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Police who're trained to be brutal	[Sep. 28th, 2015\|10:21 pm]Footpad
[Tags\|news, police, police brutality, usa] [Current Location	Silicon Valley] [Current Mood	sleepy]Police shoot an (armed, apparently threatening) man in a wheelchair."At least 10 gunshots" were used to kill this man, after police pointed shotguns and handguns at him and repeatedly yelled at him to put his own handgun down. That seems to be how it works in America. You get shouted at for a while, and if you don't do what the police want you to do, and they think you're still a significant threat, then they kill you.I don't see any villains here. There's no particular reason to believe that the police officers were psychopaths, and the guy in the wheelchair seems to have been more disturbed than vicious. The police officers were simply dealing with the situation the way they were trained to: point their guns at the person they see as a threat, then shout loud clear orders at them.Does this work? A lot of the time, it no doubt does. But there are far, far too many videos out there showing incidents where, often tragically, it didn't work at all.From time to time, after reading news like this, I wonder how I'd respond if a police officer pointed a gun at me and shouted at me to get down on the ground. My first instinct to that kind of peremptory order is to respond, "No" — a vehement, indignant rejection of arbitrary and domineering authority. Yes, I'd probably get down, but only because I was either terrified, or I'd made a conscious choice to abandon dignity in favour of pragmatism. Either way, I'd feel I'd been made to eat shit.I've recently been reading up on negotiation, and, time and again, I find myself struck by how critical it is to understand what people are thinking before you ask them to do something. Negotiation starts with respect for the other party.Sure I'm a lily-livered liberal lightweight, but I have to ask myself: how might this situation have ended if the first policeman had not pointed a shotgun at the victim, but instead had ducked behind his car's engine block and, from that relative safety, asked, "What do you need?"I've no doubt that policing in America sometimes brings stark challenges that are hard to address without force, in some cases lethal force. What's disturbing about this case is that it shows, right from the start, how the police were trained to act with no visible regard to the principles of policing by consent, without which no civil police force can long maintain the respect and goodwill of the citizens among whom it works.—This post was made on dreamwidth.org, here. If you can, please comment there (it's simple with OpenID), because LJ's bugs make it gratuitously hard for me to answer your comments on LJ.
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Lies, damn lies and infographics	[Dec. 25th, 2012\|01:33 pm]Footpad
[Tags\|bbc, complaints, global warming, news, reporting] [Current Mood	drowsy]I don't know why I still read the BBC News web site.Its science-and-technology reporting varies from the naive to the merely facile, and I can feel its strict single-sentence-per-paragraph policy killing off my synapses.Anyway, today something ticked me off enough for me to actually fire off a gripe to the BBC about it.I'll be interested to see if they acknowledge my complaint, and maybe even act on it. I tried hard to make it clear and comprehensible.I even restricted myself to at most two sentences per paragraph.( Read more...Collapse )
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Lies, damn lies and infographics

[Dec. 25th, 2012|01:33 pm]Footpad

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drowsy]I don't know why I still read the BBC News web site.Its science-and-technology reporting varies from the naive to the merely facile, and I can feel its strict single-sentence-per-paragraph policy killing off my synapses.Anyway, today something ticked me off enough for me to actually fire off a gripe to the BBC about it.I'll be interested to see if they acknowledge my complaint, and maybe even act on it. I tried hard to make it clear and comprehensible.I even restricted myself to at most two sentences per paragraph.( Read more...Collapse )

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Swiss animal-rights charity launches "pain breeder" lawsuits	[Nov. 29th, 2012\|04:41 pm]Footpad
[Tags\|animal rights, news, switzerland] [Current Mood	depressed]Now here's some interesting news. A Swiss animal-rights charity, the "Foundation for the Animal in Law", has sued seven animal breeders under animal-protection law, on the grounds that the breeding selects for characteristics which are inherently cruel.One of the breeders in questions breeds pigeons; the others are cat breeders. My knowledge of pigeons can be summed up with an umbrella and RFC1149, and my experience of cats is mostly limited to the self-selecting and nearly-indestructible black-and-white farm cats of rural Britain. Therefore I can't really speak to the merits of these specific cases.But if these lawsuits succeed, and that turns attention to the horrible plight of certain breeds of dog, then my response to this news is a hearty sigh of, thank fuck for that. This is a significant landmark in the progress of public awareness that, in their quest for some twisted notion of physical perfection, a minority of animal breeders and owners have simply lost their grip on common-sense normality, and become the enemy of the well-being of the very animals they love.Article in German: http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/panorama/sieben-exempel-gegen-die-qualzucht-1.17852397Google translation into English: http://goo.gl/w9sxI—Translation footnote: Qualzucht and related terms tend to translate into English as "torture breeder", but that's a bit unfortunate. Quälen translates better as "to inflict pain", without the deliberate malice implied by "torture".
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Swiss animal-rights charity launches "pain breeder" lawsuits

