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Thursday, August 11, 2005
Humor, Kansas-style. Let the sidesplitting commence! Here is a joke from the actual
New Creationism joke page:
One day a group of Darwinian scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one Darwinian to go and tell Him that they were done with Him.

The Darwinian walked up to God and said, "God, we've decided that we no longer need you. We're to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don't you just go on and get lost."

God listened very patiently and kindly to the man. After the Darwinian was done talking, God said, "Very well, how about this? Let's say we have a man-making contest." To which the Darwinian happily agreed.

God added, "Now, we're going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam."

The Darwinian said, "Sure, no problem" and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt.

God looked at him and said, "No, no, no. You go get your own dirt!!!!"
After the fiscal deficit of the GOP takes these people down, the humor deficit will finish them off. And none too soon — "Aristocrats" they ain't.
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Kansas has no beach.
"Public sex involving couples and orgies [on beaches] in the open air are also said to a growing phenomenon."
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Q: Who will save us from the Kansas Board of Education?

A:
Flying Spaghetti Monster.

And here's some swag that answers the question "WWFSMD?"
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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
In four years they couldn't catch bin Laden. But in a matter of days, though, they caught a
soldier vandalizing Bush bumper stickers by using a bait car:
A lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force has admitted to vandalizing cars bearing pro-President Bush bumper stickers at Denver International Airport.

Denver police say he's responsible for thousands of dollars in damage to at least 12 cars.

Lt. Col. Alexis Fecteau, 42, of Colorado Springs turned himself in to Denver police Friday.

He is director of reserve operations at the National Security Space Institute in Colorado Springs, in charge of more than 40 full-time and traditional reservists.

In the arrest affidavit, police say that after they conducted a sting operation, Fecteau admitted to damaging several cars.

"It was pretty good police work," said Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson. "You still have a right to express yourself in this country, and you shouldn't have your car vandalized because of it."

Jackson said that in late June, a detective parked a bait car adorned with a Bush-Cheney 2004 bumper sticker in the west economy lot at DIA. On July 1, a security camera recorded a man spray-painting something on the car. The bumper sticker was painted over, and the words "(expletive) Bush" were spray-painted on the side of the car.
Pretty good police state work, indeed.
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Tuesday, August 09, 2005
The FCC goes Christian. Michael Powell's tenure at the FCC was the beginning of a media Crusade, after all (Paul McLeary,
CJR):
While [Powell replacement Kevin] Martin has been quiet, he has long been on record as supporting Powell's policy of fining broadcasters for content the FCC deems to be indecent; even saying that he would like to expand the fining criteria to cover more material. Moving in this direction, as Mediaweek reported today, Martin has hired lobbyist and activist Penny Nance as an advisor to the FCC.

As the magazine's Todd Shields writes, Nance is a long-time anti-pornography activist and has worked as a lobbyist for groups that "push for Christian precepts in public policy."

Until recently a board member of Concerned Women for America, which describes its mission, in part, as "helping ... to bring Biblical principles into all levels of public policy," Nance also worked as a lobbyist for a group called the Center for Reclaiming America. On its Web site, the Center claims that it "focuses on five key fronts of the modern-day culture war: (1) Religious Liberties, (2) the Sanctity of Life, (3) the Homosexual Agenda, (4) Pornography, and (5) Promoting Creationism."
Will the FCC argue for the Intelligent Design of network programming? And what will happen to Will & Grace? And isn't "Promoting Creationism" a contradiction of "Religious Liberties"? These so-called Christians cannot claim to be logicians.

See more at the Todd Shields Mediaweek article cited above.
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