CENSORSHIP: The Standardized Chapel Library Project

Harrison Scott Key of WorldMag Blog makes us aware of the linked report which announces ...

Behind the walls of federal prisons nationwide, chaplains have been quietly carrying out a systematic purge of religious books and materials that were once available to prisoners in chapel libraries. [NYT]

I would expect to read this in the China Daily not in an American paper.

Traci Billingsley, a spokeswoman for the Bureau of Prisons, said the agency was acting in response to a 2004 report by the Office of the Inspector General in the Justice Department. The report recommended steps that prisons should take, in light of the Sept. 11 attacks, to avoid becoming recruiting grounds for militant Islamic and other religious groups. The bureau, an agency of the Justice Department, defended its effort, which it calls the Standardized Chapel Library Project, as a way of barring access to materials that could, in its words, “discriminate, disparage, advocate violence or radicalize.” [WMB]

Key gives us a link to follow to see the banned books list (sounds more like Nazi Germany than the USA) ... my question: who makes the decision?

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WHACKOS: Now I've heard it all!

Well, we'll just have to install catalytic converters on them.

Researchers in Norway claim a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of methane a year, equivalent to the amount of CO2 caused by an 8,077-mile car trip, der Spiegel reported.

Environmentalist Whackos, Scientific Research

PETA: Researchers discover gene causing animal hate!

Announced late last night: a researcher has discovered the gene which controls irrational affection for animals over one's fellow man.

While reading his evening news aggregator, Ezvones Tupit Sonibytch discovered the key to this mystery.

A 15-month-old boy suffered minor injuries when he was attacked by a 4-foot ball python in a ... park.

Christine Abdelmonem had taken her son ... to get a better look at some ducks ... in Freedom Park on Monday. As she lowered the boy ... she felt a tug and saw the snake wrapped around his leg.

She screamed for help and two maintenance workers rushed over. One hit the nonvenomous snake with a shovel before trapping it in a bucket ... [FoxNews]

Mother and child are fine [for 2,000 years mother and child have been fine].

John Calchera, a pet store owner in nearby Pineville, took in the constrictor snake. He thinks it may have been abandoned by a pet owner and that it won't survive being beaten.

"It's a totally harmless thing," he said. "Why attack a harmless thing?"

Ezvones, suspecting a link, rushed to his KFC office to investigate the problem.

Following extensive Goggling, Sonibytch discovered the halo of a feminine gene which stimulates a woman to protect her young. [Exception - "boyly girls, they are missing the gene and tend to kill their young.]

A corollary in men is a gene which stimulates them to protect women with children; thus the behavior of the maintenance workers. He also concluded the existance of an anti-corollary - a gene stimulating irrational affection for any and all non-homo sapiens.

Using his deductive reasoning skills, this independent Agrizoophobe concluded: Mr. Calchera is either a) not a female, b) missing the gene, or c) one stupit sonibytch!

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