Russia’s foreign minister is calling for a freeze on child adoptions involving the United States after a Tennessee woman who adopted an eight-year-old boy helped put him on a flight back to Russia by himself, with a note saying she didn’t want to take care of him anymore.

You return your impulse buys to Wal-Mart when your credit runs dry, return your puppy to the pound if you decide you’d rather not deal with it… Why not imported children?

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Ho Ho Ho, Motherfuckers.

LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — Dressed as Santa, Bruce Jeffrey Pardo walked up to his ex-in-laws’ home in Covina, California, on Christmas Eve and knocked on the door.

An 8-year-old girl, elated to see Santa, ran toward the door.

That’s when, police say, Pardo lifted a gun and shot her in the face.

Pardo, 45, with a gun in one hand and a wrapped present in the other, began shooting indiscriminately, police said at a news conference Thursday.

He sprayed the living room with bullets.

The Story

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/12/24/snow.rescue/index.html

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Or, the short version: A brilliant woman walked into the snowy winter to get some groceries, only to disappear into a snow drift in some field somewhere and nearly die. Leave it to CNN to not even attempt to explain this. Instead, the focus on her “miraculous” rescue, 3 days later. Doctors say she survived because her body was insulated by the snow she somehow found herself under.

What her husband says about this is curious to me:

My wife, you know, doesn’t pump iron. She is strong physically and spiritually,” he said. “When people say to me how do I explain how she survived, I said I believe God reached down and cradled her until the rescuers could find her, because there’s no rational explanation.

If you read the story, you’ll notice that his statement is immediately followed by this:

In addition to hypothermia, Donna Molnar is being treated for severe frostbite, and her recovery will take months.

Heh. The All-Knowing All-Seeing All-Powerful God-That-Can-Do-Anything reached down and cradled her, but allowed her body to dip into hypothermia, and get severe frostbite that will take “months to recover from”. That’s some awesome God. Maybe he was just being an asshole. I hope God never comes to “cradle” me, allowing me to wander off into a field to die and then leaving me with severe injuries. What a jerk.

The crime scene.

From MSNBC:

NEW YORK – Police were reviewing video from surveillance cameras in an attempt to identify who trampled to death a Wal-Mart worker after a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors at a suburban store and knocked him down.

Criminal charges were possible, but identifying individual shoppers in Friday’s video may prove difficult, said Detective Lt. Michael Fleming, a Nassau County police spokesman.

Other workers were trampled as they tried to rescue the man, and customers stepped over him and became irate when officials said the store was closing because of the death, police and witnesses said.

“When they were saying they had to leave, that an employee got killed, people were yelling `I’ve been on line since yesterday morning,’” she said. “They kept shopping.”

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PHOENIX, Arizona (AP) — A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred Arizona from using a state law to prosecute an online merchant who sells shirts that list names of thousands of troops killed in Iraq.

But that’s not all. Get this:

The ACLU is also defending Frazier in a lawsuit filed in federal court in Tennessee by a couple whose soldier son was killed in Iraq. Robin and Michael Read of Greeneville have asked that their case be expanded to cover more than 4,000 casualties and seek more than $40 billion in damages.

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February 28, 2007

Today, Boise Idaho’s KTVB News reported that five junior high and high school students from the town of Sweet drowned in icy water after their Ford Tempo slid off a slippery turn in the road and plunged to the bottom of a small pond. Grief counselors are on hand at the students’ schools, ready to help friends of the students deal with the loss of their classmates. Gem County Commissioner Michele Sherrer said, “The community’s prayers are with the family.”

What a terrible, unfortunate accident. Five young people with their entire lives ahead of them, dying such a horrible death, trapped in a car under freezing water. How can this be explained? How could God let this happen? What part of His divine plan for us is this, to sacrifice five kids? For what?

I wonder if the parents, friends, and community are asking these questions. What a cruel, mean God. Why did He do this? Were these kids evil agents of Satan? Why do these children, their families, community, and friends deserve such heartless punishment? Everything happens for a reason, right?

