Double Standard
One of the things I hate is the double standard applied to child murderers. When the usually nameless father kills his wife and/or kids and/or self, society has very little sympathy. The guy was a prick, bastard, loser who "couldn't hack it" in real life and great pains are taken to show how big a loser the guy really was.
To be honest, I agree with this approach. Family violence should not be condoned, or "explained" by the situation. The perpetrators should be put under the microscope, judged and punished to the full extent of the law. For someone like a Paul Bernardo the law doesn't go anywhere far enough...
Why the outrage? An article in the National Post.
'I have to do what's best for you'
ST. JOHN'S - Dr. Shirley Turner, who drowned herself and her infant son in the inky black waters of the North Atlantic rather than return to the United States to stand trial for murdering the boy's father, did not want to live without her youngest child, and could not imagine giving him up for adoption, diaries she kept in the months leading up to her death reveal.
Oh, and I thought the first duty of motherhood was to safeguard the wellbeing of her child. Silly me.
Now Dr. Turner lies in a seaside grave, in one of the remote fishing villages on the west coast of Newfoundland where she spent much of her life. Her son's remains were cremated by his paternal grandparents, David and Kathleen Bagby, Americans who have taken up residence in St. John's and vow to remain until they win justice for their murdered son and grandson.
Pretty hard to fight for justice for your murdered son and grandchild when the killer takes her own life, cheating the justice that the Bagby's deserve. It's sad, but the Bagby's will never get justice for this, unless evidence of Dr. Turner rotting in hell can be produced.
I Want My Girls to go to this school
...even though I'm not Catholic. My wife is a lapsed one, so maybe Boo and Punkin' can get in...At least for the hand-to-hand (or should I say foot-to-groin) combat training. And then we'd have to live in Philly, too...
Girls pummel man who exposed himself
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (Reuters) -- A man described by authorities as a known sexual predator was chased through the streets of South Philadelphia by an angry crowd of Catholic high school girls, who kicked and punched him after he was tackled by neighbors, police said Friday.
Good.
Will the Docs still charge for the faulty treatments
Thousands Given Wrong STD Results
CRANBROOK, British Columbia - About 3,000 people got the wrong results when they were tested for gonorrhea and chlamydia over an 18-month period, health officials say. Because of a faulty diagnostic machine in this southeastern British Columbia town, test results for the two sexually transmitted diseases were reversed, Alison Paine, a spokeswoman for the Interior Health Authority, said Wednesday.
I don't know what I could say that would make this any
About 3,000 people are believed to have been tested between Nov. 1, 2000, and May 24, 2002, and about 83 were told they were clean when they actually had one of the diseases. Most of the 83 have been contacted but not all, Paine said. The rest of the 3,000 were told they were infected and were given treatment although they did not have the diseases, Paine said.
Wonder what the average charge to the BC medical system is per treatment. Actually on second thought I wonder what effect this has on the DIVORCE RATE in Cranbrook...
Authorities said they didn't know how many people may have had sex with 83 test subjects who didn't know they had at least one of the diseases.
Betcha that's cast a pall over the bustling Cranbrook singles' scene...
History Repeats
Stalin called them "useful idiots."
Sin City is dying
I've read all the inevitable jokes about Roy of Siegfried and Roy getting mauled by the tiger: I wonder how the writer of that Simpson's episode where Mr. Burns opens a casino and a Siegfried and Roy type act gets mauled by a pissed off tiger feels right now. I mean it was an obvious joke, and the odds of something happening with big nasty cats over the long haul for them was probably getting close to 1:1, but nobody wants to predict anything like that do they?
They're talking about the economic spillover effects now: all the dancers and performers fired, the ticket revenue lost, the trips cancelled - who knew that Siegfried and Roy were that big a draw? But why else would one want to go for Vegas if not for the spectacle of acts such as these?
You can gamble almost everywhere else on the continent. In Ontario alone there are three (soon to be four) big commercial casinos, six "charity" casinos, and 15 (soon to be 18) slots-at racetracks facilities. There are plenty of local places to lose money hand-over-fist at.
Vegas used to have an air of danger about it. People would look at you with suspicion if you frequented Vegas. You might be dangerous.
Now Vegas is the playpen of Celine Dion's spoiled little brat. The marketers have succeeded in making Vegas a "family destination." Ugh.
Sigfried and Roy, laugh if you will, were part of the dangers of Old Vegas. Unless they get newer, hotter acts to have extended stays in Vegas it will be harder to convince the pigeons (ie. tourists) to flock to the slot machines.
It's just as easy to plug quarters into a machine at home...
Who are the Pirates?
All I have to say about the recording industry is this:
When Compact Discs first made their appearance in the 80's, we were promised that they'd be cheaper than the LPs and tapes we were buying.
