SAME SHIT, DIFFERENT YEAR

DATELINE: SAME SHIT, DIFFERENT YEAR: Well, it is encouraging to know that some things will never fuckin change. First, the catholic church. *insert almost patient sigh here*. They created this bullshit front/homage to tolerance by creating Courage. Now, I have no idea what the hell ‘Courage’ is to me, but after spending time listening to the Catholic Church expounding on its wisdom, and perusing its website, if I wasn’t completely offended before by the church I grew up with and their hypocritical loads of bullshit, I certainly am now. Courage is sort of a Catholic AA for homosexuals, a 12-step program to rid them of their need for...affection? Intimacy? The Catholic Church's Courage Program is NOT about tolerance at all. This is about ‘curing’ gays and lesbians. I am surprised Michelle Bachmann’s face isn’t all over the fecking website, being the posterbitch for the Intolerant Movement.

Catholic Church Courage: Their site claims to promote tolerance ‘By developing an interior life of chastity, which is the universal call to all Christians, one can move beyond the confines of the homosexual identity to a more complete one in Christ.’ Universal to all Christians? What the fuck is that!! An interior life of chastity? Shall I start the fucking list of oh so chaste fucking catholic priests and bishops, and that doesn't have anything to do with their god damned internal life? They were right out there, for the world to see, getting away with rape, sodomy, sexual abuse, manipulation, corruption, abuse... while the Church withheld the evidence and obstructed justice. Where the hell do they get off (okay, considering who I am talking about, ‘get off’ is probably not the greatest choice of words) telling ANYONE else what to do when they sure as hell don’t adhere to those principles, or apparently any principles, at all?

So, apparently they are saying that 'it’s okay for you to be gay, we as a church embrace that, as long as you come to us to be cured, and as long as you don’t call it marriage'. According to Deacon Robert Pallotti, the directorate of the Office of the Diaconate in Connecticut, New Hampshire, “These are people in the Roman Catholic Church who need our care and love. In some cases, they have been rejected by society. They need to be accepted, affirmed and supported as Roman Catholics trying to remain faithful to church teachings.”

They have been ‘accepted, affirmed and supported’. How the hell is it possible that a lightning bolt did not take this asshole out the minute he started to speak?
He goes on to say “Through support and spiritual intervention, we can help those with same-sex attractions live moral and fulfilling lives. These people are hurting and so are their families. Doing nothing would be a lack of compassion.”

These people are hurting,because they are being forced to live a lie, because they are made to feel ashamed of who they are, because of dickhead narrow-minded intolerant pieces of shit, like Pallotti and the rest of his Courage friends, who can’t even say love or marriage or relationships. All this ‘same sex attractions’ is just another way of them denying that a person who is gay is allowed to have feelings or is allowed to love. All of this 'Courage' bullshit being spewed from catholic mouths is akin to the futuristic horror movie The Rick Santorum Solution, undoubtedly a low budget film that will star Rick in the leading role, backed with a wonderful array of fucking junkyard dogs.

In the past week, we have been subjected to reports of catholic bishops admitting to fathering families, allowing the mother to raise the children alone. We have had priests in court because of their procurement and possession of child pornography (yes, it was in Canada, so yes, the fucking sick bastard was sentenced yesterday to time already served). Yes, this one is STILL a priest. Apparently this sort of thing is NOT reason for them to get the boot. Counseling a woman to follow her doctor’s advice if he advises a hysterectomy, however, is. Excuse me if I don’t bow down to the amazing brilliance and erudite guidance offered by the Catholic Church. Until they clean up their own fucking mess, in every sense of the term, they have absolutely no business telling anyone else what to do. As for them expounding the merits of tolerance and acceptance? Yeah, go check out their ‘Courage’ site; you’ll soon learn that those words are not even a possibility in this organization.

THE FIRST EVER EVENING EDITION!!

THE FIRST EVER EVENING EDITION!!

Yes, there is soooo much of this shit out there, we just had to do another one, because we could not wait for Monday, and none of this is fodder for the artsy-fartsy fluff crap page.

DATELINE: FLORIDA – Spirit Airline has announce their latest innovation in streamlining air travel and making it so much more appealing to the public – a $45 charge for each piece of carry-on luggage. Yes, because they love to enhance your travel experience, you get to fork out more money, and we all love that. It’s their attempt to cut down on the amount of large luggage pieces that are taken into the cabin of the airplane, so because some asshole can’t stand to have to wait and the conveyor belt for ten minutes for his suitcase to arrive, we all get to foot the fucking bill. Big carry-on crap annoys me. Extra fucking fees like this annoy me that much more. Sadly, once one airline starts with this crap, its only a matter of days before the rest get that wiff of more money and jump aboard.

