...Or, at least, mine is...
Iowa Congressman Steve King (R) used a town hall meeting yesterday to compare immigrants to dogs, saying that the United States should be selective when admitting them by choosing the “pick of the litter.” Video of the comments, uploaded by progressive consulting firm American Bridge, was first published in Salon.
…Really, we should use that reasoning for our politicians instead, because at this point shit like this just isn’t even worth the time, this is the sort of stuff that arguably SHOULD be a career-ender but yet it doesn’t seem to really ever be… Some day we’re going to weed out at least some of the idiocy, racism, homophobia, etc. etc. etc. from the government… Some day…
But at least one group says the tours “turn poverty into entertainment.”
Stop.
JFC. Wow, I wonder who’re the people making money off this humans on display stroll. I’m totally certain it’s going to help people living in poverty so they can have better lives.
They had bus tours of some of the villas in Buenos Aires when we were there. Rich Americans looking through bus windows at poor people. Ugh.
Fetishizing poor people for fun and profit. Despicable. The whole “voluntourism” thing is problematic, but to say “we turn crippling third-world poverty into FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY!” is taking it to a new level of awful.
-Jess
That’s just sick…
![stfuconservatives:
(trigger warning for rape, incest, molestation)
networkofwormholes:
[Source]
Declaring that “life must always be protected”, a senior Vatican cleric has defended the Catholic Church’s decision to excommunicate the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old rape victim who had a life-saving abortion in Brazil.
Cardinal Giovanni Batista Re, who heads the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, told reporters that although the girl fell pregnant after apparently being abused by her stepfather, her twins had, “the right to live, and could not be eliminated”.
In an interview with the Italian newspaper, La Stampa, the cardinal added: “It is a sad case but the real problem is that the twins conceived were two innocent persons. Life must always be protected.”
Police believe the girl was sexually assaulted for years by her stepfather, possibly since she was six. That she was four months pregnant with twins emerged only after she was taken to hospital complaining of severe stomach pains.
The controversy represents a PR nightmare for the Vatican. The unnamed girl’s mother and doctors were excommunicated for agreeing to Wednesday’s emergency abortion yet the Church has not taken formal steps against the stepfather, who is in custody. Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, the conservative regional archbishop for Pernambuco where the girl was rushed to hospital, has said that the man would not be thrown out of the Church, because although he had allegedly committed “a heinous crime”, the Church took the view that “the abortion, the elimination of an innocent life, was more serious”.
The case has set off fierce debate in Brazil, where abortion is permitted only in cases of rape or a medical emergency. Brazil is one of the most populous Catholic countries, but conservative attitudes in rural areas are strongly at odds with the relatively progressive public view of abortion in major cities.
Even the President, Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, has waded into the row. “As a Christian and a Catholic, I deeply regret that a bishop of the Catholic Church has such a conservative attitude,” he said “The doctors did what had to be done: save the life of a girl of nine years old. In this case, the medical profession was more right than the Church.”
One of the doctors involved in the abortion, Rivaldo Albuquerque, has raised the prospect of public clashes at his local church, telling Globo, the nation’s main TV network, that he would keep going to mass there, regardless of the archbishop’s order. The young girl at the centre of the case escaped excommunication only because she is still a child in the eyes of Church authorities. The stepfather, who is 23, was arrested last week, apparently trying to escape to another region of the country. Police say he is also suspected of abusing the girl’s handicapped 14-year-old sister. He is in protective custody, and if convicted faces up to 15 years in prison.
[source]
Surprised they didn’t force the young girl to marry her rapist, but I suppose that’s only because he was already married to her mother.
The Vatican and everyone in it needs to burn.
I’ve blogged about this story before, but yeah. A stepfather molested his young stepdaughter, and she became pregnant with twins. At age 9. N-I-N-E. That’s basically the definition of “babies having babies.” Her mother found doctors willing to terminate the pregnancy, and they were all excommunicated. But not the stepfather. Because sexually abusing living, actual children is totally cool - the Catholic Church has proved that on multiple occasions - but preventing a nine-year-old from giving birth to her stepfather’s children conceived in rape is worthy of excommunication.
Awful.
-Jess
Excuse me while I go begin to search for a new world to move to, I don’t want to live on this one any more…](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4ft58huYa1qd7hayo1_1280.jpg)
(trigger warning for rape, incest, molestation)
[Source]
Declaring that “life must always be protected”, a senior Vatican cleric has defended the Catholic Church’s decision to excommunicate the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old rape victim who had a life-saving abortion in Brazil.
