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Missouri Republicans: Unclear on the concept

State bill proposes Christianity be Missouri’s official religion (soul stealing registration may be required):

Missouri legislators in Jefferson City considered a bill that would name Christianity the state’s official “majority” religion.

House Concurrent Resolution 13 has is pending in the state legislature.

Many Missouri residents had not heard about the bill until Thursday.

Karen Aroesty of the Anti-defamation league, along with other watch-groups, began a letter writing and email campaign to stop the resolution.

The resolution would recognize “a Christian god,” and it would not protect minority religions, but “protect the majority’s right to express their religious beliefs.

The resolution also recognizes that, “a greater power exists,” and only Christianity receives what the resolution calls, “justified recognition.”

State representative David Sater of Cassville in southwestern Missouri, sponsored the resolution, but he has refused to talk about it on camera or over the phone.

KMOV also contacted Gov. Matt Blunt’s office to see where he stands on the resolution, but he has yet to respond.

I guess some Missouri legislators have nothing better to do than to propose blatantly unconstitutional legislation.

Virtucon gets some funding from the Pentagon

Pentagon mulling ‘stealth sharks’ to patrol the seas:

The Pentagon is reportedly funding research into neural implants with the ultimate hope of turning sharks into “stealth spies” capable of gliding undetected through the ocean.

According to the British weekly New Scientist, the research builds on experimental work to control animals by implanting tiny electrodes in their brain, which are then stimulated to induce a behavioral response.

The next logical step is to equip these sharks with frickin’ laser beams.

You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here! What do we have?
— Dr. Evil

How much more of this incompetent boobery can we take?

Tape: Bush, Chertoff Warned Before Katrina

In dramatic and sometimes agonizing terms, federal disaster officials warned President Bush and his homeland security chief before Hurricane Katrina struck that the storm could breach levees, put lives at risk in New Orleans’ Superdome and overwhelm rescuers, according to confidential video footage.

Bush didn’t ask a single question during the final briefing before Katrina struck on Aug. 29, but he assured soon-to-be-battered state officials: “We are fully prepared.”

“Bush didn’t ask a single question…” WTF????

Was this yet another case of Bush’s intellectual laziness leading to disaster?

I Don’t Know What’s Worse

That Rachael Ray has to be on yet another Food Network show, or that I’m going to actually end up rooting for Bobby Flay…

Rachael Ray’s Food Faceoff!

Has RACHAEL RAY met her match? The Food Network maven appears for the first time on “Iron Chef America,” teaming up with Chef MARIO BATALI to take on competing Chefs BOBBY FLAY and GIADA DE LAURENTIIS in the Kitchen Stadium…

Composting and Manure Pumps

(from the this is only going to make it worse dept.)

Largely because of this post, Google Adsense has been serving up ads for Composting made easy, Manure pumps, and Manure removal.

I’m sure some of you think those ads are appropriate for this web site. 🙂

Mmmm, Chocolate

Chocolate Linked to Lower Blood Pressure

Leave it to the Dutch to help demonstrate the health benefits of chocolate. A study of older men in The Netherlands, known for its luscious chocolate, indicated those who ate the equivalent of one-third of a chocolate bar every day had lower blood pressure and a reduced risk of death.

The researchers say, however, it’s too early to conclude it was chocolate that led to better health. The men who ate more cocoa products could have shared other qualities that made them healthier. Experts also point out that eating too much chocolate can make you fat _ a risk for both heart disease and high blood pressure.

All we need is to find the health benefits of beer and coffee, then we’ll have almost all the major food groups covered.

Walks into a bar…

(via email)

A Ringwraith walks into a bar, sits down, and gets a beer. A local lothario comes over, takes the next seat, and says: “So tell me–what’s a Nazgul like you doing in a place like this?”

Friday Random Ten: 2006-02-24

	Name	Artist	Album	Genre
1.	Laser Show	Fountains Of Wayne	Utopia Parkway	Alternative & Punk
2.	That Voice Again	Peter Gabriel	So	Rock
3.	Siren Song	Alan Parsons	Try Anything Once	Rock
4.	The Dreaming	Kate Bush	The Whole Story	Alternative & Punk
5.	Soul Kitchen	The Doors	The Doors	Rock
6.	Tonight Is Right For Love	Chef & Meatloaf	South Park: Chef Aid	Soundtrack
7.	These Walls	Dream Theater	Octavarium	Metal
8.	The Leave Taking	London Philharmonic Orchestra & London Voices	The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers	Soundtrack
9.	End Of The Line	Stan Ridgway	The Big Heat	Rock
10.	Big Bottom	Spinal Tap	This is Spinal Tap	Soundtrack

For those of you keeping score at home…

(via Eschaton)

This port deal was approved unanimously by a board on which Donald Rumsfeld sits. Rumsfeld claims he was unaware of the deal until after it was approved unanimously.

The administration didn’t do the legally mandated 45 day investigation.

Secret terms of the deal include provisions which allow them to escape standard legal scrutiny.

— AND —

George W. Bush was unaware of ports deal before approval.
Bush administration recently nominated a former Dubai Ports World executive, David Sanborn, to be the U.S. Maritime Administrator.
Treasury Secretary John Snow had been chairman of the CSX rail company that sold its port system to Dubai Ports World for $1.5 billion in 2004.

Is this what they meant when we were told back in January, 2001 that the “adults are finally in charge?”

I hate when that happens…

Eeeeeeewwwwwwww!!!!!

A Bavarian village was flooded by liquid pig manure after a tank containing the fertilizer burst, German police said Wednesday.

Sewage rose to 20 inches in the courtyards and streets of Elsa after gushing from the tank, which held some 240,000 litres of pig manure.

“The village was swamped with green-brown liquid and it was pig manure — the mother-of-all muck,” said Rainer Prediger, a police spokesman in the nearby town of Coburg.

I’d hate to be on the Elsa tourism board right about now — talk about a tough sell…