DATELINE: OTTAWA – MP Helena Guergis has resigned her office. About fucking time! Not only has she submitted her resignation, but she has been kicked out of Caucus, AND Prime Minister Harper has asked for a full RCMP investigation into recent ‘serious allegations’. It is to be hoped that should the investigation shows any costs to the tax payer because of Guergis or her snappy, happy hubby Rahim Jaffer, it will be completely refunded. Yes, I am doing a fucking Happy Dance. May her elitist, entitled ass get the royal fucking kicking it deserves. Nah na na na, Nah na na na, hey hey hey, Go-ooooodbye…..

DATELINE: BOSTON – Phoebe Prince had gone to administrators about the threats made against her prior to her death. Documentation revealed today that she in fact did talk to an unnamed school administrator because she was afraid of the threats she had received, and to ask that she be allowed to go home early because of these threats. Her request was denied, and she was returned to her class with the knowledge that NOTHING would be done to help her. While District Attorney Elizabeth Scheibel states that the inaction is troublesome but not criminal, I would argue that, if nothing else, they should be held civilly liable for their indifference to the problem. It’s time to make some serious changes in how bullying situations are handled in schools. There is no tie to wait on this, and inaction should NEVER be an option again.

DATELINE: WEST VIRGINIA – Information provided to congressional lawmakers this afternoon indicated that the Upper Big Branch Mine had received 61 orders for closure for all or parts of the mine in the last 15 months because of safety violations. Despite the extraordinary number of ‘withdrawal orders’ no one in the Mine Safety and Health Administration bothered to take action to cite the mine for a ‘pattern of violence’. While the federal agency does not have the authority to shut down a mine without going to court first, they can issue orders that force the mine to be evacuated until known hazards are eliminated. Proper ventilation and gas emission measures have been an issue at this mine for the last year, and in fact one of the 25 victims mentioned the previous Friday that they were shut down early because of the high gas levels within the mine. Perhaps it’s time for the government to take these issues seriously and create some legislation that has some teeth. Little puissant fines mean nothing to these large mining companies, but with the available technology there is absolutely no fucking excuse for there to be any issues like this in a mine these days. It’s time to hold corporate executive’s to account, and let them know that they cannot fill their wallets at the cost of bodies left in a mine.

DATELINE: ROME – More correspondence has surfaced regarding reports to the Vatican of pedophile priests, all of them ignored by the Vatican. In Canada, Bishop Joseph Windle sent a letter to the Pope in 1993, expressing deep concerns over the elevation of Father Bernard Prince, a personal friend of Pope John Paul II, to the Pontifical Society for the Propagation of the Faith, referring to victims and the priest’s conduct. The letter had the backing of several other prominent Catholic leaders in Canada, but it was not until 2008, when he was convicted of molesting 13 boys over a span of twenty years, that the Vatican seemed to notice. Originally over 30 charges were laid, including buggery, indecent assault and gross indecency again the boys, aged 12-15, most of whom were altar boys. Following his conviction, Prince was defrocked and is now in jail, where the fucking asshole belongs.
Meanwhile, in Los Angeles, a letter has surfaced WITH Cardinal Ratzinger’s (aka Pope Benedict) signature, stating that despite pleas from within the church to defrock a known pedophile priest, Ratzinger’s ONLY concern was ‘the good of the universal church’. The letter is one of several, over years of correspondence regarding Father Stephen Kiesle, dating back to 1981, when Ratzinger was appointed head Rottweiler for the Vatican. The case was allowed to go unanswered for another four years, and in his reply at that time, the future Pope agreed that the arguments were of ‘grave significance’, but for the good of the Church (ie, to cover up the fact that this was happening fucking everywhere and that it really was of no importance to the Pope or Vatican officials) nothing would be done hastily. Let me recap… Kiesle, in 1978, had plead no contest to charges of tying up and molesting two boys in the rectory of a church in San Francisco. For starters, how the hell can ANYONE argue that this offence was a fucking misdemeanor? When his probation ended, he was allowed to return back to the church, and in fact allowed to work with children again. It was not until another volunteer in the youth ministry found out about the charges and began to write letters and to confront diocese officials that anything was done. Keisle was eventually arrested in 2002, charged with 13 counts of child molestation. All but two of the charges were tossed because of statute of limitations issues. This man, this Priest that was protected by Ratzinger’s department and absolute need to prevent scandal within the church, reportedly bragged that he was the ‘Pied Piper’, that ‘he tried to molest every child that sat on his lap’ and that he did molest ‘tons’ according to Lewis VanBlois, attorney for six of his victims. This same scenario played out for two priests in Arizona as well, one case being taken over by Ratzinger for review, and then left to sit on a back burner despite years and repeated requests for action. Of course, the Vatican’s response to ALL these allegations is that they are taken out of context – bullshit! – and that they will not reply to every piece of paper that may or may not have the pope’s signature on them. Yes, that’s it… continue to hide the facts, continue to blame everyone else for the clusterfuck you created, continue to allow innocent children to be abused and violated.

