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March 30, 2005
MWB does love Kennedy misery
Whilst I may chide liberals for taking joy in counting the failures or foibles of a budding Iraqi society (I wrote two blogs on it; one below and another during their historic vote), I must say I'm feeling a little gleeful myself over the fall of a 68-year old woman. Why am I willing to earn yet another millenia in purgatory? She's a Kennedy, and the tag lines are too much to resist...
She is found unconscious in the middle of a street, with a broken shoulder and a concussion, she's a Kennedy, and "Details of how...she ended up in the street were unclear." Unclear... she's a Kennedy!
"Joan...has struggled with alcoholism." Unclear...perhaps to the Kennedy family but not to anyone else.
Posted by Michela at 06:44 PM | Comments (4)
March 29, 2005
What? A new democracy is having disagreements? Shut -UH-up!
Now that the insurgents are growing tired of blowing themselves to bits limb by limb only to find another American tank (or newly armored Humvee, as the case may be) lumbering down the street... Now that the Iraqis are growing tired of the killers in their midst being the holders of the Koran, not the US flag... now that the democratic process is finally gluing itself together... what is the only thing on which CNN makes a comment?
The "Acrimony" of the Assembly session. I suppose the CNN writers believe the first Continental Congress was just one big tea-drinking love-fest. They do not seem to recall from their history lessons that this new great nation nearly fell apart. Or perhaps the re-written history taught in public schools is clouding their knowledge base. But since we're just a colonial, patriarchal, Indian-killing machine, maybe they're still sore that the USA didn't fall apart, which explains their virtual glee over the spirited debate in the New Iraq.
While they kneel at their Euro-worshipping thrones, I'd ask these giddy-at-your-misery pigs whether they noticed that the caucuses of the European Union are not any better. The discussions on human cloning alone are enough to send the Catholic Italians to the exit door.
I hope to look back on this historical moment in the Middle East and say, see, crybabies, it was possible to make a democratic nation out of a population of devout Muslims.
Posted by Michela at 02:06 PM | Comments (0)
March 24, 2005
Feed Me! Feed Me!!
Nope, this is not about Terrie Schiavo... I think you can find enough blogging on that and you're fed up with it anyway (pardon the pun). This post is about how women are brainwashed by the fashion industry.
First, we're led to believe that models are the vision of health, the ideal, what men are looking for. I don't know about you, ladies, but I don't know any guy who would touch the stick figure below.
Second, we're marketed clothes that were created so that they look good on the stick figure below. Do you remember how many times you asked, "Does this make me look fat?" Well, yeah, it was made for a stick figure and YOU'RE NOT!
Third, we're led to believe that those eyes, that skin, those thighs, are real. I saw a show on how they took the background of a model's photo and pasted it over her thigh to make it look about 2 inches thinner than it already was, and believe me, it was already very skinny. Don't forget about the perfect lighting; I don't know how many of you get to walk around with a soft hue of pink light around you, but I've never been able to pull that off.
Fourth, Hollywoodland feminists are perpetrators; Susan Sarandon, Uma Thurman, Madonna. Sarandon frequently occupies a front-row seat at fashion shows; where are her cries of protest when the 3/4ths-starved models cruise the runway with clothes pinned to their sac-o-bones bods? How can she and her cronies be so indignant and at the same time so participatory?
Lastly, thank god women aren't the idiotic stepford wives the feminists frequently make us out to be; we can actually look at this stick figure and go, "Eew!" confident that our man at home is sayin', yeah! My baby got back!
Posted by Michela at 07:24 AM | Comments (2)
March 23, 2005
Wake up America, this this is what Amerika really thinks
I had the privilege of seeing Bill Maher's HBO show a few weeks ago (I say privilege because I do not have cable/satellite and my TV is 1/2 purple so I don't watch too much of it... it had an accident with my floor as I adjusted some cables on it and it just hasn't been the same since...).