[Nov. 29th, 2012|04:41 pm]Footpad

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depressed]Now here's some interesting news. A Swiss animal-rights charity, the "Foundation for the Animal in Law", has sued seven animal breeders under animal-protection law, on the grounds that the breeding selects for characteristics which are inherently cruel.One of the breeders in questions breeds pigeons; the others are cat breeders. My knowledge of pigeons can be summed up with an umbrella and RFC1149, and my experience of cats is mostly limited to the self-selecting and nearly-indestructible black-and-white farm cats of rural Britain. Therefore I can't really speak to the merits of these specific cases.But if these lawsuits succeed, and that turns attention to the horrible plight of certain breeds of dog, then my response to this news is a hearty sigh of, thank fuck for that. This is a significant landmark in the progress of public awareness that, in their quest for some twisted notion of physical perfection, a minority of animal breeders and owners have simply lost their grip on common-sense normality, and become the enemy of the well-being of the very animals they love.Article in German: http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/panorama/sieben-exempel-gegen-die-qualzucht-1.17852397Google translation into English: http://goo.gl/w9sxI—Translation footnote: Qualzucht and related terms tend to translate into English as "torture breeder", but that's a bit unfortunate. Quälen translates better as "to inflict pain", without the deliberate malice implied by "torture".

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(no subject)	[Feb. 29th, 2012\|01:58 pm]Footpad
[Tags\|links, michael d. higgins, news, politics, scraps]The President of Ireland speaks his mind with passion, clarity, forthrightness and a tremendous amount of authority. What an absolutely blinding guy!
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Birth of a conspiracy theorist	[Dec. 29th, 2009\|10:06 am]Footpad
[Tags\|conspiracy, hanlon's razor, news, stupidity, terrorism] [Current Mood	irritated]Amazing. You may have read that some deranged twit managed to singe his leg pretty badly on a plane the other day—about on a par with the agonising stupidity of all many recent "terrorist attacks". I mean, for the love of Pete, man, how difficult would it be to make up double the mix, take half of it out in the desert and check that it it actually goes boom? How can we account for such comical, bamboozling stupidity?To anyone with half an eye on these affairs, it was painfully obvious that governments would react with equally stupid "security measures", but it turns out (via thewerewolf) that the results can be even more bone-headed than I imagined. This is not security; it does nothing against the threat that provoked it (unless you forbid people to bring their legs onto planes); it does little to improve on existing security measures. All it does is to make life more obstructive and inconvenient for millions of people at huge expense. We all know it. I find it impossible to believe that the faceless bureaucrats, who made the rule somewhere in the borborygmic rectum of the governmental apparatus, don't know it too.I've seen organisational stupidity. I worked in an internationally-funded academic centre. When I was a brat I spent some time in a highly advanced stupidity factory. I've seen at first hand and in considerable detail, how the structure and anonymity of an organisation, coupled with cowardice and lack of accountability, can aggregate and amplify minor individual failings beyond the unintelligence of any single person.I scorn conspiracy theories on principle. People just generally aren't that evil, and the truth of Hanlon's Razor usually emerges in the end. Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. But the stupidity of our national governments in opposing terrorist threats is starting to stretch the limits of my credulity. How stupid can honest people get? Really that stupid?There's a conspiracy theorist in the office at work. He's called Bert. Bert's into a lot of stuff I find fairly implausible and occasionally laughable, global movements and shadowy oligarchies and various other things that I put down to the emergent consequences of individual myopia and greed. Hanlon's Razor. But gradually I feel a mounting weight of disbelief at the actions of those ostensibly assigned to protect us from the bogeymen. The edge of Hanlon's Razor is dulling by the moment.With slow and nightmarish inexorability, I find myself gradually siding ever more with Bert.
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Birth of a conspiracy theorist

