power of prayer

Believing that all healing comes from god, Dale and Leilani Neumann did what every good christian parent should do, they put their faith in god and asked him to heal their diabetic daughter.



Madeline "Kara" Neumann, 11, died last Sunday from an undiagnosed but treatable form of diabetes as her parents prayed for her to get better.

Her mother said she never expected her daughter to die.

No of course not. Leilani expected god to heal Kara. So she got down on her knees and prayed,

Oh mighty and powerful Apollo
we beseech you
stretch forth your mighty hand
and heal Kara, our beloved daughter.

But Kara was unworthy and Apollo turned his face from her. For her life was not worth sparing. The mouth of Hades was hungry for another soul and little Kara now wanders the fields of Elysium alone.

Everest, Wisconsin Metro Police Chief Dan Vergin (in the role of Pontius Pilate washing his hands) decided to leave the decision on whether or not to press charges against the parents up to the district attorney. After all, there was no intent to harm the child. "They didn't want their child to die. They thought what they were doing was the right thing. They believed up to the time she stopped breathing she was going to get better. They just thought it was a spiritual attack. They believed if they prayed enough she would get through it."

Kara's three siblings have been removed from the care of these good christian parents while the secular police force investigate their biblically proper, godly behavior.

Here lies Madeline "Kara" Neumann
Prayed to Death
by her own parents.
May she rest in peace.

redirect 5

My wonderful friend Thump has an excellent new post on her blog with further thoughts on Chantel Sebire's tragic dying. Chantel's death itself wasn't tragic. But the dying that she did. Heartrendingly awful.

Head over to Thump's blog for some excellent points about euthanasia and the dilemmas arising from it.

outstanding ability!

Can you imagine the amount of time they spent mastering this?



WOW!

this is even worse

Torture bothers me.

It's come up on my blog before, I've written about it, and if you've been here long enough, you know. It bothers me. Fictional torture, movie torture, jesus torture, cop torture, military torture, torture-torture.....it bothers me.

A friend recently sent me an email about the nutters in the Philippines who crucify themselves for easter. That's right, these fundy fuckwits actually reenact the crucifixion complete with the whipping, crown of thorns, and yes, nails pounded through hands and feet. *gack* I responded with an email agreeing that it was awful, but ribbing him for sending me pictures of the REAL thing.





SO why did I just assault your eyes with shit that bothers me so much?

Because today, over on Reed's blog I found something even worse.



I finished watching this clip with a sick stomach, tears in my eyes, and my hand over my mouth.

It is 9 minutes and 21 seconds of two smug cunts torturing young minds and is infinitely more awful then pictures of deluded morons that are rotting up my blog. (By the way, if these idiots can survive it why didn't jesus?)

These morons don't even have their story straight. They don't even know their own lies well enough to pull off a convincing argument to a semi-neutral journalist.

Could you make it through the 9 minutes 21 seconds? Or was it too much for you?

Just caught my own reflection in my laptop and I still have a disgusted look on my face. Wow do I look pissed.

Best log off and think of something pleasant. (Fortunately for me, thank you Protium and Thump! I have something extremely pleasant to think about!!!!!)

not the brightest bulb

I'm at such a loss as to how to even begin writing about this one.

The article made me laugh and shake my head in disbelief, but the guy is so gut wrenchingly stupid that I don't know how to do it justice.

Reuters reports a 35 year old man from Adelaide, Australia called the police to report that his house had been broken into and some of his cannabis plants had been stolen.

*palm-forehead*

Even the police must have been stunned by this guy's idiocy because they issued a very helpful public service announcement saying, "Members of the public are reminded that the growing of cannabis is not only illegal but can also attract other criminal activity such [sic]home break-ins and assaults,[sic]"

Reuters was so eager to get the article up and running that, at the very least, they left that comma hanging at the end. I don't know if dropping the word "as" was from the actual wording of the police statement or an error that got made in the rush to get such idiocy published first and fastest. Either way...

duh du-Duh duh DUUUHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!

Quick test for you

Saw this over at Poodles Place, who heard it on the radio, who found it on You Tube.

Takes 1 minute 8 seconds.

Let me know how you do!!!!

a God sanctioned Easter Tragedy

The dog was diagnosed with an inoperable facial tumor, esthesioneuroblastoma, a rare form of cancer. Over the course of the next decade the tumor would burrow through the sinuses and nasal cavities, causing enormous swelling and facial distortion from inside to the point of forcing one or both of the eye sockets out of the head completely.

The pain would be excruciating.

I know there are pet owners and dog lovers that read my blog. And I know that Poodles recently had to make the decision to put one of her oldest dog down.

No creature deserves to suffer this hideous fate and any person with compassion wouldn't allow there dog to go through that growing agony, worsening day by day.

Except the diagnosis wasn't given to a dog. It was given to Chantel Sebire, a 52 year old French woman.



She has a pleasant smile and bright eyes, and looks like the kind of nice lady you'd see working in an office somewhere.

But what she has gone through for the last EIGHT YEARS with the condition I described up above is horrific. The poor lady has suffered unimaginable pain as her face was twisted and distorted by the tumor.

Morphine, which could have been used for pain relief, had side-effects that were worse than the pain.

On Monday, a court in the city of Dijon rejected Sebire's request to be allowed to receive a lethal dose of barbiturates under a doctor's supervision.

It refused the request for doctor-assisted suicide because of French law and out of concern for medical ethics.

We will put our pets "out of their misery" but not allow the same for a fellow human being.

And what really shits me is their "concern for medical ethics". WTF? Were they just curious to see how big the tumor would get? How much pain a person can handle before going stark raving mad? What about "do no harm"??? Well that tumor was harming on a moment by moment basis. If you can't remove it, and the patient, coherent and in her right mind, is pleading with you to end it, how can you look at her and say "no!"?????????

LOOK AT HER!


She was turned into a Cantina patron because "medical ethics" and French law demanded it. Not only was her face disfigured and causing her agony, she was also blind and could not smell or taste. Of her condition as of February 28th she said, "Some of my bones are eaten into. I don't have upper and lower jaws anymore,".

What quality of life did she have?

When she received the news on Monday, Chantel refused to take no for an answer. She said she would not appeal the decision rendered Monday and that she would find life-terminating drugs through other means.

"I now know how to get my hands on what I need and if I don't get it in France, I will get it elsewhere," she said.

Chantal Sebire was found dead in her apartment on Wednesday afternoon, leaving behind 3 children aged 29, 27 and 13.

She was FOUND. She didn't die peacefully with her children around her, under a doctor's care and supervision. She was found. Alone in her apartment. Presumably by her own choice. Certainly alone.