Ironed Breasts Blog Roundup

In the weird, ‘what the fuck’ news of the day, one in four girls in Cameroon are having their breasts ‘ironed’. It is done by parents worried about rape and sexual harassment. Think about that. Rape and sexual harassment have become such a problem that people are ironing their breasts to be less attractive.

Bligbi lists the top 10 reasons gay marriage will ruin society. I’ll give you a taste with my favorite: “Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract.”

And in the Wikipedia entry of the day, have you heard of Godwin’s Law? The basic posit is that the longer a political discussion goes on, the more likely there is to be a comparison to Nazi’s. This is true, because if you don’t agree with me, you’re probably doing something exactly like the Nazi’s.

Speaking of Nazi’s, the Consumerist got their hands on some AOL internal memos following the customer service fiasco. Consumerist also speaks of how customer service representatives at AOL are forced to retain seventy percent of the members that call them if they want to keep their job. So, if you want to cancel your account, prepare to listen to infinite amount of reasons not to and then being hung up on.

Some of us are having trouble containing our happiness, even in the mainstream media, after Mr. Ken Lay went to eternal sleep. Also: Fuck Joe Lieberman (still).

per-active international Kontributionen! (An Addendum to German Remilitarization)

While I did not get selected as one of the best bloggers for the Atlantic Review Carnival Blog, I did get some interesting comments in reply to my article on German Remilitarization. Extrablog, a German blog, had the following to say (via Google Translation):

On the wood path: Prose Before Hos becomes enthusiastic for a perspective, which cannot more grotesque at all be. Germany must advance the militarization in the interest of its international diplomacy and social achievements and prepare the public for coming “per-active international Kontributionen” politically. Hey! Gringo! It is called not proactive internationally contributions, but complex mission far away from home with little support from the host nation.

The message can be deciphered fairly easy through the translation: my idea is pretty irrational for a society that has no interest in engaging in current world affairs on a military level (or simply, my idea cannot be more ‘grotesque’). I am a very liberal individual who is against America’s invasion of Iraq, but Germany could and should contribute more to the world peacekeeping force, either as a part of NATO or the UN. The question isn’t about conducting missions with the necessity of public support, but being involved with decisions made in international bodies and aiding current operations across the globe. I do not want to use the phrase ‘moral responsibility’, but on several levels the Germans should be compelled to act in areas like Darfur and Afghanistan. Obviously, this is not a task that only Germans face but many nations, including Spain, France, and other NATO nations that have been decidedly against American policies but still seeking a significant role in international affairs. While I understand his point that election politics stiffles the ability for a lot of countries to act decisively in current situations (see the election of Socialists in Spain), a proactive role in peacekeeping efforts is preferable to an isolationism that alienates both former and current allies.

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Dead & Gray, Mr. Ken Lay (And Dick Cheney’s America)

Welcome to Dick Cheney’s America. ABC talks about the ‘Cheney 1 Percent Doctrine’, which is not the plan to eliminate all Americans who earn less than $100,000 a year as I originally thought. Apparently, it deals with the fact that any chance of an alleged threat can be met with preemptive ‘responses’. Conclusion: your ass is grass, North Korea & Iran.

Want to read something even more disturbing? CNN has the full court archives from the Columbine investigation. Jeez, doing school assignments on Charles Manson or the Nazi’s doesn’t really hint at anything, does it? Plus all those sweet Napoleon Dynamite-esque pictures of devil buffalos with machine guns don’t help either. Frankly, I think their parents should be proud they were even able to hatch this plan in the first place given their intelligence.

And in the sad, not really so sad news, Ken Lay, former CEO and was soon-to-be convict, died of a heart attack. Yet even in death, this man cannot get a good word spoken about him. Even the Washington Post chimes in on his last ‘evasion’, which can be promptly summarized that he gets to be a corpse instead of someone’s bitch.

July 6, 2006

Courtesy of UrbanDictionary:

check your neck – a phrase used as a warning to be on the look out for someone or a group of people whom are going to attack you. Used mainly among prisoners and street hoods to instill fear in a rival gang member or person whom they dislike.

i.e. – best check your neck son

Yay, the onion reprinted my favorite article of all time:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/33540?issue=4227&special=1998

On a side note, it’s hard to believe it’s been 8 years.