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Jesus' Original Lunchbox

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Since We're All Supposed to Give Up Something for Lent®™, let's start with Critical Thinking. Gawd revealed it to me: Jesus' Original Lunchbox. Read the full details here.   The Wiki Quoteth: The Lost Tomb of Jesus is a docudrama co-produced and first broadcast on the Discovery Channel and Vision TV in Canada on March 4, 2007, covering the discovery of the Talpiot Tomb . It was directed by Canadian documentary and film maker Simcha Jacobovici and produced by Felix Golubev and Ric Esther Bienstock , while James Cameron served as executive producer (Jacobovici and Cameron had previously created The Exodus Decoded ). The film was released in conjunction with a book about the same subject, The Jesus Family Tomb , issued in late February 2007 and co-authored by Jacobovici and Charles R. Pellegrino . The documentary and the book's claims have been rejected by the overwhelming majority of leading experts within the archaeological and theological fields, as well as am

An Immovable Feast, My Friends

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  Far-flung Suburbs Want Good Life Too   AVEC LES COMMENTS D'IL SAVANT LE BUCKY KIBBLE   http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-upscale20feb20,1,6820367.story?coll=la-headlines-california  Most weeknights after 5 p.m., a line of patrons snakes around the Olive Garden restaurant in Palmdale, where hungry diners face an hourlong wait. The story is the same at the El Torito next door and the Red Lobster up the street, where the wait on Friday and Saturday can last two hours.  PRE-LOAD WITH A JUMBO BURRITO, BYO MATCHES  Just about every sit-down eatery in the west Antelope Valley has a line at the dinner hour because there are not enough sit-down restaurants to meet demand in the fast-growing region.   WIDENING COMES TO MIND TOO. "I don't even consider it anymore," said a frustrated Barbara Lods, 43, a marketing representative from Lancaster. In the newly minted subdivisions and gated communities on the fringes of Southern California, residents express concern about tra

Squirrelled Away

TORN FROM TODAY'S HEADLINES http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-na-briefs10.1feb10,1,6310080.story NATION IN BRIEF / HAWAII Squirrel on a plane diverts flight From Times Wire Reports February 10, 2007 American Airlines diverted a Tokyo-to-Dallas flight, landing the airplane in Honolulu because the pilots found a squirrel in the cockpit. "HEH-HEH-HEH! GIVE ME THE JOYSTICK, YOU FUCKERS!" Flight 176, a Boeing Co. 777 with 202 passengers aboard, arrived in Honolulu at 5:27 a.m. local time after the flight crew heard a noise in an overhead bin, LOUD MUSIC, OE40's ROLLING AROUND, AND POWERBARS IN THE SHAPE OF FUNNY LITTLE ANIMALS found the squirrel WHO TOLD THE CREW: "I GOT MINE, NOW FUCK OFF!... AND GET YOUR OWN! -HEH-HEH-HEH!" and decided to land at the nearest airport, a spokesman "CARL" for American said. It was standard procedure, he said, WHILE KNEADING A BLOCK OF SEMTEX INTO A RODENTESQUE SCULPTURE and based on concern that a sq