Charles III's coronation

"The fragrant chrism oil that will be used to anoint King Charles during his coronation in May was made sacred in Jerusalem on Friday."

phew! I was worried about the oil for a while back there.

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“Sexualization” of children.

Much of the right wing rhetoric around the various anti-gay, anti-trans, anti-drag, and school-book issues refers to the “sexualization” of children.

This is an incorrect use of the term. To sexualize something is to make it an object of sexual arousal. A fetish, if you will. A foot fetishist sexualizes feet.

So none of these things sexualize children, the only people who sexualize children are pedophiles.
Rather, what these people are apparently worried about is “exposing children to sexual subjects for which they are (presumably) not prepared.”

That in itself is rather silly, as we know that the whole area of sex education is pretty much taboo to these people… Despite the manifest benefits of same.
Researchers have found that cultures that allow free sexual “exploration” among young kids have far less incidence of paraphilia than those that try to hide everything.

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Who is murdering Transgenders in New Orleans?

This is an old news article, and I'm not exactly sure if this deserves its own thread, but the reason I bring it up is I'm trying to remember a case from long ago about a boy who was murdered in Texas (I think) for pretending to be a girl.

He was found tied to a tree with barbed wire.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Quote:

FROM: https://sandrarose.com/2017/03/who-i...n-new-orleans/ Who Is Murdering Transgenders In New Orleans? Sandra Rose - March 10, 2017 The transgender community in Louisiana, is alarmed after the unrelated murders of three male-to-transgender people there. Chyna Gibson and Ciara McElveen were murdered within 48 hours of each other in New Orleans. Gibson, 31, was shot multiple times in the parking lot outside a shopping center on Feb. 25. On Feb. 27, Ciara McElveen was stabbed multiple times by a male driving a late model car, possibly a Camaro, in the 1700 block of Columbus Street. (SNIP) The transgender community is concerned that the murders aren’t given the same priority as non-transgender deaths. The three murders are part of a national trend. In 2016, a record 23 transgender people were killed around the country. Most of the murders have gone unsolved... (SNIP)

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Weird Web Credential

I decided to look at my list of Web Credentials, and a strange one was at the top of the list.



I tried going to the address but it could not be found. A search turned up this page:

Weird Web Credential Entries, a mystery still unsolved in Windows 10?

Some of those who answered said it was OK to delete this entry, some say it's harmless and nothing need be done. Have you seen anything like this before? Is it really safe to delete this entry? Or should I destroy the laptop and flee the country?

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Manslaughter, for shouting at a cyclist

I find this case puzzling. An lady is walking along the pavement, and another lady is riding her bike on the pavement, so they are heading towards each other.

The lady pedestrian shouts and points at the cyclist to get off the pavement and as they pass, the cyclist loses balance, goes into the roadway and is struck by a passing car and dies.

The lady pedestrian is found guilty of manslaughter and sent to prison for 3 years.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...car-huntingdon

CCTV footage here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4eIjOFTB6k

I cannot see how this is anything more than a tragic accident. If the lady pedestrian had pushed the cyclist into the road, that would be reckless. But she walks along the pavement, not altering her position and merely gesticulates to the cyclist to get off. The verdict is to be appealed, and I cannot see how it was a conviction in the first place.

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Who is more pernicious... wily thugs or corrupt judiciary & venal law "enforcement"?

Who causes more harm and vitiation of the social fabric of a society... concerted gangs of malignant wily thugs... or corrupt judges and cowardly lawyers and deceitful venal law enforcers shielding and facilitating the thuggery and criminality... and invariably reaping benefits from their active and passive collusions.

Philosophically, ethically, morally and economically... the corruption of those who are meant to protect the members of a society from organized ruffians and degenerate hoodlums, must surely be more of an egregious pernicious betrayal of all that is good and decent and honorable... let alone rational.

Here is an example that made me realize why it is that a certain criminal dunce haplessly managed to reach to the highest echelons of power and has never been confronted with his villainy despite his criminality spanning decades.

And I do not think that any decent rational person on Earth can deny the deleterious mayhem and malignancy... not to mention the mind vitiation of countless pissants... that this bullying obscene buffoon has wrought upon the whole globe not just his society.

And he was throughout his career of wonton depravity promoted and shielded and protected from any consequences of his felonies and indecency... by a corrupt to the crux corps of immoral unethical soulless mountebanks and sycophants and collaborators in the highest echelons of power and influence.

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Harry and Meghan being evicted!

Expect the bailiffs any day! :D

linky

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