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Elias C. Arnold: Fatal end to exorcism attempt [LINK-ZUM]

A 48-year-old Phoenix man whom authorities say was choking his 3-year-old granddaughter during an exorcism early Saturday died after struggling with police officers who went into the home to investigate, Phoenix police said.

Police reportedly found Ronald Marquez, of Phoenix, shirtless and choking his granddaughter as her 19-year-old mother, naked and bloody, looked on. The bloodied girl was gasping and screaming as her mother chanted and held a religious picture of some kind, police said.

"It's very bizarre, (a) very unusual and pretty horrific situation this young child was involved in," said Sgt. Joel Tranter, a Phoenix police spokesman. Police responded about 7:30 a.m. to a check-welfare call at a house in the 2200 block of North 28th Street, north of McDowell Road. A relative reported she thought an exorcism was going on at the family home after one was performed two days earlier, police said.

[Article continues at link. The ritual sacrifice of this three-year-old girl occured in the 21st Century, in the United States of America. Be looking long and hard all day long for weeks and weeks on end for a 'not in our name' march to be held, in which Christians all over the USA will formally renounce child sacrifice and 'exorcism.' It won't happen, because the Christians are too busy policing other people's houses to clean their own. Too bad for Marquez that he didn't kill his own granddaughter in Oregon, where child sacrifice is still semi-legal. - Trevor Blake]

Labels: christianity

Bush Funds, Fights Taliban [LINK-ZUM]

Caren Bohan, August 6, 2007, Bush, Karzai hold strategy talks on Afghanistan : "The struggling, six-year effort to rebuild war-ravaged Afghanistan and defuse the threat from Taliban and alQaeda militants hiding over the border in Pakistan will dominate talks this weekend between U.S. President George W. Bush and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. [...] Karzai is grappling with numerous challenges, including suicide bomb attacks by the Taliban, mounting deaths of civilians killed in the cross-fire of fighting between Western forces and militants, and a booming opium trade. Afghanistan supplies around 92 percent of the world's opium, and the crop has become a source of cash for the Taliban and a corrupting influence in the government."

Robert Scheer, May 22, 2001, Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban: "Enslave your girls and women, harbor anti-U.S. terrorists, destroy every vestige of civilization in your homeland, and the Bush administration will embrace you. All that matters is that you line up as an ally in the drug war, the only international cause that this nation still takes seriously. That's the message sent with the recent gift of $43 million to the Taliban rulers of Afghanistan, the most virulent anti-American violators of human rights in the world today. The gift, announced last Thursday by Secretary of State Colin Powell, in addition to other recent aid, makes the U.S. the main sponsor of the Taliban and rewards that 'rogue regime' for declaring that opium growing is against the will of God. So, too, by the Taliban's estimation, are most human activities, but it's the ban on drugs that catches this administration's attention."

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Labels: islam, prohibition

"Mother: Dress Code Unfairly Targets Religion" [LINK-ZUM]

The mother of a student who was suspended for violating her school system's dress code says the rules unfairly target religion, WRTV in Indianapolis reported. Tracy Prochnow said Highland High School in Indiana suspended her daughter, Brittany Brown, on Monday because the junior wore a Christian-themed T-shirt. Monday was the fourth time Brittany violated the code, which the city's school board implemented this year and requires students to wear khakis and polo shirts. [...] The school's principal, Mark Finger, said the dress code doesn't target religious beliefs. "The policy states there are to be no logos or slogans on a shirt," Finger said. A city council member, Ollie Dixon, said he would work to change the policy. It wasn't clear what changes he would favor.

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Labels: christianity

The Road to Serfdom in Cartoons [LINK-ZUM]

Wikipedia has an entry for The Road to Serfdom. Economic planning is the doom of socialism, as explained by David Steele at Posing the Problem: The Impossibility of Economic Calculation under Socialism and the Wikipedia entry for Economic Calculation Problem.

Labels: books, comics, libertarian

Overcoming Bias: Mysterious Answers to Mysterious Questions [LINK-ZUM]

"It is a failure of human psychology that, faced with a mysterious phenomenon, we more readily postulate mysterious inherent substances than complex underlying processes. If a phenomenon feels mysterious, that is a fact about our state of knowledge, not a fact about the phenomenon itself."

