- Even for militant revolutionaries, this is low. Suspected Hindu hardliners in India have gone where even raging revolutionaries shouldn’t venture: burning down a Christian orphanage in eastern India, killing a 21-year-old teacher, seriously injuring a priest and leaving dozens of children without a home. This reprehensible attack occurred in Khuntapali, a village located in the Orissa state, as part of a strike called for by the World Hindu Council to protest the killing of a Hindu religious leader and four rebels by suspected communist rebels in another district of the same state. That’s all well and good, wanting to strike back for your fallen comrades and all, but a freaking Christian orphanage where dozens of children live? What, did those kids of that teacher pull the trigger and shoot your friends? Perspective, Hindu extremists, perspective. I realize that’s a foreign word for knobs like you, but perspective means having a clear view of a situation and not murdering people who had nothing to do with your friends’ death. I don’t see myself coming to India and shooting you because someone hurt one of my friends here in the U.S., so get your head right and stop this garbage….
- With a new school year starting at Wilson (N.Y.) High School, it appears that the three sick freaks who were the perpetrators in an ugly hazing incident during last baseball season will be getting a second chance they really don’t deserve. The three offenders - 18-year-old Geoffrey Seefeldt and two 16-year-olds - will not face felony charges after beating several of their younger teammates during a bus ride back from a game in Niagara Falls and forcing objects into their rectums. Initially, the three offenders were charged with third-degree aggravated sexual abuse, a felony, and misdemeanor child endangerment, but it was revealed this week that they will not be facing felony charges. As I said, it’s an undeserved break for three guys who perpetrated a vile, reprehensible sexual assault on their teammates that took place while the boys still had their uniform pants on. So I can’t really get with Niagara County district attorney Michael Violante, who said in a statement Friday that charges against would be reduced to “an appropriate misdemeanor charge and add misdemeanor and violation charges of hazing.” How anyone can do something like this to guys who are supposed to be your friends and teammates on the varsity baseball team is beyond me. Why and how anyone on any team, anywhere at any time thinks this kind of hazing is fresh, funny or appropriate is confounding. If you want to make the underclassmen carry your gear bag, tape them to the goalpost or ambush them with water balloons, fine. Heck, take the tires off their car and put it up on blocks, that’s fine. Pretty much anything is okay, just as long as it doesn’t involve sexual assault, causing physical harm or anything illegal. Nothing like scarring these guys for life just to amuse yourself for a few minutes, though. Good decision making there…….
- I hear you and I am with you 217 percent, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. When you demand that all foreign troops leave Iraq by a specific date in 2011 and reject immunity for American troops, I hear ya. W. and the rest of our ass-hatted political leaders here in the Unted States have jerked you (and their own people, for that matter) around for too long. There has been a discernable lack of vision, honesty, evidence, justification, direction and pretty much any other positive quality from our political leaders in this abortion of a war, so it will take someone in the Iraqi government to have the balls to stand up and make a demand like this in order to get American troops out of Iraq. What’s funny is that anyone on the American side of this debate is resisting the Iraqis on this matter. It’s their f’ing country, after all. They didn’t ask us to invade, so when they tell us that they want us out, who are we to argue with them? This isn't America’s 51st state or a U.S. territory; it’s a foreign country, one with its own government. So when its prime minister demands a firm U.S. exit date, I say amen! Someone should have said this a long time ago and even one ounce of opposition from the U.S. government to this demand only serves to underscore what a bunch of tools we’ve had running this country for the past eight years……
- Tough time for David Duchovny, eh? If you believe the claims the actor is making, his life has taken on an eerie parallel to that of his character on HBO’s Californication. On the show, Duchovny plays Hank Moody, whose big problem is that his obsession with sexing it up keeps him from having real relationships. Now, the actor is claiming that he suffers from the same problem and that he needs treatment. Oddly enough, there is a group that deals with the addiction - Sex Addicts Anonymous. The organization’s definition of being a sex addict is a person engaging in any kind of sexual behavior that they don't want to be involved in, something they’re trying to stop.” The group even follows a 12-step process similar to by Alcoholics Anonymous. Some are speculating that Duchovny isn't really a sex addict, but rather engaging in another obsession for actors: shameless self-promotion. Personally, I’m leaning toward the latter, if for no other reason than this story is so ridiculous and it’s so implausible that a celebrity would go public with this rather than just treating it. But if you really are afflicted, Dave, best of success in kicking your addiction to hitting it…..
- A big, big thumbs down to the testicular-fortitude-lacking, spineless Rev. Antonio Rungi for bowing to pressure and pulling the plug on his idea for an online beauty pageant for nuns. The “Miss Sister Pageant” was scheduled to begin next month on a site hosting Rungi’s blog, but protests from members of the Catholic church and its leadership have frightened him out of following through on his great idea. The reverend also went with the popular “misunderstood” card in defending his idea, which is requisite for anyone who is publicly criticized for saying or doing anything. Just say you were misquoted and/or misunderstood, that’ll do it. The problem here is that Rev. Rungi wasn’t in the wrong; he simply wanted to give more visibility to the nuns in the Catholic church and to break down stereotypes about nuns being old, stodgy and boring. It’s too bad that the sticks in the mud out there couldn’t embrace this idea and have some fun with it, which was the underlying intent anyhow…..
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