Atlas Shrugs takes third place for Best Conservative Blog in the 2008 Weblog Awards… LGF places fourth? A miracle for a non-conservative blog.
I love Robert’s take on it: LGF pwned!. Such eloquence. Read it all, please 
Congratulations to Small Dead Animals , who edged out 2007 winner Ace Of Spades to take the number one spot. Also to Carl in Jerusalem for Israel Matzav winning Best Mid-Sized Blog.
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Atlas Shrugs beats LFG! Nice going Pamela.
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And here’s an evolutionary themed prize for ol’ Chuckie and his sycophants.
She beat Charles, that’s what counts!
Good for her! Apparently, Charles is not fooling as many as he would wish. I am fed up with phony conservatives (read: neo-cons) like Mr. Johnson who have run the GOP into the ground.
BuddyG w00t! lol
Someone posted in the Jihad Watch comments section how Killgore Trout and the shrinking lizard kingdom is fuming over this: LINK.
Killgore:
Weren’t motivated or moved on? lol
The funniest part is picturing Sharmuta going to every available computer (her many nics didn’t help with the weblog), just to get shot down. Story of her life, I’m sure.
Why is LGF upset that they didn’t win the “Most Conservative Blog” award? They’re not conservative and they no longer try to be conservative. Why be upset over not winning an award given to people who aren’t you?
That’d be like Me being upset that I didn’t get a Grammy or a “People’s Choice” award.
It is a site that has a crusade against people who believe in creation, and daily pushes for the Republican Party to distance themselves from ‘Social Conservatives’ (Read: Anyone conservative)
Arwyn- Most likely moved on like I did even though I had well over 5K posts and I was not banned at LGF, well, until I started posting here. I got tired of all Chuckles the Clown’s obvious obsession with all things Darwin. Then I got the stick, so to speak.
As for Sharmuta, she seriously needs to get a life. She joined LGF about the same time I did, and what I thought was strange was she had posted thousands of comments. I did the math- She averaged 55 posts there EVERYDAY for over 2 years!
Someone seriously needs to get a life. And I won’t even get started on that moron Koigore Guppy.
What Escovado said; total agreement with this:
Other than being “hawkish” on how to deal with Islamic terrorists, I’m at a loss to think of anything Johnson could be considered a conservative on.
Johnson is a liberal, he detests social conservatives, and so to include his blog in a contest called “Best conservative blog” isn’t right.
And I applaude this, by Lance Kates:
As for this (Arwyn quoting LGS’s Killgore Trout):
Considering that Johnson has banned many people for the lamest, unfairest, and flimsiest of reasons, it’s no wonder he didn’t get many votes.
Johnson did win that “Biggest Asshat Censor Blogger” award a few months ago, though. He can console himself with that.
Bob, I had over 30,000 posts, having been a member of LGF since Memogate.
I joined LGF in 2004, but only had about 400 post to my name, but as my sockpuppet DownRightMeanAmerican in a few mouths a racked up about the same amount.
This should be posted at LGF, and people such as Johnson and Killgore Trout should read it:
Christianity and the Round Planet
Here’s the introduction to it:
RainyDay- That was excellent. I’m surprised I missed it since I regularly peruse the American Thinker blog. I need to post it at LGF, and I can, wink, wink.
Well, next year we here at LGF2 just might get on the short list. Wouldn’t that just piss off the Chuckles!
RainyDay,
Are the nitwits at LGF going off on their flat-earth nonsense again? The only thing falling flat over there is LGF’s Alexa traffic data. I posted this over at LGF quite awhile ago…
According to Jeffery Burton Russell, Professor of History, Emeritus, University of California, Santa Barbara, “[W]ith extraordinary few exceptions ]no educated person in the history of Western Civilization from the third century B.C. onward believed that the earth was flat.” Dr. Russell authored a book called Inventing The Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians where he explores the origins and dissemination of the flat earth myth in modern times. Russell argues that the flat earth was fabricated in the 1830’s by two authors: the Frenchman, Antoine-Jean Letronne in his book On the Cosmographical Ideas of the Church Fathers and the American, Washington Irving in his book History of The Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus. The myth was then used as propaganda by nineteenth century Darwinists to further their agenda. Russell writes in a summary of his book,
The spherical shape of our planet was a conclusion easily drawn by watching ships disappear over the horizon and also by the observation of eclipse shadows. Comparing the circular shadow on the face of the moon where light ends and darkness begins to night and day on the earth was one the proofs used by the Greeks for a spherical earth. Eratosthenes of Alexandria (circa 276 to 192 B.C.) calculated the circumference of the earth to within 50 miles of the present estimate. We can assume that such information was well known to New Testament writers. Earth’s spherical shape was, of course, also understood by Christopher Columbus. The debate Columbus had with his contemporaries was not the shape of the earth, but, fully aware of the earth’s circumference calculated 1700 years earlier, whether or not a ship could make such a long journey to the orient.
