Honshui Pushes JD To The Penultimate Spot On Google!

That is, if you use fairly specific search term(s). Still, We're No. 2 with a bullet!

Now to get honshui on to besting this search result.

Conflicted Christian Views over Nature from Saskatoon Bible Camp

This just out from the Saskatoon newswire. A Bible Camp Counselor decided to throw a stick at a squirrel (it's okay to try to harm nature), he injured it and felt bad so he killed it (it is humane to kill nature when one sees a creature in distress). Then, to show the campers that the squirrel's death was not a waste, the counselors had a "squirrel roast"...

Two morals come from this story. One, never celebrate your squirrel roast and two, ever since the garden of eden, female campers have been causing male campers and counselors all kinds of grief.

Bible camp counsellor who skinned, ate squirrel had 'error in judgment'

CanWest News Service
Friday, August 03, 2007

A Bible camp is defending a counsellor who skinned, roasted and then ate a squirrel in front of a group of boys.

Officials at the camp north of Saskatoon -- who have heard calls from parents to fire the counsellor -- insist it was just an error in judgment from a young man trying to show respect for nature.

The counsellor had thrown a stick at a squirrel, injuring it. Not wanting the animal to suffer, the counsellor killed the animal and ate it for lunch, in order for the animal's death not to be a waste, said the camp's director.
"He was trying to make the best of a bad situation," said Curtis Anderson of Camp Kadesh.
While about 50 boys between the ages of eight and 11 years ate hot dogs, some of the counsellors ate squirrel.

"(He) made it very clear to everyone there that they didn't need to be celebrating this and parading around."

But some of the girls at the camp learned of the squirrel roast and complained to their parents when the camp was over last weekend. Two families phoned the camp and called for the counsellor in his early 20s to be fired.

Anderson, meanwhile, contacted the RCMP, a conservation officer and the SPCA and learned that the counsellor had done nothing illegal.
Firing the counsellor would be an overreaction, says Anderson.

© The Calgary Herald 2007

Hope and A Ham Sandwich

I've lost hope in critical thinking. Courtesy of Grey
Canada, we have this lament about the loss of hope and John
Lennon, but not the loss of John Lennon...forget it, just keep reading:

Last Christmas, my son's school had a Christmas concert. A group of older students sang John Lennon's Imagine. What a truly sad song that is. "Above us only sky." That song has no hope. Nor do people who put their hope in people.

In the comments, Mr. Reynolds elaborates further on Lennon's musical
manifesto of fascism. Or communism. Whichever one works for you:

What is the point in making the world live as one? To make everyone equal is to make us all homogenous . That is the ultimate loss in freedom and is an awful thought. To have nothing to look forward to beyond this world and to have nothing to die for is to have nothing to
live for either. What could be more sad?

At least we have ham sandwiches. They'll never let us down.


Thanks to the Canadian Cynic for the link.

Time For Timer

Two hours 'til lunch and I am famished as usual. I really should eat a better breakfast. If only I could find a nice, nutritious snack to tide me over...think,think, think. Hmm, I think I hanker for a hunka, slab or slice or chunka cheese! And what goes better with cheese than a delicious frozen fruit pop? Nothing, that's what.

Italian Christian MP caught with prostitutes: What would Jesus Do? Hell, what would Bill Clinton do?

A 50 year old, Italian, Christian Politician whose wife is pregnant with their fourth child was caught in a hotel room with two prostitutes and cocaine. While he has resigned from the Christian Party as a result, he is not apologetic and offers several interesting takes on the greater meaning of his situation for Christianity and marriage.

First, he says he did not use cocaine, and second he was sleeping, just sleeping, with only one of the girls who is a "friend" of a friend. It got late so it was only chivalrous to offer to share a bed. The second one was just hanging out I guess.

He added: "So politicians in the UDC do not make love? Of course I recognize Christian values. But what has that got to do with going with a prostitute? It is a personal matter.

"This affair has nothing to do with family values. I cannot be branded a bad father and a bad husband simply because after five or six days away from home an occasion presented itself."

So Christian values and personal matters like sex and prostitutes have no intersection. That's a refreshing take. And the one I like is the clarification as to when extra-marital sex is acceptable. Here I had agonized if it would be acceptable after a sexless decade or two and if I were in Italy, 5 or 6 days is as much abstinence as any man should have to endure. Not even Bill Clinton tried something this bold.


Here is the full story:


Herald News Services
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
An Italian politician whose party represents Christian values has been embroiled in a scandal involving two prostitutes, a hotel room and a large amount of cocaine.
Cosimo Mele, 50, a Christian Democrat UDC MP, was caught out when he had to call an ambulance to the hotel in Rome after one of the girls suffered breathing problems.
The property entrepreneur, whose wife is pregnant with their fourth child, has now resigned from his party.
The scandal's timing is sensitive since the UDC party has been calling for all MPs to take voluntary drugs tests.
Mele said: "I did nothing other than go to dinner with a friend who introduced me to this girl. Since it was late, she came to bed with me. How many politicians go to bed with young girls?"
He said he had nothing to do with the other girl who had "taken drugs or something else." She felt ill and he had called reception.
He added: "So politicians in the UDC do not make love? Of course I recognize Christian values. But what has that got to do with going with a prostitute? It is a personal matter.
"This affair has nothing to do with family values. I cannot be branded a bad father and a bad husband simply because after five or six days away from home an occasion presented itself."

The Face of Economics Today!

Is Robert Oxoby a genius? Is he really the "new voice of Canadian economics"? And what does he think of his status as "Golden Boy of the Blogosphere"? Here are some of his reactions during a recent interview with our resident economics fan boy.

JD: Dr. Oxoby, are ambient pollution instruments theoretically able to induce individual non-point source polluters to reduce their emissions to the optimal level?

Dr. O : Gahh!


JD: Alrighty. Well, what can you tell us about your work on the economic model of Monopoly?

A: Ooh, look who can use teh Google! What fancy blogger you are. I was using the interweb back when it was Aarpnet you stupid noob.



JD: You are a successful, and reknowned economist. Do you have any career regrets?


Dr. O: Nah, this is a pretty sweet deal. Compliant grad slaves, tenure, and a singular collection of concert shirts tells me that I have arrived. Now get out, I need a virtual hug.

Your Morning Wake-Up

How do you get going in the morning? Here was my recipe today. Start with strong, hot coffee. Next, turn up the A/C in your car until your eyes dry-out and bleed. Do this while drinking the coffee. Hopefully you are alone in your car, and have a reasonable stereo, because you are going to play Get It On by The Power Station loud enough make your colon vibrate. And don't worry about hearing loss, you are already fucked from that Walkman you bought back in Grade 9. And turn up the base so as to really feel Tony Thompson's drumming.

Now, you are ready for your day. You will be deaf, frozen and cranky, but at least you feel something dammit!