THE Atheist Bus Campaign campaign is relaunched. Can a bus be an atheist? Yes. We live in liberal times. Perhaps is a bus can be a jihadi it will be immune from attack? Unless it wears a suicide fan belt, in which case the whole depot is f****.
The Atheist Bus Campaign launches today, Tuesday October 21 2008. With your support, we hope to raise £5,500 to run 30 buses across the capital for four weeks with the slogan: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.”
Atheists don’t worry?
Old Mr Anorak’s lawyer wold like it be known that his meeting “Jews for Atheism” will convene at his mother’s house at 7:30 sharp. Leave shoes at the door as the carpets have just been cleaned.
Professor Richard Dawkins, bestselling author of The God Delusion, is officially supporting the Atheist Bus Campaign, and has generously agreed to match all donations up to a maximum of £5,500, giving us a total of £11,000 if we reach the full amount - enough for a much bigger campaign. The British Humanist Association have kindly agreed to administer all donations.
First a godless bus; then a godless coach; then a damn train. And Dawkins for company. There is no god…
With your help, we can brighten people’s days on the way to work, help raise awareness of atheism in the UK, and hopefully encourage more people to come out as atheists. We can also counter the religious adverts which are currently running on London buses, and help people think for themselves.
Nothing like telling people they are alone in the universe to put a skip in their steps. And why attack God if he isn’t there..?
source:http://www.anorak.co.uk/strange-but-true/193076.html
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
AT&T shares up on Apple's iPhone figures
NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of AT&T Inc., the exclusive carrier for Apple Inc.'s iPhone in the U.S., rose in extended trading Tuesday after Apple said it had sold 6.9 million phones in two months.
AT&T's stock was up 85 cents, or 3.3 percent, at $26.58.
In reporting its third-quarter earnings, Apple did not reveal how many of the 6.9 million iPhones were sold in the U.S., but investors clearly assumed that AT&T has benefited from the device's popularity.
The second model of the phone, the iPhone 3G, went on sale in the U.S. and 21 other countries on July 11.
AT&T reports its third-quarter earnings Wednesday morning, and analysts have been expecting the telecommunications company to report a gain of 1.8 million to 2 million wireless subscribers.
The first iPhone model was launched last year. It took Apple 12 months to sell 6 million units.
source:http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hHJEtMffp-_0zKP9QU7QkBMhuOXgD93V4EA00
AT&T's stock was up 85 cents, or 3.3 percent, at $26.58.
In reporting its third-quarter earnings, Apple did not reveal how many of the 6.9 million iPhones were sold in the U.S., but investors clearly assumed that AT&T has benefited from the device's popularity.
The second model of the phone, the iPhone 3G, went on sale in the U.S. and 21 other countries on July 11.
AT&T reports its third-quarter earnings Wednesday morning, and analysts have been expecting the telecommunications company to report a gain of 1.8 million to 2 million wireless subscribers.
The first iPhone model was launched last year. It took Apple 12 months to sell 6 million units.
source:http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hHJEtMffp-_0zKP9QU7QkBMhuOXgD93V4EA00
Republicans spent $150,000 on Sarah Palin's clothes
The Republican Party has spent $150,000 in upmarket designer stores on dressing Sarah Palin for the part of vice-president.
Over the month of September, more than $75,000 was spent in a single shopping spree at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, and $50,000 in forays into Saks Fifth Avenue in New York and St Louis, on a procession of neat little waisted jackets, pencil skirts, killer boots and patent heels that have enabled Ms Palin to appear in at least one, and sometimes two or three, new outfits a day.
The party also spent nearly $5,000 on hair and makeup.
Another $5,000 was spent at Atelier, a classy men's boutique, suggesting that Ms Palin's husband Todd, jocularly known in Alaska as the First Dude, may also have come in for some sprucing up. The figures have emerged from the Republicans' monthly financial disclosure report for September, listed under a new heading of "campaign accessories".
Since John McCain named Ms Palin as his running mate on August 29, the Governor of Alaska - a former beauty queen contestant - seems not to have been photographed in the same outfit twice.
source:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4991288.ece
Over the month of September, more than $75,000 was spent in a single shopping spree at Neiman Marcus in Minneapolis, and $50,000 in forays into Saks Fifth Avenue in New York and St Louis, on a procession of neat little waisted jackets, pencil skirts, killer boots and patent heels that have enabled Ms Palin to appear in at least one, and sometimes two or three, new outfits a day.
