A few days ago, in the state of Veracruz, left wing politician Celestino Rivera Hernandez was caught in the act of sodomizing and raping a 12 year old boy that he had picked up on the street. Celestino is a “respected” pillar of his community, but he had done this before. No less than 5 [...]
A couple of weeks ago I read an article in a Swedish newspaper that intrigued me…. this article was called “what type of mom are you?”. I was kind of interested in the picture that they used to promote the article, since it comes from Swedish Television.
The article was made like a questionary or poll to see what kind of mother one is… The one that really caught my eye was this one:
Slackermom
Known traits: Is allergic to other moms that prohibit sugar and hysterical security moms… McDonald’s is their second home. Says usually that TV is good and that it actually helps kids develop. Doesn’t really care about the kid(s), as long as the kid(s) don’t bother. Wants the kid(s) to be at home all the time (except for going out to buy cigarettes for mommy, wherever that is permissible)… Wants to know where the kid(s) are, not because she cares, but just to know. Tinted hair, tattoed and slightly (or heavily) overweight. Usually has a problem with alcohol and is a heavy smoker.
Type of mother: Is usually poorly dressed (see picture) and says she doesn’t care since she already has a well-defined fashion sense (knowing that she doesen’t, she really wants to know how to dress well). Likes to agitate people with her slacker and carefree attitude. People think, though, that she is poorly dressed and probably a moron. Period.
Type of kid(s): Unfortunate, intelligent, want(s) to know more about life, become(s) destructive later on, thanks to their parents’ wish to control them without ever listening to them or even spending time with them.
Motto: No official motto… but I found this really funny description on a website: “I’m a self professed slacker mom. I drive my kids to school in my pj’s, I can make a couple of Happy Meals from the floor of my car, my kids eat in front of the television, and I believe a dirty house helps kids have a healthy immune system.”.. that kind of says it all, doesn’t it?
Thankfully, there are no (that I know of) slacker moms in Mexico. In Sweden I suppose there are quite few slacker moms…
The Pope’s spokesman, Rev. Federico Lombardi, said a couple of days ago that Joseph Ratzinger (alias: Benedict the 16th) had never been involved with Hitler or the Hitler Youth… some hours later, he retracted and said that he had been forced into the Hitler Youth…
How can one believe in the church? The Catholic church’s highest representative was (provably) member of a party portrayed to have killed 6 million Jews… simply amazing…
Who can believe in the Catholic church? Who can believe in ANY church?
The people behind The Pirate Bay were convicted and sentenced to jail (apart from a ridiculously high amount of damages to be paid)… but what happens next?
They have all appealed, and the appeal (which probably will be accepted and taken to a new trial) will take place in about a year… so – for now – the convicted won’t have to face jailtime.
Now, it seems the judge that handled the case might have been biased. He is member of two organizations: The Swedish Copyright Association and the Swedish Association for Industrial Legal Protection.
This makes him – in my eyes at least – totally biased and not suitable to judge in a case involving copyright. But if Judge Norstrom was truly an impartial, brilliant, expert judge, might he have not offered the following quote: “This is a sensitive case. So before I agreed to hear it, I asked some of my fellow judges whether they considered that I would be in a position of conflicting interests. Two judges said absolutely not. While a third said he wasn’t quite so sure. I went with the majority.”
This says it all, doesn’t it?
On another note, the people convicted actually had a website much like google (albeit much much smaller).. their site (www.thepiratebay.com) contains a search engine and listings to torrent files. They don’t host files. They were convicted for “facilitating” torrent files to the public. So what does Google do? The exact same thing.
That’s why some clever guy registered the name thepirategoogle.com. Where he (or she) uses google to search for torrents. This website has the exact same functionality as the Pirate Bay – it uses Google’s search engine to “facilitate torrent files” to people searching for torrents. It seems, however, that media companies are a bit afraid to sue Google, aren’t they?
The Daily Show is one of my favorite shows, together with Real Time with Bill Maher.
