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While the majority of the 'Human Condition' can be traced to superstitions I have come across several that don't fit into that category that are worth observing.

Here is the latest............


Dying Girl, 7, Taunted by Neighbors in Trenton


TRENTON, Mich. - Her family says 7-year-old Kathleen Edward is in the final stages of a degenerative brain disorder diagnosed as Huntington's Disease - the same disease which killed her mother, Laura, when she was only 24.

Neighbors Jennifer and Scott Petkov, who have been feuding with the family, admitted to posting grim depictions of Laura and Kathleen on Facebook. One photo depicts Laura in the arms of the grim reaper, while the other features Kathleen's face above a set of crossbones.

The couple also have a coffin hitched to a pick-up truck in front of the house, which they say is nothing more than a halloween decoration.



A member of Kathleen's family says the bad blood started about two-years ago after the two families had a falling out over a birthday party at the Rose house. At the party kids were using a "bounce-house" and playing games in the front yard. The source says that Jennifer Petkov texted someone in the Rose family, asking if her kids could come to the event. A response to the text did not come quickly enough and it angered Jennifer. According to the Rose family, she's been harassing them ever since.

Check this out...

One school, 4 suicides attributed to bullying.

A group of the bullies even had a good laugh at one dead girls coffin.

BTW: The school is in a very white, very wealthy community. Bunch of pampered rich kids.

By posting those images on facebook they showed intent to bully and harrass. sick sick sick

Now here's something a little different.

At first I thought this guy dosen't seem smart enough to have $300,000.00 to start with but then I realized he cashed in his pension for $115 then re-mortgaged his house and probaly got insurance money from his wife's death.

He is not alone by any means but I do wonder what motivates people to fall for these things. Desperate for love indeed but sending money to someone you have never met is just wrong.

And I am willing to bet that girls photo was taken of the web somewhere and it was just some scam artists using her pic as a decoy to lure people in.

I guess it shows us how weak ans illogical people can be. Somehting he should have done was look in the mirror and contemplate what she would think of him allthough I suspect he sent 'her' a pic and 'she' said he was perfect...............

If "The human condition" is what we're going to call this, I've been growing more dismayed by it virtually every day.

We've always had and always will have scum. But in recent years they've been crawling out from beneath the rocks, gathering together with others of their ilk and more proudly asserting their "right" to be pigs.

A fine indication of this can be found in the comments section of virtually any site on the web, though I tend to think newspaper web sites and the likes of Yahoo News illustrate it best. Now, those do still allow the scum some level of anonymity - always appealing to the lowest of the low. But what scum are willing to say to one another, and to the public as a whole, has been growing more and more offensive and stunning each day. Mere racism and bigotry are practically old hat by now, they're so common as to have stopped being the exception or the minority long ago.

It's now apparently perfectly acceptable to laugh at the deaths of others, to openly call for the deaths of others, and to ridicule the fates of literally any brand of victim one can think of. Cruelty has become sport, sickness and depravity are now branded "humor." Shame simply doesn't exist any longer.

I can't help it - I find it all enormously depressing.

FWIW Bushwa,
I sincerely feel that the reason that the renewed supremacy of the reptilian brain and behaviors is primarily due to a distinct lack of extended family and the total collapse of community. If I behaved one teeny tiny iota like the kids in school today, my Nana would have worn her corn broom out on my backside, and if she got tired there would be an aunt or an uncle to step in and take over. If I acted up in public, word would have gotten back or worse, Ol' lady Ott on the end of the block was well known for placing a good solid swat on your backside and THEN walking your ill-behaved butt home to your Mama or your Nana or whomever was home to watch over you. You were called down in public when you acted like an ass, public shame went a long way.

I am the last to say that I approve of beating a child, however one well-placed swat on the backside with a dose of public shame would keep a lot of this crap at bay. What ticks me off is this namby-pamby bullshit of "being your child's friend" - WTF?? I am my child's parent FIRST, and if they are having "problem adjusting" in school it's because they are surrounded by ill-behaved heathens who wouldn't know self-discipline if it bit them in the ass and chewed a bit!!! My kids learned from a very early age, I AM the Mama, my word is final, and you better damn well behave because I'll put your butt into timeout in the grocery store RIGHT IN FRONT of your best friend AND her Mama!
(oh yeah, it's YES Ma'am and NO Ma'am and PLEASE and THANK YOU)

My personal opinion is that we need to return to a matriarchy - drop the fucking political correctness, grow a gawd-damned spine, and instill some common sense, courtesy and personal responsibility into the generations to come.

stepping off my soap box and handing some home-made peach cobbler to Bushwa...

