Deus vult

Yeah, God wills it. That was the motto of the First Crusade. I don't know if that applies to the fact that it's (Tuesday, Mangal-waar, Seshanbeh, yawm-ath-thalatha, Fidal, dydd Mawrth, Prickle-Prickle). I don't know that once the ball's rolling it could be any other way. It's not like we could just skip today and make it tomorrow. Some would say that if "deus vult"... But, why would he (or she)? What's the point? There is none and it's probably pointless to even question it. Those guys on the first Crusade believed that they were being moved by a greater Power. Of course a lot of this had to do with the accusation of weatlh, but if you want to call that a divine calling, then so be it. It's sort of like Bush carrying the flag of the Conservatives with the underlying purpose of making all his oil buddies wealthy beyond measure. Some will question the success of Bush's Presidency, but it won't be the oil people.

In 1497 Vasco da Gama set sail for India. In 1099 15,000 starving Crusaders marched around Jerusalem in a religious procession. These millites Christi, or "soldiers of Christ", eventually conquered the holy city and killed everyone that was not a Christian, and probably some who were. In 1663 Charles II gave John Clarke a royal charter for settling the colony of Rhode Island. In 1889 the Wall Street Journal was first published. I have never once read this newspaper. In 1947 reports were broadcast that a UFO had landed in Roswell, New Mexico. In 1999 Allan Lee Davis was the last person to be executed in the electric chair in Florida. And in 2003 a Sudan Airways flight crashed killing 116 people.

It's obviously gone completely insane here at the Cheese Factory... The mood has gone from shock to anger very quickly.... More news at eleven.