Victory Is Sweet
This picture is one of the most popular on Yahoo.
This picture is one of the most popular on Yahoo.
So while the Pope is blaming Satan for causing his priests to molest children, this Archbishop is, well, not really on-message when he blames gay people. Idiot. And dishonest. This is what’s known as not taking responsibility for your actions, or your lack of action, of your organisation. Lorien told me she heard one priest on NPR blaming protestants, saying they were “doing it as well”. This juvenile comment just about sums it up their lack of seriousness about life — oh well what we’re doing isn’t so bad because someone else is doing it as well. But what else do you expect from someone who believes in a Vengeful Sky God who will smite you for not doing what it says?
Apparently, more than half of people under 30 or something in the UK are regularly caned on Es, Charlie, or Whiz. Looks like that song came true. But apparently they have to add a new verse: Blue “Mystic” or Tripstasy is getting popular in the UK as well, and it’s not currently illegal. This reminds me of when Eve (MDEA) was sort-of legal in Holland and it flooded the Irish market. Anyway, it’s even namechecked in a Blue Mystique track (Aph041) by Jungle superstar magnate Aphrodite (or Gavin King when he wants to sign cheques).
So the Dutch have brought out a dynamite report about secret Pentagon meddling in the Yugoslavian War (which coincidentally caused the collapse of the Dutch Government).
All the usual suspects are there: Pentagon funneling arms through Iran to Islamist terrorists, casually breaking UN sanctions designed to prevent the war flaring up, weirdoid CIA agents blundering through the country playing spy games with people’s lives. But there are unusual elements as welll: because the US was allied with Iran, the Israeli Mossad secret service ended up arming the Serbians. That’s just too sadly ironic for words.
The weirdly-casual-yet-authoritative Ananova carries a story about New Scientist declaring that previous studies of ecstasy’s “bad effects” in users were flawed, and probably “worthless”, due to political meddling. Apparently, researchers have been motivated by large sums of cash to find some or any deleterious effects from ecstasy uses. This is just bad science. In the absence of unbiased information the street, as usual, continues to make up its own mind.
New word of the day! Fat apron! And a lesson in the limits of positive self image. Sometimes, you also need surgery.
Imagine trying to get around with a 110-pound belly pack. That’s an amazing amount of weight … what does a 1,200-pound person eat? “Anything and everything I could get my hands on,” Jeannette said. “I would eat until I was so full I was sick. Then an hour later, I would be stuffing my face again.” .. Today, she’s 5 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs 435 pounds.
800 down, 200 more to go! I notice that obesity is a communicable disease. Most of her kids and grandkids mentioned in the article are grotesquely obese as well.
Sad stories of child abuse are unfortunately too common, but sometimes the staggering duplicititous mendacity of some abusers takes my breath away.
A 75-year-old city man was arrested Wednesday on charges of impregnating a 10-year-old girl he met at his senior center [he] admitted having sex on several occasions with the girl, but claimed she had enticed him … [she] is six months pregnant … [he met her] through an “Adopt-a-Godfather” program at the housing complex … he said he never forced the girl to have sex with him … he bought her clothes and gifts, and she repaid him with sex.
This is wrong in so many ways. She claims she awoke to find him raping her. Even if his account was true, he incontrovertibly had sex with a seriously minor, and furthermore, if his account is true she has already been unduly sexualised through some prior abuse. So now instead of one abuser we have two abusers.
This Jewish politician sums it up:
Sharon has ordered his troops to use methods of barbarism against the Palestinians … It is time to remind Sharon that the Star of David belongs to all Jews and not to his repulsive government. His actions are staining the Star of David with blood. The Jewish people, whose gifts to civilised discourse include Einstein and Epstein, are now symbolised throughout the world by the blustering bully Ariel Sharon.