DENVER - A homeowners association in southwestern Colorado has threatened to fine a resident $25 a day until she removes a Christmas wreath with a peace sign that some say is an anti-Iraq war protest or a symbol of Satan.

Some residents who have complained have children serving in Iraq, said Bob Kearns, president of the Loma Linda Homeowners Association in Pagosa Springs. He said some residents have also believed it was a symbol of Satan.

Then some of your residents are f’n stupid. No surprise, this coming from the land of the Christian Crazies. No wonder South Park is located in Colorado.

Why would Shell Oil Co. simply close its Bakersfield refinery? Why scrap a profit maker?

The rumor seemed to make no sense. Yet it was true.

The company says it could make more money on other projects. It denies it intended to squeeze the market, as its critics would claim, to drive up gasoline profits at its other refineries in the region.

Everybody have a good Thanksgiving day, and we’ll see ya again on Monday, unless we get bored with 3 seasons of South Park and the third season of The Wire (best drama on TV) and want to take a break.

See ya!

Now who wouldn’t want a “Countdown Calendar” marking off the days of King George’s “reign”?

David Kuo, the former deputy-director of the Bush White House’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, recently published a book, Tempting Faith. The book’s most controversial claim is that members of the Bush administration have been privately trashing some of the very Religious Right leaders who helped put them in power.

In this column, I’ll consider claims that Kuo must have a hidden political agenda, analyze the implication of the badmouthing of the religious right by Rove’s team, and consider the Administration’s responses to Kuo.

More fun here.

Judge: FBI must correct disclosures on evacuation of Saudis after 9/11

A U.S. district court judge has ordered the FBI to correct disclosures regarding the US government’s evacuation of Saudi royals and bin Laden family members after the September 11 attacks in 2001, a conservative watchdog organization announced today.

Judge Roberts added that one particular FBI exemption argument “strains credulity.”

Always one of the more puzzling loose ends of the 9/11 coverup- why did we fly out planeloads of Saudis, including members of the bin Laden family- at a time when no one else was flying?

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales contended Saturday that some critics of the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance program were defining freedom in a way that poses a “grave threat” to U.S. security.

“But this view is shortsighted,” he said. “Its definition of freedom one utterly divorced from civic responsibility is superficial and is itself a grave threat to the liberty and security of the American people.”

Why do we have as Attorney General a man who clearly loathes freedom, and feels compelled to lie in order to protect his client, the president?

Why Marijuana Impairs Memory

Scientists may have just found out why marijuana impairs memory and why the brain’s natural versions of the drug might help against epilepsy.

The active ingredient of marijuana, THC, is known to impair memory and to bind to areas of the brain linked to memory, such as the hippocampus. Still, the exact mechanisms by which marijuana impairs memory remain unclear.