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Raising hell in Arizona.

Haltse — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:28:00 +0000

While I’m not a fan of a particular side be they tea partier, coffee clubber or orchata orgiest I am a fan of removing emotional bullshit from arguments relating to Arizona’s new immigration law that makes it illegal to er be illegal.

There seems to be a problem requiring people to adhere to the very thing that we immigrants have knowingly signed up for. Not a fan of it but it’s the price of admission I pay to play here. It’s a nice conceit to think that you can wander around sans state or federal ID but seemingly the very thing I’ve had to live with doing for nearly a decade now, carry my card and have it available for inspection, is problematic because the police will somehow act like jerks in a way that’s different from their usual M.O:) The funny part is that people are crying to the Fed Gov to protect them from the near word for word rendition a federal law that which they find outlandish, racist and fascist to jackboot when AZ restated it.

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“Permanent Resident Card
The Permanent Resident Card, Form I-551, is issued to all Permanent Residents as evidence of alien registration and their permanent status in the US. The card must be in your possession at all times. This requirement means that you are not only required to have a currently valid Form I-551 at all times, but also that you must carry your currently valid Form I-551 on your person at all times.”

The part of the law that is egregious I will get into later .

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MSM takes another swipe at new media. Those swines!

Haltse — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 15:24:17 +0000

Seemingly the people that missed the lack of WMD’s, the mortgage, credit and soon to be commercial real estate crisis need you to think that they are still the gatekeepers of the truth. The real story may be that gaining your health information from 140 characters rather than one media corporation can be just as inaccurate. Put it this way they let anti-vaxxers onto CNN prime time as well as any fad diet a bo toxed twig that acted is hawking this week.

Swine flu creates controversy on Twitter – CNN.com

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April and Changing minds.

Haltse — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 06:27:00 +0000

It’s been rather quiet around here lately. I admit that my formal ahderence to grammar has been quixotic, at best, my attempts to rectifying this situation results in posts that sound like material I want to read. Maybe that’s why so many people vlog?

The differences between UK and US grammar are apparently slight enough to not catch the same break that people learning English as a second language are allowed.I’m realistic enough to know that it will have a nominal effect on the reason that I began which neatly segues into my next point.

Is anyone still naive enough to believe that the powers that be just need a well crafted note pointing out were they are deficient and how they are hurting people will change their way? Hardly. In short they are not your audience.

Unfortunately that leaves the public.

Oh wait Is anyone still naive enough to believe that the public just need a well crafted sitcom showing were they are deficient and how they are hurting people by refusing to take ownership of their lives? Hardly.

In short they are not your audience.

Much easier to remain quiet.

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More crap on the unimportant crap. The e-how rather than the why of Indian terrorist attack

Haltse — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 03:43:00 +0000

I know the name , least what’s widely believed to be, of the first "murderer" that was outrun by radio Dr Crippen. People like to tie the new with the very very old but usually it’s in the other direction E.g look at how these infernal machines are aiding those with malice in their mainframe to carry out.
Would driving a car get the same attention? How about using a camera? Is it more newsworthy if it’s silver halide or CCD that captures the image?   Radio type   or something else?    Oo let’s scare people with VOIP not only does it not let 911 know where you are (rtfm) it’s now enabling decades old dispute in a new manner that’s just so so so hard to have envisioned prior to its adoption.
VOIP is not the challenge it’s made out to be here. Impossible? Impossible to intercept    surely some mistake unless there’s a whole load of forgetting about India’s tussle with Rim. India wanted to monitor the Blackberry network and got that concession.
I’m also rather less impressed with stories on how highly trained they are. I must be missing something here since shooting a passive crowd    and lobbing grenades at the same time in different locations doesn’t seem to be on my list of hard to conceive plots.

"Definitely they were trained,” said a masked officer of the force.

”Not everybody can fire AK-series weapons.

”Using such weapons and explosives, it is obvious they were trained somewhere.

