Wednesday Reads: Countdown to Thanksgiving… #OrangeTheWorld
Posted: November 25, 2015 Filed under: morning reads, SDB Evening News Reads | Tags: #OrangeTheWorld, Novemeber 25th UN's international Day for the Ilimination of Violence against Women, UN, violence against women 15 Comments
Happy Thanksgiving’s Eve
Damn, it is the Ghost of Thanksgiving’s Past……There is nothing like having a pissed off old bird haunting you night…and day.
Especially one who is fighting against Violence against Women!!!!!!!!!
(I am the pissed off old bird in that scenario.)
Today is November 25th, and each year….November 25th…. marks the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – 25 November
Why This International Day?
- Violence against women is a human rights violation
- Violence against women is a consequence of discrimination against women, in law and also in practice, and of persisting inequalities between men and women
- Violence against women impacts on, and impedes, progress in many areas, including poverty eradication, combating HIV/AIDS, and peace and security
- Violence against women and girls is not inevitable. Prevention is possible and essential
- Violence against women continues to be a global pandemic.
Facts and Figures
- 35% of women and girls globally experience some form of physical and or sexual violence in their lifetime with up to seven in ten women facing this abuse in some countries.
- An estimated 133 million girls and women have experienced some form of female genital mutilation/cutting in the 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where the harmful practice is most common.
- Worldwide, more than 700 million women alive today were married as children, 250 million of whom were married before the age of 15. Girls who marry before the age of 18 are less likely to complete their education and more likely to experience domestic violence and complications in childbirth.
- The costs and consequence of violence against women last for generations.
From 25 November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, to 10 December, Human Rights Day, the16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaign is a time to galvanize action to end violence against women and girls around the world.
This year, the United Nations Secretary-General’s Campaign UNiTE to End Violence against Women invites you to “Orange the world: End violence against women and girls.” Join the UNiTE campaign and organize “Orange Events” between 25 November and 10 December 2015.
#OrangeTheWorld
So to “celebrate” this International Day to end Violence against Women, the National Institute of Health, has a series of three articles, and various links, that you should give some time to today.
Confronting Violence: Home page Exhibition…
Nurses changed the way the medical profession identified and treated women who were battered. By the 1990s, all the major medical organizations recognized domestic violence as a significant health issue and urged their members to take action, reinforcing over a decade of advocacy by nurses and their allies.
Temperance and women’s rights advocates called attention to family violence and agitated for reform during the mid-19th century. Despite their efforts, society as a whole continued to ignore domestic violence.
Activists and reformers in the United States have long recognized the harm of domestic violence and sought to improve the lives of women who were battered.
Take a look at the main page of their program, via the NIH’s blog Circulating Now : Confronting Violence | Circulating Now
From Private Matter to Public Health Crisis | Circulating Now
Dan Sheridan addresses a group of nurses collaborating to improve women’s lives, ca. 1990s Courtesy National Library of Medicine
Domestic Violence in the 1970s | Circulating Now
Ms. magazine, founded in 1971, ran a regular feature “No Comment” that encouraged readers to send in sexist advertisements and other media.
Printed in Ms. Magazine, July 1973
Medicine and Wife Abuse in the 1970s | Circulating Now
Working on Wife Abuse, a directory of services for survivors of domestic violence, compiled by Betsy Warrior, 1978
Courtesy National Library of Medicine
I hope you look at all those links and various sites, it is very interesting and educational.
Now for today’s links. since I am running late, as usual…but later than that…a link dump. (My cousin David is in town, we are eating too much and having lots of fun!)
CNN Analyst “Shocked There’s No Violence” During Chicago Protests | Video | Media Matters for America – Go figure!
The #Justice4Jamar Protests Are a Reproductive Justice Issue – A summary of sorts…
Fox’s Steve Doocy Laments That American Mosques Are No Longer Spied Upon By Police | Video | Media Matters for America – Doocy rhymes with Asshole. Really it does!
