Things That I LEARN

...I'm never ordering from Domino's again.

Domino's Pizza magnate Tom Monaghan, however, seems to be making progress in executing his own vision of a Catholic heaven on a 5,000-acre tomato field in southwestern Florida.
Reaching 100 feet in the air behind a 65-foot crucifix, the Oratory will anchor Ave Maria, a whole new town and Roman Catholic university 30 miles east of Naples. Ground was officially broken last week, and the plan is to build 11,000 homes — likely drawing families who already hold the church at the center of their lives.
For Tom Monaghan, the devout Catholic who founded Domino's Pizza and is now bankrolling most of the initial $400 million cost of the project, Ave Maria is the culmination of a lifetime devoted to spreading his own strict interpretation of Catholicism. Though he says nonbelievers are welcome, Monaghan clearly wants the community to embody his conservative values. He controls all the commercial real estate in town (along with his developing partner, Barron Collier Cos.) and is asking pharmacies not to carry contraceptives.
 
Hipgnosis is the company who designed many classic album covers in the 70s…For instance, they used the exterior of the Battersea power station for the cover of Pink Floyd's Animals…

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But they ALSO used the INTERIOR for the very homoerotic cover of UFO's Lights Out

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(that's guitarist Michael Schenker in the background, with bassist Pete Way in the foreground)
 
Court Allows Church's Hallucinogenic Tea

By GINA HOLLAND, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 29 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that a small congregation in New Mexico may use hallucinogenic tea as part of a four-hour ritual intended to connect with God.

Justices, in their first religious freedom decision under Chief Justice John Roberts, moved decisively to keep the government out of a church's religious practice. Federal drug agents should have been barred from confiscating the hoasca tea of the Brazil-based church, Roberts wrote in the decision.

The tea, which contains an illegal drug known as DMT, is considered sacred to members of O Centro Espirita Beneficiente Uniao do Vegetal, which has a blend of Christian beliefs and South American traditions. Members believe they can understand God only by drinking the tea, which is consumed twice a month at four-hour ceremonies.
 
then allow me to give you more incentive:

Fla. Man Kills Roommate Over Toilet Paper

MOSS BLUFF, Fla. Feb 21, 2006 (AP)— A man accused of fatally beating his roommate with a sledgehammer and a claw hammer because there was no toilet paper in their home has been arrested.

Franklin Paul Crow, 56, was charged Monday with homicide in the death of Kenneth Matthews, 58, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office.
 
ATTN: Chromatose!!

Co. Unsure How Bird's Head Got in Beans

Indiana Company Unsure How Bird's Head Got Into Can of Beans

EATON, Ind. Feb 20, 2006 (AP)— The manager of an Indiana canning plant said Monday that he did not know how it could have produced a can of pinto beans with a bird's head inside as claimed by an Illinois woman.

Chicago-based La Preferida Inc. announced a voluntary recall on Friday of a limited number of its cans as it investigated how the head ended up in the 15-ounce can.