Do you have a spare 10 minutes? Ak’s are famous for their robustness when used by irregulars, nades, baseball! as for the explosives I have no idea but they always kept me away from that safe Oddly enough the reporting in realtime that provided this alleged edge is not considered to be an inappropriate use of technology.. weird that.
Mumbai terrorists’ most powerful weapon: VoIP phones | Computerworld Blogs

The Times reports that the handlers were communicting with the attackers using VoIP phones that made it difficult, if not impossible, for the Indian authorities to intercept the calls, or even know they were taking place.
Here’s how the Times explains it:…

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Guns don’t kill people seemingly videos do . Google tries once again to do no evil while engaging in it.

Haltse — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:24:12 +0000

From the newthink dept over at Google a decision that causes me to laugh , hard. A selective ban on video of weapons that are deemed to be of an intimidating nature. That should read personal weapons since I don’t forsee those that glorify the state’s ability to render large areas hostile will be included within this ban. You Tube is becoming just the kind of "damage" that the Internet is great for routing around and not a concern on its own. Does Google ,which owns You Tube , seriously think they can take into account existing social mores for each culture and apply that sanely? So for most of the world no piss taking of the prophet, no info on biological processes and a myriad of changes keeping up with tin pot edicts of the moment. This is not organizing the world’s info it’s recreating it in your own image.

news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7621013.stm

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CNN needs to get it’s head out of it’s ass humans being stupid is not news. re Large Hadron Collider

Haltse — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:52:11 +0000

This line from an article, front page, main story , about the Large Hadron Collider annoys me. Firstly Mainly as it has to justify why research is useful to us which is kinda scary. We’re reading this new SOLELY as a result of our research and understanding about how most of the ‘verse holds together in a tolerably predictable manner. Can they please maybe deal with us all becoming Fannie Mae stock holders? K thx bai.

CNN.com – Breaking News, U.S., World, Weather, Entertainment & Video News

Skeptics fear it will lead to the Earth’s demise

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Hungary Hungary hippos. The freedom of discussion

Haltse — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:05:35 +0000

This Saturday I attended one of my meetup groups. Actually it’s about the last meetup group I make an effort to attend since it’s really great to hang around with non theists and libertarian types. I don’t play well with other atheists , specially those that align themselves as humanists. Oh hell surely I can’t be against humanists? Well ok, maybe I should have said most of them.

Here’s my objection.

Republican god is mean , insane and listening to his words proves that they are not fit to lead.

Democratic god is nicer, rational and while not the best situation it’s possible to support someone for president that talks with invisible men. This is an inconsistent view for people that claim a reality based view to hold. Oh well I’ll return to that in part 2.

While Hungary was never as hard line as some of the other countries in the Soviet bloc, even trying to get out from under them in the mid 50’s, the conditions were still atrocious in relation to the USA at the time. What follows not an exhaustive list, it’s anecdotal from a guy, Tames Birilov, that was born there and was there, –really- there with a chunk of the wall to prove it at the time it fell down.

All houses the same size, all guest homes if you had to have one similarly small and regulated you had to have a job. If you sucked at job so what.
Curfew 8pm without running the risk of having to justify yourself to the satisfaction of the police
Yep they had secret police, and apparently NO violent crime of any significance ( the state monopoly on violence is something US politicians ) Corruption was another matter altogether
education free, one week vacation to a Soviet country free, transport cheap , personal transport awful ( trabant anyone? ) clothes, food, etc were all cheap the problem was in finding them to buy anyway. Cars could only be bought every five years.
They kept tabs on what you made, e.g if you saved, or dealt or did anything to increase your material wealth to the point the neighbors would notice they’d inquire about it.
Of course politicians had nicer shit. Go figure. Some animals are always more equal.

There’s much more but you get the idea that a pretty serious communist paradise was in effect here. Now for the surprising parts

Crimes against the person minimal.
people had less stress
better personal relationships
people possessed more common sense when applied to materials.
many would like to return to that as a way of life.

That last point is the kicker that I am going to address in the next post since it really ties into the biggest objection to libertarianism that people have. How do you transition a society were explicit promises have been into something else?