[Dec. 29th, 2009|10:06 am]Footpad

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irritated]Amazing. You may have read that some deranged twit managed to singe his leg pretty badly on a plane the other day—about on a par with the agonising stupidity of all many recent "terrorist attacks". I mean, for the love of Pete, man, how difficult would it be to make up double the mix, take half of it out in the desert and check that it it actually goes boom? How can we account for such comical, bamboozling stupidity?To anyone with half an eye on these affairs, it was painfully obvious that governments would react with equally stupid "security measures", but it turns out (via

thewerewolf) that the results can be even more bone-headed than I imagined. This is not security; it does nothing against the threat that provoked it (unless you forbid people to bring their legs onto planes); it does little to improve on existing security measures. All it does is to make life more obstructive and inconvenient for millions of people at huge expense. We all know it. I find it impossible to believe that the faceless bureaucrats, who made the rule somewhere in the borborygmic rectum of the governmental apparatus, don't know it too.I've seen organisational stupidity. I worked in an internationally-funded academic centre. When I was a brat I spent some time in a highly advanced stupidity factory. I've seen at first hand and in considerable detail, how the structure and anonymity of an organisation, coupled with cowardice and lack of accountability, can aggregate and amplify minor individual failings beyond the unintelligence of any single person.I scorn conspiracy theories on principle. People just generally aren't that evil, and the truth of Hanlon's Razor usually emerges in the end. Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. But the stupidity of our national governments in opposing terrorist threats is starting to stretch the limits of my credulity. How stupid can honest people get? Really that stupid?There's a conspiracy theorist in the office at work. He's called Bert. Bert's into a lot of stuff I find fairly implausible and occasionally laughable, global movements and shadowy oligarchies and various other things that I put down to the emergent consequences of individual myopia and greed. Hanlon's Razor. But gradually I feel a mounting weight of disbelief at the actions of those ostensibly assigned to protect us from the bogeymen. The edge of Hanlon's Razor is dulling by the moment.With slow and nightmarish inexorability, I find myself gradually siding ever more with Bert.

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News: wolf killed near Geneva	[Feb. 17th, 2009\|08:35 am]Footpad
[Tags\|news, wolves] [Current Mood	grim]http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu/loup-abattu-chasseur-30-km-vol-oiseau-geneve-2009-02-16After being placed under investigation this weekend, a hunter from Haute-Savoie has admitted killing a wolf at Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, thirty kilometres as the crow flies from Geneva. The 32-year-old local man is suspected of illegal hunting, killing an endangered species, and illegal possession of the .22 long rifle with which he killed the canid."He defends his actions," according to the state attorney, Michel Belin. "He asserts that he was right to do it, as he sides with those who believe that wolves are vermin."( Read more...Collapse )
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News: wolf killed near Geneva

[Feb. 17th, 2009|08:35 am]Footpad

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grim]http://www.tdg.ch/geneve/actu/loup-abattu-chasseur-30-km-vol-oiseau-geneve-2009-02-16After being placed under investigation this weekend, a hunter from Haute-Savoie has admitted killing a wolf at Petit-Bornand-les-Glières, thirty kilometres as the crow flies from Geneva. The 32-year-old local man is suspected of illegal hunting, killing an endangered species, and illegal possession of the .22 long rifle with which he killed the canid."He defends his actions," according to the state attorney, Michel Belin. "He asserts that he was right to do it, as he sides with those who believe that wolves are vermin."( Read more...Collapse )

