Creationists Driven By Fear

Creationists have a huge emotional investment in the creation story that inhibits their ability to reason. And that investment is based on fear. They believe that if their faith in the validity of the story does not waver they will be rewarded with eternal life, forever reunited with their loved ones in heavenly bliss with an occasional stint in the heavenly choir. If they allow this happy vision to be corrupted by doubt they will be denied entrance to this heavenly wonderland despite all their years of good, solid faith. That is such a heavy burden and one I’m grateful not to bear. It would truly be frightening.

A gun is a tool.

It can be used as a hammer, a pry bar and a screw driver.

Why do people vote Republican when it is against their best interest to do so?

The Republicans allow room for them to feel they are still part of the Ruling Class. Republicans, unlike Democrats, demonize or disenfranchise a portion of society. Whether it be gays, muslims, atheists, abortion clients, felons, people that do not have voter ID, illegal aliens, the unemployed, Republican continually find new groups to disenfranchise or demonize. Voting Republican caters to bigotry and racism rather than progress and a better future.

Google Retires Google Page Creator

After just two years of hosting the popular Google Page Creator Google has announced that all Google Pages will be transfered to Google Sites by the end of the year. Google Page Creator allowed the user to upload 100 Mbs of files and link them to a Google template or to an html document that could be uploaded to the files. The same service was available in Google Apps Web Pages, allowing a registered domain to upload the files and document for the web site. The service was available to new Apps sign ups as recent as August 23, http://hucktunes.info, but was removed by October 5, http://octoberapps.info. There have been many disappointed Pages users posting their sorrow at the loss of this great service in the Google Page help discussion groups in Google Groups but Google’s response is that Pages has reached the end of it’s development and the focus is now on Sites, which is a service that Google purchased from JotSpot. Sites is very restrictive in the content that can appear on the page. It does not allow html code and content is restricted to Gadgets and inserts provided by You Tube, Google Video, etc. There is much buzz in Groups about a big change afoot for Google. I wonder if the big change might be restricting the content of it’s services to make it more appealing to the government of China. In any event Google Page Creator will be greatly missed by many trusting and loyal Googlers.

Merry Christmas

The Winter Solstice fell on Saturday, Saturn’s Day, this year. So the rebirth of the Sun started on his day, Sunday. All and all I’d say it was a successful Saturnalia this year. This bodes well for the Democrats in 2008.