What the fuck is wrong with the world?

Thanks to Sxephil on Youtube, one disturbing story was brought to my attention. And another that is a lot less disturbing, and not so surprising, yet still pisses me off.

Soldier waterboards 4 year old daughter for having trouble reciting her ABC's:
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Begs the question; Can we blame the war for inflicting such psychological damage on someone, or is this man simply psychotic, and shouldn't have had his daughter in the first place? I'm not sure. As much I as I am against this war, I don't see how serving in it could make someone think it was okay to waterboard  their four year old daughter. I'm sure it causes a lot of damage, damage that we'll be dealing with for many years to come, but this was a little girl. A little girl being treated like an Al Qaeda soldier because she was having trouble reciting the ABC's. It's sick.


Christian group in Michigan claims hate crime laws are an effort to eradicate their beliefs.
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I don't have much to say about this. It is in no way surprising to me, and I honestly don't understand how it surprises anyone at all. Read the story and see if surprises you.

Say what you will about Obama, I respect the man.

I really don't need to go into detail. The article speaks for its self. Obama is taking steps forward in this country, a fact that many will probably bitch and complain and "We need to take America back" over. Pathetic. But whatever. Just click right here, and read up.

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KY church ordains sex offender?

It seems as though this church is getting the awkward child molesting drama out of the way ahead of time, by ordaining an already registered sex offender.

He was convicted of sexually assaulting an 11 year old boy. While this incident happened years ago, I personally do not believe sexual predators recover from their--what I would call--illness. They refrain, but I don't think the risk ever just goes away.

This is probably a horrible thing for me to say...
But when this man can no longer resist the temptation that his sick, twisted mind feeds him....he will strike against one of the kids attending this church.

When that happens, it is the fault of the parents. Yes, this man should know better. Yes, they should be able to trust him. But knowingly taking their kids to a church led by a pedophile, is knowingly putting their kids in harms way. It. Will. Be. On. Their. Hands.

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When religious figures attack.

MSNBC is reporting, a female pastor has been jailed for abusing her five adopted daughters.

She recieved two consecutive life sentences. I think it's about time they actually punish someone for abusing kids. In this case, she didn't recieve a slap on the wrist like they usually do.

But why not? It's rare that a child abuser of any kind does hard time for their crimes.

Here's my issue with this. The woman is 65 years old. She would be lucky to survive one of those life sentences, let alone both. Is that why they gave her this sentence? Because they're confident she won't have to actually spend too many more years in prison before she dies?

She deserves worse. She deserves to die in prison. But I don't think the remainder of her life is enough suffering for her crimes. But it's the only way.

Are we surprised that she was a pastor? There seem to be many cases when pastors get caughting abusing children. Whether it be their own, or someone else's. That's not to say all pastors are child abusers, but we can't deny the fact that this is not uncommon among them.

I'm not religious. But I imagine people who trust pastors with their children, truly believe as a man or woman of god, they will treat their kids the way kids should be treated. That's what you would expect from someone claiming to be holy, right? But it's not often the case. They are abused more often than not, and yet parents continue to trust these religious figures.

Do you truly have that much faith in your god? That he would stop it from happening to your child? What happens when it IS your child next time?

In this case, these children were adopted the predator. But that is rarely the case. Furthermore, I'm sure she would've abused someone else's children, had her own not been there.

When will it end? When will the world realize that religion causes many more problems than it solves?


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Carrie Prejean at Values Voters Summit.

If you enjoy the urge to dig your ear drums out with an icepick, click here to view the rest of this bigot's speech at the Values Voters Summit.

I want to address a few points this blond bimbo made during this portion of her speech. I haven't watched the other two portions, so who knows, she may say something stupid enough for me to speak out against in those as well. Here goes.

1. "I never let that get to my head, but I was confident. I did see me competing for Miss Universe. I did see that coming.".....Um, that's letting it get to your head sweetheart. Hoping for it, not so much. "Seeing it coming", yes, that's letting it get to your head.

2. Miss USA wanted you? Yes, because you're slightly attractive, and you happened to win Miss California. Needed you? I think you're overstating your worth a bit my dear. It's a beauty pageant.

3. "I feel as though I'm Miss UNIVERSE." But you're not. You're a pageant contestant that lost because you're a bigot. You're being made a hero by the republican party because you're a poster child for their bigotry. Nice.

4. "God chose me for that moment....he knew that I would be able to get through all of the junk that I have been through." You've been through "junk" because you agree with taking away rights from people that are none of your concern. You deserved that "junk", as does anyone else who believes gay marriage should be outlawed.

5. "Why me? A twenty year old young woman?" Because you're a bigot. Age and gender has nothing to do with that fact.

6. "Who had the courage and the bravery that not many people have." Yeah, or not everyone is a christian radical such as yourself.

7. "I live in the greatest country in the world." Have you been to another country? Hmm, something tells me you probably have not. Most of the world hates America, by the way. Only foolish Americans believe this is the greatest country in the world without even visiting another country.

8. "I'm not really into politics, at least I wasn't at the time." Right, and because the right wing is excepting you because they share your common hatred for people who don't agree with them, you're suddenly "into" politics? Please. Learn something before you pick sides. Though it wouldn't be necessary, I am sure you'd still fit in perfectly with the right wing.

9. "I am disgusted at the way some people can be so intolerant." This one is quite possibly my favorite. You're saying you think a certain group of people (homosexuals) shouldn't allowed to get married because "god" doesn't want it? And THEY'RE the ones being intolerant? All they want is the same rights you have. You're the intolerant one...but you're too self-centered to realize that.

10. "Even though I didn't win the crown that night, I know that the lord has so much of a bigger crown waiting in heaven for me." Ha. That one is amusing. Is that what heaven's about then? God supposedly giving you the things you don't deserve? Well I'm sorry, no one will be bowing down to you in reality Queen Carrie. But whatever you have to tell yourself to get through the day....

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Police say "no evidence" supporting Rifqa Bary's claims.

The police have investigated, and found no evidence supporting the claims she made, regarding her fathers threats to kill her for converting to christianity.

Evidence? I'm sorry, what did the expect? To find it in writing? What evidence would there be to prove something someone said?

That being said, do we believe her? I'm not sure. The way I see it, this could have gone two ways.


He threatened to kill her when he found out her plans, and she ran away to avoid death...

OR

She ran away and the police found her, so she chose to play on the Islam stereo-types to try to justify her actions.




Here's the thing. The girl claims she had to hide her cheerleading activities due to fear of her father finding out and punishing her. Let's assume those pictures of her in her cheerleading outfit displayed in her parents' house were placed there after she ran away.



Still yet, the parents would have to know about their daughter cheerleading.
A. High school cheerleading is not free. Where did she get the money if they hadn't known?
B. Cheerleading takes up massive amounts of time. Where would her parents have thought she was all the time?

If her parents were as hardcore as she claims, I'm sure they would have paid enough attention to her activities to know that she was doing something this significant. This isn't a case where the daughter is secretly listening to rap on her headphones in the privacy of her bedroom.

If what she says about them is true, there is no possible way they did not know about her cheerleading activities.

So where does this leave her story? I don't know. And I don't think we should know. This is a private matter, and I believe it should be treated as such. There has to be something more important to report about, right?