I don't blog but should seeing as how I'm a writer by trade. Actually, I should be maintaining about 3 blogs: one here where I can post my atheist rants, one on my business website where I can post brilliant writing that will make people want to hire me (lol) and one for personal shit. Whatever.

I just bought 2 of the live streams for that atheist alliance convention. Wow, what a list of speakers. I'm really looking forward to it, though my wife is going to kill me for dropping the $70.

This Kent/Eric Hovind shit is hilarious. What losers. If they know as much about copyright law as they know about science, it might all boil down to an honest mistake. As if anything about those guys is honest.

I just wanted to say thank you to the Creation Science Evangelism Ministries who have refueled my passion to help end the horrible atrocities that religion has caused to our minds.

I love you guys!

Threads on this issue:

Helping to sue

False copyright

Tell us your Hovind/CSE censorship story.

Lots of interesting things are happening in the RRS ranks this week. Check out the RRS News and Affiliate sections!

For the rest of the month I will be posting on a regular three a week schedule, I may continue this trend next month, we'll see how it goes. So on every Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday the newest editions will be up. Some of you may have noticed the counters at the bottom recently, with that I've been keeping track of how many and what days readers have been loging in to read the newsletter, and the aforementioned days seem to be the most popular, counts on Friday and Sunday being especially high. However, the reason for the newly placed regularity is two-fold. The other reason is to better manage my time, since I will be going on vacation from the 19th to the 28th, and there is much to do in the interum in preparation. In the time I will be gone, there will be no newsletter posts (I'm sure you can all manage, lol) so I encourage you all to browse through the previous editions, as I'm sure there are many of you who haven't seen them all. While I'm gone, any questions, contributions, or comments you have will be fielded by my good friend and helper Adrian (a.k.a. Skeptictank, a.k.a. Freudian slip n' slide). Regulars to the chat room are probably familiar with him already.

Thanks for reading, if you have any comments or suggestions you can reach me directly HERE. Or on Myspace HERE.
Stay rational,
Jack
and the RRS MI team

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OUR HOME PAGE IS NEW BASE FOR FUCK KENT HOVIND

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MwpGKAO2t5o

http://youtube.com/watch?v=-gd33m6iSSw

Creation Science Evangelism has submitted many copyright violations on youtube in the past few days. The owner of the ministries is Kent Hovind who over the last 20 years has been seen as a public liar. He has held many lectures where he spends hours making people more ignorant as to how evolution works. He now sits in a jail cell for having refused to pay $840,000 in taxes. His defense the whole time was that his money belonged to God and nobody else.

He has stated that none of his material is copyrighted, and so far all of the instances of videos that have been pulled would have fallen within the boundaries of fair use.

Here is why this is important Earlier this year the famous "psychic" Uri Geller submitted a false DMCA request takedown notice to have a video of mine removed which included about 8 seconds of material (that ironically painted URI in a positive light). When he submitted this notice, he had to sign off stating that he did in fact own the rights to the video, which he did not. What did I do? The same thing I am going to help many others do.

IF YOU HAD A VIDEO PULLED FROM YOUTUBE BECAUSE OF CREATION SCIENCE EVANGELISM MINISTRIES, PLEASE MAKE SURE TO POST INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS THREAD ON OUR SITE. I WILL HAVE THE MOST POWERFUL COPYRIGHT LAWYERS IN THIS COUNTRY FIGHT THE CASE.

Kent Hovinds people didn't learn enough from his jail sentence. Is Eric Hovind (his disgrace to the human race son) the next to spend time behind bars?

Kents in jail, so Eric takes over.

POST YOUR "VIDEO PULLED BY CREATION SCIENCE EVANGELISM" STORIES HERE, SO WE CAN AVOID THE MISTAKES OF GELLER, AND PEG THESE LIARS FOR EVER SINGLE INFRACTION INSTEAD OF JUST ONE!

The music video was banned for false copyright by the dishonest fucks at Creation Science Evangelism (see you in court - again- assfucks)... here is Eddy performing it live....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO9ukxGzmkw

PASS IT ON NOW, PASS IT ON NOW, PASS IT ON NOW, PASS IT ON NOW, PASS IT ON NOW, PASS IT ON NOW, PASS IT ON NOW!

