Bad Parenting 101

There are some awful parents in the world. There are the parents who beat their children black and blue, there are the parents which are addicted to drugs.

And then there’s the fucking asshole who waterboarded his own 4 year-old daughter.

I am not making this shit up.

For those who don’t know, waterboarding is:

a torture technique that consists of immobilizing the subject on his back with the head inclined downwards; water is then poured over the face into breathing passages, causing the captive to believe he or she is dying. In contrast to submerging the head face-forward in water, waterboarding precipitates an almost immediate gag reflex.

According to wikipedia.

How bad of a parent do you have to be to do this to your daughter because she can’t remember the alphabet? When she’s fucking four! I’m sorry about the horrific language here, but the last time I was this angered by the treatment of a child it was when I was reading about Fritzl. Of course, this is nowhere near that level of horror, but it’s still more than enough to send me over the peak. It’s when things like this happen that I start to think maybe having a test to see if you’d be allowed have a child is a good idea. Weed out the sick freaks like this guy and other equally messed up individuals.

In my opinion (as of writing this, it might well change in the future) being a parent is not a right. It’s a privilege. You have no right to have children if you can’t take care of them or even try to. I know not everyone winds up being a good parent, and it’s not always their fault. But if you’re a sadist you have no right to your child. Being a parent is a privilege, and if you abuse it then you should have that privilege taken away, possibly for good.

Opinions? What should happen to this guy? Does it make you question the idea that parenting is a right?

Pro-Choice != Pro-Abortion

For those of you who don’t understand programming syntax, the symbol != means “does not equal”.

I was part of a debate earlier this month in an online discussion forum. The thread started with someone basically using the rather flimsy argument of “I was the child of a rape. For you pro-abortionists, do I have no right to life?” Pretty much right away I tore the guy a new hole in his body and then proceeded to violate the new hole with a range of sharp implements.

First, we are not “pro-abortion”. We are pro-choice. There is a marked difference. I, myself, am Pro-choice, but that does not mean I think someone should get an abortion for as selfish a reason as “I do not want a child”. People like that give the Pro-Choice movement a bad name (not as bad as the “Pro-Life” people who murder doctors. No siree). That being said, there are many situations when a woman should be allowed choose to have an Abortion. That’s what pro-choice is all about, that women should have the right to choose based on their circumstances and beliefs. Someone who knows nothing about a pregnant women and her situation has absolutely no right to make her decision for her. Pro-choice does not mean “Everyone get an abortion!”. It means that the option should be there when needed.

Take, for example, a child who has a serious birth defect and will not survive long outside the womb. Would you rather have the mother give birth to this child, raise it for a year and then have it die. After she has bonded with it even further by feeding it, nursing it, putting it to sleep? Or if the pregnancy comes with a serious threat to the health of the mother? Should she have to die because a clump of cells has more right to life than she does? In my opinion it’s people who think like that who are monsters. A clump of cells does not have a family, or friends or work colleagues who will mourn its loss. A fully grow woman with a history and relationships does. And I would always put her above something that could not survive outside her body.

And what about pregnancies that result because of a rape? I know, that if I was such a pregnancy and my mother had to be forced togive birth to a living reminder of that traumatic and disgusting event I would not be a very happy child growing up. Some women are strong, yes, but others are not. Can you honestly say that a child of a legitimate act would be treated the same way as a child caused by a gross violation of the mother’s body? If you can, you are deluded, naive and stupid.

Here’s the simple, honest fact of it all people. Prepare thy pitchforks.

By defintion (both medically and in a dictionary) guess what a foetus is up until about week 24? Are you read for this…

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I do not believe

I am an atheist.

I’d say, if you followed my blog you would know that by now. But just in case let me throw it out there for the world to see. As a side note, I wonder how many people will look at the picture for this post and scream “NAZI!”, thereby cementing their status as ignorant morons.

I wasn’t always this way. I used to be a good little boy. Always went to church, said the prayers in school and at our Christmas services. I even attended sunday school back when I was living in the Middle East. When I moved back to Ireland I went to a Christian school, learned about religion there, had my communion and confirmation. I said confession every week in church.

It wasn’t until first year of secondary school when I was about 13 that it finally clicked. I all of a sudden realised I didn’t believe in God anymore.

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The Obama-Nation

The US election results were waited on with bated breath all around the world. Would it be Obama or McCain? The tension was almost unbearable. And then we found out…Obama was the newest American president. The world rejoiced. Finally we were going to get someone who could really change the world ruling the most powerful nation on Earth. He’s only been in power for a short time, but already he seems to be doing everything he can to get America back in everybody’s good books.

But, as is usual with American politics, there are a lot of unhappy people out there.

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Death comes on swift wings.

This has been a tough summer. And yesterday my entire life fell apart.Death, as they say, is a sadistic bastard. Okay,  maybe they don’t say that, but I like to think that.

This is long, so click the “More” to read it.

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