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Sentence for short sex offender draws fire

LINCOLN, Neb. – A judge’s decision to sentence a 5-foot-1 man to probation instead of prison for sexually assaulting a child has angered crime victim advocates who say the punishment sends the wrong message.

But supporters of short people [Ed. note: Who are these supporters of short people? Is there a National Short People Alliance I don't know about?] say it’s about time someone recognizes the unique challenges they face.

Cheyenne County District Judge Kristine Cecava issued the sentence Tuesday. She told Richard W. Thompson that his crimes deserved a long prison sentence but that he was too small to survive in a state prison.

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Are we growing as a moral society, or shrinking (pun intended)? One has to admit, from cultural and religious sensitivity in legal issues to this, we live in a strange new world that is only going to get stranger.

And for those of you too young to remember:

Short People
(Randy Newman)

Short People got no reason
Short People got no reason
Short People got no reason
To live

They got little hands
Little eyes
They walk around
Tellin’ great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet

Well, I don’t want no Short People
Don’t want no Short People
Don’t want no Short People
`Round here

Short People are just the same
As you and I
(A Fool Such As I)
All men are brothers
Until the day they die
(It’s A Wonderful World)

Short People got nobody
Short People got nobody
Short People got nobody
To love

They got little baby legs
That stand so low
You got to pick ‘em up
Just to say hello
They got little cars
That go beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin’ peep, peep, peep
They got grubby little fingers
And dirty little minds
They’re gonna get you every time
Well, I don’t want no Short People
Don’t want no Short People
Don’t want no Short People
‘Round here

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From “How to Tell an Ethical Transchannel (a.k.a. ‘mediums’ to us laypersons):”

1) Ethical transchannels will respect your boundaries.

Unless you forget to pay their fee.

They will listen to your ideas and support your connection to the divine.

And charge you for it.

The information they impart will empower you to heal in a way that is for your higher good.

Because god forbid you go see a physician or psychologist.

They will not give you their answer, will not correct you about your answers and will not dominate the flow of conversation towards their knowledge. Ethical transchannels will not con you by telling you that their way is the ‘only’ way. Their point of view will not take precedence and they will respect not only your point of view but all people’s points of view equally.

That way you can’t hold them responsible or accountable when what they do tell you turns out not to be true or not to help you.

2) Ethical transchannels will not shamelessly promote themselves at every opportunity. If you are hanging out with your transchannel as though he or she is a ‘friend’ and they are promoting their books and services every other moment, you are being exploited, not healed.

However, if you’re hanging out (and paying) your transchannel as though he or she is a “professional,” then everything’s hunky-dory. Of course, you’re still being exploited, not healed.

3) Ethical transchannels will respect their ability and your ability to manifest. They will not tell you the information they impart is the final truth. We always have the ability to change the trajectory of our path to create the reality we intend.

Because, just like Way # 1 above, that way you can’t hold them responsible or accountable when what they do tell you turns out not to be true or not to help you.

I have been receiving so many fear based emails on how to prepare for earth changes, I automatically delete them.

Because despite being a transchannel with super channeling powers, you can’t answer them. Plus if you did, you wouldn’t want to be held responsible if you turn out to be wrong, would you?

We are in charge of our creation of life.

Then why bothering seeing (and paying) a transchannel in the first place?

4) Ethical transchannels are involved in their psychological processes. They know they are human beings with their own psychology and are willing to seek help either to heal their psychological pain or to expand who they are.

Another nicely phrased way of hinting that they’re not responsible if what they tell you doesn’t work out or turns out not to be true. OK, OK, we get the message, shut up about it already!

This is not a part time process, but is a 24/7 process in which the transchannel will seek out constant help from a qualified healer.

I wonder if “ethical transchannels” with “psychological pain” go see licensed psychologists or therapists to “heal” or “expand,” or do they seek out other transchannels (hopefully, ethical ones as well)?

5) Ethical transchannels will charge you a fair price for their services.

Naturally, but please note: no definition or example of a “fair price.”

Because they value themselves and their services, they will not give away their services.

Of course not; whoever heard of a traveling mendicant transchannel?

On the other hand, they will not overcharge for their services because of the fear of lack surfacing as greed.

Again, no definition or example of an “overcharge.” Do transchannels have their own equivalent of the Better Business Bureau or consumer advocacy groups in order to provide oversight of the commercial practices in their industry?

Most of all, pay attention to you, your own gut instincts, your own feelings and your own intuitive responses. There are many healers out there who are self proclaimed and not acting in your best interest. Pay attention to your best interest.

They certainly do.

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Enron’s Lay, Skilling convicted

Snippets:

HOUSTON (Reuters) – Former Enron Corp. chiefs Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling were convicted on Thursday for lying to investors as the energy giant stumbled toward bankruptcy in 2001 in a stunning collapse that shook the country’s faith in corporate America…

After the verdict Lay stood with his family members gathered around him and weeping loudly. Lay had no tears and tried to console them, saying, “God’s got another plan right now.”

