Saturday, December 1, 2012
Germany to ban sex with animals: report
Via Knuckledraggin' My Life Away
The German government plans to ban zoophilia -- sex with animals --
as part of an amendment to the country's animal protection law, but
faces a backlash from the country's zoophile community, estimated to
number over 100,000.
Zoophilia was legalized in Germany in 1969 and animal protection groups have been lobbying for a ban in a campaign that has been fuelled by heated debate in Internet forums in recent years.
Now the center-right government wants to outlaw using animals "for personal sexual activities or making them available to third parties for sexual activities and thereby forcing them to behave in ways that are inappropriate to their species," said Hans-Michael Goldmann, chairman of the parliament's Agricultural Committee.
In the future, having sex with an animal could be punished with a fine of up to €25,000 ($32,400).
Zoophiles are up in arms. "We will take legal action against this," Michael Kiok, chairman of zoophile pressure group ZETA (Zoophile Engagement for Tolerance and Information), told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "We see animals as partners and not as a means of gratification. We don't force them to do anything."
He said sex with pets wasn't demeaning to the animals, and that they make it evident if they're not interested.
"People have tried to create the false impression that we hurt animals," said Kiok, who lives with an Alsatian called Cessie. He said he has had special feelings for animals ever since he was four or five and that the fascination took on erotic elements in his teens.
More @ Spiegel
Should be a parody.
Zoophilia was legalized in Germany in 1969 and animal protection groups have been lobbying for a ban in a campaign that has been fuelled by heated debate in Internet forums in recent years.
Now the center-right government wants to outlaw using animals "for personal sexual activities or making them available to third parties for sexual activities and thereby forcing them to behave in ways that are inappropriate to their species," said Hans-Michael Goldmann, chairman of the parliament's Agricultural Committee.
In the future, having sex with an animal could be punished with a fine of up to €25,000 ($32,400).
Zoophiles are up in arms. "We will take legal action against this," Michael Kiok, chairman of zoophile pressure group ZETA (Zoophile Engagement for Tolerance and Information), told SPIEGEL ONLINE. "We see animals as partners and not as a means of gratification. We don't force them to do anything."
He said sex with pets wasn't demeaning to the animals, and that they make it evident if they're not interested.
"People have tried to create the false impression that we hurt animals," said Kiok, who lives with an Alsatian called Cessie. He said he has had special feelings for animals ever since he was four or five and that the fascination took on erotic elements in his teens.
More @ Spiegel
Drone crashes mount at civilian airports
Via Knuckledraggin' My Life Away
The U.S. Air Force drone, on a classified spy mission over the Indian Ocean, was destined for disaster from the start.
An inexperienced military contractor in shorts and a T-shirt, flying by remote control from a trailer at Seychelles International Airport, committed blunder after blunder in six minutes on April 4.
He sent the unarmed MQ-9 Reaper
drone off without permission from the control tower. A minute later, he
yanked the wrong lever at his console, killing the engine without
realizing why.
As he tried to make an emergency landing, he forgot to put down the wheels. The $8.9 million aircraft belly-flopped on the runway, bounced and plunged into the tropical waters at the airport’s edge, according to a previously undisclosed Air Force accident investigation report.
The U.S. Air Force drone, on a classified spy mission over the Indian Ocean, was destined for disaster from the start.
An inexperienced military contractor in shorts and a T-shirt, flying by remote control from a trailer at Seychelles International Airport, committed blunder after blunder in six minutes on April 4.
Scrutinizing a much-discussed, little-understood, bloody video is
in some ways representative of how the outside world now watches the
war.
As he tried to make an emergency landing, he forgot to put down the wheels. The $8.9 million aircraft belly-flopped on the runway, bounced and plunged into the tropical waters at the airport’s edge, according to a previously undisclosed Air Force accident investigation report.
More @ WP
First same-sex marriage at West Point’s Cadet Chapel
Roundabout Via Carl
The first same-sex marriage at West Point’s Cadet Chapel will be celebrated Saturday – when a military veteran and her partner exchange vows roughly one year after President Obama ended the military policy banning openly gay people from serving in the military.
The ceremony will take place in the Military Academy's Cadet Chapel between Brenda Sue Fulton and Penelope Dara Gnesin.
Fulton is a military veteran and spokeswoman for Outserve – an advocacy group for actively serving gay, lesbian and bisexual military personnel, reported first by USA Today.
West Point hosted its first same-sex marriage last weekend, but it was a private ceremony at a smaller campus venue.
The first same-sex marriage at West Point’s Cadet Chapel will be celebrated Saturday – when a military veteran and her partner exchange vows roughly one year after President Obama ended the military policy banning openly gay people from serving in the military.
