Bet You Missed Me.....

Well, Hellena had to take a Sabbatical from the news for a while due to work and a growing sense of cynicism, but it's time for a comeback. There is just too much ripe stupidity in this world for Hellena to keep her mouth shut any longer. Here is the story that prompted the resurrection of the blog:

Lactivists: Where is it OK to breastfeed?
Babytalk magazine generates controversy with nursing cover
NEW YORK (AP) -- "I was SHOCKED to see a giant breast on the cover of your magazine," one person wrote. "I immediately turned the magazine face down," wrote another. "Gross," said a third.

These readers weren't complaining about a sexually explicit cover, but rather one of a baby nursing, on a wholesome parenting magazine -- yet another sign that Americans are squeamish over the sight of a nursing breast, even as breast-feeding itself gains more support from the government and medical community.

And the quote that broke the Handbasket:

"I shredded it," said Gayle Ash, of Belton, Texas, in a telephone interview. "A breast is a breast -- it's a sexual thing. He didn't need to see that."

It's a breast, people. We ALL have them, and nursing a baby is not the same as doing a strip-tease.

When o' when will the human race evolve beyond their sophmoric fear of body parts?

Can Some Please Explain This Phenomena?

Hellena has lost count, but here is the latest in the long line of silly teaching twats who could not control their base carnal desires, to play Hide The Salami with one or more of her underage students. WTF? What IS it that these ill-bred horny pedophile bitches-in-heat see in getting their hole filled by a 13-16 year old BOY? Are they unable to cut it with men their own age? Are they off their anti-depressants? For the life of Hellena, she just does not get it. Key-rist, buy a fucking vibrator already.

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Way to Go, Ladies

Hellena has always been an Indigo Girls fan, and had a measure of respect for Pink, but we never saw this coming:

"Dear Mr. President"
(feat. Indigo Girls)

Dear Mr. President
Come take a walk with me
Let's pretend we're just two people and
You're not better than me
I'd like to ask you some questions if we can speak honestly

What do you feel when you see all the homeless on the street
Who do you pray for at night before you go to sleep
What do you feel when you look in the mirror
Are you proud

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
How do you walk with your head held high
Can you even look me in the eye
And tell me why

Dear Mr. President
Were you a lonely boy
Are you a lonely boy
Are you a lonely boy
How can you say
No child is left behind
We're not dumb and we're not blind
They're all sitting in your cells
While you pay the road to hell

What kind of father would take his own daughter's rights away
And what kind of father might hate his own daughter if she were gay
I can only imagine what the first lady has to say
You've come a long way from whiskey and cocaine

How do you sleep while the rest of us cry
How do you dream when a mother has no chance to say goodbye
How do you walk with your head held high
Can you even look me in the eye

Let me tell you bout hard work
Minimum wage with a baby on the way
Let me tell you bout hard work
Rebuilding your house after the bombs took them away
Let me tell you bout hard work
Building a bed out of a cardboard box
Let me tell you bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
You don't know nothing bout hard work
Hard work
Hard work
Oh

How do you sleep at night
How do you walk with your head held high
Dear Mr. President
You'd never take a walk with me
Would you

From the album I'm not Dead - Click here to download the song.

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Flashback: Major General Smedley Butler

A timely reminder of where we have been, and a wicked reminder that "those who do not learn from history are destined to repeat the same."

WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.

A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.

In the World War [I] a mere handful garnered the profits of the conflict. At least 21,000 new millionaires and billionaires were made in the United States during the World War. That many admitted their huge blood gains in their income tax returns. How many other war millionaires falsified their tax returns no one knows.

How many of these war millionaires shouldered a rifle? How many of them dug a trench? How many of them knew what it meant to go hungry in a rat-infested dug-out? How many of them spent sleepless, frightened nights, ducking shells and shrapnel and machine gun bullets? How many of them parried a bayonet thrust of an enemy? How many of them were wounded or killed in battle?

After you read this, do a little research on one Prescott Bush, and one George Herbert Walker to see who was profiting from wars way back when. Guess the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, huh? Follow the money, people, follow the money.......

