Forgot the title....

I don't really have a rant, since the world's medical professionals seem to have taken up my beef with the pope (Lancet), I feel it would be like beating a dead horse (which, while it may be fun, is really sort of futile...^_^).

About the funniest thing I saw today was some kind of world wide "dimout" (not sure if that is supposed to describe the action being taken, or those taking it), where everyone is supposed to sit in the dark for an hour and...I suppose...contemplate their eco-sins. These are the kinds of things that make me do the opposite just on general principles. I'm lucky I haven't heard when the National Smoke Out day has been for the last couple years...as it means I haven't had to go out and buy and smoke any cigarettes. Anyway..excuse me..have to run and turn on all the lights in my house. I can go back to living sanely when I'm sure this idiocy is over for another year....




Somehow I've missed whatever story this cartoon is commenting on. Too bad we don't have any renowned doctors of marine biology who know anything about pharmacokinetics data in fish to clue us in who read this blog...^_^.

Or do we?






Sometimes it's hard to tell who the enemy is...but then Limpballs opens his mouth..and before he manages to fill it with drugs, shit leaks out...

..even so..the Dems in congress should remind themselves whose coattails they rode in on..and keep in mind that to get re-elected..first they have to win their own primary....and being obstructionist for the first man with any ideas in decades is maybe not the best way to win said primary.




This study is a surprise to no one. It's always the people who complain the most about what others are doing who are doing it the most themselves....ie..see priests and pedo's..or right wing radio hosts and drugs.....






A quick couple on Republicans being Republican. Unable to even recognize the truth...let alone tell it...and so set in their ways that they would rather die than change.




...sad career choices are my forte...^_^ (imagine that funny mark above the e..I can't be bothered to hunt up the right ascii character..^_^)



Repugs aisle..."NAY"

Headline Game...

One of the reasons newspapers are folding (and there are many), is that no one..not even the tabloids..seem to know how to write headlines anymore. I can help...

Pope sentences thousands to death!!

"it's a moral thing" quips jaunty pontiff while vacationing in warmer climes.

Even France dumbfounded at immense idiocy..

Below From the BBC

Benedict XVI, who is on a tour of Africa, said handing out condoms only increased the problem of HIV/Aids.

The Roman Catholic Church says marital fidelity and sexual abstinence are the best way to prevent the spread of HIV.

But France, echoing the reaction of some aid agencies, said it "voices extremely sharp concern over the consequences of [the Pope's comments]".

"While it is not up to us to pass judgment on Church doctrine, we consider that such comments are a threat to public health policies and the duty to protect human life," foreign ministry spokesman Eric Chevallier said.

Rebecca Hodes, of the Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa said: "His opposition to condoms conveys that religious dogma is more important to him than the lives of Africans."

I wonder who it is up to to pass judgment on Church doctrine? The French say it's not them..any takers? Somebody should.

Warners tells children not to be seen or heard..

Below from EFF

First they came for the teenagers. Could toddlers be far behind? Nope. Thanks to the good folks at YouTomb, we’ve learned that Warner Music’s automated takedown net has now caught two videos of little kids being little kids.

Of course we can’t show you the videos since they’re, well, censored, but the YouTomb snapshots tell most of the story. One showed a 4 year old lip-syncing to the old Foreigner hit, “Juke Box Hero.” The other apparently showed a baby smacking its lips to the tune of “I Love My Lips”—a song originally sung by a cucumber in an episode of “Veggie Tales.” Both videos are obvious fair uses (these are transformative, noncommercial videos that are not substitutes for the original songs, and there is no plausible market for "licensing" parents before they video their own children singing) and perfectly legal—just like the video of a baby dancing to a Prince song that Universal Music Group took down in 2007.

These are just a few of the thousands of videos Warner has instructed YouTube to block in the past few months. According to statistics kept by YouTomb, there were twice as many videos removed from YouTube in January 2009 as in the entire previous year combined. The numbers are all more appalling because, thanks to Warner's reliance on YouTube’s automated, censorship-friendly Content I.D. tool, there is no reason to think that Warner even bothered to watch these videos to decide whether it actually objects them before blocking them.

We’ve said it before, and we’ll keep saying it until the folks at Warner come to their senses: it’s time to stop the censorship. The Content ID system should be set to flag possible infringing works and then Warner should have a human review those works before they are taken down.

And if Warner won’t reverse course altogether, it should at least promise that no one will be sued for simply disputing a Content I.D. removal. Warner loses nothing by this: even after a user files Content I.D. dispute, Warner still has the option of using a DMCA takedown notice to target videos to which it really objects. By publicly committing to using the DMCA process, Warner will reassure fair users that they can raise the red flag without fear of finding themselves in the middle of an expensive and unexpected lawsuit.