The party also spent nearly $5,000 on hair and makeup.
Another $5,000 was spent at Atelier, a classy men's boutique, suggesting that Ms Palin's husband Todd, jocularly known in Alaska as the First Dude, may also have come in for some sprucing up. The figures have emerged from the Republicans' monthly financial disclosure report for September, listed under a new heading of "campaign accessories".
Since John McCain named Ms Palin as his running mate on August 29, the Governor of Alaska - a former beauty queen contestant - seems not to have been photographed in the same outfit twice.
source:http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article4991288.ece
India launches Moon mission
India has successfully launched its first space mission to the Moon today.The unmanned
Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft lifted off from the Sriharikota space centre at 06:20 local time (00:50 BST) on Wednesday morning in a two-year mission aimed at laying the groundwork for further Indian space expeditions."This is a historic moment for India," Indian Space Research Organisation chairman G Madhavan Nair said."We have started our journey to the Moon and the first leg has gone perfectly well," adding that it was hoped they would "unravel the mystery of the moon."One of the mission's main goals is to compile a 3-D map of the lunar surface and the distribution of elements and minerals across the planet.The space probe will also search for surface or sub-surface water-ice on the Moon, especially at its poles.
Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft lifted off from the Sriharikota space centre at 06:20 local time (00:50 BST) on Wednesday morning in a two-year mission aimed at laying the groundwork for further Indian space expeditions."This is a historic moment for India," Indian Space Research Organisation chairman G Madhavan Nair said."We have started our journey to the Moon and the first leg has gone perfectly well," adding that it was hoped they would "unravel the mystery of the moon."One of the mission's main goals is to compile a 3-D map of the lunar surface and the distribution of elements and minerals across the planet.The space probe will also search for surface or sub-surface water-ice on the Moon, especially at its poles.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Biden hint:Obama is not qualified
Biden's transcript:
On the very same day that Colin Powell's endorsement supposedly calmed the nerves of those worried about Obama's foreign policy inexperience, running mate Joe Biden makes the counter-argument --- God love 'im:
"Mark my words," the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. "It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
"I've forgotten more about foreign policy than most of my colleagues know. So I'm not being falsely humble with you. I think I can be value added, but this guy has it," Biden said of Obama, "this guy has it. But he's going to need your help because I promise you, you all are going to be sitting here a year from now saying, 'Oh, my God, why are they down there in the polls, why is the polling on Obama so low, why is this thing so tough?' We're going to have to make some incredibly tough decisions in the first two years, so I'm asking you now, I'm asking you now, be prepared to stick with us. Remember the faith you had at this point, because you're going to have to reinforce it."
A statement from McCain-Palin spokesman Michael Goldfarb:
"Joe Biden's commented on Sunday that Barack Obama's election as President would, within six months, result in 'an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.' Biden further added that the American people would not perceive Barack Obama's response to this crisis as correct. 'It's not gonna be apparent that we're right,' he said. Biden's remarks capture perfectly the message of this campaign: Barack Obama is too risky, too inexperienced, to serve as commander in chief--that his election by itself will provoke our enemies, and that his brief record raises serious questions as to how an Obama administration would respond to such a challenge.
"This campaign highlighted Biden's remarks throughout the day yesterday. We held a conference call with Mayor Giuliani who asked what Joe Biden meant. We released a statement highlighting Biden's remarks and asking what kind of crisis his unconditional meetings with the leaders of rogue states might provoke. Our surrogates and spokesmen also noted the comments in radio and TV appearances. Yet on NBC Nightly News last night, when Andrea Mitchell reported on Biden's remarks, she failed to play the relevant portion--the portion that this campaign and a variety of news outlets had found controversial, or revealing as the case may be. Instead, Ms. Mitchell played a tape of Joe Biden talking about how Barack Obama has 'steel in his spine.'
"This morning, on MSNBC, the network again aired the tape of Biden, and again they aired the segment in which Joe Biden heaps praise on his running mate. But Joe Scarborough noted that the network had played the wrong clip, and that what Joe Biden said directly reflects the central criticism this campaign has made of Barack Obama: that his inexperience, his poor judgment, and his foreign policy proposals will, in Joe Biden's words, 'guarantee' a crisis.
"So how is it that NBC repeatedly failed to play those remarks?"
Here's the video of Scarborough on MSNBC:
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