I also posted this over at LGF at the same time…
What the Bible says about the shape of the earth.
The Bible states that the earth is suspended in space—the obvious comparison being with the spherical sun and moon.
The Bible states that the boundary between light and darkness on the earth is circular. This suggests day and night on a spherical globe as can be easily observed from the phases of the moon. Furthermore, the only geometry in which the boundry between light and darkness can be a circle is on a spherical surface.
Insisting that the word “circle” in the above verses is indicative of a flat, pancake-like earth is tenuous at best, since “circle” also fits perfectly with the description of the circumference of a sphere. Furthermore, Gesenius’ Hebrew Chaldee Lexicon to The Old Testament defines the Hebrew word translated “circle” as “To describe a circle, to draw a circle, as with compasses, a circle, a sphere.” In ancient Hebrew, there was no varying word for a “sphere” (a three-dimensional circle). It is not that the Hebrews or anyone else lacked the concept of sphericity but that they simply did not create a second word for it. Anyone looking at a pomegranate (a fruit mentioned many times in the Bible) would be familiar with the notion of a sphere.
Finally, Luke Chapter 17 depicts Christ’s Second Coming as happening while some are asleep at night and others are working at daytime activities in the field—an indication of a rotating earth with day and night at the same time. In the flat earth cosmology it is impossible to have simultaneous day and night.
It never ceases to amaze me how skeptics automatically become functional illiterates whenever they go fishing for “errors” in biblical cosmology. It is as if they abandon all awareness of poetry, metaphors and the phenomenological language used in everyday life.
My Biblical quotes are from the NASB translation. Most all modern translations translate the Hebrew from Job to the word “circle.” THe KJV uses other more flowerly words which really mean the same thing. The use of “circle” really stands out when you use a Hebrew lexicon for the KJV translation of Job.
It’s kinda sad, in a way. I think they really were thinking that if they just got rid of all those horrid social conservatives, the Left would flock to them, and they could be with the cool kids again, and not be conservative geeks anymore.
Instead, they find themselves with fewer posters. Really, the way Kilgore, Sharmuta, medaura and others attack people, and the flame wars that constantly break out, why are they surprised?
I think it is hilarious.
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I hate to break it to them, but the left aren’t the “cool kids”. Just the wusses.
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Bring me Solo and the Wookie !
BuddyG,
My eyes, my eyes!
Escovado , I haven’t been to LGF in a long time, so I don’t know if they’ve been dredging up the bit about a flat earth, but given Johnson’s very biased view against Christians, it wouldn’t surprise me if he or another Lizard has raised that argument.
While I was at LGF, Johnson was saying that merely rejecting M.E. (macro evolution) makes one “anti science.” That is news to me, since I do reject M.E., but I’ve never been “against” science.
I wouldn’t even really care that some people believe in Darwinism (or macro evolution) only
1) it’s their snotty, condescending attitudes against those who do reject it that rub me the wrong way, and
2) that people are not allowed to openly say “M.E. is bunk” in public schools or scientific circles without being fired, demoted, flunked, or discriminated against in some other fashion.
Anyway, Johnson and his like-minded cronies at LGF try to portray Bible-believing Christians as being idiotic, uneducated, unsophisticated, backwards, anti-science loons, and, as such, I don’t think any propaganda which furthers that view would be off-limits, including the old chestnut that all Christians used to believe in a flat earth. I would think that would be especially appealing to Killgore Trout.