Cardinal Giovanni Batista Re, who heads the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, told reporters that although the girl fell pregnant after apparently being abused by her stepfather, her twins had, “the right to live, and could not be eliminated”.
In an interview with the Italian newspaper, La Stampa, the cardinal added: “It is a sad case but the real problem is that the twins conceived were two innocent persons. Life must always be protected.”
Police believe the girl was sexually assaulted for years by her stepfather, possibly since she was six. That she was four months pregnant with twins emerged only after she was taken to hospital complaining of severe stomach pains.
The controversy represents a PR nightmare for the Vatican. The unnamed girl’s mother and doctors were excommunicated for agreeing to Wednesday’s emergency abortion yet the Church has not taken formal steps against the stepfather, who is in custody. Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, the conservative regional archbishop for Pernambuco where the girl was rushed to hospital, has said that the man would not be thrown out of the Church, because although he had allegedly committed “a heinous crime”, the Church took the view that “the abortion, the elimination of an innocent life, was more serious”.
The case has set off fierce debate in Brazil, where abortion is permitted only in cases of rape or a medical emergency. Brazil is one of the most populous Catholic countries, but conservative attitudes in rural areas are strongly at odds with the relatively progressive public view of abortion in major cities.
Even the President, Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva, has waded into the row. “As a Christian and a Catholic, I deeply regret that a bishop of the Catholic Church has such a conservative attitude,” he said “The doctors did what had to be done: save the life of a girl of nine years old. In this case, the medical profession was more right than the Church.”
One of the doctors involved in the abortion, Rivaldo Albuquerque, has raised the prospect of public clashes at his local church, telling Globo, the nation’s main TV network, that he would keep going to mass there, regardless of the archbishop’s order. The young girl at the centre of the case escaped excommunication only because she is still a child in the eyes of Church authorities. The stepfather, who is 23, was arrested last week, apparently trying to escape to another region of the country. Police say he is also suspected of abusing the girl’s handicapped 14-year-old sister. He is in protective custody, and if convicted faces up to 15 years in prison.
[source]
Surprised they didn’t force the young girl to marry her rapist, but I suppose that’s only because he was already married to her mother.
The Vatican and everyone in it needs to burn.
I’ve blogged about this story before, but yeah. A stepfather molested his young stepdaughter, and she became pregnant with twins. At age 9. N-I-N-E. That’s basically the definition of “babies having babies.” Her mother found doctors willing to terminate the pregnancy, and they were all excommunicated. But not the stepfather. Because sexually abusing living, actual children is totally cool - the Catholic Church has proved that on multiple occasions - but preventing a nine-year-old from giving birth to her stepfather’s children conceived in rape is worthy of excommunication.
Awful.
-Jess
Excuse me while I go begin to search for a new world to move to, I don’t want to live on this one any more…
Studio Ghibli films as Penguin Books
illustrations Jason Kauzlarich :: via etsy.com
Named Ava, this avatar hologram will be popping up at JFK, La Guardia and Newark airports in July to serve as a guide, reports the New York Post.
The systems cost about $250,000 each, according to the Associated Press. But, Ava will start out on a trial basis, running about $180,000 for six months.
That really doesn’t look like it’s worth it to me, maybe in a decade or two when we can make these sort of things better looking and less like someone cut out a cardboard picture of someone wrong (notice the black area besides her left arm?) then these sort of idea’s will be better…
Or, perhaps if they had just put up large, normal looking screens, could of programmed it to also display information (maps, pictures, prices, flight info, etc. etc.) while this fictional person is chatting away to help ensure people find and understand the information they’re looking for…
“Doesn’t that always cover it somehow?”
THIS COCK SNAPS BACK
THE COCK WITH THE BONERS.
OR EVEN THE GIRL WITH THE COCK.
BRITTANY
I WIN.
THE VALOROUS COCK
I TRUMP ALL OF YOU.
okay wait
Emaline really wins.
Cock Is The Opiate Of The Masses
…
anyone?
Yomi A-Cock.
(You owe me a cock)wat
Tristan Axel Cock
sweet god this made to much sense
NEMO COCK.
COCK FIDELIS.
(Translated!)
NOBODY COCK.
COCK FAITHFUL.
Texar’s Cock
Cock’s Head
That’s… Oh, gawsh… It’s a bit weird how easy it fits…
Connor the Tiger by Penny Hyde on Flickr.
What a handsome young man Connor has become. We’re so proud of him & his brother Christopher.
Am I the only one who wonders what it would be like if Tigers would domesticated? To wake up with some adorable yet menacing giant like this laying at the foot of your bed?… The things I think about while going “Awww…”…
