Archive for April, 2009

Obama’s 1st Three Nights

Posted in Humor, Politics on April 17th, 2009

On January 20, 2009 the newly anointed 44th President of the United States took up residence in the White House. Over the course of the next three nights he was visited by the ghosts of past Presidents.

The First Night
During the first night, with a gentle gust of cold air the ghost of George Washington appears to Obama in the darkness. His face is calm but grave as befitted the shade of America’s first and greatest President.

Obama, shocked and slightly fearful, but still proud that the ghost of George Washington would choose to honor him and eager to get advice from him, asks, “How can I best serve my country?”

Washington answers simply, “Never tell a lie.”

“Ouch!” Winces Obama, uncomfortable with such advice, “I don’t know about that.”

The Second Night
The next night, the ghost of Thomas Jefferson appears with a similarly gentle rush of cold air. His face is slightly stern, as that of a parent about to lecture his child.

Obama, concerned that these nightly visits would hamper his sleep but still proud and still hopeful for advice asks again, “How can I best serve my country?”

Jefferson says, “Listen to the people.”

“Ohhh! I really don’t want to do that,” Obama thinks to himself as he nods his head to the shade before him.

The Third Night
On the third night, the ghost of Abe Lincoln appears amid a rush of cold air faintly carrying the tang of spent gunpowder. His long face was stern and somewhat frustrated looking.

Obama hopeful seeing the man he has modeled his own public image after, asks, “How can I best serve my country?”

Lincoln, his voice sounding resigned to sadness, says, “Go to the theater.”

Beware! O ye men, mean and base. When you seek advice from the great and the wise, they may curse you with the gift of it. 😉

Warm Milk (NSFW)

Posted in Society, Technology on April 15th, 2009

In the Western World, especially America, it is an old adage that a bit of warm milk in the evening will help one get to sleep. Somehow I don’t think the images below depict exactly what most people meant by “warm milk.”

Admittedly though, these images more closely resemble “Hot Milk” than mere “warm milk.” 😉

While not being especially useful help for getting to sleep, the digitally manipulated photo set above by Andrey Razoomovsky is beautiful, erotic and highly creative. It is also one of the most stunning examples of digital imagery I ever seen. The combination of photos of beautiful women with computer generated graphics in these photos is so well-blended that it’s incredible.

Is it just me, or are you wishing you had some cookies right now? Either Nabisco or the California Milk Processor Board – of “Got Milk?” fame – needs to hire this guy.

Andrey Razoomovsky received a bronze medal and worldwide recognition in “Colour slides & Digital images” category on 16th Trierenberg Super Circuit photo exhibition in Austria during 2007. Trierenberg Super Circuit annually defines photo perfection standards. His work is varied but consistently amazing in both form and content.

Mow The Yard

Posted in Humor, Society on April 15th, 2009

Only the British could come up with a commercial like this for a simple, utilitarian household product. It’s both oddly disturbing and extremely funny. No other nation that I know of can so successfully combine sarcasm, prurient interest and humor to such good effect – and then actually allow it to air on television.

It’s almost bikini season, ladies – time to mow the yard.

Wilkinson Sword, which is marketed as Schick in America, came up with the risque but hilariously funny commercial for their Quattro bikini razors.

Sadly, this commercial is never, ever, ever going to air in the United States. Schick carefully chose to air this commercial within the US instead. That was probably a wise move on their part. The American people are largely too prudish and uptight about sex and sexuality too accept a commercial like that on television.

There would also be the problem of the American variety of Feminists. I can judge imagine the shrill shrieks of outrage from that quarter should the “Mow The Yard” ever be shown in the US. Strident howls about the exploitation of women and the “Patriarchy” would be heard from coast to coast. The calls for boycotting Schick would follow close on the sensible-and-comfortable heels of those rants.

Oh well, thank the Gods for YouTube; we still get to enjoy the humor and nobody has to listen to the complaints. 😉

Pope Rejects US Envoys

Posted in Politics, Religion on April 15th, 2009

It seems that Pope Benedict XVI and the temporal leaders of the Catholic Church in the Vatican are not willing to distort their beliefs and faith by granting just anyone the honor of being the United States Envoy or Ambassador to the Holy See.

