28
Sep
The latest on the US’s mismanagement in Iraq is that its new police training facility is a “disaster”.
The Baghdad Police College, hailed as crucial to U.S. efforts to prepare Iraqis to take control of the country’s security, was so poorly constructed that feces and urine rained from the ceilings in student barracks. Floors heaved inches off the ground and cracked apart. Water dripped so profusely in one room that it was dubbed “the rain forest.”
A seventy-five-million dollar disastrous police academy.
That’s what they get for hiring this guy:
(Admit it — you saw it coming.)
1:14 on September 29th, 2006
Yar! I be seein’ your comment at Pharyngula about Richard Dawkins accepting the Sublime Truth of His Noodliness.
I didn’t watch the video (hotel room connection, sloooow), but I’ve just read Dickie D’s new book, The God Delusion. FSM gets a mention in there, as does Andrew Muellers contention that the world is rhombus-shaped and carried through the cosmos in the claws of two enormous blue lobsters called Esmerelda and Keith.
9:15 on September 29th, 2006
I thought it was pretty cool that Dawkins mentioned FSM at all. Gives it an air of legitimacy. “The scientific establishment has acknowledged that…” and so on.
I like the blue lobster “theory” too; it’s at least as plausible as turtles all the way down or six days from void to Adam.
Penn Jilette (of Penn & Teller) once remarked that the Bible contains equal amounts of truth and pizza. That may not be wholly fair, but it’s pretty damn funny.