Ummm... didn't Bush already have a jinx?

Voodoo Practitioner Tries to Jinx Bush

BOGOR, Indonesia (AP) - A renowned black magic practitioner performed a voodoo ritual Thursday to jinx President George W. Bush and his entourage while he was on a brief visit to Indonesia.

Ki Gendeng Pamungkas slit the throat of a goat, a small snake and stabbed a black crow in the chest, stirred their blood with spice and broccoli before drank the "potion" and smeared some on his face.

You may laugh, but don't forget the relationship between broccoli and the Bush family. Broccoli may try to get its revenge.

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You know sometimes religious thought and ideas can lead to the opposite effect.

Checks and balances. Religion needs science, and it probably can be argued the science needs religion.

Toilet evidence links Dead Sea Scrolls to sect

Following directions found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, archaeologists have discovered the latrines used by the sect that produced the scrolls, discovering that efforts to achieve ritual purity inadvertently exposed members to intestinal parasites that shortened their lifespan.
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The Essenes are one of the few ancient groups whose toiletry practices were documented. The first century Jewish historian Josephus noted that members of the group normally went outside the city and dug a hole, where they buried their waste.
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Zias sent samples to anthropologist Stephanie Harter-Lailheugue of the CNRS Laboratory for Anthropology in Marseilles, France, who found preserved eggs and other remnants of roundworms, tapeworms and pinworms, all human intestinal parasites.

Samples from the surrounding areas contained no parasites. Had the waste been dumped on the surface, as is the practice of Bedouins in the area, the parasites quickly would have been killed by sunlight. Buried, they could persist for a year or longer, infecting anyone who walked through the soil.

Their religious cleanliness fetish made their insides dirtier.

The same is occurring today where religious cleanliness sexual fetishes are make a lot of minds dirtier. The sleazy TV shows always do better in the bible belt.

Seriously though, here the idea of being clean made people sicker and dirtier, but even if scientists existed back then to point that out - the practice would have continued. In America study after study show that abstinence education actually increase the likelihood of teenage pregnancies and STDs - and yet now the Bush administration is talking about pushing abstinence education to people in their twenties.

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Yes the primitives have indeed taken over our nation.

HHS: We Don't Know What "Scientifically Accurate" Means

In a new report on publicly-funded abstinence programs, a government watchdog charged that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) allows programs to distribute inaccurate sex information to kids, and suggested the agency clean up its act.

But in its defense, HHS argued that it doesn't know how to tell whether something is "scientifically accurate."

This explains so much doesn't it?

I see the following scenarios:

Scene 1:
Exxon executive: Oil actually reduces global warming and increases lifespans.

Scientist: Burning fossil fuels is a major source of air pollution and is the main cause of climate change from human action.

Bush Official: Oh if only there was a way to tell which statement is 'scientifically accurate?'


Scene 2:
Religious Extremist: Abortions cause breast cancer in over 100% of the cases, and the morning after pill leads to chemical imbalances that make women floosies

Medical Doctor: It has been proven there is no connection between abortions and breast cancer, and the morning after bill prevents unwanted emotional stress after traumatic events.

Bush Official: Oh if only there was a way to tell which statement is 'scientifically accurate?'


Yes how can we tell. If someone was to tell me that masturbation makes people blind - how will I know if that is scientifically accurate?

Heck, I think there is no way of truly judging whether things are scientifically accurate or not. Or historically accurate.

Or to sum up the Bush administration - How does one know what is "factually accurate?"

Myself? If I read it on the internet than I know it is true. So after work I'll ride on my anti-gravity car that was invented by Marconi and Tesla after they faked their deaths and made a futuristic city in a dormant volcano in the jungles of south america. The car is powered by zero point energy which is derived from hyperdemensional physics that NASA learned about from studying the ruins of mars.

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Heady with his triumph in Iraq, Bush continues pushing his belief that no plan is the best plan.

Bush Choice for Family-Planning Post Criticized

The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who worked at a Christian pregnancy-counseling organization that regards the distribution of contraceptives as "demeaning to women."
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Keroack, an obstetrician-gynecologist, will advise Secretary Mike Leavitt on matters such as reproductive health and adolescent pregnancy. He will oversee $283 million in annual family-planning grants that, according to HHS, are "designed to provide access to contraceptive supplies and information to all who want and need them with priority given to low-income persons."

So the leader of the government orgainization that spends $283 million each year on promoting contraceptives doesn't believe in contraceptives. And yet I still forsee them going over budget. "We belive Halliburton's is was the best vendor possible for reaching our elementary school girls on the dangers of sex. We also will make sure to give the boys a nudge with our elbows and a knowing wink."

