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And he’s angry
And I’m a bit jealous. How can I go about some saber swinging fun and get exercise at the same time? I have a yard but no practice partner. I know better than to ask my wife. Also practicing in the front yard would be encourage controversy. I could threaten my neighbors with my light saber if they made fun of me, but I’d have to be practicing in the front yard with someone in order to be made fun of. So we’re back to square one. What I’ll probably do is videotape my practices in the garage just to see how cool I look. What could possibly go wrong? The circle is now completeplete.
Originally uploaded by madmonq
Boreded Ceiling Cat makinkgz Urf n stuffs
1 Oh hai. In teh beginnin Ceiling Cat maded teh skiez An da Urfs, but he did not eated dem.
2 Da Urfs no had shapez An haded dark face, An Ceiling Cat rode invisible bike over teh waterz.
http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
Direct translation at Shakespear’s Sister for anyone interested
I guess that’d make the dog the devil. The Devil Dog?
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http://www.edmondsun.com/opinion/local_story_067125346.html
“To the C students, I say, ‘You too can be president of the United States,”‘ Bush said at the 300th commencement of Yale University. May 21 2001
Too bad this wasn’t in effect when Junior was in college. He might have made a ‘B’.
Other articles and media on the assent of faith-as-fact. The specifics are fleshed out more in depth by people much smarter than me.
Wiki for the documentary “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed
http://www.intelligentdesignnetwork.org/
Another state trying to make sneak religion into the curriculum
If the origin of species isn’t interesting enough, no intelligence is allowed in your medical policy either.
Former Bush Surgeon General Says He Was Muzzled
Gay groups decry Bush Doc Nominee
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_W._Holsinger#Nomination_controversy
Although to be fair, it seems Mr Holsinger wasn’t as intractable as he was made out to be. Unlike a certain war we’re involved in.
It’s also against reason fix one’s mouth to say this man is not a patriot. He is.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080421/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/military_felons
And more convicted felons are allowed to help build the plane in mid-flight. From the all volunteer to the part convict army.
We wanted to believe attacking Iraq was the right thing sooo bad.
All of this occurred in the past few years. I’m not one of these people that believes a public figure should be a role model. It’d be nice if they tried, but I don’t expect it. That said after 8 years of stupid-as-smart it’s easy to trace some of this back to George W. Bush, the poster child for the pampered and trained idiot. I guess he’s hoping history grades on a curve.
The problem with faith is that it can make you some stupid things. Nothing wrong with supplementing your life with spirituality, but it’s not going to put you on the moon, Or win a war. Sometimes it’s the justification for one.
Faith is not provable. That’s why it’s not called fact. But like faith, when it’s poorly placed it can cause disaster (see Iraq). Still it’d be nice to believe in there was a giant blue bull running around the earth with a gargantuan but benevolent lumberjack. Their battles with Godzilla would be epic. Now that’s smart.
Well. Not yet she hasn’t.But judging from her recent behavior it’s not off the table.
Over the past few months she’s gone out of her way to make me as sure as possible that I don’t want her as my president. Politicians aren’t known for keeping their word. I accept that. Nonetheless their character becomes apparent by what and how they try to hide them. I do not believe all of the lies and scandal surrounding her, her family and campaign. It’s maddening, sad and pitiful. She’s got enough of her own lies to deal with. I do know there is no lie big enough to cover her my-way-or-the-highway shitty attitude and blind support of the war in Iraq. Her character is revealed in that she’s actually tried to do so and expects us to believe it. I never voted for George W Bush and don’t ever intend to.
So when I heard she was meeting Richard Scaife-Mellon my only thoughts were: 1) Meeting with him has got to feel like she’s kissing Monica Lewinski on the mouth 2) If it’s true, Bill just got a blank check to cheat into perpetuity because of this previously unheard of level of hypocrisy.
Scaife-Mellon is the guy who admittedly helped finance Hillary’s pretty accurately named “vast right wing conspiracy“. With the help of some outhouse rat crazy rat bastards on the right, they dragged her family through some terrible times. The right Reverend Jerry Falwell was amongst them (so dishonest it’s conceivable he’s lying about being dead). This group was in part responsible for the almost $80 million spent in unfounded investigations against the Clintons. When checking the links, please read the accusations thoroughly. Logic may help you absorb that she’s actually working with these people whereas shock will cause you to deny.
As a parting gift, a reminder that she and Rupert Murdock have cozied up together. A surrogate recently described the Fox Networks coverage of the campaign as “the most objective”. I wouldn’t know as their bias makes them unwatchable. Though the Clinton/Murdock affair may not be holding up as well as either might like. Neither have standards high enough to have a complaint against the other.
