It has been suggested to me that I may have fell victim to "Poe's Law" in my previous comment, and that this video is supposed to be a meta-spoof of some kind. But if you've ever watched Kent Hovind or Ray Comfort make complete asses of themselves, I cant just sit back and tell myself "Relax, noone can be this retarded. Not even retards" because yes, yes they (peanutbutter)can.

Also, looking at the Youtube description and the original posters really sincere creationist comments, I will assume this to be a serious attempt at making fun of atheists. Again, nothing wrong with making fun of us atheists, but please, if your're gonna do it, shame and ridicule us, not yourself in the process.

A perfect example of Poe's Law.

I'm sorry.. I'll retract some, you're right.. I never did specifically report it when they occurred. I guess I was just moody because Chog left.. some of his comments are very interesting.. like reading a cross between Poe and Shakespear sometimes lol.

In reply to this comment by dag:
Why do you say I don't give a shit? Deliberate queue down voting is something we've been serious about managing. Of course we only know about it when it's reported. Are you reporting something? That's pretty harsh on your part CP.

In reply to this comment by Constitutional_Patriot:
>> ^dag:
Semi-coherant insults will not get you banned. Down voting someone's queue however is a dick move. Your wish is granted Choggie.
As interesting as this has been- the admin headache is not worth it anymore.


O Rly?!? Par and qualm have done that to me on several occasions but I doubt you really give a shit Dag.

Farewell Chogster.

I have to invoke Poe's Law on this one.

Is this meant to be a parody or is she as thick as pig shit? I can't tell.

I like threatening dream imagery. Like Shelley Duvall in the Shining when she runs from waves of blood.

I couldn't find a original reference for demonic dolls, but I did find this poem by Poe.

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea:
But we loved with a love that was more than love -
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her high-born kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me -
Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud one night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we -
Of many far wiser than we -
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling -my darling -my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea -
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

James Dobson, of the conservative Christian group Focus On The Family, said in 2006 regarding the child of (lesbian couple) Mary Cheney and Heather Poe:

In raising these issues, Focus on the Family does not desire to harm or insult women such as Cheney and Poe. Rather, our conviction is that birth and adoption are the purview of married heterosexual couples. Traditional marriage is God's design for the family and is rooted in biblical truth. When that divine plan is implemented, children have the best opportunity to thrive. That's why public policy as it relates to families must be based not solely on the desires of adults but rather on the needs of children and what is best for society at large.

As Crosswords already stated, Sarah Palin was specifically chosen because of her appeal to conservative family values voters. Now I'm not saying her daughter deserves criticism; she should be left alone. However Ms. Palin's stance on family values SHOULD be brought into focus because of what happened to her daughter, because abstinence-only education has been a bust. In fact look at the teen pregnancy rates of all 50 states (from 2002), red vs. blue. Do you notice an alarming trend?

Again, I'm not saying that this girl deserves criticism. However Ms. Palin certainly deserves some, because it is policies that she endorses that leads to higher teen pregnancy rates.

Teen pregnancy isn't the end of the world. Many teens go on to become wonderful parents. However most all parents across the political spectrum want to reduce teen pregnancy for good reasons:

1. Most teens aren't ready, either financially or emotionally, to be full time mothers. The same goes for the fathers.
2. Most of us want our kids to at least have a chance to go to college after high school, that way they can hopefully get better-paying jobs with their degrees.
3. Most parents would prefer not see their teenage daughters get pregnant at all, rather than see them get abortions. Even most pro-choice people prefer that. And let's face it, teens of all backgrounds, liberal to conservative, get abortions. I'm not trying to stigmatize abortion. I am pro-choice, but I'd much rather see other forms of birth-control employed first.

In conclusion: Leave the girl alone, but grill the mom about why she believes abstinence-only is so great. After 8 years of faith-based initiatives ruining our educational system (and abstinence-only education is just the tip of the faith-based iceberg), it's time for us to push back.

Edgar Allen Poe - ability to counteract any individual's fear with one reading of any of his works. (The Black Cat works on small groups, The Pit and the Pendulum works on large groups.)

I'm the one who's mislead?