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The Question I shouldn’t have been trying to ask Penn. ( e.g any;) )

Haltse — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:13:33 +0000

Ah the question.

The James Randi educational foundation are in their own words

The James Randi Educational Foundation is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1996. Its aim is to promote critical thinking by reaching out to the public and media with reliable information about paranormal and supernatural ideas so widespread in our society today.

I’ve been to a TAM , the conference tied to JREF and loved it. I was really shocked by just how many religious skeptics there were though , really amazed. Toss that in with the statists that believe that thinking and research are a government sport and I was a little unsettled that the critical thought movement would align on the democracy YAY! side of things I mean these people are smart Gell Mann smart. Just have to face it classically liberal ( aka libertarian) ideals just don’t fly in this land of the lobbyist. ( I don’t blame them they would not exist if the politicians weren’t corruptible)

Here’s the question as I thought I was going to ask it to Penn after seeing the show in Vegas.

I think Joe Rogan pwned Phil Plait on Penn’s show on more than one occasion how does that bode for his new position as the president of the JREF and how about a rematch moderated by Penn

Here’s what came out:

Not that question. In other words I failed to reach a credible level of intelligibility ( well they had just let off some pythons:) ) in three sentences which is party the awe reflex. ( Doug Adams, P and T and a few others do this. Weird that Adam and Jamie from Mythbusters don’t , nor politicians yet Kari from the aforementioned show does.

So in retrospect it’s really hard to think of any appropriate way to ask this in a meet and greet situation. I shouldn’t have tried. I really do want Plait to do well but was pretty shaken by how Rogan took him down to his level on two occasions and would really like to know what a leading light, and long time supporter of the same organization thought given his ringside seat to the two “debate that occurred on Penn’s radio show whether the moon landings were real. Without foreknowledge to know that I wouldn’t twist his words into something embarrassing and in the end I have to agree that Penn’s words re he’ll do a great job are the likely route his presidency will take and about the only obvious answer I would ever get. Same kind of question I’d ask any libertarian , claimed, about their thoughts on Bob Barr but who am I kidding that’s a few minutes in not a 30 second in a line question. So as annoyed as I am at my asinine question I’m glad I at least learned something from it.

Let there be no doubt. I have a very very high confidence that we went to the moon, Rogan is as heroically wrong here as he is funny ( yep I like his comedy to the point that I pay to hear it)

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Penn and Teller. by looking for what you are missing , you may find that your missing even more.

Haltse — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:19:34 +0000

Erin with Teller. ( I love his voice, his writing’s rather good too)

I’ve been a fan of Penn and Teller since being exposed to them in the mid 80′s and one of the life goals, as far as I have plans, was to see them perform live. That’s another collective 40 years experience up on stage and if they were great in the 80′s they are now fucking amazing. During the intervening time I didn’t turn out to be an atheist as I always was one, as are all newborns it’s only the prevailing culture that tells a three year old that he’s a Christian child and sadly he’s doomed to burn in hell unless he thanks the zombie jew for his gift of ever lasting life, feeling sick yet?

There’s enough material on who Penn and Teller what they believe in and their reputation as the bad boys of magic when most of the mainstream ,magically speaking, were just bad. Note I said mainstream since there are amazing entertainers such as Jamy Ian Swiss, Jerry Sadowitz and Tom Mullica ( Well he makes me laugh)

I kinda have to mention the Pendragons as the other act I’d love to see live and not just because she’s hot. She’s hot and they’re talented.

That’s not telling you much about P an T though but I wanted to let you know I am predisposed to magic as an art form and non belief as a science.

The show is 80 minutes long and costs about $1 a minute , that may sound high but think about how long it takes to swallow a $5 beer, not that high now is it?

What you get is not just entertainment but some amazingly open lessons on just how fallible we are when we’re paying attention to that which others wish us to look at. Their usage of a video camera in one piece had an audience member focusing on the close up magic for the big screen while they are missing the large changes going on around them all while they pull a meta magical moment by pulling the same trick on the audience. That’s a big lesson people think they can spot the obvious but study after study has shown that a preoccupied brain misses the elephant, or bear, in the room. It’s hilarious until you take it out side of the theater and realize that it’s our default view. Just try to see the person in front of you when looking through a 2000 year old lens.

