of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1941 to 1954. He moved to Frewsburg, New York, when he was around the age of five. After graduating from high school in 1910, Jackson continued his studies at a high school in nearby Jamestown. There he also worked as a law clerk in a family member's practice.
Jackson attended the Albany Law School for a time, but he didn't complete his degree. In 1913, he passed the bar and opened his own practice in Jamestown. Jackson married Irene Gerhardt in 1916. The couple had two children together.
A die-hard democrat, Jackson was active in local politics. He became a friend and advisor to Franklin D. Roosevelt during his bid for the governorship of New York. After winning the election, Roosevelt appointed Jackson to serve on a committee to study the state's judicial system.
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Roosevelt continued to rely on Jackson once he reached the White House in 1933. The following year, Jackson was appointed general counsel to the Bureau of Internal Revenue. He successfully handled a case against Andrew Mellon for tax evasion during his time there.
Over the few years, Jackson held a number of other legal posts. He was the solicitor general and an assistant U.S. attorney before being named U.S. attorney general in 1940. Jackson's tenure in the nation's top legal spot was brief, however. Roosevelt nominated Jackson to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1941.
Supreme Court Justice
During his time on the court, Jackson turned out to be more of a supporter of judicial restraint than judicial activism. He did, however, champion the rights of individuals and the separation of church and state. In Edwards v. California (1941), Jackson helped strike down the California law that made it a misdemeanor for a person to enter the state without economic means. He wrote a dissenting opinion in United States v. Ballard (1944), which let a mail fraud conviction stand against a man who established his own religious movement and claimed to have healing powers. "Prosecutions of this character easily could degenerate into religious persecution," Jackson wrote.
In 1945, Jackson took leave from the court to serve his country in a different capacity. President Harry S. Truman appointed him chief counsel for the war crimes trials held at the end of World War II. Known as the Nuremberg trials, Jackson acted the chief prosecutor in the cases of such infamous Nazi figures as Hermann Goring and Rudolph Ness. He was widely criticized for his poor cross-examinations of some of the suspects during the trials.
When Jackson returned to the court in 1946, he and Justice Hugo Black were in consideration to replace the late Harlan F. Stone as chief justice. Jackson and Black had an adversarial relationship, and each threatened to leave the court if the other was appointed to the post. President Truman decided on Fred Vinson instead. In the early 1950s, Jackson's health began to decline. He suffered a heart attack in March 1954, but he refused to stay away from court for too long. Jackson was on hand to support the end of school segregation with the decision on Brown v. Board of Education (1954). He died on October 9, 1954, in Washington, D.C.


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The good (if not fully evolved) citizens of Bedrock make their way to the big screen in this live-action adaptation of the popular animated series of the 1960s. Fred Flintstone (John Goodman) and his best friend Barney Rubble (Rick Moranis) work together at the Slate and Company Rock Quarry. When Fred loans Barney some money that allows him and his wife Betty (Rosie O'Donnell) to adopt a child, Barney is looking for a way to show his gratitude. Barney thinks he's found one when the executives at Slate and Company announce that they're giving all their employees intelligence tests to help determine future promotions. When Barney switches his high-scoring test with Fred's, his plan works -- but not quite the way he had hoped: Fred is deemed executive material and given a big promotion, complete with a sexy secretary (Halle Berry) who makes his wife Wilma (Elizabeth Perkins) jealous, while Barney is soon out of a job and can't pay his bills. Bill Hanna and Joseph Barbara, who created the original television series, make cameo appearances here; Elizabeth Taylor gives a fine comic performance as Wilma's nagging mother, and Harvey Korman provides the voice of the Dictabird.
- MPAA Rating: PG
- Genre(s): Comedy
- Run Time: 92min.
- Theatrical Release Date: 05/27/1994
- DVD Release Date: 09/24/2002
- Director(s): Brian Levant
- Starring: John Goodman , Elizabeth Perkins , Rick Moranis , Rosie O'Donnell , Kyle MacLachlan
- Themes: Parenthood,Eccentric Families,Mischievous Children
- Tone: Easygoing,Goofy,Humorous,Light,Silly,Whimsical
- Keywords: dinosaurs, family, mother-in-law, nag, friendship, stress [worry], upward-mobility
- Language: English
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Be Good For Goodness' Sake
Telling someone that they shouldn't steal or murder or rape because if they get caught they will go to prison is not teaching morality. Similarly, telling someone that they shouldn't engage in these same types of behaviors because the will got to hell is not teaching morality either. What it is doing is teaching that these behaviors are bad, not because the are intrinsically immoral, but because there is the risk of negative consequences.
