Monday!
As you can see by Itzl's concerned look, this group is for us to check in at to let people know we are alive, doing OK, and not affected by such things as heat, blizzards, floods, wild fires, hurricanes, tornadoes, power outages, or other such things that could keep us off DKos. It's also so we can find other Kossacks nearby for in-person checks when other methods of communication fail - a buddy system. Members come here to check in. If you're not here, or anywhere else on DKos, and there are adverse conditions in your area (floods, heatwaves, hurricanes, etc.), we and your buddy are going to check up on you. If you are going to be away from your computer for a day or a week, let us know here. We care!
We have split up the publishing duties, but we welcome everyone in IAN to do daily diaries for the group! Every member is an editor, so anyone can take a turn when they have something to say, photos and music to share, a cause to promote or news!
Ok, we have a current diary schedule. If you would like to fill in, either post in thread or send FloridaSNMom a Kosmail with the date. If you need someone to fill in, ditto. FSNMom is here on and off through the day usually from around 9:30 or 10 am eastern to around 11 pm eastern.
Monday: BadKitties
Tuesday: bigjacbigjacbigjac
Wednesday: Caedy
Thursday: weck
Friday: FloridaSNMOM
Saturday:broths
Sunday: loggersbrat
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"May You Be Covered In Sauce! May His Appendages Touch Us All!! Aye Me Hearties!!!"
Actual Pastafarian driver license
This exhortation is frequently seen in the writings of the
Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Members of the Church are referred to as "Pastafarians," and the sacred books are "The Loose Canons." Submissions are currently being taken for the second book.
Right here.
Darwin and his FSM pin
Many Kossacks have demonstrated familiarity with FSM. For those who have none, and think that I (MOI??) am making this all up, here are some basic facts, from the Church's website above:
About
The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, while having existed in secrecy for hundreds of years, only recently came into the mainstream when this letter was published in May 2005.
With millions, if not thousands, of devout worshippers, the Church of the FSM is widely considered a legitimate religion, even by its opponents – mostly fundamentalist Christians, who have accepted that our God has larger balls than theirs.
Some claim that the church is purely a thought experiment, satire, illustrating that Intelligent Design is not science, but rather a pseudoscience manufactured by Christians to push Creationism into public schools. These people are mistaken. The Church of FSM is real, totally legit, and backed by hard science. Anything that comes across as humor or satire is purely coincidental.
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Pastafarianism is a real religion.
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We believe pirates, the original Pastafarians, were peaceful explorers and it was due to Christian misinformation that they have an image of outcast criminals today
We are fond of beer
Every Friday is a Religious Holiday
We do not take ourselves too seriously
We embrace contradictions (though in that we are hardly unique)
FSM first came to my attention when I stumbled upon this
story, which made me burst into laughter. How could I not?
Among the church’s “unprovable” tenets is the claim that “heaven has beer volcanos as far as the eye can see,” that the Flying Spaghetti Monster’s first creations were a “mountain, a tree, and a midget,” and that pirates are holy beings.
Propaganda poster for recruiting
I am sure that some of you are skeptics. But the sightings of His Noodliness are many, and
this one proves that FSM is indeed an ancient religion:
Ancient, really, really old petroglyph in Utah
Further sightings of FSM may be viewed
here
In conclusion, while I personally plan to stay in my current church, I thought I would share this delightful church with the members of IAN. Mainly because I want to see what cactusgal has to say =) It's possible (highly unlikely, but possible) that George Clooney is, in fact, a Pastafarian. And of course there is this:
...those who are ignorant of the Spaghetti Monster and truth in Pastafarianism will be sent to the depths of the Underground Freezer of Doom, where there are only whipping, stale beer and sick strippers.
Source.
Happy Monday! "May You Be Covered In Sauce! May His Appendages Touch Us All!! Aye Me Hearties!!!" And even more info, just for fun.
UPDATE!!! This just in: Pastafarian wins one for the Flying Spaghetti Monster in Texas
Texas Pastafarian Eddie Castillo