Recently, the Daily Show sent a reporter to Sweden, to see in what direction the US was heading, now that they are going “Socialist” according to right wing pundits:
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And the second part:
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Update: Another 2 cases of fathering children have surfaced after this first confession… He was quite active promoting celibacy – and living the dream.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/04/13/paraguay.lugo/index.html
ASUNCION, Paraguay (CNN) — Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo acknowledged Monday that he is the father of a 2-year-old child who was conceived when he was a Roman Catholic bishop.
Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo speaks at a news conference in Asuncion on Monday.
“It’s true that there was a relationship with Viviana Carrillo,” Lugo told reporters, citing the mother. “I assume all the responsibilities that could derive from such an act, recognizing the paternity of the child.”
He said he was making the acknowledgment “with the most absolute honesty, transparency and feeling of obligation.”
The announcement came in the week after Carrillo had filed suit in a city in southern Paraguay seeking a paternity test.
Judge Evelyn Peralta, who is overseeing the case, said she was treating it routinely. “It is a case like any other, which involves the president and nothing more,” she said. “It will be processed as it should be.”
Some Cabinet members interpreted Lugo‘s acknowledgment of paternity as an indication of the change he has promised to bring about to achieve greater transparency in the public sector.
“This is the Paraguay that we want,” said Liz Torres, minister of children’s issues. “This is the Paraguay of serious change, in which there is no double standard or secrets. It seems to be an example, a very big lesson.”
But some opposition party members said it appeared that Lugo had practically been forced to acknowledge what happened; that he had not done so willingly.
Sen. Julio Cesar Velasquez of the opposition Colorado Party called on the Vatican to excommunicate Lugo.
Lugo was laicized last year, around the time he assumed the presidency.
A Swedish management magazine had some fun when presenting the top 10 reasons Jesus wasn’t really suited to be a leader:
“Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There’s a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning.” – Bill Gates
“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?” – Douglas Adams
“If there was a god, I’d still have both nuts.” – Lance Armstrong
“Science explains everything. There is no meaning in life except to be the best at something. If only I could be the best at something, perhaps my parents would love me.” – Asia Carrera, Porn Star
“I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.” - Billy Joel
“Wow. No God. If Mum had lied to me about God, had she also lied to me about Santa? yes, but who cares? The gifts kep coming. And so did the gifts of my newfound atheism. The gifts of truth, science, nature. The real beauty of this world. Not a world by design, but one by chance. I learned of evolution—a theory so simple and obvious that only England’s greatest genius could have come up with it. Evolution of plants, animals, and us—with imagination, free will, love and humor. I no longer needed a reason for my existence, just a reason to live. And imagination, free will, love, humor, fun, music, sports, beer, and pizza are all good enough reasons for living.
But living an honest life—for that you need the truth. That’s the other thing I learned that day, that the truth, however shocking or uncomfortable, in the end leads to liberation and dignity.” – Ricky Gervais (“The Office”)
“Q: Do you believe in God?
A: Yes. His name is Clive Davis, and he’s the head of my record company.” – Barry Manilow
“Hmm… For some people. I hope so, for them. For the people who believe in it, I hope so. There doesn’t need to be a God for me. There’s something in people that’s spiritual, that’s godlike. I don’t feel like doing things just because people say things, but I also don’t really know if it’s better to just not believe in anything, either.” – Angelina Jolie asked if there is a god.
“To YOU I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.” – Woody Allen
“I believe in the good message that’s found in religion. But I doubt there’s someone up there above the clouds running the show.” – Annika Sörenstam (LPGA great)
“There are like two golden rules in life. One is ‘Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you.’ For some reason, people associate this with Christianity. I’m not a Christian. I’m agnostic. The other rule is ‘Be proud of what you do.’” – Linus Torvalds (Linux father)
“If you have a few hundred followers and you let some of them molest children, they call you a cult leader. If you have a billion, they call you Pope.” – Bill Maher
“I am also atheist or agnostic (I don’t even know the difference). I’ve never been to church and prefer to think for myself. I do believe that religions stand for good things, and that if you make irrational sacrifices for a religion, then everyone can tell that your religion is important to you and can trust that your most important inner faiths are strong. Steve Jobs may be an informal fan of Eastern religions but it’s never obvious in him and I never heard of him regularly attending a church. That’s only a guess.” – Steve Wozniak
“In the Bullshit Department, a businessman can’t hold a candle to a clergyman. ‘Cause I gotta tell you the truth, folks. When it comes to bullshit, big-time, major league bullshit, you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims, religion. No contest. No contest. Religion. Religion easily has the greatest bullshit story ever told. Think about it. Religion has actually convinced people that there’s an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of ten things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these ten things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever ’til the end of time!