The ceremony will take place in the Military Academy's Cadet Chapel between Brenda Sue Fulton and Penelope Dara Gnesin.
Fulton is a military veteran and spokeswoman for Outserve – an advocacy group for actively serving gay, lesbian and bisexual military personnel, reported first by USA Today.
West Point hosted its first same-sex marriage last weekend, but it was a private ceremony at a smaller campus venue.
More @ Fox
WRSA Anti-Nazi/Anti-Communist/Anti-Race-Supremacist/Anti-Islam Policy
Heh!:)
VERBATIM
The WRSA policy on race/religion/ethnicity/gender/class is simple:
Fact-based discussion on controversial topics is encouraged.
Unsupported assertions regarding the Jewish people or any other religious or ethnic group as a whole will be mocked or deleted, at editorial discretion.
The only exception to the above rule is the totalitarian-political-system-of-pillage-and-rapine-masquerading-as-a-religion known as Islam.
Members of the NSDAP, the Communist Party, global socialists, and their adherents, followers, or fellow travelers can and should each go stab themselves and at least one ideological ally in the eye with a bayonet.
Twice.
Unsupported assertions regarding the Jewish people or any other religious or ethnic group as a whole will be mocked or deleted, at editorial discretion.
The only exception to the above rule is the totalitarian-political-system-of-pillage-and-rapine-masquerading-as-a-religion known as Islam.
Members of the NSDAP, the Communist Party, global socialists, and their adherents, followers, or fellow travelers can and should each go stab themselves and at least one ideological ally in the eye with a bayonet.
Twice.
My Site Is Blocked Per Pentagon Source
2009 NamSouth re-post via comment by Hype And Fail on DumpDC calls it quits
To think my ancestors fought and died for this end result. Despicable, though I shall wear this as a badge of honour. Welcome to the soon to be Communist USA. My site isn't even blocked in Communist Vietnam! Now, John Q. Public, just keep your heads buried in the sand, so you can pretend you were not forewarned.
The writer (LTC) retired a few months later rather than put up with the PC there. His father was a general officer in WWII, and his son entered VMI last fall. A fierce Confederate.
01/02/09 at 06:12 PM
Brock:
"FYI...the Army blocks NamSouth (and in the months to come, I expect much more will get spiked) - are you surprised? Oddly, the Air Force did not block it, even though they tend to be more rigid in their application of Internet regulations."
Also, from someone who has lived under Communism.
"I don't know what's coming next. I might take a good guess. They, call them socialists, communist, whatever, are masters of psychology. It's really scary how they can calculate your reactions. It's like in Orwell's 1984. You aren't in danger, because the point is to target children at a very young age,and bring them up to be non-thinkers. It takes a generation or two. In my country it's easy to manipulate people. They are used to being told what to think. It's amazing that they play the same tricks again and again, and people buy it each time. We, the few, just stand there helpless and can't believe it. I don't know who said it, but it was in connection with the Hungarians, that 'take away their past and you can conquer them'.
Comment I
From FleursDuSud:
Dear Hedi:
Welcome to this Forum.
"I am also very new to this forum myself. Have you ever been to the South? My grandfather was from Beckov, Slovakia (formerly of Czechoslovakia). He and his family moved to the United States when he was 10 yrs. old in 1927. During that time, the communists who took over Russia in 1917 were starting to seep into Czech. That is the reason they left. He always loved to talk about Czechoslovakia and I know he wanted to go back very badly, but he did not while communists were in control. Unfortunately, he passed away in 1988, just a year before 1989 and the wall came down.
I am very sad to say that, Hedi, communism is definitely making a foothold in this country and has been for many years. They are doing it slowly, bit by bit. We are the frog in the pot of water that is being heated very slowly. Before we know it it will be too late. I have read the Gulag Archipelago several times and each time I read it, I am horrified at how much closer to communism we are getting."
Comment II
Brock,
Communism hates all basic human freedom rights, since only the freedom can expose all flaws of the Communists. If one made a decision without considering a rational argument that is based on freedom rights, he or she could be a Communist.
Quang
Quang's father spent 15 years in a Vietnamese Communist reeducation camp, since he was a General officer in the ARVN. He has visited my home and is an unassuming gentleman. He doesn't give a hint of what he went through.
To think my ancestors fought and died for this end result. Despicable, though I shall wear this as a badge of honour. Welcome to the soon to be Communist USA. My site isn't even blocked in Communist Vietnam! Now, John Q. Public, just keep your heads buried in the sand, so you can pretend you were not forewarned.
