my sister had a baby

last week my sister had a baby. here are some pictures of it. you can read about it on her blog. the baby is a girl named erica renee watson. so now i am an uncle! yay! i don’t really know much about what goes on with my sister, since she has lived far away from me for years, first at a private school in poughkeepsie, then at beloit college in wisconsin, then in texas, and now she has been living in vienna, austria, ever since january of this year. it was maybe 2 years ago that she got married to matt watson, whose name is not really matt watson, or at least matt isn’t his first name, but his middle name that everyone uses to address him or refer to him. my mom is over there in austria with my sister and her husband and the baby and 2 vicious beastly dogs. and i am here in upstate new york with my dad and my silly little cute fluffy dog.

you know, i went to work today, and got sent home, because there is no work for anyone on my project today. my project is for a new york state government agency, and they don’t have any work on national holidays. there is still work today for people working on private contracts, the ones with other companies.

so anyway the weather is really hot today. this hot weather must be the result of global warming, caused by the heat coming up from hell as record numbers of sinners’ souls are sent down there for eternal torment. or maybe global warming is caused by greenhouse gas emissions like all the so-called “scientists” say. but aren’t these “scientists” the same ones who believe in ridiculous theories like evolution, gravity, or the world being round? an award-winning economist and new york times columnist, thomas friedman, wrote a book in 2005 called the world is flat. and yet so-called “scientists” continue to insist that the world is round, the same ridiculous theory that christopher columbus believed when he landed in america and thought it was india. join the flat earth society or the creationists or the people who deny global warming, or the antigravity coalition. there is a famous girl on youtube called lonelygirl15 who used to do video segments called “proving science wrong”. i am sure she has a lot of fans in the republican party. after all, those are the people who believe in “intelligent design”. personally, i support the theory of “retarded design”. there are some “scientific” theories that are actually just pseudoscience, though... there is no evidence to support superstring theory, other than the fact that it does not directly contradict any observable facts about reality. but anybody can make up a crazy theory that does not contradict any observable facts. most of the harebrained theories that the religious right comes up with, however, are not that well thought out, and actually do contradict observable facts about reality. all of their nonsense about “moral values” is repulsive because they think hating people who are different and being greedy and not caring about other people are good values. i find it hilarious that the religious right cannot find a conservative republican wealthy old christian white male who is hateful and evil enough for them to like him. they want a candidate who denounces evolution, who denounces homosexuality, who denounces any sex outside marriage, who denounces divorce, who denounces abortion, who denounces birth control such as condoms, who denounces interracial sex, and who basically advocates that everyone mindlessly pair up with the first person of the opposite sex and the same ethnicity who is willing to pair up with them, without asking any questions, and marry them and make lots of babies and never ever divorce even if your spouse beats you and cheats on you, and brainwash all the babies to be hateful bigoted mindless drones. it seems most of the religious right’s obsessions outside of denouncing proven scientific theories are with limiting access to sexual intercourse with a long list of rules about unacceptable circumstances for sex, so that there is only one type of sex left, namely sex between married spouses of opposite genders but the same race in the missionary position with no birth control. as for whether the marriages are polygamous, or if they are incestuous ones between first cousins, well, as the fundamentalist church of jesus christ of latter day saints has shown us, the exact rules for sex may vary between christian fundamentalist denominations. but, i think the best way to think about religious right churches is that they are basically dangerous mind-control cults, except much larger and more dangerous and influential. they preach a crazy and stupid message about how the end of the world is coming soon and everyone who does not share their exact same beliefs will go to hell for all eternity. the republican party has had close ties to these cults ever since ronald reagan became president or maybe even earlier. and preachers like pat robertson and jerry falwell got to be so famous and influential because they had wealthy backers such as sun myung moon, the infamous crazy korean cult leader who to this day publishes the washington times, which ronald reagan famously called his favorite newspaper. most of these religious right cults at least claim to be christian, and most of them are not led by people claiming to be jesus christ or the messiah. but it is hard for me to see much of a distinction between crazy cults and “mainstream” religions. it is all the same bullshit, the same brainwashing. and i am sick and tired of it. and the fundamentalist followers of one religion vigorously denounce all other religions. a fundamentalist christian denounces islam and cults such as scientology. and most of those criticisms are correct. but they fail to see the faults in their own belief system. some of the criticisms made are just irrelevant from the standpoint of a nonbeliever, like how fundamentalist christians denounce mormons or jehova’s witnesses for having different theology from in their denominations. there are good resources like the skeptic’s annotated bible, luckily. oh, and for a good example of a hateful right-wing christian fundamentalist fanatic, i highly recommend watching the videos of venomfangx... the harder he tries to promote his religion, the more he does to discredit it. i love how he denounces “evolutionists” as evil and satanic. he is such a self-parody!

anyway, my sister had a baby. i do not really know all that much about it since i live on a different continent from her and the baby and the baby’s daddy, and even my mommy is now over there in europe. my daddy was over there earlier this year to visit them. i think that even at this early stage in her development, the baby erica renee watson is probably at least 10 times smarter than the venomfangx idiot on youtube. both of erica’s parents are geniuses and scientists, after all. erica will probably be the first person on mars or invent a cure for cancer or something.