Oh... and fuck you Kent Hovind, and the dumb fucks you've raised!

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Rational Response Squad @ MSCD POLICY ISSUE UPDATE-2

We have had a talk with Mr. Harris, student trustee to the board of directors today, and there are some positive developments of which are notable of mention. Mr. Harris talked with President Jordan (President of Metropolitan State College of Denver), President Jordan said that our concerns with the policy are legitimate and is taking the concern seriously. Furthermore, Mr. Harris will be trying to get this issue on the agenda of the sub-committee which deals with policy issues for their meeting on Oct. 25th. If this happens we will be asked to formally lay out our case for the committee. Mr. Harris is also going to push for a campus-wide committee to be put together for the sole purpose of re-writing the policy. He wants a representative from our group, Rational Response Squad at MSCD, to be on the committee to help in the process in order that we are not only represented but so our concerns can be address in the writing and language of the policy.

Policy Update 2

RRS MSCD

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RRS MI, No meeting this month...

Due to the fact that two of the leading members of the Michigan chapter will be on vacation on the day that we usually hold our monthly meeting, we will not be conducting it this month. Next month we will resume the schedule as normal, and hopefully by then we can have more to report on the Creation Museum project. In the meantime, I encourage you all to go to the Meetup.com website and register for the Atheist meetup group in your area. The group listed for my area, Detroit area Atheists, meets on a day that I usually work, so I am hoping to make our presence know through my friend and helper (minion) Adrian, at least once in a while.

Go to the Meetup site HERE!

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Creation Museum Project

The massive project being headed by Ashley (a.k.a. Healthy Addict) of RRS Ohio and project leaders Zombie of RRS Ontario, Bumbklaatt of RRS Colorado, Lunar Shadow of RRS Northern California, Voiderest of RRS Texas, Will Power of RRS Alabama, and myself, Jack of RRS Michigan to scientifically refute and debunk all of the claims put forth by Ken Ham and the AIG camp in the Creation Museum has started rolling along, slowly but surely. We have secured 2 evolutionary biologists to assist, and are working on getting an astronomer, a paleontologist, and Father Matthew Moretz, a prominent preist and Youtuber who may be supporting us by writing bits for pamphlets on why the "Museum" is a bad idea for any person of any faith to take seriously. His participation, of course, hinges on us not attacking religion as a whole in this project, but I think this is important enough to embrace the assistance of theists who see the value of what we are trying to accomplish. This projects main goal is to attack an affront to not only atheism, not only freethinkers, but everyone who values real science and the unhindered persuit of true knowledge, because the repercussions of this (dare I say) blasphemy to progress and education will be felt by all, atheists and theists alike.

Here is a video from Father Matthew.

Here's a quick video from Ashley on the project as a whole.

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Report on the Rally in Austin last weekend

I plan to do an article soon on what exactly went on at the rally in Austin Texas last Saturday. Keep your eyes open for it in the Rational Response Column, video and interviews of RRS representatives to be included.

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Extra Gene Copies Were Enough To Make Early Humans' Mouths Water

Science Daily — To think that world domination could have begun in the cheeks. That's one interpretation of a discovery, published online September 9 in Nature Genetics, which indicates that humans carry extra copies of the salivary amylase gene.

Here was my first response:

A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, a young George Michael would rise to fame by telling us why he had faith. The inimitable Immanuel Kant also believed we needed faith in the fruition of our moral efforts. George needed faith to get over heartbreak, Kant needed it to give a foundation to ethics, and it seems like we too need at least a little faith to get on with our lives. Yes, I'm an atheist, and yes, I said it: we need faith.

Faith is useful when it is justified. But there are different ways to justify faith. Let's consider some here.

For one, we can probably agree that faith in a doctor is useful. It is useful because it allows us to heal without needing to understand every detail of the medicine or treatment we are prescribed. Of course, we should have an idea of what the medicine we take does and how the treatment is helpful, but we don't need to know every detail. That's the doctor's job.

The following began with a myspace bulletin that provoked a cousin of mine to chime in with defense of his bullshit. I reposted an article from here with the blatantly provocative title "CHRISTIANS ARE RETARDS". His text will be quoted.