Dismayed, appalled, frightening...that would be a good start. The topic? The University of Colorado professor who called WTC victims 'little Eichmanns' in an essay. The setup? The brother (gorgeous, by the way) of a victim, employed by Cantor Fitzgerald.
Maher had read the whole essay and wanted to give this idiot professor his time to explain how his words were taken out of context, to offer this idiot a forum to say what he meant rather than being contextualized by the media. However, when the idiot spoke, it was didn't seem as though anything was taken out of context. According to this idiot, the victims, at least a few of them, had to have been the type of person Eichmann was; you know the kind, the person who facilitates the murder of 6 million people. They're everywhere, you know. Foot-in-mouth disease apparently can't be stopped even when an anti-American p-fer like Maher gives you a soft landing.
The gorgeous brother responded angrily that none of the people at Cantor Fitzgerald were the evil empire-ites the idiot claims they were. Further, his brother was the kindest, gentlest soul you could ever hope to meet. The idiot just goes on about how some people in the WTC were, so there. Following this logic, I suppose we should blow up all buildings where large numbers of people are gathered, just to make sure we get all the little Eichmanns...
This idiot sounded just as horrible, mean-spirited, and ego-centric in person as he did in the essay (worse, perhaps). Maher tried to rescue the show by going on about how horrible it was for the US to have bombed Dresden (I know, I know, if you went to CA public schools as I did you may not know this is a city in Germany which the allies leveled in WWII), how horrible our bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima were (read Prisoners of the Japanese before you nod to this assertion), how we killed the Native Americans to take their land.
Maher must suffer from funnel vision. The only way he could even begin to make any correlation between the WTC attacks and all that claptrap is to be looking through a funnel. Yes, a funnel. In a funnel, you see a little bit around you but you're primarily focused on a single spot. Again, just in keeping with the spirit of their logic, the Louvre should be leveled due to French atrocities in Southeast Asia, for the war crimes committed by Napoleon. I'd really love to hear the penance Germany should pay for both WWI and WWII... oy vay! What should Russia suffer for Stalin's extermination of 10 million Russians? What should we do to those awful communist Cambodians for Pol Pot? Oh that's right, he killed off everyone already, maybe their dues are paid.
First, I'd argue there is no issue with the leveling of Dresden, with the bombings of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. It was war, we needed a way out, we sacrificed thousands on the beaches of Normandy and in the trenches of the South Pacific, it's not possible to think we were just going to march our way through Europe; the air fight--including Hiroshima and Nagasaki--were critical to bringing that war to an end. I agree, our treatment of the Native Americans was an abomination; it is a horror; I wish to god it had been different. But we can't change it, and 3000+ people do not have to die today for those crimes. There isn't a nation on this earth who has not committed atrocities in its history. Not a single one. Not even Switzerland.
The leftists are so blindingly funnel-visioned, they can ignore the horrors committed by everyone and everything but the United States. We are eternally damned for having the nerve to have existed as a nation. But never, NEVER do innocent victims deserve to be incinerated, never do they deserve to be forced to jump off a 100+ storey building to avoid the unbearable pain of burning to death in the flames of ignited jet fuel. Further, Maher, those ideologues don't give a damn about Dresden; they are only focused on how to hurt the United States for having rescued Kuwait from the grips of Saddam and doing it on Saudi Arabian soil. They only care about the fact that we support Israel.
Lefists ignore all kinds of things, including that no Arab country has come to the rescue of the so-called Palestinians, and how homicide bombers walking into Passover dinners.
I would really like to know how someone like Maher resolves the tyranny which has been a part of all history in all countries and all territories for all humanity, how he resolves the conflict in himself between the US-as-sole-world-aggressor and reality. How he and his ilk can continually justify anti-US rhetoric with our past 'crimes' while completely ignoring those of other countries.
Let's see the current standings:
Stalin 10,000,000+
Hitler 6,000,000+
Pol Pot 3,000,000+
Rwanda 937,000+
Milosovic 200,000+*
What US atrocities equal those stated above and therefore justify the innocent lives taken on 9/11?
