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Finally, some good news

by chthonic 2/19/2013 - 9:12 pm

Rumor has it that the Pope faces arrest.

Reuters:

Pope will have security, immunity by remaining in the Vatican

http://itccs.org/ has several blurbs; apparently, an arrest warrant was issued on Feb. 4; six days later Ratzinger resigned; and then the PR spin began: pity the poor old man who is physically degenerating; he can hardly stand up!

Apparently, a European nation and its courts have issued said arrest warrant for crimes against humanity and demanded the arrest of Ratzinger.

I bet it's Ireland.

 

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Ann Coulter continues to be horrible

by chthonic 2/17/2013 - 11:42 am

It's old; and hardly news...and I don't think I've seen it here, so in case it's interesting:

http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2013-01-16.html

GUNS DON'T KILL PEOPLE, THE MENTALLY ILL DO

 

I really don't like that whole "play the nazi/fascist card" thing. But sometimes, statements like this specific one by Coulter seem to exhibit  a willingnes of the speaker to walk right up to the boundary between "other stuff" and outright fascist-like eugenics.

It's as if the sub-text in her narrative can be accurately described as a variation of Lebensunwertes Leben.

 

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News Flash: Republicans still dancing to DJ ToneDef

by chthonic 1/23/2013 - 8:04 am

Race and "My body, not yours.": Virginia DA Cuccinelli falls down, spins on back: TPM

Race: Virginia Senate apartheids the dance floor. [Read more]

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Mental Health at the Washington Post

by chthonic 12/27/2012 - 4:44 pm

FYI: I recently discovered the Blogs at the WP under She the People.

Several of the recent entries there concern the issue in the subject line, mental health. I think it's recommended reading.

For instance:

The NRA’s school safety plan: Round up the sick and arm the children

and:

After Newtown: What mental health system?

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The mentally ill and the security-industrial complex in schools

by chthonic 12/21/2012 - 8:27 pm

Earlier this week, I noted that no one had yet gone over the line and scapegoated the mentally ill.

I have just finished reading Wayne LaPierre's remarks, and I'm here to let you know that Wayne has done just that: put out the cat's paw  or trial balloon to scapegoat the mentally ill:

Page 3, first paragraph:

"A dozen more killers? A hundred? More? How can we possibly even guess how many, given our nation's refusal to create an active national database of the mentally ill?" [Read more]

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Child soldiers

by chthonic 12/21/2012 - 8:06 pm

What's the difference between a child soldier in, say, Africa and Adam Lanza?

While the child soldier in Africa is at least as heavily armed as Lanza, he's killed fewer people.

That's not intended to be a joke.

Since I'm usually interested in sarcasm as a means to, metaphorically, slap people who are in a panic I can ask this:

Since at least one group in Africa cites the bible as a source for fielding child soldiers, will those people scapegoating video games commission an equivalent investigation into the bible? [Read more]

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Stomping on more of the usual things that are said...over half-way to a top ten list, kids!

by chthonic 12/19/2012 - 8:08 pm

This time, it's about the scapegoats people are trying to find and, IMO, pathologically require as a part of some fake grieving process and, allegedly, change[1].

It's pretty clear that part of the "process" of the upcoming conversation is well underway so I'm engaging in more wishful thinking and trying to stomp, using sarcasm, on the relevant flailings that I've seen here at DB and elsewhere. Here's my so-far list:

1) Video games

2) Quentin Tarantino

3) SSRI

4) Almost, but not quite, the mentally ill; IMO, the "conversation" has moved close to using (as scapegoats) consumers of mental health services, but the "conversation" has not quite gone over the line.

Yet. [Read more]

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A post on guns, violence, and etcetera

by chthonic 12/16/2012 - 6:49 pm

I'd intended to make no post on this topic. While I won't go into my views on the overall topic, my opinion is that nothing will change; not one single thing. Not two days from now; not two years; not in the next decade.

But the usual thing that is said is starting to show up, again, from various sources and I (in a flash of wishful thinking) hope to stomp on it early in its appearance, whatever its variation:

We need to have a conversation about gun control. [Read more]

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Thoughts after the election

by chthonic 11/14/2012 - 11:07 pm

Tonight, while I was at a bookstore and again while I was washing dishes, I mulled the events of the past week and was thankful that America rejected the bully.

As I was thinking of this, I was also thinking of how to remind people that Romney is a bully, and a blood-heir to the bullying politics of the GOP.

I almost decided to post about his bullying of a gay fellow student, the story that made no small amount of ripples a few months past. Or maybe that story about the 47% crowd? [Read more]

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The debates

by chthonic 10/4/2012 - 10:25 am

I did not watch the debates. I have read the reviews; and I can just about feel the clenching vocal cords as people draw in their breath, silently asking: "What is Obama doing?"

As if he's some sort of performance artist who seems to have recently gained weight, shock-horror!

Me? For some reason, all I can think is: Rope-a-Dope.

I could be wrong; but that's my call.

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