10.29.2005

Eric Cartman runs Exxon/Mobil?




Why is this man smiling?
Because he and his cronies have been sucking us dry! Apparently this one in particular has been sucking the well dry personally! Can we drill on his chin?

What a bunch of pigs.

10.25.2005

LOL! ["Laughing Out Loud"]



Yup... the sound of jackhammers is a real problem...



Which one is blind, do you think?

10.21.2005

Oops! I missed my 100th Post!

Oh well. So this is post #104. I meant to say something meaningful to mark the occassion -- the kind of posts that I meant to be making on a regular basis, in fact. But you know what? I've very much enjoyed finding funny or interesting pictures or articles and posting them. All day I deal with the sticky and often horrifying details of our savage history, and I think I'd rather be funny than profound, at least at his point in my life. I still don't know exactly how many of you are reading or not, but I hope you've gotten a few laughs out of checking in here on occassion.

If you think of it, please click on the "comment" button below the post and leave your name, or whatever you want, just so I know all of these 1s and 0s aren't just disappearing into the blogosphere!

Anyway, thanks for reading! Here's some more picture fun! :)

Oops! Better look both ways!






Oh oh! Jesus is Coming! Everyone Look Busy!


But will we still have our tax cuts??

10.15.2005

Camera Fun

Halloween



I'm figuring out how to update my blog with my new camera phone! It works!

10.14.2005

Fun, fun!




How true is this??



Why doesn't this suprise me IN THE LEAST?

Dear President Bush.....

More Fun!






Now, this is a leader ... why do we get gyped?



Kickin' it oldschool!

10.12.2005

Speaks for itself.... and the statistic is correct!

"Family" Values?!?!

PLEASE read this SHOCKING complilation of reports about many, many "family values" conservatives — many of whom spoke out against homosexuality and gay marriage — who have been charged with multiple counts of molestation, abuse of power, and solicitation of prostitutes!

These are the people who want to deny gay people the right to a legally recognized monogomous relationship??!?!?? Insanity!

10.11.2005

This is What's Wrong With America



From a "Christian" coloring book.....

These People Share My Birthday (FYI: April 28)

April 28th Births
1442 - King Edward IV of England (d. 1483)
• 1630 - Charles Cotton, English poet (d. 1687)
• 1686 - Michael Brokoff, Czech sculptor (d. 1721)
1758 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States (d. 1831)
• 1819 - Ezra Abbot, American Bible scholar (d. 1884)
• 1874 - Karl Kraus, Austrian journalist and author (d. 1936)
• 1878 - Lionel Barrymore, American actor (d. 1954)
• 1886 - Ğabdulla Tuqay, Russian poet (d. 1913)
• 1889 - António de Oliveira Salazar, dictator of Portugal (d. 1970)
• 1900 - Jan Oort, Dutch astronomer (d. 1992)
• 1903 - Johan Borgen, Norwegian author (d. 1979)
• 1906 - Kurt Gödel, Austrian mathematician (d. 1978)
• 1908 - Oskar Schindler, Austrian businessman (d. 1974)
• 1912 - Odette Sansom, French spy (d. 1995)
• 1916 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993)
• 1921 - Rowland Evans, American journalist and commentator (d. 2001)
• 1924 - Kenneth Kaunda, President of Zambia
• 1926 - Harper Lee, American author
• 1928 - Yves Klein, French painter (d. 1962)
• 1928 - Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist (d. 1997)
• 1930 - Carolyn Jones, American actress (d. 1983)
1930 - James Baker, American politician
1937 - Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq
• 1938 - Madge Sinclair, Jamaican actress (d. 1995)
• 1941 - Ann-Margret, Swedish-born actress
• 1941 - K. Barry Sharpless, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1943 - Jacques Dutronc, French singer and actor
• 1944 - Jean-Claude Van Cauwenberghe, Belgian politician
• 1948 - Terry Pratchett, English author
• 1948 - Marcia Strassman, American actress
1950 - Jay Leno, American comedian and television host
• 1952 - Mary McDonnell, American actress
• 1953 - Kim Gordon, American musician (Sonic Youth)
• 1955 - Paul Guilfoyle, American actor
• 1956 - Jimmy Barnes, Scottish-born singer
• 1958 - Hal Sutton, American golfer
• 1960 - John Cerutti, baseball player and announcer (d. 2004)
• 1966 - John Daly, American golfer
• 1966 - Too $hort, American rapper
• 1974 - Penélope Cruz, Spanish actress
• 1974 - Richel Hersisia, Dutch heavyweight boxer
• 1978 - Scott Oakland, British post-modernist
1979 - Jorge Garcia, American actor [Hurley on "LOST"!]
• 1980 - Russell Morris, Australian Settlement Agent
• 1981 - Jessica Alba, American actress

10.10.2005

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10.05.2005

Darwin at Work #1

Surprise, Suprise.....

It seems as if the Bible ISN'T supposed to be taken literally, at least according to the Catholic Church!
From the [London] Times Online, 5 October 2005:

Catholic Church no longer swears by truth of the Bible
By Ruth Gledhill, Religion Correspondent

THE hierarchy of the Roman Catholic Church has published a teaching document instructing the faithful that some parts of the Bible are not actually true.

