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Is It Fair?

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

I read a few news stories earlier today about a group of Buddhist monks in Thailand who were using the internet social networking site Hi5 to lure women back to the monastery for sex.  Some reports said they were raping these women, other reports say it was consensual so I’m not going to draw any conclusions about that.

I am going to predict, however, that these monks are going to be representative of the whole religion in the eyes of the unforgiving public.  It seems like a trend nowadays that if someone who holds religious office does something immoral, the entire religion is blamed for it.

Take the Catholics, for example.  The whole Catholic priest pedophilia scandal rocked the world when it was brought to light.  Ever since the first allegations of this came out, the entire Catholic faith was put under a microscope and every single Catholic priest was under suspicion.  I was raised Catholic, spent some time as an altar boy, went to a Catholic University and I can tell you first hand that I never witnessed any sort of misbehavior by a priest.  I was never molested, nor did I hear of any other child I knew being molested by a Catholic priest.

In college I spent a lot of time with the Franciscan order of Friars.  These were some of the most decent, moral men I had ever known and have known to this day.   Never did I see one act innapropriately toward anyone else.

This same type of stereotyping is going to happen with the Buddhists now that this incident has come to national attention.  Since the media likes to sensationalize everything, this is going to become a major scandal and the Buddhists are going to be treated as unfairly as the Catholics.

The reason it’s unfair is because members of any religious order who commit acts of immorality are singled out.  There are a lot of sexual predators on this planet, but they’re not stereotyped like Catholic priests are because they come from all walks of life.  There are literally thousands of registered sex offenders in the United States alone, and only a handful of those belong to any religious order.  It can be safe to say that there are more sex offenders that belong to a particular race (whether that be Irish, Black, Hispanic, Polish, or whatever ; I’m not singling out an entire ethnicity because I’m arguing against stereotyping here) than there are Catholic priests who commit these offenses.  There are probably more lay Catholic sex offenders than there are offenders in the clergy.  But that doesn’t make national headlines because it’s not sensational enough.


Bring Back The Firing Squad Pt 2

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

18 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, 2008

Take 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.


Shawn Lonsdale - Murdered?

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

I 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.”


And in this corner…

Friday, January 25th, 2008

Apparently anyone can blog nowadays....

Why is it that whenever a “tragedy” strikes all the idiots in the world have come out to play?

The death of actor Heath Ledger was tragic in the sense that the world lost a talented actor, a little girl lost a father and his parents lost a son.  I never get too bent out of shape when a celebrity dies, but it’s sad when it’s someone who actually has talent and whose work actually meant something.  I honestly think that Ledger would have been one of the greats if he had lived, especially since he aspired to become a director and had been taken under the wing of Terry Gilliam.

Now, Fred Phelps and his cronies want to picket Heath Ledger’s memorial service in New York because he portrayed a homosexual in “Brokeback Mountain.”  I say let ‘em do it.  The more they picket, the more people are just going to get used to them being around and they’ll turn into a minor annoyance, even a joke.  Getting all up in arms is what they want - they even say so.  The more we go on about the evils of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Asshat Church, the more prominent they become.  Ignore them as best as possible and they’ll go away.  Now, with the good people of the Patriot Guard Riders helping out, their voice is becoming stifled and soon it will be silenced completely.

There’s this other moron, though, who seems to think the death of Heath Ledger makes for good trash talking.  Every time I read something this man has written or listen to him talk I have to wonder if there’s anyone on this planet who takes him seriously.  That man is:

 The Ultimate Warrior.

Yep.  The same Ultimate Warrior who wrestled in the WWF in the 80’s.  In his blog, he somehow manages to compare Ledger’s death to the parenting ability of Hulk Hogan. 

Yeah, I don’t get it either.  Maybe I don’t get it because this guy is a top of the heap moron who can’t put a thought together to save his life.  This is a man who played a character in the world of “professional” wrestling, but can’t seem to stop being that character even though he left the ring years ago.

This is the same guy who began his wrestling career going by the name “Dingo Warrior.”

Here’s what the Ultimate Douchebandit had to say.  Try to decipher it for yourselves, because it really doesn’t make a lot of sense.  Especially not the nickname he’s given to Heath Ledger. 

Oh, and if you want a good laugh, spend some time on his website.  This is an idiot who takes himself WAY too seriously.

Taken from Ultimatewarrior.com

Dead Before 28

In the interest of full disclosure, I must tell you I have watched Brokeback Mountain no less than 45 times and I own the Limited Edition DVD, signed by Willie Nelson a short time after he wrote that queer cowboy song as a tribute to the courage of the producers and actors who broke such incredible creative ground when they made their agenda-less movie. Serious. Until I saw Bendover Brokeback, Braveheart was my favorite movie. But the love scenes of Brokeback sucked me right in and I had no choice but to give myself over to the passion of its wide open range, if you get my drift. Such courage this young man and his colleagues have. Reminds me of the courage of classic movie stars, where during the War they enlisted and flew bomber planes and fought on frontlines, then came back and picked up their lives and careers right where they left off, without anti-American sentiment, whining and complaining, or self-destructive self indulgence. I’m equally inspired.

Apparently, Leather Hedger had sleeping troubles and anxiety and dealt with terrible mood swings. So do soldiers but they don’t self-destructively fuck up their lives. In fact, they don’t sleep, handle anxiety and mood swings while dealing with whether or not they might at any moment lose their life. And they do this all the while they are dangerously protecting the freedom of others to fuck up their own. By the way, how many 28 (or older or younger) year old soldiers met their death yesterday? It’s not easy to find out. None of them made the headlines of any news.

By today’s standard, though, I do have to agree that he was a great father. Perhaps even greater then the father of the year, Hulk Hogan. After all, Leather Hedger did what it took to kill himself. His kid is without a father, yes, but the negative influence is now removed and his own child has the chance for a full recovery. Hogan, on the other hand, won’t go quite that far. He insists on sticking around to keep further ruining, and profiting off of, the parentally mismanaged lives of his own children.

It is sad and tragic….that we don’t demand attention be paid to greater things.


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