Charissa’s Comments (group member since Nov 17, 2008)

Charissa’s comments from the Axis Mundi X group.

it's important to have horrendous scents invading your life. stench builds character.

I would totally have a Hello Kitty license plate.

oh you can plead all you want.

I has freckles, Larry. It's probably hard to tell with my Kali make-up on.

Sherri... I thought I was agreeing with you or I would have been less vehement in my post. : ) But I guess we disagree. If California wanted to offer religious themed license plates as one of the options, I really don't see that as being problematic. You can get ones that support the whales, or that protect national parks, or that feature palm trees. If they wanted to put a Jesus one in the line up I really wouldn't care, as long as it wasn't compulsory, and there were other options. Like KD says, they are for sale. Not funded by my tax dollars.

I'm not ignoring it. I just don't agree that is the entire story. We have a different perspective on the same information. No surprise. That is the story of our entire relationship. Good thing he's a good lay. ; )

Poor Bettie... she became insane in her later years. When legends go bad.

http://www.popsubculture.com/pop/bio_...

I think Kelly states very effectively my views on him. And the article says it all. Thanks for playing.

I really don't care if people want religious imagery on their license plates. What is wrong with people?? How incredibly petty is this??? If I lived in SC I'd be pissed they were spending my tax dollars on giving a shit about this.

OH NOES!!!!!!!!!!!

Bettie Page was responsible for my becoming a retro pin up maven. Rest in peace, queen of vavoom.

Uhm... NB... the emphasis in that paragraph was that the college of cardinals chose a new pope who had been part of the Nazi youth. There were many other choices available among the college of cardinals. The fact that he had been part of Hitler youth didn't seem to bother them in the slightest.

Here is an article which discusses his relationship to Nazism and points out very effectively what the problems many people have with his past:

http://atheism.about.com/od/benedictx...

And yes, NB, there was a choice. Many, many people inside Nazi Germany chose to work as part of the resistance, to harbor Jews, to risk their own lives in order to help others. Ratzinger doesn't happen to be one of those people. What makes him so exceptional that he should be looked to as a moral authority on anything when he is in no way an exceptionally moral person?

And it's interesting that you have chosen to address the use of my terminology without commenting on his other action, the point of this post, which is to consciously stand in the way of human rights being extended to a minority. Typical.

I'm allergic to Pope on a Rope. Go figure.

Also, Bunny secretly looks for ways to work the word 'lesbian' into any sentence. I dare you to go back and read through her threads. The word lesbian appears quite without warning in shocking places. It's one of her tricksy ways.

are you flipping me off?

Still, seriously, out of all the choices in the world, the Vatican chose a former Nazi to be Pope. It says a lot about where the Catholic Church stands. I can't think of anything more illustrative and to the point. Also, it's fun to say. Come on, try it, I know you want to...

NaziPope.

Uh huh. Told you.

Hey now, speak for yourself. I happen to be wearing clothes. I'm an ape with style, dude. : )

Actually, NB... the current Pope was literally a member of the Nazi youth once upon a time. It's not hyperbole, it's a fact.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNew...

snippet:

A French scientist who shared this year's Nobel prize for medicine said on Saturday he believed the transmission of AIDS could be eliminated within years.

Luc Montagnier, director of the World Foundation for AIDS Research and Prevention, told a news conference together with this year's other winners for medicine that halting the transmission of AIDS would make it a disease much like others.

BY ADAM ASHTON
MCCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS

BAGHDAD -- For the past few years, Nawal Abdulla Hadi of Baghdad couldn't travel to see her family for the Eid al-Adha, giving up the traditional reunion during the annual Muslim holiday because the roads weren't safe.

The explosions that regularly shook her neighborhood in 2006 and 2007 have ceased, however, so she'll pack the kids Wednesday and take them to see their grandparents in Hillah, a city about 60 miles south of Baghdad.

"This is the first time we've left our house in the Eid," she said, smiling, in a public park along the Tigris River on Tuesday with her six children and husband.

"Now I feel it's real safety, not just propaganda," she said.

Hadi is one of many Iraqis who are enjoying a noticeable decrease in violence over the past year, a trend that's allowing them to celebrate the holidays as they once did.

Iraqis began preparing for the Eid last week. The holiday marks Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son Ishmael to God, and it follows an annual pilgrimage for Muslims to Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

In Baghdad, people crowded street markets at night last week, buying new clothes, another tradition for families who can afford it. Many bought sheep this week as a religious sacrifice that also honors deceased relatives.

"This Eid is the most beautiful Eid of the last few years," said Mazin Shihan, 34, Hadi's husband. "During the last Eid, we didn't see families anywhere. Now they're everywhere."

The holiday began Monday for Sunnis and Tuesday for Shiites. The two branches of Islam recognize its start on different days depending on their clerics' readings of the lunar calendar.

Eid celebrations have remained safe so far this year, though they sometimes become targets for attacks. In early October, during the most recent holidays in Iraq, attackers killed dozens of people in bombings throughout Baghdad.

Fears of attacks seemed distant Tuesday while families gathered at Abu Nawas Park. The scent of popcorn drifted along a paved path where vendors sold snacks ranging from hamburgers to figs. Children played on swing sets while adults laughed at picnic tables on a sunny but cool day.

"It gives me a feeling of friendship, happiness, life and peace," said Heider al-Jabouri, a sculptor from Hillah who went to the park with his sister's and his children.

Jabouri, 44, didn't let concerns about safety stop him from visiting his family in Baghdad during the Eid over the past few years, but he noticed much more traffic this time.

"You could see everywhere it was crowded," he said.

Hadi, the woman from Baghdad, took comfort in the Iraqi police and army officers she saw walking through the park. Vehicle checkpoints line the roads that lead to the park, and it's watched by patrols.

"Whenever the security situation improves, more people come to the park, and this is good," police officer Hamed Nadhen said.

Elsewhere in Iraq on Tuesday, police arrested six men who allegedly had a role in planning two suicide attacks that killed 15 people in Fallujah last Thursday. Fallujah police Col. Dawood al-Marawi said the men had been seized in a home in the town of Abu Ghraib west of Baghdad and that they were suspected of belonging to al-Qaida in Iraq.

Police and coalition military forces also raided the Fallujah office of the National Assembly of Journalists, an organization to which two McClatchy Newspapers special correspondents belong. Officers reportedly seized several cameras. Police declined to say why they conducted the raid.

(Ashton reports for The Modesto (Calif.) Bee. McClatchy Newspapers special correspondent Laith Hammoudi contributed to this report.)

It's a shame some of those things have to have special laws... as if it wouldn't be the way people would behave normally. Given enough opportunity... humans suck the big one.

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