October 23, 2003

Quick Links

Who Destroyed Megiddo? Was It David or Shishak? - The destruction of Armageddon. Such a pleasant topic, it is. Actually, I find it to be extremely fascinating. If I ever get enough money that I can tell the world to kiss off, I'm going to go and volunteer at a bunch of these biblical dig sites. It would be a lot more interesting to me than discussing the types of wood used in furniture.

Team finds secret of mummies' preservation - Keeping with the same theme of studying really old dead people, here's a report on how they may have finally discovered the way the Egyptians embalmed their mummies - by reading Pliny the Elder, a Roman scholar who died some 2000 years ago. We known the answer all this time, yet we just discovered it. Amazing.

Satanic Ritual Cancelled By Salem Knights of Columbus - I don't really know what to say. Who scheduled it in the first place? Did they not notice that it was a pagan ritual? Does someone need some religious diversity training?

Father, Daughter Sentenced In Tax Case - Ah, our tax dollars at work. This girl managed to get a half a million dollar refund check from the IRS - for slavery reparations. And to make it worse, the IRS sent it, allowed her to cash it and blow over half of it before they figured out that Daddy had put a huge captial gains refund on her tax return. Did someone in the IRS not think it was odd when this girl suddenly claimed this massive deduction? Did it not trigger a manual review - before it cost the taxpayers $266,000? It should have.

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