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Bush ends hunger in America!

Some Americans Lack Food, but USDA Won't Call Them Hungry

Every year, the Agriculture Department issues a report that measures Americans' access to food, and it has consistently used the word "hunger" to describe those who can least afford to put food on the table. But not this year.
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The USDA said that 12 percent of Americans -- 35 million people -- could not put food on the table at least part of last year. Eleven million of them reported going hungry at times. Beginning this year, the USDA has determined "very low food security" to be a more scientifically palatable description for that group.

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Meanwhile the election isn't over yet (thanks electronic voting machines):

Update: In FL-13, Court Battle Begins As Counting Continues

Lawyers for Democratic House candidate Christine Jennings threw down the gauntlet yesterday, asking a state court to secure electronic voting machines and data used in the election.
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The fight will center around the district's Sarasota County, where the electronic machines did not register a vote in the Congressional race for 18,000 voters (13%) -- what's called an "undervote." That's compared to only 2.53% of voters who did not vote in the race via absentee ballots.

A study by the local paper, The Herald Tribune, found that one in three of Sarasota election officials "had general complaints from voters about having trouble getting votes to record" on the electronic machines for the Congressional race. Since 53% of voters in Sarasota County picked Jennings over the Republican Vern Buchanan, those missed votes would likely have put Jennings in front.

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Where the Fair balance comes from in our site's full name (This Century Sucks - A Fair and Balanced Look at the Continuing Corrupt and Evil Whistle Ass Administration):

FOX NEWS INTERNAL MEMO: "Be On The Lookout For Any Statements From The Iraqi Insurgents...Thrilled At The Prospect Of A Dem Controlled Congress"...

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Sorry for a pretty quite week over here at TCS. We'll be back - in the meantime why need read about Bush signing off on illegal activities:

Document shows Bush guided CIA on detention

WASHINGTON: The Central Intelligence Agency has acknowledged for the first time the existence of two classified documents, including one signed by President George W. Bush, that have guided the agency's interrogation and detention of terror suspects.
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The contents of the documents were not revealed, but one document, as described by the ACLU, is "a directive signed by President Bush granting the CIA the authority to set up detention facilities outside the United States and outlining interrogation methods that may be used against detainees."

and

CIA Acknowledges 2 Interrogation Memos
Papers Called Too Sensitive for Release

After years of denials, the CIA has formally acknowledged the existence of two classified documents governing aggressive interrogation and detention policies for terrorism suspects, according to the American Civil Liberties Union.

But CIA lawyers say the documents -- memos from President Bush and the Justice Department -- are still so sensitive that no portion can be released to the public.

What thin skins these documents must have - "oh I'm much too sensitive to get any criticism. I might tear."

I wonder if this blows up (which it should, but won't) Bush will use a Clintonian excuse "Yes I signed it, but I didn't read it."

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What a tragic fiasco

Up to 150 People Kidnapped in Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Gunmen wearing Iraqi police commando uniforms kidnapped up to 150 staff and visitors in a lightning raid on a government research institute in downtown Baghdad on Tuesday, the largest mass abduction since the start of the U.S. occupation.

Iraq's higher education minister immediately ordered all universities closed until security improvements are made, saying he was "not ready to see more professors get killed."

Bush has lost an American city and an entire country. But he's still checking out his office for WMDs.

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Listening to Bush will make you go insane

Anxiety sensitivity a risk to mental health

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The fear of fear itself may make people more vulnerable to developing certain psychiatric disorders, a study suggests.

It's all part of Rove's genius.

Scare voters, make them insane, insane people vote for Bush.

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Well we're getting good at catching people who mail fake anthrax.

But what about the guy who really does mail anthrax? Anyone remember him?

Calif. Suspect in Threats Due in Court

LOS ANGELES -- A man suspected of mailing more than a dozen threatening letters containing white powder to Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Jon Stewart and other high-profile figures was in custody and awaiting a court appearance.
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The letters, which had fake return addresses, were received by Pelosi, a California Democrat who is in line to become speaker of the House; comedians Stewart and David Letterman; Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer of New York; and MSNBC host Keith Olberman.

Some letters, which were sent over the past three months to addresses in New York, New Jersey and San Francisco, included phrases like "Death to Demagogues" and pictures of victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami, authorities said.

Yes these are the same letters NY Post mocked Olbermann for alerting authorities about.

Meanwhile the suspect is still hoping for a job with Fox News after his prison sentence - or maybe talk radio. He could be a side kick on G. Gordon Liddy's show.

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