Fortunately for us Hillary has brokered peace in Ireland, taken fire in Kosovo, defended the voting process within her own party (not) and is partly responsible for the successes (and none of the failures) within her husband’s administration, so she has several legs stand on. Though if she keep hanging around this bunch more legs will be broken than stood on. By her own estimation she’s an amazing candidate but she’ll take the vast right wing conspiracy’s’ help anyway.
People, this is not some demonstration of her ability to compromise and work well with others. This is a demonstration of a willingness to throw off any shred of decency to prove a point. It’s shameful. That should be obvious to even the most ardent Clinton supporter. What she claimed from her husband’s presidency is not a good record, but being a whore in front of the entire world to achieve a goal is something a president should not do. Figuratively or literally.
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I know it might seem insensitive broaching the subject so soon after his passing, but I think it bares discussing. With Heston gone I think it’s safe to name William Shatner as America’s Hammiest Actor.
In his time the Shat’s work spans all area of entertainment. If you like bad music, art, television and literature you’ll find he’s done it all. He learned the faux language of Esperanto for the all Esperanto epic “Incubus.” Riding the trends of the time he was in the Satan inspired horror movie “The Devil’s Rain.” His career choices before 1979’s “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” demonstrated the desperation of someone wanting to be loved. Anything afterward, same thing. Good work or bad he is loved. That’s until the day he tap dances his way out of our hearts into the final frontier.
With the giant void left in Shatner’s wake, David Caruso puts on his shades, busts out a one-liner and places second. Beside his known work in “CSI” and “Jade” he was also in “Hudson Hawk.” If you don’t know I’m talking about, that’s because you shouldn’t. He was also in an episode of “T.J. Hooker.” If that doesn’t tell you why he’s worthy of second place then nothing will. Unlike Shatner, Caruso carries himself with the bravado of a man who’s earned his second place position in a bad actor’s race. He is not my favorite in this spot, but his body of work is undeniable.
I’d like to nominate Jonathan Frakes for third place. “Falcon’s Crest,” the original “Dukes of Hazard” and “Star Trek – The Next Generation.” of course. Few actors can fawn, play the duel roles of Williamand Thomas Riker (his transporter induced underachieving twin, a brilliant twist on the evil twin scenario) and play trombone on national television with such swagger. Few are also so shameless as to openly clamor for any chance to play Frakes again. I mean Riker.* Once Frakes outgrows his “little Shatner” phase he’ll out ham Caruso.
Any other nomination please list them in the comments section. They do not have to be a man, a Star Trek alum or otherwise Shatner-related but it obviously helps.
*Honorable Mention: Richard “Apollo” Hatch
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Islam is world’s largest religion: Vatican
Associated Press
March 30, 2008 at 2:51 PM EDT
VATICAN CITY — Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world’s largest religion, the Vatican newspaper said Sunday.
“For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us,” Monsignor Vittorio Formenti said in an interview with the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano.
Monsignor Formenti compiles the Vatican’s yearbook.
He said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 per cent of the world population — a stable percentage — while Muslims were at 19.2 per cent.
“It is true that while Muslim families, as is well known, continue to make a lot of children, Christian ones on the contrary tend to have fewer and fewer,” the monsignor said.
There was a time when you couldn’t swing a dead Protestant without hitting a Catholic. Now with the Catholic Church all soft about that kind of thing I guess it was just a matter of time before someone else pulled ahead.
As the article said it’s not so much the quality as the quantity. Those who would designate themselves as Muslim are simply having more babies. This includes the far more amiable secular/cultural Muslims that are a good bit less likely to get upset should I turn down an invitation to mosque.
Despite the Pope’s bedroom eyes and slinky dress, he can’t get his people grooving. I’m sure he’s got his likable qualities but Marvin Gaye he aint. He can’t really get excited about something he’s not supposed to get excited about. His life long vow of celibacy may sort of, you know, have something to do with that. There is no one around willing to explain the birds and bees to him. Maybe all that teaching about guilt, sin and sex worked a little too well.
I do have an idea. Since Italy’s birthrate is down let’s lend them some of our good ol’ fashioned American Duggernauts*. Known for their adherence to extreme religious ideals, oppression of woman, prodigious baby making abilities and acceptance of crushing guilt, they’ll be knocking out Irish twins in no time. They don’t need any wooing to get it on, either. They’ll just get to it like Ford assembly line workers, applying that Protestant work ethic America used to be known for. And being born in Italy is synonymous with being Catholic anyway. If the pope can just be a little flexible about these things it might work. Plus they’re a little creepy and weird and kinda freak us out.
Some of his own people think Quiverfull adherents are a little strange, too. Considering the Catholic tradition that’s saying something. Otherwise he’ll have to consider letting priests and nuns get into the fray. Their pent up horn-doggedness is legendary. A horrible, avoidable legend.
Frankenstein schmankenstein, you’ve gotta cut a few onions to make a lasagna. So there are options Mr. Pope. Have at it. But you have to keep them there. If the Duggernauts return for any reason the deal is off.