This type of thinking ignores the real effect of immoral actions: that they harm others. That crime, deceit, and violence robs a person of a part of their humanity. It attacks one of the greatest truths ever put forth by the human mind: that we all are created equal, that we "are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." (1)
True morals should be based on this principle. They should also be based on empathy and love for our fellow Homo sapiens who we share out planet with. By holding up threats of punishment, either in this life or a mythical one beyond it, we dehumanize each other and desensitize ourselves to the humanity within others.
This mindset can lead to disdain of those who are seen as violating some peoples' personal or religious morals, many of which are inhumane, insensitive, and inhumane.
The same holds for being moral and doing good deeds for others because we empathize with their plight. We should do kind things not expecting anything in return, but because it is intrinsically the right thing to do. To only do good, be it giving to charity, doing a favor for a friend, or giving a blanket to a cold homeless person just because we expect a reward in heaven or to boost our status within our social circles reeks of callousness. These types of people do good not because it is the right thing to do, but because they are greedy for reward. When they give to charity, help at soup kitchens, they are often thinking not of those who benefit from their deeds, but of the benefit to their social status and/or their eternal reward.
Santa Clause, that fictional character of Christmas cheer, summed up the true basis of morality: be good for goodness' sake.
(1) The Declaration of Independence
are created equal, that they are endowed
The Fine Tuning Falacy
There is an argument that because there are many properties of our universe that if changed by even a small amount would have made the universe impossible to support life. Some people like to use this as proof that the universe had to have been created because everything is "just right" for life to exist.
If, for example, the strong nuclear force were 2% stronger than it is (i.e., if the coupling constant representing its strength were 2% larger), while the other constants were left unchanged, diprotons would be stable and hydrogen would fuse into them instead of deuterium and helium.[9] This would drastically alter the physics of stars, and presumably preclude the existence of life similar to what we observe on Earth. The existence of the di-proton would short-circuit the slow fusion of hydrogen into deuterium. Hydrogen would fuse so easily that it is likely that all of the Universe's hydrogen would be consumed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang. (1)
On the face of it, this seems to make sense in regards to an intelligent designer of the universe. If everything is just perfect to support life, then it must have been designed that way.
But look at it from a different way. We are here. We exist. Of course the universe seems fine tuned for us, simply because we are here to observe it. It is a fluke of nature. Just as a depression in the ground wasn't specially created to hold a puddle after the rain, our universe wasn't specially created just for us to live in.
We have to get over the idea that we are somehow special. 99% of all species that have ever existed have gone extinct. Many of those existed for millions of years before disappearing. We, as a species, have only been here, maybe 500,000 years. The earth doesn't care about us. Nature doesn't care about us. Neither does the universe.
We are just a happy happenstance. Star stuff that coalesced into a star with planets. Once of those was the earth. It was in the right place, at the right time, with the right stuff.
On second thought, perhaps that does make us special. But not because we are the pinnacle of some grand plan, but because we are lucky enough to have been in the right place at the right time. Serendipity. Splendid serendipity.
(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_Universe#Premise
If, for example, the strong nuclear force were 2% stronger than it is (i.e., if the coupling constant representing its strength were 2% larger), while the other constants were left unchanged, diprotons would be stable and hydrogen would fuse into them instead of deuterium and helium.[9] This would drastically alter the physics of stars, and presumably preclude the existence of life similar to what we observe on Earth. The existence of the di-proton would short-circuit the slow fusion of hydrogen into deuterium. Hydrogen would fuse so easily that it is likely that all of the Universe's hydrogen would be consumed in the first few minutes after the Big Bang.
The Tea Party – American Taliban
The Tea Party is the most dangerous threat to the American way of life and to American liberty its self than anything we've seen since the era of McCarthyism over 50 years ago. I'd say that they are an even greater threat. At least during McCarthyism we still held education, science, and technology in high esteem. In fact, it was science and technology that was going to save us from the communist threat. McCarthyism was a political motivated by a real fear of communist expansion (but that still didn't justify the restriction of rights that occurred).
Fortunately, the majority of Americans do seem to believe in working together for a common goal and the common good. Unfortunately, most of them believe that we can accommodate the Tea Party and their ilk. The reason for this, I believe, is that most of these "other" American are Christian and this makes them reluctant to criticize other Christians. They buy into the anti-islamic, anti-atheist, anti-secular rhetoric of the Tea Party because they either don't see the real threat or they are afraid to speak out. This is the same thing we saw in the Islamic world after the 9/11 attacks: the vast majority of Muslims abhorred there radicals who perpetrate acts to terror in the name of Islam, but they were afraid to speak out for fear of being branded an infidel or of breaking islamic unity.
