03/11/09 11:04 - 27ºF - ID#48023
Pope Excommunicates Rape Victim's Family
In Brazil, a nine year old girl was raped by her step-father and conceived twins. Abortion is illegal in Brazil, except under certain circumstances. The girl weighed only 80 lbs, and would have probably died had she carried both babies to a team of doctors.
So here we have
1) Rape
2) Pedophilia
3) The life of the mother
4) Incest (sorta)
So, with the blessing of the state an abortion is performed and the life of the girl is saved.
And in steps the Vatican. They excommunicated the doctors for performing the abortion and the mother for consenting to it. "God's law is above any human law" the Vatican spokesbishop said.
This infuriates me for a number of reasons.
First, the life of unborn children is more important than the life of the mother. Rome is saying they would prefer the nine year old would die. All life is precious, the Church argues. But what they mean to say is unborn life is precious, the living isn't.
Second, the church has a right to their own ideology. If they are against abortion, I am fine with that. But the vitriol they have for abortion is unmatched. The mother and doctors were excommunicated. The rapist/pedophile father is, in contrast, is still in full communion with the church. They give a choice to the doctors and mother, either save this girls life or save your eternal soul. The rapist/pedophile is free to rape away until St. Peter welcomes him with open arms into heaven. Do rapist/pedophiles get to spend eternity with their step children in heaven?
The Church has held it up over the last century as the supreme moral authority on earth. More so as it lost its role as supreme political authority in Europe. The church will put the full force of its moral power onto a lifesaving act but will make high positions of authority who deny the overwhelming weight of evidence for the holocaust. Politics is always before morality. Morality is a tool to political ends.
When other denominations are having debates relative to the 21st century, it is upsetting, but not surprising, to see the church having the same debate it had in the 19th century.
If these are the actions used to define you are a moral authority, you do not deserve a seat among those discussing morality.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
03/09/09 09:42 - 33ºF - ID#48002
If you plan on seeing Watchman...
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Location: Buffalo, NY
03/09/09 03:06 - 35ºF - ID#47997
Jobby Job
It is the best job I have ever had. I deal with crazy people on the phone for about 30 minutes a day and the rest of the time I work on making the city a better place.
But I am still new at this. I just know I am going to work dozens of hours on a project that would improve life for everyone only to have it killed. That's what happens when the affiliation of the person who has the idea is placed over the quality of the idea itself. Thankfully though, that hasn't happened yet. So I will just be full of bliss.
kisses.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
03/08/09 12:15 - 38ºF - ID#47982
I love this ad
First of all, it is your dads funeral kid, could you have at least not worn a brown sweater with your black jacket.
Second, what is up with the widow? This looks like a promo poster for a movie about a woman who seduces rich men and murders them to collect the inheritance. And what is up with those praying mantis glasses? Is she an aviator about to chase the Red Baron after the service lets out.
My sides hurt.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
02/18/09 05:58 - 34ºF - ID#47801
Dinosaurs Fucking Robots
Please, RSS Dinosaurs Fucking Robots. For the children.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
02/15/09 04:43 - 27ºF - ID#47757
Why the Buffalo News Sucks
The NYTimes has been giving Zilly Cakes more coverage for her Obama/Lincoln cupcake portrait than the Buffalo News.
And then I saw this on the Buffalo News. This is part of a 2008 retrospective of best cartoons.
Buffalo Wings? That isn't even a clever play on words. Are you trying to say that Tim Russert's virtue is somehow related to bar food? It doesn't make any sense!
What is wrong with you?
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Location: Buffalo, NY
02/15/09 01:31 - 26ºF - ID#47755
Make My Head Grow
It is called Make My Head Grow. At a Nordic gaming festival game programmer extraordinaire, 2dboy, was given 48 hours to conceive, design, and program a game. And thus Make My Head Grow was born.
The game is simple. You are in a box and your opponent is in another box. You have to push his box off the ledge by pushing your own box against his. But you don't foolishly do it with your pathetically small arms. No, you have to do it by slamming your head against your own box. To get even more momentum you can slam your head into the ground to make it swell to even greater inertia filled sizes.
Take a look at the gameplay
It is simple, and enjoyable. But the real action is when you push your opponent off the ledge. You are then treated to the finest tune ever written.
super awesome
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Location: Buffalo, NY
02/13/09 01:51 - 26ºF - ID#47745
Zilly Cakes
Since the end of summer there has been a sign, saying that Zilly Cakes was coming soon. I thought that it might be some chain bakery I had never heard of. Every time I would walk by it I would think to go to the listed website, but forget by the time I got back home. Then I just happen to see an article on them for making an Obama cupcake portrait.
So I go to their website and it turns out Zilly Cakes is owned and ran by Zilly Rosen in our own Buffalo. She has had the garage portion of the building rezoned so she can have a bakery and shop. Check out some of her work
She won a gingerbread house contest in 2007 with this
When she does open she will make cakes to order, teach classes, and sell baked yummy goodness. From the site:
Our retail line includes a fresh cupcake bar, icing shots, naked cakes (rated G of course) and cupcake flights in our special tasting booth that last 1 hour and that you can book in advance. In addition to cupcakes individually or by the dozen, we'll have a small but incredibly artistic and delicious line of decorated cookies, miniature cakes, and little stacked cakes for sale
Yum. Yum.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
02/11/09 09:41 - 52ºF - ID#47721
The Cure's LOLCatz
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Location: Buffalo, NY
02/08/09 10:16 - 29ºF - ID#47685
Hurrah!
Thank you for paying a visit. We really should do this more often.
kisses.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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