I loveded you piggy. I loveded you.

Is this karma, bad luck or some higher power messing with me? On Friday I was awarded a pretty nice performance bonus by my standards. Yesterday Mrs. Wormer put a Wii controller into our 47" LCD television playing Wii bowling. If you need me I'll be playing taps on the bagpipes in the backyard.

Also- Haunted House Update - We're probably going to stay at the house sometime in March. I'm planning on taking a camera and some sort of recording device and doing all that stuff you see on Ghosthunters where you ask the spirits for permission to film, etc.

Wooorse? Or better?

I'm not sure I see the point to this unless it's the Pope's goal to drive even more of us away from the Catholic church.

ROME, July 7 — Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday authorized a wider use of the old Latin Mass, dismissing fears that its revival could divide the church or dilute the reforms of the Second Vatican Council that made standard worship in the languages of Catholics around the world.

In gentle but firm language, the pope acknowledged in an accompanying letter to bishops the depth of opposition to the change, voiced in recent months by European bishops and Jewish groups. He proposed, in fact, a review after three years to determine “if truly serious difficulties come to light.”

He's not diluting the Second Vatican Council. He's making it "better."

But the pope said that the change could both heal rifts with traditionalist groups that favor the Latin Mass as well as reconnect the church with a 1,500-year-old form of worship that faded since the Second Vatican Council, which ended in 1965.

Rigggghhht. Because the Catholics that have fallen away that the church needs to bring back into the fold are the Mel Gibson/ Opus Dei/ Traditionalist nutjob variety and not the millions of other Catholics worldwide who've been dispossessed by a church increasingly more concerned with tradition rather than living the gospel.

Jackass.


**For those of you unfamiliar with the quote it's from one of the greatest, most subversive cartoons ever - "Invader Zim." Here's the context - Zim, who is entirely insane, has just un-banished himself from the planet "Foodcourtia" to join his fellow alien invaders in Operation Impending Doom 2. Operation Impending Doom 1 met utter failure when Zim went crazy on the invader's own planet and set most of the capitol on fire.

Zim- "I put the fires out.."
Red Tallest- "You made them worse!"
Zim- "Wooorse? Or better?"

Ha! Watch Dib! Watch as I bring a royal audience to the downfall of the human race!

This article by Ron Hutcheson on the recently released national intelligence estimate which provided that the war in Iraq is actually making us LESS safe and how that could hurt Republicans politically is a pretty good read until you get to this bit:

But Goldford said the political impact depends on "how skillful the Democrats are in exploiting" the newly disclosed intelligence findings.

We're doomed.

Doom, doom, doom. Doomity, doom, doom.

Omfg! Pat Robertson says we're Doomed!

"If I heard the Lord right about 2006, the coasts of America will be lashed by storms," Robertson said May 8. Wednesday, he added, "there well may be something as bad as a tsunami in the Pacific Northwest."