It's a NASCAR world.....

Okay, I guess that the NASCAR Bacon, NASCAR Potatoes, NASCAR Crock-Pot, NASCAR Chain Saw, and NASCAR Romance Novels were just not enough.......

Now we have NASCAR Religion. Well, sort of..... It's "NASCAR meets Dianetics"

Scientology Goes NASCAR With Dianetics Race Car

"Ignite Your Potential" is the mantra Scientology uses to get Tom Cruise and other Hollywood celebs jumping up and down. Now that message will be used to fuel the engines of a new NASCAR race team.

The venture is called "The Dianetics Racing Team," named after the best-selling self-help book written by the movement's founder, science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.

Kenton Gray, a California race-car driver who has said Dianetics helped his life and driving performance, will head up the Dianetics team."

Wonder if they now offer NASCAR branded E-meters. Or if going though the OT-III "Wall of Fire" puts you in contact with the thetan of Dale Earnhardt.......

It's a NASCAR world.....

Okay, I guess that the NASCAR Bacon, NASCAR Potatoes, NASCAR Crock-Pot, NASCAR Chain Saw, and NASCAR Romance Novels were just not enough.......

Now we have NASCAR Religion. Well, sort of..... It's "NASCAR meets Dianetics"

Scientology Goes NASCAR With Dianetics Race Car

"Ignite Your Potential" is the mantra Scientology uses to get Tom Cruise and other Hollywood celebs jumping up and down. Now that message will be used to fuel the engines of a new NASCAR race team.

The venture is called "The Dianetics Racing Team," named after the best-selling self-help book written by the movement's founder, science fiction writer L. Ron Hubbard.

Kenton Gray, a California race-car driver who has said Dianetics helped his life and driving performance, will head up the Dianetics team."

Wonder if they now offer NASCAR branded E-meters. Or if going though the OT-III "Wall of Fire" puts you in contact with the thetan of Dale Earnhardt.......

(Laugh) That works.....

Honours for Britain's oldest man

"Britain's oldest surviving war veteran has celebrated his 110th birthday at the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne.

Henry Allingham was presented with a letter of good wishes from the Queen by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown at the five-star seafront hotel.

Mr Allingham is the last remaining RAF founder member and the only remaining survivor of the Battle of Jutland.

In the past he has put the key to his old age down to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women"."

(Laugh) That works.....

Honours for Britain's oldest man

"Britain's oldest surviving war veteran has celebrated his 110th birthday at the Grand Hotel in Eastbourne.

Henry Allingham was presented with a letter of good wishes from the Queen by Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown at the five-star seafront hotel.

Mr Allingham is the last remaining RAF founder member and the only remaining survivor of the Battle of Jutland.

In the past he has put the key to his old age down to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women"."

Well, aren't we special........

Okay, having always been a science geek way back when, especially when it came to early man and paleoanthropology, I remember when the breakdown for humans was:

Superfamily: Hominoidea, Family: Hominidae, Genus: Homo.

Chimps, Gorillas, Orangs, and Gibbons were all Family: Pongidae. Clear difference, them and us. Later on, this got modified, gibbons were spun into Family: Hyloatidae. Still, them and us.

Until molecular biology started having a look in at when speciation started to happen. What happened then is that the Ponginae became a subfamily under Family: Hominidae. Humans at this point became:

Superfamily: Hominoidea, Family: Hominidae, Subfamily: Homininae, Genus: Homo.

By the mid 70's, (bear in mind the childrens books on science I was reading then were from the 60's, as well as the National Geographics, so I missed this), they realized that Orangs were the outgroup, and were actually the sole members of the Ponginae. Chimps and Gorillas both were grouped under Subfamily: Homininae.

This didn't sit well with some, because while many biologists don't like to distingish other species to that level, they make an exception where Humans and Apes are the case.

So they tried to spin off Chimps and Gorillas into their own Tribe, the Gorillini, with Humans in the Hominini tribe.

Superfamily: Hominoidea, Family: Hominidae, Subfamily: Homininae, Tribe: Hominini, Genus: Homo.

By the early 1990's, it was found that, chimps were closer to humans than Gorillas. This placed Chimps under the Hominini tribe.

With a 93% DNA match, they should have counted Chimps as a sister species, rather than a seperate genus. No, instead Humans got the subtribe Hominina, and Chimps got subtribe Paninina.

Which is why you now have a classification for H. s. Sapiens that reads like a tounge-twister.....

Domain:Eukaryota, Kingdom:Animalia, Phylum:Chordata, Class:Mammalia, Order: Primates, Superfamily:Hominoidea, Family:Hominidae, Subfamily:Homininae, Tribe:Hominini, Subtribe:Hominina, Genus:Homo, Species: Homo sapiens, Subspecies: Homo sapiens sapiens

As far has I know, they don't break down dogs, cats, horses, or just about any other spieces with a backbone like this.........

Well, aren't we special........

Okay, having always been a science geek way back when, especially when it came to early man and paleoanthropology, I remember when the breakdown for humans was:

Superfamily: Hominoidea, Family: Hominidae, Genus: Homo.

Chimps, Gorillas, Orangs, and Gibbons were all Family: Pongidae. Clear difference, them and us. Later on, this got modified, gibbons were spun into Family: Hyloatidae. Still, them and us.

Until molecular biology started having a look in at when speciation started to happen. What happened then is that the Ponginae became a subfamily under Family: Hominidae. Humans at this point became:

Superfamily: Hominoidea, Family: Hominidae, Subfamily: Homininae, Genus: Homo.

By the mid 70's, (bear in mind the childrens books on science I was reading then were from the 60's, as well as the National Geographics, so I missed this), they realized that Orangs were the outgroup, and were actually the sole members of the Ponginae. Chimps and Gorillas both were grouped under Subfamily: Homininae.

This didn't sit well with some, because while many biologists don't like to distingish other species to that level, they make an exception where Humans and Apes are the case.

So they tried to spin off Chimps and Gorillas into their own Tribe, the Gorillini, with Humans in the Hominini tribe.

Superfamily: Hominoidea, Family: Hominidae, Subfamily: Homininae, Tribe: Hominini, Genus: Homo.

By the early 1990's, it was found that, chimps were closer to humans than Gorillas. This placed Chimps under the Hominini tribe.

With a 93% DNA match, they should have counted Chimps as a sister species, rather than a seperate genus. No, instead Humans got the subtribe Hominina, and Chimps got subtribe Paninina.

Which is why you now have a classification for H. s. Sapiens that reads like a tounge-twister.....

Domain:Eukaryota, Kingdom:Animalia, Phylum:Chordata, Class:Mammalia, Order: Primates, Superfamily:Hominoidea, Family:Hominidae, Subfamily:Homininae, Tribe:Hominini, Subtribe:Hominina, Genus:Homo, Species: Homo sapiens, Subspecies: Homo sapiens sapiens

As far has I know, they don't break down dogs, cats, horses, or just about any other spieces with a backbone like this.........