Those good Catholic
Men of the Cloth
have been at it again
(and again and again).
NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY, BOYS.
What to do?
Now, I’m assuming the church’s hierarchy would pooh-pooh the severing of priests’ pee-pees, which, in my opinion, comes in as a close second to my #1 suggestion — the castration of all priests — so I propose this rather unconventional solution to the Catholic church:
Move all
pedophile-priests
into
The Viv’s diocese.
With the exception of her current priest, Father SPURitual (who has been hangin’ ’round her church for at least 12 yrs. now), BAD things happen to befall priests whenever The Viv’s around.
Be it bad luck, be it karma, be it her eternal curse for her crime of blasphemy, or be it sheer coincidence…
NO PRIEST IS SAFE IN THE VIV’S VICINITY.
In her first teaching job, The Viv worked in a cozy, little Catholic school in a sleepy Pittsburgh burb. The priest of the parish at the time, Fr. B., had just admitted to embezzling $1.5 million from collection plates over the span of 26 years. He and his voluptuous LIVE-IN ’secretary/chauffeur’ used the moolah to fund excursions to Vegas and Atlantic City, and to amass antique guns and baubles. Fr. Been-Caught-With-His-Hands-In-The-Diocesan-Cookie-Dough is ‘officially’ recorded as having died in a nursing home, but parishioners know that Lucky Lady Lay and two thugs were videotaped entering the pilfering priest’s room…minutes later, Fr. B. expired when his breathing tubes were yanked.
In Hawaii, The Viv attended mass at St. John’s. Not long after she spread her aloha there, The Viv’s spiritual leader was found in a rather uncompromising position with the Youth Minister. Both men were ostracized. The priest left the Church to become a motivational speaker. No shit.
When Viv returned to the East Coast, she was essentially homeless because The Dingus’s company had them boppin’ around the goddam country — in limbo for SIX friggin’ MONTHS. Bitch can’t even remember the name of the parish she attended for the three weeks she lived in a long-term hotel, but she DOES VIVidly recall the fact that its priest was murdered. After a lengthy and puzzling investigation, officials concluded that the killer was the yard boy Other than the rake handle rammed up the priest’s ass, cops didn’t have much to go on. (Okay, that rake thing really didn’t happen, but I just couldn’t resist…). The yard boy DID go down, though.
After THIS, the THIRD man of God to meet his demise while The Viv was in the vicinity, our girl started to get nervous and more than a tad paranoid. She was the sole common thread in these horrific happenings! How long ’til the po-po was on to her? Was it POSSIBLE that hearing her myriad sins in marathon confession sessions brought about the defamation and/or demise of the pious?
Once our girl settled into VA life, however, The Viv’s fears subsided. Here, she let down her God-Guy guard, and The Viv forgot all about being the harbinger of death for the pastoral peckerhood… for awhile. That is, until the parochial vicar died by deciduous tree — when it fell on him en route to ANOTHER priest’s funeral (that, to which, The Viv can lay no claim).
Good ol’ Fr. SPUR-itual, though, just will not go away, no matter how hard his people pray. It must be his ardor for the Boy Scouts’ soft, supple, tantalizing…pancakes. Could this man be immune to The Viv’s vibe? Perhaps. Maybe it’s just God in Heaven doesn’t wanna hear ‘SPUR-itual’ every third word for all eternity.
So, let’s give The Viv’s suggestion a try.
Let’s round-up all those German soprana-wearin’ soprano priests and their boy-buggerin’-bratwursts and dump’em in the Diocese of Arlington.
Let’s just wait ‘n see if The Viv’s Vibe cinctures the Catholic Church’s collective pastoral staffs!
