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Monday, March 13, 2006
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Isaac Hayes is quitting South Park because they make fun of people. People filled to the rim with body thetans that were blown up in a volcano 75 million years ago by the galactic ruler Xenu.
Soul singer Isaac Hayes said Monday he was quitting his job as the voice of the lusty character "Chef" on the satiric cable TV cartoon "South Park," citing the show's "inappropriate ridicule" of religion. But series co-creator Matt Stone said the veteran recording artist was upset the show had recently lampooned the Church of Scientology, of which Hayes is an outspoken follower. "In ten years and over 150 episodes of 'South Park,' Isaac never had a problem with the show making fun of Christians, Muslim, Mormons or Jews," Stone said in a statement issued by the Comedy Central network. [...] Comedy Central spokesman Tony Fox said producers have not decided whether Chef would be dropped from the show or continued with another actor supplying his voice.
Also, this.
(Via apostropher.)
9:45:54 PM 
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Probably, but from the existing sources, there's not much that can be said about him:
One passage from Matthew should suffice to point out the significance of the silence of secular writers:
Matt. 27:45. Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour... Jesus, when he had cried again with a loud voice, yielded up the ghost. 51. And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent; 52 And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose, 53 And came out of the graves after his resurrection [exposed for 3 days?], and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
Wouldn't the Greeks and Romans have noticed - and recorded - such darkness occurring at a time of the month when a solar eclipse was impossible? Wouldn't someone have remembered - and recorded - the name of at least one of those "saints" who climbed out of the grave and went wandering downtown in the mall? If Jesus did anything of significance at all, wouldn't someone have noticed? If he didn't do anything significant, how could he have stimulated the formation of a new religion?
The piece ignores the sayings gospels, which don't say anything about the man, but do tend to support the idea that there was one character who said this stuff. Though the stuff he said has been very distorted even by the time those gospels got written down.
(Via http://www.atheists.org/christianity/didjesusexist.html.American Atheists)
9:08:42 PM
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New law would make it illegal for anyone to discuss government surveillance programs, including the press!
(Via Dvorak Uncensored.)
Strange. I wonder if it's illegal to talk about surveillance only if what you say is true, or if what you say is false. Imagine, that could mean that it's illegal to speak the truth about something, but perfectly legal to lie about it, or simply make things up about it.
8:36:23 PM
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by Hale Stewart
The Republicans have sold the country a false bill of goods: that they are the party of fiscal responsibility and sanity. The actual record is in fact the exact opposite: They are the party that squanders fiscal success and borrowers against our children’s future. Starting with the Reagan revolution, the US government began the process of massive federal borrowing to fund tax cuts for the rich. Bush I continued Reagan’s basic fiscal blueprint. It took a “tax and spend” Democrat - Clinton -- to return the country to fiscal sanity. However, Bush II has clearly demonstrated his complete disdain for history, repeating the same mistakes as Reagan - in fact, exacerbating the problems.
(Via BOPnews.)
8:07:44 PM
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 New Google Mars site features ASU Mars images
"A new planet-spanning Web site, Google Mars launches today on what would have been Mars astronomer Percival Lowell's 151st birthday. At the heart of the new Web site lies a gigantic picture-puzzle image of Mars created by researchers at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility in Tempe, Arizona."
(Via NASA Watch.)
Very cool. And while you're at it, here's a very nice tour of Valis Marineris on Google Video. And for those who live along the Hayward Fault (on Earth), the USGS has put together a terrific flyover of the fault, for Google Earth. Be afraid.
7:04:44 PM
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