This year's display of self-mutilation occurred at Cutud in Angeles City in Pampanga, about 50 miles north of Manila. One man, Ruben Inaje, 48, explained "This is my own way of thanking the Lord. He has showered my family with so much blessings and has saved my life many times." One wonders if a prayer and a couple of votive might have sufficed. Inaje is a repeated crucifee: "I will never get tired doing this every year. This is my personal devotion and I will continue this until the Lord allows my body to endure the pain."
The practice occurred in various cities and is so common that the Health Department actually issued guidelines on proper hygiene and good practices in crucifixions — something the Romans conspicuously lacked. For a video of this tradition, click here. Story here.
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The former Oakwood police chief who was arrested early Monday morning in Palestine remained in the Leon County Jail Wednesday amid allegations he held his wife captive and used a taser on her.My guess is that Oakwood has the same Satan problem Anchorage has:
Oly Yahnson Ivy, 30, was being held in the Leon County Jail in Centerville Wednesday in lieu of a $100,000 bond on the felony charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
Ivy had been Oakwood's police chief and one-man force for slightly more than two months prior to his arrest by Anderson County sheriff's authorities shortly after 2 a.m. Monday.
He instructed police officers that if they were not 'Christian', not to approach a satanic crime scene, or 'demons will jump on you.' …He also made very blatant statements about law enforcement academies attempting to 'brainwash' its attendants into satanism. APD's [Anchorage's] academy was singled out, and an officer 'witnessed' to the fact that he had been required to listen to a tape which so influenced him.
Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. is moving to revamp Justice Department procedures in the wake of the prosecutorial debacle in the Ted Stevens case. But Holder said today that he is not reviewing the Justice Department's prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Donald Siegelman on corruption charges, nor other corruption cases involving Alaskan officials.
The House Judiciary Committee has been probing allegations that the Siegelman case was politically motivated by the Bush administration. Siegelman, a Democrat, was convicted in 2006.
"I don't have any reviews under way at this point, but I always want to ensure that the Justice Department acts in a way that is consistent with the long tradition of this great department," Holder said.
Holder, who has been sounding out attorneys throughout the department's Criminal Division, is preparing to announce some changes in the department's procedures for such prosecutions, however.
Meanwhile, he's going to pursue prosecutions against California medical marijuana dispensers, even though Obama said he wouldn't during the campaign.
| On April 15 - Tax Day (unless you apply for an extension - then it's October 15) the wingnuts are going to engage in "teabagging." The problem - Obama wants taxes raised to the Clinton era rates. The solution, according to the wingnuts: hold teabagging parties - send teabags to Congress by post. Why teabags? Because it is supposed to represent the "no taxation without representation" that the Boston Tea Party is supposed to represent. |
| The Boston Tea Party was all about profit - non-taxed tea was in good supply in the colonies and tossing the shipment made for more profit for the shop owners. But, I digress. The problem with the wingnuts is that they are too lazy to do any research before they go marching forward in lockstep. MORONS! |
Memo to Jeb Bush: your brother's administration blamed Clinton for 9/11 and the economic crisis: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/04/10/williams-jeb-bush-hemmer/
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Cities Turn to Fees to Fill Budget Gaps: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/business/11fees.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
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4,271 soldiers killed in Iraq; 677 in Afghanistan.
At first, US forces in Afghanistan claimed that they had killed "four militants" and wounded another one. It was only later that they were forced to acknowledge that the house they attacked belonged to a Afghan Army officer, and that the people killed were his wife, a brother, and two of his children. Afghan health officials revealed today that the wounded woman reported in the initial report was actually nine-months pregnant, and the attacking US forces shot the unborn baby in her womb. The troops now say they don't believe the people they killed were involved in militant activities.
Afghan Ambassador to the United States Said Jawad, remarkably, defended the killings, saying it was "a price that we have to pay if we want security and stability in Afghanistan, the region and the world."
Despite the envoy's support, the killing of an unborn baby seems to have netted Afghanistan little in the way of security.
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