Uh, take this next link for what it is worth: Article: Nuclear Reactors Make Isis an Apocalyptic Threat | OpEdNews
Mars to lose largest moon, gain a ring | Science Wire | EarthSky Lose a moon, gain a ring…hmmmm.
Records reveal Minnesota priests raped hundreds of kids for decades — and church buried the evidence Of course the church buried it.
Pope Francis stuns Kenyans by traveling in a Honda — with windows down – LA Times
No trunk in the back of this Honda? This Pope has got back, I mean…Balls. (With a capital B.) No Pope Mobile for him!
First Full ‘Captain America: Civil War’ Trailer Sees Heroes Fighting Heroes : T-Lounge : Tech Times
6 Widely Repeated Phrase Origins—Debunked! | Mental Floss
4. UPPER CRUST
Getty ImagesThe Tall Tale: Bread was divided according to status. Workers got the burnt bottom of the loaf, the family got the middle, and guests got the top, or “upper crust.”
The Facts: An isolated source hints at such a custom. One of the first printed books on household management, John Russell’s Boke of Nurture, circa 1460, says (translated into modern English), “Take a loaf…and lay [a trencher] before your lord; lay four trenchers four-square, and another on the top. Take a loaf of light bread, pare the edges, cut the upper crust for your lord.” It’s not clear whether the upper crust was considered the tastiest nibble or the sturdiest substitute for a plate, but such instructions have cropped up nowhere else. Over the centuries, the phrase upper crust appears in reference to the earth’s surface, bread and pies. But it’s not until the 19th century that we find it used to mean upper class, so the connection with the apportioning of a loaf is dubious.
In the 19th century, upper crust appears as a slang term for the human head or a hat. In 1826,The Sporting Magazine reported, “Tom completely tinkered his antagonist’s upper-crust.” Most likely it’s simply the idea of the upper crust being the top that made it a metaphor for the aristocracy. Here’s how Thomas Chandler Haliburton put it in 1838’s The Clockmaker; or the sayings and doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville: “It was none o’ your skim-milk parties, but superfine uppercrust real jam.”
13 Scientific Terms Even Smart People Misuse | Mental Floss Speaking of Moons and Rings.
4., 5., AND 6. METEOR, METEORITE, AND ASTEROID
Although some use these terms interchangeably, meteors, meteorites, and asteroids are all different things. Here’s how to use them correctly: Asteroids are the rocky bodies that orbit the Sun mostly between Mars and Jupiter; they’re much smaller than planets, and they’re sometimes pulled out of their orbit by the force of Jupiter’s gravity and travel toward the inner solar system. The vast majority of meteorites—rocks that fall to Earth from space and actually reach the Earth’s surface—are parts of asteroids. Like meteorites, meteors are objects that enter Earth’s atmosphere from space—but they’re typically grain-sized pieces of comet dust that burn up before reaching the ground, leaving behind trails that we call “shooting stars” as they vaporize.
Football On Thanksgiving Is Nearly As Old As The Holiday Itself
On Nov. 6, 1869, 25 players from Rutgers University carried scarlet handkerchiefs onto a field in northern New Jersey as a means of distinguishing themselves from the opposing Princeton squad. That matchup marked what is considered today the first football game ever played. Only weeks later, the country’s newest sport would be played on one of its newest official holidays: Thanksgiving. And so, the longstanding tradition of football on Turkey Day was born.
Football and Thanksgiving have been coupled almost since the birth of each of them. Abraham Lincoln had declared Thanksgiving a national holiday in 1863, just six years prior to the first football game on Thanksgiving, played so soon after the sport’s invention. After that inaugural game in 1869, high school and college teams throughout the rest of the century, and throughout the rest of the country, began to purposely schedule games on Thanksgiving, when the day off would bring the greatest number of people to the local fields to support the amateur squads.
I had no idea football went back that far…
Twitter Proves There’s Nothing Like #ThanksgivingWithHispanics
Tuesday morning #ThanksgivingWithBlackFamilies began trending on Twitter, and it wasn’t long before #ThanksgivingWithHispanics followed suit.