There.

Kyoti

I really miss my Mother's peach cobbler

Anyway, I really hope that we don't move backwards next month. The real condition of some humans in our own nation is already critical. Some have already lost everything, many others aren't far away from it now. I noticed today that gas prices spiked $.25 overnight. It's now $2.90/regular. Food prices are rising. And on and on.

I really hope that certain people aren't so full of hate that they would actually do what so-called pundits are saying. If so, I just might have to relocate. Forget selling anything, just pack a bag and split. I know I said before I would go to Aruba, but that just might not be far enough. So I have been scouting alternatives.



Seychelles


I know they are having some climate change problems that need addressing but, if cons take over, they will destroy America and most of the industrialized nations in less than 2 years. Problem solved.

Nearly every elderly person I know has been taken by a con artist. One grand mother was taken by a sweepstakes scam. Her sister, who is now 105 years old, was taken by a con artist. Even when he got out of jail he persisted in trying to rob her. A retired Admiral was robbed by a scam claiming to be Lloyds of London for 250,000 dollars. And I just met an old lady at a motorcycle meet up that admitted she was taken for over 300,000 dollars. A few years back somebody claiming to be a lawyer for a credit card collection agency tried to take me for all I had through a phoney arbitration forum. I didn't pay them. But, I can easily see how somebody could be fooled by them.
These cons against the elderly and desperate are epidemic. It isn't due to the greed of the victims that makes the cons possible. It's gullibility and senility that makes them into marks for the cunning scams of predators. That, and a system of inhumanity that rewards criminality.

I hear you - it's maddening trying to sort them out, too. There are the folks who've had their houses stolen out from under them because a scammer convinced them they could have something (plus some) for nothing, and others who lost their houses because a scheme seemed to make mathematical sense, and since their local preacher recommended the guy who was just going to "hold" their title away from foreclosure while the "real" owner rearranged finances to come up with a realistic payment plan...

I had an 85 year old friend cowed into believing HE was at fault for the "accident" wherein the three thugs backed into him, and 30 minutes later they had him at a nearby department store putting gift cards on a credit account to "pay them off" as their proposed "alternative" to hitting his insurance company and seeing his rates sky rocket. Fortunately he told a clerk at the credit counter a bit of what was going on, and an elderly relative in her family had been hit in a similar scam, and the cops were called.

That friend of mine helped me understand there are some situations wherein someone my age might be rightfully criticized for trying to duck responsibility, and someone his age can be credibly convinced they're in very big and serious trouble for something they don't even remember being involved in, and they're literally frightened into complying.

One of Hollywood's most successful comedy directors has revealed he has shed his possessions and sold his mansion to live in a trailer park.

Tom Shadyac directed some of the biggest-grossing comedies in recent years, including 'Liar Liar', 'Bruce Almighty', ‘Ace Ventura: Pet Detective’ and Eddie Murphy's 'The Nutty Professor'.

However, after finishing work on the big budget 'Evan Almighty' in 2007, he gave up his huge mansion and moved into a Malibu trailer park - before giving most of his possessions away.

As Mr. Gandhi says, you have to be the change you wish to see in the world

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http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/17112010/5/h ... ler-0.html

Time to move on... do what you can to alleviate suffering for yourself and in others.

To recognize that 'suffering' exists in the World is the first step towards Enlightenment.
Those Who understand that 'suffering' has a root-cause are 'Awakened'.
Those who know and understand the 'reason for' "suffering" are Enlightened.
Those who are 'Enlightened' attain Nirvana.

What I can't find regarding this story, and I have looked, is the motivation to the kidnapping...............


Dramatic surveillance video emerged today showing the moment a teenage boy wearing shackles escaped from his year-long kidnapping ordeal.

Kyle Ramirez, then 16, was held captive and tortured for more than a year in Tracy, California after being kidnapped by his aunt.

He made an amazing escape by trampolining over a high wall after persuading a two-year-old boy to find the keys to his chains.

And the harrowing surveillance footage released today shows the moment he staggered into a nearby health club and begged staff to help him.

Scroll down for video report

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z1797gQELH