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A 9/11 Film Worth Watching

Mark Morford of the San Francisco Gate wrote a contemplative editorial about the still unanswered questions from 9/11. There's any number of plausible to ridiculous theories about the events of that day, but outside of the questions raised in the editorial, Mark led Hellena to the most lucid and sobering 9/11 film she's seen since the tragedy. The 3 Hunter Thompson quoting young men who put this film and the follow-up film, Loose Change 2nd Edition, have done as fine a job as any seasoned investigative reporter could have mustered documenting the details. If you have an hour and a half of time, watch it. Hell, make the time and watch it. It's that worth it.

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Hope Everyone Grasps This Concept....

.... when & if the American flags start getting burned.

“Flags are symbols of government, not of people," shouted Roy Warden, as a member of his group, Border Guardians, set foot to the Mexican Flag.

Operation Predator Nets a 3rd Perv at DHS

Apparently Brian J. Doyle wasn't/isn't the only DHS official with a hard on for little girls. Frank Figuero faces trial this week on charges of exposing himself to a teenage girl last year at a mall. In January of this year Michael Burks, police officer, and DHS agent was popped for child sex trolling.

What the hell is wrong with these men? How many more perverts are lurking under the cloak of a "respectible" job?

Hellena is speechless, but recommends The Rude Pundit's take on why the Republican's hate the children.

Well This is All We Need Now.....

Can anyone believe this smug, arrogant cowboy is in control of our Nation, much less in control of our nuclear war capabilities?

President George W Bush is said to be so alarmed by the threat of Iran's hard-line leader, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, that privately he refers to him as "the new Hitler", says Seymour Hersh, who broke the story of the Abu Ghraib Iraqi prisoner abuse scandal.

Great. Two egomaniacs in a pissing contest with each other using nuclear weapons. Let's hope Hersh missed the mark with this story.

Hellena's Been Busy.......

... you know, fighting social injustice, leaping tall buildings and all that.

Well, OK, Hellena has just been working her real job and finding little time to blog this past week. Don't despair, though, Hellena has been keeping a list of goodies to serve in the almost-weekly roundup:

• Chevy Tahoe ads you won't be seeing on TV. Found this at Dr. Atomic
• Are you ready for some tongue kissin'? Well, what do you expect from a drunk and unruly country Outlaw?
• For the second time, allegations of Halliburton serving contaminated water to our troops.
• The raping & pillaging of Medicare.
• Ann Coulter sticks her man-sized foot in her mouth again. Then reportedly drank the coffee served by the people she had just insulted.
• Homeland Security Officer, Brian J. Doyle, arrested after trying to seduce what he thought was a 14 year old girl. Yup, the morals and ethics of our leadership is just par none, huh?
• Cynthia McKinney punches an officer, screams racism, then apologizes after being threatened with an arrest warrant. Hey Cynthia, YOU WEREN'T WEARING YOUR CONGRESSIONAL LAPEL PIN. Someone tell this woman to shut up.
• And John McCain can kiss our butts, too. Hugging Falwell makes us react like that.

Random Cool Quote of the Week

"Christianity has a built-in defense system: Anything that questions a belief, no matter how logical the argument is, is the work of Satan by the very fact that it makes you question a belief. It's a very interesting defense mechanism, and the only way to get by it – and believe me, I was raised Southern Baptist – is to take massive amounts of mushrooms, sit in a field and just go, 'Show me." - Bill Hicks, comic extroidinaire

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They Can't Read When They Graduate.....

... but, hey, as long as they git sum uf that ol' time relijun, Georgia is happy.

ATLANTA (Reuters) - Georgia lawmakers have approved a measure to fund elective Bible courses in public schools, raising concern among civil liberties groups the classes could violate the U.S. constitutional separation of church and state.

Isn't this what Sunday School is for? It's been a while since Hellena was darkening the doorstep of any high school, but she does remember this: there were precious few enough hours to squeeze in the necessary courses. And with Georgia consistantly falling at the bottom of the charts in education in a state to state comparison, seems they can hardly afford the distraction of another elective course.

