Allen December 31st, 2003
Dave Barry’s guide to 2003.
My favorites:
FEBRUARY: . . . U.S. coalition-building efforts are dealt a severe blow when France announces that it will not participate in the impending Iraq invasion, a decision that, in the words of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, “could seriously impair our ability to surrender.”
JUNE: Speaking of unhealthy: An outbreak of monkey pox (really) forces federal authorities to ban the sale of, among other animals, Gambian giant pouched rats. It is not immediately clear why anybody would want a giant pouched rat, or why such a person would not deserve to get a disease.
Allen December 31st, 2003
Dave Barry’s guide to 2003.
My favorites:
FEBRUARY: . . . U.S. coalition-building efforts are dealt a severe blow when France announces that it will not participate in the impending Iraq invasion, a decision that, in the words of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, “could seriously impair our ability to surrender.”
JUNE: Speaking of unhealthy: An outbreak of monkey pox (really) forces federal authorities to ban the sale of, among other animals, Gambian giant pouched rats. It is not immediately clear why anybody would want a giant pouched rat, or why such a person would not deserve to get a disease.
Allen December 30th, 2003
Hilarious site proported to be the home page for the International Jewish Conspiracy.
Entirely tongue-in-cheek, so Mazal Tov!
Allen December 30th, 2003
Hilarious site proported to be the home page for the International Jewish Conspiracy.
Entirely tongue-in-cheek, so Mazal Tov!
Allen December 30th, 2003
ScrappleFace picks up on the “sermon” delivered by the Episcopal bishop mentioned below.
Why doesn’t the Episcopal church just get it over with and merge with the Universalist Unitarians?
(AARRRGGGH!)
Allen December 30th, 2003
ScrappleFace picks up on the “sermon” delivered by the Episcopal bishop mentioned below.
Why doesn’t the Episcopal church just get it over with and merge with the Universalist Unitarians?
(AARRRGGGH!)
Allen December 30th, 2003
Paid subscription probably required.
The BSE infected cow recently found in the US has been traced back to Canada. The beef industry sighs and passes the revolver on to the next participant in this game of Bovine Roulette.
Unfortunately, industry practices and governmental regulations in the US seem designed to harbor BSE rather than protect the consumers.
Some practices include:
- Cows still eat the ground-up remains of other animals.
- Calfs are fed bovine blood products.
- Downer cows (cows that can’t walk on their own) are allowed to enter the human food chain.
I understand that BSE (and CJD, the human variant) is hard to catch, but it seems to me that with the exception of the third item, these solutions would be easy and inexpensive to implement.
As to the third item, perhaps the government should simply have a recompensation fund set up to pay producers for downer cattle.
Update:USDA has now banned downer cattle from entering the human food chain!
Allen December 30th, 2003
Paid subscription probably required.
The BSE infected cow recently found in the US has been traced back to Canada. The beef industry sighs and passes the revolver on to the next participant in this game of Bovine Roulette.
Unfortunately, industry practices and governmental regulations in the US seem designed to harbor BSE rather than protect the consumers.
Some practices include:
- Cows still eat the ground-up remains of other animals.
- Calfs are fed bovine blood products.
- Downer cows (cows that can’t walk on their own) are allowed to enter the human food chain.
I understand that BSE (and CJD, the human variant) is hard to catch, but it seems to me that with the exception of the third item, these solutions would be easy and inexpensive to implement.
As to the third item, perhaps the government should simply have a recompensation fund set up to pay producers for downer cattle.
Update:USDA has now banned downer cattle from entering the human food chain!
Allen December 30th, 2003
I read the sermon. The quote is not taken out of context.
And what was God thinking when he allowed this bishop to be installed?
Episcopalians Imitate ScrappleFace
‘Episcopal Church Appoints First Openly-Muslim Bishop’
–headline, ScrappleFace.com, Aug. 4
‘And what was God thinking when the Angel Gabriel was sent by God to reveal the sacred Quran to the prophet Muhammad?’
–Christmas sermon, the Right Rev. John Bryson Chane, Episcopal bishop of Washington, Dec. 25″
Allen December 29th, 2003
Story about an Israeli surgeon who healed a terrorist (note to Rueters — let’s call them what they are) and then subsequently blinded by a 19 year old woman who blew herself up.
This story says a lot about the struggle in the Middle East.