Secondly, and still on the topic of invisible friends, the attack on psychics ( as Penn says fake psychic is a redundant term) in a manner that’s far more humane than I have been able to come up with. E.g. the believer isn’t stupid, just that they made a mistake in choosing to believe an evil human. I don’t think that works, works for people with the belief but isn’t that a regressive statement to the point were the person starting the religion is the only evil one out there:)

They still have some pg13 moments, include art ( Fire eating is , well not a trick it’s exactly as described) and the bullet trick , the way they do it, continues to amaze.

I love seeing the transparent cup and balls and Teller’s pet red ball which I am failing to recall the name of, regardless, it’s a thing of beauty. Toss in the flag burning , or is it, the live music and their willingness to sign and meet with the audience afterward this was for once, a nice birthday outing. That they expose themselves to idiots like me that try not to go cotton mouth / blurt or ask silly questions plus sign my metal bill of rights is too classy for word. Actually my question is a good one but likely not a fair one to ask and will be the subject of another post.

Bought Penn’s book, Sock, so look out for a review on that.

Sock
by Penn Jillette

Exhibit John 3:16 on why democracy needs its life support pulled prior to letting this lot decide what’s real.

Haltse — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:22:00 +0000

More insanity from the reality challenged community. Not only are they claiming that their brayers* lowered gas prices but that you can get over the more advanced cases of death by engine casing embedded in your head by following the right invisible man. Be sure to pick carefully as it’s really hard to tell the invisible and non existent apart. Not an original thought but please if you hate modern life so much stop using the medical , physical and all other technology that doesn’t fit in with your two thousand year old training manual. Your children are not harmed by our children living differently from you I wish I could say the inverse was the case. Yep you teach your toddlers to claim their parents are going to be hurt forever because they are bad.. And we’re the evil ones? More on that soon.

Survey: Many believe in divine intervention – CNN.com

Survey: Many believe in divine intervention

* 57 percent in survey said God could save a patient even if doctors said it was futile

* Researchers: Docs should be prepared to deal with families who expect a miracle

*not a typo.

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It’s so hard to pick a side when both should lose.

Haltse — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:49:15 +0000

Seemingly poor manners in public are worth millions. This sad story has the arguably most doable preacher’s wife ( Look I tried to put it delicately but the competition isn’t that great) of a Texas mega church accused of impoliteness to a flying waitress*. She was fined $3k back in 2006 so we can assume something valid happened but to the point where someone launches multi million dollar claim? For loss of faith? Love to see how you attach a monetary value to that because I’d like to know. I’d like to write the check for that part. $0.00

Witness: Mega-preacher’s wife threw tantrum – CNN.com

Her psychiatrist, Shayna Lee, testified that Brown has suffered depression and post-traumatic stress disorder because of the incident. She also felt disrespected in her role as a leader and as a black woman and had her faith affected, Lee said.

Position of leadership? Black woman? How the hell is she diminished , especially the latter, to the point were a real financial loss occurred? This is just two grown women acting like brats. The christian thing to do would be to smite each others family and just leave it at that:)

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Taking your four year old to a purity ball? Why bother you’re more fucked up then Freud at this stage

Haltse — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:56:35 +0000

Daddy you can let go now…..

At a recent Father-Daughter Purity Ball, the girls ranged from college
age to a tiny 4-year-old dressed in purple who climbed into her
father’s arms to be carried

I wonder if they take a toddler to AA too? These people , these people that define innocence yet take their fucking 4 year old ( is there irony in there folks? ) to events like this. I am nowhere near taking Dobh, or myself , to a fetish ball in the near future but maybe I need to take a play from my ‘moral superiors’.

I can only hope that they are trying to create a super sexually fucked up batch of women to compete with the Catholic education / Baptist pastor’s daughter that have been highly reviewed by some of my friends.

