Stolen from Jason's Blog...

But this was too ridiculous... I had to put it on here... God, I hate white people.

New Blog

I have created a new blog at:
www.monkey-shines.blogspot.com
Monkey Shines is a spot for people to have conversations about religion and what-not. Which is the area where I have the greatest interest... This blog is going to be used for funny crap that I find on the net...
Hope to see you all in both spots...

Full House

Anybody know if this pic is real???

I feel dirty... Well, dirtier than normal.

More From Scrap

A comment posted by Scrap:
Gentlemen, let me throw out something that you rarely hear and that I had never thought about or heard until a couple months ago. So much is made of how scary/awful "extreme or radical religious beliefs" can be, but what about the danger of extreme or radical NON-religious thinking?You don't have to follow organized religion to believe in someone else's "dangerous" ideas. Remember Haley's Comet? The 80-90 fools that committed suicide a few years back because their leader said it would send them up to join this comet and they would live forever? Nothing to do with religion. The people in the 70s who followed Jim Jones into the jungles of Africa and drank kool-aid filled with cyanide and instantly died...not religious to my knowledge.But that's just small scale. What about Communism and Nazism? Neither of these had anything to do with religion (in fact, communists ban all forms of religion and we all know what Hitler thought of Jews...and though he at first put on the front that he might be some kind of christian, he later called Christianity the "mistake of the Jews"). Nazism is tagged with the deaths of roughly 5 million and historians tell us that communist regimes are responsible for multiple times that amount (Some historians say Stalin killed over 10 million of his own people and from other Eastern European countries. Let's not forget about Pol Pot or hundreds of thousands South Vietnamese slaughtered by the North Vietnamese when we pulled out).Therefore, I believe one should say "ALL extreme beliefs CAN be dangerous". As anyone, religious or not, can have extreme beliefs. And thoughts aren't that scary unless they're acted upon.

My response:
You talk about "non-religious" radicalism as if it's any different than religious radicalism. How is 80-90 "fools" committing suicide to hitch a ride on a comet that much different from thousands and thousands of them sending money to Pat Robertson or Benny Hinn to secure a mansion in the sky?
The danger is when you combine extreme, radical thinking with a lack of logic and understanding. Logic would dictate to most of us that committing suicide is not going to get us a lift to the mothership, or whatever. Understanding of Christianity would tell us NOT to send money to rich men pretending to be holy. Christ himself chastised men such as these, read the New Testament.
You can not logically show me a reason to believe in the message of Nazism, or the Klan, or communist extremists, or whatever. When one follows these ideas without forming their own thoughts and beliefs, they end up at the behest of maniacal leaders. That's where the danger is. Not in religion itself, but when religious leaders (or non-religious extremists), start to get too extreme and their followers don't even think to question it...

Insane.

This is the most 'effed up story I've read in a while. From cnn.com...

Murder charges filed in cannibal case
'Fantasies getting weirder and weirder,' suspect wrote in blog

Kevin Ray Underwood is under a suicide watch in an Oklahoma City jail, charged with murder.

PURCELL, Oklahoma (CNN) -- Prosecutors filed first-degree murder charges Monday against a grocery store clerk accused of killing a 10-year-old neighbor in a bizarre scheme to consume human flesh.
Kevin Ray Underwood remained in a Oklahoma jail cell under a suicide watch. He is being arraigned Monday afternoon in the slaying of Jamie Rose Bolin.
Bolin's aunt, Linda Chiles, said Monday that she hopes Underwood is convicted and put to death.
"I feel sorry for his family. I feel sorry for our family," Chiles told reporters. "What he did is unspeakable. There's no way to take it back. There's no way to fix it. He didn't just break a glass; he broke a baby."
"I just hope he gets what he deserves. I hope they give him the death penalty," she said. "He doesn't deserve to stay any longer. She doesn't get to be here."
The girl's body was found late Friday in a plastic tub hidden in a bedroom closet in Underwood's apartment in Purcell, south of Oklahoma City, District Attorney Tim Kuykendall said.
A police affidavit says Underwood confessed to killing the girl. Underwood's blog allegedly revealed his bizarre intentions.
Underwood, 26, wrote, "If you were a cannibal, what would you wear to dinner?"
"My fantasies are getting weirder and weirder," he wrote in another entry. "Dangerously weird. If people knew the kinds of things I think about anymore, I'd probably be locked away." Purcell Police Chief David Tompkins said investigators think Underwood planned to eat the girl's corpse, according to an AP report.

