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The amazing juxtaposition of reality and “american reality” never fails to amaze me. The onslaught of liberal values on TV is just horrible, and the mouthpieces of the Liberal conspiracy are Elmo and Big Bird. The American right is like a crazy guy with scissors in a rubber life raft who keeps on cutting holes in the raft and then complaining/blaming the others that he’s getting ever closer to drowning. It boggles the mind.
So watch how they spin the usual persecuted majority bullshite all over the airwaves and pine over the loss of direction and morality in the conservative America of today.
Cats wired up as microphones, Jedi, gay-bombs. Please file under “You’ll never see it coming” or “ways to waste tax dollars”.
We’re an evolving species, with each generation being honed by the forces of natural selection to become more efficient… Until you meet people like this:
GREAT FALLS, Mont. – “Authorities say a man who had three outstanding warrants for his arrest gave officers a false name during a traffic stop — but ended up in custody anyway because that man was also wanted.
Court records say that during a traffic stop Monday in Great Falls, Jonothan Ray Gonsalez, of Box Elder, told police that his name was Timothy Michael Koop Jr.
The officer learned a man by that name was wanted in Hill County and arrested him.”
Giving an alias that also has a warrant attached to it is a new low of stupidity. I’m thinking we should let more people run with scissors at early age, as stories like this break my brain.
Let us not take lessons from the religiously addled with regards to running our justice system.
“An Iranian court has ruled that a man must lose his eye and part of an ear after he blinded and burnt an ear of another man in an acid attack . Judge Aziz Mohammadi gave the order against the man, who was only identified as Hamid, after convicting him of throwing acid on the victim, named as Davoud, hardline Kayhan newspaper reported on Wednesday.
The judge also ordered Hamid to pay blood-money for the burn injuries suffered by Davoud, who was 22 at the time of the attack, in a ruling issued under the Islamic Republic’s eye-for-an-eye justice code. Hamid told the court he had mistaken Davoud for a classmate who had bullied him in hfigh school, saying that even after moving, he remained tormented by the memory of the bullying.”
The Iranians will not be getting any bonus points for human rights any time soon if they continue with this sort of activity.
“The report, quoting other sources, including Iran’s Fars news agency, did not say whether the authorities would, in fact, carry out the punishment by using acid or via surgery.”
Wow. By surgery or by acid, so many wonderful options. How about imprisonment? How about monetary compensation? Or other options that do not involve maiming the individual in question.
The funny Topsy-turvy world of international relations began spinning anti-clockwise with this from Al-Jazeera:
“Iraq has agreed to pay compensation to US citizens who say they were tortured or traumatised by the regime of Saddam Hussein, the late Iraqi leader. The money would be given to Americans who were affected by the Iraqi invasion of neighbouring Kuwait in 1990, a senior Iraqi government official was cited as saying by the Associated Press news agency on Saturday.
“This agreement is related to the invasion of Kuwait during the former regime time. Saddam detained US citizens as human shields, and he did torture,” the official, who did not want to be named, said.
The official said that Baghdad had agreed to pay about $400m to the claimants.”
Apparently it is to grease the international wheels of justice and hopefully allow the sanctions against Iraq to be lifted.
“The agreement, signed by US and Iraqi officials, ends years of legal battles and could help Iraq emerge from United Nations sanctions put in place two decades ago. Baghdad would need the help of the Washington to remove the sanctions, and the settlement may remove what has been a stumbling block between the two sides.”
While the US is at it I think they should demand reparations from Nicaragua, Vietnam and the Philippines as they to all had the indecency not to bow immediately before imperial policy.
WTF?
Justice was soooo close. I could smell the tantilizing odour of righteousness coming from New York City. But alas, all is lost. All is lost. Weep with me. How low the CBC drawers me down:
NEW YORK, N.Y. – Wearing saggy trousers is not a crime, just foolish.
That’s how a New York City judge ruled in throwing out a summons issued to a man wearing low-slung trousers that exposed his underwear.
The New York Post reports that Judge Ruben Franco said that the summons appeared to be an attempt by one police officer to show his displeasure with the style.
The Bronx man, Julio Martinez, was issued the ticket on April 20.
The judge writes that many may find the low-slung trouser trend distasteful and foolish. But he says people can dress how they want as long as they do not offend public order and decency.
I have the joy of living with someone who likes wearing their jeans at their hips. Of all the amazingly stupid fashion trends there has been that irk me: sideways hats, leg-warmers, oversized sunglasses… this friends is my peeve. I have no idea why I would want to show my underwear to the rest of the public, it makes no sense.
What is worse that when you confront these people the best answer they can give is a blank look and a shrug of the shoulders and they look at me in their stunned bovine stupor as if I am the one asking a silly question.
Am I being unreasonable?
Leave it to the those wacky Japanese toy manufacturers to happily sashay over the expected norms of decency, common sense and appropriateness.
Check out the awesome Russian Roulette Gun Game: if you lose you only get kicked in the head with a hippo as opposed to having your brains splattered on the wall. Oh what fun!
Please excuse the ‘host’ as he seemingly has a internet business to run and shamelessly plugs himself throughout the entire video.
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