2006_06_01_archive

Eew

A taboo exists for darn good reasons. Violate them only at peril. Such

as pedophilia.

Dutch pedophiles to launch political party | Reuters.com

Dutch pedophiles are launching a political party to push for a cut

in the legal age for sexual relations to 12 from 16 and the

legalization of child pornography and sex with animals.

The party said it wanted to cut the legal age for sexual relations

to 12 and eventually scrap the limit altogether.

The party said private possession of child pornography should be

allowed although it favors banning the trade of such materials. The

broadcast of pornography should be allowed on daytime television,

with only violent pornography limited to the late evening,

according to the party.

Toddlers should be given sex education and youths aged 16 and up

should be allowed to appear in pornographic films and prostitute

themselves. Sex with animals should be allowed although abuse of

animals should remain illegal, the NVD said.

The party also said everybody should be allowed to go naked in

public.

The party's program also includes ideas for other areas of public

policy including legalizing all soft and hard drugs and free train

travel for all.

Words fail me. If this doesn't make your skin crawl then stay far, far

away from me.

# posted by Brian Dunbar : 10:06 PM

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FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE

Philadelphia Inquirer | 05/29/2006 | Greenpeace's fill-in-the-blank

public relations meltdown

Before President Bush touched down in Pennsylvania Wednesday to

promote his nuclear energy policy, the environmental group

Greenpeace was mobilizing.

"This volatile and dangerous source of energy" is no answer to the

country's energy needs, shouted a Greenpeace fact sheet decrying

the "threat" posed by the Limerick reactors Bush visited.

But a factoid or two later, the Greenpeace authors were stumped

while searching for the ideal menacing metaphor.

We present it here exactly as it was written, capital letters and

all: "In the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world's

worst nuclear accident, there have been nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST

AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE]."

No, that's not the best part.

The aghast Greenpeace spokesman who issued the memo, Steve Smith,

said a colleague was making a joke by inserting the language in a

draft that was then mistakenly released.

"Given the seriousness of the issue at hand, I don't even think

it's funny," Smith said.

The best part is (at least as quoted) the Greenpeace spokesman not

seeing the humour in the situation.

# posted by Brian Dunbar : 7:41 PM

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Our ancestors - idiots

I'm watching this show on Discovery: The Rise of Man

The Rise of Man From Homo Erectus, the first species to demonstrate

signs of humanization, to Homo Sapien, follow the path of our

direct ancestors as they migrate across the planet. Through

socialization and technological advances, the Homo Sapien thrives.

It's an okay show. I'm sure they're grossly simplyfying for idiots

like me. Then I see a sequence that offends me.

A small plucky band of Sapiens wanders into Europe. Discovers .. ice -

a whole field of it. Then they find out it's cold and it burns their

bare tootsies. Much capering about and gibbering. One older fellow

plops down and cuts up a fur and binds it around his feet. One dude

hops to and fro stabbing with his spear, at the ground. Much excitment

and yelping.

Twenty feet from the edge of the ice. No doubt these fellows went on

to settle Ireland.

But no, I kid. These guys were no different than you or I - why go to