Oh, man, I've been so busy.

This week has been bad, but last week was overwhelming. Last week, all in a matter of days, I

• checked into rehab and back out again in an hour


• shaved my head


• got a couple of new tattoos


• checked back into rehab and back out again the next morning


• beat up a Vanilla Ice wannabe's car with an umbrella


• checked back into rehab


• smoked about seventy packs of cigarettes

Oh, no, wait. That wasn't me. That was someone else. Nonetheless, I did have a busy week, with overtime at work and lots to keep me busy at home. I've had little time to blog, making me the second-most delinquent blogger I can think of.

Tonight was the first time I had a chance to just sit down and read blogs and stuff in a long time. I caught up on all my regular haunts and learned some stuff:

Prince Charles is concerned about the health of his fellow Brits and he wants to help them get rid of that pesky thinking-for-themselves problem. Charles wants to ban McDonalds. In the picture to the right, Prince Charles seems to be pointing at a hamburger and crying. I'm not sure what to say about that.

Speaking of fast food … did you know that KFC now sells a fried fish sandwich, and that they want the Pope to bless it so that Catholics will buy it on Fridays during Lent? No kidding. And that makes sense. When I think about the 40 deeply reverent and penitent days of Lent, observed to remember the 40 days that Christ spent fasting in the desert, three words come to mind:

Fast Food Marketing.

Oh, yeah … have you heard the one about the Puerto Rican who claimed he was Jesus? The Burr In The Burgh has, and it ain't no joke. It's real. This guy claims he's Jesus and that he's the antichrist. And his followers are getting 666 tattoos to show their devotion. Creepy? You bet.

While I'm on the subject of the Lord, it's probably no surprise that Catholics aren't buying the Discovery Channel's notion that the tomb of Christ has been found by a movie director. What does surprise me, though, is that even the mainstream media sees this as quite unlikely. This seems to be one of those instances where science has been manipulated to reach a predetermined conclusion. Yeah, this might be the tomb of a Jesus … but there's no reason to believe that it's the tomb of the Jesus.

Oh, and speaking of those who manipulate science to reach predetermined conclusions, Al Gore won an Oscar for his sci-fi movie about how the planet is melting. Ooooh, scary, scary. Bad, bad global warming. Yaaaaawn. Look, here's the thing … there's just no way to know what to believe about global warming. The leftists, the prophets of doom, are juggling numbers like madmen, trying to come up with "scientific evidence" of global warming. Meanwhile, their ideological opponents on the right are likely doing much of the same thing. Although much of the evidence presented by the right … such as these nine facts about global warming from the Lavoisier group… seems pretty reasonable. I tend to agree with Michael Crichton when he asserts that global warming is just one more mania put forth by people who practice environmentalism as a religion.

There is, of course, all the scientific proof in the world that unborn babies are people … but now and then it's nice to see a story like this one, which simply argues the case on a common sense level: A baby born after only 22 weeks in the womb is doing well and hopefully headed home soon. 22 weeks? Hmmmm ... don't the pro-abortionists argue that a fetus only 22 weeks old isn't a person yet?

Have you heard about the Blasphemy Challenge, issued by Pennsylvania's Rational Response Squad? The challenge works like this: Go to You Tube and prove your atheism by posting a video of yourself blaspheming the Holy Spirit. Just say "I deny the Holy Spirit," which (some think) the Bible says is a one way ticket to Hell. Lots of people have done it. Only one problem: Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is a heavy theological concept that involves significantly more than simply uttering the phrase "I deny the Holy Spirit." Pastor David Williams got a kick out of all of these self-proclaimed "atheists" and their limited understanding of what it is to commit blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, and he posted a parody video at You Tube. Guess what? You Tube deemed his video offensive and removed it. No kidding. He's since reposted it at Google Video, and it's embedded below if you'd like to see if you think it's offensive. Personally, I thought it was funny and witty … but then again, I do agree with it:

If there's one internet source that I can rely on to keep an eye on Hillary as well as The National Review's Hillary Spot, it's probably Cube's blog. I read Cube a bit ago and she caught me up on the latest shenanigans between Obama and Hillary. I'd say I'm rooting for Obama, but the truth is, the more I learn about him, the less I like him. Thomas Sowell put a strong spotlight on Obama's poor understanding of what labor unions really do to the American workplace (hint: it ain't good), and I've recently read some ugly instances of his playing the race card. The ugliest example, though, was a silly quip from his wife: When asked if she worried that Barack might be the target of an assassination attempt, she responded

"… the realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station…"

Well, not to get snippy … but the last time I remember anybody getting randomly shot at places like gas stations, there were a couple of black guys on the delivery end of the gun.

If the Obama campaign keeps up this kind of thing, to go along with the candidate's flip flopping (HT: Unseen Blogger), maybe ol' Hillary won't have to worry about those nasty polls for much longer.

Besides, as Scrappleface points out, Al Gore's "climate change" plays to Hillary's favor, anyway.

Oh, yeah, one last thing ... While I was away, somebody left a comment at my second blog entry about the folks at the Metro Who's Who. The comment simply said

All you southern hicks speak like you are retards

Hmmm. Such eloquence. Such a wonderfully expressive economy of words. I wondered .. could this comment have been left by my pal Cyndi? I checked the stats for the blog and found that the comment was from someone with the following specifics:

Wow. That's right down the road from the Metro Who's Who's offices. Coincidence? You be the judge.

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