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Contractual contraception	[Jul. 14th, 2008\|11:32 am]Footpad
[Tags\|news, rumination] [Current Mood	tranquil]Pottering around mattlazycat's kitchen, making tea before a leisurely departure in the general direction of Heathrow Airport, I found myself listening to a debate on the recent extension of maternity leave to one year. I fairly quickly ignored the debate (one protagonist was the kind of irrational babbling twit whose excesses undo much of the good work of feminism), but it made me wonder.I think it's a wonderful thing that parents should be able to take a whole year off to look after a child. On the other hand, I also appreciate that this is a heavy burden on employers (especially small companies) and colleagues, and I can quite see why the law should make your ordinary six-person company less willing to hire a woman of childbearing age.So, why not simply keep the law as it is, but develop employment contracts that restrict reproduction? Breeding should be a carefully premeditated decision anyway; and, in these days of cheap and effective contraception, it's perfectly feasible for an adult to commit not to reproduce within (say) the next two years. By then the employer has had a fair contribution from the employee, a reasonable mutual benefit has been established, and a company shouldn't be so close to the breadline that it can't accommodate the absence of a long-term worker.The right to (limited) reproduction should be inviolate, as it's an important part of some people's self-actualisation, but there's something wrong with the idea that society should accommodate people regardless of when they choose to pop a sprog.Of course this framework doesn't easily fit indigent chavs who breed with the specific purpose of gaining state support, but they're only a problem because "eugenics" and "forcible sterilisation" are currently unfashionable terms in the political dialogue.
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Contractual contraception

[Jul. 14th, 2008|11:32 am]Footpad

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tranquil]Pottering around

mattlazycat's kitchen, making tea before a leisurely departure in the general direction of Heathrow Airport, I found myself listening to a debate on the recent extension of maternity leave to one year. I fairly quickly ignored the debate (one protagonist was the kind of irrational babbling twit whose excesses undo much of the good work of feminism), but it made me wonder.I think it's a wonderful thing that parents should be able to take a whole year off to look after a child. On the other hand, I also appreciate that this is a heavy burden on employers (especially small companies) and colleagues, and I can quite see why the law should make your ordinary six-person company less willing to hire a woman of childbearing age.So, why not simply keep the law as it is, but develop employment contracts that restrict reproduction? Breeding should be a carefully premeditated decision anyway; and, in these days of cheap and effective contraception, it's perfectly feasible for an adult to commit not to reproduce within (say) the next two years. By then the employer has had a fair contribution from the employee, a reasonable mutual benefit has been established, and a company shouldn't be so close to the breadline that it can't accommodate the absence of a long-term worker.The right to (limited) reproduction should be inviolate, as it's an important part of some people's self-actualisation, but there's something wrong with the idea that society should accommodate people regardless of when they choose to pop a sprog.Of course this framework doesn't easily fit indigent chavs who breed with the specific purpose of gaining state support, but they're only a problem because "eugenics" and "forcible sterilisation" are currently unfashionable terms in the political dialogue.

