Inbred Westboro Baptist
The Westboro Baptist Church in Kansas, a nutty, ultra-conservative church known for picketing the funerals of soldiers who perished in Iraq, and running the website “GodHatesFags,” among other sites, said it intends to protest Heath Ledger’s memorial service with signs claiming the actor died and is in Hell because he played a gay character in “Brokeback Mountain.”
Fox News quotes one of the parishioners as saying “you cannot live in defiance of God.” “He (Ledger) got on that big screen with a big, fat message: God is a liar and it’s OK to be gay.”
In a press release announcing the funeral picket, the church references Leviticus 18:22 in the Bible, which according to the release states that “thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.” If you open the Bible to Chapter 18 of Leviticus it basically runs though a series of what this book of the Bible deems as immoral sexual conduct.
“Heath Ledger is now in Hell, and has begun serving his eternal sentence there,” according to the Westboro Baptist’s release.
There is no end to the video on the Internet documenting the mind-numbing, hatemongering antics of these people and their ridiculous dogma.
See inside the Westboro Baptist Church.
Monster Pool
If you like doing laps in the swimming pool, you might want to stock up on the energy drinks before diving in to this one.
It is more than 1,000 yards long, covers 20 acres, had a 115ft deep end and holds 66 million gallons of water.
Yesterday the Guinness Book of Records named the vast pool beside the sea in Chile as the biggest in the world.
Check it out at this week’s 4:
Try making a splash in the largest swimming pool in the world.
A Deadly Game
Saddam Hussein initially didn’t think the U.S. would invade Iraq to destroy weapons of mass destruction, so he kept the fact that he had none a secret to prevent an Iranian invasion he believed could happen. The Iraqi dictator revealed this thinking to George Piro, the FBI agent assigned to interrogate him after his capture.
“He told me he initially miscalculated… President Bush’s intentions. He thought the United States would retaliate with the same type of attack as we did in 1998… a four-day aerial attack,” says Piro. “He survived that one and he was willing to accept that type of attack.” “He didn’t believe the U.S. would invade?” asks Pelley, “No, not initially,” answers Piro.
Saddam still wouldn’t admit he had no weapons of mass destruction, even when it was obvious there would be military action against him because of the perception he did. Because, says Piro, “For him, it was critical that he was seen as still the strong, defiant Saddam. He thought that [faking having the weapons] would prevent the Iranians from reinvading Iraq,” he tells Pelley.
Read the article here.
God was Living on Mars
An image of a mysterious human-like creature on Mars that sparked a flurry of Internet activity is not an alien but a feature of the atmosphere, according to NASA.
See the image here.
Prison Break
Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians crossed into Egypt from Gaza on Wednesday after gunmen destroyed about two-thirds of the Gaza-Egypt border wall. Most of the Gazans returned after stocking up on food and other basic supplies that have become scarce due to the blockade imposed on the territory by Israel.
UN personnel said they estimated the number of Palestinians who entered Egypt to be 350,000.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak announced that he had ordered his troops to allow Palestinians to cross into Egypt because they were starving.
Read the story here.
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