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Okay, so Nick Cannon isn't exactly Tupac. Still. From Young, Black, and Fabulous.

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06-06-06 Helpful Questionnaire: Is My Child The Devil’s Son?

A Checklist for Christian Mothers
from Landover Baptist Church, via Fark

Devil Child Book

1. Ladies, keep your legs crossed until after midnight.  A True Christian™ lady always keeps her knees together — and June 6 is no time to stop.  As your demon child willfully pushes and kicks, causing your lady hole to dilate to the size of a drainage pipe, keep your knees locked together at all times.  This will give your demanding child a wonderful, early lesson that he can't always have his way.  To underscore this valuable disciplinary message, as the devil child flops around, trying to claw its way out to the human world to do Lucifer's bidding, continue to warble in a loud voice, "La la la la la la la I CAN'T FEEL YOU!"

2.  If at all possible, have your Baptist doctor induce the child to be born earlier.  The most reliable method known to Creation Science to get a mother to go instantly into labor is to jump in front of her when she least expects it and scare the dickens out of her.  If this doesn't prove scary enough, read the Bible to her.  Otherwise, FedEx a love processing gift of $2,000 to " Landover Baptist Church , Freehold, Iowa 55369."  As soon as your check clears, we will send you information on how to perform a "Creation Birth Reduction." Constance, the Haunted PortraitReduction will cause the mother to give birth two or three days out from her expected due date. If you have a weak stomach, allergies to dried locusts and can not drink human urine, the Reduction is not for you.

3. If the 06-06-06 date can not be avoided, make sure that the child is kept in a chicken cage on the hospital floor, and that there are at least two full grown hogs within four feet of the cage at all times. As a Bible-believing Christian, you know that demons and pigs act like the two sides of Velcro when they are around each other (Mark 5:12-13), so keeping them by your newborn's side acts as a Godly safety net. If one of the hogs starts grinning and snorting,  prancing about, or just plain acting full of the Devil's business by emptying its bowels all over the hospital floor, get it out to a lake and drown it as soon as humanly possible.  And you don't have to be a Christ-killing Jew to know this: Goodness gracious, don't eat the bacon!

4. Make sure you check under your child's testicles for any peculiar markings. For it is not upon the head (as the hell-bound Catholics incorrectly believe and, by all other indications, should be the Devilchild with hornslast ones to be wrong in this regard), but rather hidden in the rough skin on the nape under a newborn's tiny tallywhacker, or slightly inside the anal cavity that one should be looking for any signs of the Evil OneCreation Scientists have observed that the so-called "taint" (the disagreeable area between the genitals and the anus) is where demons are most likely to post messages for each other.

5. Place your child in the care of our Creation Scientists for a period of 10-days. During this period, they will perform a Bible Crawl and conduct Creation Science Experiments on your newborn to determine if it needs to be shipped off the Landover Baptist Home for the Demonically Possessed in North Dakota. The shipping charges and five years of care costs will be billed monthly to the same credit card account you use when you drop your child off with us.

6. You might decide (as many Christian families in need have before you) that it is best just to sell your child to the cause of Creation Science. Our laboratory and research center will pay $18 a pound (17 cents a pound for mixed race infants) for any child under the age of 6-months. Devilkid scienceIn making this decision, you can rest assured that you are doing something for the cause of Christendom™. Your family will be helping Creation Scientists better understand Satan's handiwork in early childhood development. This greater understanding will better prepare us in case (God forbid we'd have to suffer) there is a post-tribulational Rapture. If that is ever the case, the more we know about the enemy, the better.

7.  Buy an enormous, full Korean wig that cascades thick locks of hair down your back to your waist.  June 6, 2006 is no time for a pregnant woman to be walking around looking like a young boy, lest she be mistaken for Mia Farrow.

