A group of the animals – known as a mob – at Longleat Safari Park turned their paws to the hobby when a warden accidentally left a camera in their enclosure.
In the five minutes before he returned, the inquisitive mammals clambered up the tripod, explored the controls and managed to take three family photos.
A Southern Baptist Convention leader weighed into ongoing debate about GOP presidential candidate Fred Thompson’s churchmanship, claiming he attends a Presbyterian church in the Washington area “on a regular basis.”
The church’s pastor confirmed he has seen Thompson there but suggested “regular” attendance is an overstatement. And a pro-Thompson blogger said many of the now-official candidate’s religious supporters would be surprised if the Church of Christ-baptized Thompson is indeed now a Presbyterian.
Questions about Thompson’s religious affiliation have dogged the former senator and star of “Law & Order” since Focus on the Family founder James Dobson remarked in March he was under the impression that Thompson is not a Christian.
The Thompson campaign shot back by saying Thompson was baptized into the Church of Christ as a boy in the 1950s. A bio on Thompson’s exploratory Web site said he attended First Street Church of Christ while growing up in Lawrenceburg, Tenn., where he learned “the importance of family, hard work, faith and education.”
A political science professor at a Church of Christ-affiliated university responded with a tongue-in-cheek “I Saw Fred Thompson at a Church of Christ” Challenge on a blog, observing the former senator “may not be filling out an attendance card at a Church of Christ on Sundays.”
Kids these days, as you know, are spending hours, even days at a time playing that top-selling, uber-popular video game Halo, and its sequel, Halo 2. Now, with Halo 3 arriving in stores next month to complete the trilogy, the excitement is mounting. Will Cortana go over to the dark side, or will she lose her “mind� Will the Master Chief stop the Covenant before they manage to kill everyone? Will the Flood rule supreme and assimilate all intelligent life in the universe? Will Sergeant Johnson ever finish that cigar he’s always smoking?
This is the perfect time to introduce (da-da-da-DAAAAA!) the “Halo Bible Studyâ€!