Meat tenderizer found
Kuykendall, the prosecutor, said that meat tenderizer and barbecue skewers were found in Underwood's apartment, apparently intended to be used on the girl.
The girl's clothes had been removed, but the only outward sign of injury was deep marks to her neck from a decapitation attempt, Kuykendall said. Her clothing was in the tub in which her body was found, along with a towel to soak up blood.
Preliminary autopsy results indicate she was struck in the head several times with a wooden cutting board. Authorities believe Underwood then used his hand and duct tape to asphyxiate her, Kuykendall said.
Authorities do not believe the suspect had any previous victims. Underwood had no felony criminal history and no known mental illness.
However, police believe Jamie was selected simply because she walked past Underwood's apartment on Wednesday -- the last day she was seen alive.
Authorities think she was killed shortly afterward, before police were notified of her disappearance.
The girl "happened to be the one that was ultimately selected for this plan," although others had been targeted and considered, Tompkins said.

Children allegedly targeted
"Whoever walked by was going to be a victim," Tompkins said. "There were very likely other potential targets or victims -- it could have been either a boy or a girl, an adult or a child."
Authorities have information that a 5-year-old boy and an adult female were among other victims considered, he said, declining to elaborate.
"A child was chosen because a child would put up less of a fight," Kuykendall said.
He said he had discussed Underwood's alleged plan with Jamie's family.
"It's very hard to talk to a family about things like this," he said. "I kind of look at it in terms of, would I want to know what happened to my daughter, my child?"
Authorities suspect Underwood bought items such as a hacksaw, the barbecue skewers and meat tenderizer in months leading up to the crime, Kuykendall said. He described Underwood as being cooperative with investigators.
Underwood had worked at a grocery store for about a year and at a fast-food restaurant before then, Tompkins said. He had lived in the apartments about a year and a half.

'Guy next door'
"He was very quiet ... comes from a nice family" and had a close relationship with relatives, he said. "Nothing in his background that we know of would have indicated that he could have done this. He was the guy next door."
Underwood's mother spoke to the AP on Sunday. "This is something that I don't know where it came from," she said. "He was always a wonderful boy. I would like to be able to tell her family how sorry we are. I just feel so terrible."
A former co-worker described Underwood as "boring," according to the AP. "Trying to get a smile out of him took an act of Congress," said Bill Verdan, who worked with Underwood at a Carl's Jr. restaurant.
In his blog, Underwood talked about depression, the AP reported, asking God in one February entry "to make whatever is wrong in my brain go away, so that I can live like a normal person.
"That's all I want in life, is to be able to live like a normal person."
CNN's Ed Lavendera and Camille Feanny contributed to this report.
Copyright 2006 CNN. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Associated Press contributed to this report.

Goin' Down to Southpark...

The TV show, Southpark has run a two part episode over the past couple of weeks. In this episode, the show Family Guy is supposed to be running a bit where Muhammad gives Peter a salmon helmet or something. In the show, the country is freaking out because it is against Islamic law to show any picture of their prophet. And, apparently, the folks over at Comedy Central censored a picture of Muhammad from being shown.
Upon further review, it turns out that several years ago, the folks at Southpark DID actually show a cartoon image of Muhammad in their "Super Best Friends" episode, (which was a very funny episode, by the way). Apparently, no one knew the rule at that time, and Muslims don't watch Southpark.
Anyway, what does all this mean? I don't know.
What I do know is this... In this weeks episode, three of my very favorite shows were all brought together. In the episode Cartman goes to the Family Guy Studio at Fox where he is trying to get the episode pulled from the air. While there he enlists the help of Bart Simpson, (who is never actually given a name in the episode. They just call him kid.) Which means, that in this episode of southpark, I got to see:
1) Southpark
2) Family Guy
3) The Simpsons
Guys, it just doesn't get any better than this.

Star Wars Stuff

I loaned my Star Wars Trilogy (original 3) DVD's to my dad, and he's had them for a few months now. So, I've been needing a Star Wars fix. To get it, I started surfing the net... I found some great stuff. Here are a couple of my favorites. More to come.

This is a link to a couple of dorks having a VERY good lightsaber duel. At first I thought that they were a couple of high school kids with access to amazing special effects, but it turns out that one of them is a graphics engineer or something like that. Anyway, this is pretty impressive... Most impressive.

Here are some Broadcasting students from Gonzaga with too much free time on their hands. This is very funny... Use the Force!

Gotta Love John Stewart

This is a great clip of John Stewart on the CNN show Crossfire. If you've got 13 minutes or so, watch it.