omgwtf!

Just a potato sack with four five-week-old kittens inside, tossed them right into a busy intersection. A woman ran for the bag because she noticed it was moving, and rescued one. The rest, she said, were dead. She didnt elaborate, but if you saw the look on her face, she didnt really have to. She took the survivor to the vet and has adopted her, naming her Luna. Luna is on antibiotics and should have a good life - so she lucked out.

A Marine was recently discharged from the service for tossing a puppy over a cliff while someone videotaped him. That little nugget ended up on YouTube. You could hear the puppy yelping as he went over. The Marine was laughing, even as his fellow Marines chastised him for doing it. I’m sure he’s not laughing now, but I can assure you he’s not crying as hard as I want him to be.

I want to know what in the fuck is wrong with people who will do this. It’s bad enough that these creatures never did a fucking thing to you. These are babies. They are utterly defenseless. They offer no threat of any kind, no resistance, they are literally no match for you. What the fuck is wrong with you? What the fuck are you thinking?

I tell you what. These people are fucking lucky as shit that I’m not a superhero. They’re lucky, but I think I might have a goddamn stroke.

Edit: And while I normally take the side of non-humans over humans, to be fair, I wanted to include this gem I discovered this morning while wrapping up a hearing I was working on: a 27-year-old man stomped a one or two-year-old toddler to death by the side of a highway in California on Saturday night. Several passers-by pulled over and tried to stop this man, and the cops had a chopper in the area, swung by, saw what this man was doing, and landed in the field next to the road. The officer was on the ground for less than two minutes, they say, before he made the decision to shoot this man because nothing would stop him from stomping this toddler to death.

They shot and killed him, but it was too late for the baby. Witnesses say that before the police got there, the man declared the child had “demons” in him, and though they tried, they couldn’t even pull him off the boy. Nothing would stop him from punching and stomping the kid to death by the side of the road. The police think they know who he is, but the beating caused so much damage they say it’s impossible to get a visual ID. Apparently, there was blood all over the cab of the pickup truck as well as all over the man himself and on the highway. I guess he sure did get those demons. More than he bargained for, maybe. Either way, not enough of them.

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Chris Matthews totally shreds belligerent simpleton and shrieking right-wingnut Kevin James on Hardball the other night.

Brilliant.

The Bush administration has no problem with torture, so what they should do is strap loyal toady Kevin James into a chopper, hook him up to an amp, and fly him over Afghanistan as an aural warfare device to torment the populace into finally giving up bin Laden. I bet it’d take less than a day before his voice began to drill smoking holes into their brains, even if they didnt listen to a word he said.

I can’t believe this guy actually does a radio show. I thought there were laws against noise pollution in this country.

“What did Neville Chamberlain Do?”

Turn down your volume. Seriously.

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Benazir Bhutto was assassinated yesterday as she was leaving a political rally. She stood up to wave at the crowd through the sunroof of her bulletproof transport and was prompted shot three times. The gunman, a suicide bomber, self-detonated right next to her vehicle immediately following the shooting. Prime Minister Bhutto was soon afterwards pronounced dead at a local hospital, and today was buried in her ancestral home, next to her father.

I expected this to happen since the moment she set foot back in Pakistan. It was like I was holding my breath the whole time, just waiting for that other shoe to drop. I have many, many things to say about this, but to be honest, this is the quote that really hit home with me. It’s from this article and was brought to my attention by someone on a forum I moderate:

At a human level this is a tragedy like no other. Only a few days ago I was mentioning to someone that the single most tragic person in all of Pakistan - maybe all the world - is Nusrat Bhutto. Benazir’s mother. Think about it. Her husband, killed. One son alledgedly poisoned. Another son assasinated. Daughter rises to be Prime Minister twice, but jailed, exiled, and finally gunned down.

Today, in shock, I can think only of Benazir Bhutto the human being. Tomorrow, maybe, I will think of politics.

Al Qaeda has purportedly claimed responsibility for the assassination.

What a horrible, horrible waste of hope and potential and future.

