Dreadful news
 

It's a slippery slope between reading/watching the news in order to stay reasonably informed about current events and rubbernecking. I must admit I'm attracted to the dreadful. Like the woman who had a baby in a portapotty and just dumped it there while she went back to her BBQ (a few weeks ago) to the lady who hit a guy in her car, and parked the car in her garage--with the guy still alive stuck in the windshield for days until he died (that one gave me nightmares).

And this one about the recent rape of a 9 year old girl in Phoenix by a group of boys. This kind of stuff makes me FURIOUS! Cultural validity to rape does not make it right!

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/23/...ult/index.html

I hope those people are taught a lesson.

Damn. Some parts of the world are still so backward in their beliefs.

I thought that thing about the man in the windshield was just an episode of CSI! that really happened? :shock:

Well, yes and no.

yeah, it really happened.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chante_Jawan_Mallard

Here's the Snopes link--maybe it will work this time:

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/bargrill.asp

Thanks, Cloud.

Don't know what happened there.

Pretty sad statement. I guess it just goes to prove that no matter how bad we want other people to be like us there are some cultures that just do things differently.

Yup, I am shaking my head at Carla Vigneri and your culture.

I was speaking of Cloud's post. Where the father no longer wants his daughter because she was raped. Carla Vigneri problem does not seem to culturally based. That is just another deranged psychotic chick with major issues.

Liberian leaders have publicly denounced the family's reaction. The Liberian president is female, which is interesting. It's very hard to change culturally ingrained practices, but maybe they're trying.

Yea, well we have a half-black President too, and I see only a small change. :headshake

It takes a long time. A long time, and I do see a change in race relations, in gender equality, too--but slow change, and we all need to work harder at it.

Ah, but can you believe in it?

What Cloud said. This kind of change takes generations to really achieve.

Ah Merc, don't do this to me!
You have a mixed race President (who was brought up in both an Islamic and a Christian culture) and you want to make a point that he wasn't able to snap his fingers and solve ALL race/ religious/ cultural problems instantly?

Isn't his election a massive thumbs up in favour of the original "melting pot" of early US policy?

I hated Margaret Thatcher's politics.
I still do - I will stand on her grave and tramp the dirt down.
But I am pleased the British public were able to vote in a female Prime Minister.
I celebrated the 20th/ 21st century moving forward, even across party lines.

If there were a thread about, say, inferior tomato sauce, merc would say it's Obama's fault. It's his only agenda, and it's tiresome.

I like the merc, I've found he's a pretty good person in a lot of ways (Ha, bet you never thought I'd say that) but his constant negativity and broken record political crap is probably going to land him on ignore. I'm sure he cares ;) but really, it's making me ill to read it ALL THE TIME.

Who's this Merc guy?

;)

Why would anyone care care whether another person had them on ignore or not?
To the ignored person, it is a non-event. Nothing changes, they don't stop existing.

:D

Road kill.

Well, that's why I said "I'm sure he cares" and cyber-winked, ya dil-rod.

Well it would be. :D

Regarding the Phoenix rape, in my opinion, rapists deserve the death penalty. No, I don't mean statutory rape, involving 2 16-year-olds who consent. I mean violent, against the will rape.
And I also believe that ANYONE, regardless of cultural background or upbringing, that believes the victim is to blame, should be sitting in the lap of the rapist when the volts are sent through the chair.

Be glad I didn't post the story about the mother who ate her baby.

Ick.

or the canary fighting ring.

*votes for Sheldon*

Shel, the Department Of Justice just called.
They'd like to see your résumé, as they have a job offer.

2nded

Pope Rat has always known about the abuse.


Father Campbell was convicted in 1985 of multiple charges of sexual assault, and sentenced to 14 years in prison.

The church says Canon law has changed:

So, now I suppose priests get defrocked for defrocking children?

disclaimer: I loved Father W at my elementary school/church. He was a wonderful man, as was Sister N, the principal of the school. It's just unfathomable to me how, as a child, it would feel to have one of the most powerful people in your young life take advantage of you that way. :(

:headshake

link

I saw that CNN is doing a special report tonight on the Pope's knowledge and actions back in the '80's. The schedule is also in your link:

Editor’s note: A one-hour CNN special, “What the Pope Knew,” will air this Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 25 and Sept. 26, at 8pm and 11pm ET. This story is drawn from that report.

Must DVR that!