O Lord, Lead Us Not Into Graduation
by Chris Mooney

Last May at Midwestern State University, an evangelical Christian student named Mary King made a very strong case against graduation prayer. She did so not by argument, but by frothing at the mouth.

During her spring commencement benediction, she asked God to forgive her fellow students for their sins. In particular she begged forgiveness for the sin of using their time to get a university education instead of devoting their lives to prayer. After demanding that her audience repent for their caps and gowns, King collapsed, crying and gasping for air. University President Louis Rodriguez, not recognizing these symptoms of Holy Spirit infestation, called an ambulance.

As a result of the incident, the MSU Faculty Senate voted 8-7 to remove prayer from future commencements. But President Rodriguez vetoed the decision. At winter commencement, student government President Gant Grimes delivered a much less sectarian prayer, which according to the Wichita Falls Times Record News began, "Lord, we come to you at this special time in our lives to offer our thanks . . ." and ended, "God bless you all and peace be with you. Amen."

From the bottom of http://www.secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=world_15_1

Unfortunately, I can't find a publish date to know when "Last May" was.

update: This article appears to be from Fall 2003, placing the video in May 2003 or 2002 depending on how you interpret "last".

To respond to you both:

I only say it's a shit gun because it's of poor quality(stamped metal)and has very limited accuracy (300 yards effective, point target, versus the M16's 500 yards).

It's reputation is well-deserved due to the fact that all the moving parts operate in a very loose environment, unlike the M16, who's parts are in direct contact with every adjacent piece of metal.

basically, you can get a lot of grime and dirt in an AK and it will operate because the bolt rides free of a surrounding track, whereas the m16's bolt fits snugly within the receiver - so when grime gets in, it easily jams the bolt carrier.

So, it most certainly is reliable. It takes a lot to make it jam. I wouldn't go so far as to say it's incredibly durable with wooden stocks that are easily broken and stamped aluminium receiver covers that are easily dented or crushed.

It's just an incredibly easy and cheap weapon to produce, and that's why it's world famous.

i know they're a d'n'b group, but d'n'b outfits commonly make excursions into different genres. photek did that house album. omni trio did some house. noisia has done some electro. hidden agenda has a house outfit. a lot of them have done breaks tunes, downtempo/hip hop tunes, dubstep/grime tunes, ambient tunes, etc. etc.

d'n'b/jungle is quite specifically between 160 and 180 bpm. this is quite a bit slower and is using a breaks format.

You feel that grime? That's corporate, it doesn't wash off.

Ummm, upvote for the gorgeousness, but this guy looks like he eats babies and gets the grime left over stuck under his fingernails.

LiquidYogi,

You seem to forget that it's exponentially cheaper to purchase a better weapon for each soldier than it is to pay out life insurance of $400,000. As it stands now, an M16A4 (the rifle of current issue) costs roughly between $600-$750.(I don't know the exact number, but the A2 was about $600)

The M16A4 is a fine weapon, provided you take care of it. If you're a lazy soldier, and let dust, dirt and grime accumulate, then yeah, your bolt is going to stick or your magazine won't feed properly. But the AK-47 is far inferior to the M16 when it comes to everything other than reliability of function. I cold make a list of pros and cons, but I don't think I need to.
If I went back to Iraq and had the choice, I'd definitely take the M16 any day.

Q.E.D.

it's a very tedious way to analyse great music, but i think i would say dubstep earned the right to be called a genre because it's the catchiest name, but there are subgenres such as grime, halfstep, darkstep, newstep etc... and well grime is kinda its own genre now too. And it is totally unlike twostep, even if it sounds like twostep sometimes, it's not. There's a different motivation for making it, and that comes through subliminally somehow.

however, i wouldn't call dubstep mature, nobody really agrees what it is, and in this video they make the point that it's so early there are still many possibilities. The best thing about my best dubstep party ever was there was so much variety, and it was all good, no "ahh that's shit, that's not dubstep" kinda feeling. I like the attitude of "very very good sub bassline, and then anything goes on top of that". I loved it when a tune from about 2005 brought shouts of "OOOOLLLLLLLLD SKOOOOOOL!"

Technological innovation? How about Burial rejecting the sequencer and even the metronome, making all his tunes in soundforge by looking at the waveforms? How about technological DEinnovation? How about the innovation of a club spending all their money on a sound system and none on lights and interiors? Sound system technology has seriously increased in the last 10 years and it's affordable now for smaller underground clubs. That's a big deal.

Anyway you didn't answer my question so i guess you never went to FWD... it really has to be felt (not just seen or heard) to be believed, and that's perhaps the best thing about it. It's a secret, just for the people that bothered to find out

Well you see, here's how it works. When one day you realize that you are merely one unexceptional human out of 6 billion, your dead end job is soul crushing and dehumanizing, your wife hates you and your house is going to be foreclosed on. Well then, just at that very moment, as you sit on the couch watching reruns of "Cheers", you look down and notice the single intact potato chip that has fallen on your sweaty unwashed chest has stuck there, clinging to the filth and grime in an almost magically vertical position. And that is when one of the very few enterprising ideas you've ever had hits you.

The ruse is most common among Asians, no mystery there either. Hairy chests don't work so well. http://www.randi.org/jr/082704gluton.html#7