eon_echoes's Xanga

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:30:45 GMT

So, since Xanga has died, I'm going to just stop coming here.

If you care to keep in touch: http://www.myspace.com/eonechoes

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:23:12 GMT

Finally a sex crime story where the sentence actually fits the crime. I believe rapists get way too short of sentences. The story is even from Oklahoma! Something to be proud of.

"A convicted child molester is sentenced to a century behind bars. He was convicted of molesting his teenage stepdaughter. The victim’s father was very happy with the decision, but his road to justice for his daughter has been far from easy. ..."
- KOTV

Sunday, April 15, 2007

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:27:11 GMT

Linear time is so pre-9/11.

Friday, April 13, 2007

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:31:19 GMT

So Xanga is dead.

Sad news about Kurt Vonnegut. :(

Monday, March 19, 2007

Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:37:01 GMT

So the other night Chris Rock said on SNL that black men have had a much rougher history than white women and therefore you should vote for Barrack Obama and not Hillary Clinton. He also said that white women don't vote for women (although only a few have run, the most recent I remember was Carol Moseley-Braun, though she was black, and I was split between her and Dean in 2004) yet he somehow forgets to also say that black men don't vote for black men either and that both parties (black men and white women) are under appreciated in society (along with all other minorities of men and women.)

Now I take major issue with this because he sites the 'fact' that "white men love white women and black men REALLY love white women" and says that no white woman has never been lynched. I realize that he's a comedian but unless you want to be called a fucking idiot, you shouldn't say shit that is completely inaccurate and push it across as fact the way he did.

I'll say it now: black men have been suffering from [non-black created] oppression since Africa began being explored by other races. White women (and virtually all other women) have been suffering from [non-female created] oppression for as far back in history as human records go. Women have been owned by their husbands from the time we were Neanderthals until the '60s. This, of course, does not take away from the oppression dealt upon black men - the two should honestly not be compared as they're both unexpressibly awful.

Women have been lynched and killed violently for virtually ever. Some of the specific lynchings I know of where in the Salem Witch Trials where both men (6) and women (14) were lynched. The accounts of violent murder of women that span the Earth and eras are too many in number to even begin to get into but another account of it that has touched me over the years was how King Henry VIII had some of his wives murdered because they didn't give birth to sons, yet later it was found that the gender of a child is dependent on the male and not the female.

If you don't want white women making racist jokes against black men (as I also don't) then don't fucking make sexist jokes about white (or otherwise) women.

I'd also like to say that we should vote for those of whom we think will represent us politically, not culturally.

I won't be seeing the appropriately titled "I Think I Love My Wife". What an ass hole.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Tue, 13 Mar 2007 00:15:57 GMT

So a Judge in New York of all places decided that because a woman makes fun of organized religion, she's not fit to be a parent...

"The story about Rachel Bevilacqua (a.k.a. Reverend Mary Magdalen) lost custody of her son after a conservative custody judge was outraged at the fact that she is a member of the Church of the SubGenius. As a result of appearing in a adult-rated parody of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," custody of her son was taken from her and awarded to the boy's father (the couple was never married). Rachel and her husband have fought a long, expensive battle to win custody of their son, while her ex-boyfriend's legal costs have been entirely been handled by a pro-bono lawyer (who is a friend of his). Legal costs have exceeded $70,000 as of March 2007."

... and a correction to that story...

"He was taken because the birth father lied and told the court that she was homeless. ...

Rachel Bevilacqua is a long way from homeless. She's back in Spencerport, New York, where she grew up, and where her parents still live in a modest frame house, nestled among trees on the banks of the Erie Canal. Sitting in the tiny office there, she talks while her father blogs, while her sisters play, and her mom cleans the kitchen after dinner, periodically stopping to show off family pictures.

Bevilacqua — known as Mary Magdelen to thousands of "worshippers" in the Cleveland-based, satirical Church of the SubGenius — has come home to get her son.

She's been in Spencerport since January, attempting to prove herself innocent so that 10-year-old Kohl can live in her house again, back in Georgia, with her husband, Steve Bevilacqua, whom her son has been forbidden in court orders from calling "dad." It's the family Kohl has lived with, except for vacations that roughly coincide with the school year, for most of his life, until he went to visit his biological father, Jeff Jary, for Christmas in 2005.

When Rachel took Kohl to the airport on December 18, she had no idea that a few days later Jary would tell a judge in Orleans County, New York that Rachel was homeless. No idea that without checking on the claim — without even sending a perfunctory notice of a hearing — the court would grant her son's father sole, temporary custody.

Now we're seeing how 'temporary' that custody is. Bevilacqua found herself in front of a small town judge with a tiny little mind, James Punch of Orleans County, New York. Punch was much more interested in her connection to the Church of the SubGenius than he was in the particulars of the case. In fact, transcripts show that neither Bevilacqua nor her son were the issue in his mind. It was the fact that her hobby was making fun of religion."
More here.

It seems to me as though a man that's willing to commit perjury isn't fit to be a parent, and should also be in a heap of legal trouble.

Here's the phone number for the judge's office if you want it:
(585) 589-5458

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 03:22:08 GMT

Wow, Pan's Labyrinth was amazing.

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Wed, 21 Feb 2007 16:28:16 GMT

My Chemical Romance is now the most overrated band ever.

Sunday, February 18, 2007

Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:33:04 GMT

LONDON, England (CNN) -- Prince Harry, a 2006 graduate of Britain's prestigious Sandhurst military academy, will soon go to Iraq with his military unit, a British military source told CNN.

The posting to Iraq, something Prince Harry has been actively seeking since being commissioned, is expected in April or May, the unidentified military source told CNN.

The exact timing of the prince's arrival in Iraq is uncertain because of security precautions, the source said.

British newspaper The Daily Mirror -- also citing an unnamed military official -- reported the 22-year-old royal will be deployed along with his regiment near Basra, Iraq.
- CNN

Oh God I hope he doesn't get killed/injured. I feel that way for everyone in the war, but seeing as he has every opportunity not to go, yet he's choosing to - he has more guts than I would've imagined.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:40:57 GMT

One month until I can smoke, sleep with old creepy men in every state and gamble at the crappy casinos in Tulsa. Yay!

Oh yeah. Happy fucking Valentine's day.