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The earliest homo sapiens sapiens crossed paths with a few other branches from the family tree. The most recent one discovered is homo floresiensis. The ‘Man of Flores’ was about three feet tall and lived on an island where there were dwarf elephants and giant lizards.
Fantasy novels, schmantasy novels.
The Raving Atheist is such a smarty pants!
“Atheists are always accused of trying to prove that they’re smarter than everyone else. If you search Google on the word ‘atheists,’ together with permutations of words like ‘smarter,’ ‘so smart’ or ‘more intelligent,’ you’ll find plenty of examples of this. The point of the accusation, of course, is that atheists aren’t really smarter, but, in fact, are stupider for thinking that they’re so smart.
“What I find telling is that one rarely finds the accusation launched in the opposite direction. No one accuses ever Christians or other religionists of thinking they’re so much more intelligent than everyone else. Nobody says ‘oh, those Catholics think they’re so clever with that salvation-through-resurrection story’ or ‘those Hindus think they’re so logical with those 31 million animal-headed gods’ or ‘those fundamentalists are always showing off with their six-day creation proof.’
“Why is this? I guess I’m just not smart enough to figure it out.”
Happy 6,000th Birthday, Universe!
Scene One, June 2002:
PENTAGON: Mr. President, Abu Musab Zarqawi has set up a weapons lab at Kirma, in northern Iraq, producing deadly ricin and cyanide. We’re ready to attack with cruise missiles and air strikes.
BUSH ADMINISTRATION: Hold your ground soldier, we’re still building our case for an invasion.
Scene Two, October 2002:
PENTATON: Mr. President, Abu Musab Zarqawi is planning to use ricin in terrorist attacks in Europe. We’re ready to attack.
BUSH ADMINISTRATION: Hold your ground soldier, we’re still building our case for an invasion.
Scene Three, January 2003:
LONDON: I say, we’ve just found a lab run by Abu Musab Zarqawi. He intends to use ricin against us.
PENTAGON: Mr. President, London just found a lab run by Abu Musab Zarqawi. He intends to use ricin against them. We’re ready to attack.
BUSH ADMINISTRATION: Hold your ground soldier, we’re still building our case for an invasion.
Scene Four, Today:
NEWS: “Abu Musab Zarqawi is responsible for over seven hundred terrorist killings in Iraq.”
PENTAGON: “Here’s a case where they waited, they waited too long and now we’re suffering as a result inside Iraq.”
BUSH ADMINISTRATION: We’re tough on terror!
I’m George Bush, and I approve of the internets.
John Kerry in Doonesbury – 1971.
Scouting for Boys will enter the public domain in the year 2011.
Keep track of those slippery streetmemes.
Best wishes to Marc Almond in his recovery from a serious motorcycle accident.
‘Yes Bush Can’ has a list of documents about George W. Bush, his family and his cabinet that they want bloggers to help demonstrate to be fake. It could be that these documents are true, and it could be that these documents are fake. It could be that ‘Yes Bush Can’ is as it presents itself, an effort to re-elect Bush, or it could be that they are presenting evidence against Bush with an innocent face as a way of getting Bush out of office. And it could be that these documents came to them as they claim, or it could be that someone made these fake documents for anti-Bush people to support and then look foolish over later. So… you pick your conspiracy and you go with it.
With the death of Mr. C. S. Lewis, the hunt for the major war criminals of the Second World War can be said to be over.
I am the happy messenger (not the author) of the following, possibly of interest to Portland-area pleasanteers…
Greetings!
There’s an awful bush that is rotten in the center and has to be taken down. I’m hoping you’ll help in this righteous endeavor.
In 1988, The Common Man took on the George Bush in a U-Do-Voodoo ritual which was successful for a radius of 300 miles: Washington and Oregon voted against him. This was not enough to prevent his election and four years of naughty stuff like Gulf War I.
In 1992, The Common Man again took on the George Bush, using Dejavoodoo. It was the same ritual, but more powerful: it was successful for 3,000 miles and a new president filled the bill. Eight years of not-quite-as-naughty behavior.
In 2000, it didn’t appear that a ritual was necessary and now look where we are. Let’s not let this happen again.
In 2004, The Common People united will pull down the George Bush with a very long rope. This is too big a job for The Common Man alone, so we’re asking The People to lend a hand or two.
The ritual will be enacted on October 31st in Sellwood, probably at High Noon. Costumes from Halloween parties will show the diversity of The People united in aspiring to rid the world of an invasive bush which threatens the very foundation of our homes.
Please email me if you might be willing to participate in saving the world from four more years of who-knows-what godawful stuff.
If you can’t join in person, you can help by visualizing the downfall of the bush on that day.
In solidarity,
Barron, one of The People
barron%barronmind,c0m
Bush Like Me: Ten weeks undercover in the grass roots of the Republican Party by Matt Taibbi is one of the best stories I have ever read describing the political climate in the United States. Highest recommendations, whether you are voting or not, no matter who you are voting for.
Bill O’Reilly is… James Bond.
Meet Sonya, a member of IFOCE.
I’m George Bush, and I approve of this message. I got good intelligence from the CIA on Iraq, but then I ignored it and did what I wanted to do instead. When things went south, I blamed it on the CIA. I even talked about disbanding the CIA. Now the CIA is all mad at me and using their powers to bring me down. In fact, some say that the CIA hasn’t been as mad at a President since JFK. And look at him now. He’s a hero. A martyr. People love him. You want some wood? I’m George Bush, and it’s hard work.
It’s never to early for the Associated Press to announce: “President Bush has won re-election as president by a 47 percent to 43 percent margin in the popular vote nationwide. Ralph Nader has 1 percent of the vote nationwide. That’s with 51 percent of the precincts reporting.”