So you believe in this stuff? Did you actually read any of the below before making judgment on whether or not I "offend lots of family members with stuff like this"?

By "stuff like this" do you mean logically questioning obvious fair-tale-like childish thoughts? Do you ACTUALLY think there was an Ark... a whale that ate someone (and that someone living inside the whale -Matthew 12:40)... a virgin birth?

This video saddens me in so many ways.

Humanity has been able to survive, and even thrive and become the dominant species on the planet, despite possessing numerous physical disadvantages when compared to much of the animal kingdom. We are not the fastest, largest, stealthiest, strongest, pointiest; nor the best at swimming, nor do we even have an innate ability to fly. Alone in the wilderness we are little more than a walking snack for a much more physically gifted beast. However, although many predators use numbers to their advantage, their capacity for cooperation and innovation pale in comparison to the human. We are among the few animals to get over our fear of fire, to create tools, communicate abstract concepts, collect and pass on our knowledge, and to go from adapting to nature, to adapting nature to suit us. The staggering effect of our unique place in the animal kingdom should by now be self-evident.

This is a shorter than usual post today because I desparately need to get some sleep, but I still wanted to get this info out there.

Hello, my fellow heathens. For the rest of the month I will be posting on a regular three a week schedule, I may continue this trend next month, we'll see how it goes. So on every Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday the newest editions will be up. Some of you may have noticed the counters at the bottom recently, with that I've been keeping track of how many and what days readers have been loging in to read the newsletter, and the aforementioned days seem to be the most popular, counts on Friday and Sunday being especially high. However, the reason for the newly placed regularity is two-fold. The other reason is to better manage my time, since I will be going on vacation from the 19th to the 28th, and there is much to do in the interum in preparation. In the time I will be gone, there will be no newsletter posts (I'm sure you can all manage, lol) so I encourage you all to browse through the previous editions, as I'm sure there are many of you who haven't seen them all. While I'm gone, any questions, contributions, or comments you have will be fielded by my good friend and helper Adrian (a.k.a. Skeptictank, a.k.a. Freudian slip n' slide). Regulars to the chat room are probably familiar with him already.

Thanks for reading, if you have any comments or suggestions you can reach me directly HERE. Or on Myspace HERE.
Stay rational,
Jack
and the RRS MI team

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THE RATIONAL RESPONSE SQUAD IS SICKENING! WAHHHH

Do you folks know what a defense mechanism is? Those versed in psychology will know well, however just for kicks we thought we'd do as we were told.

This bulletin is made to alert you to a disgusting and INFURIATING GROUP called the RADICAL RESPONSE SQUAD!!! THEY CAN PROVE CHRISTIANITY IS BULLSHIT! WE MUST SPILL THE BLOOD OF JESUS (wtf is that?) ON OUR KIDS SO THEY KNOW!

We shit you not.... this is what we deal with on a daily basis....

PASS IT ON!!! THIS IS DISGUSTING!

This moron passed it on... you should too!

Oh... also tonight on that disgusting and infuriating show the Radical Response Squad, they'll host a guy named Sexo Grammaticus who actually has sex!!!! ARGH!! Here is some of his material.

You can see this disgusting and vile show that you need to let everyone know about here...

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Healthy Addict leading the charge

Ashley (a.k.a. Healthy Addict) of RRS Ohio is leading a project to debunk the claims put forth by the Creation Museum in Kentucky. Several other local affiliate heads have signed on to help her in scientificaly refuting each and every claim put forth by the "Museum". The cooperative affiliate heads are, Zombie of RRS Ontario, Bumbklaatt of RRS Colorado, Lunar Shadow of RRS Northern California, Voiderest of RRS Texas, Will Power of RRS Alabama, and myself, Jack of RRS Michigan. This project is still in it's infancy, so more news as it developes. If you would like to assist us in our efforts, contact one of us, Voiderest and myself are regulars here on this site, and the others can be found in the affiliate section HERE , or by clicking their names above. The ultimate goal is to have the resulting material presentable and coherent in a format for tours of the "Museum" for children, to point out to them why all the claims put forth by AIG are horribly inaccurate in any kind of scientific context.

Discrimintory Policy at major college challenged by RRS MSCD

POLICY ISSUE UPDATE-1