Using the hashtag, Twitter users shared hilarious tweets, memes, vines and photos that all perfectly captured the spirit of #ThanksgivingWithHispanics. No topic was left untouched and no relative was spared. We’ve rounded up some of the best tweets and listed them below. You’re welcome.
Go to the link to see a few of those. As well as:
#ThanksgivingwithCubans:
https://twitter.com/smarlitos_/status/669276051726589953
And, there is also, #ThanksgivingWithItalianFamilies:
https://twitter.com/Shyann_Ringgold/status/669561214398308352
Some of them even overlap:
https://twitter.com/Michelejx_/status/669178781488295936
This is an open thread….
Goodfellas, The F*cking Best Movie Ever Made. Open Thread.
Posted: April 26, 2015 Filed under: just because, SDB Evening News Reads | Tags: Goodfellas, Lorraine Bracco, Martin Scorsese, Nicholas Pileggi, Paul Sorvino, Ray Liotta, Robert DeNiro, Tribeca Film Festival 11 Comments
Good Evening
It’s been 25 years since “Goodfellas” was released in 1990 and yet the film still remains a favorite. Well, it is my favorite anyway….
You can see what the cast looks like now after 25 years at that link.
The film was celebrated at the Tribeca film festival today. So enjoy these next few links that discuss the one and only Goodfellas.
‘Goodfellas’ actors spill secrets for 25th anniversary – NY Daily News
Just like the character he played in “Goodfellas,” Ray Liotta sang like a canary Saturday at the 25th anniversary reunion for the mob classic.
Capping the 12-day Tribeca Film Festival, actors Robert De Niro, Lorraine Bracco, Paul Sorvino and screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi more than amused a Beacon Theatre audience with behind-the-scenes tales from the beloved flick, which opened in 1990.
But it was Liotta, who played mob informant Henry Hill, who truly spilled the beans, telling a rapt crowd that Joe Pesci’s famous “Do I Amuse You” sequence was almost entirely improvised.
“Joe was just telling a story in rehearsal about something that happened to him in Queens,” Liotta recalled. “Some guy, who happened to be a connected guy, said, ‘You think that’s funny?’”
Actually, that is not anything new as far as news…we all have heard about that tale from Joe Pesci before.
But more here:
Of the many delicious scenes in Goodfellas, the one that lingers longest is that of Paulie Cicero slicing garlic with a razor blade.
“The character in real life actually did that! And people have asked me if those were stunt hands — no, they’re mine,” Paul Sorvino recalled to The Hollywood Reporter of the move, which he recently re-created on Rachael Ray. “But do not mix garlic and onions together — if I hear you did, I’m going to hunt you down.”
Ray Liotta also joked of the scene, “I like it a little thicker — not as thin as they do!” and Debi Mazar, who actually hadn’t ever seen the movie on the big screen before, warned fans, “Don’t slice your garlic with a razor blade — there’s no reason to do that!”
The three shared hugs at New York City’s Beacon Theatre on Saturday night, along with Robert De Niro and Lorraine Bracco, for the 25th anniversary of the Martin Scorsese gangster classic — a reunion that closed the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival and included about a dozen members of the 1990 film’s other cast and crew in the audience.
“Joe Pesci couldn’t be here, but he sent this email: ‘F—, f—, f—, f—ity f—, f—'” read De Niro, introducing the film with fest co-founder Jane Rosenthal. “I’ll translate: ‘Dear Bob, sorry I can’t be there. Love to all. Best, Joe.'”
Scorsese and producer Irwin Winkler sent video messages to the audience, as they’re currently filming Silence in Taiwan. “I remember the previews were one of the worst experiences of my life — we had three of them and they were all in California. … It seemed that the audience had to be prepared for what it was, but there was a lot of controversy,” Scorsese said of debuting the crime drama, in which his parents also appear. He then addressed screenwriter Nicholas Pileggi: “Remember that nice Italian restaurant in Tribeca that we used to go to? And then when the film came out, the owner of the restaurant said we’re not allowed in anymore because we apparently denigrated a certain ethnic group for the picture?”
