"The annual event aimed at overcoming many of the prejudices facing Muslims and Christians in Germany."
Prejudices facing Christians, eh? In a country where the ruling political party is called the "Christian Democratic Union"? Yeah, I'll bet those Christians just have all sorts of bigotry to overcome.
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Daniel Butler
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Hurricane Chow was there as well; it was thinly disguised cat food, relabelled. Relabeled. That really doesn't look right but Firefox says it is...
quote:Originally posted by AndrewR: I wonder if they will be selling Wadded Beef, creamed eel and hurricane chow?
Cream of Eel
I often find myself at the grocery story doing Burns' "Ketchup/Catsup" routine.
I do believe it was: "Creamed Eels," "Corn Nog" and "Wadded Beef."
Sorry, sorry - I'm not trying to be the comic book store guy or anything!
Worst attempt to cover up simpsons nerdiness ever!
My favorite: Homer: I'm feeling kinda low, Apu. Got any of that beer that has candy floating in it? You know, Skittle Brau? Apu: Such a product does not exist, sir. I think you must have dreamed it. Homer: Oh. Then just give me a six pack and a couple of bags of Skittles.
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Daniel Butler
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Forgive me for not getting the candy quite right, but this was my favorite bit of Apu: "An Almond Joy is not a sprinkle, sir. A twizzler is not a sprinkle. A Jolly Rancher is not a sprinkle! Perhaps in Shangri-La but not here!"
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I wonder what it must be like playing CounterStrike with that connection speed.
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Da_bang80
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Screw Counter-Strike! Imagine how much porn you'll be able to download in just one second!
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quote:"No matter what happens, no resolution, guilty verdict or settlement magically takes away the pain of having been raped or molested by Catholic priests in this archdiocese," said Mary Grant, the group's regional director.
Gosh, it's as though the diocese was complicit in the raping of children or something, an we all know that's impossible....there would be some attempt at criminal prosecution.
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"The largest of those came in December, when the archdiocese reached a $60 million settlement with 45 people whose claims dated from before the mid-1950s and after 1987 -- periods when it had little or no sexual abuse insurance."
I think the most disturbing part of the article is summed up in the last three words there.
"Gosh, it's as though the diocese was complicit in the raping of children or something, an we all know that's impossible....there would be some attempt at criminal prosecution."
I don't know for sure, but I think a lot of the lack of criminal charges in this sort of thing have to do with statutes of limitations and/or the higher standards of evidence in criminal trials (vs. civil suits).
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Kinda yes and no- the settelments all stem from a few cases (within the past decade) with evidence clearly showing how "troubled" clergy were moved from one arish to another after incidents where children were brave enough (or traumatized enough) to come forward.
Since then a lot of abused people have come forward- many victims of the same clergyman that had abused someone else.
Of course, prosecutors are elected and no one wants to be seen as the one gunning for the church.
And this is just in the United States- imagine what has been going on for who-knows-how-long in Europe?
Scary shit- but it happens even more frequently with Islam, where women are generally degraded as somehow inferior and are excluded from many services.
That's a shitload of abused kids bettinig preyed on by their religous leaders.
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Daniel Butler
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Mmm about Europe, the Catholics I know in Europe seem really floored by molestation in America. Either it really doesn't happen there or practically noone's ever come forward.
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"Of course, prosecutors are elected and no one wants to be seen as the one gunning for the church."
Really? I would have thought the opposite. That the number of people who would say "Gasp! How dare you try to prosecute Mother Church!" would be far outweighted by the people who would say "You're going to let them get away with systematic, serial rape of children? What the fuck?".
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You must not be that familiar with humanity.
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Daniel Butler
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Humanity is easy. They're basically true neutral, with smatterings of neutral good and neutral evil. And also Dick Cheney.
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He belongs to a particular branch of humanity and can not be judged by anyone.
He's inhuman.
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