You know whoo comes in all kinds of flavors. One of things that I often hear is the evils of Big Pharma! often since I'm the token skeptic, I'm asked what I think of say Monavie, or wheat grass juice, or Kangen Ionized water, or whatever whoo. Often I say give me one day ill let you know. Usually there is so much whoo I can't make an on the spot comment on any given whoo. Anyways I usually say that whatever whoo they're wondering about is just whoo. Sometimes I hear complaints that Big Pharma is keeping these "alternative" things down. Big Pharma salesmen are seen all the time in doctors offices ect. ect. I usually respond by saying well lets assume that Big Pharma was this evil, money hungry entity keeping you sick for profit. If that was so, why don't they peddle this new age crap? Why let some rogue quacks take all the profit? Well it could be based on the fact that, well they just don't work. I really don't understand why people hate medicine anyways! Oh well have a good day

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alright, well not all woo is centered on religion. Of course there is TONS of woo out there, like the crap that Oprah Winfrey allows to be broadcast. Now she's allowing Jenny McCarthy to have her own Talk Show?!!! It's a sigh of the end of times I tell ya! Miss Oprah is truly crazy and absurd, and in the business of making lots and lots of money, So i'm assuming to make money, truth and reality go by the byway. anyways, NEWSWEEK calls her out on some of her quackery

check it out here http://www.newsweek.com/id/...

so she responds by saying "For 23 years, my show has presented thousands of topics that reflect the human experience, including doctors' medical advice and personal health stories that have prompted conversations between our audience members and their health care providers," Winfrey said in the statement. "I trust the viewers, and I know that they are smart and discerning enough to seek out medical opinions to determine what may be best for them."

http://news-briefs.ew.com/2...

She says that because SOME stuff that she said was true it clears her of any misinformation she might have spread? She tries the whole "I'm just putting it out there, and let the people decide" gambit. Yeah she puts her whoo out there all right, one sided biased crap. Like "The Secret" the most ridiculous and stupid thing Ive ever heard of...grrrr better stop before I get any more grumpy . Have a great day

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Hey my fellow humans, this story is pretty cool

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/...

It sheds some light on well homosexuality. For all those nay sayers who claim that it is unnatural for homosexuals  to do what they do well, it happens in nature! With other species of animals. Anyways, I just thought it was interesting that the biological parents didn't want that little egg, but they happily snatched it up, all in an effort to be parents. I see no reason why two human homosexuals wouldn't be able to take care of a college, who was unwanted by it's biological parents.

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Hey, well I am sure you all heard about this story of this guy with "political and religious motives". He doesn’t like the way the world is clearly not being run by his ideology, so what does he do to protest Americas involvement in the Middle East? Does he start a blog, and start sharing his ideas? Nope. Does he organize a non-profit group to peacefully protest the war? Nope. How about write his local representative? NAH! Why he can just go and shoot a totally innocent soldier who probably has never set foot in a foreign country. So Muslims are equally stupid and illogical, I hope that they are punished severely. Not sure how much my hopes will be though, loll. The only insight we can gain from these tragedies is the knowledge that religion does not really guarantee morality in a person. This is truly another tragedy. My heart goes out to the poor family that lost a loved one.

here is the link

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap//ap_on_re_us/us_recruiters_shot

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Well I am just writing about a recent comment I received the other day. Apparently, my grumpiness offended someone. Lol. I was told that for someone wanting to make the world a little bit better, I sure have a lot of hate. Also took some insult of me accusing Christians of being bigots, and closed minded people. Which this person quickly refuted by saying that she was not “one of those” Christians. So what am I to say? Well here is what I think (although it does not really matter what I think)

First of all, yes I am rather angry and hateful, thus my alias of the grumpy skeptic. Why is this a bad thing? There are several reasons that I am this way mainly stemming in the way that Christianity functions, well the organized part about it. How they twist and control minds. The way it portrays itself as a religion of love, peace, and understanding. Yet proposition 8 was defeated by mainly who? Christians who have no compassion to those who are different. I also have a lot of anger, because I was once a very devout dupe, who expressed oppressive ideas, and worldviews. I unwittingly even oppressed my own family.

When I say “Christians”, I am typically referring to the hard-core fundamentalists. The eye for an eye, fire and brimstone Christians. Often I am confronted by one of those “open minded” Christians. To me, they are not really Christians, maybe some of you can help me out, but often some of these people drink to excess, have sex out of wedlock, and do drugs, support homosexuality. It has been many years since I have been to church, but typically, those things are not very godly things to do. How can a person claim to be a Christian, and knowingly commit these sins? Without trying to amend their ways? By picking and choosing what verses of the bible to follow? I suppose you can claim to be a Christian, but only be righteous when it is convenient to do so.

I do not hate Christians; in fact, most of my friends are Christians, and Mormons. The bible is not useless. It has limited use as a GUIDE. Not for literal truth, some people will have some reservations against me for that statement. I know some good Christian people, I love many of them. I just choose to make my decision on what’s right, not what some ancient book, and an imaginary person tells me is right.

So have a grumpy day! I hope you enjoy the read.

Well with the issue of the doctor being murdered lately, some people claiming that it is justified murder I began to think about the legal murder we have. I mean execution of criminals. I know that murder is bad, but how do we decide when murder, or execution is justified? I want to thank Random Factor in brining up a good point, I would recant my comment about wishing death upon the persn who commited the crime (or anyone else). My opinion on the whole thing I suppose is morphing. so im just wonering what everyone thinks on the subject of execution. I think this might be lively discussion

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Well those darn fundies are up to their crazy antics again. So a doctor who still performs late term abortions is killed.Inside a "house of god" no less, lol you crazy Christians make this almost too easy. While I don't agree with late term abortion, out of some irrelevant sense of morality, he was still murdered. What really pisses me off is  the craziness that the crazy people are saying let me quote the CNN article.

"Absolutely, what happened to Tiller was justified," the grandmother said. "He [Tiller] forfeited his life by taking the lives of innocent children."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRI...

So obviously it doesn't represent all of the Christians out there, you have the soft Christians, who are rather open, and capable of mostly rational thought. Then you have these Fundies, that well, are almost incapable of rational thought, so much as to commit murder. The stupid and ignorant people who think that something like this is justified in my mind one aren't true Christians, or two show Christianity in in its true colors, a stupid close minded rigid way of seeing the world. A belief that cannot stand to see other people be free, and think, and act as they please. so long as it is legal of course.

In any event it's really sad, but I hope the person who committed this atrocity gets the death sentence, the world will truly be a better place without him.

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