Just When You Thought You Were Safe… Skeptical Thoughts for a Rainy Friday
Just when you thought you were safe to walk the streets of your hometown:
- Beware that Secret Service agents are hiding in the shadows waiting for you to hand out one of those fake one million dollar bills of ‘God money’ so they can harass you and confiscate your possessions. I guess if your a religious zealot then you deserve it….
Just when you thought it was finally safe after hurricane Katrina to visit New Orleans for Mardi Gras:
- New Orleaners march on city hall to protest lack of city and police response to quell spike in violence and murder in the city ahead of the Mardi Gras debauchery, I mean celebration. courtesy of NPR.org news
“Hundreds of New Orleans residents march to City Hall to protest a
rising murder rate and what they say is a lack of city and police
response. People have been galvanized by the loss of two prominent
cultural figures in the city: a white filmmaker and a black musician.”
Just when you thought it was safe to play a little ice chess in London or Moscow:
- Climate change strikes! Melting ice pieces in an unseasonably warm Moscow/London ice chess match resulted in a draw between two masters yesterday.
Just when you thought it was safe to have children in Africa without fear of them being bought and snatched up by aging uber-rich Westerners:
- Madonna calls for more ‘adoptions’ in Africa. According to the BBC,
“Madonna was able to bypass laws about foreigners adopting children.”
She claims that the laws need to be changed because a “million children in Malawi needed to be “rescued”. Maybe somebody should rescue her and her money and send them both someplace where they can’t harm anybody.
One good thing is that a judge made a court order to allow her to be monitored by both Malawi officials and human rights groups alike. The adoptee’s father was quoted as saying,
“In Malawi, there are to many underprivileged children,
most of them orphans. I appeal to rich people with Madonna’s kind heart
to come and adopt these children.”
A few questions for Madonna…..
What about all the orphans and poor families in the United States and Europe?
What about Palestinian children in the Gaza strip fighting for their survival every day?
Why not stick to helping out your fellow citizens in need first? Hmmm…
any thoughts readers?
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