#63: Never order an Irish Car Bomb at an Irish pub.
#63, Corollary A: Or an English one.
#65, Corollary B: You may be able to get away with it in Scotland or Wales, but don’t press your luck.

The bartender offered some small explosives to deal with it, but I declined. Didn’t want to start anything. It *was* Ireland, after all.

Really cute bartender. Pure Irish gal. I understood about one out of five words.

Still, I’m glad that the link -did- lead to something edifying for everyone. Serendipitous, that. Obviously it’s an Raelian conspiracy trying to prevent me from exposing the truth of their dirty dirty lies (saywha?) by numbing everyone’s mind with sweet, sweet chocolate.

Mmmmm, chocolate… NO! GO AWAY, BLACK UNMARKED MASONIC RAELIAN HELICOPTER MIND CONTROL BEAM! I REPEL YOU WITH THOUGHTS OF GUINNESS! Mmmmm, Guinness…

As for the USAFA, I’ll have to ask my ex-roommate’s little brother who’s going through Doolie year whether this is the Gospel (sorry, couldn’t resist) truth.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/08/5093/

AF vet, David Antoon, took his son to the Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, for an orientation meeting for new appointees.

He found that the Air Force Academy has turned into “the Rocky Mountain Bible College” having been infiltrated by “Christian supremacists.” There is now one evangelical chaplain per hundred students where once there were three protestant chaplains, two priests and a rabbi in total.

One chaplain “suggested” that cadets tell their mates they would “burn in hell” if they didn’t receive Jesus as their savior.

It’s scary stuff – megascary. :-O
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Dude. Microbrews. Plenty of good beers here. Last I checked there were over 1200 craft breweries in the US.

And not all of us like a beer that give one the impression they are drinking an underbaked loaf of bread infused with Essence Of Bitterness, or beers that can double as diesel engine cleaners in shipyards and aircraft maintenance.

European beers are good solid Socialist beers. That is not a compliment. They’re great, thick, turgid places for manly coal miners and fem 58th level government bureaucrats to lose themselves for a while before it’s time for the next soccer riot.

But I tease the EU.

>”I brew my own beer, this got me wondering if I could obtain some cocoa pulp, and create “Aztec Ale” ”

They already have it. It’s called “Guinness”. Or at least that’s what it looks and tastes like. And I’ve had it on tap in an authentic Irish pub in Ireland. Didn’t help.

Monty Python Reference Time!

Klaus: I’ll call the police.
Mother: Shouldn’t you call the church?
Son: Call the church police!
Klaus: All right. (shouting) The Church Police!

(sirens racing up, followed by a tremendous crash)
(the church police burst in the door)

Detective: What’s all this then, Amen!
Mother: Are you the church police?
All the police officers: (in unison) Ho, Yes!

Please tell me that an intelligent rational person really doesn’t believe this statement, “to be used aggressively and reduce the rights of others (for example, the right not to be proselytized at).”

You’d rather further erode a person’s free speech because you don’t have the testicular fortitude to tell them you’re not interested in hearing about it?

I think you’d agree that our American school system (in general of course) is lacking in the Math and Science departments. It’s because we (royal we) teach to the lowest common denominator, then wonder why we lag behind.

Your version of liberty is legislate to the lowest common denominator, and if we actually follow that asinine plan we too will ultimately suffer in the long run.

I would never oppose a bill that solidifies an American’s right to free speech, even if that person wants to freely speak about something I don’t agree with.

There are lots of morons out there who believe that CFC’s are directly eroding the ozone layer, I will never take away their right to talk about that even though I know it’s completely wrong. I just tell them they are nuts and it’s usually a short conversation. You should offer the rest of the American Citizens the same right to speak freely about subjects even if they are wrong.

I brew my own beer, this got me wondering if I could obtain some cocoa pulp, and create “Aztec Ale” – - hmmmmm… might be a marketable experiment…

BTW, do you know what American beer and making love in a canoe have in common???

They are both f*****g close to water.

