newsblurb: February 2002 Archives
Life is not pretty.
In fact it is fucking morbid in western Africa. These are countries that suffered famines through the eighties, revolutions and lawlessness in the ninties. This is the place where the Army of God (?) was raised, forcing children not even into puberty to fight to the death and dismember each other. Where a homicidal church incinerates all of it's followers.
And now the aid workers. People who go there to address the most basic needs of human life. They're there to literally keep each individual person from dying of starvation or exposure.
And while they do that, they're fucking little girls.
Someone needs to tattoo swasticas to these guys foreheads and drop them into the middle of South Central buck nekkid.
Warren Ellis: Prognosticator
Ignorance and apple pie at it's best.
Catholic Church Slams 'Amen' Poster
And the Catholics sued...
and lost.
Thank you, I'm moving to France.
Can you believe this argument is still going on?
There's an episode of the Sitcom Designing Women that dealt with this exact issue. A young man came to them to plan his funeral because he was dying of AIDS, while the schoolboard was arguing the merits of placing condoms in the nurses office.
And at the end of the episode, in a moment that they'd obviously been leading up to, Annie Potts says something to the effect: "All moral arguments aside, no matter what decisions our children make, they shouldn't be forced to die for them."
"Make sure your children are mature before you allow them to do certain things," Bush said in an interview with the San Francisco Chronicle.Um, Laura, would that be like, umm, before you allow your kids to get arrested for drunk driving? Or more like, before you allow them to fake a perscription for drugs?
And in today's round of "Give me a fuckin break"...
Alert issued for potential teddy bear bombs
If these are their criteria, the FBI must have warnings out on half the people in my hometown
If you've ever lived in a rural area, this shopping list is not the least bit suspicious. Teddy bears are universal, and no indication of anything in their own right. If the man bought BB's, then gosh, maybe he owns something he could use them with, like, oh... I dunno... a BB gun? (No self respecting Son of the Soil should be caught without one). And the propane? What do you do when you don't live in the city, or when you go camping? You run propane stoves, propane heaters, and propane lamps. And canisters this size are not legally allowed to be refilled, so the man would likely have to buy multiple backups.
"Potentially of middle eastern decent"? What did they say? "Well, this dude that looked like Jesus came into the store and bought some bomb supplies. It seemed religious enough... he was talking about a holy war or something."
New York sues Network Associates
Thank you.
Concerns already were raised over the weekend by immigration and Colombian activists about the film's Colombian characters.
Stupid, stupid, stupid.
If we take this to it's logical conclusion, we cannot have people who do bad things in stories (note the word 'stories') be from...
anywhere.
It's a fuckin fictional story. It's a character. He has to be from somewhere.
Get a friggin life, people.
Terrorism is a crime against all humanity. It knows no ethnic, religious or other national or geographic boundaries, and we must see it in that context.
This really is one of the few intelligent comments I've heard on all this. It neither relies on kneejerk patriotism, nor ignorant racism. And it keeps in mind, that if it wasn't the US, there would be another target. People instinctivly hate those who have more than they do, no matter how altruistic their lifestyle.
My STupid act of the day:
Store apologizes for fried chicken special in honor of Black History month
Okay. It's official. Pat Buchanan is on crack:
But can this sentiment bring together a nation as divided as we were over the Florida returns? That was over something that went to the heart of what people believed. The best criterion to judge how people voted in 2000 was how often they went to church. People who went to church voted for Bush; people who rarely or never went to church voted for Gore. That is for me the moral and social divide in America. We don’t believe the same way anymore. We don’t believe in the same ideas of right and wrong, and morally speaking, we live on a different continent.
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