Seriously, even if you don’t shake it, it is your own goddamned fault if you happen to get raped! Don’t you know you are just an “uncovered pice of meat”? Don’t blame the “cat” for eating you. Not even if you are an Australian teenager who has been brutally raped by a few racist “cats”. Don’t you get it? You asked for it by being a woman, an Australian and by showing your flesh around!
I have absolutely no words for how angry this makes me! No more than for all the PC-police already out in full-force trying to explain the fucking shit away. Remember the double standard. Always do! Publishing of cartoons making fun of a religion? Horrendous and worthy of rioting and murders. Calling teenage gang-rape victims as brining this upon themselves? “Diversity”!
Do you think it will be worth it for me to try and hold my breath for the “feminists” who defended the hijab will be outraged at this misogyny? I don’t think so!
If you heard an emergency siren blare out that there was a pandemic and you need to go to a drive-thru flu clinic to get a shot, would you go by? What if you knew it was a simulation? Would you do it just for the free shot or to make the simulation work?
Fredericksburg.com - Flu shots on the fly About 400 people take part in eventLocal hospitals were full and medical supplies were running low, according to the simulation. State officials declared a mock emergency and ordered the vaccination of as many people as possible, as quickly as possible. In the Fredericksburg area, health officials participated in the exercise by scheduling a real-life, drive-through flu clinic. Those interested were told to roll down their car windows and roll up their sleeves for a free shot. The state Health Department supplied 400 doses of flu vaccine.
I had talked in an earlier post about a Muslim woman who refused to be photographed for a drivers’ license picture, so I had to point out this post by Ali - Christian Women Refuses License Pic Versus Muslim Woman Doing Same � Eteraz.
Here we have two women of two different religions, both hiding behind their religious beliefs to get around law. The only difference? One got away with it, while the other didn’t. Read the link above to see who got away and who didn’t - you might be surprised.
Personally, I think both of them are wrong and law needs to be applied to all people equally - it just makes it really awful that some religions are considered better than others in skirting rules. I hope the ruling is overturned and both of them either get photographed or be made to sit at home with no drivers’ license instead of getting away with this stupidity.
update: I guess as is usual in such cases, there is a little more to the story than was posted - Check out the comments on this post at Dean’s World. The Christian lady’s case was from 1983, which kinda puts a different spin on things - I mean, is a 20+ year-old case really relevant to the current society?
Read the rest for some nanny-state stupid tricks in school…
Glorious Food? English Schoolchildren Think Not - New York TimesSchools that have tried to win students over appear to have fared better than those that impose bans, Professor Morgan said.
I am appalled by this - Althouse: “Lefty Blogger Outs Senator As Gay.”. Seriously, how dare someone open up another person’s private life to public scrutiny just because that person might be gay? I have worked with and been friends with enough gay people to understand why everyone might not want their lifestyle publicized. Not everyone is comfortable talking about their sexlife with total strangers - something that is unfortunately a byproduct of anyone coming out of the closet these days.
This was an extremely disgusting thing to do - I wonder if someone will stop and think, what now? Is it OK to publicize someone’s abortion? a rape? childhood-abuse history? I shudder to consider that!
I guess today is one of those days when people like me and possibly a few more who will read the link below spare a few thoughts for the poor Tibetans who are being systematically massacred and kicked out of their lands by the Chinese - Massacre in Nangpa La.
I admit it - it is really hard for us to spare too much time and sympathy for those who are defenceless - maybe they need to strap on a few bomb belts and fantasize about eradicating the entire nation and population of China before the world takes notice…
Here is a new Lancet study about the number of people “killed”, “died”, whatever in Iraq - Telegraph | News | War ‘has killed 650,000 Iraqis’. My emotions are best summed up by this comment I read some place - “Why not just call it eleventy-seven kajillion and be done with it.
Sure would save lots of time dreaming up new numbers. ” Hey, toodles!
Husband and I got really bored last night, so we thought we would cap the weekend out with a nice comedy. We ended up ordering the above movie On-Demand. I didn’t really have too many expectations from the movie except for a slight curiosity about how Albert Brooks did India…It was not very disappointing, if a little tiresome about the cliches and stereotypes. I think the premise was to play-off of stereotypes in the manner of I-will-laugh-at-my-stereotype-and-make-fun-of-yours… It is not offensive or anything, just a little used-up.
