On Monday, March 19th, 2012 at 9AM, some students from FAMU and FSU will be gathering on the Set at FAMU’s campus to rally for Justice in the murder of 17 year old Trayvon Martin. Students will be gathering to spread awareness on the case, but also demand Gov. Scott take lead to make sure justice is served in this state for the family of Trayvon Martin.
Atheist Talk Radio on Sunday was a conversation with (in order of appearance in the photo) Phil Ferguson (Skeptic Money), Moi (X Blog), Jen McCreight (Blag Hag) – that’s Biodork – and Stephanie Zvan (Almost Diamonds). We talked about blogging and stuff.
Minnesota Atheist Talk Radio ... Phil Ferguson, Greg Laden, Jen McCreight, Biodork and Stephanie Zvan
Later that day, Jen gave her talk on “God’s Lady Problem.” Biodork has a few brief comments on the talk, it will be written up for the Minnesota Atheists newsletter, and I may make a few comments later. It was a great talk, well received, and it was great to meet Jennifer as well as Phil who just happened to be in town checking out schools with his offspring.
By “Controlling the Message” I mean setting the agenda, usually by putting something out there that causes other people to shift their own message to be more like yours. I can think of a few spectacular yet small scale examples that are safe to talk about. I’ll give you one, although if certain people hear this they may not be happy. Continue reading Controlling the Message in the Upcoming Campaigns→
We’ve had a slight change in plans, and my interview with Maggie Koerth Baker will be on April 1st. No fooling. Meanwhile, on Sunday, Atheist Talk Radio will have a conversation woth Jen McCreigh, Stephanie Zvan, Brianne Bilyeu, and Moi. In other words, four Free Thought Bloggers all at once on one radio show talking about …. well, we have a plan, but you can email and call in and tell us that we’ve got it all wrong, if you like.
We’ve had a slight change in plans, and my interview with Maggie Koerth Baker will be on April 1st. No fooling. Meanwhile, on Sunday, Atheist Talk Radio will have a conversation woth Jen McCreight, Stephanie Zvan, Brianne Bilyeu, and Moi. In other words, four Free Thought Bloggers all at once on one radio show talking about …. well, we have a plan, but you can email and call in and tell us that we’ve got it all wrong, if you like.
Rush Limbaugh. Why hasn't the Republican Party and Fox News denounced him? Do they plan to go down with him, or on him, in coming months?
Rush Limbaugh is the spokesperson for the 35 to 45% of America that is right wing, and he is the spokesperson for the Republican Party.
He is insane, the people he speaks for are batshit crazy, and the lockstep GOP does exactly what he tells them to do, without exception. Most of us would prefer to see Limbaugh and his followers shipped off to some other land because we really don’t want them or need them here. But, they do buy stuff so Limbaugh;s over the top offensive and idiotic show has a lot of sponsors.
Or did, anyway. As you know, recently, Limbaugh jumped the shark and went so overboard in his senseless, mean spirited and verbally offensive and violent attack on a fellow citizen who was merely speaking her mind (which is mostly still legal in this country despite the efforts of the aforementioned 34 – 45% batshit crazy faction to see otherwise), and those advertisers left him when the rest of the country told them that we’ve had enough the idiot.
Batshit Crazy Lady from Wesboro Baptist Church. I still haven't seen organized religion deal with their own. Why not?
And that is when Westboro Baptist Church moved in to buy an ad spot for its “God Hates Fags” campaign. The church has made the claim that Limbaugh and Wesboro Baptist have some sort of link. This does not surprise.
Apparently, the company that owns Limbaugh’s show has stepped in and refused to take the offensive drek that Westboro had proposed to air on Limbaugh’s failing show.
Bill McKibben shares a message with the 350 community about what we’ve done so far, and the plan for the months ahead. Our next big fight: taking on the billions in subsidies that the fossil fuel industry makes.