In this article about Briton Guantanamo Bay Detainees, and how they alleged beatings it has this quote:

‘U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told a British television network it was “unlikely” abuses were taking place at Guantanamo. “Because we are Americans, we don’t abuse people who are in our care,” he said.’

Yeah, if the people in our ‘care’ aren’t mentally ill, poor, a minority, a college student, an elderly person or some combination of all of these, they won’t be abused.

However, if they are listed in the aforementioned cases…well, they’re pretty much f’ed.

Where can you seee lions??

Only in Kenya!

Where can you see tigers??

Only in Kenya!

Where the giraffes arrrrre!

and the zebraaaaa!

I love this tune.

Woops…I suppose I shouldn’t call them pagans…some more PC term perhaps? I’m a-gonna list them:
Wiccans
Shamans
Tinder for Stake Burnings
Priestesses
Druids
Hell Demon Munchies
High Priests
Celts(maybe..I don’t know)
Witches
Spanish Inquisition playthings
And so forth…

I’m just gonna settle on Pagans here. ’s easier for me to type. Anyways…these people are decent, honest people, and I don’t like to fault them on their religion(well, anymore so than the catholics and mormons, that is…), but one thing I am curious about is the penchant of some of their cursing.

This is brought on by the Oh My Gods! comic, recently linked to by Sara and that’s how I found out about it.

Now the question I have is this: It seems that many of these pagans are against the christian God, for whatever the reasons. Maybe He took their candy away when they were chillens, and they didn’t like it, well la-dee-da he did that to the catholics too(along with anything else that was fun). ANYWAYS, back to my point, for some reason the pagans don’t like the ONE GOD guy.

When the pagans curse, many of them will say ‘Oh my gods!’, or ‘gods bless you’ for sneezes. Or ‘gods dammit!’ when they hit their thumb with their hammer whilst manufacturing their cauldron holder. I don’t understand this about it:

Why, if you don’t like the idea of one God, would you have MORE than one god? Isn’t that just multiplying the problem of dietiness? (and that is pronounced, dee-it-ee-ness, not dye-itness.)

At least I could understand when Erin says ‘goth damn’, and ‘holy good goth almighty!’ and ‘oh my goth!’, she’s substituting in her profanity something that isn’t the same as ‘God’, or multiples of Him. I can understand that, because it doesn’t compound the problem.

So, my question is: What’s up with the profanity among you pagans?

A woman is charged with murder for refusing a c-section

Apparently, she refused it on the grounds of ‘cosmetic damage’. Seriously. Look at that photo, and tell me that that is just IMPOSSIBLE to relate to real life.

Wow. So I didn’t get ANY writing done today. I was going to, but I ended up going to coffee and supper with Natasha, so none got done. Although I did get some plotting/outlining done while waiting at the coffee place.

Sat and talked for about an hour and a half, then went to supper. A thoroughly entertaining time. I had a blast. Especially at Country Kitchen where the lettuce was *SPECTACULAR*. It was, as Natasha put it, “Absolutely great, different than any other salad…” Quite the tasty stuff. Thanks for the good time, Natasha!

Missed out on Kumdo tonight. I feel pretty guilty about that, but I’ll get over it. I missed that because I went and hung out with Josh Page and Josh Murray. We did some RPG stuff where my character was a pirate with snappy hat wearing skills, by the name of ‘Spanglybeard the Inept’. You can only imagine the devolution of the game as the evening wore on.

Now though, I go to my sleep. More writings on the morning. Perhaps something on the ‘quiet passion’. Need to hash that one out a tad more before posting.

Today I MUST write. No more distractions(except maybe that whole quiet passion discussion that has yet to happen)! I must also get stuff posted on the SPBlog, and get the house kind of cleaned up so that Kamran won’t be upset with me.

Other than that, don’t have to do ANYTHING. Woopwoopwoop! Yeah. I RULE.

Wait…I gots to play me some video games.

1. What was the last song you heard?
The last song I heard, I’m listening to right now. Its called ‘If You Still Believe in Love’ from Legend of Dragoon video game. I find the song decent…not decent enough to listen to often, but decent.

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
I saw Hidalgo the other night, it was all right. Nothing pisses me off more than a movie set in historical times(100 years ago) that retrogrades today’s opinions and beliefs onto the past. Idjits.

And I saw…well, the last one that I saw in the theatre was Cold Mountain. I liked that movie. It was very entertaining.

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
Dove Choclate Eggs(thanks for posting about them Renee, and forcing me to face the temptation of the smooth chocolatey goodness…(now imagine me shaking my fist in the air) ), Contact Lens solution(I had to get Kmart generic brand, because of the purchase of aforementioned eggs), and JIF Chunky Peanut Butter. I usually enjoy the smooth peanut butter more, but occasionally chunky is good, and reminds me WHY I prefer the smooth stuff.

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
#1. Win the Arcade machine.
#2. GET the arcade machine(if anybody wants to run down to the cities on sunday)

#3. Get some stuff done for the HyperText Essay for Web Design Class. No latey-s this time! Morgan’s cracking the whip!

#4. DESTROY ALL WHO OPPOSE ME. You know who you are.

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?

Well, I talked to Natasha, My Dad, Josh Page, Josh Murray, and Mr. Jesse Whiting.

questions via Friday Five