Promoting skepticism and reason without boundaries or sacred cows.
Ionolast's Articles In Current Events
June 30, 2005 by Ionolast
It seems he asked for an attorney, but the police didn't get him one and kept on questioning him. Jury may not hear Couey's claims Officers say he admitted killing Jessica Lunsford, but a possible misstep could keep it out of court .
August 17, 2005 by Ionolast
Surveillance videos show that he was only running for a train as anyone might do. He was not wearing inappropriate clothing.
September 9, 2005 by Ionolast
A TIME investigation reveals discrepancies in the FEMA chief's official biographies By DAREN FONDA AND RITA HEALY Posted Thursday, Sep. 08, 2005 When President Bush nominated Michael Brown to head the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) in 2003, Brown's boss at the time, Joe Allbaugh, declared, "the President couldn't have chosen a better man to help...prepare and protect the nation." But how well was he prepared for the job? Since Hurricane Katrina, the FEMA director has come u...
August 26, 2005 by Ionolast
And nuts to you, Mr. Robertson, You think Jesus loves you more than we could know. No, no, no. Up yours please, Mr. Robertson, Heaven holds no place for those who say pray for pay. Hey, hey, hey. We'd like to know what it is that makes you think the way you do. We'd like to help you learn to be more sane. Look around you, all you see are people just like you. Stroll around the town until you see the pain. And nuts to you, Mr. Robertson, You think Jesus loves you more than we coul...
August 19, 2005 by Ionolast
A 17 year-old girl was posing for her high school graduation pictures with a Siberian tiger when the animal turned and attacked her. The handler was restraining it. She was pronounded dead at the scene. Officials are investigating the cause. The cause? Well, let's see. Could it be............stupidity? It was a family-run animal sancutary. Not even an actual zoo. IT'S A FRICKIN' WILD ANIMAL, FOR CHRIST'S SAKE! A PREDATOR! A MEAT EATER! THEY CAN NOT BE TAMED! It's really a shame t...
August 16, 2005 by Ionolast
Watching the TV coverage of the Israeli pullout from Gaza, I'm amazed that some of those people are putting up such a fight just because they have to move. Screaming and kicking, they have phony outrage. Boo hoo. Poor babies. Playing to the cameras, they want their 15 minutes of fame. 2/3 of the settlers have already left willingly and peacefully. Those who are refusing to leave are just assholes.
November 15, 2006 by Ionolast
In the last couple of days, there's been a news report and video showing fathers fighting at a pee-wee football game. The kids are 5 and 6 years old. The talking heads say things like, "What kind of message does it send to the kids? It tells them that violence is the way to solve problems." Football is a violent sport. WTF do they expect? People get worked up. It seems kind of hypocritcal to me to criticize violence in a violent sport. I know none of the kids were fighting, but when older ...
October 4, 2006 by Ionolast
There's no mention of the religiousness of the complaintants, but what other reason could there be? Damn Nazis. By RALPH BLUMENTHAL Published: September 30, 2006 FRISCO, Tex., Sept. 28 — “Keep the ‘Art’ in ‘Smart’ and ‘Heart,’ ” Sydney McGee had posted on her Web site at Wilma Fisher Elementary School in this moneyed boomtown that is gobbling up the farm fields north of Dallas. But Ms. McGee, 51, a popular art teacher with 28 years in the classroom, is out of a job after leading her ...
June 8, 2006 by Ionolast
NEW YORK - Conservative pundit Ann Coulter was front page news Wednesday for what she's written about some 9/11 widows: "These broads are millionaires, lionized on TV and in articles about them, reveling in their status as celebrities," writes Coulter. She's also under fire for what she said Tuesday in an interview with the "Today" show's Matt Lauer. "If you lose a husband, you no longer have the right to have a political point of view?" asked Lauer. "No, but don't use the fact t...
June 4, 2006 by Ionolast
This morning on CNN, they asked viewers to email their opinions to the question: "Should there be a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage?" One of the replies said, "People who want to ban gay marriage say it's to protect families and children. I would believe them if there was a ban on rapists, child molesters and wife beaters getting married." Excellent point. On a side note, marriage is not a right. It's a privilege. That's why a license is required.
March 1, 2006 by Ionolast
Click on the "Watch: Bush in Katrina eve video: 'We're fully prepared'" link.
February 18, 2006 by Ionolast
Link WASHINGTON — A company in the United Arab Emirates is poised to take over significant operations at six American ports as part of a corporate sale, leaving a country with ties to the Sept. 11 hijackers with influence over a maritime industry considered vulnerable to terrorism. . Link Bush Defends Sale Of U.S. Ports To Arabs Bush to World = "America For Sale" The Bush administration on Thursday rebuffed criticism about potential security risks of a $6.8 billion sale tha...
February 1, 2006 by Ionolast
The airman was a passenger in a car that was chased by the police officer. Maybe the chase should have been called off.
January 1, 2006 by Ionolast
A British woman has married a dolphin. The dolphin's name is Cindy, but the woman seems to think (or wants to believe) that it's male. Till death do us part? An unusual wedding ceremony was held in the southern resort town of Eilat on Wednesday, as Sharon Tendler, a 41-year-old Jewish millionaire from London married her beloved Cindy, a 35-year-old dolphin, Israel's leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported Thursday. The groom, a resident of the Eilat dolphin reef, met Tendler 15 ...
November 28, 2006 by Ionolast
The recent shooting of three black men in Queens, New York by five cops has ignited outrage from the families and community leaders. Leo Terrell (I'm not sure about that last name) was on MSNBC this morning, and man, was he pissed, and rightly so. Here are two of his comments: "Every time black people are shot by police, somehow it's always justified." "Prosecutors need police, so they don't prosecute police." Mayor Bloomberg has called the use of force "excessive." It's been repo...