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When Hugo Chavez was elected president of Venezuela, I was happy. I like the idea of socialism - at least a certain kind of socialism which roughly equates to democratic socialism. Though I’m of the firm belief that no one “ism” is ever good enough to run a country on, and that good government relies on the proper mix of pretty much every “ism” (something that we have yet to see in human history), I think socialism is a good place from which to start because it takes the needs of ALL people into account and gives everyone equal status and importance, no matter who you are or where you come from. At least, that’s on paper. We all know that it’s not the “ism” that is ever the problem. It’s the people behind the implementation of any given “ism” that are always causing the huge issues.

Well, it looks like old Hugo is no different. I am very disappointed in this. Since his election I watched him go from a well-meaning man, at least on the surface, to someone who has rapidly propelled himself into the position of dictator of Venezuela. Because that’s what “no term limits” means: dictatorship. Even the most benevolent, kindest of dictators is still a dictator, and a dictatorship is antithetical to democracy. So he’s gone from being someone I admired to someone that I now wish to see put down as fast as possible

Maybe not as fast as Dubya and Cheney, or good old Vlad Putin, or Kim Jong-Il - you get what I’m saying here - but fast. Like so many socialists before him, he has besmirched and smeared what socialism stands for, what socialism is, and as a result he should pay. He won’t - at least not right away - but he should. I’m very, very disappointed in him

And I hope this doesnt give Bernie Sanders, whom I adore, any wild ideas.
Shame on you, Hugo. You could have been a great man. Now, you’re just as much a devil as you accused Bush of being. Pot, meet kettle. I dont care if you want to send everyone to college. You also want to be a dictator.

Keep your fucking oil, you double-crossing traitor. I’ll walk.

I’ve always wanted a horse, anyway.
Chavez threatens to cut oil if U.S. questions vote - CNN.com

Edit: Wordpress is making me crazy with the bad formatting. UGH.

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…I dont think it means what they think it means.

I’d call them fucking barbarians, but that would be an insult to barbarians. Let’s see, how about knuckle-dragging, subhuman, semi-evolved, mentally deranged throwbacks…now that’s more like it.

The human gene pool desperately needs some fucking chlorine.

The Saudi government recently has taken some steps toward bettering the situation of women in the kingdom, including the establishment earlier this year of special courts to handle domestic abuse cases, adoption of a new labor law that addresses working women’s rights, and creation of a human rights commission.

Emphasis is mine. Why they’d choose to make this the last paragraph of a story that has absolutely zero with doing any bettering of anything in any way is beyond me, but CNN isn’t exactly known for their stellar journalism.

Story is C&P after the jump (for posterity).

Saudi court ups punishment for gang-rape victim - CNN.com

(wait, I can explain…)

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Wow. You mean after all these years someone in authority has finally done something about the fact that that our U.S.-backed guerilla vigilante operatives were running around Iraq shooting civilians and being as unlawful as it is possible to be, all while on the payroll of the United States government? Imagine that!

These guys have been over there operating under absolutely zero restraint, under zero control, and zero law since the second they landed, have been far better equipped, paid, and cared for than our actual soldiers - to the point where many soldiers refuse to re-up in the military, opting instead to eagerly to sign up with Blackwater and the other for-hire operative groups that are in Iraq and Afghanistan because of the very high pay and the great perks. Theyve been running amok, blowing shit up and murdering civilians in cold blood since day one and it’s only just now finally gotten the attention of our media? Britney Spears must be having a slow day today.

I dont expect that attention to last long, but at least something is better than nothing; their contract is now terminated. It’s about fucking time. I won’t even pretend to be naive enough to believe that anyone will be held accountable in any way, but at least the contract has been terminated.

I’m glad the Iraqi government actually had a nut and is banning them, but I wonder how long it’ll be before we find out that some kind of shady deal has been reached to allow them to continue operating over there. We have nowhere near enough troops to deal with this mess we’ve got in the Mideast; that’s why these goons were brought in in the first place. No way in hell theyre not going to be allowed to continue to operate.

This government, en masse, should be put on trial for crimes against humanity.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/09/17/iraq.main/index.html

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