*It's difficult to see which of the quoted figures is accurate; will update as located.
Posted by Michela at 08:33 PM | Comments (3)
March 22, 2005
Hitler was Austrian, after all
Those crazy Austrians... I'm not sure why anyone would be a little taken aback by the use of human corpses to study crash test dummies. Home of Hitler, Mozart, and a near-caste system where wives are addressed by the highest level educational degree of their husbands ("Greetings Mrs. Dr. Ralf Schmidt") would seem the likliest place such an experiment would occur.
Posted by Michela at 02:57 PM | Comments (0)
March 19, 2005
Blogging on my own blog
In February, I wrote about the creepy chick who was married to a child predator who lived too close to a school. So, upon his release from prison, she and he had to move to meet the so-many-feet-from-schools probation requirement. I elected her to creepy chick of the year for staying married to a creature who would even have to meet such requirements.
One of my commenters says, so, what are we supposed to do? Put them all in a village in Death Valley? No, that would be too good for them. Every 20 years, they'd see a nice bloom of flowers. They deserve no such luxuries. To the commenters credit, he/she leaves the door open for discussion on eternal incarceration for these predators.
With the death of Jessica Marie Lunsford at the hands of just such a predator, it's inconceivable that we would ever allow them into any neighborhood ever again. Siberia would be too good. Maybe a stint on Antarctica, however, might be just the place. Perhaps we could provide them a choice; Antarctica, or life in general prison population. The monster who apparently raped and definitely murdered this poor child had no history of child murder, just the types of crimes the creepy chick's husband had committed. It's laughable to believe that just because they won't live near a school the children are safe from the creepy chick's predator husband.
When, WHEN will the we learn; child predators, habitual violent criminals, felons of most types, do not rehabilitate. To loose them on society is, well, to be perfectly willing to say, "Yup, we can't lock people away forEVER, when they pay their dues to society, the rest of the price is more raped and murdered little babies. Yup, we're okay wid dat. What else ya gonna do?"
Exactly, what else are we going to do. What else.
Posted by Michela at 08:29 PM | Comments (2)
March 18, 2005
Hellthcare for the masses
Well well well. The dirty little secret about fully socialized medicine is poking out from underneath the hospital blankie. Doling out healthcare on the government dime works about as well for the Canadians as this premise for a society worked for the USSR. In Canada, you have to wait months for an orthopedic surgeon and you're not even allowed to buy what the government won't give you as a handout. That makes as much sense as--as--I can come up with no equally illogical comparison.
I really like where the US healthcare system was ranked 37th in the world by the World Health Organization, 7 behind Canada's 30th place win. Sure, no politics at work in that ranking, especially when I have found the following facts:
1. The United States has the highest survival rate of breast cancer of all countries in the entire world. At a 5-year survival rate (a key cancer long-term survival indicator) of 80%, we beat the next-best Germany by 5%, France (#1 according to the WHO's ranking) by 10%, and Britain by 65%. That's right, if you get breast cancer in Britain, you have only a 25% chance of surviving 5 years. The communist feminists have long decried the breast cancer "death sentence" and politicize it, but apparently aren't so concerned with it that they highlight that their socialist pet countries do a much worse job of treating it than this awful capitalist USA does.
2. The United States invents most of the world's drugs. The research and development for these drugs is borne mostly on the backs of hard-working by the Americans who pay full price for these drugs; the Canadian government controls the prices the pharmaceutical companies can charge in Canada. Any votes for letting Candians die of HIV, breast cancer, childhood leukemia, or any number of the drugs we invented at our incurred cost, which they refuse to pay?
3. The United States has 45 million uninsured. Soooo, let's see, that means we have 255 million insured. Since Canada has about 45 million people total, there's no comparison between what they can offer their paltry citizen base vs. the monumental effort of insurring 100% of Americans, where our uninsured population is the population of their whole country. The American population base is roughly 6 times that of Canada.