But He loves you. He loves you, and He needs money! He always needs money! He’s all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can’t handle money! Religion takes in billions of dollars, they pay no taxes, and they always need a little more. Now, you talk about a good bullshit story. Holy Shit!
War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. Results like these do not belong on the resumé of a Supreme Being. This is the kind of shit you’d expect from an office temp with a bad attitude. And just between you and me, in any decently-run universe, this guy would’ve been out on his all-powerful ass a long time ago. And by the way, I say “this guy”, because I firmly believe, looking at these results, that if there is a God, it has to be a man.
No woman could or would ever fuck things up like this. So, if there is a God, I think most reasonable people might agree that he’s at least incompetent, and maybe, just maybe, doesn’t give a shit. Doesn’t give a shit, which I admire in a person, and which would explain a lot of these bad results.” – George Carlin
“If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder”, Pope John I
Any reason to believe in god? None whatsoever. It’s fun to argue with religious people that actually want to take the fight… they have few (if any) arguments. And always lose.
Washington Post Foreign Service
Sunday, January 23, 2005; Page A23
“The Holy See . . . considers that it is necessary above all to combat this disease in a responsible way by increasing prevention, notably through education about respect of the sacred value of life and formation of the correct practice of sexuality, which presupposes chastity and fidelity.”
In the Vatican’s teaching, phrases such as “sacred value of life” and “correct practice of sexuality” generally preclude contraception.
His words followed a week in which a high official of Spain’s Bishops Conference said there was “a place” for condoms in AIDS prevention, but then was overruled by the full Bishops Conference, and other leaders weighed in to suggest publicly that a policy change might be appropriate.
In recent days, the pope has also stressed the role of Catholic health workers in tending to the AIDS-stricken. “At my request, the church has mobilized in favor of the victims and especially in order to assure access to help and the necessary medical care through a number of treatment centers,” he said. He was referring to the Holy See’s Good Samaritan Foundation, established last year to coordinate funds and organizations to help AIDS victims.
The Vatican has depicted contraception as part of an attack on the “culture of life” because it blocks the creation of children. On Saturday, John Paul II also repeated the Vatican’s condemnation of euthanasia, which the Netherlands has legalized and which in the pontiff’s view is an example of the “culture of death.”
“The Holy See has made known its clear position and invites Catholics in the Netherlands always to show their absolute respect for human life, from conception to natural death,” the pope said in the statement.
Pope Paul VI banned the use of contraception 37 years ago, and at that time the issue was almost entirely birth control. Ever since, high church officials have considered the question largely to be closed. But the AIDS pandemic has led to calls from some corners of the global church for authorizing at least one form of contraception — condoms — as a means of preventing HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, from spreading.
Two cardinals in Europe this week separately spoke of a hypothetical situation in which use of a condom might be justified: when a woman must have sex with someone who is infected with HIV and therefore must protect herself.
And in Mexico City, a bishop said at a news conference Friday that condom use could be a “lesser evil” if employed to prevent AIDS. “If someone is incapable of controlling their instincts . . . then they should do whatever is necessary in order not to infect others,” said Felipe Arizmendi, bishop of San Cristobal de las Casas, in far southern Mexico.
The comments followed months of ferment in the church over how to approach AIDS prevention. Last year, the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD) published a paper urging a range of methods to fight AIDS.
