Some conservatives in Congress are defending Gen. Boykin's comment that the war on terrorism is a war against Satan. Remember, he also referred to the Islamic God as an idol. It is funny to me that no one is pointing out that the Christian God and the Islamic God(Allah is Arabic for God), are the same God. Gen. Boykin might dispute the contention that Muhammed is a prophet, which would be a legitimate Christian concern, but that isn't what he said. He, like most American Christians, is so eager to judge people that are different from him, but too ignorant to take a moment to try and understand what it is he judges.
The major Hollywood studios are close to making a deal that would lift the ban on "screeners". It looks like their fears of piracy might be calmed by sending out coded videotapes(DVD's will not be lifted from the ban), to Academy Award voters. The videotapes will be coded with the voter's name for the purposes of tracking the video. So, in the case one of these videos ends up in a dirty pirate's hands, the Academy will know the culprit. 'Ay! Matey! I just watched Tony Randall's copy of Chicago, and those scalawags at the Academy robbed Richard Gere. Robbed him, I say. And if they don't aim to give him the gold, well, then I aim to rob and pillage for it. Arrrrgghh!'
Also, Claudius Flauberius has discovered more scary details involving those pesky voting machine corporations, specifically Diebold. It seems that Diebold isn't satisfied with stealing our votes, they are now trying to muzzle websites that offer evidence of security flaws within the voting machines.
Posted by Paul Hina at October 20, 2003 10:52 PM