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My invisible friend can beat up your invisible friend

Haltse — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:01:00 +0000

I love it when the followers of love and peace get into a fight.Looks like the old case of “it doesn’t matter what’s written as long as I get to interpret it for you” Same goes for constitutions as it does from fairy tails..

Evangelist accuses Obama of ‘distorting’ Bible – CNN.com

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Expelled the movie. The funniest hypocrites on the block.

Haltse — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 05:59:48 +0000

I’m not going to spoil this one. Suffice to say that reality beats fiction any day. Sadly Adams is no longer around to make this stuff up but the residents of the B ark are quite happy to fill in.

You never know in some far out universe , on some very lucky day you may win against the forces of idiocy.

Pharyngula: EXPELLED!

I’m still laughing though. You don’t know how hilarious this is. Not only is it the extreme hypocrisy of being expelled from their Expelled movie, but there’s another layer of amusement. Deep, belly laugh funny. Yeah, I’d be rolling around on the floor right now, if I weren’t so dang dignified.

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It’s nearly 2008. For the Catholic church that means 8 minute past 8 in the 15C

Haltse — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:47:55 +0000

His poopiness the hole has decided to take on the forces of darkness and evil. Excellent! Not only will he be doing good and valuable work but he’s doing so in an environmentally sound manner.

After all he won’t have to travel too far to get started.

A phrase comes to mind about a fox guarding the chickens but I’m sure that’s unfair and suggests that people that have been proven in court to expose children to known abuse and that allowed those accused sanctuary would not be the best people to root out evil. And why? because G_d tells them to. I am glad that I don’t need a book to tell me that abusing children is wrong but for those that need help I suppose a large hat, a dress and a ratlike countenance ( ad Popium attack) is just the kind of motivation needed.

Pope’s exorcist squads will wage war on Satan | the Daily Mail

Vatican chiefs are concerned at what they see as an increased interest in the occult.

They have introduced courses for priests to combat what they call the most extreme form of “Godlessness.”

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Believer bitter over ‘prosperity’ preachings – The book of "nut" Job :)

Haltse — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:38:44 +0000

I really don’t get this level of mental illness being seen as normal. Let’s get this straight. You have ever lasting life, you never die yet that’s not enough? Jesus -, no really. The only thing funnier is the State that runs the lottery is investigating those preying on the less fortunate’s desperation.

Only the blessings didn’t come. Fleenor ended up borrowing money from friends and payday loan companies just to buy groceries. At first she believed the explanation given on television: Her faith wasn’t strong enough.
“I wanted to believe God wanted to do something great with me like he was doing with them,” she said. “I’m angry and bitter about it.

Believer bitter over ‘prosperity’ preachings – CNN.com

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Public health by wishful thinking . You may as well pray if you think that viruses give a flying fuck about what you believe is safe.

Haltse — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 20:21:46 +0000

This is an interesting problem. It’s not interesting to me so much for the race issue, of which I can’t possibly comment, but the creed? Hey let’s take another swipe at it. If you have 14% of the population coming up with 50% of the cases YET that group claim to follow a code prohibiting this kind of behavior you have to wonder if religion is the biggest STD of them all, after all you can pass it on to your kids.

Here’s the fun part.

Epistemological. There are alternate “ways of knowing” less familiar to Western-educated thinkers that must be embraced for full perception of the “human condition in its most troubled state”—of which STD disparities are just one symptom. Appro-priate responses to the problem depend upon this deep under-standing of the experiential reality of the people involved.

MM seemingly believing things contrary to reality ..er gets you in the ass.

Taken from CDC Consultation to Address STD Disparities in African American Communities

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Oh Noes, I haz ‘nother gawd to dizbeleaf The LOLCat bible .. What hath ceiling cat wrought?

Haltse — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:54:54 +0000

This made my night. It’s the best thing to happen to the Bible since the General Synod’s Life of Christ.

John 3:16

So liek teh Ceiling Cat lieks teh ppl lots and he sez ‘Oh hai I givez u
my only son and ifs u beleevs in him u wont evr diez no moar, k?’