Today in Enteroctopus Dofleini Movie News: It Came from Beneath the Sea

Captain Nemo and the Giant Pacific OctopusHere it comes.
[sho' nuff]

What is it?
[the Giant Pacific Octopus]

Is it real?
[no, it is an early work by Ray Harryhausen, master model monster]

A Tidalwave of Terror Engulfs the Screen as the Raging Monster from the Dawn of Creation Attacks the World of Man.
[they just don't alliterate and hyperbolize like they used to – Michael Bay excepted]

IT CAME FROM BENEATH THE SEA!!!

The H-bomb Blasted It Loose from the Depths of the Pacific, But Not Even the H-bomb Can Kill It.
[because we have to work out our existential nuclear guilt somehow]

San Francisco Doomed!
[Save the Filmore!]

Golden Gate Bridge Uprooted!
[Tacoma Narrows 2.0!]

Buildings Topple!
[Yeah, I'm thinking the time is right for a comeback for this flick]

Thousands Die in Streets!
[see above]

West Coast Reels Under Holocaust as the Men and Weapons of the Atomic Age Battle to the Death Against the Ageless Monster of the Deep
[five bucks on the ageless monster of the deep]

WHAT CITY WILL BE NEXT?
[is this voting-enabled?]

Kagame vs Hollywood

From Reuters. As in China, it appears that in Rwanda truth is more vulnerable to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle than it is elsewhere.

Rwandan president scoffs at "Hotel Rwanda"

By Arthur Asiimwe Wed May 31, 9:42 PM ET   WASHINGTON (Reuters) –

Rwandan president Paul Kagame on Wednesday dismissed the Oscar-nominated drama "Hotel Rwanda" as an attempt to rewrite the history of the central African country's 1994 genocide. The 2004 film refueled world interest in the massacres, in which some 800,000 minority Tutsis and moderate Hutus were butchered in 100 days of killings.

"Hotel Rwanda" stars Don Cheadle as Paul Rusesabagina, the manager of a luxury hotel in the Rwandan capital Kigali who uses his position to help save more than 1,200 Tutsi refugees.

Kagame said the movie's portrayal of Rusesabagina as a hero during the genocide was false. "It has nothing to do with Rusesabagina," Kagame told reporters during a visit to Washington. "He just happened to be there accidentally, and he happened to be surviving because he was not in the category of those being hunted."

Kagame said people in the hotel were saved in part because U.N. forces occupied the hotel and because the killers wanted to keep it as a place where they could drink beer after a long day of killing and discuss whom to kill the following day.

Kagame, a Tutsi, said another reason lives were spared is that talks had been underway between his rebel group and the then-interim government to exchange Tutsis in the hotel for Hutu soldiers captured by his group.

"Someone is trying to rewrite the history of Rwanda and we cannot accept it," he said. Some survivors of the genocide also have been critical of movies about the slaughter, saying Hollywood got their story wrong. Amid international inaction, the genocide was finally ended by Kagame, who led a rebel army from Uganda to seize power.

Rusesabagina, awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom last year, has recently been critical of the Kigali government, accusing it of continued human rights violations and oppression of political opponents.

Valley of Gwombi

A video tribute to one of my favorite movies of all time, the immortal cinematic masterwork The Valley of Gwanji, the James Franciscus cowboy dinosaur flick.

After a confusing opening scene in which some gypsies argue about a vague legend, we meet our hero: Tuck Kirby, as played by James "They Couldn't Get Heston" Franciscus. GwanjiposterKirby is a rootin'-tootin' turn-of-the-century cowboy with peroxide hair and unbelievably large and perfect teeth. Kirby has come to a small Mexican town to purchase a circus act for Buffalo Bill's show…

The centerpiece of it all, of course, is the allosaurus named (what else?) Gwangi who becomes the focus of our heroes' attentions. After taking down another dinosaur, Gwangi is quickly targeted to become the headlining act in T.J.'s circus. Anyone else who thinks this is a bad idea, raise your hand.

Ah, what does this dope know? It was a stroke of genius, as you can see from the following trailer. Gwanji is just so frickin' cool that he's automatically elevated to "Squid" tag.