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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
14408 Posts |
 Posted - 02/21/2009 : 07:25:48
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Harris has a poll out that asks people who their heroes are. In it, President Obama beat out Jesus! Perhaps there is yet hope for the species...
Obama Bigger Than Jesus
Barack Obama is now officially bigger than Jesus, according to a new Harris poll — that's right, a new study proves it! The survey, conducted last month in the United States, asked Americans to name their heroes. President Obama was the clear leader, easily beating the long-dead “Jesus” of christian mythology. Yes we can!
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I'd sorta like to carry the matter a small step farther. Who are your top ten heroes? I'll shamelessly start it off:
1.Charles Darwin; Scientist
2.Samuel “Mark Twain” Clemens; Author
3.Father Damien; Priest
4.Stephen Hawking; Scientist
5. Ambrose “Bitter” Bierce; News reporter & Author
6. Blaise Pascal; Scientist
7. Albert Einstein; Scientist
8. Walter Winchell; Newscaster
9. Ronald Reagan; Object of Loathing
10.Barack Hussein Obama; U.S. President and, at this point, obligatory.
Not always, indeed seldom in that order, but there's mine.
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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Simon
SFN Regular
USA
1992 Posts |
 Posted - 02/21/2009 : 10:37:38 [Permalink]
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1.Charles Darwin; Scientist
2.Philip Kindred Dick; Author
3.Hugo Pratt; Author.
4.Carl Sagan; Scientist, Author.
5. Marie Curie
6. Bartolomé de Las Casas; Religious
7. Richard Feynman; Scientist
8. Barack Hussein Obama; U.S. President and, indeed, obligatory.
9. Sid Meier; programmer
10.Ernesto Guevara; Misguided but sincere and ballsy revolutionary.
This is the list at this precise moment, of course, it will change before lunch time... |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
Carl Sagan - 1996 |
| Edited by - Simon on 02/21/2009 10:38:03 |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
26022 Posts |
Posted - 02/21/2009 : 22:44:22 [Permalink]
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Feynman, Sagan, filthy and Kil are in amongst my top-ten, somewheres.
Have to fit in Judges Jones, Nick Matzke, Wesley Elsberry, Abbie Smith and Eugenie Scott in there someplace, also.
Actually, my "top ten" will have a lot more than ten in it, but "in no particular order." Just a huge, amorphous blob of names.
Mostly because I'm not going to pick a favorite between PZ Myers and Phil Plait. You're tied guys, do you hear me?! Tied!!! |
- Dave W. (Private Msg, EMail)
Evidently, I rock!
Why not question something for a change?
Visit Dave's Psoriasis Info, too. |
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perrodetokio
Skeptic Friend
275 Posts |
Posted - 03/09/2009 : 13:56:05 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Simon
1.Charles Darwin; Scientist
2.Philip Kindred Dick; Author
3.Hugo Pratt; Author.
4.Carl Sagan; Scientist, Author.
5. Marie Curie
6. Bartolomé de Las Casas; Religious
7. Richard Feynman; Scientist
8. Barack Hussein Obama; U.S. President and, indeed, obligatory.
9. Sid Meier; programmer
10.Ernesto Guevara; Misguided but sincere and ballsy revolutionary.
This is the list at this precise moment, of course, it will change before lunch time...
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Ah! Hugo Pratt is genious! Umberto Eco stated that when he wants to read something serious, he reads Hugo Pratt´s comics.
My favourite: Corto Maltes
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"Yes I have a belief in a creator/God but do not know that he exists." Bill Scott
"They are still mosquitoes! They did not turn into whales or lizards or anything else. They are still mosquitoes!..." Bill Scott
"We should have millions of missing links or transition fossils showing a fish turning into a philosopher..." Bill Scott |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 03/09/2009 : 14:52:04 [Permalink]
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My research shows that Barack Obama is probably about 13.5 inches (34.29 cm) bigger than Jesus.
According to what I've found, ancient adult Judeans averaged about five feet (152.4 cm) tall. Obama is 6' 1½" (187 cm) tall.
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
Here's a link to Moonscape News, and one to its Archive. |
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Obama bigger’n Jesus!
