We should have stuck with our evaluation of what Plutos fate was likely to be. The world’s astronomers in Prague indeed demoted Pluto after more political bickering than the Iowa caucases. See: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-pluto25aug25,0,1325722.story?coll=la-home-headlinesMedia reports had focused on numerous crazy options for how to resolve the embarrasing dilemma of being unable to define exactly what a planet is. Some of these made little sense – but this shows what happens when political horse trading runs amok. The winner in this case was the most sensible option, so the International Astronomical Union does score a few points over the avarage voting population.

Speaking of the product of Joe Average voter. The question being asked openly in wider and wider circles e.g. Is George Bush too dumb to be President is a good one to look at. See: http://www.geraldplessner.com/articles/latest.cgi and elsewhere on the internet. He did get a degree at Harvard, but what did Bill Maher say?: “Bush is an MBA like Elis was a black belt” or something equivalent.

Thanks to the continued efforts of Amercian religous fundamentalists more than half the populace in the Uuu-nited States of Amerca says it does not believe in evolution including the man with his finger on the nuclear button. The Bible does says differently. We’re wating for good Christian astronomy to return to replace the theory of heliocentrism with its spherical earth with what the good book tells us: the earth is flat and the universe with its stars, sun, moon and planets circles overhead. Let’s start burning people at the stake who say otherwise – as in the good old days of real Christian authority.

Why not demand they stop teaching about the “germ” theory of disease. The Bible says most infections are caused by demons or a wrathful diety. Let’s start casting out demons again, like Jesus did. Forget shots and antibiotics. More faith healers like Jimmy Swaggert are where we should spend those faith based charity dollars, eh?

Speaking of Holy Rollers: who knows what the total tally of your federal tax dollars to charities operated by any of various Muslim, Buddist, Bahai, Jain, Shinto, Parsee or any other non Jewish/Christian faiths. zero you say? Take a bow. No wonder you hear so few objections by politicians to Israelis beating up Lebanese. If it was good enough for Moses its good enough for us. Among the Bibles bloody chronicles is the conquest of the Jordan River Valley by the Hebrews who had been following Moses for decades. The man Charleton Heston would later play assured his people that this was the land of milk and honey promised them. Yahweh himself had told him so. Fundamentalist Christians and Jews hold that to be a legitimate contract. Never mind the Canaanites already living in Jericho etc. Soon enough they will be killed or evicted as outlined in The Good Book. Hebrews knew them as Canaanites, Greeks called them Phoenicians. Same people and they’re still around. They were kicked out of Canaan (today The West Bank fought over by Palestinian and Jew) but todays Canaanites still live on the coast, today know as Lebanon.

Since we’re on a roll it would be interesting to point out that the first time genocide is spoken of in recorded histories is in Deuteronomy. The Amorites are to be wiped out for the crime of being who they were. This is not written about disaprovingly. There is no hand wringing over it. It is the right thing to do. Kill ’em all and take their stuff. One of the finest viewpoints fundamental to our Judeo-Christian values, no? There is good stuff in the Bible but Holy Moses has it got blueprints for ugliness. Check it out.Current Events: Pluto, Bush, Judeo-Christianity Israel/Lebanon conflict