I mean really, who knew that Mary, Dave and Margie were going to be targets of god’s wrath?

Fred Phelps and his merry band of haters, that’s who.

07/22/2010 1:15 PM – 2:00 PM San Diego , CA San Diego Convention Center 111 W Harbor Dr. WBC to picket Comic Con 2010 at the San Diego Convention Center. Are you kidding?! If these people would spend even some of the energy that they spend on these comic books, reading the Bible, well no high hopes here. They have turned comic book characters into idols, and worship them they do! Isaiah 2:8 Their land also is full of idols; they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made: 9 And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not. It is time to put away the silly vanities and turn to God like you mean it. The destruction of this nation is imminent – so start calling on Batman and Superman now, see if they can pull you from the mess that you have created with all your silly idolatry.

Personally, I look forward to all the photos of cosplayers and Phelps’ Family that will come from this little stunt.

Via Gizmodo

So, as was pointed out to me last night, being a native Coloradoan, my personal familiarity with “Islands” is extremely limited.

Thinking about it at breakfast this morning the list is very small indeed:

The British Isles (England/Scotland, Isle of Arran and St. Michael’s Mount)

And…

Yep, that is it, everything else is just a place on a map, fictional or not…and really there is no difference between the two.

So, also after last night, and thinking about the amazing heat levels of KOA, I started thinking that Football kit would be a good way to go. I do have bits and pieces of Scottish things about that I could go that route, but wool, in 90+ degree heat just does not have any sort of appeal.
Sadly, both Tenerife and Mallorca’s teams are too small to have an online store, so I am thinking Ireland’s National Team will be the way to go.

Just in time for KOA planning, io9 has a list of fictional islands (besides the Lost one of course).

Though, missing are (just off the top of my head):

Avalon
Gilligan’s
Lilliput
Blefuscu
Monkey Island

But that said I would have expected it to be an actual customer and not another TSA Agent.

MAY 6–A Transportation Security Administration screener is facing an assault rap after he allegedly beat a co-worker who joked about the size of the man’s genitalia after he walked through a security scanner. The May 4 confrontation involved Rolando Negrin, 44, and other TSA employees who had previously taken part in a training session at Miami International Airport, according to the below Miami-Dade Police Department reports. Negrin, pictured in the mug shot at right, and his co-workers had been training with new “whole body image” machines–the controversial kind that provide very revealing images of a traveler–when Negrin walked through the scanner. “The X-ray revealed that [Negrin] has a small penis and co-workers made fun of him on a daily basis,” reported cops. Following his arrest, Negrin told police that he “could not take the jokes anymore and lost his mind.” After work Tuesday evening, Negrin confronted fellow TSA screener Hugo Osorno in an airport parking lot. Negrin wanted to “resolve a problem,” and get Osorno, 34, to “finally respect him.” Instead, Negrin allegedly pulled out a police baton and began striking Osorno, while demanding an apology. A witness told cops that Negrin told Osorno, in Spanish, “Get on your knees or I will kill you and you better apologize.” When Negrin, wearing his TSA uniform, arrived for work yesterday, he was arrested on an aggravated battery count and booked into the Miami-Dade lockup. Osorno, police reported, suffered “bruises and abrasions on his back and arms” during the attack.

Yes, because making fun of an armed person is always the smart thing to do.

If they were to move this piece from just a Gallery to the Tate Modern, I would gladly pay cash dollars to go and see/participate in it.

~gleefully runs through the Tate Modern grabbing things to toss into the bin~

Nothing line unplanned travel after head-ache from hell over the weekend to make a peachy week.

Off to finish off the first series of ST:TOS and go to bed.

Yep, pretty much.

I had a fantasy in which the Fed and the TSA (Transportation Security Administration) switched roles.

If a bank failed at 9 a.m. one morning and shut its doors, the TSA would announce that all banks henceforth begin their business day at 10 a.m.

And, if a terrorist managed to get on board a plane between Stockholm and Washington, the Fed would increase the number of flights between the cities.

Via Boing Boing

Yeah….Been there saw it, wanted to hurt people.

That I had book marked to blog about later, forgot about and then found tonight.

Several months ago The Daily Camera had an article about a local family that sold their house and baught a 43′ trawler and decided to spend the next several years going around the world.

The plan: To travel the world as a family — including their cat, Dilly — visiting historical ports that tie in to Ayla’s home school lessons, teaching their daughter about different cultures. Her mother cites Mark Twain: “Travel is fatal to ignorance, bigotry and narrow-mindedness.”

The cool thing is they have a blog, and the whole family (including the Cat) post things as they travel, a google map route showing their route and so on.

Cool stuff Maynard.

Part of me things about how cool it would be to be able to do something like this, and then the other part of me thinks about the shear amount of work involved in this under taking….to me it’s mind boggling.

BBSpot had a bit of cool this morning (well, they have at least one every day…), a link to something new that Google Maps is doing, a list of famous peoples Favourite places.

Al Gore

Tony Hawk

Jean-Michel Cousteau

And many more, and I hope they keep adding to the list.