The majority of Christian in this country are accomidationis. They believe that radical Christians can be reasoned with; can be accommodated; that compromises can be reached. Nothing can be further from the truth. Radical Christians, along with all religious radicals, can not be reasoned with or accommodated because for them this is a holy war, a fight against good and evil. As long as they believe that they are doing God's work, nothing can make them compromise in the slightest thing.
Today, however, science and technology are viewed with great suspicion, even outright hostility by the religious right. This time, in contract to McCarthyism, the perceived enemy of the Tea Party crowd isn't a foreign threat, it is other Americans. And unlike most of those within the secular movements, they have no room for compromise. You are either with them or against them. You can't debate or argue them into changing their positions. Like most everyone who's world view relies on blind faith and religious righteousness, they will never yield and never give up.
This is why I constantly speak out against religion being forced on us. This is why I continue to highlight the dangers and evils of religious thought and religious dogma that are passed off as patriotism. This is why I always try to highlight the delusion that is theism and supernaturalism, or magical thinking.
People use religion to foster hate and division. Those who are ardent believers can rationalize away any evil up to and including murder. If they are allowed to have their way, which they are getting more and more often, they would have this country become a Christian theocracy. Anything that goes against their religious laws will be punished, those of other religions will be discriminated against. Don't believe it? Just google "christian theocracy in america".
It is sad that the Tea Partiers had to take the Tea Party as their name. It is an insult to all those who took part in the actual, historical tea party. Those patriots fought for freedom from tyranny, not for the tyranny of a theocracy. They should have rightly called themselves the American Taliban, because they are no different in their aims of creating a Christian nation than the Taliban in Afghanistan are in creating an Islamic nation there.
Pro Life – A Satanic Plot
Edwin Kagin beautifully defends a woman's right to choose in this tongue-in-cheek piece. It is funny, but powerful. Read it.
The (Believers) Problem of Evil
Isaiah 45:7
King James Version (KJV)
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
For those who believe in a god, especially a loving, merciful god, evil is a real problem. Some say that satan causes evil in the world, others that evil is god's way of testing our faith.
As far as I can see it, these, and other arguments like them, all fall flat. I could write a whole book against these arguments (and many have), but instead, I think my position can be summed up with the following quote attributed to Epicuris:
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?
The first quote, from Isaiah, pretty much shows that the god who Christians like to claim as being a god of love, is also a god of evil. Their Bible is pretty unequivical about it: the LORD creates evil. It really can't be any other way, if, as they say, their god created everything, for by default, he must have created evil as well as good.
To surrender the cause of evil to an unseen and amorphous entity is to refuse to take any responsibility for the evil that humans visit upon each other. When you accept that evil is a product of human activity, you can then look it straight in the eyes and tackle it head on, instead of pawning it off to an imaginary god or gods.
There are many reasons that I am an atheist; there is my love of science, my thirst for knowledge, and my instance on truth, no matter how ugly it may be. Still, the two quotes above make a very powerful, yet simple, argument against believing in any god or gods. They are a beginning point for shuffling off the imaginary coil of belief and moving onto a life of real responsibility those with who we share this planet.
More Atheist Thoughts
Yesterday I posted my suggestion for an atheists crest. Today I have a good quote that I think every atheist should memorize to use whenever someone asks them why they don't believe in god.
"I contend we are both atheists, I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." …Stephen F Roberts
Of course, feel free to paraphrase so that it flows naturally for you.
Embracing Randomness – Why Mathematics and Statistics Negates God
I had an interesting FB conversation with a couple of fundie friends of mine. I had posted a quote to the about the ineffectiveness of prayer. One replied with how she has prayed to God and that because of that she now is with a wonderful man who treats her and her kids great. I responded that I am with a wonderful woman who treats me and my kids great, and I never prayed for anything. The other friend then replied that he had prayed for me, implying that it was his prayers that brought me this wonderful woman.
Believers will ascribe all the wonderful things in their lives to God. The fact that others who don't believe in God, or in their particular god, also have wonderful things in their lives doesn't seem to have an explanation within their world view. A rational view of this data would indicate that good things happening are random throughout any given population (as are bad things). Another factor is how specific people view the things that happen to them. What seems a good thing to one person could be considered not to good to another. It is a matter of one's outlook on life. Is the glass half empty or half full?
