CRANKY OLD FART’S
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#376 [archive]
10/30/2023
Halloween is tomorrow, and I can’t frickin’ wait for it to be over.
Every year it starts earlier and earlier, like Xmas — decorations in people’s yards, frickin’ pumpkin spice, and way too many personal blogs well-worth reading 11 months out of the year go suddenly gaga for ghosts, with a dozen memes daily of Frankenstein and Dracula, Samantha Stevens and Treehouse of Horror, Eddy Allan Poe and Cthulu and things that go bump in the night. By the second day of October I am over it.
• West Virginia school district promises, after lawsuit, to train teachers and administrators that public schools aren’t churches
Excerpt: A West Virginia school district has passed a policy mandating annual religious freedom training as part of a lawsuit settlement after an evangelical preacher held a revival assembly during the school day in 2022 that some students were required to attend. …
Me again: It’s not possible to be an adult and a teacher in America without understanding the separation of church and state. These alleged Christians knew what they were doing was illegal. They simply don’t care. Their Jezus is more important than our mere earthly laws.
• Baltimore Archdiocese files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy ahead of anticipated lawsuits over child sexual abuse
It’s a scam that never stops.
For at least decades, but probably centuries, the Church has known about and protected pedophile priests, moved them to new parishes, locked away or destroyed records, and the church-sanctioned kiddy-diddling goes on until the Rapture, and then the priests will start diddling the angels.
Meanwhile, the Catholic Church is incalculably wealthy, literally. The Church is worth at least many multiples of Elon Musk and Bill Gates, and the idea of the Catholic Church running low on money is, tragically, impossible.
But they’ll declare bankruptcy, archdiocese by archdiocese and parish by parish, to avoid financial atonement for their crimes.
And all of this has been public knowledge for a long, long time. If you’re a Christian, that’s a choice, but if you’re Catholic, you’re aiding and abetting child rape, and can’t plausibly claim you don’t know it.
• This flag is one of the most weird American things I can think of
Housing for homeless vets would be nice, but costs more than a black flag. Skipping the next nonsense war would be nice, but there’s money to be made so that can’t happen.
The POW/MIA flag is simply a symbol of stupidity, as phony as Trump’s “True the Vote” or the movie Sound of Freedom.
• Retail chains — Target, RiteAid, Walgreens, etc — are using shoplifting claims to mask other issues, report says• Oil paintings By Cinta Vidal • In 1992, the Miami Zoo put dozens of flamingos in the bathroom to protect them from Hurricane Andrew
• Flash Gordon is back • Amusing, Interesting, Outrageous, or Profound
AIOP is my Lemmy page, for anything that’s (in my opinion) amusing, interesting, outrageous, or profound. It’s mostly a rough draft of this page, but you’re invited to stop by.
♫♬ MUSIC ♫• Access Me — Phish • Cool Places — Sparks with Jane Wiedlin • Goodbye Blue Sky — Luther Wright and the Wrongs • Kometenmelodie — Kraftwerk • Zonked — Red Prysock
❔ MYSTERY LINKS ❔• Click • Click • Click • Click • Click
⚰️ OBITUARIES ⚰️ • Axali Doëseb • Steve Erwin • Joe Hill • Hiroshi Inuzuka • Adam Johnson
10/30/2023 Cranky Old Fart is annoyed and complains and very occasionally
offers a kindness, along with anything off the internet that’s made me
smile or snarl. All opinions fresh from my ass. Top illustration by Jeff Meyer. Click any image to enlarge. Comments & conversations invited.
Joey Jo Jo emeritus, John the Basket, Dave S, Name Withheld, and always extra
special thanks to my lovely late Stephanie, who gave me 21 years and
proved that the world isn’t always shitty.
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