Main Page – LOLCat Bible Translation Project

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Religion and heat don’t go together too well- hey Hitch what ruins everything?

Haltse — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:36:49 +0000

Can we just get it over with? Hearing voices in your head and acting on them without your book would be psychotic, that’s a pretty slim volume for us to hang the rest of reality on. I’m really curious as to why the mother’s not been charged it has to be one hell of a story… Nuts is nuts but the longer we give these defects a framework were they think their delusions are normal the worse it’ll be for all in the end.

Man dies after exorcism attempt on 3-year-old

Police reportedly found Ronald Marquez, 48, of Phoenix, shirtless and choking his granddaughter early Saturday as her 19-year-old mother, naked and bloody, looked on. The bloodied girl was gasping and screaming as her mother chanted and held a religious picture of some kind, police said.

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The religion of peace meets protection by the state.. One can only guess at the results

haltse — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 15:53:11 +0000

Seemingly the special units are needed because the average day to day policeman in the UK has no interest in upholding their oath, boy do I know that feeling:) These fucks need to either get out of the 15thC or come up with their own version of the Springer show to resolve these matters.

Special units to crack down on honour killing | Society | SocietyGuardian.co.uk

The changes come after Banaz Mahmod, a 20-year-old Kurd, was murdered by her father and uncle because they disapproved of her boyfriend who was not a strict Muslim and was not of their tribe.

She was found dumped in a suitcase, with the shoelace used to kill her around her neck. She had repeatedly told police her family were trying to kill her. In one instance where she had escaped from her father, she was not taken seriously, and described as melodramatic and manipulative by an officer who interviewed her.

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Paris and the bible the perfect match of spokesperson and product?

haltse — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 05:21:44 +0000

Seemingly the holier than though crowd are starved for role models that ANY hope of creating another zombie to join their network of dead flesh eaters ( note they didn’t go for the brains) I’m shocked it’s not a yellow guide to the bible but then again as anything other than fiction it’s redundant to use the term idiot.

Wiretapped: Paris’s Not Sure Why So Many Tell Her the Bible is a “Good Book” – This Just In

Since being sentenced to prison, Paris has gained religion. No, she isn’t converting to Islam. She’s showing off her newly purchased self-help books, including the Bible

Naturally I had to comment.

Firstly what’s with the caps it seems that the more “devout” the more you shout. If your god a little hard of hearing, gaging by effectiveness of brayers (not a typo) , please don’t assume we don’t have the same affliction.

That any excuse to push your beliefs has sank so low to even find it worth passing judgment on the “poor little” rich girl suggests that either you don’t read the book that your criticizing her for bandying about as some kind of magical talisman.

Or

You are right to wonder why any adult would buy that line of BS that’s not been indoctrinated since childhood as it stretches credulity that even someone with the intellectual weight of, well herself, would have problems with a fairy tale.

Either way you’ve managed to drag the fine pastime of discussing the lives of people you don’t know into disrepute by invoking such a tawdry,ego driven and shallow being such as the fiction god into a story about Paris.

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With god all babies are toastable? Texas mother blames devilled baby on infernal forces.

haltse — Sun, 20 May 2007 23:17:21 +0000

I hate this story, I was even pissed off at Erin for telling me about it but it won’t go away. Oh the headlines? Well I like people to get upset and angry as I am yet oddly enough it’s not at the people involved , Moi ces’t lightning rod ( we know how much god hated those things too.

Woman: Blame devil for infant in microwave – CNN.com

A woman blames the devil, and not her husband, for severely burning their infant daughter in a microwave, a Texas television station reported.

Eva Marie Mauldin said Satan compelled her 19-year-old husband, Joshua Royce Mauldin, to microwave their daughter May 10 because the devil disapproved of Joshua’s efforts to become a preacher.

And the mother wants the kid back. I just hope the devil’s next set of instructions to the “innocent” preacher wannabe are welding her birth canal closed.

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Hitchens and Dobbs : one of them is talking sense:D

haltse — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:50:57 +0000

You Tube. Not at all reserved for football to the nuts or clips from Family Guy.

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