For me, knowing that events are basically random makes it easier to deal with bad events because I don't have to worry if I am pissing off some invisible sky man. Conversely, I also don't have to waste my time and effort trying to please said sky man or thank him for a random event. I can then focus on how I must deal with things.
That's not to say that I don't feel that I'm about due for some good things to happen in my life after all the shit I've been through. Some would take this as a sign of karma. Personally, I see it as a sign of the law of averages. Since the past 20 years have pretty much sucked. With all things being equal, the fact that good things are now happening (and I believe, will continue to happen) is pretty much a matter of things averaging out. Regression to the mean. Mathematics and statistics are much better and more consistent at explaining the why good or bad things happen to us than is the idea of some benevolent (or malevolent, depending on how you look at it) god making things happen.
My Best Friend is a Magic Jewish Zombie!
I was browsing my favorite art site, deviantart.com, a few days ago and came across this painting. A nicely done picture of Jesus titled, My Best Friend. My tollerence of bullshit was very low at that particular time (lower than it ususlly is!). In a fit of pique I left a simple, harsh, comment, "I'm sorry". I am not usually so blunt, espeically with someone I've never met. I probably should have just ignored it and moved on. I didn't and now I have an interesting situation to deal with.
Today, the artist who made that picture sent me a note. Here is the exchange:
i read your comment on my work.,my best friend,….and this has many interpretations…
may i ask your reason for being sorry…so that i may comment accordingly my friend…I'm sorry that your best friend is someone who doesn't exist, or at least who you can't see, touch, or hear. I believe that this life is precious and that it is all that we are sure that we have. For me, to put emotions into something that you can't be sure is there is a waste. It does you and the people around you a disservice. By expending time, emotion, and even love on something that may or may not be real takes that time, emotion, and love away from the people around you who need it here, now.I am not trying to say that you shouldn't believe in Jesus, but you live in this world with people who love you and need you. Make the most of it and give yourself and those you love every minute you have, every bit of love that you can. If after doing this, you feel you still have time and energy left for Jesus, great. But to say that he is your best friend is an insult to your real friends, who are here now and who need you.
Heaven & Hell
John Shook has a great piece on the Center For Inquiry blog about how religion isn't about hope, but personal wish-fullfillment, control, and our secret desire for revenge. Here are two paragraphs that nicely sum up what I want to talk about today:
Heaven and hell are more about enforcing moral retribution upon everyone, and not about loving consolation for everyone. I said earlier that religion personally is largely about private wish-fulfillment. But at the social level, religion is mostly about imposing a public moral system. And not just any moral system – religions with heavens and hells have moral systems about obedience, vengeance, and retribution. With heaven and hell, private wish-fulfillment nicely pairs up with public moral-expectation. God delivers love to us because we feel deserving of that love. God delivers vengeful retribution upon others because we wish we could do it to them ourselves.
When believers say, "My God is all about Love!" what they are actually saying is that God really loves them and doesn't love others. These are the kind of people who can't feel truly loved unless someone else doesn't get that love. Such a childishly selfish attitude, barely tolerable from the three year-old pushing the older sibling away from the parental lap, is entirely despicable from adults. Yet religious societies take this to the public level, effectively frightening members into obedience, and warning outsiders not in that good company that they will suffer for it. Join our religion, the message rings out, or else you'll get hell for it!
I've read several blog posts today about this subject of heaven and hell and how you can't have a heaven without a hell. Except for Unitarian Universalists, all most no religion, especially forms of Christianity, has a concept of Heaven without a corresponding hell. The problem with this, besides the horrific fact that so many people seem to take pleasure at the potential eternal suffering of others, is that hell just doesn't fit in with the concept of a god of love. God is seen as a parental figure, someone who makes the rules and rewards or punishes and who we always want to try to please. What parent would willingly send their child somewhere where they would be tortured and tormented? Only an sick, sadistic parent would. So if there is hell, then god is a sick sadist.
Religious belief like this is, as John says, childishly selfish. It has pain and punishment for those we are jealous of built right in. The only real love there is the love for those we choose to love and for ourselves.
This is why I take a humanist approach to life. Humanism has at it's core the wellbeing of all people, everywhere. When you put all people on a level playing field and treat them all equally, then you can't help but act in the best interests of everyone. Of course we have to take care of ourselves and our loved ones, but humanist ideals say that we shouldn't do that at the expense of others.
As John sums up in another of his posts on the same subject:
Give me a morality, a humanist one, that finally centers on the one life that we all know we have.
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