hell’s handmaiden

Random Thoughts, Notes, & Incidents has posted the new Carnival of the Decline of American Democracy.

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July 30, 2006

I’ll be on vacation from sometime tomorrow until the 4th of August. Since I am the only blogger here, the site will sit idle during that week; but I’ve some ideas for posts when I get back. Also, as I approve all comments that come through, any comments posted to the site will not show up until I get back.

Take care.

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The #139th edition of the Best of Me Symphony is up at The Owner’s Manual.

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The creationists over at Dembski’s blog have a truly horrible attempt at satire up right now. It is the story of johhnyb, an obvious stand-in for God, who was fired for being irrelevant.

In shocking news this morning, johnnyb was fired from his job for being irrelevant. When asked about why he was fired, ABC Co. gave the following response — “We looked at the operation of the company, and, while there were many programs attributed to him, and some people claimed that the network worked because of him, we ultimately decided that philosophically, these were all johnnyb-of-the-gaps arguments. In each case, someone from management was able to conceive of a way that these systems would be functional without a johnnyb.”

U.N. rights body tells US to shut “secret” jails | Top News | Reuters.com
In findings on U.S. observance of the U.N.’s main political rights’ convention, the committee said it had “credible and uncontested” information that the United States had detained people “secretly and in secret places for months and years.”

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