The mind reels.

First, can't they be charged with defacing public property? Oh, never mind. If the Constitution can be shredded, what are a few chairs.

But the real question is: what kind of oil? Olive oil in honor of the judge's heritage? Was it blessed? How and by whom, and where? How much oil? How was it applied? Did they use a spray?

On a darker note, it's possible that this confession was meant to blind us to a more nefarious purpose. Perhaps the real aim was to make certain people at the hearing either stick to their seats or slide out of them. . . .

We want the facts!

This is the beauty of an omniscient god. He can destroy cities, torture prime ministers, blow innocent people to bits, and still has time to dish with Robertson and Falwell.

Boy, I’d like to get a look at His PDA.

I wonder if they planted a balm?

I would prefer a more accurate version of this story: three clerics have admitted to vandalizing the Senate hearing room by smearing the furniture with a fetish substance.

Since when did "snuck" become the past tense of "sneak"? When I was studying English, the past tense of "sneak" was "sneaked" and to come across "snuck" is so mentally jarring that I cannot attend to the rest of the story/article.

Is Congress -- i.e. -- the taxpayer -- paying for the dry-cleaning of these guys'suits?

I object strenuously to paying the bill for cleaning up oil from these Congressmen suits!

The church that allowed this oily mess is responsible for the dry-cleaning bill.

And while we are at it, let's investigate how they broke their own non-profit status, by mixing up preaching with politics.

Of course, the IRS, just like every agency in the land, is dominated by Bush appointees, whether they are capable or not. So, the IRS is not about to investigate pro-Bush churches.

The Republicans are crooks. The Democrats are wimps. Who is going to save us from dictatorship?

The U.S.A. is now a police state.

Since when did "snuck" become the past tense of "sneak"? When I was studying English, the past tense of "sneak" was "sneaked" and to come across "snuck" is so mentally jarring that I cannot attend to the rest of the story/article.

According to the OED, it was in use in the United States at least as early as 1887. When one searches for "snuck" in the online edition, one finds the following definition: "chiefly U.S. pa. tense and pple. of SNEAK v.".

In the meantime, Merriam-Webster writes offers the following explaination: "From its earliest appearance in print in the late 19th century as a dialectal and probably uneducated form, the past and past participle snuck has risen to the status of standard and to approximate equality with sneaked. Indications are that it is continuing to grow in frequency. It is most common in the U.S. and Canada, but has also been spotted in British and Australian English."

So, whilst it arises from our ignorant American roots, after one hundred twenty years in use, it is the American standard. If you are British, I hope this clarifies the point and gives you something about which you may look down your nose at Americans. If you are American, quit being pompous. I, too, am horrified by the bastardization of many aspects of the language in media and on the Internet, but arguing with colloquialisms more than a century old is not going to win anyone to the cause.

Had some non white and/or non Christian fundamentalists vandalized a senate hearing room what do you suppose the headline would have been?

If you want any clout, you should at least show deference in punctuation!! We lefties really have to learn to be more considerate!

The gap between Congress and the Taliban has shrunk yet again.

Oil stains on the Senate seats? Much more insidious than any stains on Monica's dress.

Good thing that they were carrying 'holy oil', and not anthrax, into that conference room. They didn't seem to get much of a challenge from the Capitol Police when walking into the conference room.

that is the oil be which we are justifying killing... maybe that's the holy oil.

How can anyone resist the story about 2 news outlets declining to broadcast the "Book of Daniel"???

Heaven forbid anyone actually watches a movie about priests with sordid relationships or troubled lives...we're done with that - thank you very much Cardinal Law and friends.

If there are 8 stories highlighting the absolute absurdity of the Christian right - promise me you'll comment on each and every one!!!

"If you want any clout, you should at least show deference in punctuation!! We lefties really have to learn to be more considerate!"

You get "clout" by enabling superstition and mysticism? Not in my world, you don't. It's considerate to refer in print to a mythical being in a way that indicates you believe it exists? Last I checked, that's hypocrisy.

I'll show "deference" to the crazies when they show deference to me and stop trying to turn my country into a dictatorial theocracy.

Leaving aside for a moment the delicious irony of REALLY BIG Oil coming to the aid of a Bush nominee, my question regards how the annointers got access to a Senate hearing room. Has security in the Capitol gotten so lax that anybody can just wander around? Did the annointers have some special clearance that allowed them to get past security (and if so how did they come by such clearance)? Was a Senator complicit in this "sneak-in"?

Holy cow! First, we're assaulted with offensive TV ads that speak volumes about buying-power and buying Power, and now, annointments with.. what? .. olive oil, Brylcream? Quick with the grease cutter. Start with the chairs, then the wheels.

So much for security at the Capitol building. I thought we were concerned about terrorists getting access to government sites. I guess it's okay if they're Christian terrorists.

These people are creeping me out. (shiver)

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