…going out to Lee and family in their time of loss and sadness.
Category: News & Gossip
All the News and Gossip that’s (Mis)Fit to Print!
God is Love… Man is (apparently) a moron
From the “why-won’t-this-guy-just-shut-the-fuck-up???” files:
Thus sayeth Jerry Fallwell:
NEW YORK (AP) – The Rev. Jerry Falwell says ‘I think Muhammad was a terrorist’ in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on the CBS program “60 Minutes.”
Awwwww COME ONNNNnnnnnn!!!!!!!
Just when the world has finally gotten over his blaming gays, pagans, & feminists for being solely responsible for September 11st… his mouth runneth over again. I refuse to question what planet “Mr. Moral Majority” is living on, or how close his house is in proximity to the fumes of a crack factory.
Why do they give this guy airtime??!!???
“…’Jesus set the example for love, as did Moses,’ Falwell says. ‘I think Muhammad set an opposite example…’ “
Are we talking about the same Jesus and Moses here, Jerry?
Jesus who said:
“Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.”
(Matthew 10:34)
The same Jesus who opened up a can of whoop-ass on the Money Changers in the temple? Flipping their tables over, and going postal on them with a whip?
(Mark 11:15-19)
Moses? Who had to flee Egypt after killing a man, and hiding his body in the sand???
(Exodus 2:11-15)
I’m dangerous on the topic of religion, Jerry. Don’t screw with me.
Bad enough to add hypocrisy on top of stupidity.
There’s a time for peace, and there’s a time to kick someone’s ass (as Jesus and Moses has shown), and to now equate Islam with terrorism is like saying Christianity stands solely for hate groups like the KKK, and bombing abortion clinics.
See? They can say that about us Christians too.
Islam is not the enemy. Like any religion, Islam is about humanity’s quest to reach out to their Creator. There’s peace and there’s violence in it, just like Christianity and Judaism…
The enemies are the religious zealots (*ahem* stares at Fallwell…), who would take scripture and twist it to suit their agendas.
Your attention please…
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*squeals with delight*
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-The Management –
Parenting for dummies…
We interrupt our latest obsession with macro codes and visual basic programming to bring the following tip for people who have no business reproducing….
“Milton, Fla., police Detective Mike Daughtery told the Associated Press the dying boy said Hoffman and his mother kept him mostly in one room, beat him every day, only fed him scraps and didn’t let him out of the house to go to school or see friends…”
When you feed your child, love them and care for them…. they live.
When you starve them for five months, beat them repeatedly and ship them on a bus across the country, where strangers take them in, as they’re described as “looking like a holocaust victim”… well, they tend to die.
Any questions?
A little local news to bring some pride to my adopted Police Statehometown.
*sigh* :0(
Siskel and -e-bert rent a movie
“SHE’S DANCING ON THE BED IN HER UNDERWEAR!!!”
*Runs down the stairs watches until Britney’s fully clothed in the next scene.*
“She’s getting undressed! Hurry!”
*Nearly break at least one leg while falling down the majority of the stairs. Limp back upstairs while she gets re-dressed.*
(Repeat several times)
I have decided with what little a managed to catch of Crossroads, it’s probably one of the greatest movies ever created.
Of course points had to be subtracted due to the fact that the movie seems to be cluttered with that icky “dialogue” and “plot” stuff.
… and because I think I should have a doctor look at my leg.
I’m pretty sure that really hard and sharp thing protruding out of my pant leg is a compound fracture.
All your doodies am belonging to us!
All right. It’s official.
The War on Terrorism has gone too far.
A passenger who spent a long time in an airplane toilet Wednesday prompted a security alert and full search of the Lufthansa plane, the airline said.
(Link Via Dr. D)
So now being on the potty too long makes you a terrorist suspect?
What a crock of shit!
Ok. I understand that a large percentage of the people reading this are female, and you might not get the GLOBAL SIGNIFICANCE of this event. (Or you don’t give a crap.)
A man’s potty time is sacred.
It is a time where he gets to sit down, read, and quietly become one with his thoughts. It is a time for somber reflection.
It is our GOD GIVEN RIGHT!
It’s in the, er, Constitution. I’m pretty sure of that.
And now some paranoid fruitcakes are trying to take that away from us just for the sake of global security????
Take too long, open the door, to be greeted with an automatic weapon in your face???? Thrown against a wall, and searched (the article didn’t specify a “full cavity search”)????
What’s next? Make us piss sitting down, so we’re less threatening if they barge in?
I SAY THEE NAY!!!!!
I draw the line at this latest attempts to , uhm, flush our… rights down… (well you get the idea.)
People of the world need to relax.
Nowhere, in our human history, has a terrorist successfully shit out a grenade, an AK-47, or a Laws Rocket Launcher.
It is IMPOSSIBLE to poop out a weapon of MASS-DESTRUCTION.
(Well, that can be debated if they don’t close the door quick enough.)
And if they could… the one handling the weapon would bring the word “Holy Martyr” to a whole new level.