That I have to say no…I can’t agree with that. Because what I saw, is what I grew up with. Sorry.
The scene with the Mother and Tommy and eating spaghetti and talking about settling down…no, that is as real as it gets.
As far as the mobsters and the violence, ugh….no comment. (Cough…cough.)
11 Things We Learned About Goodfellas — Vulture
Author and co-screenwriter Pileggi didn’t believe it was Scorsese calling him.
After Wiseguy, Pileggi’s book about the life of Henry Hill, came out, Martin Scorsese called the writer numerous times to talk about adapting it. Pileggi, a writer for New York (hey!) at the time, said he would get “these pink slips saying, ‘Call Marty Scorsese.’” But he refused to believe it was Scorsese calling; he thought they were messages from David Denby, then the magazine’s film critic. Scorsese, unable to figure out why Pileggi wasn’t calling him back, got someone in his office to call Pileggi’s wife, the late Nora Ephron, and told her to tell the writer to call him back. Pileggi came home that night to an irate Ephron: “Are you crazy? Marty Scorsese’s been trying to reach you! Call him back!”
That is the first of the eleven, go and see the other ten…
In addition to celebrating the power of film, this year’s Tribeca Film Festival also provided an opportunity for all our esteemed fake news hosts to geek out over their favorite films. Colbert talked to his hero George Lucas about “Star Wars,” John Oliver moderated a lively Monty Python reunion, and last night, diehard “Goodfellas” fanboy Jon Stewart closed out the festival with a celebration of the 25th anniversary of Martin Scorsese’s iconic gangster film.
Following a screening of a remastered print of the film at New York’s Beacon Theater, Stewart moderated a Q&A with stars Robert DeNiro, Ray Liotta, Paul Sorvino, Lorraine Bracco and screenwriter and “Wiseguy” author Nicholas Pileggi.
“What a thrill for me tonight, this is one of my most favorite movies of all time,” said Stewart upon introducing the panel, adding that the film was “one that, when I saw back in 1990, nearly ruined my life, because at that point, I could only talk in ‘Goodfellas.’ I was a comedian, so you can only imagine our conversations ended with ‘funny, how?’”
Scorsese, who couldn’t be there because he was shooting in Taipei, sent a taped video message, in which he chatted candidly about the film and gave a shoutout to the panel’s moderator, saying: “Jon, if you were around at the time, we would’ve put you in the picture. I’m not exactly sure where, but…”
[…]
Super-fan Stewart, meanwhile, appeared to still be holding out hope for a sequel. “When you do a classic like this and then you think about ‘Godfather 1,’ ‘Godfather 2,’ ‘Godfather 3,’ do you think ‘Goodfellas,’ ‘Greatfellas?’” he quipped to the group. “You could have ruined this very easily.”
And now a bit of the real thing:
The Real Goodfellas: The Mysterious Fate of Tommy DeSimone
SPOILER ALERT:This article is all about endings, but it is still has no finish.
In Martin Scorsese’s classic gangster film Goodfellas, Tommy DeVito, played by Joe Pesci, gets whacked by John Gotti’s family in retribution for killing made man Billy Batts, played by Frank Vincent. Robert De Niro’s character “Jimmy the Gent” Conway gets the news in a phone booth which he pummels in a fit of rage. Scorsese got his dope from Henry Hill, who ratted out his friends to the feds and told all in a best-selling book called Wise Guy. In the movie, Tommy has to be buried in a closed coffin because he was shot in the face.
Tommy DeVito is based on Tommy DeSimone, aka “Two-Gun Tommy” or “Tommy D.” Most news reports, including one of mine, are based on Wise Guy and the press reports surrounding the $6 million dollar Lufthansa heist at John F. Kennedy International Airport. The problem is, the Gotti crew had nothing to do with the death of DeSimone. Tommy wasn’t buried in a closed coffin. He was never buried at all. His body was never found.
