We're one step closer to disclosure. My biggest concern is how the US government is going to react when the rest of the world finally tells everything.
In a statement posted in the Catholic League's Web site, (William) Donohue added: "What Hagee has done takes courage and quite frankly I never expected him to demonstrate such sensitivity to our concerns."
After this, no more video game list youtubes today. There's so many good ones, though. Just search youtube on Game Trailers countdown and you'll find dozens of fun videos.
But still watch this one first. And then check out the "Top Ten 8-bit games" one.
Since I'm still registered with one of the big two parties, I got to vote for Ron Paul and AGAINST Lee Terry today. And FOR "Amendment 1", which I hope everyone did as well.
Supporters of the amendment said it changes an 1875 portion of the Nebraska constitution to diversify investments and limit those investments so the funds are protected.
VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican's chief astronomer says that believing in aliens does not contradict faith in God. The Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, says that the vastness of the universe means it is possible there could be other forms of life outside Earth, even intelligent ones.
In an interview published Tuesday by Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Funes says that such a notion "doesn't contradict our faith" because aliens would still be God's creatures.
The interview was headlined "The extraterrestrial is my brother." Funes said that ruling out the existence of aliens would be like "putting limits" on God's creative freedom.
I don't like Ann Coulter but here's a good column from her on WND.
...And now Bill Clinton has wrecked Hillary's campaign, too. He's like the creepy guy who graduated last year but still hangs around the high school cafeteria chatting up sophomores. ... So before remembering that we are now left with two dangerous choices for president – a young liberal who is friendly with terrorists or an old liberal who is friendly with Teddy Kennedy – take a moment to revel in the fact that our long national nightmare is over. It turns out getting rid of the Clintons was the change we've been waiting for.
You know that cool card trick I know? (Readers: "no") It's because I know "wizardry."
How silly/stupid.
A Florida teacher may have to pull an unemployment check out of his hat after performing magic in front of students, according to reports.
Jim Piculas said he made a toothpick disappear and reappear in front of students at the Rushe Middle School in Land 'O Lakes, Fla., Local6.com reported. He said he later got a call from the supervisor of teachers, saying he had been accused of wizardry.
"I get a call the middle of the day from head of supervisor of substitute teachers. He says, 'Jim, we have a huge issue. You can't take any more assignments. You need to come in right away,'" he told Local6.com.
Piculas said he’s concerned the incident may prevent him from being considered for future jobs.
Edit: I posted before actually looking at the top 10. This list sucks. Karl Rove, Chris Matthews, and Sean Hannity are the top three with Rush at number 4. WTF?????
Pro-Wayne Allyn Root, that is. He's the leading candidate for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination right now.
During this campaign for our party's nomination, several of my esteemed opponents have spoken in favor of imposing a 30% national sales tax on all goods and services- combined with a check paid to everyone in the country (in the form of an automatic annual tax rebate - whether you've earned income or paid taxes, or not). Our campaign has received hundreds of requests to comment on the “Fair Tax,” many of them proponents. But after studying the proposal, we conclude that the “Fair Tax” is a bad idea.
The so-called “Fair Tax” is not an advance for freedom; it is a prescription for tyranny and will relegate our descendants to being little more than welfare-dependent wards of the government.
Advocating a “Fair Tax” is bad for our party and bad for America, and we believe that having our party's nominee advocate this would tarnish the Libertarian Party's brand.
Our campaign offers a competing vision.
Imagine instead a country where businesses and individuals would no longer need to account to the government for their income. Imagine a country where we can be free from the Internal Revenue Service. Imagine in one instant eliminating individual federal income taxes, corporate federal income taxes, payroll taxes, death taxes, the marriage penalty, excise taxes, and even the dreaded AMT (Alternative Minimum Tax) - all of it at once, gone forever.
Oh, and to Neal Boortz: sorry but I agree with Wayne on the Fair Tax. It's a great idea until you bring in the whole part about rebate checks.
That's kind of surprising. As much as I like Alan Keyes, this is actually better for the Constitution Party. For whatever reason, people just don't ever vote for Keyes. I'm not exactly the biggest fan of Chuck Baldwin though.
Click the link to watch the latest Angry Video Game Nerd video. This one has it all. He reviews a crappy movie and a great game. He also does a parady of the greatest movie of all time and ends with a kiss-ass cliffhanger. There's also some hillarious stuff at the end that I know I shouldn't be laughing at.
Here's a pretty interesting article about religion in Russia. I can see both sides here. It's frustrating to see Catholics and Protestants treated unfairly by the government and it's official (Russian Orthodox) religion, but I also think that Catholic and Protestant missionaries need to show respect for the Orthodox faith which was persecuted for a hundred years in the region. I think the attempts at "sheep stealing" need to stop immediately as well.
While church attendance in Russia is very low, polls show that Russians are embracing Russian Orthodoxy as part of their identity. In one recent poll, 71 percent of respondents described themselves as Russian Orthodox, up from 59 percent in 2003.
There are a few hundred thousand Roman Catholics in Russia, and the Russian Orthodox Church has had tense relations with the Vatican, accusing Catholic missionaries of trying to convert Russians. The Vatican says it seeks only to reach out to existing Catholics.
The Russian government has often refused visas for foreign Catholic priests, whom the Vatican has sent because there are few Russian ones.
There have been considerable numbers of Protestants in Russia since the second half of the 18th century. After the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, Protestant faiths in the West saw Russia as fertile territory and spent heavily to send missionaries to help the existing worshipers and to convert others.
But the Russian Orthodox Church, which was widely persecuted under Communism, was rebuilding and worried about losing adherents.
Here's an awesome write-up about Pope Benedict from Rush Limbaugh.
I found this fascinating, when he was talking about the concept of freedom here. Let me, ladies and gentlemen, focus on this. He starts by saying, "Some today argue that respect for freedom of the individual makes it wrong to seek truth, including the truth about what is good. In some circles to speak of truth is seen as controversial or divisive, and consequently best kept in the private sphere." What this means is, truth is arrived at in a black-and-white way. Good and bad, good and evil, arrived at in a black-and-white way. The relativists don't want there to be any bad; they don't want there to be any wrong. Therefore, there can't be any good. There just IS. You are free to do whatever you want, and anybody who condemns you is to be called on it. Now, the concept of freedom is not that. That is not what freedom is. Not in terms of our founding and not in terms of the way the pope was speaking about it here, because freedom -- you know, we are all born as young little savages.