“For many in Africa and Asia, sex is often the only commodity people have to exchange for food, school fees, exam results, employment or survival itself in situations of violence,” the paper said. “Any strategy that enables a person to move from a higher-risk towards the lower end of the continuum, CAFOD believes, is a valid risk reduction strategy.”
Vatican officials have said that in the field some individual priests or health care workers might see fit to counsel use of condoms in particular cases. But the officials emphasized that such instances did not represent a change in teaching.
“The problem is that anytime we try to give a nuanced response, we see headlines that say, ‘Vatican approves condoms.’ The issue is more complicated than that,” Monsignor Angel Rodriguez Luno, a professor of moral theology at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, said on Friday. “From a moral point of view, we cannot condone contraception. We cannot tell a classroom of 16-year-olds they should use condoms.
“But if we are dealing with someone or a situation in which clearly persons are going to act in harmful ways, say, a prostitute who is going to continue her activities, then one might say, ‘Stop. But if you are not going to, at least do this,’ ” said Luno, who is an adviser to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a Vatican department charged with safeguarding orthodoxy.
One possible avenue for a new condom policy would be a “lesser-of-two-evils” approach. In this regard, condoms could be approved as a means of reducing the instance of danger or sin in cases where someone is bent on having extramarital sex or sex with a spouse while infected with HIV.
Rodriguez Luno — without endorsing a new policy — placed the issue in the context of the Ten Commandments. Sex outside of marriage already breaks the Sixth Commandment, which forbids adultery, he said. “Infecting someone with AIDS would also mean sinning against the Fifth Commandment — you shall not kill,” he said. “Condoms would diminish that danger.”
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (CNN) — Bishop Richard Williamson, who last month denied the existence of the Holocaust in an interview with Swedish television, was ordered Thursday to leave Argentina within 10 days, the Ministry of Interior said.
“The bishop has repeatedly forged the true motive for his stay in the country, having declared that he is an employee of ‘La Tradicion’ Civil Society when, in reality, his true activity was as priest and seminary director of the Society of Saint Pius X in the neighborhood of Moreno,” Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo said in a written statement.
Williamson and three other bishops who belong to the Society of Saint Pius X were excommunicated in 1988. The society was founded by Archbishop Marcel Lefebrve, who rebelled against the Vatican’s modernizing reforms in the 1960s, and who consecrated the men in unsanctioned ceremonies.
“Williamson has had public notoriety following his anti-Semitic statements to Swedish media in which he questioned whether Jewish people were victims of the Holocaust,” Randazzo continued.
“For these reasons, along with the strong condemnation from the Argentine government of how statements like these harm Argentine society, the Jewish community, and all of humanity by trying to deny a historic truth, the national government has decided to demand that the Bishop leave the country or be expelled.”
In the interview with Swedish television, Williamson said, “I believe that the historical evidence is strongly against — is hugely against — 6 million Jews having been deliberately gassed in gas chambers as a deliberate policy of Adolf Hitler.
“I believe there were no gas chambers,” he stated.
Williamson, who had already been removed from his seminary post in Argentina, made headlines in January when he and three other ultra-conservative bishops were welcomed back into the Roman Catholic Church, more than 20 years after Pope John Paul II excommunicated them on a theological question unrelated to the Holocaust.
The rehabilitation of Williamson sparked condemnation from Israel, American Jewish leaders and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, among others.
The Vatican pointed to several statements by Pope Benedict XVI condemning the destruction of European Jewry. The pope said he did not know of Williamson’s views on the Holocaust when he lifted the excommunication.
The Vatican said Williamson will not be allowed to perform priestly functions until he recants his Holocaust denial.
Williamson apologized for “distress” his remarks caused the pope, but has not retracted them.
Last week, a German court refused to intervene on behalf of Williamson, who is facing prosecution for denying the Holocaust — a crime in Germany.
Yet another issue with the f….ing church… why don’t they just throw him out take the catholic (and other churches) posessions and give them to the people? Religion is bad, religion hurts, religion kills. All religions are bad, no exception. As soon as you start believing in a being above yourself that controls you, you are lost.
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