If this is to be enacted as just a historical teaching of Biblical history & archeology, and not as an indoctrination for students as the legislators say, then Hellena proposes that ALL religions be included in a comprehensive course that covers the world's belief systems.

And the Conservative Push Begins...

...against adoption by gay parents. At the forefront of the debate emerges one Debra Maggart, Republican Rep in Sumner County, TN. According to Maggart, most gays and lesbians are unfit to parent because they have "emotional dysfunctions and psychological issues." Yeah, Hellena doesn't know any heterosexual women or men who are dysfunctional. There's no soccer moms doped up on mood inhibitors in this God-fearing country.

Is anyone else thinking of SNL's Church Lady here?

Turns out Ms. Maggart is divorced, which makes her oh-so-stable and qualified to be a single parent, yet she believes children need "the optimum family unit, and that is a mother and a father." Apparently, Maggart hasn't checked the divorce rate of heterosexual couples lately.

An excellent write-up from Guerilla Women TN here.

Isn't that special?

Ex-Preacher Molests His Own Grandson

If ever there was a human who needed to be locked in a cell with a 600lb. gorilla that had been fed nothing but viagra and pcp, Larry Nuell Neathery is that man.

Neathery, 56, is on trial on charges involving five boys, including three of his grandsons. The verdict may hinge on whether jurors believe his young accusers or his attorneys' contentions that the boys have falsely accused the former pastor of Westside Victory Baptist Church.

Neathery's grandson acknowledged that he didn't want to talk about the sex acts that the man he called "Pops" forced him to participate in "too many times" to count, starting when he was 5 or 6.

And if that's not enough to make you want to hurl your morning biscuits, there's more -

As he got older, the teen testified, Neathery asked him to remove his pants so they could engage in sex acts. Sometimes, he said, he awoke to find his grandfather having sex with him.

Apparently the abuse continued as the piece of shit grandfather threatened the child with beatings if he talked. To the point of making the child a vegetable.

When he was 7, the teen said, his grandfather took him to another man's house, where the men videotaped a prostitute having sex with the boy. He said his grandfather also had sex with the other man and with the prostitute and looked at pornography on a computer.

The incidents at the other man's house occurred 10 or 15 times over two years, he said, sometimes including his younger brother, who was forced to participate in sex acts with him. The teen said he tried unsuccessfully to stop his grandfather from abusing his younger brother.

The terribly sad part of all this is that the children involved will never be able to put the abuse completely out of their minds even if Neathery gets what is coming to him. Guess Neathery didn't take the teachings of the church very seriously, did he?

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Hellena's Weekend Weirdness Roundup

Hellena has decided to try for a weekly roundup of miscellaneous tidbits every week. This will be installment #2:

• A list of the Top 10 Best Accidental Discoveries. Viagra, LSD, and Silly Putty all made the cut.
• Man cold cocks cops with his own severed penis. Think he misunderstood the penal code?
• Oh fer crying out loud in a bucket. Fuck Starcast Productions for selling out the soul of rock and roll by trying to contact John Lennon's spirit in a Pay-Per-View seance. Is there no decorum?
• Guess what? White, highly-refined breads makes people fat! Next thing they'll be telling us sodas are not good for us.
• Enterprising entrepreneurs find a safe way for cancer patients to use medicinal marijuana, but are arrested as drug dealers. Go figure.
• Fifteen year old school vandals get a bum rap. That'll teach 'em.
• Two founders of the Cryonics Movement are cremated after a freezer mishap. Whoops!! I hate it when that happens.
• Another reason why Tom Cruise is an irrelevant doucherocket. Watch the episode here.

Random Cool Quote of the Week

"A lot of Christians wear crosses around their necks. You think when Jesus comes back, he ever wants to see a fucking cross? Kind of like going up to Jackie Onassis with a rifle pendant on, you know." - Bill Hicks, comic extroidinaire

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Best.T-Shirt.Ever.

Wear this to the next pro-life rally you protest:

May the fetus you save be a Black Gay Wiccan Democrat

Heh.

