<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Hey, Carl (Westberg)!</div><div><br></div><div>Remember discussing the Church of the Flying Speghetti Monster years ago on the "Auntie Establishment and Brother Carl [AEBC] Show"?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm sure I've got it stashed somewhere in my AEBC archives. </div><div><br></div><div>Courtesy of the Examiner (Denver, Colorado) at:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/czech-republic-recognizes-church-of-flying-spaghetti-monster">http://www.examiner.com/article/czech-republic-recognizes-church-of-flying-spaghetti-monster</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>--------------------------------------</div><div><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; "></p><h1 property="schema:name dc:title" datatype="" class="entry-title entry-title" style="line-height: 1.2; margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; font-size: 2.6em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Czech Republic recognizes Church of Flying Spaghetti Monster</h1><div><img src="cid:E4BB665D-5EA8-4BBC-A821-74AAE2B7C732" alt="fc8aca30c7d9898ea38570a3988ecfd7.jpg" id="E4BB665D-5EA8-4BBC-A821-74AAE2B7C732" width="505" height="350"></div><p></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">In a victory for pastafarians, the <a href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/czech-republic" class="inline_link">Czech Republic</a> has recognized the Church of the <a href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/flying-spaghetti-monster" class="inline_link">Flying Spaghetti Monster</a> by allowing <a href="http://www.examiner.com/topic/pastafarian" class="inline_link">pastafarian</a> Lukas Novy to wear a pasta strainer in his official identification photo, according to a a <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/pastafarian-allowed-wear-sieve-head-id-photo-article-1.1415677" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold; ">New York Daily News report</a> issued Friday, Aug. 2.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Novy, a committed pastafarian and resident of the Czech Republic, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/08/02/2399191/pastafarian-man-wins-religious-liberty-battle-to-wear-a-pasta-sieve-on-his-government-id-card/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold; ">insisted</a> that he be allowed to wear a pasta strainer on his head while being photographed for an official government ID. Czech officials ruled that the nation’s religious liberty laws required this accommodation, and in so doing implicitly recognized the authenticity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">According to a</span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "> </span><a href="http://www.jacarandafm.com/post/pastafarian-wins-id-card-battle/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-weight: bold; ">government spokesperson</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">, Novy’s request “complies with the laws of the Czech Republic where headgear for religious or medical reasons is permitted if it does not hide the face.”</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Novy, a committed pastafarian and resident of the Czech Republic, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/08/02/2399191/pastafarian-man-wins-religious-liberty-battle-to-wear-a-pasta-sieve-on-his-government-id-card/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold; ">insisted</a> that he be allowed to wear a pasta strainer on his head while being photographed for an official government ID. Czech officials ruled that the nation’s religious liberty laws required this accommodation, and in so doing implicitly recognized the authenticity of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">Novy is a member of the “<a href="http://www.venganza.org/about/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold; ">Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster</a>,” a satirical <a href="http://www.examiner.com/religion" class="inline_link">religion</a>which teaches that the universe was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster, an alien creature composed of pasta and meatballs.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster emerged in the US in 2005 as a protest against the teaching of creationism in public schools.</span></p><p style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin: 0px 0px 1em; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); ">The church teaches that pirates were the first Pastafarians, recognizes every Friday to be a holiday, and promotes the liberal consumption of beer. According to the <a href="http://www.venganza.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" style="font-weight: bold; ">church website</a>, the only dogma allowed in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is the rejection of dogma.</span></p></div><div>--------------------------------------<br><br><div>Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div></div></div></body></html>