The writer (LTC) retired a few months later rather than put up with the PC there. His father was a general officer in WWII, and his son entered VMI last fall. A fierce Confederate.
01/02/09 at 06:12 PM
Brock:
"FYI...the Army blocks NamSouth (and in the months to come, I expect much more will get spiked) - are you surprised? Oddly, the Air Force did not block it, even though they tend to be more rigid in their application of Internet regulations."
Also, from someone who has lived under Communism.
"I don't know what's coming next. I might take a good guess. They, call them socialists, communist, whatever, are masters of psychology. It's really scary how they can calculate your reactions. It's like in Orwell's 1984. You aren't in danger, because the point is to target children at a very young age,and bring them up to be non-thinkers. It takes a generation or two. In my country it's easy to manipulate people. They are used to being told what to think. It's amazing that they play the same tricks again and again, and people buy it each time. We, the few, just stand there helpless and can't believe it. I don't know who said it, but it was in connection with the Hungarians, that 'take away their past and you can conquer them'.
Comment I
From FleursDuSud:
Dear Hedi:
Welcome to this Forum.
"I am also very new to this forum myself. Have you ever been to the South? My grandfather was from Beckov, Slovakia (formerly of Czechoslovakia). He and his family moved to the United States when he was 10 yrs. old in 1927. During that time, the communists who took over Russia in 1917 were starting to seep into Czech. That is the reason they left. He always loved to talk about Czechoslovakia and I know he wanted to go back very badly, but he did not while communists were in control. Unfortunately, he passed away in 1988, just a year before 1989 and the wall came down.
I am very sad to say that, Hedi, communism is definitely making a foothold in this country and has been for many years. They are doing it slowly, bit by bit. We are the frog in the pot of water that is being heated very slowly. Before we know it it will be too late. I have read the Gulag Archipelago several times and each time I read it, I am horrified at how much closer to communism we are getting."
Comment II
Brock,
Communism hates all basic human freedom rights, since only the freedom can expose all flaws of the Communists. If one made a decision without considering a rational argument that is based on freedom rights, he or she could be a Communist.
Quang
Quang's father spent 15 years in a Vietnamese Communist reeducation camp, since he was a General officer in the ARVN. He has visited my home and is an unassuming gentleman. He doesn't give a hint of what he went through.
| My Site Is Blocked Per Pentagon Source |
A Defense Of Freedom Versus Obamacare – A Letter To A Dissenter
VERBATIM
This must be a week for letters. Today I received an email from a fellow who read one of my posts here about Ayn Rand.
This post was previously published in 2009 on subject was Obamacare and
health insurance, but was updated, as at that point Obamacare was
merely a bill. For the sake of revealing how someone of Socialist
ideology thinks, I thought it might be educational to post his email and
my response to it for you.
His email:
His email:
Ms. Pass:
Having read your blog about Ayn Rand and the execrable parasites known as health insurance companies, I would appreciate it if you would kindly explain why we should mourn their demise.
The good capitalist steals the best ideas of competitors, and the rest of the world has proven beyond cavil that socialized health care is more efficient than our bloated system, producing equivalent outcomes for a third of the cost. Why is this such a bad thing? What value do these bureaucratic behemoths add?
The short definition of a modern Republican is a man who is more faithful to his dogma than his wife. I would counter with a line from one of my other favorite atheist authors, Isaac Asimov: “Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
Regards,
Dissenter
My reply:Dissenter,
The piece re: Ayn Rand that you have just seen was republished recently by Freedom Outpost. I am assuming that is where you saw it.
From the tenor of your comments I am sure your question is not an honest one. From what you say in your email, your mind is made up and you have demonized not only insurance companies, but capitalism and Republicans as a monolithic group. Nevertheless, I will give you my best answers if you will take the time to read and study this issue.
Your statement here for instance: “The short definition of a modern Republican is a man who is more faithful to his dogma than his wife,”
would cause me to ask you if the same applies to FDR, Kennedy, and Clinton? Each of these men were Democrats with mistresses and peccadilloes.
You ask me to defend the insurance industry and then you proceed to defend socialism, which is responsible for the direct and indirect murders of millions of people throughout its history. Efficiency in killing people would be attributable to the purveyors of totalitarian control, not capitalism. Do you really need proof of this? If so, I will give you documentation to read.
The concept of the insurance industry is the creation of a “risk pool.” Replacing the private insurance industry with socialized insurance by government is, nonetheless, a “risk pool.” Whether or not you agree with a third-party payer system, you must decide if you wish the force of the government to control your healthcare providers or whether you would rather choose your own insurance and healthcare providers. Private insurance by choice? Or government insurance by force? I can only conclude from your email, your response is that you think force is better than choice.
