Today’s sermon comes courtesy UC Davis, in California.
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Dear Richard Dawkins event ticket buyers
We regret to inform you that KPFA has canceled our event with Richard Dawkins. We had booked this event based entirely on his excellent new book on science, when we didn’t know he had offended and hurt – in his tweets and other comments on Islam, so many people.
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The Sound Of Googled Science
Your search – Google payola to professors – did not match any documents.
United Conservative Country
Who came up with that name?
But before the United Conservative Party can challenge the NDP, it must get its own house in order. And that means writing policies, choosing an interim leader and not letting the divisions show too much in what is expected to be a fierce leadership contest, culminating in an Oct. 28 vote.
Still, the longer-term challenge will be ensuring that the party can do more than just criticize Ms. Notley’s NDP government.
Well, and not being recaptured by the Liberals who got them into this mess.
Wynneing!
It’s almost as if they can make more money elsewhere.
The city of Brockville, Ont., is losing its largest industrial employer, a “significant” part of its economy and nearly 500 well-paid manufacturing positions, said Mayor David Henderson, as Procter & Gamble announced today the closure of the plant.
Employees received the news at a meeting Wednesday morning at the plant, which manufactures Swiffer dusters, fabric softeners and Tide-to-go detergent pens.
The plant will close permanently in late 2020 or early 2021 and move production to a West Virginia mega-plant.
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How High, Señor Maduro?
The word “socialsm” dare not appear: Battle for Venezuela
“Organic” Is The Latin Word For “Grown In Pig Shit”
Deweese says she hates the term clean eating. “It’s a social status thing. It’s more about ‘I’m better because I eat clean,'” she says. Adds Scott-Dixon, “‘Clean eating’ is a preoccupation of people who, in socioeconomic terms, really don’t have any real, legitimate worries. It’s a first-world problem.”
Indeed, labeling some foods as clean frames the rest as dirty, setting up a binary, us-vs-them, self-righteous world view. “It’s using food as propaganda. There’s a moral component,” says Trevor Kashey, a nutrition consultant for Complete Human Performance, who holds a PhD in biochemistry.
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James Carville Eats Mice
Wildrose Country?
Albertans will find out Saturday whether the province’s two right-of-centre political parties will merge into one to try and defeat Premier Rachel Notley’s NDP government.
The Progressive Conservatives led by Jason Kenney and the Wildrose party led by Brian Jean will wrap up voting on a proposal to become the new United Conservative Party.
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Triggered
Sam Harris interviews Scott Adams. Grab a coffee.
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Rest In Peace, Kenny Shields.
Streetheart – Here Comes The Night.
Was There Nothing That Obama Couldn’t Do?
(2) Under Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, the Department of Justice pushed the states to pass new laws.
(3) The goal was to make it impossible to hold repeat offenders in jail before trial. Why?
(4) Because so many repeat offenders are black.
Your Moral And Intellectual Superiors
USA Today Complains About Lack of ‘Women’ and ‘No Lead Actors of Color’ in Movie ‘Dunkirk’
And more.
Black Men Can’t Cipher
Algebra Is a ‘Civil Rights’ Issue. Get Rid Of It.
More Pavilions At Volkfest
A German town’s summer fair turned violent over the weekend, with multiple sexual assaults reported. A group of youths also attacked visitors and officers, with police stating that many of the offenders were migrants.
The violence occurred while residents of Schorndorf in the southern German state of Baden-Wuerttemberg celebrated the town’s weeklong fair, referred to as Volksfest (People’s Festival).
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Y2Kyoto: Nyelism
Old Bill may have a point here: Older people need to ‘die’ out before climate science can advance