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-121 days until George Bush becomes eligible for war crimes tribunal.

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• Frankincense and Mirth: Is that psychoactive smoke wafting through the pews?
• You know the U.S. economy is crap when the value of an American life drops by $1 million. How this became actual news is quite frightening.
• The new reason to call poison control: Too much caffeine from energy drinks.
• Has Osama Bin Laden's desire to send the U.S. into a permanent economic decline succeeded? (Thanks for nothing, George.)
• UPDATE! The cracker has been safely returned to the Church.

Point: PZ Myers angers Catholic demagogue Bill Donohue when he threatens a cracker. Donohue sets his dogs on Myers who then threaten to kill him because he is mean to the nice and gentle Catholics.

Counterpoint: PZ Myers displays his complete ignorance of 100 years' worth of anthropology and sociology by claiming the Catholic Eucharist is "just a cracker". Meanwhile, a 19-year old college student understands what the PhD and his horde of commenters don't.

• CNN's election center poll (below the pictures of Obama and McCain) defies statistics as it "does not have a sampling error."
• Wow, that evil disagreeable Senate certainly caved fast. Add one more thing to the list of rights and freedoms Americans used to enjoy.
• In Wisconsin, an old, obscure law forbids eloping across state lines to avoid certain marriage prohibitions if the couple intends to return to live in Wisconsin. The law was originally meant to prohibit underage and mixed-race marriages. Guess who the law is being used against now.
• NSW Government passes laws to prevent people from annoying World Youth Day participants, as a result it is now happening.
• Research casts new light on the diverse nature of 1st century BC Jewish beliefs, sparks debate over origins of Christianity.
• The Department of Homeland Security wants to replace airline boarding passes with hospital-like ID bracelets. These bracelets would be equipped a chip with all your personal information. Oh, and these bracelets will also be equipped with a built-in Taser!
• Today's American conservativism didn't start with Barry Goldwater in 1964. It is the coalescence of several small, obscure, mostly white racist Protestant movements that date back at least to the 1920s.

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• Believer-turned-Atheist US Soldier claims US military "has become a Christian organization", and is suing for religious discrimination.
• How many Viagras, Oxys and underaged third-world hookers can one man buy with $400 million over the next eight years? We're about to find out.
• A thinly veiled, steamy sex novel about Dubya and Pickles!
• From The Progressive magazine: Farmers worldwide are growing more food, yet hunger is on the rise because of "A Shortage of Democracy, Not Food."
• Proving that American politics has lost all semblance of sanity, a new poll shows McCain leading Obama in the much coveted "pet owners demographic". The more significant thing is that the pundits at Yahoo actually went through the trouble to make a national poll of pet owners.
• World leaders, notably British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, spark outrage by having 6-course lunch and 8-course dinner at the G8 summit, where the international food crisis tops the agenda.
• Former "red state" Montana is now "blue" and it's even significant.
• Christine Comer, former Texas education official fired for forwarding an apparently biased pro-evolution e-mail, is set to sue the Texas Education Association.
• Consumption of gasoline will (likely) drop for the first time in 17 years and may result in a new paradigm in American fuel consumption.
• Sydney's sex workers prepare for Pope's visit. OK, they're really preparing for the increase in tourists coming to see the Pope, but that's still a great headline.
• A new law in Texas requires every computer repair technician to obtain a private investigator's license - or face a fine of up to $4,000, or even spend a year in jail.
• Obama and McCain give their views on patriotism.
• Princess Wijdan Al Hashemi and Aliki Moschis-Gauguet create a traveling art exhibition to erase U.S. stereotypes of Muslim women. No doubt the FBI are now busily at work trying to get them into Gitmo.
• A so-called Christian news website called OneNewsNow.com ("Your News Right Now") has a zero-tolerance policy towards the word "gay." OneNewsNow uses automated software that replaces the word "gay" with the word "homosexual" in every news story. So, when athlete Tyson Gay ran the 100-meter in 9.68 seconds. . . .
• The U.S. finally decides that Nelson Mandela is not a terrorist. Perhaps in 40 years we'll be told one or two people at Camp X-Ray aren't terrorists either.
• Expelled makes a whopping $24,374 in its opening weekend in Canada. Like, all of Canada.
• Citizen informant program rolled out in Colorado.
• Obama states that he will continue some of Bush's faith-based programs, no doubt causing many of his supporters to become a little worried.
• A Federal Appeals Court has ruled that South Dakota's Controversial abortion law is perfectly legal, stating that Planned Parenthood could not prove that forcing doctors to tell women "that the abortion will terminate the life of a whole, separate, unique, living human being." and informing them that they have a right to continue a pregnancy, that abortion may cause women psychological harm and possibly thoughts of suicide is untruthful, misleading or irrelevant to the woman's decision. Rounding out the stupidity, the court found that the information required to be given is biological in nature, and Planned Parenthood did not show the information is ideological.
• Robert Mugabe is sworn in as president after winning a fraudulent and illegal election.
• McCain, the man who has flip-flopped several times on a number of issues, says that Obama's word cannot be trusted. Whatever you say, Johnny-boy.
• Not only does the Federal Government want to record our phone calls and electronic messaging, they want to know when someone is contemplating suicide. (Play the video on this website.) If a suicidal person calls the federal government's hotline, they'll send the cops. The feds offer no guarantee that the call will be kept confidential.
• Louisiana passes an anti-evolution "academic freedom" bill, allowing their teachers the academic freedom to violate the Constitution. On the bright side, now the Flat Earth Society and the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster can finally get their time in the science classroom!
• Have no fear, exorcism is still legal in Texas
• Mere hours after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of guns, the NRA is suing to overturn other gun bans in San Fransisco and Chicago
• Happy birthday, Nelson Mandela! Here's wishing him a happy 90th and hoping for many more years of good work from him.
• Breaking: There could be no ice at the North Pole this summer, according to polar scientists!
• I can haz weapon of handgun in DC? Individual freedom protected in the land of the trigger-happy....
• Despite opposition from the entire world, Robert Mugabe plans to continue with an illegal political event. Sound familiar? UPDATE: Some people believe that Mugabe wants to die in office, and that he doesn't care who gets killed in the process. Let's just hope that doesn't end up sounding familiar.
• NBC settles a lawsuit resulting from a suicide caused by "To Catch a Predator."

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• The US Supreme Court has ruled against execution for child rape. Here to prove that pandering is universal, both Obama and Mccain have gone on the record disagreeing.
• Any corporation that would hire a psychic would have to be run by crackpots. So if you call yourself an "intuitionist," you can charge $10,000 per month per company, and the public and the shareholders will never know.