Wherein I reveal my Atheist God

Atheist God? What do you mean “Atheist God?”  Doesn’t being an atheist mean you don’t believe in ANY God?

Well….Yes. But being an atheist doesn’t mean that I can’t conceive of a god that I COULD believe in!

Revelation after the break.

Dark Horse wins 2012 South Carolina Republican Primary!

Columbia, SC   21 Jan 2012   1901 EST
John H. Hudgens, III, Chairman of the South Carolina Election Commission stunned the nation when, seconds after polls closed, he announced Democrat Alvin Greene as the winner of today’s South Carolina Republican Presidential primary.

In a hastily called press conference in the lobby of the building housing the Election Commission, Hudgens reported that Greene received 57.2% of the vote. Herman Cain was a distant second with 17.2%, followed closely by Michelle Bachmann at 16.8%. All other candidates were “in the low single digits.” These numbers were, of course, reported by the 100% unverifiable  ES&S iVotronic touch-screen systems used to record and tabulate votes across the entire Palmetto State in the all-important “First-in-the-South” primary.

When pressed for actual numbers, Hudgens said exact vote totals will never be released (much less tabulated), since “The environmentally friendly iVotronic machines decided to only produce percentages, thus saving paper and the wear and tear of computer printers. He added “The state of South Carolina has long maintained that we don’t think it’s all that important to know how voters actually voted, otherwise we would use a verifiable voting system. The important thing is who beat whom, and at 1 minute after polls closed in the great state of South Carolina we’re able to report as much. Anybody who says otherwise is either a liar, has sour grapes, is a conspiracy theorist or a supporter of Ron Paul’s.”

When asked how Greene, who wasn’t on the ballot, could possibly have won, Hudgens replied that he didn’t know, but that he has full faith in the tabulation contractor hired by South Carolina to gather precinct reports and tabulate the totals: “They’re good ole boys and I refuse to believe them capable of playing with the totals. It was probably through an aggressive, write-in campaign.”

Greene, best known for his upset victory in the 2010 South Carolina Democratic Senatorial primary, was reached at his home and reacted “Huh?” but quickly recovered and said he intends to compete aggressively in Nevada and Florida using the secretive and hitherto unknown campaign staff and army of volunteers he first used in 2010. Recently, a few disgruntled volunteers have leaked that his army is primarily composed of hackers, and they insisted on anonymity in fear of identity theft.

Greene’s win today in South Carolina helps the state avoid the embarrassment GOP officials had in Iowa where voters were allowed to vote on paper ballots and watch those paper ballots counted before their very eyes, allowing for an accurate result where Rick Santorum was found to have been the winner by all accounts, even after the GOP establishment there did their best to inaccurately name Mitt Romney the winner.

“There will be no such confusion in South Carolina tonight!,” Hudgens said.

Support your local, independent bookstore!

After I created a new page (not post) for this site, wherein I mentioned in passing my passion for independent booksellers, I realized that I haven’t (until now) blogged about that particular passion of mine. So here goes:

Trade Agreements are Treaties!

I received the following letter from Alan Grayson. I wanted to Tweet it, but couldn’t find it online anywhere except my email! So here it is:

My Take on Android vs. iOs

I’ve been an Android user for 2+ years, and I’ve avoided iOs for a number of reasons (which I’ll detail later). However, I now own an iPad2. I won it in a Twittering contest at a professional conference I attended 2 weeks ago. Since I wasn’t present at the end of the conference when the winner was announced (Damn American Airlines for changing my flight!), I’ve only had it 6 days now since it showed up FedEx where I work this past Monday. What follows is my personal take :

A simple, but not easy, solution to a host of food related policy problems.

I had a “Eureka” moment earlier today regarding Agriculture Subsidies, Protection of Small Farms, Healthy Eating, and who knows how many other issues! Here goes: Don’t eliminate Agricultural Subsidies, redirect them so they promote real small and family farms, so they stop making processed food cheaper than real food, so they help struggling families make the transition to healthy eating and cut big agriculture (almost) entirely out of our food delivery systems! How to do that? Read on…

An Open Letter to the FactCheck dot org Editor

I just sent this off to FactCheck. Wherein I take them to task for buying into the “Social Security is bad because it contributes to the deficit” meme. Read on for the actual letter…

My take on Maddow versus PolitiFact

As those who follow this sort of thing already know, Rachel Maddow (and her producers) are currently feuding with PolitiFact over the first story of Maddow’s show last Thursday, February 17. At first, the feud caused me to consider removing PolitiFact from my list of trusted sources, but subsequent events have caused me to realize that they’re both right, and they’re both wrong! Read on for details…

I’m sorry, but I can’t follow everyone who follows me! Here’s why:

Greetings,

If you’re seeing this, then it’s likely that you’ve either:

• Subscribed to my Blog (Unlikely, WordPress shows few subscribers)
• Followed another link to my blog and got curious
• been DIRECTED to this post via a Twitter direct message that I sent you recently.

It’s the people in the last category for whom this post will be most informative, but it’s available to all!

Landslide in California against legislators drawing their own districts!

Greetings readers!

I was almost randomly surfing the California Secretary of State Election Returns when I ran across something that surprised – and heartened me! It appears that Californians rejected the idea of their state legislators drawing their own district lines – by a margin that I would call a landslide!