Lay, 64, the son of a preacher [Ed. note: Naw! A preacher's son a greedy, selfish bastard??], then clasped hands with them as they stood in a circle to pray. “We’ll all come through this stronger and more reliant on God,” he told them.

Lay was convicted of all six counts of conspiracy and fraud and faces a maximum of 45 years in prison.

Yeah, Kenny. God’s “other plan” is that you get boned up the ass by a guy named Bubba every Tuesday during movie night. Stay tuned.

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Wow. The 150-member strong Westboro Baptist Church has gotten exactly what they want: national exposure in the form of congressional legislation. Congress has passed a measure barring protests at national cemetaries, titled the “Respect for America’s Fallen Heroes Act.” According to the bill, protests would be forbidden “within 300 feet of the entrance of a cemetery and within 150 feet of a road into the cemetery from 60 minutes before to 60 minutes after a funeral. Those violating the act would face up to a $100,000 fine and up to a year in prison.”

Fred Phelps, loving minister, responded that Congress was “blatantly violating the First Amendment.” Chances are, he’ll have the opportunity to argue this in court. The thing is, he’ll have a legitimate case. In addition to the federal bill, “more than a dozen states are considering similar laws to restrict protests at nonfederal cemeteries. The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against a new Kentucky law, saying it goes too far in limiting freedom of speech and expression.”

Here’s the part that bugs me about this whole thing. Congress isn’t arguing with Phelps’ or his group’s message, they’re only arguing with his method in getting it out there. After all, this is the same congress considering amending the Constitution to bar same-sex marriages. It seems a lot of members of Congress agree with the WBC, they just disagree on how to get the message out. The scariest part: Phelps is fighting for free speech, even if it is the most hateful kind, while Congress is acting to curtail even more liberties.

appeal to ignorance?

In part, this is true. However, absurdities are (or rather should be) easy to detect. You haven’t seen the refrigerator stuffed of baseball sized diamonds in my backyard, either, so by your logic, you don’t know and can’t tell me it doesn’t exist. Even though you have not been to my backyard, even you know it’s not there.

Angels, Demons, Heaven, Hell – these are archetypes and mythologies. As Santa Claus, the Easter bunny, and Brigadoon.

Quote #2: “Do you really believe man is nothing more than a sophisticated accident,”

No.

*Bzzt* What is argumentum ad ignorantiam?

Cont: “though we still don’t fully understand it because it is so complex and that we just die like a dog and rot like a log and there is nothing more?”

Yes.

Cont: “If there is no life after this life, then there is no reason to live at all and life is useless and meaningless and there is no reason not to just end it all now if I will never know the difference after I die.”

I’m sorry you’re so depressed. But thank you for highlighting the self-obsessed nature of faith. For you, life is meaningless if there’s no eternal beach party in Heaven with JC and the Holy Bunch. It’s pathetic and tragic that you can’t find joy in THIS life HERE AND NOW, because there isn’t a big reward FOR YOU at the end. Selfish. Completely and totally selfish.

Quote #3: “You go ahead and believe that because you won’t wish to consider that their just might be a God who created and gave life that we will one day be accountable to. ”

*bzzt* What is a Strawman?

We don’t believe that we’re an accident – even a sophisticated one. Learn a little about evolution before telling us we’re accidents. Most of us don’t believe in an afterlife, but again, we don’t believe in Flying Purple People Eaters either. Absurdities don’t deserve that much respect.

Quote #3: “It makes far more sense than the insanity of evolution. Do you call that fiction, science? Real science totally disproves the possibility of evolution. Science is something you can prove and recreate.

The second law (real science) of thermodynamics is the law of entrophy. Energy, the subject of the first law of thermodynamics and entrophy, the second law, and their relationship are fundamental to an understanding not just of physics, but to life.”

*bzzt* What is argumentum ad ignorantiam AGAIN?

And it would be great if you bothered to learn about either before wasting our time with these tired old lies.

First: Talk Origins That website will help you be less of an ignorant dumbass.
Second: The Second Law of Thermodynamics, Evolution, and Probability This will shred your assertion that evolution violates this law. Nice try, Creationist.

This link: An Index to Creationist Claims Will debunk all the other inane and painfully stupid creationist claims you no doubt spout as well.

Quote #4: “The fact is all things are winding down, going from more orderly to less orderly. Look at man and sicknesses. Today millions of children in America have diseases that were not heard of in children 50 years ago.

Look at anything, the sun, the stars, your health until you die, all things are winding downward not getting better.”

Okay, instead of dealing with the claim in this sentence: Class, can anyone guess where this is going?

That’s right, the woefully stupid “one species turning into another” crap.

Quote #5: “With all our increasing knowledge and medicine we are not getting healthier there is sure no evolutionary process upward that has ever been seen or proven. Oh, there are evolutionary processes, within species, but the idea of one becoming another, that you came from some primordal soup. Ha. That is greater faith and religion than believing in a God who can create it.”