Why is it I assume that Warners will do nothing to change it's policies? Oh..that's right..they are one of those companies that thought suing it's biggest fans was a good idea...and are still wondering where the fans all went.

This is more the case than most would like to believe....




I've always thought that. Don't trust anyone over 27. (As true today as ever).



Quote? Of course not. That story will quickly turn when it's your turn.



I could make a number of comments..but the details in the drawing seem to make most of them...



We all have seen the answer to this question.

American Idol Prediction

Hi Everybody!

There are thirteen contestants now in the running to win American Idol. i predict that the final winner in about twelve weeks will be Adam Lambert. i think he sings very good. Time will tell if i'm a good judge!

Love from,

tara

Vatican weighs in on Brazil rape case

From the BBC

A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication in Brazil of the mother and doctors of a young girl who had an abortion with their help.

The nine-year-old had conceived twins after alleged abuse by her stepfather.

Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re told Italian paper La Stampa that the twins "had the right to live" and attacks on Brazil's Catholic Church were unfair.

Yes..attacks on Brazil's Catholic church are unfair. Why should the morons at the top get away without any attacks?

Let's imagine some more accurate headlines and stories....

VATICAN UPSET WITH SUSPENSION OF DEATH SENTENCE FOR 9 YEAR OLD HUSSY.

The Vatican today came out in favor of the excommunication of those who saved the life of a 9 year old rape victim by allowing the abortion of the twin fetus's she was carrying "How dare the mother of the girl and those doctors interfere with Our Lord's death sentence on this sinner and harlot" said someone or other who claims moral authority over everyone in the world just because he gets to wear funny clothes.

In a related story, the stepfather who committed the rapes over a period of 3 years or more has confessed, and will be welcomed into heaven with open arms. The Vatican is considering bringing him further into the church by making him an archbishop because of his showing of moral character, and also to help offset the cruel loss of his sperm fertilized eggs....

Below...more dubious moral characters..


It's somehow comforting to see that the new faces of the repugs have the same high intellectual rigor of the previous lot...







...speaking of high intellectual rigor




Finally..advice feature I can believe in. Beats the hell out of fake Dr. Whatever on the networks...

Brazilian abortion..

A Brazilian archbishop says all those who helped a child rape victim secure an abortion are to be excommunicated from the Catholic Church.

The girl, aged nine, who lives in the north-eastern state of Pernambuco, became pregnant with twins.

It is alleged that she had been sexually assaulted over a number of years by her stepfather.

The excommunication applies to the child's mother and the doctors involved in the procedure.


Good for them. Each one of them is a million times more moral than any member of the catholic church hierarchy. Now maybe they can live real lives of sane, moral behavior without worrying about the edicts of a bunch of insane old men.

Why anyone continues to pay any attention at all to these sick old perverts is one of the puzzling questions of the modern world.




Speaking of religion and old perverts....




Like the Catholic priests...better a dead raped 9 year old who is way to small to birth twins than a living girl who might pop them out every few months like the church likes them later....notice any other similarities between the elite of the repugs and the elite of any other faith based organizations? Like..the one below?



Noticing a theme today?





Besides..the church won't let you remove it anyway....(not that there is any sign of life...even after years of gestation...^_^)

Long time coming...

Yeah...so I got lazy. What's new?

Traditionally, the seven deadly sins were considered: pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed and sloth.

The Apostolic Penitentiary, one of the Vatican's most secretive departments, which fixes the punishments and indulgences handed down to sinners, last year updated its list of deadly sins to include more modern ones.

The revised list included seven modern sins it said were becoming prevalent during an era of "unstoppable globalisation".

These included: genetic modification, experiments on the person, environmental pollution, taking or selling illegal drugs, social injustice, causing poverty and financial greed.

And God sayeth unto Moses...genetic modification is RIGHT OUT!!!

The best one though is "taking or selling illegal drugs". God now decides what's a sin by what the laws are in the country in which you reside. Belgium..go to hell, Netherlands..you might be OK....^_^.

As usual, the cartoons could probably be grouped better...but the edit window size conspires against my moving them around with any ease....so they are as they load.....^_^




.and if I suggest that all this violence would go away tomorrow if it could be bought at the local drugstore..with appropriate warnings and taxes....I'm the one that's called insane. Go figure.



If only....



I'm just typing in here so no one mistakes the cute Tiny Sepuku cartoon as belonging with those following....^_^








And here I thought that once the repugs were out of office, taking their insane, universally discredited programs with them, I wouldn't have as much to point at and laugh. Silly me. The side show lives on...if only on the dead end siding of talk radio.