Open Thread

Fafnir and Giblets answer the question: When Jesus died for our sins did he die for gorilla sins too?

Fafblog addresses the Dem Veep stakes, also, with a list of pros and cons for each of the obvious candidates. My favorite? Hillary Clinton, of course:

Pros: over two hundred years’ experience in treaty negotiation, nation-founding and Declaration-writing from that eighth grade field trip to Monticello; would promote party unity with dynamic, mutual-loathing-based dream ticket

Cons: who will bridge the vast ideological gulf between Clinton’s hawkish, corporate-friendly centrism and Obama’s hawkish, centrist-friendly corporatism?

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mainsailset on July 11, 2008 at 1:14 pm

well, since this is an open thread. How about the new ray gun that puts tasers to shame.

Steven D on July 11, 2008 at 1:37 pm

Maybe they should name it the Ronnie.

Renee in Ohio on July 11, 2008 at 1:25 pm

Free Slurpees today in honor of 7/11 day http://www.slurpee.com

Sadly, no stores close enough to make it worth the cost of the gas.

Steven D on July 11, 2008 at 1:27 pm

Ah, but I’m only a bike ride away from my free slurpee! (If only I had a bike)
CabinGirl on July 11, 2008 at 1:48 pm

Heh. I hear you on the cost of gas…I made my own barbecue sauce last night instead of driving to the store for some Sweet Baby Ray’s.
- BooMan on July 11, 2008 at 1:56 pm
  
  too bad you didn’t make hamburger buns, too.
  - CabinGirl on July 11, 2008 at 1:57 pm
    
    Why do you think we went patty-melt style with toast?
esquimaux on July 11, 2008 at 1:49 pm

I don’t really want a slurpee, but it is free. 7-11 is right at the end of the block. The guy will be shocked to see me buying anything but beer.
- DaveW on July 11, 2008 at 2:13 pm
  
  Beer slurpee.

dada on July 11, 2008 at 1:43 pm

FISA: Your Silent, Always Watching Best Friend

I’ve got some advertising pitches which might help the few doubting Thomases realize that FISA is meant to protect innocent people from themselves, not hurt them.

Call me, Uncle Sam. You already know the number.

the Drucker Brothers

Oui on July 11, 2008 at 1:48 pm

Dutch woman died of Marburg hemorrhagic fever
WHO: avoid bats in caves and mines in western Uganda

GENEVA (Reuters) July 11, 2008 – The World Health Organisation (WHO) urged Ugandans and tourists to avoid entering caves with bats in the East African country of Uganda after a Dutch woman died of Marburg hemorrhagic fever.

Health experts fear bats in caves and mines in western Uganda are a reservoir for the Marburg virus, a cousin of Ebola. Marburg hemorrhagic fever is a severe and highly fatal disease whose victims often bleed from multiple sites.

There is no vaccine or specific treatment for the contagious disease, spread through contact with blood, semen or other bodily fluids. At least 150 people died in an epidemic in Angola in 2004 and 2005, which followed an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo which cost 128 lives between 1998 and 2000, according to the WHO.

"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."

mainsailset on July 11, 2008 at 1:50 pm

I have a niece on an official ‘bat count’ as we speak. US caves not Uganda luckily.

idredit on July 11, 2008 at 3:26 pm

The question of birth and eligibility to be President returns:

Is McCain a natural born citizen?

A lawsuit challenging Mr. McCain’s qualifications is pending in the Federal District Court in Concord, N.H.

There are, Professor Chin argued in his analysis, only two ways to become a natural-born citizen. One, specified in the Constitution, is to be born in the United States. The other way is to be covered by a law enacted by Congress at the time of one’s birth.

Professor Chin wrote that simply being born in the Canal Zone did not satisfy the 14th Amendment, which says that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.”

A series of early-20th-century decisions known as the Insular Cases, he wrote, ruled that unincorporated territories acquired by the United States were not part of the nation for constitutional purposes. The Insular Cases did not directly address the Canal Zone. But the zone was generally considered an unincorporated territory before it was returned to Panama in 1999, and some people born in the Canal Zone when it was under American jurisdiction have been deported from the United States or convicted of being here illegally.

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Steven D on July 11, 2008 at 3:37 pm

Considering McCain’s campaigning skilz, not sure I want him removed from the top of the GOP’s ticket.
- idredit on July 11, 2008 at 7:28 pm
  
  do you think McCain can top this week?

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