Undead Astronauts

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. – Aristotle

there’s a bit of unrest in greece lately over the planned austerity measures. greece’s misfortune is almost wholly their own fault as their government had no spending restraint for the past decade. the rest of europe, including a very grudging germany, bailed the greeks out, but only after imposing severe economic austerity on the nation. the greeks learned that they don’t have many friends in the supposedly lubby-dubby EU even though they share a single currency. the germans only agreed to the bailout when they realized the fate of the euro itself depended upon their bailout funds. greece was, in effect, an island.

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as bad as some of the alabamian political commercials have been, at least we don’t have this candidate running for senate:

greene…plant… no this guy is straight up vegetable.

UPDATE: there’s speculation of voting machine fraud. well i suppose that would explain a few things.

sweet home…

and in case u don’t remember roy moore… here’s a reminder.

yes, this is in alabama.
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Edit: and lest anyone actually bought the hype that byrne believed in science, he responded!

As a member of the Alabama Board of Education, the record clearly shows that I fought to ensure the teaching of creationism in our school text books.

I believe the Bible is the Word of God and that every single word of it is true.

no comment.

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