4. Many Americans are uninsured by choice, not all, but about 10% of the uninsured. They have the funds to buy a base insurance policy and elect not too. That's their choice, isn't it? Why should someone be forced to pay the government 50% of their income for healthcare expense when they do not want healthcare?
I could go on. But the fact is that healthcare quality plummeted when Canada went to socialized medicine. This blogger predicts a significant rollback of the system Canada has today, before it goes completely broke.
Posted by Michela at 08:28 PM | Comments (0)
March 17, 2005
It's Racialist!
In the link above, the Arizona Daily Star writes that a man was reported for his unusual behavior in the rooms of female patients and the report (and its reporter) was quashed by cries of racism. It's racist to call someone on the carpet for misdeeds as long as they are 'of color', it seems. The tragic end to the protections he received as a person 'of color' is that he raped and sodomized female patients at a hospital with impunity.
One of my favorite moments in all television history was when Sacha Baron Cohen (as "Ali G") chastised Andy Rooney--yes, that Andy Rooney--during an interview set-up. Andy Rooney believes he has agreed to an interview by a 'legitimate' journalist, whatever that is, but instead it's "Ali G", who asks idiotic and grammatically (and politically) incorrect questions for airing on HBO's "Da Ali G" show. When Rooney calls the interview to a halt, "Ali G" with his lily white skin claims that he is black and cries, "That's racialist!" I love this spoof; what an accurate representation of any effort made by anyone to call a person 'of color' on the carpet for their bad behavior or glaringly absent qualifications or competence.
The frightful, frightful situation described in the link above shows just how dangerous it is for people 'of color' to be protected, defended, and sheltered, by the cloak of racism. Similarly, the racially protected environment at King Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles has cost human lives, most likely the lives of people 'of color' because that's who would frequent that hospital. Paradoxically, the people protected by the muted claims of incompetence were also 'of color.' And the tragedy of the paradox is that the people 'of color' who were protected would have only lost their jobs, while the people 'of color' who were killed by incompetence lost their lives.
The King Drew fiasco is a blogpost in its own merit, and it's a story still unfolding. The scope and what the final outcome will be is yet to be seen, but suffice it to say it has lost accreditations, is rife with audit issues, bankrupting workers' compensation claims, overtime overruns, and and and.
I didn't see a word about the situation in Arizona in anything but the local newspaper in which it was reported. But hell, we've got up to the minute updates on Jacko's crocodile tears in court, and who's paying the bills at Neverland Ranch. However, my recommendation for people 'of color' is to stop protecting the vultures among them--it is only serving to maim and kill those in their own communities.
Posted by Michela at 08:34 PM | Comments (0)
March 16, 2005
If you cant beat 'em, drug 'em
This article describes how schools are slowly but certainly inserting themselves into the parental role with a sinister result; becoming the power broker of everyone's children. They are achieving this goal by creating policies with euphemism-ridden claptrap such as "routine and comprehensive...mental health screenings" which can thus be used to recommend "state-of-the-art treatment."
The fact that any horror movie calling itself a school would find it appropriate or necessary to perform mental health screenings ought to turn the projectors to themselves. Schools cannot even figure out simple things such as why US kids score the lowest in the western world on science and math tests, or how to manage large classrooms with state budget problems. How in the hell do they expect to manage your kid's mental health?
What moron has not yet discovered the fact that problems tackled factory farm-style are more likely to be manipulated, misinterpreted, falsely positive or negative, bloated, and misdirected efforts? There have been too many cases where a school (a teacher, usually) recommended some medication or another and when the parent refused, the parent was taken up on charges and forced to administer these medications. California had to pass a special law just to prevent the Ritalin laden social workers from knocking on your front door based on the recommendation of a near-illiterate teacher.
