This may be the best video ever. Watch as these guys disregard any and all understanding of science and claim that because life has never grown out of a jar of peanut butter.

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Damn. And then the death blow from a while ago. After all, what else is the perfect complement to peanut butter but… bananas!!

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Two atheist’s nightmares, both one one delicious sandwich. I’m trying to think up an Elvis joke, but I’m failing miserably.

I almost feel redundant writing about this, so I won’t really. I’ll let the article speak for itself. In the face of an inevitable veto, the Senate backed the Iraq timetable, with a deadline of September of 2008 for all troops to be out. Yes, it’s going to be vetoed, but I’m glad that the message will be sent.

The vote marked the Senate’s most forceful challenge to date of the administration’s handling of a war that has claimed the lives of more than 3,200 U.S. troops. It came days after the House approved a binding withdrawal deadline of Sept. 1, 2008, and increased the likelihood of a veto confrontation this spring.

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Additionally, GOP Sens. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska and Gordon Smith of Oregon sided with the Democrats, assuring them of the majority they needed to turn back a challenge led by Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss. “The president’s strategy is taking America deeper and deeper into this quagmire with no exit strategy,” said Hagel, the most vocal Republican critic of the war in Congress.

I would hope that between March of 2003 and September of 2008 it would be possible to set up the Iraq military, particularly considering we toppled Saddam in roughly April of 2003. And if not, that’s a sign that we’re not going to set them up any time soon.

I wonder how long the war supporters would let this go on before they too demand we pull out. Another five years? Ten? If we’re still in Iraq in 2037 would they finally admit that it’s a failed project?

Once again, sorry about the absence. I’m trying to get more on top of things. But regardless, things are getting pretty bad for our friend Alberto Gonzales. Now if you’ll recall, a while ago I wrote about the Attorney General’s crusade against child pornography. Although I mocked him for grandstanding over such an obvious target, at least it was a good target, as opposed to the peaceful anti-war activists the FBI spied on thanks to the PATRIOT Act.

Here’s where things go terribly awry, though. Apparently while all this was going on, ol’ Berty was actively not pursuing a Texas case involving sexual abuse of young boys. Now I never link to WorldNetDaily, so the fact that I am tells you this is serious.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, both already under siege for other matters, are now being accused of failing to prosecute officers of the Texas Youth Commission after a Texas Ranger investigation documented that guards and administrators were sexually abusing the institution’s teenage boy inmates.

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Burzynski presented his findings to the attorney general in Texas, to the U.S. Attorney Sutton, and to the Department of Justice civil rights division. From all three, Burzynski received no interest in prosecuting the alleged sexual offenses.

Ouch. So the Attorney General goes on and on about saving the children, but at the same time he’s not investigating a case of clear sexual abuse of children. I don’t think the significance of that can be easily overstated.

And moving along, we find that his top aide is going to use the fifth amendment and refusing to testify over the attorney firing scandal.

Monica Goodling, who serves as the Justice Department’s liaison to the White House and counselor to the attorney general, notified the committee Monday that she will not be testifying about the scandal.

Justice Department documents show that Goodling helped determine which prosecutors should be fired. The documents also showed that she worked closely with White House political operative Karl Rove to remove the United States attorney in Arkansas so that one of Rove’s aides could take the job.

This is absurd. Don’t get me wrong, I support the concept of the 5th amendment, but at the same time it does cast an undeniable shadow depending on when it’s used.

Will Gonzales keep his job? I can only wonder. I would hope he doesn’t, but then I suppose there isn’t much precedent for otherwise except in extreme cases like Heckuvajob Brownie.