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« Previous EntriesBring Back The Firing Squad Pt 2
Wednesday, February 27th, 200818 year old Ashley Clark was home alone, recovering from recent brain surgery, when the unthinkable happened. Two teenagers, a 16 year old male and 17 year old female, broke into the house intending to steal the car belonging to the homeowner.
When they were unable to accomplish the theft, they found the disabled girl and decided to take out their frustrations on her. They bound her, shaved her head, and beat her in the head with a baseball bat despite her pleas for them to stop because she recently had brain surgery.
These two wastes of air were found later that evening after they had left the scene, but Ashley had to be taken to the hospital where she’s expected to recover.
And watch, these two ‘misguided’ youths will be labled as victims. People will support them as they do every other scumbag in the world. I read blogs and posts all the time written by people who say that whatever psycho is being discussed was just a ‘lonley, lost soul who just needed a little love.’
You know what I say to those people? I tell them they need to be sentenced right along with the buttplugs they’re supporting.
These two kids weren’t just ‘misguided’ – they were sick. Pure fucking evil. No ‘human’ being would repeatedly beat on a disabled person who had just undergone brain surgery. No ‘human’ would beat on a disabled person to begin with. Any person who would do this is a lost cause and should be put away for life.
Here, read the article:
Teens Target Disabled Girl in Brutal Home Invasion
Yet Another Reason I’m For The Death Penalty
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008Take the case of Tracy Hermann and James Sargent of Peoria, Illinois. Their 5-month old son, Benjamin, was dropped off a their home strapped in his car seat. 8 days later, he was still in said car seat, on the living room floor, dead of starvation and neglect.
What was the reason for the neglect? Apparently Mom and Dad were too busy eating and playing video games to take care of their child.
Seriously, for 8 days this baby was strapped in a car seat, in a crib.
Sargent even admitted that he probably never even moved the kid for those 8 days. They just left him in his car seat to starve to death.
I say bring back the firing squad.
Three (For Now) Other Albums From ‘82
Friday, February 22nd, 2008There’s lots of hype right now around the 25th anniversary of Michael Jackson’s Thriller. OK, so the album sold gazillions, produced 800 top ten singles, including “Billy Jean”, “Beat It”, et al. Aside from the obvious and easy digs on Jackson’s tendency towards child diddling, let’s be realistic: this is nothing more than a last gasp effort by the quickly-becoming-irrelevant music industry to, quoting Morrissey, “reissue, repackage, repackage” an album that, despite your hardcore music snobbery, you probably have a copy of in one form or another lying around your house.
Before you rush out and buy your special edition double CD/DVD death machine box set, consider these other releases from 1982 that deserve your ducats:
The Cure- Pornography:
Admit it, people think of the Cure as some kind of bubblegum pop band, but the reality is that Robert Smith can be one morose motherfucker. No other album brings this truth to light like Pornography. From the opening lyric of “One Hundred Years “ (“Doesn’t Matter if we all die” ) to the close of the title track (“One more day like today and I’ll kill you”), Pornography had proto-goth kids jerking off over the harsh reality of our bleak existence. Say what you will about Bauhaus and Joy Division being the progenitors of Goth—Pornography remains the signpost.
Kate Bush- The Dreaming:
The Dreaming is a difficult album to listen to. Couple that with the fact that Kate Bush is viewed in this country as a shrill harpy, and you have an album that practically no one gives a shit about. The Dreaming challenged its audience to embrace the album as a whole, rather than a framework built around pop songs. The Dreaming broke ground in many ways—it was one of the first albums to feature instruments native to the Australian aborigines, and featured songs with narratives that forced the listener to embrace the stories within (I maintain that Kate Bush is one of the greatest story tellers of our time—listen to “Heads We’re Dancing” off of 1989’s The Sensual World and tell me otherwise). “Pull Out the Pin” is set during the Vietnam war, but tells the tale from the point of view of a North Vietnamese solider, sneaking up on the enemy, referencing how the American smells of “Yankee hash”; “Houdini” attempts to explain how the title character escaped from his entanglements (“with a kiss, I’ll pass the key”). “There Goes A Tenner” details a bank heist gone wrong. Each song is wrapped in off-kilter rhythms and challenging lyrics. The album could have been recorded yesterday and people still wouldn’t know how to pigeonhole it.
REM- Chronic Town:
Technically an EP, Chronic Town broke REM onto the burgeoning college radio scene. I can be like a certain unnamed Buffalo News music critic (cough Jeff Miers cough) and feign ultimate, encyclopedic musical taste, and claim that I alone, at age 12, despite my infatuation with Styx and Pat Benetar, embraced REM for all they could be back in 1982 when this album came out. The reality is this release was thrown in my face in 1986, when all of the upper classmen in my high school decried Life’s Rich Pageant as REM’s sell out album (if only they’d waited five years for Out of Time). However, hearing “Wolves, Lower” and “Carnival of Sorts” now, and placing it in context, I can’t help but see where they were coming from.
Shawn Lonsdale – Murdered?
Friday, February 22nd, 2008I was going to write a blog about this, but I found an excellent post regarding the death of Shawn Lonsdale on another site. I’m posting the link and the contents.
http://dreamsendweb.com/2008/02/19/suspicious-death-of-scientology-critic-shawn-lonsdale/
The following was taken from the blog “Dream’s End” which can be found by clicking on the above link.
For a brief time, Shawn Lonsdale, 39, was a fixture outside Scientology’s infamous Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida (the hotel in which Lisa McPherson died under the “care” of Scientologists). He was filming what he called a pseudo-documentary and stood for hours at a time gathering footage. He also posted frequently on various anti-Scientology discussion forums and was a well known activist.
He endured death threats and smear campaigns. He worked for a brief time in his younger days as a male prostitute, and flyers with this information were posted all over town. He was undeterred by these tactics. You can read more about him here. You can also see Lonsdale featured in a BBC documentary about Scientology, including a scene in which uberhandler Tommy Davis rushes onto the scene to make sure that reporter John Sweeney knows about Lonsdale’s minor criminal convictions. The link takes you to a compilation video of what Sweeney endured in filming his documentary. Lonsdale’s bit starts at around 2:45.)
And now, one week after the most widespread anti-Scientology action in history, he is dead from what police are calling an “apparent suicide.”
Olbermann is My Homeboy.
Friday, February 15th, 2008If you missed it Keith Olbermann has a special comment last night. It may be one of the best things I have ever heard him say. This should be mandatory viewing.
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