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Or my Twittering at twitter.com/ronmcc.</description><title>Ron's Transient Scraps</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @ron)</generator><link>http://ron.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>A religious message found in fruit</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xfqht0LEOWQ&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Xfqht0LEOWQ&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;A religious message found in fruit</description><link>http://ron.tumblr.com/post/135358997</link><guid>http://ron.tumblr.com/post/135358997</guid><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 11:01:50 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Sarah Palin resigning as Gov — what scandal is coming?</title><description>&lt;img src="http://4.media.tumblr.com/CCRgIw3eEpgvx7g6UibwPnsJo1_r1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/03/politics/main5131961.shtml"&gt;Sarah Palin resigning as Gov — what scandal is coming?&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://ron.tumblr.com/post/134941542</link><guid>http://ron.tumblr.com/post/134941542</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:10:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Senator Al Franken, the Junior Senator from Minnesota</title><description>&lt;img src="http://16.media.tumblr.com/CCRgIw3eEpdw8xew5pLt2Zs7o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2009/06/30/DI2009063002442.html"&gt;Senator Al Franken, the Junior Senator from 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has died&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://ron.tumblr.com/post/132375083</link><guid>http://ron.tumblr.com/post/132375083</guid><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:13:09 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Burger King’s new ad is supersaturated with cocksucking...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/CCRgIw3eEp96epa1uMU4Y6eho1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/agencyspy/crispin_porter_bogusky/copy_conundrums_bks_new_ad_hints_at_fellatio_119708.asp"&gt;Burger King’s new ad is supersaturated with cocksucking references&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://ron.tumblr.com/post/131651770</link><guid>http://ron.tumblr.com/post/131651770</guid><pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2009 06:41:57 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Trivia from Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure</title><description>&lt;img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/CCRgIw3eEp27v3fxdI6ZXCbco1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a 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It offends..."</title><description>“When I say there is no God, it doesn’t offend people because of their religious beliefs. It offends them because I am saying that they are wrong about something. It’s an issue of personal ego, which is a more accurate term here than pride (although I’m certain many of them will disagree). I am asking people why they believe in supernatural myths that don’t have a shred of evidence as to their being supernatural. I am asking people to apply the same standards and measures of reasoning and logic to their religion as they would apply to any history book, police investigation, legislation or personal financial investment. I am asking people to abandon the comfort that comes with pack mentality – that desire to be associated with an accepted majority. This is understandably one of the most difficult things for people to do. I’ll end this by taking it one step further and saying that I think most people secretly know what I do about their religions, which suggests to me that atheism is really their dirty little secret, not ours.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-9479-Phoenix-Atheism-Examiner~y2009m6d15-Atheism-is-a-dirty-little-secret"&gt;Why Atheism bothers people (John Lynn)&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://ron.tumblr.com/post/125128012</link><guid>http://ron.tumblr.com/post/125128012</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 06:14:16 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>PETA works to protect dead fish from being thrown in...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/CCRgIw3eEosfj5ajAhmxFK2Wo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-flying-fish13-2009jun13,0,7652933.story"&gt;PETA works to protect dead fish from being thrown in Seattle’s Pike Place 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&lt;i&gt;Craigslist&lt;/i&gt;</description><link>http://ron.tumblr.com/post/124598868</link><guid>http://ron.tumblr.com/post/124598868</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:27:27 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Cutting the ethernet cable</title><description>&lt;img src="http://22.media.tumblr.com/CCRgIw3eEoqorr0oCuJ6od98o1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;a href="http://xkcd.com/597/"&gt;Cutting the ethernet cable&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</description><link>http://ron.tumblr.com/post/123915876</link><guid>http://ron.tumblr.com/post/123915876</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 08:08:21 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Got the new bike rack on, and took it for the maiden voyage. ...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://1.media.tumblr.com/CCRgIw3eEoqon4l6PmSvb2rqo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;Got the new bike rack on, and took it for the maiden voyage.  Nice.&lt;a 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