I had to explain Albert Brooks to my husband as Marlin in “Finding Nemo”, so it was pretty funny when Brooks has to constantly refer to the cartoon and his fish character when he is introducing himself around in India (Score one for Neel for making us watch Nemo). There is a lot of self-deprecatory humor as Brooks completely fails to see his audience and they fail to see him. Though funny for a little bit, things can get sketchy after a while since a lot of references Brooks tries to explain as not Indian have been around in India via Star and other English channels since more than a decade ago when I lived there. The audience surely knows enough about the stuff.
I was quite disappointed that there was no true interaction between Brooks and any Indians or Indian comedians except for the overly-fawning Maya. It might have been fun to see Brooks and a few Indian comedians riff on each other. I guess Brooks was more invested in the dumb-American-creates-problems-while-trying-to-orchestrate-peace schtick to actually involve his character more with the locals. India and for a little bit, Pakistan are only backdrops for Brooks’ one-man-show about Americans and so could have been interchanged with Afghanistan and Kazhakstan for all that they mattered.
Overall, there were definitely a few chuckle-worthy moments as were groan-inducers. A time-pass movie aimed primarily towards American elites who want to laugh at the dumb Americans, IMO.
This was just heartwrenching to read about such a show of courage in 13-year-old almost-child. To give herself up in the hope of saving her friends and sister…
ABC News: ‘Shoot Me First,’ Amish Girl Said to Ask
Oct. 5, 2006 — The oldest of the five Amish girls shot dead in a Pennsylvania schoolhouse is said to have stepped forward and asked her killer to “Shoot me first,” in an apparent effort to buy time for her schoolmates. Rita Rhoads, a midwife who delivered two of the victims, told ABC News’ Law and Justice Unit that she learned of 13-year-old Marian Fisher’s plea from Fisher’s family.
So, NBA establishment introduces a brand-new kind of ball into the game - the people who are going to use it the most, the players - hate it!
ESPN.com - NBA - Intel Report: New ball
Given the track record, what will NBA do? I know, they will simply dig in and say, “deal with it!”. I mean it isn’t like we pretend this is about the game anymore, do we? We might as well come out in the open with the business of it. Call it the NBBA - National Basketball Business Association and be done with it already. Like the WWF, alteast us viewers and the players might start enjoying this crap once we are rid of our pretensions about what this is all about anyways!
I actually agree with Glenn on this post about us being nowhere near recession - Instapundit.com -. Anecdotal evidence I know, but the job market is extremely hot in the areas of technology I work in. I have recently changed jobs - I was able to negotiate for a very decent salary and benefits. I have seens tons of people I know switch companies for better offers and other companies that cannot attract anything but mediocre talent for reasonable prices.
What has been your experience? Raises? bonuses? new jobs with better salaries? What do you think the economy is like personally?
update: Now this is what I am talking about - I guess I wasn’t hallucinating after all!
That sounds you hear is a million mothers heaving a big sigh of relief over this news - BBC NEWS | Health | Breast milk ‘does not boost IQ’ - via Ann Althouse.
Believe me, this is for all those women (including me) who soldiered on armed with their massive breastpump bags - trying to ooze a little bit of IQ at a time for their children in the privacy of cars, bathroom stalls and new mother rooms (for a few lucky ones, like me). This is also for those who want to tease us - “nyah, nyah, nyah - my baby’s smarter because I brestfed him”. Yay! aparrently that was not the point!
Can you imagine how much guilt you offload off of a new mom who is trying to reconcile her career, her non-baby-oriented-life and the guilt of not being able to do something so simple for her baby?
Now, don’t get me wrong - I am not against breast-feeding considering how many advantages there are to it - the baby’s health, the mother’s health, the whole bonding experience. I loved it and I missed it when it was over. It is just that I don’t appreciate people beating thos moms who are unlucky enough to not have the facilities to keep doing it over their head with guilt sticks for being unable to breastfeed for longer.