custody battle from hell, 2.0

Paging Dr. Phibes...Dr Phibes...you're wanted in the Gaza StripSpeaking of things that will end badly, how about this one: this poor 20 year old soldier gets killed in action, and his morbidly monomaniacal parental units have the cold, dead corpse’s shrivelled scrota pumped for sperm, which the hospital then holds for whatever nefarious purposes hospitals need dead boys’s sperm for, but the parents sue, claiming (not without some justification there, it must be said) that those are their genes, not the hospital’s, which suit they win, and, upon gaining custody of the precious vials of spooge they then proceed to advertise them internationally in, I suppose, the personals section of Goth magazines and such, looking for a zombie-positive woman with, presumably, no real-life prospects, and who wishes to give birth to the child there is no evidence this poor kid ever wanted.

Lesson: wank before war, boys! If whatever creepy Doctor Phibes impersonator the parents hired had not found any sperm, all would have been well. You know this is gonna be one hell of a Jerry Springer show!

From the BBC. I have no idea how I got there, and if I did post the intermediary websites, no doubt they’d all deny it!

The lawyer of an Israeli couple who won the right to use their dead son’s sperm to inseminate a woman he never met says the case is a boost for family rights.

Irit Rosenblum told the BBC the landmark ruling meant family lines could continue even without the written consent of the male prior to death.

The dead man, soldier Keivin Cohen, was killed in the Gaza Strip in 2002.

You may now commence retelling your J-Date horror stories, but no way will they top this. This one’s got a lock on the Controlling Mother of the Year Award.

Attorney General told judges not to use judgement

Gonzales equals torture

Yep, in typical “we know what’s best for you all” fashion, Alberto Gonzalez, Attorney General of the United States, will advise judges Wednesday that they should allow the wishes of the White House cabal to override their judicial independence and oversight when it comes to … basically, anything.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says federal judges are unqualified to make rulings affecting national security policy, ramping up his criticism of how they handle terrorism cases.

In remarks prepared for delivery Wednesday, Gonzales says judges generally should defer to the will of the president and Congress when deciding national security cases. He also raps jurists who “apply an activist philosophy that stretches the law to suit policy preferences.”

Just like he’s asking them to do, to suit White House policy preferences. Let us just hope that he’s restrained by higher-ups who see that the Constitution and the independent Judiciary are not to be trifled with.

Oh, that’s right. He reports to Cheney.

how to blow up a frozen lake

Start with ten tons of pure sodium…

THEY ARE WATCHING!

The military/industrial complex loves me, this I know, for Tony Blair tells me so. Terrorists to him belong: they are weak but he is strong.

Sound familiar?

THEY are watching!

Look familiar?

Never Forget

Never forget: we once walked on our own two feet instead of on our knees.

would you watch Saddam Hussein die?

This got started in the comments section of another post, but it seems to me more than deserving of its own post; it is far more important than Saddam Hussein’s last words. I started to watch the Daniel Pearl video, then I stopped it and did not go on. But I have read all kinds of banned documents, including the manual of Afghani Jihad, and I think I would watch the Steve Irwin video if his family would allow it to be released, so why I draw the line here but not there, I am not really sure I know.

Here’s the debate so far:

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