There is no scientific evidence that "ADD" or any of the myriad of so-called disorders even exist. Many believe the teachers are simply trying to drug children into submission, to make them better pets--er, students. Teachers, administratos, counselors fail horrendously to recognize that there are underlying reasons for social misbehaviors, and their answers are too simplistic; drugs, self-esteem, blah blah blah. ADD itself is most likely not a disorder at all, but a unique way some people think.
Imagine the possibility that in millions of years of evolution, not every human being was designed to sit for 8 hours in a sterile classroom on a rock-hard seat, highly focused on a breathing bobblehead blathering on and on (frequently unintelligibly). Is it that impossible to believe that some children will not be able to endure such drivel and thus find it difficult or impossible to sit still? Rather than the logical solution of having assorted teaching methods to accommodate these differences, which is too expensive, it's so much easier to simply drug 'em up!
Hardly anyone believes schools should be focused (dare I use the word, ADD-er that I am) on anything other than education. How else to rid polite society of "I should have went!", hmmm? It is an Orwellian future if schools have this much input to your child's upbringing.
When schools can nary handle anyone or anything outside the most center spot on the bell curve, I shudder at the prospect of them diagnosing the "mental problems" of those who fall on either side of it. If they succeed, they will stamp out the most creative, wonderful, free spirits that exist on this earth.
PS: Five bucks to a 9th grade English teacher who can even tell me what a bell curve is!
Posted by Michela at 01:18 PM | Comments (1)
March 13, 2005
The Middle Class is Vanishing--Again... and again... and again...
Headline for Lou Dobbs' piece last night: "Middle Class under assault!" I'd pay CNN 5 bucks to have the graphic. From the corner of my eye perched on the treadmill at the gym, it looked more like the title of a horror movie than a legitimate news headline (whatever that is). I remember when "A Current Affair" first came on the air (I was about 2 months old...I swear...), it used flashy headlines, poofed 'dos, snappy lead-ins. The journalist illuminati scoffed, scorned, and belittled this cheap foray into news "reporting." Oh the scandal when Gordon Elliott bought a sledge hammer from a West German and gave it to a kid to stage a shot at the Berlin Wall. Clinton learned a lot from that one, when he staged his Normandy Beach introspective, but I digress...
From the auspicious aspiration of absolute impartiality (a lofty goal for anything short of a robot), we arrive at "A Current CNN", a news channel that swears impartiality on the holy journalists' bible (which is The Communist Manifesto, by the way), while promoting a fear mongering left wing agenda.
Dobbs' "Assault on the middle class!" in red and black letters (was that blood dripping from the "A"?), claims that gas prices, budget deficits, medical costs, will sink the middle class and widen the gap between the rich and middle and poor. Oh puhleeeeeze.
We are such a spoiled rotten generation, but we still whine on and on about how the rich is or will be crushing us to poverty. And this is a story that I've heard since I was 10 years old, yet in my own middle class life, let me just take a quick survey of my friends and me... BMWs, big TVs, designer purses, a drawer full of cell phones, good jobs, university educations, nice clothes, food, shelter. Nirvana? I think so... as close as it gets on Planet Earth, I believe. Further, I can take an elevator ride up to the 18th floor of a building overlooking a beautiful bay and have a $7 sandwich and with a million dollar view. I can save some pennies and stay a weekend at a pricey hotel in downtown San Francisco ("W") at a bargain price (thank you Expedia.com). These are luxuries our parents could not enjoy, for many reasons.
It was a tougher life for them. The future was dire; California was either going to evaporate in a drought or fall off into the ocean (Water and Power), oil was going to run dry (The Limits to Growth), food was going to run out (The Population Bomb), and we would all be poisoned by the Modern World (Silent Spring). I admire those who were able to get out of bed in the morning and go on with life with the weight of the world’s collapse on their shoulders.