I’ve posted this next link before, but what the hell: Loretta Lynch Versus the Goodfellas – NationalJournal.com
And just for shits and giggles: The Bizarre, Fantastic Joe Pesci Link Between Jersey Boys and Goodfellas | TIME
Pretty much everyone is familiar with Joe Pesci, either from his role in popular Christmas-themed children’s film Home Alone or his role in Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning gangster classic Goodfellas. He largely retired from acting in 1999, but starting today, you can see him on the big screen in Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys. Just one hitch: you’ll be seeing an actor (Joseph Russo) playing the character “Joe Pesci” rather than the actor Joe Pesci playing a character in the film.
Jersey Boys the film is based on Jersey Boys the play, which tells the story of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons from the group’s inception all the way through to (spoiler alert) the group’s reunion at the 1990 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Turns out, Joe Pesci actually played a not-inconsequential role in the formation of the popular doo-wop band. Growing up near Newark, N.J., young Pesci was friendly with Tommy Devito and the rest of the band and, according to the canon that the film presents, Pesci connected DeVito (the band’s behind-the-scenes leader at the time) with “Short-Shorts” writer Bob Gaudio, who would later write nearly all of the Four Seasons’ most popular songs. Now, according to the movie, DeVito works for Pesci. Yeah, that Joe Pesci. Small world, right?
The connection doesn’t end there, though. Later, Pesci—the actor, not the Jersey Boys character, who was a real person but not played by Joe Pesci because real-life Pesci was already in his 60s by the time Jersey Boys the play arrived on Broadway in 2005—starred in Scorsese’s Goodfellas. His name in the film? Tommy DeVito. And in case that weren’t enough of an in-joke, at one point during Goodfellas, Karen (Lorraine Bracco) confronts Henry (Ray Liotta), and says to him, “”Who the hell do you think you are, Frankie Valli or some kinda big shot?” Valli, in addition to being the lead singer in the Four Seasons, also allegedly had ties to the Italian mob (as did DeVito), so there’s more than enough self-referentiality going on here.
Anyhow, here’s the point: without Joe Pesci, we likely wouldn’t have The Four Seasons, Jersey Boys (the play or the film), Goodfellas or My Cousin Vinny. There are likely plenty more links to be made, but probably best to stop here before the universe collapses on itself.
So….what do you know…ain’t that funny….funny how?
But quick:
Power of Nepal earthquake was equivalent to 20 atomic bombs – Asia – World – The Independent
Clinton Foundation on Donor Disclosure: ‘We Made Mistakes’ | Mediaite
Stephanopoulos Challenges Clinton Cash Author: ‘Is There a Smoking Gun?’ | Mediaite
Smoke But No Gun Yet | The Mahablog
John Boehner Accuses Hillary Clinton of Breaking the Law
And this next story is crazy…
‘F*ck this court — I AM Justice’: Woman uncorks berserk legal rant after civil rights suit tossed
Full court filing can be found here: Very Angry Lady Successfully Files “Fuck This Court” Legal Brief
and if you read down at that Gawker link for the Pepperment comment you will find the full story behind the story:
http://gawker.com/this-is-amazing-by-the-way-the-background-is-that-our-1699883511
This is an open thread.
Friday Nite Lite: Women’s Rights Needs a SuperShero!
Posted: January 17, 2014 Filed under: abortion rights, American Gun Fetish, Environmental Protection, Foreign Affairs, Political and Editorial Cartoons, Republican politics, Russia, SDB Evening News Reads, Women's Rights | Tags: Elk River, Sochi 2014, West Virginia 28 CommentsWe all need a SuperShero!!!!!
I got a little creative late last night, well…early this morning….anyway, hope you enjoy my little twitter story below:
https://twitter.com/MinkoffMinx/status/424110999327612928
https://twitter.com/MinkoffMinx/status/424111823692918784
https://twitter.com/MinkoffMinx/status/424112687052640257
https://twitter.com/MinkoffMinx/status/424115273025585153
https://twitter.com/MinkoffMinx/status/424115772231647232
There was once a comic book character named Woman in Red, its a shame she isn’t still around, kicking right-wing ass around Washington DC. It even sounds like she may be needed in the halls of the Supreme Court! Anyway, here…take a look at a little history of:
The Woman in Red is a fictional character who first appeared in the period known to comic book historians as the Golden Age of Comic Books. Created by writer Richard E. Hughes and artist George Mandel, she first appeared in Thrilling Comics #2 (March 1940), published by Nedor Comics. The character was later revived by writer Alan Moore for America’s Best Comics.
