The Stupidity, It's Everywhere!

The maintenance of civil order in society rests on the foundation of family discipline. Therefore, a child who disrespects his parents must be permanently removed from society in a way that gives an example to all other children of the importance of respect for parents. The death penalty for rebellious children is not something to be taken lightly. The guidelines for administering the death penalty to rebellious children are given in Deut 21:18-21:

So wrote Charlie Fuqua, GOP candidate for the Arkansas legislature, in a book he published earlier this year. He has declined to talk to the press further about his very biblical statement. In a 2009 book, Fuqua also wrote that "There is only one solution for the Muslim problem in America," and you don't have to imagine very hard to imagine correctly what he meant by that.

But Fuqua isn't the main reason I wanted to post. I could have let that news go; it's everywhere this morning, after all.

Last night, as I was driving to the grocery store, I flipped through the radio and landed on a local "Christian Talk" radio station where the host was flipping out about Fuqua. "This guy's crazy, right? Kill your children? I mean, that's just nuts. Help me out here, folks. Linda, you're on the line."

Linda delivered the crazy. "Chuck," she said, "You have to understand. It's not crazy. It makes sense in biblical terms. When that was written, people lived five hundred, six hundred years, maybe even seven hundred years. If children rebelled, it was very dangerous and could last a long time, and they had to be put down just the way you put down a rabid dog."

I had to turn it off at that point.

The sad part is, Linda doesn't even knowm her Bible. By the time of Deuteronomy, the sins of Cain and Ham had caught up with mankind and mankind had long been reduced to the allotted three-score and ten years.

God's fan club really scares me some days.

Asobi Ni Iku Yo! Catgirl T&A with a plot!

File this under I am easily amused.

This anime is an embarrassment. Really. It's an excuse to constantly close in on Eris's boobs and backside, both of which bounce with all the energy a cartoon can muster, while highlighting her general cluelessness and absurdity.

Eris is the catgirl. She came to Earth to "have fun," which apparently is now legal for her to do so, now that Earth has started experimenting with FTL communications. (Huh, I'm starting to detect a theme here...) She lands on an island in Japan (naturally) and hangs out with a local boy (naturally) who's innocent and has no clue what to do with her. All of the female friends in his life accuse him of being a pervert, but he so far hasn't done anything at all except blush.

The plot, near as I can tell, is that Earth didn't mean to be sending FTL signals, only listening. Secretly. It's a government program to spy on the aliens. And while we didn't know what we were hearing, we knew they were out there. Various government agencies have been gearing up for the inevitable invasion.

When it turns out that the aliens mostly have Culturetech anyway and are really just looking for new and interesting people to hang out with, these agencies decide to try and kill Eris anyway, and provoke a war, to justify their decade-long secret budgets of war preparations..

As someone who has worked with two non-profits that have completely satisfied their original goals, I find that comptelely believable.

Anyway, I look forward to more semi-naked catgirl.