When Religion Backfires.

Religious freedom is a privilege many people are dearly attached to and for good reason: spirituality is often intimately connected to who we believe ourselves to be in relation to the rest of the world.  Disparate religious practices and traditions more often separate people then bring them together until a common moral ground is found between seemingly incompatible groups.  The problem is what to do when one group wants to grow in number.

It seems that, in India, when 84% of the billion-plus residents are threatened by less than 3% of the remaining  non-Hindus, the proper thing to do is burn an orphanage to show your displeasure.  And killing a teacher in the process.

While mob justice could be argued to be a nearly universal human phenomenon, there is reason to question why the attack involved the building rather than the priest and the woman they were angry with.  Perhaps it was intended to destroy what they felt the Christians represented: unwanted forcible conversion in conjunction with ecclesiastic colonization.  On the other hand, it could be that there was a reason they didn’t want the displaced children no one was caring for–otherwise they wouldn’t have been at the orphanage in the first place–to have an education and escape the poor circumstances they were dealing with.  A particular brand of cigarettes, so tiny in circumference that they must be rolled by children’s hands, comes to mind.

Finding the common moral ground here has been nearly impossible.

This is, ostensibly, because there was absolutely nothing moral about it.

– D.C.

Source:  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26393959/

Asthmatic Death Brigade – Inconceivable!

Genocide’s never looked better for the environment!

 

With the FDA and EPA exchanging lube, CFC-based inhalers are being phased out.  The inhalers, which currently make up an estimated 85% of the market, contribute to .1% of CFC compounds mining for gold in your nostrils.  Nevertheless, the FDA is replacing these inhalers with HFA-based inhalers in an effort to go green.

 

It certainly isn’t a ploy on the part of HFA harpies who only have about 3% of the US market, nor is it aimed at killing off the millions of people who rely on these every day!

 

Three out of four HFA-inhalers also contain ethanol.  Ethanol (a corn-based product) is a known bronchoconstrictor, so your lungs will feel like they’re being given a warm squeeze every time.  The new inhalers also require deeper breathing to be effective, so be sure to remember that when you’re gasping like Paris Hilton out of water.  As of 2009, there will be no alternative to these items on the market, so those of you with corn allergies, you’ll be weeded out from the master race soon enough.

 

The hotastic president of the SS also voted to pull OTC inhalers off the market, so low income lung-seizers will become a thing of the past.  No generic form of albuterol inhaler will be available until 2017.  By then, the population will have thinned enough that the good air particles aren’t being wasted.

 

For those of you who aren’t utter douchebags, visit:

 

https://www.savecfcinhalers.org/

 

And save a life.

 

-A

LaVena Johnson – Inconceivable!

Consider the case of LaVena Johnson, a 19 year old Army private found dead in Iraq (July 19, 2005).

Ms. Johnson, a petite (5′1″) honor student, promptly enlisted in that branch of the armed forces after graduating high school. She died after only 8 weeks at her station, a suicide per the Army. Her father believes that she was the victim of a combination rape/murder and that the ensuing investigation is a cover-up of suspicious activity.

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A Defining Moment…

in·con·ceiv·a·ble (ĭnkən-sēvə-bəl)
adj.

  1. Impossible to comprehend or grasp fully: inconceivable folly; an inconceivable disaster.
  2. So unlikely or surprising as to have been thought impossible; unbelievable: an inconceivable victory against all odds.

We present the good, the bad, and the ugly.

We talk about the things people think, but keep to themselves.

We decry the injustice in the world and laugh at the peculiar habits we like to think makes our species unique.

We also point out things that are just plain stupid.

At the end of the day, they’re all inconceivable.