Nothing says “life is sacred” like a convoy of semis rollin’ down the highway, plastered with ginormous graphic photos of aborted fetuses. Yee-haw, praise Him.

From the AP article:

BERLIN – Germans were ordered Thursday to stay serious when having their photographs taken for new passports, wiping away any grins, smirks or smiles so that biometric scanners can pick up their facial features.
Interior Minister Otto Schily ordered passport authorities to only accept pictures taken from the front showing the “most neutral facial expression possible,” starting Nov. 1.

If you Google the term “failure”, the number one search result is Bush’s bio page at the White House site.

I don’t know how long this will last, so I took a screenshot.

Feckin sweet.

Oddly enough, I believe Rupert Murdoch owns Sky News.

Here’s a FSM Flash game in which you convert the masses with your noodly appendage while avoiding the school administrators. My score: 6450 with 16 conversions. Check out the reward at the end.

25 stupid quotes about Katrina.

My favs:

13) “We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.” –Rep. Richard Baker (R-LA) to lobbyists, as quoted in the Wall Street Journal

4) “We’ve got a lot of rebuilding to do … The good news is — and it’s hard for some to see it now — that out of this chaos is going to come a fantastic Gulf Coast, like it was before. Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott’s house — he’s lost his entire house — there’s going to be a fantastic house. And I’m looking forward to sitting on the porch.” (Laughter) —President Bush, touring hurricane damage, Mobile, Ala., Sept. 2, 2005

12) “Now tell me the truth boys, is this kind of fun?” –House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-TX), to three young hurricane evacuees from New Orleans at the Astrodome in Houston

2) “What I’m hearing which is sort of scary is that they all want to stay in Texas. Everybody is so overwhelmed by the hospitality. And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway so this (chuckle) – this is working very well for them.” –Former First Lady Barbara Bush, on the Hurricane flood evacuees in the Houston Astrodome, Sept. 5, 2005

There’s a loophole in the laws of Rhode Island that leaves prostitution legal as long as it’s conducted indoors, including massage parlors and spas.
Notable quote:

A woman who answered the phone at Bally Day Spa said it was not a house of prostitution. Midori Spa could not be reached by phone for comment.

Around here you see charter busses for Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun all the time. I think there’s a new destination.

Oh, and the pic?… hooker with a heart of gold.

From the AP article:

A group representing California religious schools has filed a lawsuit accusing the University of California system of discriminating against high schools that teach creationism and other conservative Christian viewpoints.

The Association of Christian Schools International, which represents more than 800 schools, filed a federal lawsuit Thursday claiming UC admissions officials have refused to certify high school science courses that use textbooks challenging Darwin’s theory of evolution. Other rejected courses include “Christianity’s Influence in American History.”