France kindly corrects false White House video attacking Paris climate change accord.

We’ve seen the @WhiteHouse video about the #ParisAccord. We disagree – so we’ve changed it. #MakeThePlanetGreatAgain. pic.twitter.com/8A92MBwe6c

— France Diplomacy🇫🇷 (@francediplo_EN) June 2, 2017

Courtesy of HuffPo: 

On Friday, just one day after the White House posted its video on YouTube claiming staying in the pact would cost the U.S. economy and jobs, the French Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs posted an “edited” version with what officials said are the actual facts of the matter.

The new video changes messages like “The Paris Accord is a bad deal for America” to “Leaving the Paris Accord is a bad deal for America — and the world.” 

And the ministry’s has the perfect response to the U.S. video’s claims that the pact would cost the U.S. economy 6.5 million industrial sector jobs. “Many major U.S. companies from all sectors, such as Exxon Mobile, Schneider Electric or Microsoft, disagree,” the French video says. 

While the White House video claims the pact was “badly negotiated” by the Obama administration, the French version says it was “comprehensively negotiated.” 

The modified video shows off a deft and clever command of the English language. The fact that it is in English is a clear attempt to communicate with Americans, and in a style very different from Trump’s.

"In a style very different from Trump's" That means coherent.

So to be clear we have, in the span of the span of less than six months, gone from a country admired around the world, to one whose leaders must be corrected by the leaders of other countries like an elementary school child who stayed up late playing video games instead of doing their homework.

If you need me I will be hiding my head in shame until somebody removes this orange shitgibbon from office.

After consulting with attorneys Houston Zoo reinstalls signs prohibiting handguns.

Courtesy of Chron:  

A "weapons prohibited" sign has been reinstalled at the Houston Zoo months after being removed at threat of legal action. The Houston Zoo has reinstalled a series of signs that prohibit the carry of firearms into the gates of the family-friendly attraction almost three months after being forced to take them down at threat of legal action. 

Attorney Edwin Walker with Texas Law Shield, a legal services firm for gun owners, sent a demand letter to the Houston Zoo and its corporate entity and the city's parks and recreation department on Sept. 3 asking that they take down all 30.06 (guns prohibited) signs at the zoo. 

The signs came down just a week or so after the letter was received and read.

After discussing the matter with their attorneys this is what the attonrye's had to say:

In a statement sent to the Houston Chronicle on Tuesday, Houston Zoo spokesperson Jackie Wallace stated the zoo’s case for bringing the signs back. 

“After consultation with legal counsel, the Houston Zoo, Inc. has concluded that Texas government code does not prohibit HZI from lawfully posting signs that ban weapons from its premises because HZI is – at its core – an educational institution,” Wallace wrote Tuesday. 

The zoo argues that being an educational institution exempts it from being forced to allow firearms within its gates. 

Wallace wrote that the zoo was established for educational and conservation purposes, bringing in some 200,000 children a year. 

The zoo, Wallace added, “maintains an Education Department that employs 17 professional educators who develop and deliver educational programming on a daily basis at the Zoo.” 

“Given the mission of the zoo and the presence of hundreds of thousands of children on its campus, it is clear that guns and zoos simply do not mix,” Wallace wrote.

Isn't it bizarre that such a statement as "guns and zoos simply do not mix" has to be made in this day and age?

Seriously, what is going on in this country? 

The return of the Graveyard of the Gods at the University of Wisconsin. A Halloween tradition.

Source

Courtesy of The Friendly Atheist:  

As they do every year, the Atheists, Humanists, and Agnostics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison put together a fantastic “Graveyard of the Gods,” reminding students of all the deities who were worshiped, believed in, and eventually forgotten. 

The purpose is to get students thinking about when their God will join the ranks of the dead.

I hear there are still plots open for any new additions. 

Who would think that Bible stories belong on the History channel? Oh yeah, what was I thinking?

This Sunday, tune in to @history at 8/7c for the premiere of @bibleseries - produced by my friends @markburnetttv & @realromadowney!
— Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) March 2, 2013

You know personally this drives me crazy.

The historical accuracy of the Bible has been debunked time and time again, (Though you would hardly know it since Christians have flooded the internet with articles that claim quite the opposite) and yet the History channel is now using it as a textbook.

Look I have no problem with people worshiping in church, or believing in whatever the hell they want to believe in. But when you try to shove that religion down our throats as science in the classroom, and now history on our television sets, THAT is stepping over a line which should open up the religion to scientific and historical scrutiny from scholars who I would think now feel obligated to separate truth from fiction.

And as most of us know THAT is something that the Bible simply cannot endure.

After all who would chose mythology over reality?

Or fantasy over truth?

Gee it seems that there is somebody, if only I could remember who is famous for that very thing.

Oh well, I'm sure it will come to me.