More importantly, though, you wouldn’t be trying to defend it as protected political speech under the First Amendment. Trying to notify your fellow citizens of a clear and present danger of being burned to death (note here that Hell is neither clear nor present) is not only your right, but also your civic duty.

I mentioned it only because it’s a classic example in pop constitutional law.

Fortunately, I work in an industry where I can arrange to have them disappeared.

I’m still trying to figure out how to use the Patriot Act to get rid of my annoying neighbors.

Hey, when life hands you lemons, make a lemon meringue pie.

>”Call for USAF to reopen Project Blue Book”

The link led me to a story about the origins of chocolate. Which triggered a vast chocolate craving. Thanks. :-\

I meet a lot of USAF folks in my work. They seem pretty level headed. I wouldn’t worry too much about Blue Book getting a revival.

No. The child’s rights are protected by other existing laws. Don’t be silly.

>”The right to free speech does not extend to yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theatre”

What if there really is a fire?

Anyway…

I am totally looking for the biggest Cthulhu statue I can find for my office if this bill passes.

[Google]

Oh, YES!!!

http://www.nethercraft.com/cthulhu.html

Crap. Now I’m torn.

61″ HDTV or this thing?

Something more reasonable:
http://www.arkhambazaar.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=155

Best case scenario: I work as a convienience store clerk, thankfully for a family, not a franchise. I am an integral part of my store’s operation, and as such, instead of having to follow the moronic “customer is always right” mantra (actually, the customer is most often a brainless &^$ with no idea that society does not, in fact, exist only to amuse them), I am given a fair bit of leeway in telling &^$$tards that they are &*^%tards, and hounding them out of the store while swearing like a sailor whose rum bottle has been stolen.

Everybody wins because I have carefully chosen the right work environment.

That said, I don’t know enough about this particular piece of legislation to make a comment on it specifically.

If a company with a religious manager doesn’t hire (or fires) a foaming-at-the-mouth atheist such as myself, he will have to hire someone who probably isn’t as well qualified as I am for the job. He loses! However, the tolerant manager wins out, as he gets my skills, which he considers valuable.

The above can of course be ignored for the government itself, and for any company that gets a dime of federal money (I wouldn’t mind also going after those fat, tax-exempt churches either: Pay taxes or atheists at the pulpit!)

But saying to someone who pays there taxes and takes no federal money that you must hire Person A or you must not fire Person B smacks a bit authoritarian to me. It seems any sort of this interference in the workplace leads the government to make decisions that it is eminently unqualified to make, such as “is the person competent at their job”, etc.

I think it is very important that religion not be given any advantages secularism. If you refuse to work on a holy day, then that is a special requirement over someone who is secular.

Did you tell the employer before you took the job that you would not work on holy days?

And the rights of others are limited in public as well. If they get in my face, I have the right to tell them to leave me alone, and if they don’t, then they are harassing me which is against the law.

I will work to create atheist and evolution “tracts” just as made popular by evangelicals, but now employed for truth (and made with recycled paper).

Religious practice, then, is limited at the point where it impinges on the rights of others. Therefore, any practice of religion is allowed, as long as it doesn’t restrict the rights of others to live, to practice their religion, or to recieve the benefits of government.

Proselytizing at your coworkers is your right (as it does none of these things.) Firing you for disrupting my workplace is my right (as it likewise does none of these things.) A law which proposes to change either of these things is unjust and problematic and should certainly be rejected.

Firing you for inviting me to your son’s Bar Mitzvah (which I should rightly regard as a not-inconsiderable honor) would likely be illegal under existing antidiscrimination law.

“This government is still by, for, and of the people. That’s us. Exercise your rights! I heard over the weekend that just a few letters to a state legislator swayed their vote on a proposal. It may be a little more difficult to do that on the national level, but it’s still possible. Go ahead: make a difference.”

Where is this law being proposed? Any such LAW would be clearly unconstitutional. A private employer may make a workplace RULE like this, and you would be free to find other employment if you don’t like it.