LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- An online casino has a piece of Capt. Kirk.

Actor William Shatner has sold his kidney stone for $25,000, with the money going to Habitat for Humanity.

"This would be the first Habitat for Humanity house built out of stone," joked Darren Julien, president of Los Angeles-based Julien's Auctions, which handled the sale.

Shatner, who played Kirk on the original "Star Trek" TV show and won an Emmy for his role on "Boston Legal," passed the stone last fall.

The stone was so big, Shatner said, "you'd want to wear it on your finger."

"If you subjected it to extreme heat, it might turn out to be a diamond," he added.

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Awesome. And gross.

Shatner kidney stone goes for $25,000

bush is a flaming douchebag.

During a round-table interview with reporters from five Texas newspapers, Bush declined to go into detail on his personal views of the origin of life. But he said students should learn about both theories, Knight Ridder Newspapers reported.

"I think that part of education is to expose people to different schools of thought," Bush said. "You're asking me whether or not people ought to be exposed to different ideas, the answer is yes."

This whole "we should teach different ideas" is retarded. There are ideas that life spawns from rotten meat. There are ideas that the US forced Japan to attack Pearl Harbor because of an oil embargo. There are ideas that the earth is hollow.

The point is there are ideas for everything, and we don't teach them all. We have some criteria that concepts have to meet to be taught. In science classes, that criteria is the scientific method.

I quote the Intelligent Design article on Wikipedia:

Critics call ID religious dogma repackaged in an effort to return creationism into public school science classrooms and note that ID features notably as part of the campaign known as Teach the Controversy. The National Academy of Sciences and the National Center for Science Education assert that ID is not science, but creationism. While the scientific theory of evolution by natural selection has observable and repeatable facts to support it such as the process of mutations, gene flow, genetic drift, adaptation and speciation through natural selection, the "Intelligent Designer" in ID is neither observable nor repeatable. This violates the scientific requirement of falsifiability. ID violates Occam's Razor by postulating an entity or entities to explain something that may have a simpler and scientifically supportable explanation not involving unobservable help.

ID is *not* science. It should not be taught in a *science* class. Doing so undermines the entire point of science. Bush's complete misunderstanding of this is beyond excuse.

CNN.com - Bush: Schools should teach 'intelligent design' - Aug 2, 2005

] A billboard recently put up in Orlando bearing a smiling
] photograph of President Bush with the words "Our
] Leader" is raising eyebrows among progressives who
] feel the poster is akin to that of propaganda used by
] tyrannical regimes.

I have no problem with this type of advertising. It's helpful to hang a flag out and show everyone how stupid you are. What I do have a problem with is that the company which is sponsoring it controls a majority chunk of several media in this country, and it's becoming clear that the line between political stance and objective reporting is more blurred and hidden than it's ever been.

George W. Bush: Our leader

janelane wrote:
] ] NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The CBS and NBC Networks have
] ] refused to run an ad by a liberal church promoting the
] ] acceptance of people regardless of sexual orientation
] ] because the networks believe the ad is advocacy
] ] advertising.
] ]
] ] The 30-second spot, run by the United Church of Christ,
] ] features two muscle-bound bouncers standing outside a
] ] church, selecting people who could attend service and
] ] those who could not. Among those kept out are two males
] ] who appear to be a couple. Written text then appears
] ] saying, in part, "Jesus didn't turn people away, neither
] ] do we."
] ]
] ] "It's ironic that after a political season awash in
] ] commercials based on fear and deception by both parties
] ] seen on all major networks, an ad with a message of
] ] welcome and inclusion would be deemed too controversial,"
] ] said Rev. John Thomas in the statement.
]
] Rock that statement, Reverend!

RE: Jesus accepting gays too hot for NBC, CBS - Dec. 1, 2004

] Radio host Bob Edwards, who drew millions of listeners to
] National Public Radio for three decades but was demoted
] earlier this year, is taking his signature voice to a
] competing radio universe, according to Edwards and
] executives of Washington-based XM Satellite Radio.

Good thing I'm putting XM in the Defender!

Former NPR Host Bob Edwards To Be XM's New Morning Star (washingtonpost.com)

god bless america

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