Since we have neither starved for food or oil (I'm sure the latter will come but technology will solve it, as it has for the former), since I have not slipped into subsistence, scraping all my pennies not for the "W" but for a bit of dry oatmeal, since we have not all dropped dead at 30 from the poisoned earth (dear God we are even living longer than ever), and since none of the previous wave of these predictions has ever come true, what makes Dobbs think this is the case today? I know not everyone out there has the charmed life I have; but I would bet a few bucks on the fact that no matter how you slice the lucky charm, it's more golden for our generation than it was for our parents. We have more stuff (if anything, our drawback is our slavery to this stuff), we have more food, it's cheaper, and our opportunities are endless.
CNN, I challenge you to a half-full cup headline; and I hold you responsible for letting this America wallow in self-pity when we have so much to be grateful for.
Posted by Michela at 10:32 PM | Comments (2)
March 10, 2005
Seven for all MANkind-- Now I got it
Marla, a Newport Beach-ite and fashion hawk eye asks, what the hell IS it with those jeans? We're with you Marla. After having witnessed a monstrosity walk by me in the mall yesterday, I had to stop and ponder the state of jeans today. While I realize I have yet to share my solution to Mideast Peace on the blog, writing is therapeutic and this assault on my eyes was so profound I may be permanently traumatized if I do not do some therapy.
First, the female approaching me was fat. Not chubby, not abdominal muscle challenged, not voluptuous. I have very good friends who probably would call themselves fat (I wouldn't, they're beautiful). But they also wouldn't be caught dead in the freak show ensemble that vaporized my peaceful afternoon.
So what was this outfit? Pubic hairline-low Seven for All Mankind jeans, a white belt, tennis shoes, a pink half shirt, 2 to 3 inch white-tipped claws, and a belly-o-blubber that would feed a California to Alaska winter migration. The topper? White stretch mark streaks across the orange self-tanner.
"Lady", do you have a mirror? Does it lie to you like the wicked stepmother's mirror mirror on the wall? It is nothing short of an act of magic if she looked at herself in the mirror; because what she saw couldn't be what was or she'd a run to the nearest Clothestime for a $12 change of clothes; any scrap she bought there would be better than the abomination she wore.
So back to those Seven jeans. They are a hideous, flat-assed concoction of gay men, and therefore they are made for Mankind. There is no other way to explain the shapeless square form into which curvy women are supposed to pour their hips and asses. However, even flaming homosexuality cannot explain the belief that jeans which look like they were ripped apart during a wild sexual encounter with Edward Scissorhands then repaired with iron on patches and frayed yarn are some sort of fashion statement. Only 200/200 vision comes close, but still, the price tag!
Between the flat asses, the visibly hacked fronts, the fact that nearly every 20 year-old is too fat to have anything sitting at the pubic hairline, and that even those who are skinny enough to pull it off look like anorexics failing in recovery, I cannot for the life of me figure out why anyone pays top dollar for what should be an ill-conceived fashion flop.
Posted by Michele at 10:32 AM | Comments (0)
March 08, 2005
Move over Misogynist Easter Bunny, here come commie femmes
Read all about it -- Thanks for the link Marla
Just when you thought analyses on the state of the patriarchal world around us were stuffed right along with the Easter Bunny's phallic ears, along come Swedish femmes to remind us of our angst and oppression. Gee, we had forgotten; between our trips to be pampered at the spa, the intellectual pursuit of the perfect purse, and driving our luxury automobiles to the designer hat shop, we forgot how oppressed we really are.
Never mind that in Sudan, women are traded with less hassle than cattle; girls are still being hacked to bits during genital mutilations; rape victims are tossed out with the Sunday paper in nearly every strongly Islamic culture on this planet. God damnit, when is Big Guv gonna pay for my broken fingernails? You know, the ones I broke when I tried to scratch the eyes out of the heteronormative barfly who had the nerve to eyeball my body two millimeters below my chin.
These pampered Swedish femmes disgust me, and any breath they take to talk about their "oppression" and proposals to tax men for the violence against women is wasted oxygen. To make all things equal, I hope they also plan to tax women to cover the lost wages and funeral expenses of the children women murder, since mothers murder most of their own flesh and blood, at a far higher rate than the non-genetic mongrels the mothers bring into the households voluntarily (which are next on the list in numbers of child murderers).