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Can't hear you 'cause your mouth's full of shit	[Jul. 3rd, 2008\|03:04 pm]Footpad
[Tags\|daily mail, news, rants, rumination] [Current Mood	mordant]The prevailing mood of many of my British friends is currently pretty acerbic towards their government and their society. And, as someone who left Britain several years ago with little intent of returning, I can appreciate that the country has its fair share of faults. Now, scruff is a kittycat with impeccable judgement in sensible news, so I can't fault him for linking to the Daily Mail article about a very large edible crab. But, while reading it, I chanced to notice other entries in the sidebar. Read them. Go on. This is the full list of current headlines from the Mail: Hunt for murderess who stabbed young woman to death just yards from Jacqui Smith's house After more fatal stabbings, London Mayor Boris Johnson warns: DON'T get involved if you see trouble Teenage girl walks free after stabbing to death 17-year-old rival in gang fight Old soldier killed after asking thugs not to swear in front of a lady Row over terror vote 'rewards' turns to farce as Brown is quizzed - by Labour MP at centre of furore Terrorist with 'direct links' to Osama Bin Laden released on bail in Britain as deportation bid fails Indisciplined, scruffy and getting away with blue murder... damning verdict on Britain's frontline police officers Pensions 'apartheid' gap is getting wider but MORE public sector workers pick up gold-plated packages Christian pub landlords fired by brewery after they ban their regulars from swearing Two-year-old boy sparks police search after taking his dog for walk... at 3am Pictured: The moment Israeli officers shot dead Palestinian in bulldozer terror attack Bullock trapped on cliff ledge for THREE DAYS as officials argue over £7,500 bill to rescue it Britons should brace themselves for a year of hardship, warns Bank of England deputy chief BBC watchdog attacks Top Gear for glamorising drink-driving - after Clarkson sipped G&T during race to North Pole Boy, 12, held over murder of pensioner in house arson attack BBC under fire from QC over portrayal of devious barristers in Criminal Justice drama Riding The Widowmaker: Brave 17-year-old is youngest to surf Britain's biggest wave 'I'm meeting my frendy for a drinkowac': The bizarre 'Ponglish' slang spoken by Poles in Britain White man convicted of racial abuse after making 'honky' jibe at WHITE security guards Queen's former servant died after hospital turned him away following a fall Pictured: Monster crab with claws the size of a man's hand captured off the British coast After years of working for free, Down's Syndrome man must PAY to wash councillors' dishes How a daily cup of green tea can give you a healthy heart in minutes So how much of this shit is actually news? What picture does it give you of what's going on in the world? For the sake of all that's fucking holy, how are you going to perceive your society after reading what the Daily Mail is trying to ram down your craw? In case I actually need to drive this point home, the Daily Mail is telling you that: It is now illegal to make jokes in Britain. Everyone in office or uniform is an incompetent freeloading moron. You are in immediate personal danger of being gutted on your doorstep by a sociopathic schoolchild. Yes, people have gotten into undeserved trouble for innocent remarks. Yes, some officials should be in prison. Yes, there are sociopathic schoolchildren out there. But, Mail readers? Take a look around. Bits of the world suck. But justice is generally just. Most officials are constrained and bored but basically okay. The colossal majority of schoolchildren are no worse than the tykes you had to put up with in the playground. This is not news. It's not information. It's a diet of shit that seems almost contrived to rot people's brains. Systematic distortion, scare-mongering and morbid titillation tending inexorably towards a fearful, paranoid, and destructively cynical world view. If England has its issues, then the Mail is definitely part of the problem, not the solution. It's mental junk. Do us all a favour and go cold turkey.
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Can't hear you 'cause your mouth's full of shit

[Jul. 3rd, 2008|03:04 pm]Footpad

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mordant]The prevailing mood of many of my British friends is currently pretty acerbic towards their government and their society. And, as someone who left Britain several years ago with little intent of returning, I can appreciate that the country has its fair share of faults. Now,

scruff is a kittycat with impeccable judgement in sensible news, so I can't fault him for linking to the Daily Mail article about a very large edible crab. But, while reading it, I chanced to notice other entries in the sidebar. Read them. Go on. This is the full list of current headlines from the Mail: Hunt for murderess who stabbed young woman to death just yards from Jacqui Smith's house After more fatal stabbings, London Mayor Boris Johnson warns: DON'T get involved if you see trouble Teenage girl walks free after stabbing to death 17-year-old rival in gang fight Old soldier killed after asking thugs not to swear in front of a lady Row over terror vote 'rewards' turns to farce as Brown is quizzed - by Labour MP at centre of furore Terrorist with 'direct links' to Osama Bin Laden released on bail in Britain as deportation bid fails Indisciplined, scruffy and getting away with blue murder... damning verdict on Britain's frontline police officers Pensions 'apartheid' gap is getting wider but MORE public sector workers pick up gold-plated packages Christian pub landlords fired by brewery after they ban their regulars from swearing Two-year-old boy sparks police search after taking his dog for walk... at 3am Pictured: The moment Israeli officers shot dead Palestinian in bulldozer terror attack Bullock trapped on cliff ledge for THREE DAYS as officials argue over £7,500 bill to rescue it Britons should brace themselves for a year of hardship, warns Bank of England deputy chief BBC watchdog attacks Top Gear for glamorising drink-driving - after Clarkson sipped G&T during race to North Pole Boy, 12, held over murder of pensioner in house arson attack BBC under fire from QC over portrayal of devious barristers in Criminal Justice drama Riding The Widowmaker: Brave 17-year-old is youngest to surf Britain's biggest wave 'I'm meeting my frendy for a drinkowac': The bizarre 'Ponglish' slang spoken by Poles in Britain White man convicted of racial abuse after making 'honky' jibe at WHITE security guards Queen's former servant died after hospital turned him away following a fall Pictured: Monster crab with claws the size of a man's hand captured off the British coast After years of working for free, Down's Syndrome man must PAY to wash councillors' dishes How a daily cup of green tea can give you a healthy heart in minutes So how much of this shit is actually news? What picture does it give you of what's going on in the world? For the sake of all that's fucking holy, how are you going to perceive your society after reading what the Daily Mail is trying to ram down your craw? In case I actually need to drive this point home, the Daily Mail is telling you that: It is now illegal to make jokes in Britain. Everyone in office or uniform is an incompetent freeloading moron. You are in immediate personal danger of being gutted on your doorstep by a sociopathic schoolchild. Yes, people have gotten into undeserved trouble for innocent remarks. Yes, some officials should be in prison. Yes, there are sociopathic schoolchildren out there. But, Mail readers? Take a look around. Bits of the world suck. But justice is generally just. Most officials are constrained and bored but basically okay. The colossal majority of schoolchildren are no worse than the tykes you had to put up with in the playground. This is not news. It's not information. It's a diet of shit that seems almost contrived to rot people's brains. Systematic distortion, scare-mongering and morbid titillation tending inexorably towards a fearful, paranoid, and destructively cynical world view. If England has its issues, then the Mail is definitely part of the problem, not the solution. It's mental junk. Do us all a favour and go cold turkey.

