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Picture Of The Day

An eight-member team wearing white gloves and camouflage battle fatigues carries the body of 30-year-old Air Force Staff Sgt. Phillip Myers of Hopewell, Va., off a military jet after an eighteen year ban on media coverage of the bodies of American soldiers killed overseas being returned to the United States is lifted by the Obama administration.

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Obama Tells America: "Serve Satan"

OK sure, the inherently logical design of a banana obviously proves the existence of an all-knowing, all-seeing creator sky-god who always knows when you're masturbating and exactly what you're fantasizing about while you do it; I don't think that any of us can argue with that kind of "logic". But it's also a well known fact that Satan, aka Lucifer, Beelzebub, Martha Stewart, whatever you want to call him is a bit more sneaky. Lacking a clean-cut acolyte like Kirk Cameron to do his bidding he has to employ much more nefarious agents such as Judas Priest and President Obama:

Richard Metzger adds:

Plus there is this stupefying wingnut YouTube channel, Antichrist Obamanation, with various videos relating to things like is Obama the Antichrist, how you can prove Obama is the Antichrist using the "Bible Code," and how Obama is the head of the Illuminati/New World Order and a stealth Muslim. Tons of this stuff out there, "Obama = Antichrist" is practically a YouTube genre already.

One of my personal favorites is this video "proving" that the phrase "Yes We Can!" is actually Obama thanking Satan backwards. Yes, this is all extremely stupid and paranoid and hence all the more funny because of that but consider this: if you're a conservative saying to yourself, "Well of course he's not the Anti-Christ, he's merely a neo-Marxist nihilist who will destroy America forever by brain-washing the citizenry to support gay-marriage and melting down all their guns so he can then surrender this country to the terrorists while pissing on the ashes of the Constitution" (and you know who you are), you're on the same team as these crazy religious nutballs. Don't believe me? Try winning an election without them...

Bananas: The Atheist's Nightmare

A classic video in which intelligent design advocate Ray Comfort with his sidekick Kirk Cameron (yes, that Kirk Cameron) explains how God obviously exists because eating a domesticated banana is so easy. Comfort is apparently unaware of the existence of tough, naturally-occurring wild bananas and that if we follow his train of "logic", coconuts are one of God's cruel jokes. This is great:

Picture Of The Day

There's just something about this that makes me smile...

Jumbo Elephant Landing

From Neatorama:

Here is a really neat PSA from the “International Fund for Animal Welfare” from Germany concerning the trafficking and buying of products made from protected and endangered animals such as the Elephant.

If you liked the flying penguins commercial you're going to love this:

Today Is International Pillow Fight Day

Click here to find the organized one nearest you or just turn around and *fwap* the person standing next to you.

Quote For The Day

"...why not do it? There are serious moral arguments, both secular and religious. There are those who believe — with some good reason — that the accretion of legalized vices is debilitating, that we are a less virtuous society since gambling spilled out from Las Vegas to "riverboats" and state lotteries across the country. There is a medical argument, though not a very convincing one: alcohol is more dangerous in a variety of ways, including the tendency of some drunks to get violent. One could argue that the abuse of McDonald's has a greater potential health-care cost than the abuse of marijuana. (Although it's true that with legalization, those two might not be unrelated.) Obviously, marijuana can be abused. But the costs of criminalization have proved to be enormous, perhaps unsustainable. Would legalization be any worse?" -Joe Klein, Time magazine, on national cannabis legalization.

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You've Got Humans!: A PSA

A commentary on our species' seeming inability to co-exist successfully with our environment. I don't quite share this level of pessimism towards our future but I also wouldn't put even money on things getting much better than they are now for quite a while:


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Most Amazing Golf Hole On The Planet

The new golf course at the Legends Golf and Safari Resort in South Africa has a unique 19th hole:

The course's so-called "Xtreme 19th" hole is a par 3 -- a par 3 whose tee is atop a cliff on Hanglip Mountain, more than 1,400 feet above a green carved like the continent of Africa. You've got to take a helicopter to get to the tee box, and from there it's more than 630 yards to the pin. Once you tee off, it takes nearly 30 seconds for the ball to hit the ground.

Should you manage to drill a hole-in-one on the 19th, congratulations -- you've just won yourself a million bucks, and the right to call yourself the most Xtreme golfer on Earth!

Now this would be an experience:


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