The Catholic bishops of England, Wales and Scotland are warning their five million worshippers, as well as any others drawn to the study of scripture, that they should not expect “total accuracy” from the Bible.

“We should not expect to find in Scripture full scientific accuracy or complete historical precision,” they say in The Gift of Scripture.

The document is timely, coming as it does amid the rise of the religious Right, in particular in the US.

Some Christians want a literal interpretation of the story of creation, as told in Genesis, taught alongside Darwin’s theory of evolution in schools, believing “intelligent design” to be an equally plausible theory of how the world began.

But the first 11 chapters of Genesis, in which two different and at times conflicting stories of creation are told, are among those that this country’s Catholic bishops insist cannot be “historical”. At most, they say, they may contain “historical traces”.

The document shows how far the Catholic Church has come since the 17th century, when Galileo was condemned as a heretic for flouting a near-universal belief in the divine inspiration of the Bible by advocating the Copernican view of the solar system. Only a century ago, Pope Pius X condemned Modernist Catholic scholars who adapted historical-critical methods of analysing ancient literature to the Bible.

In the document, the bishops acknowledge their debt to biblical scholars. They say the Bible must be approached in the knowledge that it is “God’s word expressed in human language” and that proper acknowledgement should be given both to the word of God and its human dimensions.

They say the Church must offer the gospel in ways “appropriate to changing times, intelligible and attractive to our contemporaries”.

The Bible is true in passages relating to human salvation, they say, but continue: “We should not expect total accuracy from the Bible in other, secular matters.”

They go on to condemn fundamentalism for its “intransigent intolerance” and to warn of “significant dangers” involved in a fundamentalist approach.

“Such an approach is dangerous, for example, when people of one nation or group see in the Bible a mandate for their own superiority, and even consider themselves permitted by the Bible to use violence against others.”

Of the notorious anti-Jewish curse in Matthew 27:25, “His blood be on us and on our children”, a passage used to justify centuries of anti-Semitism, the bishops say these and other words must never be used again as a pretext to treat Jewish people with contempt. Describing this passage as an example of dramatic exaggeration, the bishops say they have had “tragic consequences” in encouraging hatred and persecution. “The attitudes and language of first-century quarrels between Jews and Jewish Christians should never again be emulated in relations between Jews and Christians.”

As examples of passages not to be taken literally, the bishops cite the early chapters of Genesis, comparing them with early creation legends from other cultures, especially from the ancient East. The bishops say it is clear that the primary purpose of these chapters was to provide religious teaching and that they could not be described as historical writing.

Similarly, they refute the apocalyptic prophecies of Revelation, the last book of the Christian Bible, in which the writer describes the work of the risen Jesus, the death of the Beast and the wedding feast of Christ the Lamb.

The bishops say: “Such symbolic language must be respected for what it is, and is not to be interpreted literally. We should not expect to discover in this book details about the end of the world, about how many will be saved and about when the end will come.”

In their foreword to the teaching document, the two most senior Catholics of the land, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, and Cardinal Keith O’Brien, Archbishop of St Andrew’s and Edinburgh, explain its context.

They say people today are searching for what is worthwhile, what has real value, what can be trusted and what is really true.

The new teaching has been issued as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations of Dei Verbum, the Second Vatican Council document explaining the place of Scripture in revelation. In the past 40 years, Catholics have learnt more than ever before to cherish the Bible. “We have rediscovered the Bible as a precious treasure, both ancient and ever new.”

A Christian charity is sending a film about the Christmas story to every primary school in Britain after hearing of a young boy who asked his teacher why Mary and Joseph had named their baby after a swear word. The Breakout Trust raised £200,000 to make the 30-minute animated film, It’s a Boy. Steve Legg, head of the charity, said: “There are over 12 million children in the UK and only 756,000 of them go to church regularly.

That leaves a staggering number who are probably not receiving basic Christian teaching.”

BELIEVE IT OR NOT

UNTRUE

Genesis ii, 21-22

So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and while he slept he took one of his ribs and closed up its place with flesh; and the rib which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man

Genesis iii, 16

God said to the woman [after she was beguiled by the serpent]: “I will greatly multiply your pain in childbearing; in pain you shall bring forth children, yet your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you.”

Matthew xxvii, 25

The words of the crowd: “His blood be on us and on our children.”

Revelation xix,20

And the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who in its presence had worked the signs by which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshipped its image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with brimstone.”

TRUE

Exodus iii, 14

God reveals himself to Moses as: “I am who I am.”

Leviticus xxvi,12

“I will be your God, and you shall be my people.”

Exodus xx,1-17

The Ten Commandments

Matthew v,7

The Sermon on the Mount

Mark viii,29

Peter declares Jesus to be the Christ

Luke i

The Virgin Birth

John xx,28

Proof of bodily resurrection

10.04.2005

You're Killing me Buster! Oopps, Family Love Michael!

Some "Arrested Development" fun from last night!