mental illness

pentagon says homosexuality is a mental disorder

what? what what what? oh god if i had a fucking dime for every time the mental health industry made shit up and ruined lives over it... did you know the DSM, at one point, listed "the overwhelming desire to escape and avoid punishment from masters" as a mental illness in black slaves? oh and, i personally fucking love "caffeine-induced sleep disorder". you know, i think the craziest motherfuckers on this planet are the men and women who make up the mental health industry. seriously, i bet if you'd asked jeffrey dahmer or john wayne gacy or fucking hitler if they would have been interested in a career shrinking heads, they'd have all jumped on it. crazy. ass. motherfuckers.

and speaking of ruining lives, this is one of the saddest things i've heard in a long time. anyone who thinks a child of seven who was wrongfully accused of murder would grow to be unaffected by his wrongful accusation, is one sick fuck. the kid should have been fucking helped! "He never seemed to get away from what happened back then, they said. He has struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder, with learning disabilities, the breakup of his family and a constant wish to somehow escape from being the child who had been accused of a brutal murder."

the system CREATES criminals, thus, making the system the biggest criminal of all.

myspace is getting sued - some 14 yr old myspace hooch goot sexually assaulted by a man who contacted her through her myspace page. so her mother is sueing myspace. my only question is, what the fuck kind of mother lets her 14 yr old daughter meet people off the internet alone? i realize kids are going to do what they're going to do, but open communication and education and warnings and a fucking deadbolt on the kid's door will make sure she doesn't get poked by a myspace pedo.

and, crime is rising in new orleans and the national guard is bringing in troops. martial law. nice. maybe if there was some kind of aid for the poor people of new orleans, the crime rate wouldn't be so horrendous. anyone ever try to raise a family on minimum wage and then have a hurricane rip through and wreck everything you've got? i'd imagine it'd be difficult and the opportunity to sell some marijuana or loot some stores might just be a little too tempting.

talking about europe, this article in the la times said:

As the continent begins to face some of the same problems with which America has wrestled for the last several years, such as terrorism and dwindling money for social programs, the European view westward is increasingly personal. Europeans often are asking themselves whether the long-admired American model is the only answer, said professors and pollsters who track attitudes.

i can't even count how many things are so utterly wrong with that paragraph. let's just pick out the two big ones. first, "dwindling money for social programs". cry me a motherfucking river. maybe defense budgets should be cut a little? you know, seeing as how the yanks are fucking running around searching for the ever elusive osama and wmds? maybe some of that money could be spent on social programs? maybe instead of wasting time and money endlessly debating the fucking gay marriage issue, you could focus on social programs? maybe if you weren't housing, feeding and semi-employing 2.2 million men and women in prisons across the country, there'd be more money for social programs? or here's a great fucking idea, how about you raise minimum wage to something livable so that people can spend more, putting more money into the economy and stimulating economic growth? i dunno, just a few ideas off the top of my fucking head.

and number 2. "the long-admired american model". all i have to say about that, is *vomit*.

documents shed new light on guantanamo suicides - oh fuck, they need to just close it down and start training the military to have a little more sensitivity to human rights. shit that applies to all prisons and prison staff. the punishment is incarceration. not mistreatment.

an american in a japanese prison drew these beautiful pictures.

they may have found robin hood's house and china's new olympic stadium is a real fuckin' cunt:

posted by Courtney at 2:12 p.m.

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