You ask this: “What value do these bureaucratic behemoths add?” If bureaucracy is your objection, replacing one bureaucracy with an even larger, less personal, government bureaucracy cannot be your solution. In what universe does that make any logical sense?
Then there is this statement: “The rest of the world has proven beyond cavil that socialized health care is more efficient than our bloated system, producing equivalent outcomes for a third of the cost.” I’m assuming from that you must have been locked in a room watching Michael Moore’s movie “Sicko” in a repeating loop ad infinitum for you to say such a thing. A different question to ask yourself would be: Why do socialist government officials not have to live under the same health care laws that they have put in place for everyone else? If Obamacare is so great, why have our politicians exempted themselves from it?
To answer this presumption of yours, I refer you to several links which I hope you will take the time to read. The first one is regarding Ezekiel Emanuel, White House health care policy advisor to Barack Obama and author of much of Obamacare.
The typical wait for hip surgery in Canada is 14 months.
In Canada’s Province of Quebec, patients in need of a 30 minute procedure to cure urinary tract infections are on a three year waiting list!
Children with significant hearing problems are denied access to cochlear implants.
Arthritis treatment in the United Kingdom has a waiting period of up to nine months.
Also in the UK, a 22 year old man just passed away because the government refused to allow him to receive a liver transplant.
Patients across the spectrum are denied access to thousands of necessary medications, which are deemed “too costly” or “unnecessary” by non-doctor bureaucrats.Then there is this article by Ileana Johnson on Communist Health Care in Bucharest, Hungary.
In closing: Prior to Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society, the medical industry was providing adequate and accessible health care to all and at reasonable costs. Insurance was a catastrophic safety net, while normal health care was an out of pocket expense, affordable to most all Americans. Pro-bono work by hospitals and doctors took up the rest for the needy. Churches and community charities took care of those who could not pay. After Lyndon Johnson involved the government as a third party to the elderly and the poor, the entire situation devolved into a more corrupt money grab, which tells you exactly what government intervention does to pulverize reason and sanity, care and due diligence, compassion and charity.
Americans have been blessed with the best health care in the world which is now going to be degraded into the lowest common denominators due to socialism by those who think government is the answer, not the problem. I take the opposite view because I have lived through the success of a substantial amount of freedom. Moving toward totalitarian control over our every personal decision is not going to bring prosperity and happiness, or good health care to anyone but the political elitists who eliminate the inferior outcomes of socialism from their own lives. In case you haven’t noticed, they vote the best for themselves and the least for the society they govern. Not much different from the monarchical rulers of the past, eh?
So, Dissenter, march along to your masters’ drum beat. You contacted me with questions and statements. I hope you understand why I took the time to answer you.
Sincerely,
Cheryl Pass
P.S. I notice you quoted Isaac Asimov. I’m sorry to say your favorite “atheist,” also a Fabian Socialist, would only view you as a “useful idiot.” If you are trying to equate Ayn Rand with him and with Socialism due to atheism, that would be a canard. Rand lived in and saw the horrors of Socialism and hence decided to warn Americans of the possible harm that ideology would bring upon us.
Obama Slaps States That Don't Comply With Obamacare
Just following the steps of his buddy, the Tyrant Lincoln.
Residents of states that refuse to set up health insurance exchanges
under Obamacare are set to be hit with higher premiums under new rules
announced by the Health and Human Services Department.
Insurance companies will be charged 3.5 percent of any premiums they sell through the federal exchanges, the department announced Friday.
And insurers are likely to pass that surcharge on to clients, leaading to higher premiums.
The only states to be affected are those that refuse to set up their own exchanges because of opposition to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. They are almost certain to be those under Republican control. In those states, HHS will set up the exchanges
GOP governors are taking a hard line against implementing any part of the healthcare law, which will mean insurers in their states will need to pay the monthly fee, The Hill reports.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced this week that her state will not set up an exchange, calling the proposal "too expensive and too risky." Her decision brings the total of states refusing to comply with the act's provisions up to 17.
Insurance companies will be charged 3.5 percent of any premiums they sell through the federal exchanges, the department announced Friday.
And insurers are likely to pass that surcharge on to clients, leaading to higher premiums.
The only states to be affected are those that refuse to set up their own exchanges because of opposition to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. They are almost certain to be those under Republican control. In those states, HHS will set up the exchanges
GOP governors are taking a hard line against implementing any part of the healthcare law, which will mean insurers in their states will need to pay the monthly fee, The Hill reports.
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer announced this week that her state will not set up an exchange, calling the proposal "too expensive and too risky." Her decision brings the total of states refusing to comply with the act's provisions up to 17.
More @ Newsmax
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