Has this been posted? XENU EXPRESSES DISPLEASURE WITH CRUISE
Alien overlord says star is making Scientologists look “crazy”
Hollywood - Xenu, the galactic overlord who murdered trillions of aliens on Earth 75 million years ago, releasing the thetan particles that still infect humanity today according to the Church of Scientology, has reportedly returned to express his displeasure with the recent behavior of Tom Cruise. “I expect celebrity devotees of my Church to spread my message through charity work and quality films like ‘Battlefield Earth,’” Xenu said in an interview with The Weekly World. “Attacking Brooke Shields and marrying some girl you met six weeks ago makes Scientologists look crazy.”
But that whole article is premised on Scientology being Xenu's chuch. That ain't so, is it?
Drive-by post because someone posted this on LJ and it must be shared:
Cat Town!
...and I am not even a cat person.
Curse you, Vonnie! I literally had that in my clipboard and was coming here to post it. See? [link]
HA! Fast! Fast like the WIND!
You needed to add HURR HURR HURR to those posts, Dana and Vonnie.
Oh gawd - an animated .gif that had me laughing outloud: Love your job
'Human-brained' monkeys
SCIENTISTS have been warned that their latest experiments may accidently produce monkeys with brains more human than animal.
In cutting-edge experiments, scientists have injected human brain cells into monkey fetuses to study the effects.
Critics argue that if these fetuses are allowed to develop into self-aware subjects, science will be thrown into an ethical nightmare.
An eminent committee of American scientists will call for restrictions into the research, saying the outcome of such studies cannot be predicted and may in fact produce subjects with a 'super-animal' intelligence.
A planet... where apes evolved from men?!?!?
I mean really, this crap's pretty funny.
It can make it hard to tell reality from satire.
The funniest part of that transcript is the Harry Potter stuff though:
I think the issue, what I take issue with is that this book very accurately portrays obviously a religion. And it is being read aloud in our classrooms across America, when other religious books have been banned from the classroom.
SCARBOROUGH: OK.
MATRISCIANA: So that's my issue and that is my concern.
SCARBOROUGH: So, you are saying you can't read the Bible, which promotes Christianity, but you can read “Harry Potter,” which you say pushes witchcraft?
MATRISCIANA: Well, it's a very, very accurate portrayal of witchcraft. It also encourages the children to go into Wiccan Web sites in the classroom. The teaching aids that come along with it do encourage children to learn more about witchcraft.
And, certainly, if they are allowed to do that, in all fairness, on all religions, then let's have that in the classroom. But are all religious...
SCARBOROUGH: Well, Steve—what do you say to that, Steve? If this book promotes the occult, if it promotes witchcraft, then why are we letting our kids read it in school?
ZEITCHIK: Well, there's a couple of issues here.
First of all, I am not convinced that it promotes witchcraft. If there's elements of witchcraft in it, you know, there are elements of religions and of—I mean, you read—you read “To Kill a Mockingbird,” you want to talk about something unsavory, “To Kill a Mockingbird” has racism in it.
And “Night” by Elie Wiesel has brutality and anti-Semitism in it. Certainly, there are unsavory things in the world. And we still read them in our classroom. In fact, we encourage our children to read them, because I think it will ultimately help them understand the world better.
If the message—look, if the underlying message of this book is not one that any person or parent or principal agrees with, then they should not assign it, the same way they should not assign other books. But the idea that somehow this “Harry Potter” phenomenon, because of its very success, is indicative of an anti-religious crusade or that it somehow connects to a separation of—or a violation of church and state to me just seems totally absurd.
To even have the "issue" of Harry Potter books being religious texts on your show is just so wingnut.
I said in literary, Fox is Bizarro Daily Show.