While I of course, have very stong feelings on this issue, I, of course will not lead a protest or anything (who the hell wants to be remembered for fighting for “Potty Rights”?)… so I have offered the following suggestion(s):
New suggested procedure for Airlines and law enforcement officials:
1. *knock on door*
2. Flight Attendant: “Is everything alright sir?”
3. Possible responses:
- (grunt) “I’m fine, thank you for asking. I’ll be out in a minute!”
- “Ohhhh yeahhhh baby! Who’s your daddy! Who’s your daddy!” (thud,thud)
- “No you Western Infidel! I am currently plotting your demise, and you’re out of toilet paper and breath mints!!!”
Only *ONE* of those responses would warrant the proper authorities (one may warrant the papparazzi… buuut…). If you don’t know which response that would be, you have no business being in your chosen field.
Men of the world will *NOT* stand, er, sit, er STAND FOR THIS INFRINGEMENT ON OUR RIGHTS!
Fuck it, you get the point.
You can see why public speaking on this issue will only give the crowd the giggles. Maybe go after those *running* for office?
Justice is served!
We were all watching the local news out here Friday, when we stumbled onto the image of a man sentenced to life for murder on the screen.
Melissa is about 98% sure he was one of the clowns that robbed her last summer.
On the plus side, justice is served as this guy will never see the light of day, and there’s no need for her, another friend working there, and two teenage kids needing to testify about the harrowing night they were forced on the floor at gunpoint and robbed…
On the down side, they know now that one of those men were *already* wanted for murder, and would have killed them without hesitating.
Aaah… never a dull moment in my world.
Weird phone call day
Well, it’s official… Skarlet is my first official ping for her “Weird Phone calls“.
Only three people in the entire country *DIDN’T* know yesterday was a National Holiday…
…and they *ALL* seemed to find her.
I do believe today’s message came darn close though. It was anonymous left to our editor, which I had to hear in case the story ran on the web. It involves the closing of a chain of stores and the photo had an employee crying at the prospect of losing her job:
The phone call:
“I can’t believe you put a BLACK WOMAN on your front page!!! I swear to God, I’ll never buy your paper again if you don’t remember that WHITE PEOPLE come first…. those goddamn Blacks are ruinin’ everything here!!!”
Of course my only response was “well, a ‘heil hitler’ to you too, sir!”, followed by much laughter and jokes involving generations of inbreeding by our staff.
We will miss his patronage… as well as “Mr. Bunker’s” wit and wisdom.
Aw hell, we were also called “Socialists” in the “Letters to the Editors” page today, because we all think Ashcroft is a totalitarian asswipe (my words, not the papers. I’m paraphrasing.)
The phone call was anonymous, of course.
And if it makes a difference to anyone out there, the woman was Puerto Rican, not Black. I know her.
Welcome to 1950’s Mississippi.
*pops alka seltzer, yet still can’t control the giggling over stoopidity*
When love hurts (sometimes even kills)
Well, much to my surprise, the conversation of violence against women is still going on here on this site…
It’s an important topic.
You know, I may be a guy. And I may not be an expert.
But I *do* have very strong feelings about the subject.
I try very hard to understand how a person gets to look upon their spouse as a “possession” rather than a “partner”.
Worse yet… when does one cross the line between love and hate? Is it insecurity? Is it guilt over their own infidelity? Is it obsession? Is it a sense of being “incomplete” in and of themselves? Is it an upbringing where there’s no repect for women?
I know this sounds kind of slanted… I mean, there are such things as “battered husbands”, but I kinda laugh at those guys. I shouldn’t, but I do.
The question of the day is: What makes a person love someone one day, then want to hurt them the next?
Mutilated by her husband
oh. my. God.
(Don’t click that link if you have a weak stomach.)
“Holding her captive, Iqbal accused Parveen of having an affair. Parveen insisted that she had never been unfaithful to him, but Iqbal didn’t listen. Instead, he gagged her, bound her feet and hands and hung her upside down from the ceiling. As he beat her with a wooden ax handle, blood began to drip from her arms and legs….”
“Then Iqbal, a barber by profession, traded his ax for a razor. He cut off the lower lobes of her ears, then sliced her nose at the base. ‘He next used a metal rod to poke out my eyes,’ she continues, ‘and then put his finger inside each socket to make sure nothing was left.’… “
She had her eyes gouged out, the base of her nose and her earlobes cut off… all because her husband accused her of having an affair, to which he did he never provided a shred of evidence.
It’s called “Honor Killings” or “Honor Violence”. An all too common practice in places like Pakistan. It mainly goes unreported, and the offenders are rarely punished.
In the case of what Mehmood Iqbal did to his wife, he was given 14 years… which is considered a “life sentence”. Amnesty International was surprised he was even convicted.
“Though Parveen [the wife who was mutilated] rarely ventured outside, when she did, she often overheard people wondering aloud what she had done to deserve the way she looked.”
As always, it’s “what did the victim do to deserve this”… right?
Somebody tell me what century are we living in again?
(Via Rachel Lucas)
