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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (538103)	12/22/2009 11:20:11 AM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1578015

Sumerians Look On In Confusion As God Creates World DECEMBER 15, 2009 \| ISSUE 45•51 theonion.com Members of the earth's earliest known civilization, the Sumerians, looked on in shock and confusion some 6,000 years ago as God, the Lord Almighty, created Heaven and Earth. According to recently excavated clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform script, thousands of Sumerians—the first humans to establish systems of writing, agriculture, and government—were working on their sophisticated irrigation systems when the Father of All Creation reached down from the ether and blew the divine spirit of life into their thriving civilization. "I do not understand," reads an ancient line of pictographs depicting the sun, the moon, water, and a Sumerian who appears to be scratching his head. "A booming voice is saying, 'Let there be light,' but there is already light. It is saying, 'Let the earth bring forth grass,' but I am already standing on grass." "Everything is here already," the pictograph continues. "We do not need more stars." Historians believe that, immediately following the biblical event, Sumerian witnesses returned to the city of Eridu, a bustling metropolis built 1,500 years before God called for the appearance of dry land, to discuss the new development. According to records, Sumerian farmers, priests, and civic administrators were not only befuddled, but also took issue with the face of God moving across the water, saying that He scared away those who were traveling to Mesopotamia to participate in their vast and intricate trade system. Moreover, the Sumerians were taken aback by the creation of the same animals and herb-yielding seeds that they had been domesticating and cultivating for hundreds of generations. "The Sumerian people must have found God's making of heaven and earth in the middle of their well-established society to be more of an annoyance than anything else," said Paul Helund, ancient history professor at Cornell University. "If what the pictographs indicate are true, His loud voice interrupted their ancient prayer rituals for an entire week." According to the cuneiform tablets, Sumerians found God's most puzzling act to be the creation from dust of the first two human beings. "These two people made in his image do not know how to communicate, lack skills in both mathematics and farming, and have the intellectual capacity of an infant," one Sumerian philosopher wrote. "They must be the creation of a complete idiot." ---------- This piece is part of The Onion's Our Annual Year: The Top 10 Stories Of The Last 4.5 Billion Years

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (538103)	12/22/2009 3:51:02 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578015

Ten, you hit the nail on the head. Steele is a joke and I couldn't agree more that he was hired for the color of his skin, instead of for what he could do for the party. Thank you for being forthright about that. Simply because I've been taking the side of Dems since 2004, doesn't mean that I am 100% against the GOP. On the contrary, I'm sickened by what the Bush Jr. years did to the GOP. I want the GOP of Bush Sr, Gingrich, and Reagan back. We need them back. But what I see today with leaders like Steele and Palin doesn't give me much confidence that we'll see a return to the GOP's glory days any time soon.