I remember buying currently released albums on cassette for $CDN6.99 (less than $US5) in the late 80's. Compact Discs, which were cheaper to produce (no moving parts like cassettes, no vinyl pressings) cost $CDN14.00 ($CDN 20+ if you were buying something out of the back catalogue), but were pushed as premium products because of the sound quality.
Because there were limited numbers of producers, there was no competition to push the prices down. Now the same companies are insisting that we pay them AGAIN for music we've already bought and paid for (some of us already MORE than once.)
While I think that downloading something you've never owned before is wrong, the fact that there is an assumption of guilt (to the point that they think they have the RIGHT to search individuals private computers) just for having MP3s on your hard disk shows what the recording industry thinks of us. Backing up our collections IS a legitimate activity despite their efforts to reach into my wallet yet again.
To them, customers are
By acting high-handed and not thinking out a logical business model they are just as responsible for the "problem" as the people who used Napster and still use Kazaa.
Ugh!
Now that true equality is upon us, the horrors of uncontrolled cosmetic surgery are visited upon both sexes:
Behold if you dare!
Funny, I was getting kind of desensitized to bad cosmetic surgery on women. But Mickey Rourke and Bruce Jenner are scaring the hell out of me!
Forget the elections, how 'bout a coup?
Disgust does not begin to express how I feel about this. (via Daimnation!)
Just another example of the total lack of moral conviction (not the religious right kind, which seems to be the only one talked about nowadays...) present in Ottawa. We don't want to offend anyone do we? Canada is just so nice isn't it?
Torture our people, and then make it up to us by making sure you feed our politicians...We'll forgive you. Just like we will the next time. And the next.
And, of course, it doesn't matter if the Liberals lose the next election (fat chance that will happen!) because all of the other opposition parties were there too! Except the NDP, who probably weren't invited anyway and would've gone if they could.
The Flea also has something to say about this...
I probably wouldn't have been as upset about this (politics is a strange game that forces one to check their convictions at the door sometimes) if it wasn't for the pathetic idiotic bleatings of one Senator Harb:
"Here is someone who has been charged with a murder and who has been very successful in making himself, of being, a victim. I think we have to look at both sides of the issue," Mr. Harb said at a reception hosted by Saudi Ambassador Mohammed Al-Hussaini to honour the oil kingdom's national day.
Because everyone charged with murder in a tinpot dictatorship is by definition a trouble-maker that should be dealt with. How trustworthy can they be? I mean they were charged with murder, weren't they?
Two words for you Senator Harb. Take a guess what they are.
Good. Very Good.
Spammer ducks for cover as details published on web
His identity as the man behind millions of spam messages promoting penis enlargement pills was revealed in a Herald article last week. Mr Atkinson said that on a good day he and his associates would send out 100 million messages
100 MILLION...
His personal information, street address and phone numbers were "plastered all over the web", he had been subscribed to a gay-dating site and his email address had been added to "tons of email lists".
Good. Very good.
The article also led to rackshack.net, the US web service that hosts Mr Atkinson's servers, being entered in the Spam Early Warning System list, which many networks use for blocking email traffic.
And your little dog, too...
Demons
Autistic boy's death at church ruled homicide
Just plain sad.
"[They] were just praying for him and asking God to deliver him from the spirit that he had," David Hemphill said. "The little boy had spirits in him, and we was asking God to deliver him."
No you fundamentalist idiot. The boy had autism.
Autism.
Look it up.
Asked whether church members could have confused Terrance's autism with evil spirits, David Hemphill said no. "It wasn't confused," he told CNN. "I know what I'm talking about."
Yes, and your years of medical training are from which recognized institution? Oh, sorry no. You're one of those slack-jawed yokels who think every single issue on THE PLANET is covered somewhere in that holy book of yours...
This past Sunday, services were held at David Hemphill's home, where he said members consoled each other about the boy's death. Hemphill said they haven't yet decided when services will return to the church.
How 'bout never you murdering bastard.
from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A high-ranking Milwaukee police source said Ray Hemphill told investigators that he would sit on the boy's chest for up to two hours at a time during prayer services at the small storefront church at 8709 W. Fond du Lac Ave. The nightly prayer services started three weeks ago, police say Hemphill told them.
An adult man sits on a child's chest for two freakin' hours.
After at least two other physically intense sessions like the one Friday, Tolefree said, Ray Hemphill decided to devote his entire vacation from his job as a janitor to "getting that spirit out of" the boy, who was also called "Junior."
Because mopping floors and cleaning toilets is perfect training for exorcism rituals. At least he could clean up the mess afterwards.
Poor little guy. And of course everyone will feel sympathy for his mother.
The mother that held him down as this was done to him...
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