An eight-year-old autistic boy died during a faith-healing service. Apparently, the police believe he was unduly restrained, while the minister and other witnesses claim that he was only "held lightly."
The minister said, "That boy had an evil spirit in his mind." EXCUSE ME! Can I please live in a century where people don't believe this stone-age crap about "evil spirits"? I live in a time and place when we send robots out to Saturn and Mars, cure most cancer and are working on the rest, and people still believe in evil fucking spirits?
The minister is also quoted as saying, "We asked God to heal that boy, and He chose to do that by taking him back." Doesn't this imbecile understand that accepting that logic can excuse any torment, any torture, any horror at all?
I just can't work up the proper amount of rage over this. I'm too drained by the idiocy of it all.
Angela Lipmman, 15, is a victim of bureacracy. Apparently, she's got enough college credit to get her first degree, but because she hasn't finished high school and her father never registered her as a "home schooled student," not only can she not get her degree but now he's being invesitgated for child abuse.
I love the quote from the school chancellor: "We're evalutating her college credits to determine whether they may be applied toward a high-school diploma."
Paging Dr. Clemens...
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for burning down a girls' school in Afghanistan, and said that they would kill anyone who works for the "infidel" government.
It seems that the Taliban don't particularly care for their women smart...
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technoshaman, you'll love this one. Microsoft ninjas apparently descended on the US Patents and Trade Office and demanded that the U.S. use its clout with the World Intellectual Property Organization to squash a meeting devoted to "the place of open source in the intellectual property landscape." In short order, the USPTO's head of international relations issued a statement claiming that "open-source software runs counter to the mission of WIPO, which is to promote intellectual-property rights."
Y'know, I can't be the only one who was a bit unnerved by the way Gen. Richard B. Meyers said that troop levels in the U.S. Military are sufficient "so far." Man, that last quote is just a little too much. Senator McCain seems to like the robes of the Imperial Court and has floated the word "draft" in front of the media.
"There are hard cases and there are easy cases. This is an easy case," said U.S. District Judge Denny Chin. "This case is wholly without merit both factually and legally." And thus, with a slam and a dunk, is Al Franken freed to mock Fox News.
I love the way Fox portrayed Franken as "a nobody with no political experience whatsover," while touting the lying Bill O'Reilly (who described himself as "politically independent" until someone dug up his registration as a Republican in his home state) as "one of the most watched men in America." Franken, it must be pointed out, has four golden statues on his wall, Emmys for his satirical writings for television.
In what must be the most bizarre statutory rape case yet seen, Wisconsin state prosecutor Lori Kornblum is charging both kids for having sex with each other. The laws intent is to prevent the exploitation of an immature person by someone with experience and perhaps power over that person, so how one charges both with this is mind-boggling; each can't be both have superior knowledge, experience, and power over the other.
Ms. Kornblum feels that "their [the kids'] attitudes" warrant the attention of a prosecuting attorney, and that she's doing it "for their own good."
Looking at the article, I'm sure these kids do need help, that they come from terrible backgrounds and that intervention is warranted. But if Ms. Kornblum gets her way and these kids get convicted, they'll be on the sexual offenders registry for the rest of their lives. What kind of life is each going to have if every time he or she tries to get a job, the employer pulls up the state's sex offenders registry and finds their name under the heading "statutory child rapist?"
Yeah, that's really helpful.
The minister said, "That boy had an evil spirit in his mind." EXCUSE ME! Can I please live in a century where people don't believe this stone-age crap about "evil spirits"? I live in a time and place when we send robots out to Saturn and Mars, cure most cancer and are working on the rest, and people still believe in evil fucking spirits?
The minister is also quoted as saying, "We asked God to heal that boy, and He chose to do that by taking him back." Doesn't this imbecile understand that accepting that logic can excuse any torment, any torture, any horror at all?
I just can't work up the proper amount of rage over this. I'm too drained by the idiocy of it all.
Angela Lipmman, 15, is a victim of bureacracy. Apparently, she's got enough college credit to get her first degree, but because she hasn't finished high school and her father never registered her as a "home schooled student," not only can she not get her degree but now he's being invesitgated for child abuse.
I love the quote from the school chancellor: "We're evalutating her college credits to determine whether they may be applied toward a high-school diploma."
Paging Dr. Clemens...
The Taliban has claimed responsibility for burning down a girls' school in Afghanistan, and said that they would kill anyone who works for the "infidel" government.
It seems that the Taliban don't particularly care for their women smart...
Hey,
technoshaman, you'll love this one. Microsoft ninjas apparently descended on the US Patents and Trade Office and demanded that the U.S. use its clout with the World Intellectual Property Organization to squash a meeting devoted to "the place of open source in the intellectual property landscape." In short order, the USPTO's head of international relations issued a statement claiming that "open-source software runs counter to the mission of WIPO, which is to promote intellectual-property rights."Y'know, I can't be the only one who was a bit unnerved by the way Gen. Richard B. Meyers said that troop levels in the U.S. Military are sufficient "so far." Man, that last quote is just a little too much. Senator McCain seems to like the robes of the Imperial Court and has floated the word "draft" in front of the media.
"There are hard cases and there are easy cases. This is an easy case," said U.S. District Judge Denny Chin. "This case is wholly without merit both factually and legally." And thus, with a slam and a dunk, is Al Franken freed to mock Fox News.
I love the way Fox portrayed Franken as "a nobody with no political experience whatsover," while touting the lying Bill O'Reilly (who described himself as "politically independent" until someone dug up his registration as a Republican in his home state) as "one of the most watched men in America." Franken, it must be pointed out, has four golden statues on his wall, Emmys for his satirical writings for television.
In what must be the most bizarre statutory rape case yet seen, Wisconsin state prosecutor Lori Kornblum is charging both kids for having sex with each other. The laws intent is to prevent the exploitation of an immature person by someone with experience and perhaps power over that person, so how one charges both with this is mind-boggling; each can't be both have superior knowledge, experience, and power over the other.
Ms. Kornblum feels that "their [the kids'] attitudes" warrant the attention of a prosecuting attorney, and that she's doing it "for their own good."
Looking at the article, I'm sure these kids do need help, that they come from terrible backgrounds and that intervention is warranted. But if Ms. Kornblum gets her way and these kids get convicted, they'll be on the sexual offenders registry for the rest of their lives. What kind of life is each going to have if every time he or she tries to get a job, the employer pulls up the state's sex offenders registry and finds their name under the heading "statutory child rapist?"
Yeah, that's really helpful.
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