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Where it could all end	[May. 22nd, 2008\|08:38 pm]Footpad
[Tags\|big brother, news, ruminate] [Current Mood	grim]From Rolling Stone via bruce_schneier: China's implementation of the surveillance society.This is why we need to be immediately wary of our governments' surveillance plans. Personally I trust the German state about as much as I trust any government in this world, but even they (personified by that arsehole Schäuble) have plans that would allow a less responsible leadership to approach the horrifying degree of social control that the rulers of China are busily establishing.[Edit: Just twenty minutes later: oh shit, guess what.]
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Where it could all end

[May. 22nd, 2008|08:38 pm]Footpad

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grim]From Rolling Stone via

bruce_schneier: China's implementation of the surveillance society.This is why we need to be immediately wary of our governments' surveillance plans. Personally I trust the German state about as much as I trust any government in this world, but even they (personified by that arsehole Schäuble) have plans that would allow a less responsible leadership to approach the horrifying degree of social control that the rulers of China are busily establishing.[**Edit:** Just twenty minutes later: oh shit, guess what.]

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I'm going to repent you to ashes!	[May. 16th, 2008\|11:45 pm]Footpad
[Tags\|news, scraps] [Current Mood	omg]Following an entry from rustyfox, I've just been reading the heartrending story of the thirteen-year-old girl who committed suicide after being bullied on MySpace.What really stopped me dead, though, was one of the comments:Manny wrote on Feb 13, 2008 2:42 PM:" It was not Megan's fault and that needs to be known. I know about the evil at mysace and I have made it known. Even the president knows. This little girl had some evil on her because of myspace. They need to answer and if they do not repent GOD will repent them to ashes soon. I have all the things they do documented. GOD BLESS US ALL, Manny "GOD will repent them to ashes.There are some really, really scary people in this world.
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I'm going to repent you to ashes!

[May. 16th, 2008|11:45 pm]Footpad

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omg]Following an entry from

rustyfox, I've just been reading the heartrending story of the thirteen-year-old girl who committed suicide after being bullied on MySpace.What really stopped me dead, though, was one of the comments:Manny wrote on Feb 13, 2008 2:42 PM:" It was not Megan's fault and that needs to be known. I know about the evil at mysace and I have made it known. Even the president knows. This little girl had some evil on her because of myspace. They need to answer and if they do not repent GOD will repent them to ashes soon. I have all the things they do documented. GOD BLESS US ALL, Manny "**GOD will repent them to ashes.**There are some really, really scary people in this world.

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(no subject)	[Feb. 29th, 2012\|01:58 pm]Footpad
[Tags\|links, michael d. higgins, news, politics, scraps]The President of Ireland speaks his mind with passion, clarity, forthrightness and a tremendous amount of authority. What an absolutely blinding guy!
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