Labels: religion

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Labels: commerce, del.icio.us, DIY, games, krankheit, mac, p2p, paper, robots, rockets, sex, tools, transhuman, trevorblake

unreason tags 2 [LINK-ZUM]

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unreason tags 1 [LINK-ZUM]

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thinky tags [LINK-ZUM]

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there tags [LINK-ZUM]

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them tags [LINK-ZUM]

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Labels: biographic, communication, deaf, education, extremophiles, futurism, interpreting, news, nsk, parasites, reference

ovo tags [LINK-ZUM]

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media tags [LINK-ZUM]

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Labels: architecture, art, blog, books, comic, comics, film, flash, mac, music, palm, periodical, podcasts, sewing, spoken, television, ubuntu, video, zine

atheist tags [LINK-ZUM]

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Labels: 9/11, atheist, buddhism, christianity, hindu, islam, judaism, magick, mormon, philosophy, religion, satanism, scientology, subgenius, subud, theocracy, watchtower

Opus, 26 August 2007 [LINK-ZUM]

The comic strip Opus for 26 August 2007 won't be seen in many newspapers this Sunday for fear of offending Muslims. It is good not to offend Muslims by way of comic strips. The invisible monster that lives in the sky that they worship is so weak that colored lines on paper or pixels on a computer screen cause Him to suffer. Gods are an endangered species and most of the thousands of Gods that have ever been worshiped are dead now. We need to take care of the few hundred that are left in the world. Oh, and it's also not good to offend Muslims by way of comic strips because they will boycott your country, threaten you with death, cause you to go into hiding, burn down your buildings, and kill you.

Labels: comics, islam, theocracy

Old News [LINK-ZUM]

2007 August 21: Weekend art exhibit at Backspace Gallery in Portland, Oregon USA. 6,000+ links at del.icio.us.
2007 March 11: 3,700 links at del.icio.us.
2007 February 16: OVO 17 The Dreadlock Recollections revised, corrected. Approximately 58 copies of the unrevised edition were downloaded. One advance readers copy printed.
2007 January 24: OVO 17 The Dreadlock Recollections.
2006 October 8: Eleventh exhibit in gallery (Pregnancy & Education).
2006 June 25: More than one thousand photographs online and entered into the public domain.
2006 June 6: Nidhstong by Dennis Dread (cover art for OVO 16 ANTICHRIST) exhibited at the Optic Nerve Art gallery in Portland, Oregon USA. More than 338,000 PDF pages distributed; more than 178,000 visitors, averaging 236 each day.
2006 May 7: legaltorrents.com added as mirror site. More than 320,000 PDF pages distributed; more than 160,000 visitors, averaging 221 each day.
2006 March 19: The Church of Satan advertises OVO 16 ANTICHRIST (image 276 KB).
2006 March 4: Over twenty printed and CD copies mailed to allies inside the United Sates. More than 207,000 PDF pages distributed.
2006 February 18: Tenth exhibit in gallery (Bolrog). More than 179,000 PDF pages distributed.
2006 January 28: OVO 16 ANTICHRIST revised, corrected for hopefully a final time. More than 128,000 visitors, averaging 204 each day. More than 161,000 PDF pages distributed.
2006 January 8: OVO 16 ANTICHRIST revised, corrected. Thirty copies of all issues mailed on CD-ROM to allies outside of the United States. Five signed and numbered copies privately printed.
2005 December 29: All back issues online at official download site ibiblio.
2005 December 22: Ninth exhibit in gallery (Stencil 6 x 5).
2005 December 20: OVO 16 ANTICHRIST. More than 116,000 visitors, averaging 193 each day.
2005 October 9: catalogue added.
2005 September 7: The Outbursts of Everett True added to books. Over 660 copies of OVO 15 SPERM downloaded; more than 79,000 visitors, averaging 163 each day.
2005 June: Eighth exhibit in gallery (photographs).
2005 May 29: Seventh exhibit in gallery (OVO 15 SPERM Postcards). Over 360 copies of OVO 15 SPERM downloaded; more than 52,000 visitors, averaging 136 each day.
2005 April 14: Sixth exhibit in gallery (Flower).
2005 February 27: OVO 15 SPERM.
2005 January 17: Fifth exhibit in gallery (Anti-Capitalism Boycott).
2004 October 8: Fourth exhibit in gallery (Twin Towers).
2004 September: Second and Third exhibit in gallery (Statue of Liberty and Measure 36).
2004 August 29: museum available.
2004 August 6: First exhibit in gallery (de Sade).
2004 July 16: The Church of Satan advertises OVO 15 SPERM (image 123 KB).
2004 June 3: Downloads available.
2004 May 20: ovo127.com announced.
2004 May 15: ovo127.com online.

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