"a conscientious employee ... active in church"

Well it's a good damned thing he cared so much about his job..... Hellena would hate to think what horrors he would have perpetrated if he didn't give a shit.

SAN DIEGO (AP) - Camera phones are now banned at the Children's Hospital and Health Center's convalescent unit. The curtains around patients must be left open most of the time. And administrators are considering installing security cameras in patients' rooms.

The precautions were prompted by one man: Wayne Albert Bleyle, a respiratory therapist accused of molesting brain-damaged, comatose boys and girls, taking cell-phone photos of himself in the act, and posting them on the Internet.

``This is the worst case of child molestation imaginable,'' prosecutor Laura Gunn said in court last week. ``I don't know if we've ever seen a case like it before where the victims were so vulnerable.''

Bleyle, 54, is in jail on $5 million bail after pleading not guilty to two counts of child molestation and 24 counts of child pornography. But Gunn said Bleyle molested many more patients over the past decade, preying on the hospital's weakest of the weak, including youngsters who would never be able to speak.

Gunn said that when an investigator asked how many children he had abused, Bleyle replied: ``How many snowflakes are there out there?''

Yup, another fine example of a man who is in need of having his testicles and dick removed by way of a rabid beaver that just dropped acid.

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Hell Hath a Special Place Reserved....

... for anyone rat bastard enough to steal some kid's prosthetic legs. Holy crap, what sort of inbred, booger-picker breaks into a 16 year old's room, takes her legs (on Valentine's Day no less), and then graffitis all over them before returning them nearly a month later. Oh, and if that is not hard enough to believe, this was the second time some neanderthal purloined this young lady's leg.

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The Assault of the Press Begins....

A read-worthy story here, folks:

In recent weeks, the FBI has issued hundreds of "National Security Letters," directing employers, banks, credit card companies, libraries and other entities to turn over records on reporters. Under the USA Patriot Act, those who must turn over the records are also prohibited from revealing they have done so to the subject of the federal probes.

"The significance of this cannot be overstated," says prominent New York litigator Glenn Greenwald. "In essence, while the President sits in the White House undisturbed after proudly announcing that he has been breaking the law and will continue to do so, his slavish political appointees at the Justice Department are using the mammoth law enforcement powers of the federal government to find and criminally prosecute those who brought this illegal conduct to light.

"This flamboyant use of the forces of criminal prosecution to threaten whistle-blowers and intimidate journalists are nothing more than the naked tactics of street thugs and authoritarian juntas."

Kudos to Doug Thompson for his editorial on this thuggery.

Apparently this is not an isolated incident and here.

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Getting Ready for the Weekend....

...already. Hellena will be out of town for a week from March 8-14 for a festival, so today's post will, be a roundup of goodies stumbled over this weekend. Enjoy!

• Bush visit taints Ghandi's memorial site. Hindu priests say it was the dog, but Hellena thinks it may have been when Bush removed his shoes.
• Thomas "Kinky" KinKade paints a dark side while marking his territory. That's some ritual, Tommy!
• Colorado Republican House member Marilyn Musgrave illustrates why she is on the list of 13 Most Corrupt Members of Congress.
• Because there isn't anything else more important to legislate, lawmakers in Tennessee are trying to outlaw dildos. Write a letter if you can put down youur sex toy long enough.
• Urban couple expresses confusion after finding snake segment in a bag of frozen beans. Who knew green beans were grown outdoors where snakes live?
• Ice hockey crowd lines up for free "Runaway Bride" bobblehead doll. Well, puck me.
• Killing in the name of.... Kali. Unholy human sacrifice, Batman.

More later.....

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Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke of Wire....

And who will that wire be bringing down? Cunningham, a California Republican who pleaded guilty Nov. 28 to taking $2.4 million in bribes—including a yacht, a Rolls Royce and a 19th-century Louis-Philippe commode—from a defense contractor, wore a wire at some point during the short interval between the moment he began cooperating with the feds and the announcement of his guilty plea on Nov. 28.

Oh how they sing when their ass is in a sling......

More here...

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