1) behavior problems in childhood due to a lack of a long-term, loving care with the teaching of good morals by an authority figure (like a parent) which leads to the child doing wrong often in childhood and their conscience becoming seared to the point where it no longer will produce a feeling of guilt, even in adulthood;
is:
2) shallow (which can be determined by a their great resistance or unwillingness to learn past what is easy to understand or moderately hard) and will complain or show frustration about the difficulty they had in learning subjects that require much patience and concentration which did not interest them (for example may say, “it was really hard to study these things”);
3) arrogant (for example sees themselves as much better than most people yet having no evidence for this, and may boast aloud of some existing or non-existent trait they have (like clairvoyance) thinking that that trait gives them great uniqueness and a level of goodness or intelligence that makes them much more worthy of attention than other things, including people, and much more valuable than other things, and so if they are interrupted when they are wandering, rambling or ranting or interrupted at all, will make a reply like, “well if you would let me finish” or “don’t cut me off” even if what they are saying is not relevant or obvious, even if that is told to them, and will behave as if what they have to say is relevant, original/not obvious and profound and unable to be known by the person they are talking to unless they tell it to them.);
4) obsessed with finding uniqueness and non-repetition in others (for example may insult someone for not being original and “repeating” themselves) and without realizing it is implying that the uniqueness and originality that they are seeming is immoral and illogical (which they often call “random”) behavior;
5) often quick to lie to save or keep an appearance of being very unique, wise and or whatever their idea of “good” is;
6) skilled at lying from practice and observation;
7) lives a parasitic lifestyle/takes advantage of others to survive and live without having to do hours worth of hard or complex physical or mental work;
will do complex mental work only if they see absolutely no other likely way for them to accomplish their long term goal of having an easy-going life, for example doing math work that bores them in order to get through college
9) has no conscience, and therefore feels no regret or sorrow or guilt regardless of how badly or how many times they disobey God
10) may try to display appropriate sorrow to having done wrong or seeing wrong done or over some sad thing (like a suffering child dying in front of them) if they think they may lose their advantage over others or be unable to gain an advantage over others if they don’t display this sorrow
11) their displays of sorrow over wrong-doing or someone suffering or dying lack a sad expression and they do not feel very sad
12) they feel great distress and worry when they perceive an immediate threat to their life-style
13) callousness (for example will tell someone who gets off a subject they want to be the focus of a discussion, “you’re wandering”, rather than asking them a question on the desired subject to bring them back to it, yet if themselves are asked a question to get them to give an immediate answer or more concise answer, tend to give a reply like, “well if you would let me finish” or “stop interrupting me” with a hostile or strained, high pitched, aggravated-sounding or condescending tone,
14) self-centered (for example may brush off a request from a friend’s request for some emergency merely because they desire more sleep or hoard money to the hurt of others though not necessarily out of greed)
15) though they may sometimes feel sorrow for seeing someone else in a bad position, it does not last long, are unwilling to give more than what they consider to be of little value to help the person they feel sorrow for, though for their own entertainment they are willing to give a little physical help to or chat for a while
16) poor emotional self-control/impuslive (for example will touch a person in a place where that person requests not to be touched if they think that they can escape being punished for it, though they may not be promiscuous or display their lust openly out of fear of being rejected for their inability to please another sexually and not having adequate sexually-pleasing physical characteristics);
17) very resistant to accept that they have done wrong if it wasn’t intentional
18) sadistic (for example will intentionally do wrong and laugh at seeing it greatly upset a person)
As a consequence of these things psychopaths may have many short-term relationships (depending on how high the population is where they live) and due to their relentless disrespectfulness, unthankfulness, lack of appropriate emotional responses becoming unbearable and because the psychopath desires and seeks out new experiences to keep from feeling boredom.
19) When unable to find people to take advantage of to keep away their boredom, psychopaths will become delusional, imagining people that don’t exist to converse with and may even create false evidence so that these imaginary people appear real (for example imaginary email accounts supposedly used by these imaginary people and sending email to themselves from these accounts).
A psychopath, like any sinner, can only be made to be increasingly logical and increasingly self-controlled and loving by God. Though punishment can help a psychopath to stop doing wrong outwardly, it is only temporary, and the punishment provokes them to become more bitter and will whether intentionally or not will tempt others to do wrong by at least their behavior, disturbing the peace of those who love God, which is why psychopaths also will be sent away, hidden within the darkness of Hell.
