But which version of the Bible?

It seems that the original scrolls are missing a lot of pages. So a lot of monks started copying the original Greek texts and adding stuff in the margins where they thought it should go. Then some other monks started taking it out and putting in other stuff as they saw fit.

And when the Protestant Reformation got underway, things got all screwed up. That damned monk, Martin Luther went ahead and fiddled with the Bible to his liking.

It got so bad that finally the Roman Catholic Church, feeling like they were losing their grip on the whole Jesus franchise, got the Pope to convene a bunch of loyalists to put things back right and and get the suckers, uh I mean the sheep, uh I mean the gullible, uh superstitious folks to come back to the Mother Church and forsake all this nonsense, including Mike Huckabee's Baptist hokus pokus.

So in 1545 and continuing until 1563, the Catholic monks got together at the Council of Trent and fiddled with the Bible some more to undo the evil work of the Protestants once and for all. The Catholic Church was not about to share the loot with a bunch of newcomers like John Calvin and Luther.

So which Bible are we going to get, Mikey? I'll bet the Catholics are going to have something to say if you start waving that Holy Roller Baptist crap in their faces.

Let the burning of the heretics at the stake begin!

"Do you think the January 6 incident in the Strait of Hormuz, was that sort of a gesture toward you, do you think, by the Iranian speedboats coming on our Navy?"

So, I noticed over on the Blog Report that a flap is brewing between BillO and Keith Olbermann concerning BillO's contention that the figures quoted by John Edwards are falsely inflated and that there are few homeless vets out there. But the figures quoted by Edwards is from the Veterans Affairs own website so I guess BillO thinks the very government that he adores is lying.

So Olbermann nailed O'Dildo -- shamed him actually, and rightfully so. But now, what about YOU Mr. Olbermann? If you are holding out the tin cup for our homeless veterans, how much money are YOU willing to drop in there to sweeten the pot?

I think it's a great idea to contact Newscorp and make them pay up, but as long as Keith Olbermann is so concerned and righteous about our vets, he ought to cough up an amount equal to O'Loofa's.

eh what?

Oh, golly gee whiz! Here I am, little botched plastic surgery face Greta, here I am sitting next to the most IMPORTANT MAN IN THE WORLD! Oh my god, I'm getting a little wet spot!

I'm starting to talk like Barbara Walters! Mistew pwesident, my producers at Fox want to know when you plan to attack Iwwan. I mean, you ARE going to attack Iwwan, aren't you mistew pwesident?

Pweez attack Iwwan, mistew pwesident, pweeez!

It's annoying and unnecessary.

I covered this topic extensively here at Salon about a year ago when Congress took up the issue yet again, and it was barely defeated.

Now here it comes again, like houseflies in springtime.

What's 48 inches in diameter and 800 miles long and 30 years old?

The Alyeska pipeline from Prudhoe Bay to the Port of Valdez.

Forty-eight inches in diameter. That's about the size of the storm drain that runs beneath your street.

It's a thin soda straw that is in constant need of repair. $60 million dollars a year of repair as a matter of fact. You see, crude oil from the north slope has a fairly high concentration of Hydrogen Sulfide in solution with the oil. HS as a liquid, eats through steel in a matter of months. HS as a gas does the same thing, in addition to being lethal when breathed even in small concentrations. This pipeline is older than many of you reading this. It's falling apart. Remember the spills last summer?

I tell you this because it sets up my point about oil extraction in the ANWR.

Drilling the ANWR is not the problem facing engineers, moving the product south is the problem. There is no pipeline into the ANWR, yet. The nearest ANWR exploration fields are still between 400 and 600 miles from the Alyeska pipeline. But say the oil companies did manage to line up investors and build a pipe from the ANWR to link up with the Alyeska pipeline somewhere south of Prudhoe, then what?

The Alyeska pipeline is running jam-packed 24/7 365 days a year except when they have to "pig" it or when it starts leaking from HS corrosion. You can't compress a liquid. (Hydrology 101). So they can't use the Alyeska pipeline to get even one barrel of ANWR oil out of there.

They would need to build, and indeed have plans to build, a second, and third 48 inch pipleline to run right along side the old decrepit original 800 miler all the way down to Valdez.

The likelihood of a project of this grand scope getting environmental approval is really iffy. It's especially iffy because geologists can't tell you for sure if there really is as much oil under the ANWR as they think there is until they drill some wildcat wells.

Someday the ANWR will get drilled. But probably not in your lifetime.

Who cares what that old gasbag Thompson has to say. He barely wakes up long enough to emit a couple of rotten old farts, grumble, and go back to his cot. Memo to Thompson's wife: Appearing in porno films would be less degrading than your sham marriage to this incontinent old creep. What kind of a freak are you?

You were actually spared that awful annoying music bedded down under Joan's commentary. But were you getting as whiplashed as I was by those artsy jump cuts in and out on Joan's face?

I don't blame you for posting anonymously.