Boo for Andrews McMeel universal…
Boo I say!!
Calvin & Hobbes was made to be shared, so here’s a couple of my favourites..
And, I know it’s a fake, but still…
This literally made me shake with rage..
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/asia-pacific/rape-victim-receives-101-lashes-for-becoming-pregnant-2031669.html
“Her rapist was pardoned by the elders”
Sometimes I wish there actually was a god, just so people like this would get their just deserts..
Plugd records closing down
Sad news this Christmas, the only independent record store in Cork is to close it’s doors…
Over the years I have spent more money in that shop than any other in Cork. It’s a sad indictment of current trends/tastes in music that a City the size of Cork can’t support a single independent record store…
Googlewhacks…
Don’t ask me how or why, but I just found my first googlewhack!!
Of course, the act of actually blogging it means it won’t be a googlewhack for long but anyhoo, here it is
Hilter sack
Pedophile priests
So, it would appear “our holy father” the pope, the man who denies condoms to Aids ravaged Africa has finally gone on record as “strongly condemning the abuse of children under the care of the catholic church in Ireland”.
No shit? How about opening up your vast files on the matter and telling the public exactly why it was your lawyers, rather than the Vatican, have been fielding questions on the topic for the last 20 years?
In June 2001, every diocesan bishop in the Catholic Church was written to, in Latin, by the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, then cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict. They were instructed that, where complaints of clerical child sex abuse were concerned, these were first to be referred to Rome and it would decide how they were to be dealt with.
The Congregation document was accompanied by a letter, also in Latin, stipulating that the instruction was to be kept secret.
In short, stop condemning clerical sex abuse and actually respond to the substance of the myriad accusations leveled against you!
Back….
After a rather spectacular vmware migration disaster (thanks to you know who) blog.byefield.com is back!!
