Nilknarf News

No, wait, make that better... just 'cause it's Friday, that's why.

We came close to setting yet another record today. At one point during the afternoon I had to stop and rest a while because my legs started giving out on me. I was the runner today, and run I did, all day long.

At least I didn't get called in last night, and that's a damned good thing.

So... the woman in Texas who drowned her kids is back in the news again, they've released tapes and transcripts of her confession... chilling stuff indeed.

Most of the religious people that I know say, naturally, that she's no *true* christian. None of them believe enough to kill for their god, so they say.

But I think that it's a matter of degree. After all, they *do* believe in a god who has complete control over everything and who has time to listen to each of their individual (and mostly petty and self-centered) prayers. Exactly how far are they willing to take their belief?

History gives some answers to that question... and so do the newspapers.

A recent poll in Ohio showed that 60% of the respondents believed that creationism should be taught in the public schools. Not because they necessarily believed in creationism, but because they thought that it showed respect for all belief systems.

Of course, if enough people believe that 2+2=5, then that should be taught too, so's not to make people feel that their belief is wrong.

Hasn't anyone learned a lesson from the ridicule that Kansas went through a coupla years ago?

Well, it's no secret that I don't think much of religiosity, but I do need some help understanding how people can reconcile believing that a god of the kindlier nature would allow a mother to believe in that god enough to kill her kids. And the *no true christian* thing kinda blows me away too. From what I've heard, there are really no true christians except for the one that you happen to be talking to right now. Each one individually knows what's right, and that, by god, is that.

Well, no, not each one. There are a lot of followers... that "Flock" that I've heard about. Sheeple, as some of my cohorts say. But each one that can attract a following... the preachers, the priests, the politicians... each of them believes that they are the only one that knows the way.

Well, even having two disagree is pretty bad... but there are millions of them. And the other religions are probably just as bad... for instance, the muslims have imams that are quite willing to co-exist with the jews. O'wait, none of them around any more, or at least they're not very vocal or popular. Anyway, they have lots of different opinions on how to kill the greatest number of infidels entertainingly.

OK, that's my anti-religious rant for the month. Done.

I'll save the politics for later, too.

I do have to say some bad things about cats, though. Cats in general? No, cats are generally OK. Baby cat, AKA Callie, is just irritating the hell out of me lately. The tone of her voice just sets me on edge.

The problem is, I've let her and Sam come in and out of my window, which has a torn screen. Well, we've turned the AC on again, and I'm not willing to take the cooling loss to keep "their" damned window open. And I'm sure as hell not going to answer their every whim... so they cry about it. BabyCat more than Sam, Sam doesn't really care, but it's a definite affront to BabyCat to be refused anything that she happens to want whenever she wants it.

So, it's a matter of principle with me to not open the damned window... and it's a matter of principle with her to keep whining until I do. There are winners and losers here... and I don't really want to draw any conclusions here right now.

It's going to be another early night to bed for this bozo....