Not really. The families are active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. They were found dead with open bibles. They died with the loving word of God so close to them, yet He blatantly failed to protect them. God is omnipotent and he loves every one of us, but he has the occasional knack for mass-murder, molestation, genocide, and everyone once in a while, letting a car full of kids die.

It’s pretty simple, folks. There is no God.

How much evidence is necessary? All the prayer in the world won’t save a single soul. These people can pray all year, and they won’t be any closer to understanding why some people live and others die horrible deaths.

They won’t be any closer to knowing why over 4,000 Catholic priests have been accused of sexual abuse.

They won’t be any closer to understanding why nearly six million Jews were exterminated from 1933-1945.

God won’t tell them why seven million Ukrainians died between 1932 and 1933. Or why nearly a million Rwandans fell victim to genocide in 1994.

God doesn’t care about the victims of starvation, AIDS, rape, murder, genocide, or anything else. He’s not up there, He’s not listening to your prayers, and He doesn’t have any answers as to why bad things happen to innocent human beings.

When five of His children left the roadway and plunged to their deaths, God did not send a miracle.

Nor has He ever.

Was God able to save these innocent lives, but not willing? Then he is a lazy, unjust, or bitter God. Was God willing to save these lives, but not able? Then God is not omnipotent. How many nights are we going to ask Him for help, when He refuses?

Let’s stop praying for salvation and start saving ourselves. It sounds to me as if we need less prayer and more guardrails.

A couple accused of praying instead of seeking medical care as their 11-year-old daughter died of diabetes asked a judge Tuesday to dismiss the charges as unconstitutional.

Dale and Leilani Neumann pleaded not guilty to second-degree reckless homicide through their attorneys during a brief appearance before Marathon County Circuit Judge Vincent Howard.

The attorneys also filed a motion claiming the charges should be dismissed because the law is “unconstitutionally vague” as it applies to the allegations in the complaint. The motion contends the charges unconstitutionally infringe on the parents’ right to freely exercise their religion and their “liberty interest” to rear their children.

Leilani Neumann, 40, has said the family believes in the Bible, which says healing comes from God, and she never expected her daughter to die as they prayed for her. The parents told investigators Kara had not been to a doctor since she was 3.

According to the criminal complaint, Dale Neumann, 46, considered his daughter’s illness “a test of faith,” and Leilani Neumann thought her daughter was under a “spiritual attack” that could be overcome with prayer.

Prosecutors contend Kara could not speak, eat, drink, walk or breathe easily for about 48 hours before her death — enough time for the parents to seek medical help. The parents failed in their legal duty to care for the child, prosecutors allege.

Second-degree reckless homicide is punishable by up to 25 years in prison.

Good luck with that, idiots. God isn’t going to help you in prison, either.

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More than half of randomly surveyed adults — 57 percent — said God’s intervention could save a family member even if physicians declared treatment would be futile.

When asked to imagine their own relatives being gravely ill or injured, nearly 20 percent of doctors and other medical workers said God could reverse a hopeless outcome.

“Sensitivity to this belief will promote development of a trusting relationship” with patients and their families, according to researchers. That trust, they said, is needed to help doctors explain objective, overwhelming scientific evidence showing that continued treatment would be worthless.

That’s funny; the objective, overwhelming scientific evidence presented to theists about evolution, the age of the earth, the efficacy of prayer, etc. has thus far been ignored by the devoutly delusioned. Why would they believe a doctor?

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$11,680,000,000 in 3 months. Whew! Go buy an SUV in celebration.

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“Our engineers are working for re-opening Al Qassam website to the World Wide Web soon and we would say that these attacks and harassments will not deter us from continuing our electronic resistance and delivering the voice and the Palestinian resistance, which defends the Palestinian people, and it is striving to recover the usurped rights, because we are aware that the battle media battle is as important as the battle field with the Zionist occupation.”

So much for free speech. The multi-pronged attack on the Palestenian people includes this media war. If you are committing genocide and crimes against humanity, you wouldn’t want your victim to be able to tell the story to the world, would you?

Al-Qassam site

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