Holocaust denial, 2005 "In a 14 December speech in the city of Zahedan in southeastern Sistan va Baluchistan Province, Ahmadinejad said that if the Holocaust took place in Europe and Europeans feel so guilty about it, then that is where Israel should be located, state television reported. "They have created a myth today and they call it the massacre of the Jews [the Holocaust],"
http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1063865.html

Threat to is Isreal, 2005 "This week, Hamas head Khalid Mish'al visited Tehran. Designated a foreign terrorist organization by the U.S. State Department, Hamas advocates the destruction of Israel. "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it," ... Mish'al told Ahmadinejad on 12 December that Hamas appreciates Iran's stance against Israel generally and the president's "insistence on the illegitimate nature of Israel,""
http://www.rferl.org/content/article/1063865.html

Threat to Isreal, 2005 and 2001 "Mr Ahmadinejad told some 3,000 students in Tehran that Israel's establishment had been a move by the West against the Islamic world. He was addressing a conference entitled The World without Zionism and his comments were reported by the Iranian state news agency Irna. "As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map," he said, referring to Iran's late revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. In 2001, former Iranian president Hashemi Rafsanjani speculated that a Muslim state that developed a nuclear weapon might use it to destroy Israel. ... Mr Ahmadinejad warned leaders of Muslim nations who recognised the state of Israel that they faced "the wrath of their own people". "
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4378948.stm

Threat to Isreal, June 2nd 2008, Ahmadinejad "The Zionist regime has lost its raison d'être. Today, the Palestinians identify with your name [Khomeini], your memory, and in your path. They are walking in your illuminated path and the Zionist regime has reached a total dead end. Thanks to God, your wish will soon be realized, and this germ of corruption will be wiped off."

"Death to America" is still a very popular chant. Here it is at a recent rally http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUezKsBCRbk

Here's an article talking about its use in parliament recently
http://www.poe-news.com/stories.php?poeurlid=41572

Here's an article mentioning Ahmadinejad's use of the phrase recently
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2007/09/23/2007-09-23_irans_ahmadinejad_issues_new_threats_aga.html

I'm not condoning what the US and CIA did in Iran. I'm not talking about that at all. I'm saying that Iran might actually be dangerous.

Rep. Ted Poe: "Our country cannot deceive its citizens."

Since when?

On fstdt.com this would be called Poe's Law

GOD he's pale.... Like something out of Edgar Allen Poe stories

Da's Vlaams meneer
That's Flemish sir
-> Dutch.

Text: "Vergeet de poes niet" (Don't forget the cat)
"100 smsjes voor zeven euro met de prepaid kaart van TMF, verkrijgbaar op tmf.be en in elke payshop"
->
"a hundred sms messages cost seven euro with the prepaid card of TMF, available at tmf.be and in every pay shop"

She also puts fruit with a chicken in the oven dishwasher, referring to another misunderstanding.

Astronomers say the entire solar system is heating up:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070228-mars-warming.html
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/1998/triton.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-05-04-jupiter-jr-spot_x.htm?POE=TECISVA
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/pluto_warming_021009.html

Solar physicists say that the current lack of sunspot activity may predict abrupt global cooling:
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/the-sunspot-mys.html
"solar scientist, Oleg Sorokhtin, a fellow of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, is certain that it’s an indication of a coming cooling period."

Government studies say it's man made.
Conspiracy theorists say it's all a hoax.
Alex Jones (quite rightly) points out that CO2 feeds the trees.
Martin Rees, Astronomer Royal in London doesn't believe that humans will survive past the end of the century.


My thoughts -
Humans are killing the planet by our servitude to the unsustainable system of development we have created, and that is now our master. And how we *love* our servitude to it, and how it rewards us with shiny *things*.

The mess we are in now was completely predicted in the 1950s. Huxley and many others warned of it.

I believe the situation will have to get worse before the message of "doing something about it" will be potent enough to act as a catalyst for real change, real sacrifice, and a real return to the archaic.

This is how it has always been. Christianity would not have brought the Roman empire to its knees had the empire not been so brutal and destructive. The worse the situation, the more potent the spark of hope when it appears over the horizon.

Good story Raven! My parent's cat (Poes) is actually on Videosift: http://www.videosift.com/video/Well-thats-one-way-to-clean-a-cat

That's one way to do it, even though its better for removing hair she can't remove herself. They never wash her, then again... she would probably not fit under a car

Great guitar player, especially his slide work, just awesome. And he wrote one of my favorite lines of all time, when he's telling an old flame to stay away, "cause you're wanted by the poe-leese,(police) and my wife thinks you're dead." Gotta love that.