BORED by those endless replays of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright? If so, go directly to YouTube, search for “John Hagee Roman Church Hitler,” and be recharged by a fresh jolt of clerical jive.

What you’ll find is a white televangelist, the Rev. John Hagee, lecturing in front of an enormous diorama. Wielding a pointer, he pokes at the image of a woman with Pamela Anderson-sized breasts, her hand raising a golden chalice. The woman is “the Great Whore,” Mr. Hagee explains, and she is drinking “the blood of the Jewish people.” That’s because the Great Whore represents “the Roman Church,” which, in his view, has thirsted for Jewish blood throughout history, from the Crusades to the Holocaust.

Mr. Hagee is not a fringe kook but the pastor of a Texas megachurch. On Feb. 27, he stood with John McCain and endorsed him over the religious conservatives’ favorite, Mike Huckabee, who was then still in the race.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/04/opinion/04rich.html?ex=1367640000&en=718fd6c63314898c&ei=5124

>>	Richard Dawkins 08/05/05(Mon)06:59 No.6421   File: 1209995983712.jpg -(16868 B, 301x360) Thumbnail displayed, click image for full size. And here is the reason why America would be better off being an ATHEIST country.

" DALLAS - Employee disciplinary records show abuse and neglect are systemic in mental hospitals in Texas, which has worked over the past year to revamp its juvenile prison system because of similar allegations, according to a report published Sunday.

Seventy-two workers have been fired in the past three years over allegations of abuse, while hundreds of others have been fired for other violations, including sleeping on the job and overmedicating patients, according to personnel records obtained by The Dallas Morning News.

The violence against patients included choke holds, headlocks and threats against patients at the state's 10 psychiatric hospitals, the newspaper reported."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080504/ap_on_re_us/mental_hospitals_abuse

"A local council employee in Japan has been punished after it was discovered he had accessed porn websites at work more than 780,000 times in nine months."

"A council official, trying to explain why no-one had noticed, said that each employee's desk was set apart from the others.

The man was discovered only when his computer became infected with a virus, prompting officials to look at his web-browser history. "

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7379742.stm

"EVIDENCE of how a wall of silence hid the crimes of Joseph Fritzl is mounting as it was revealed that his abuse of his daughter Elisabeth as a teenager was an open secret among people who knew the family.

Former lodgers at the family house and school friends of Elisabeth admitted on Saturday that they heard she was being sexually abused and mistreated, yet none contacted authorities before or after she disappeared.

Joseph Leitner, a former lodger, said that shortly after he moved in, he learnt that she had been repeatedly raped by her father."

"Alfred Dubanovsky, a schoolfriend of Elisabeth, whose family spent time lodging in the Fritzl household, broke down in tears as he admitted seeing Fritzl taking food into the cellar"

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/people-knew-about-fritzls-crimes-but-still-kept-silent/2008/05/04/1209839454659.html

" BELFAST, Northern Ireland - Lee Young, 8, and Cein Quinn, 7, live barely 200 yards apart, but they have never met, and maybe never will.

Lee is Protestant, Cein a Catholic — and their communities in Belfast's west inner city are separated by a wall called a peace line. It's nearly 40 years old and 40 feet high.

Ten years after peace was declared in Northern Ireland, one might have expected that Belfast's barriers would be torn down by now. But reality, as usual, is far messier. Not one has been dismantled. Instead they've grown in both size and number."

"His backyard fence burned down recently when a car belonging to a UDA neighbor was torched, apparently in a criminal dispute.

"I've really no problems with Roman Catholics," Young said with a wry smile. "It's my own kind that cause me the headaches. Maybe I need another peace line!" "

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080503/ap_on_re_eu/the_walls_of_belfast

"For 16 years, he followed a man who calls himself Michael, finally settling along with other families on a former ranch in a remote corner of New Mexico."

"Michael "said God told him that he was supposed to sleep with seven virgins," recalled Sayer, 36. Two were to be Sayer's daughters, then 14 and 15."

"Sayer's younger daughter, using the name "Healed," wrote in a December 2007 posting on the church's Web site: "Michael DID NOT molest me, and my laying with him was not sexual in any way, either. Michael sacrificed himself and was willing to look like a pedophile so that I might be bonded inseparably to the Father in Heaven.""

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080503/ap_on_re_us/church_children_seized

"Event took place on a beach on Marion Island, a sub-Antarctic island that is home to both fur seals and king penguins."
"At first glimpse, we thought the seal was killing the penguin"

"The 100kg seal first subdued the 15kg penguin by lying on it.
The penguin flapped its flippers and attempted to stand and escape - but to no avail.
The seal then alternated between resting on the penguin, and thrusting its pelvis, trying to insert itself, unsuccessfully.
After 45 minutes the seal gave up, swam into the water and then completely ignored the bird it had just assaulted, the scientists report."

"Why the seal attempted to have sex with the penguin is unclear. But the scientists who photographed the event speculate that it was the behaviour of a frustrated, sexually inexperienced young male seal."

"this is thought to be the first recorded example of a mammal trying to have sex with a member of another class of vertebrate, such as a bird, fish, reptile, or amphibian."

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"David Blaine set a new world record Wednesday for breath-holding — 17 minutes and 4 seconds"

"Before he entered the sphere, Blaine inhaled pure oxygen through a mask to saturate his blood with oxygen and flush out carbon dioxide. Guinness says up to 30 minutes of so-called "oxygen hyperventilation" is allowed under its guidelines."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxsfhFmW71JZPr4OA8yqHI_v2GQwD90CCBEO0

"Congress sent President Bush a bill Thursday forbidding employers and insurance companies from using genetic tests showing people are at risk of developing cancer, heart disease or other ailments to reject their job applications, promotions or health care coverage, or in setting premiums.

Bush was expected soon to sign the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, which lawmakers and advocates called "the first major civil rights act of the 21st century.""

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g9PKo1Dr67gVSZWb-B4tOfMvmgDwD90D626G0

"A federal court on Wednesday established a formula for determining the Internet royalties owed to thousands of music composers, writers and publishers by three major online services — Yahoo Inc., AOL and RealNetworks Inc.

The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers hailed the decision, estimating the guidelines could yield as much as $100 million in payments covering a seven-year period ending in 2009.

The trade group, known as ASCAP, had contended that its 320,000 members weren't being properly compensated for musical works that helped drive traffic and increase revenue for Yahoo, Time Warner Inc.'s AOL and RealNetworks.

Wednesday's ruling, issued by a federal judge in New York, doesn't affect the royalties owed to record companies."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gcvi551LWwAZf1spACWYtfzJNCfQD90CIS086