March 2010
More Fallout From GOP Sex Club Story
The fallout from the news that the GOP -- Well, that Republican National Committee (RNC) members, spent two thousand dollars in donor money at a faux-lesbian bondage themed strip club continues. The RNC chief of staff is trying to limit the fall-out. He reminds the public, in a memo, that no senior party officials took part in or had knowledge of the $2000 'get-together' at the sexclub. The conservative group Concerned Women for America said the RNC should disclose more about the episode."Did they really agree to reimburse nearly $2,000 for a bondage-themed night club?" group president Penny Nance asked in a statement. "Why would a staffer believe that this is acceptable, and has this kind of thing been approved in the past?" And, Comedian Jon Stewart, on The Daily Show, last night,(3/30/10), did a take on the GOP buffoonery.
No, Ms. Fiorina, the Jews are not "Breaking bread" at Passover
According to Politico's
Ben Smith Carly Fiorina, the former Hewlett Packard CEO and current Republican candidate for the Senate from California, has sent a letter to her supporters in honor of Passover. In the letter, Fiorina describes Passover, on the Jewish highholy days, as a time when "we break bread and spend time with our families and friends."
Passover is the holiday documented in the biblical book of Exodus, in which Jews celebrate the end of their bondage in Egypt. Because they had to flee, they had no time to bake leavened bread, and instead, they substituted on unleavened flat breads. In honor of that, no leavened bread or leavened anything is consumed at Passover (or even kept in the house), and Jews eat matzah instead of bread.
Jesus Saves, but.....
Jesus Saves
Death Star Watermelon
This is nothing like the square watermelons of Japan, but for those of you Star Wars fans out there, this might be a little preferable. Pic from Joe Stump's Photo-Stream.
Jesus Sighting on a Marmite Lid
God is everywhere the eye can see and many places the eye cannot, or at least for many Christians and those of other faiths.
But did you know that the face of Jesus is on the underside of a lid of a bottle of Marmite? Marmite, for those of you who are uneducated in the way of spreads, is a spread “suitable for vegans” that closely resembles Vegemite and is now apparently, the preferred choice of Jesus Christ himself.
A British family discovered the face in South Wales and the mother told the South Wales Echo, “People might think I’m nuts, but I like to think it is Jesus looking out for us.”
School Boys Taunt Japan's Young Princess
Can’t we leave the royalty alone? It’s one thing to taunt the Queen of England (though why anyone would want to do so I have virtually no idea) or to mock the Kings and Queens of the past, but to taunt a cute little Japanese Princess is an entirely different matter altogether.
The BBC reported that Princess Aiko is staying home from school for the moment because she was teased and threatened by boy bullies at school. The 8-year-old Princess has reported anxiety and stomach pains, which may be similar to her mother who also has stress as a result of living in the Royal Palace.
Welcome to Google, Kansas
No offense to those living in Topeka, Kansas but it doesn’t always strike me as the most interesting of places from what little I know of the town.
I was, however, happy to see that in their ultimate wisdom, the residents of Topeka, Kansas have decided to temporarily change the name of their town to Google, Kansas in an obvious and possibly effective marketing ploy to get “super-fast fibre-optic broadband” to their town, which has been put on Google’s list of places to receive upgrades.
3 Incredible Human Catapults
If you are into the notion of flying through the air and being jerked around for "fun", these catapult videos just might have some appeal for you.
French Catapult