*BZZT* What is composition fallacy?

It sure would, if that’s what the Theory of Evolution said. Your grave ignorance is showing again. No surprises there.

Nowhere does the theory state on species magically transforms into another. Humans and Chimps (like Bush – I kid!) came from the same ancestor, that’s undeniable – well, it’s undeniable for honest and informed people. But no one is suggesting that monkeys magically transform into humans.

But thank you for showing us that humans do turn in to shit slinging monkeys.

Quote #6: “Believing that all things are just accidental and of nature is the insanity I see, not logic.”

*bzzt* What is a Strawman AGAIN? We don’t believe that.

Quote #7: “Logic says a creation demands a creator. We have things because men make them, build them, create them. ”

*bzzzt* What is confusion of correlation and causation?

The Blind Watchmaker Goodness. Do you people EVER read anything about evolution (that’s not written by other Cretinists) before writing long, ill informed posts about nonsense? Are you ever honest enough to give it even a quick spin before coming to show us how clueless you are? Ever?

Quote #8: “You can believe that belief in a God is crazy, but logic says that there is more to life than accident and hapenstance.”

*bzzt* What is begging the question?

Right, and how exactly does that automatically point to god? Even if evolution is a horrible fallacy, that does not automatically make god the only other option.

Quote #8: “But look at it this way. IF, you are wrong and there is a hell and eternal punishment for the wicked and you live life your way, you loose, forever. IF, one believes in God and morals and lives a good and right life and there happens to be no eternal life, no loss, for after death you wouldn’t know the difference. But if one who lives that way because they believe in a God who will judge is right, they gain everything.”

*bzzt* What is Pascal’s Wager

What if when you get to your eternal beach party, you meet not whatever god you believe in now, but a different one. If you’re a Christer, and you meet not Jesus, but Allah, we’ll see you in hell.

See, this argument only works if your god is the one that exists. Since humans have worshiped thousands upon thousands of gods throughout history – and, more notably have failed to produce a single shred of evidence for any of them – you stand a much higher chance of being wrong then we do.

Quote #9: “So, you see, faith is the only possibility with something to gain and nothing to loose. Unbelief has nothing to gain and everything to loose.”

*bzzt* What is argument from adverse consequences?

Cont: “Play our odds if your a gambler, after all it would be 50-50, or is it?”

The odds are VERY FAR from 50/50. See Pascal’s Wager answer.

Quote #10: “If a house was on fire and you could save someone, but did nothing to do so, does that make you responsible for the lost lives you could have saved, or at least tried to save? Is it any different with faith in a God?’

*Bzzt* What is non sequitur?

It is Very different. First, if there was a house fire and I did nothing, not even calling the fire department, that would make me (at best) immoral and (at worse) guilty of manslaughter – or murder if I also started the fire.

But this has nothing to do with faith in god. I can see a house fire. I can hear people screaming for help. Therefore, I am compelled to respond.

You have not one single shred of evidence that god exists. Or heaven, or hell, or demons or angels. You choose to believe them, or you were indoctrinated to believe them. And you do so only to get your ass into heaven. Yours is a selfish faith.

This is in NO WAY related to a house fire. Bad analogy.

Lastly, read this: Sam Harris Responds to A Christian for a little more insight.

So, fellow heathens? What’s the score?

There was a story on my local ABC affiliate tonight about a 6 week old baby stolen from her 17 year old mother and the recovery of the baby. What struck me about the story, other than being glad the baby was still alive and had been found, was that the news reporter made sure to mention the “mother’s prayers” being answered. Here we go again. Ok, so this mother believes in a god who allows her baby to be literally grabbed from her arms and pulled into a waiting car. This begs the questions: why would the god she is praying to allow this to happen in the first place? Let’s look at the usual responses and see how they hold up.

1) “We shouldn’t question God’s plans. We can’t understand His plan and it is wrong of us to question it.”

Umm, we’re talking about stuff happening to people. How can we be expected to not question these “plans.” Furthermore, how is it even reasonable for us not to question them? Any being, divine or not, would be nothing but a prick to put a mother through that as part of some scheme. It’s always seemed the height of arrogance to me to tell someone they’re wrong for questioning why something is happening to them as though it’s none of their business.

2) “God didn’t allow the baby to be hurt. Furthermore, the women who took the baby handed him over to the FBI. It’s a miracle. God made them repent of their deed.”

We see this kind of response time and time again. Let me say this again: there would be no need for a “miracle” if the bad deed hadn’t occurred in the first place. It’s like when a disaster strikes, killing thousands of people and the one person rescued is a miracle. Besides the total lack of proof that God “showed them the way,” it seems much more likely that they knew they were close to being caught or reported and took the path that may get them some lenience. And besides, wouldn’t it have been more useful to, oh I don’t know, change their minds before they grabbed the kid.

3) “God would never give someone anything they couldn’t handle.”

Translation: remain a sheep because we’ll always have an answer to placate you so keep saying those prayers instead of doing something useful.