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12.04.2006

Miscellaneous Stuffings.
Ok, thank you Britney Spears and your lack of underwear. This site had almost 3000 unique visitors yesterday. This makes me think I am going to have to start stalking celebrities, no?

We will be having a several new pieces of interesting fiction up starting tomorrow. Stay tuned.

The next taping of the Murk and Malach Show Podcast will be this weekend, get your mail in.

Once again, thanks to Hojo!
Evidently December 22nd is Global Orgasm day. Hey I am all for Orgasms.

Time for a change in Iraq?
Even Dubya thinks so. Too bad he did not think about this 2 years ago. And Rummy, too jumping on the bandwagon.

Is Hillary Electable?
Unsure. She has the Democrats behind her, but is this country ready to elect a woman president? I can assure you it will be very interesting.

Palmer is very disappointed.
His hero, John Bolton, is resigning.

Nice.
I should make everyone give me money at work when they swear, I could retire in 2 years.

Kofi Anan, master of the Obvious.
Well No Shit Kofi. Life wasn't great under Saddam, but there was no terrorism in the country. And at least you had power and running water.

Ahh, Theoretical Scientists.
Some of them are as jaded and ridiculous as religious fundamentalists.

The best pro-gay marriage argument I have read.
If I wasn't so lazy, I would put together this argument, but then it would mean I would have to open a Bible and do research. Sorry no link, I pulled it off a forum.

An original piece by Lance Christie, in its entirety:
LIVING BY LEVITICUS

by Richard Lance Christie

U.S. religious fundamentalists argue
that homosexuality is an abomination according to Leviticus 18:22, and therefore
cannot be condoned under any circumstance. Many also argue that the Bible is the
literal revealed Word of God and advocate strict compliance with Biblical Law in
both personal behavior and public codes of law.

Reading the Old
Testament, I find the following requirements to stand alongside the condemnation
of homosexuality as an abomination in Leviticus 18:22:

Exodus 21:7
sanctions selling my daughter into slavery. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may
possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from
neighboring nations. Obviously the Amendment to our Constitution prohibiting
slavery is anti-Biblical. In an upright Bible-based theocracy, we should be able
to own Mexicans and Canadians.

Leviticus 15:19-24 allows me no contact
with a woman while she is in her period of menstrual cleanliness. The problem
is, how do I tell? I have tried asking, but most women take offense.

Exodus 35:2 prohibits working on the Sabbath and clearly states
offenders should be put to death. I'll see you and your sack of stones at the
local convenience store next Sunday! Or is that Saturday...

Leviticus
11:10 says that eating shellfish is an abomination. It is not clear whether
customers at Red Lobster eating clams are committing a lesser abomination than
homosexuality.

Leviticus 21:20 states that I may not approach the altar
of God if I have a defect in my sight. I have to admit that I wear corrective
lenses. Does my vision have to be 20/20 before I can attend church, or must I
limit attendance to churches which do not have altars in them?

Leviticus
19:27 prohibits men from getting their hair trimmed, including the hair around
their temples. How should the male customers emerging from Pete and Company Hair
Salon die?

Leviticus 11:6-8 states that touching the skin of a dead pig
makes me unclean. Obviously, the football players are engaging in abomination
unless they wear gloves on the field. Or have they gone from pigskin to vinyl
footballs these days?

Leviticus 19:19 prohibits planting two different
crops in the same field, or wearing garments made of two different kinds of
thread (e.g., cotton/polyester blend). Looks like we've got plenty of
abominations occurring there.

Leviticus 24: 10-16 obliges the community
to gather together and stone to death those who blaspheme the name of God with
curse words. All I ask is that you start with the rappers.

Leviticus
20:14 states we must burn to death those who have sex with their in-laws.

I will believe people's claims that God's revealed word in the Bible is
literal, eternal and unchanging when I see them down at the Wal-Mart or
convenience store stoning the employees who are working on the Sabbath,
punishing men who have had their hair cut, burning people who have had sex with
their in-laws to death, refusing to eat shellfish and picketing restaurants that
serve them, stoning to death people who utter curse words, advocating and
practicing slavery, and railing against anti-Biblical abominations such as the
USDA for advocating companion planting of crops and the garment industry for
producing clothes made out of fabric containing blends of threads. If they're
doing all that, then I will believe that their opposition to homosexuality as an
abomination is an expression of their devotion to strict compliance with literal
Biblical principles.

Speaking of literal Biblical principles, much of
the concern about homosexuals forming families and obtaining some or all of the
privileges of marital union through "civil union" or other state-recognized
institutional forms is based on the notion of defending Bible-based concepts of
marriage endorsed by God.

The Presidential Prayer Team is currently
urging us to: "Pray for the President as he seeks wisdom on how to legally
codify the definition of marriage. Pray that it will be according to Biblical
principles. With any forces insisting on variant definitions of marriage, pray
that God's Word and His standards will be honored by our government."

Any religious person believes prayer should be balanced by action. So
here, in support of the Prayer Team's admirable goals, is a proposed
Constitutional Amendment to codify marriage on the principles stated in the Old
Testament of the Bible. Except for Paul's remark that it is better to marry than
to burn, there are no principles concerning marriage in the New Testament and
Jesus did not speak on the matter:

A. Marriage in the United States
shall consist of a union between one man and one or more women. (Genesis
29:17-28; II Samuel 3:2-5)

B. Marriage shall not impede a man's right to
take concubines, in addition to his wife or wives. (II Samuel 5:13; I Kings
11:3; II Chronicles 11:21)

C. A marriage shall be considered valid only
if the wife is a virgin. If the wife is not a virgin, she shall be executed.
(Deuteronomy 22:13-21)

D. Marriage of a believer and a non-believer
shall be forbidden. (Genesis 24:3; Numbers 25:1-9; Ezra 9:12; Nehemiah 10:30)

E. Since marriage is for life, neither this Constitution nor the
constitution of any State, nor any state or federal law, shall be construed to
permit divorce. (Deuteronomy 22:19; Mark 10:9)

F. If a married man dies
without children, his brother shall marry the widow. If he refuses to marry his
brother's widow or deliberately does not give her children, he shall pay a fine
of one shoe. (Genesis 38:6-10; Deuteronomy 25:5-10)

The next time you
hear somebody fulminating in favor of a Bible-based theocratic government in the
United States, bear in mind that these are the literal Bible-based commandments
in question. If the advocate confronted with these principles denies they would
implement any one of them, then they are admitting that they will institute
principles according to their own human judgment - no doubt claiming divine
inspiration - rather than a literal adherence to Biblical rules and laws.

Nice job. You get an A.

So I got bored at work today waiting for some calls.
At that time I like to hit the random article button at Wikipedia. So today I landed on Batman which in turn led me to Superman. As some who collected comics from about 1984 to about 1990, I was around for the DC Multiverse and Crisis on Infinite Earths. Man, there is reason why I was never a big DC fan. They could not keep their continuity even in a somewhat straight path. So now I am reading, the have had to do two more Crisis type series to straighten it out again. Idiots.

Malach's Quote of the Day.
Ando: It's genius. Do it again!
Hiro: No! It's cheating!
Ando: Is Peter Parker cheating when he sells pictures of Spiderman?
- Heroes

I am Malach and she's pretty in pink, isn't she?