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“Not impressed.” 2010-01-07 By Sniff Code (Somewhere out there) I gave this a shot, hoping to get a different perspective on the issue of health-care in the United States. Wasn’t impressed with Gratzer’s take. Some of his language seems too slanted. I understand the strategy of spinning a fact to serve one’s argument, but he over-spins to the point of just being down right erroneous. For example on page 156 under “Safer Drugs” he writes the following: “Here’s the FDA’s dirty little secret: clinical trials involve a relatively homogenous group of healthy individuals who collectively are totally unrepresentative of the people who actually take pharmaceuticals.” Uh, wouldn’t that be the “dirty secret” of pharmaceutical companies and the CRO’s employed to conduct clinical trials? This type of shabby spin, coupled with the sensationalist language (“dirty secrets”…come on) that made the book feel more like a prescription of propaganda. I’m just happy that I didn’t spend money on this. Libraries are a good thing.
“The Somali Model” 2009-07-13 By Poncho (Ontario) I’ve enjoyed Dr. Gratzer’s book immensely; I’ve been a fan of his ever since his epic battle with David “Imp of the Perverse” Kucinich. Here is a man, I thought, with such courage of his convictions that no fact is salient enough to shake him, no statistic hefty enough to rock the pillars of Freemarketianity upon which his faith so surely rests.
I must, however, give his book only three stars – and, I think, so must every libertarian. The problem with single payer health care is not that the government controls every medical decision, any more than the problem with American “you payer” health care is that HMOs control every medical decision. The problem is that, in both systems, it is the plutocracy of “doctors” who callously tell patients of all income brackets what kind of health care they “need” and thus drive the cost of health care ever and ever higher. What America needs is to get rid of this autocratic system once and for all and embrace the principles of DIY health care. We don’t need European or Canadian style health care; we should be looking to Somalia for our model.
Several months ago some “doctors” told me that I desperately “needed” a liver transplant to go on “living.” I told them that, as I was a firm advocate of DIY health care, I would not be relying on their “expertise” to cure me. At any rate, I couldn’t even come close to affording the procedure, and as for raising my taxes? Well, I suppose saying “over my dead body” might be a little redundant at this point.
Sure, there should still be doctors for those who can afford them, but the rest of us need not concern ourselves with that. Doctors should become something like a jewel-encrusted platinum cell phone, a luxury silly rich people can afford, but the rest of us Real Americans know we can do without; in fact, we know we’re happier without such clutter in our lives. Instead, the marketplace will provide us with simple DIY kits for heart surgeries, spinal taps and kidney biopsies, complete with tools and instruction manuals, reasonably priced and readily available at your local Home Depot or Costco.
For my own surgery I’ve constructed a Home Liver Transplant kit, which, though a little crude, will do the job nicely. It was tremendously difficult to find a reciprocating saw small enough for my needs (and I can’t really say where I got my new liver); the paucity of supplies is, indeed, the only real barrier to the DIY Health Care enthusiast, but my faith in the market is such that I know it will correct such oversights in time. Heck, if my kit works, I could be the next DIYHC millionaire! Not too shabby!
I hope Dr. Gratzer will consider the changes I advocate; I might, perhaps, be able to write a second preface for a new edition of his book – one which, of course, will go after the preface written by His Holiness Milton Friedman.
“Achieving the perfect orderliness of a soylent green society” 2009-07-12 By Gen. JC Christian, patriot (Tremonton, UT United States) David Gratzer’s “The Cure: How Capitalism Can Save American Health Care” is perhaps greatest paen ever written to the one true religion: laissez-faire capitalism. It’s a celebration of the triumph of the bottom line, an adoration of profit, and a joyous prayer of hope for the perfect orderliness of a soylent green society.
