People are freezing, people are frightened, people have lost everything–but hey! It’s just another fun weekend at summer camp. Can you believe this bastard?Berlusconi told the reporter for the N-TV channel that the homeless quake victims “lacked nothing”.“They have medicaments. They have hot food. They have shelter for the night,” he said.“Of course, their current lodgings are a bit temporary. But they should see it like a weekend of camping.”
You’d think, with a name like DeviantArt, a website would commit itself to uncensored free expression, right?
Wrong. Take the case of Ben Heine, a Belgian artist. Recently he decided to express what he thought of the Pope’s anti-condom stance. Here’s what he said:
And here’s what DeviantArt did to his free speech:
They also banned him permanently. For apparently living up to the site’s name all too well. Apparently, no one is allowed to deviate from the orthodox stance of a celibate old man in a skirt who presumes to tell young people what to do with their sex lives (i.e., not have any until marriage, and then only to procreate without restriction). This is what they call being “pro-life”: People are dying of AIDS, and the Vatican’s response is to play the ostrich and stick to the same old same old. Even if it costs lives, Jesus must never be portrayed in a condom. He isn’t supposed to even have a penis.So what’s the message here? Abortion is a sin and so is birth control, but AIDS is okay, I guess. There’s God’s love for you, with a vengeance.
Well, well, well…what have we here?
Translation mine.Figures that the Bolivian oppos are just as bad as their Venezuelan counterparts–maybe even worse, if this is true. It takes a special kind of bastard to deliberately put his wife and kids at risk of violence which he himself provokes.I wonder if HRW is planning to scream about this. Somehow, I doubt they’ll even get the memo.The vice-minister of the Interior and Police, Marcos Farfán, denounced former vice-president Víctor Hugo Cárdenas and his wife, Lidia Katari, for having provoked the people of Sank’a Jawira to occupy his rural residence last March.“On March 7 the media show was planned by Víctor Hugo Cárdenas, and as well, his wife fed the story to Channel A, knowing there was a risk of occupation,” Farfán revealed. He explained that Cárdenas put his children’s lives at risk, knowing that there was an angry mob which had decided that the residence would be converted into a senior citizens’ home.Despite the heated atmosphere in the community, Cárdenas brought his family to the house. The forces of public order were pushed over the edge by the mob which responded with violence to the provocation of the family, Farfán said.“Using these events, the ex-vice president Víctor Hugo Cárdenas sought to raise his political profile, much more when he brought a case in Sucre against the Minister of Government, Alfredo Rada, for alleged non-fulfillment of duties,” said Farfán.According to Vice-Minister Farfán, the charges pressed in Sucre are unjustified, because there was a case in El Alto against the alleged authors of the takeover of the house and the attacks on the wife and children of Cárdenas. There was also no “non-fulfillment of duties,” because a police contingent was called to the house in dispute.
…to suck it:
“It” being the business end of the barrel of your favorite toy, of course.And if you’re planning any violence this week as part of your “assertion of rights“, please inflict it on yourselves first, and save the cops the bother. They don’t like being party to your suicides. Gives ’em PTSD and puts ’em right off their doughnuts.
Well! Just reading that made me giggly and gave me the munchies. Think I’ll go eat lunch now.Treatment with the active ingredient of marijuana, Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), can destroy human and mouse cancer cells by stimulating autophagy, the natural process leading to cell death, according to a report in the April 1 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation.Maria Salazar, of Complutense University in Madrid, Spain, and colleagues cultured a human glioma cell line (U87MG) and mouse cancer cells, then treated the study cells with THC. The researchers examined treated and untreated cells under electron microscope for comparison. Immunostaining was performed to detect markers for endoplasmic reticulum stress response, a cellular process that stimulates autophagy and cell death. The researchers also examined biopsy tissue from two glioblastoma multiforme patients who were treated with THC.The investigators found that the THC treatments induced ceramide accumulation, eukaryotic translation and phosphorylation that activated an endoplasmic reticulum stress response in the THC-treated cells, a pathway that led to autophagy. Cells displaying increased autophagy also were observed in the tumor samples obtained from the two THC-treated glioblastoma patients. Conversely, in cells in which the autophagy process was genetically inhibited or inhibited by drugs, the THC was ineffective, the report indicates.“These findings describe a mechanism by which THC can promote the autophagic death of human and mouse cancer cells and provide evidence that cannabinoid administration may be an effective therapeutic strategy for targeting human cancers,” the authors write.
“For years, New Yorkers have done everything in our power to get this guy to leave town. We’ve passed laws making it tougher for hot dog vendors to sell along the streets, we hold gay pride parades — there are barely any gay people in the city, but we thought it’d make him uncomfortable, so we shipped them in…We knew he was into drugs, so we cleaned up Times Square.”–Jon Stewart, glad to see the Pigman gone
A. His lips are moving:
Venezuelan ex-defence minister Raúl Baduel, ex-general, ex-constitutionalist, ex-Bolivarian and ex-friend of Chavecito, concocts a pile of bovine feces for CNN’s Spanish channel. He claims that when he was arrested (on corruption and contempt-of-court charges, not for political reasons), military intelligence officers pointed their guns at his wife (why her, if it was him they were after?); that Chavecito was behind it; and that there needs to be another assembly to rewrite all that evil Bolivarianism out of Venezuela’s constitution–in order to salvage democracy. His son made this video. Why? So that the small knot of his supporters down there, and the vast sea of “pro-democracy” rubes stretching from Miami all the way up to here, won’t be confused by any pesky facts.All of which leads me to another Q ‘n’ A:Q: How can you tell CNN is trying to sell you a pile of bovine feces?A: It’s live and on air.