The Woman in Red is the secret identity of policewoman Peggy Allen. Frustrated by the limitations of her job, Peggy creates a secret identity. As the Woman in Red, she wears a red, floor-length coat, hood, and mask.
The Woman in Red made her debut in Thrilling Comics #2 (March 1940). Comics historian Trina Robbins has identified the Woman in Red as the first masked female crime fighter, preceding such better known characters as Wonder Woman, Phantom Lady, and Mary Marvel,[1] with Fantomah, who debuted one month earlier, being the first female superheroine.[2] While the Woman in Red never made a cover appearance, she continued to appear regularly in issues of Thrilling Comics. Her last Golden Age appearance was in issue #46 (February 1945).[3]
Now for the cartoons.
AAEC – Political Cartoon by Joel Pett, Lexington Herald-Leader – 01/14/2014
Poverty War – Political Cartoon by Rob Rogers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – 01/14/2014
Bridgegate – Political Cartoon by Rob Rogers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – 01/16/2014
AAEC – Political Cartoon by David Horsey, Los Angeles Times – 01/15/2014
Inventor of the Internet by Political Cartoonist Pat Bagley
AAEC – Political Cartoon by Nick Anderson, Houston Chronicle – 01/15/2014
Signe Wilkinson: Water Contamination – Signe Wilkinson – Truthdig
kid viiolence by Political Cartoonist Bill Schorr
Justin Bieber egg raid by Political Cartoonist Dave Granlund
Shooting by Political Cartoonist Milt Priggee
Wrong Airport by Political Cartoonist Steve Kelley
Lazier Congress by Political Cartoonist John Darkow
Unaided Unemployed by Political Cartoonist Steve Sack
Mission to Mars by Political Cartoonist Pat Bagley
Got Water by Political Cartoonist Steve Sack
This is a little op-ed on Winter Olympics: The Untold Story by Danny Tyree
Hundreds of millions of people will be following the 2014 Winter Olympics, even though the underwhelming motto (“Hot. Cool. Yours.”) sounds less like a paean to athletic excellence than the sort of progression that accompanies a court-ordered paternity suit.
Sochi curling by Political Cartoonist Hajo de Reijger
Mike Luckovich: Another Bridge Scandal – Mike Luckovich – Truthdig
Tip by Political Cartoonist David Fitzsimmons
This is an open thread!
Idiots among us: Open Thread
Posted: December 30, 2013 Filed under: Republican politics, SDB Evening News Reads, U.S. Politics 30 Comments
Evening all…
I guess you can imagine what I’ve been up to the past few days? Well, it took all day Saturday to download all the documents and files from the CSP Sandy Hook School Shooting. Since that time I have been trying to work my way through the mess…
Coming up for air, I found these two items of interest and could not go the rest of the evening without making a post about them. We truly are turning into the Idiocracy society.
Survey: The number of Republicans who believe in human evolution has declined
A growing partisan divide is emerging between Republicans and Democrats on human evolution, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center. Forty-eight percent of self-identified Republicans told Pew in a study released Monday that they believe humans “existed in their present form since the beginning of time.” On the contrary, 43% of Republicans said the opposite, that they believed humans “have evolved over time.”
That is a sizable shift from 2009, the last time Pew asked the question. In that survey, a majority of Republicans – 54% – told Pew they believed in human evolution.
The percentage of Democrats who believe in human evolution, on the other hand, grew in the last four years. Two-thirds (67%) said they believe in human evolution, compared to 27% who said they didn’t.
In 2009, the number of Democrats who said humans evolved over time was 64%.