Over the last 30 years, we’ve stood in awe as we’ve witnessed unregulated capitalism’s transformative powers. Where once our edible ecology lacked such keystone species as E.coli and salmonella, our meat, fruit, vegetables, and water have become veritable Edens for those precious pathogens. Where once financial regulation checked glorious greed and encouraged the unbearable ennui that comes with stability, our new, deregulated, economic environment has brought excitement to investing and incredible profits to those few deserving oligarchs who were most prepared with the connections to exploit the system to their advantage.
Now, David Gratzer and the insurance industry wants to do the same for health care. He’s heard the complaints. He’s read studies like the 2004 Commonwealth Fund report which looked at satisfaction in five nations. He saw that they found that U.S. Americans were by far the most dissatisfied with their health care system (over twice as dissatisfied as Canadians)and less likely to receive care because of cost (17% of Canadians vs 40% of U.S. Americans).
Yes, he’s studied it thoroughly and has decided that the problem with the U.S. system is that it is not capitalistic enough. It needs to be deregulated like the food and banking industries. The problem isn’t lack of access, it’s about deciding who deserves what level of care–it’s about rationing health care by one’s ability to pay.
Even more importantly, it’s not a matter of whether someone can receive the care they need, but whether society will allow him or her to access a free market solution to pay for that service. Is our society advanced enough to provide a patient’s loved ones an opportunity to sell their organs to pay for needed health care? Have we achieved that level of compassionate capitalism yet? Do the poor and working classes care enough about life to make sacrifices to preserve it? If not, do they really deserve all of the benefits of life?
These are the fundamental questions to which Gratzer alludes, but, unfortunately, fails to fully address in his book. That’s a shame, because these are the questions that must be answered if we are ever to fully achieve the libertarian society he envisions.
That said, Gratzer does honor laissez-faire capitalism with the blind worship that it deserves as the answer to everything (along with lower taxes and drilling in the ANWR). That’s why I’m giving his book four stars.
“Dr. Gratzer has little credibility on this subject” 2009-06-10 By T. J. Williams (Ohio) I watched Dr. Gratzer’s testimony today before Congress regarding U.S. health care reform. He is a Canadian, not living in Canada, a doctor not practicing medicine and a think tank fellow who has not thought very clearly about what he is saying. He ritually maintained that Canada’s single payer health system was flawed, that Canadians don’t like it and come to the U.S. for medical treatment and yet he could not adequately respond to statistics offered by Congressman Kucinich that 97% of Canadians would not want a U.S. type system as well as other statistics on the level of care in Canada. He never offered reasons for his alleged problems with the Canadian system nor any solutions. Presumably, he would favor Canada use the U.S. system of private insurers in an unregulated environment. In fact, from reading other reviews, apparently the doctor asserts that the existing level of government regulation is the problem with the U.S. system. He goes so far as to say the federal law requiring emergency rooms to treat all patients regardless of the ability to pay is forcing hospitals to close. So, he must want to repeal that law and let people suffer on the sidewalk outside the hospital. This guy is a doctor not worthy of his license.
If you choose to read this book, be aware that the author has an agenda. His statistics may be skewed or just in error. His thinking is preordained to reject any change to the health care system. Although he said he thought some reform was needed, he never indicated what that reform ought to be. He reiterated his talking points and inadequately defended his statements. I would doubt that he has much to contribute to the benefit of either the Canadian or American health care systems.
“Excellent Argument for Free-Enterprise in Health Care….” 2009-03-19 By Il Padrone The Cure does a good job of illustrating the diverse ways in which our health care system is inefficient and expensive compared to it’s free-market alternative. The only problem, and the reason that I, as a hypercritical anal-retentive perfectionist, take off a star, is that Gratzer ironically could be more consistent in the application of those very principles, more organized in his argument, and more illustrative with examples. His whole discussion of the FDA, for example, for the most part argues within the framework of retaining the organization. But, as his reference to ‘public choice’ theory shows, he’s aware that as long as the agency exists, it will have incentives to act less efficiently than free-market alternatives, one example of which would be, as he mentions, the Underwriter’s Laboratory with electrial devices, which works well. More concrete examples of the utter wastefulness of the third-party payment system would also help the reader understand how consumer lack of motivation is probably the biggest cause of skyrocketing costs. Also, he ignores as a formal point, although he mentions in passing, the huge suits and judgements brought and allowed against various hospitals, pharmaceuticals, and other health groups that motivate them to engage in CYA testing across the board, thus also raising prices.
