political nonsense

Republican party members were all too busy to attend Jerry Falwell’s funeral, where an evangelist tried unsuccessfully to blow up some protesters.
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More than 800 Hong Kong residents have called on authorities to reclassify the Bible as “indecent” due to its sexual and violent content, following an uproar over a sex column in a university student journal. A spokesperson for Hong Kong’s Television and Entertainment Licensing authority (TELA) said it had received 838 complaints about the Bible by noon on Wednesday.
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U.S. evangelist Jerry Falwell, a leader of the religious right who battled in the political arena against abortion and homosexuality, died on Tuesday of heart failure.

[oh well]
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Hamas’s television station defied the Hamas-led Palestinian government on Friday by airing a show featuring a Mickey Mouse lookalike that urges children to support armed resistance against Israel. During one of the skits, Farfur told young viewers that he aspired to be like the slain spiritual leaders of Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood.
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A US advisory panel added Iraq to the watch list of countries which commit systematic violations of religious freedom, due to soaring sectarian violence and government abuses, such as arbitrary arrests, torture and rape.
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Researchers investigating the collapse of honeybee colonies in Europe and the Americas identified several possible reasons for the catastrophe which included:

radiation from cell phones; increased solar radiation; bee AIDS; stress from cross-country travel in trucks; or imidacloprid, a pesticide banned by France in 1999 for spreading “mad bee disease.” Investors were advised to put their money in gold and corn futures to profit off the recession that may result from the disruption of the food chain caused by the vanishing bees. Grapes, which self-pollinate, and olives, which are pollinated by the wind, will not be affected by the bees’ disappearance; Christians pointed out that the Book of Revelation predicts that a famine sparing grapes and olives will precede the apocalypse.
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China’s national state-run television networkbanned all images of pigs from advertisements to avoid offending Muslims.

[not cool]
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Breast cancer patients who pray in online support groups feel better.
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The U.S. government agreed to pay two million dollars and apologize to Brandon Mayfield. Mayfield is the Muslim attorney in Oregon jailed two years ago after the FBI mistakenly tied him to the Madrid train bombings.
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The Dutch decided that you can’t cover your face, especially with a burqa.
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The Pope is reconsidering celibacy.
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Rev. Ted Haggard, an influential Christian evangelist, admitted Friday that he bought methamphetamine and received a massage from a male prostitute, but he insisted he threw the drugs away and didn’t have any sex with the male prostitute.
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The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles and a Catholic religious order have agreed to pay $10 million to settle claims made by seven victims of sexual abuse by clergy members, lawyers for the parties involved said Friday.
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Republicans pointed out that they don’t let gays get married.
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A priest acknowledged today that he was naked in saunas and went skinny-dipping with Mark Foley decades ago when the former congressman was a boy in Florida, but denied that the two had sex.
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Hugo Chavez called President Bush the devil. “It smells of sulfur still today,” he said, to clapping and laughter, speaking before the UN assembly.
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The pope said he was misunderstood when he referred to muslims “evil and inhumane.”
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50% of all Christian men and 20% of all Christian women are addicted to pornography.
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Britain’s biggest theme park canceled “National Muslim Fun Day,” due to a lack of interest.
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Actor Mel Gibson on Tuesday admitted making anti-Semitic remarks during his drunken driving arrest and appealed to the Jewish community to help him recover from his alcohol addiction.

“I’m not just asking for forgiveness,”

Gibson said in a statement issued through his publicist.

“I would like to take it one step further, and meet with leaders in the Jewish community, with whom I can have a one on one discussion to discern the appropriate path for healing.”

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