“I didn’t expect to see that kind of shift,” said Cary Funk, the senior researcher at Pew who oversaw the study. “I think it basically fits with a pattern of growing polarization. And we see that on some other science issues.”
No kidding!!!!!
For Funk, the Republican shift was surprising and led the researchers to check the numbers by controlling the data against racial and ethnic divides between the two parties. Even still, Funk said, the divide on human evolution between Democrats and Republican, as well as the changes in Republican beliefs, persisted.
I mean, when you have idiots out there who think the USA is, are you ready for it….2014 years old, what else would you expect?
Meet The People Who Think America Is 2014 Years Old
According to Twitter, more than a few people believe that the United States was formed 2014 years ago, and that New Year’s Day is America’s birthday. There is so much about this idea that doesn’t make sense. If New Year’s is America’s birthday, is it a different year in different countries? Did you never take any history class or speak to another human being?
Maybe some of these people are joking. PLEASE let them be joking.
And if you really want to laugh, or maybe cry…go to the link and see the idiots who think the world is only 2014 years old.
But..back to the pew poll results: One-Third of Americans Don’t Believe in Human Evolution | LiveScience
A belief in evolution does not necessarily preclude belief in God, the survey found. Nearly a quarter (24 percent) of Americans agreed with the statement, “a supreme being guided the evolution of living things for the purpose of creating humans and other life in the form it exists today.”
Pew last surveyed Americans about their beliefs in evolution in 2009, and found that the proportion of believers and non-believers has not changed. Sixty percent of Americans say they believe that humans and other animals have evolved over time. Thirty-three percent say there is no such thing as evolution. [Top 10 Mysteries of the First Humans]
Major religious differences underlie these responses. A majority (64 percent) of white evangelical Protestants disbelieve evolution, compared with 15 percent of white mainline Protestants. Black Protestants are evenly split on the question of evolution.
Among Catholics, Hispanics are slightly less likely to believe in evolution than whites: Fifty-three percent of Hispanic Catholics said humans have evolved over time, compared with 68 percent of White Catholics.
Both white Catholics and white Protestants are similarly likely to see God’s hand guiding evolution if they do believe, with 36 percent of all white mainline Protestants and 33 percent of all white Catholics saying a supreme being guided the evolution of living things. Eighteen percent of all white evangelical Protestants believed the same, with only 8 percent saying that natural processes drove evolution.
Stop the world please! I want to get off!
This is an open thread.
Friday Nite Lite: Too Dang Busy
Posted: December 13, 2013 Filed under: Barack Obama, Foreign Affairs, Political and Editorial Cartoons, Republican politics, SDB Evening News Reads, U.S. Economy, U.S. Politics, Women's Rights | Tags: Mandela, South Africa 12 Comments
Rockwell Kent Christmas Card, wood engraving.
Good Evening
Aaaarrrrrhhhhh! So many damn things to do this time of year. So instead of complaining, let’s just get to it.
AAEC – Political Cartoon by Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune – 12/10/2013
12/8 Mike Luckovich cartoon: Impeach him | Mike Luckovich
World of Spycraft by Political Cartoonist Steve Sack
Obama and Raul Castro shake by Political Cartoonist Dave Granlund
AAEC – Political Cartoon by Mike Smith, Las Vegas Sun – 12/12/2013
AAEC – Political Cartoon by Kevin Siers, Charlotte Observer – 12/12/2013
Selfie – Political Cartoon by Rob Rogers, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – 12/12/2013
Letter Carriers by Political Cartoonist Steve Nease
(That is a Canadian Letter Carrier, but the same can be said for its southern relative, Postalus Americanus)
SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER by Political Cartoonist Randy Bish
POPE v DOPE – Political Cartoon by Deb Milbrath, Cartoon Movement – 12/13/2013
AAEC – Political Cartoon by Joe Heller, Green Bay Press-Gazette – 12/13/2013
12/13 Luckovich cartoon: Neanderthal | Mike Luckovich
Ya know, that never gets old!
This is an open thread.
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