At every turn in its thought, society will find us… waiting.
WXIA in Atlanta reports: “Two weeks after a federal judge ordered Cobb County to remove evolution disclaimers from science books, a state lawmaker has introduced a bill requiring that only ‘scientific fact’ to be taught in public schools. To Republican State Rep. Ben Bridges of Cleveland, that rules out the theory of evolution.”
HAW!
The Museum of Television and Radio has more than 100,000 hours of television and radio programming in the permanent collection. However, there are many significant radio and television broadcasts for which no copies are known to exist.
You know King James I, the guy who the King James Bible was named after? The Bible that the kooks say condemns homosexuality? Well, guess what. Go on, guess.
I enjoyed Heavy Liquid by Paul Pope.
The Vatican secretly issued instructions to the Catholic Church in France not to return some Jewish children to their families after World War II. The children were entrusted to the church’s care to save them from the death camps. But if the parents survived the war and came forward to reclaim their sons or daughters, the children were to be returned only “provided [they] have not received baptism”, the Vatican ordered.
Research for a film released two years ago by the documentary maker Aviva Slesin concluded that fewer than 10 per cent of the 1.5 million Jewish children living in Europe in 1939 survived the conflict. In a desperate attempt to save their sons and daughters, many parents made arrangements with Christian couples or left them in orphanages. The Vatican’s letter indicates that Pope Pius wanted both to obstruct and minimise the return of those children who had been put in the church’s care. “Children who have been baptised may not be entrusted to institutions that are not in a position to guarantee them a Christian upbringing,” it said. The position with regard to unbaptised Jewish children was more complicated.
The Vatican’s officials ruled that those who had lost their parents ought not to be entrusted to “persons who have no rights over them”. Only where the parents had re-emerged to claim their children was it permissible for them to be handed back, and even then only if they had not been christened.
“By the year 2001 we won’t be sending spaceships to Jupiter; we’ll be figuring out how to find something to eat once the plankton are gone and all the animals have gone blind and died.” – Jello Biafra in Incredibly Strange Music Volume II page 7 (San Francisco: Re/Search 1994).
Hard-hitting political cartoons from Kirk Anderson, including topics such as the US approval of torture and what happens when a President lies about a stained dress.
In June 1994, the US Air Force Wright Laboratory wrote a proposal titled “Harassing, Annoying, and ‘Bad Guy’ Identifying Chemicals.” While listing the categories of chemical weapons they planned to develop, the military scientists wrote: “Chemicals that effect [sic] human behavior so that discipline and morale in enemy units is adversely effected [sic]. One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior.” The Air Force Lab was quite serious about the proposal, listing a timetable and estimate of expenses for the overall project. The document is here [PDF format]. Thanks to The Memory Blog for the link, and to The Sunshine Project for the research.
According to Granma Internacional, prisoners were experimented on in Guantanamo’s torture chambers.
(Reuters) – “The Bush administration is preparing plans for possible lifetime detention of suspected terrorists, including hundreds whom the government does not have enough evidence to charge in courts, The Washington Post reported Sunday.”
AA Flight 93 was one of the aircraft that was hijacked on September 11th, 2001. Some people say that AA Flight 93 did not crash in Pennsylvania, but was instead shot down by US military aircraft over Pennsylvania. People like Donald Rumsfeld.