Pope Benedict doesn’t seem to be able to tolerate the staunchly pro-abortion candidates that President Obama and his administration keeps putting forth for the position.

From BBC News, Europe:

The Vatican has rejected at least three possible candidates proposed by Barack Obama to serve as US ambassador to the Holy See, say reliable sources in Rome.

None of the three candidates informally proposed by the Obama administration so far is acceptable to the Pope because of their support for abortion rights.

One of the potential nominees vetoed by the Vatican is Caroline Kennedy, daughter of the former US president.

Conservative Catholics in the US had already criticized her candidacy.

They say her outspoken pro-choice views on abortion made her an unsuitable choice.

The Vatican is unhappy about President Obama’s support of abortion rights and his lifting of a previous ban on embryonic stem cell research in the US.

The White House may be running out of time to find a suitable future American envoy to the Pope before President Obama travels to Italy in July, when he is expected to meet Pope Benedict XVI for the first time, before or after attending a G8 summit to be held in Sardinia.

Since the US established formal diplomatic relations with the Vatican in 1984, the ambassadorial post has always been held by pro-life Catholics under both republican and democrat administrations.

The ambassador will replace Mary Ann Glendon, a Harvard University professor who held the post during George W Bush’s presidency.

— David Willey
BBC News, Rome

I don’t really know what President Obama and his staff are thinking. They have to realize that the Pope isn’t going entertain a Liberal abortionist as the US ambassador or envoy to the Vatican. To do so would be a tacit endorsement of President Obama’s approval of the deaths of approximately 1.21 million pre-born children in the United States per year, not something that the leader of the Catholic Church is ever likely to do.

Following the General Audience the Holy Father briefly greeted Mrs Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the United States House of Representatives, together with her entourage.

His Holiness took the opportunity to speak of the requirements of the natural moral law and the Church’s consistent teaching on the dignity of human life from conception to natural death which enjoin all Catholics, and especially legislators, jurists and those responsible for the common good of society, to work in cooperation with all men and women of good will in creating a just system of laws capable of protecting human life at all stages of its development

Vatican Statement
February 18, 2009

Perhaps President Obama has made that final descent into madness and hubris. He may believe his own press and the worship of his followers to the point where he thinks he can send anyone he wants to be envoys to other world leaders.

That would be a foolish belief on the part of President Obama and his coterie though. Pope Benedict XVI aka Joseph Ratzinger grew up in Nazi Germany under the rule of Adolf Hitler. He’s very experienced with- and likely inured to the blandishments and beliefs of ideologues, no matter how charismatic, and their minions.

Given the Machiavellian genius of Obama’s 2008 Presidential campaign though, it’s difficult to chalk these repeated insults off to madness, hubris, or stupidity. More likely is the theory that this is a well-crafted political ploy to place the Vatican, and therefor the Catholic Church, at odds with the United States and too paint the Catholic Church as being unreasonable.

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it. Cut off the support network and isolate the target from sympathy. Go after people and not institutions; people hurt faster than institutions. (This is cruel, but very effective. Direct, personalized criticism and ridicule works.)

— Saul Alinsky
The 12th Rule For Radicals

The 12th Rule, straight out of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals has worked well for President Obama so far, so it’s would not be surprising that he’d continue using it, thinking that it will continue to be of good effect.

Did A’isha Weep?

Posted in Ethics & Morality, Religion, Society on April 12th, 2009

 
Muhammad and Aisha Did the young Arab girl A’isha weep when Muhammad mounted her and tore though her virginity and any semblance of innocence she might have retained at that point? Did she cry bitter tears when, at the age of nine (some apologists say 12 – 14) the middle-aged founder of Islam first used her?

Humanity will never know; it’s never been a safe question ask.  The mere allusion to Muhammad’s debased pedophilia is enough to get one savagely murdered in some noisome quarters of the world. Soon it may be risky across the globe if mankind falters and the Islamists get their way.