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Many of you know me already from my personal blog “mzkoolgurl.wordpress.com” … Yes that’s right! I’m Annie aka Mzkoolgurl UNITED with Danah from “my|war” an amazing blog page set up to help those who have suffered from sexual abusement and want to speak out to make a difference in the world and the lives of those who’ve gone threw it as well. For more information on Danah’s “my|war” feel free to contact her by emailing her at mywar55@aim.com.
For those who aren’t exactly clear on what “nuug” is… It stands for “Nations United Under God”. Now there are 2 big words in that title, but one of them is what puts EVERYTHING together. The word is “UNITED”. We are all people united weather we think so or not. If you were to pick up your bible and read back all the way from the beggining (Genesis chapter one verse one), you’d see God created Adam and Eve. Kids came from Adam and Eve, then kids came from those kids and so on and so forth. So it’s not just “spiritually I am your sister”. No, it’s “hello there! I am your sister!”. Crazy huh? Yes, crazy but fantastic. So first things first, we’re all UNITED and if you ever need any personal help at all, feel free to leave a comment or send us an email, we will never hesitate answering any questions or helping you out.
Now, another thing you should know is that this is an online international bible study, so anyone from the world can join…. Yes you can invite your friends from London to join in :] It’s also a blog page where we will post inspirationals every Monday and Wednesday. If you’d like to read my inspirationals, come back every Wednesday to get your scoop on new inspirationals weekly that will be posted by me. If you’d like to read Danah’s inspirationals, feel free to come back Mondays. Sunday will be bible study day, everything will be written and layed out in a simple way for you to understand. We will at the end of the bible study leave you with a “challenge for the week”. We will make things A LOT simpler for you by placing each section in their own indivisual links on the side bar where it says “catagories” ——–>
One more thing to mention! TGIF (Friday specials) is a webshow! that’s right, they are videos we will post right here to conclude the whole week and add humor, because everything is really FANTASTIC and the BEST when there’s humor :] One thing I like to say is (besides God because he is awesome) Laughter is a cure.
We will officially start this Sunday, so please join us! Thanks to everyone who will be attending us, and we wish many blessings in your life :]
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So, the news has been slowly circulating this week that the Australians MAY have found a vaccine for Coeliacs (story here).
This got me thinking – even if there was a cure available in years to come – would I want it?
You’re probably thinking that I’m mad, but I’ve been a Coeliac for so long – it’s become a part of who I am.
Yes, I hate the constant scanning of labels, having to quiz restaurants on their food and avoiding the treats which I used to love so much.
I’ve got so used to gluten free food now that whilst I would sometimes love to be able to eat what I want, checking labels is part of my daily ritual and I kind of like my superior knowledge (ha) of what goes into the things we eat.
For example, I never knew wheat flour was in so many products, and having Coeliac disease has made me realise how many unecessary ingredients go into foods, and how much healthier some of the gluten free alternatives are.
If a cure was available, I think I would probably want it, but however tedious explaining my condition is to people I meet, I think I would miss it a little bit.
Being a Coeliac is one of my features, and whilst I would relish with open arms a cure, it would be a very wierd situation. Imagine spending 10 years of your life not being able to eat something, and suddenly you can eat what you want.
It would be an amazing thing, and I’m not saying that I wouldn’t want it – just that it would be a strange scenario. Something to mabe think about…
will do complex mental work only if they see absolutely no other likely way for them to accomplish their long term goal of having an easy-going life, for example doing math work that bores them in order to get through college
