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FigBoy is a 35 year old guy from Ireland

Liberty's too precious a thing to be buried in books... Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say: I'm free to think and to speak. My ancestors couldn't, I can, and my children will. -- Jefferson Smith "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington"

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  • Group seeks to furnish facts on stem cells - The Irish...

    Rated Oct 23 • 1 review • medical science, science, ireland, medicine • irishtimes.com

    The ISCF is dedicated to developing Ireland's understanding of stem cells and assisting Irish patients, doctors and researchers in this exciting field.

  • What is the Vatican, exactly? | Salon

    Rated Oct 10 • 2 reviews • catholic, law, children • salon.com

    This was the crux of the IHEU complaints before the Human Rights Council. The Vatican has signed the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which calls for all states to protect children from sexual abuse. Not only has the Vatican failed to do that, according to the IHEU it has actively engaged in practices that put children at risk. IHEU cites actions that include claiming that children and their parents have lied about abuse, failing to inform civil authorities of accusations of abuse and impeding investigations by transferring priests accused of abuse out of the country. On a minor level, it has neglected since 1994 to file the reports on the status of children in its "state" required of signatories every five years. IHEU calls on the Human Rights Council and the Committee on the Rights of the Child to open up all Vatican records on child abuse and permit CRC workers to interview workers with knowledge of these matters.

  • Democralogue - The Blasphemy Debate: In Their Own Words &...

    Rated Sep 12 • 1 review • liberties, ireland, film, blasphemy, video • midwesthumanists.com

    This is an entry for the Darklight 'Democracy and Dialogue' viral video competition 2009. 25% of the marks go for the amount of hits/views on youtube, so please feel free to 'pass it on'.

  • Creationists, now they&re coming for your children -...

    Rated Sep 07 • 8 reviews • evolution, education, science, books • timesonline.co.uk

    Imagine that you are a teacher of Roman history and the Latin language, anxious to impart your enthusiasm for the ancient world -- for the elegiacs of Ovid and the odes of Horace, the sinewy economy of Latin grammar as exhibited in the oratory of Cicero, the strategic niceties of the Punic Wars, the generalship of Julius Caesar and the voluptuous excesses of the later emperors. That's a big undertaking and it takes time, concentration, dedication. Yet you find your precious time continually preyed upon, and your class's attention distracted, by a baying pack of ignoramuses (as a Latin scholar you would know better than to say ignorami) who, with strong political and especially financial support, scurry about tirelessly attempting to persuade your unfortunate pupils that the Romans never existed. There never was a Roman Empire. The entire world came into existence only just beyond living memory. Spanish, Italian, French, Portuguese, Catalan, Occitan, Romansh: all these languages and their constituent dialects sprang spontaneously and separately into being, and owe nothing to any predecessor such as Latin.

  • Response: We dont need Hegel. The burka is a cloth...

    Rated Jul 08 • 1 review • islam, liberties, womens rights, women • guardian.co.uk

    Muslim women in the west who talk about choosing to wear the hijab implicitly dismiss the struggles of their sisters elsewhere. Sure, not all women in Britain are forced to wear the hijab by the men in their families or communities. Many women argue that it preserves their modesty and protects them from men. Many wear it as a fashion statement and some young women amusingly subvert the "modesty" of the hijab by wearing tight T-shirts and jeans to go with it. There are class differences too - urban, middle-class women in countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh decrying the hijab as something associated with "backward" rural women.

    The fact remains, however, that women get raped even when they're covered from head to foot - think of Sudan or Somalia. Nor should women have to carry the burden of men's lust. We have only just won the argument against judges who casually dismissed rape cases on the basis that the woman was dressed provocatively.

  • Clare FM Interview & Mid-west Humanists - An Irish...

    Rated Jun 13 • 1 review • radio, free speech, ireland • midwesthumanists.com

    Radio interview on proposed new blasphemy law in Ireland

  • Skepchick & Extreme Fundamentalists & Responsibility

    Rated Jun 01 • 1 review • terrorism • skepchick.org

    If anti-abortionists are driven to murder because they believe doctors are murderers, will the same extremists react in the same way if they believe scientists are murderers? And if they do, how much responsibility would rest on the shoulders of Ben Stein and his ilk?

  • http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090520/ap_on_re_eu/eu_irelan...

    Rated May 21 • 11 reviews • crime, religion, ireland, abuse • yahoo.com

    The investigation of the tax-supported schools uncovered previously secret Vatican records that demonstrated church knowledge of pedophiles in their ranks all the way back to the 1930s.

  • Modern day Isaacs : Pharyngula

    Reviewed May 21 • 2 reviews • scienceblogs.com

    "I do not absolve you mealy-mouthed moderates, I do not regard your beliefs as harmless. If Colleen Hauser or Leilani Neumann were in your church, you'd tell them to get medical care, but you'd also validate their belief in prayers. You would provide the soothing background muzak that says prayer is good, prayer is virtuous, prayer will connect you to the great lord who can do anything, prayer will give you solace in your time of worry. You would not raise your voice to say that prayer is useless, prayer is self-defeating, that while prayer might make you feel better while your child is suffering, that is no virtue. You pray yourselves. You think it is a noble and generous act for your representatives to prowl the corridors of hospitals, preying on the desperation of the sick. You abase yourselves before false hopes, and sacrifice human dignity on an altar built from the bones of the dead. You would spread the poison, piously excusing yourselves because you only want to administer sub-lethal doses.

    You are Abraham's enablers. I hope you all feel a small tremor of guilt when you sit your own children down at bedtime to beg a nonexistent being for aid, when you plant the seed of futile supplication and surrender to delusions in their trusting minds. Damn you all."