I think it safe to say that at least one of the young girls going though this same rape and torment in this supposedly enlightened age will be weeping, screaming, and pleading for her “husband” to stop when he gets the urge to rut in her. Sadly, her cries will be unheeded by the vermin on top of her, the rest of the nest of them around her, and seemingly most of mankind as well, who will shake their heads but take no action beyond that.

A Saudi mother is expected to appeal a judge’s ruling after he once again refused to let her 8-year-old daughter divorce a 47-year-old man, a relative said.

Sheikh Habib Al-Habib made the ruling Saturday in the Saudi city of Onaiza. Late last year, he rejected a petition to annul the marriage.

The case, which has drawn criticism from local and international rights groups, came to light in December when Al-Habib declined to annul the marriage on a legal technicality. His dismissal of the mother’s petition sparked outrage and made headlines around the world.

The judge said the mother, who is separated from the girl’s father, was not the legal guardian and therefore could not represent her daughter, the mother’s lawyer, Abdullah al-Jutaili, said at the time.

The girl’s husband pledged not to consummate the marriage until the girl reaches puberty, according to al-Jutaili, who added that the girl’s father arranged the marriage to settle his debts with the man, who is considered “a close friend.”

In March, an appeals court in the Saudi capital of Riyadh declined to certify the original ruling, in essence rejecting al-Habib’s verdict, and sent the case back to al-Habib for reconsideration.

Under the Saudi legal process, the appeals court ruling meant that the marriage was still in effect, but that a challenge to the marriage was still ongoing.

The relative, who said the girl’s mother will continue to pursue a divorce, told CNN the judge “stuck by his earlier verdict and insisted that the girl could petition the court for a divorce once she reached puberty.”

The appeals court in Riyadh will take up the case again and a hearing is scheduled for next month, according to the relative.

Child marriages have made news in Saudi Arabia in the past year.

In a statement issued shortly after the original verdict, the Society of Defending Women’s Rights in Saudi Arabia said the judge’s decision went against children’s “basic rights.”

Marrying children makes them “lose their sense of security and safety,” the group said. “Also, it destroys their feeling of being loved and nurtured. It causes them a lifetime of psychological problems and severe depression.”

Zuhair al-Harithi, a spokesman for the Saudi Human Rights Commission, a government-run group, told CNN that his organization was fighting child marriages.

“Child marriages violate international agreements that have been signed by Saudi Arabia and should not be allowed,” al-Harithi said.

Child marriage is not unusual, said Christoph Wilcke, a Saudi Arabian researcher for the international group Human Rights Watch, after the initial verdict.

“We’ve been hearing about these types of cases once every four or five months because the Saudi public is now able to express this kind of anger, especially so when girls are traded off to older men,” Wilcke told CNN.

Mohammed Jamjoom
Reporting for  CNN, April 12, 2009

This is the sort of thing that humans find sickening. Some misborn mockery of a man can’t pay his debts, so he sells off his daughter to another subhuman piece of filth for the purpose of slaking its perverted lusts.

When the girl pleads for protection from the upcoming serial rape, what passes for a court system in Saudi Arabia declares that she’s too young to understand divorce and so must remain “married” to the vermin until she reaches puberty.

That’s Arabs for you. The girl’s too young to understand divorce, but not too young to be bred by some sweating, filthy, creature who mocks mankind by his piss poor aping of them.

And, of course, when the girl’s mother tries to get the Saudi courts to see something akin to reason, Sheikh Habib Al-Habib declares that she has no standing with the court and that the state-sanctioned rape and enslavement of her daughter will proceed.

Of course, under Shari’a – the law as laid down by Muhammad – such villainy is fully condoned, so one must expect any mouthings issued from the maws of al-Qummal like Sheikh Habib Al-Habib to fully support pedophilia and the selling of young girls into bondage.

While this is something that everyone has come to expect from what the Arabs try to pass off as their “civilization,” one has to – if one is human and possessed of reason and morality – wonder why it must be, albeit tacitly, condoned by mankind.

Would it not be better if mankind rid itself of this infestation and the diseases of both flesh and spirit that it carries?