More fun with wacky Christians, and I more or less repent

There was a story in the news late last week about some Christian ministers sneaking into the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing room in advance of the Alito affair now underway and anointing the Senators' chairs with oil. Presumably, we thought at the time, it was an attempt to assert some sort of Godly influence on the proceedings (they claimed the seats were "liberally" anointed but we're not too sure if we believe that part), or possibly the clerics involved have investments in a local dry cleaning establishment, or maybe it was just another screwed up security drill.

But now our Y.A.M.E. Religion Editor, who has been reading a publication called Cannabis Canada, informs us thusly:

The ancient recipe for this anointing oil, recorded in the Old Testament book of Exodus (30: 22-23) included over nine pounds of flowering cannabis tops, Hebrew "kaneh-bosm," extracted into a hind (about 6.5 litres) of olive oil, along with a variety of other herbs and spices. The ancient chosen ones were literally drenched in this potent cannabis holy oil.

So now we're wondering just how much of this anointing stuff has been going on in the Senate, and what else that might explain.

And yes, it does seem this blog has become a little bit political of late, and I repent. More or less. Politics is no longer relevant, and we must move on. Still, it's not always easy to determine where politics end and just plain wacky fun begins, is it?

Like, for example, Dubya. And, the other day, Dubya insisting he couldn't remember ever meeting Jack Abramoff. Now it turns out:

In President Bush's first 10 months, GOP fundraiser Jack Abramoff and his lobbying team logged nearly 200 contacts with the new administration as they pressed for friendly hires at federal agencies and sought to keep the Northern Mariana Islands exempt from the minimum wage and other laws, records show.

Of course, maybe Dubya himself was in Texas clearing brush at the time. It doesn't mean Dubya himself personally met the guy.

Also Abramoff was on his 2000-2001 Department of Interior transition team.

Oh. Well we didn't believe it anyway. Did you?

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