DATELINE: OTTAWA – Bishop Raymond Lahey, the Catholic bishop stopped at airport security and found to be in possession of child pornography, was today named in a civil lawsuit alleging sexual abuse by a former resident at Mount Cashel Orphanage. Sadly, this wasn’t totally unexpected because of the long history of abuse and cover-up that was exposed several years ago regarding Mount Cashel. The charges against Lahey, stretching over a four year period for this one victim, include simulated anal intercourse and fondling. The entire situation, that men in positions of authority and unquestioning trust, could take such vile advantage of children who are in the worst of situations, and the hierarchy STILL turns a blind eye. These children were in an orphanage, already emotionally suffering more than any child should have to. Orphans, deaf children, special needs children… these men, ‘men of God’ who demand that we uphold the laws of the church and we confess our crimes, and who pass judgment on people far too often with their hellfire and brimstone damned-to-hell preaching, have been preying on the most vulnerable in society, and others have allowed it. Both the doing and the allowing are crimes. Time to start atoning.

DAILY NEWS - February 3, 2010

DAILY NEWS – FEBRUARY 3rd, 2010

DATELINE: WASHINGTON – The ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ military policy is being debated. Funny how the fucking politicians can’t get their shit together. I will make it easy for you... leave the fucking discrimination crap at the door, or at least for the Pope to do. We can see how much fucking credibility it gives him.

DATELINE: QUEBEC – Doctors from this province who VOLUNTEERED to go help out in Haiti are now claiming they should be paid $702/day for their work. Apparently doctors in Quebec are too fucking stupid to understand the concept of VOLUNTEER. No wonder Danny Williams fled the fucking country to get medical attention.

DATELINE: JAPAN – You actually have to start feeling sorry for those poor Toyota people. When it rains on them, it really fucking pours. The Japanese government has ordered Toyota to look into a problem with the brakes on their newest model Prius because of the large number of accidents involving them. The company has not issued a recall... yet... but damn, it has to suck to be working in their corporate offices right now.

DATELINE: VANCOUVER – The Norwegian Star, a cruise ship that was supposed to be docked and used as a hotel for high-paying guests AND 13 children from the Make-A-Wish organization, has decided it is not economically viable to park a big fucking ship like that for ten days without having a sell-out crowd booked. Nine days out from the Olympics, they have announced they are cancelling, leaving 1500 people and the group of terminally ill children in the lurch. God forbid they try to come up with an alternative for them, like bringing in a smaller fucking boat or something, or making it so it doesn’t cost a fucking fortune for one of their floating bedrooms.

DATELINE: IRAN – They have stepped up their game in the space race, celebrating putting their first rocket into space. Contained on the fucking thing – a turtle, a mouse and some worms. What the fuck they are supposed to do up there in space is totally beyond me. Seems to me that someone was pissed off about getting skunked on a fishing trip and jammed his god damned leftovers in there for a lark. I can’t wait until the fucking SPCA gets hold of this one. Yes, People, this IS the way to show those fucking martians that there is intelligent life here on Earth.

DATELINE: OTTAWA – Bishop Lahey was SUPPOSED to enter a plea today on charges of possession and trafficking of child pornography. It got postponed until April. I know this isn’t fucking news or a surprise, but I just don’t want anyone to forget about this SOB. Again, more evidence of the Catholic Church’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Really Give a Flying Font’ policy.

DATELINE: FRANCE – A man was denied citizenship because he has forced his wife to wear a burka. His wife is a French citizen. Before you all get your panties in a fucking knot, I will tell you why this pisses me off. IF this was a legitimate thing where her rights were being trampled by her husband... and it could be... the case loses all fucking credibility because of all the other crap the government has said about wearing a burka. It is ‘contrary to the values of the Republic’, it ‘promotes homophobic violence’, it is a ‘visible sign of radical religious practice’. Make up your fucking minds! If you want to stop radical religious practice, shut down all the churches. If it’s about equality between men and women and wearing your religion on your sleeve, shut down the fucking convents, because every argument against wearing a burka can be made against wearing a habit. Get your shit together, France. This is just fucking hatred and discrimination and you know it.

DATELINE: LOS ANGELES – Michael Jackson’s doctor will be facing charges of ‘involuntary manslaughter’ for providing the singer with the fatal dose of sleeping crap. You realize what this means? More fucking Jacksons on the television and in the newspapers... because we just haven’t had enough of it already.

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