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Some bishops from the Church of England say that flooding going on in England now is the result of the angry hand of God, going around smiting folks for permissive lifestyle legislations and just generally not doing what the good people running the various churches tell them to do.

While they do acknowledge that maybe, just maybe, some blame needs to be placed on enviromental havoc and whatnot caused by 200 odd years of industrial fortitude, they’re saying, for the most part, its that whole ‘being good to the gay guy thing’.

Rt Rev Graham Dow, Bishop of whatnot, sez:

“In the Bible, institutional power is referred to as ‘the beast’, which sets itself up to control people and their morals. Our government has been playing the role of God in saying that people are free to act as they want,” he said, adding that the introduction of recent pro-gay laws highlighted its determination to undermine marriage.

“The sexual orientation regulations [which give greater rights to gays] are part of a general scene of permissiveness. We are in a situation where we are liable for God’s judgment, which is intended to call us to repentance.”

He expressed his sympathy for those who have been hit by the weather, but said that the problem with “environmental judgment is that it is indiscriminate”.

Thus far, the Host of Lords has made no comment on the situation.

One possible explanation has been found, however:

Hmm.  Has Hollywood gone to far this time?

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As an amendment to the story, while doing a bit of cursory research this morning, I found this tragic story about a Solway couple who was killed, and then found this page, with one of the first commenters immediately crying that the end of the world is at hand.

Hows that for a Monday morning?

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At least I’m doing better than Alice… they’d take her down in the first wave.

Edit: Newscoma is doing better, and apparently Big Stupid Tommy is the guy to meet up with. I’d say the BBF would be a decent place to hole up for a while, put some snipers in the trees, etc.
Betcha Bos and Eaves wouldn’t last 10 minutes, heh.

According to the Oak Ridger, the Anderson County courhouse is talking about going gun-free.

Seriously?  In this day and age, they think a person should be separated from his piece while in court?  Really?

Well hell yes, really.  I’ve stayed away from the gun talk, although I tend to believe in personal rights and stuff on a wide scale (wear what you want, do what you want, say what you want, as long as it doesn’t infringe on the rights of somebody else), but I don’t begin to understand the arguments of these people who believe in the right to carry firearms everywhere they go.

Sure, have a gun.  Leave the damn thing at home, or in your car.  Don’t bring the thing in the supermarket with me, don’t bring it in the movie theater, and for Jah’s sake, don’t bring it in the damn courthouse.  Theres crazy people there.
Is it infringing on your rights?  Maybe, but the way I see it, no matter how many tests, drills, permits these people have to carry a piece, the fact that they have one out in public is infringing on my piece of mind, and thats a right I deserve to have, more than whatever piece of mind you get by carrying Mssr’s Smith and Wesson on your person.

Keep the gun at home.  Hell, I’ll be in line to shoot cans or targets with you. Shoot it at animals, if you feel like thats what you have to do to get your rocks off, but don’t bring it around me while we’re out and about.

I don’t trust you.

This is kind of a disgusting post, with links to really gross stuff. If you don’t like gross stuff, go here!

I have two classes with a very funny girl named Kathy. Kathy is Polish, but grew up in Germany, so to the untrained ear, she sounds Russian. Exactly like Molotov Cocktease, actually. One day I will get her to say “Brock Sampson”.

But I digress.

Kathy came into class a few weeks ago talking about a nasty-as-fuck problem her husband was having. He woke up one morning with a large bump on his arm. It was bright red, with a good-sized hole in the center. So they did what any of us would do: they squeezed the crap out of it.

Pus seeped out and something could be seen behind the hole. So she broke out the tweezers. After what I can only assume was copius amounts of husbandly cussing, she pulled out a yellow sack-like thing. They threw the sack-like thing away, but took pictures of it for posterity’s sake.

Because it’s always good to know what you pull out of your body, her husband went to see his doc. After looking at the pictures, she admitted she didn’t know what it was. So she took the pictures to a colleague.

The colleague knew. It was a dermatobia hominis, aka human botfly.

Human botflies are typically found in Central & South America. The female botfly catches a mosquito and lays her eggs on it. When the mosquito lands on its victim, the egg(s) fall off onto the host and hatches. The maggot burrows under the skin where it lives and feasts on flesh. After about 8 weeks, it squirms out and goes off in search of a mate.

They grow up so fast!

The doctors said it’s not unheard of for someone to be a botfly host so far north, but it is extremely unusual. I guess he was just one lucky s.o.b.

Kathy got a kick out of telling this story to absolutely everyone at school. Kind of like how I’m enjoying grossing you all out now. :)