If Swedish women haven't made it to the head of the board room, perhaps Sweden should look at the time-off policies; with years off work paid and guaranteed jobs on return, who would work? After all, the femmes should support letting the patriarchal, woman abusing, goose stepping males do all the dirty work. And since 85% of all industrial deaths are absorbed by men (cuz femmes sure as hell won't work dangerous jobs, they're too busy taking 10 years off), what a better way to rid all society of the XY chromosome-d vermin?
Posted by Michele at 11:26 PM | Comments (3)
March 05, 2005
I'm speechless, for the very first time
Read all about it --and turn up the sound!!!
If you read any of the MWB posts, it's easy to see I'm never, ever short on words or slicing commentary. However, a quick visit to Barry Williams' website (aka "Greg Brady") has rendered me completely speechless.
Comments on the rap, the photo ops, anyone? This site nearly qualifies Barry for a 'win' in the "Movie Star P-Fer" category, but MWB decided against it; he seems like a nice guy and all, and harmless, pitiful, even. We're reserving "Movie Star P-Fer" awards for pigs like Hanoi Jane and Mike Pig Fucker Farrell. Dear Barry is simply a handsome version of our TV friend Al Bundy, always relishing in one great high school football pass since all adult endeavors have been flops. For example, Barry wrote a book where he revealed he boinked Mrs. Brady; eew! It was a visual none of us wanted and definitely we didn't want to read. Anyway Barry, MWB truly wishes you the best. I think, however, were there competition for a seat in the a-list restaurant described in a previous post, I might even win that seat from you.
Posted by Michele at 11:24 AM | Comments (2)
March 02, 2005
After the bovine carnage, laugh at people
Enough about the poor slaughtered bulls.
I have not seen anything as funny as the website above (www.uglydress.com) since the online magazine Blairmag.com did a feature called "Gay or Eurotrash." The commentary on the dresses alone is enough to give you an ab workout you couldn't get on a medicine ball with a trainer named Helga. And if you also look at the dresses, you're gonna get a sideache that's akin to appendicitis.
Unbelievably, "Gay or Eurotrash" is still out there! Here you go...
http://www.blairmag.com/blair3/gaydar/euro.html
Posted by Michele at 10:46 PM
March 01, 2005
Barbarians in the new millenium are the same as in the old one
This picture depicts a bullfighter taunting a bull with three swords jutting out of his flesh, his life's blood gushing down to his feat, his demise imminent. It is hard for me to imagine how a human being could have no pity, no empathy, no compassion for another living creature who has the capability of experiencing excruciating pain and fear.
Human beings must demonstrate by their actions that they are higher forms of life. To torture an innocent animal in this way is hardly different from throwing two people in a den of lions and watching as the lions tear them to shreds. While I in no way make an equal comparison between the loss of human life and the loss of bovine life, I firmly believe that the person who is capable of the one is a pinky finger away from being capable of the other.
A few years ago I watched a very good documentary made by a camera hidden in the burka of a woman journalist in Afghanistan during the Taliban rule. The oppressive nature of the clothing made concealment of a camera possible, even though still dangerous. The film showed a soccer game patrolled by Taliban bullies with whips in their hands. If a spectator clapped or cheered, they could be whipped (or worse). It struck me at that moment how easy it would be to find such bullies in any society; angry, power-hungry, cruel, and bitter people are everywhere.
Bullfighting epitomizes this reality; in a supposedly highly civilized society, a bully (pardon this pun), a power-hunger and cruel 'person' exacts an unimaginable cruelty upon a sentient creature so that the sentient creature can enjoy some sort of elevated afterlife (this is what Spaniards believe)... it's the same philosphy that drives homicide bombers and lets them mentally check out as they walk into a crowded street and proceed to blow other human beings--women, children, men, boys, and themselves--into bits with nary a second thought.
Posted by Michele at 08:11 PM | Comments (3)