I walked all the way out to the mailbox and because of that civil rights guy, there was nothing.

#random

Another dude just totally busted me playing with a giraffe and a four headed dragon in Jo-Ann’s.

Catholic cardinal says that pedophilia is not a ‘criminal condition’

South African cardinal who helped elect Pope Francis said on Saturday that paedophilia is a psychological illness, not “a criminal condition”.

Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, the Archbishop of Durban, told BBC radio that people who become paedophiles after being abused as children should be treated by doctors.

His comments come as Francis, the first pontiff to hail from Latin America, takes the helm of a Catholic Church rocked by thousands of cases of child abuse by paedophile priests.

Napier, who was among the 115 cardinals who elected Francis at the Vatican on Wednesday, told the BBC: “From my experience paedophilia is actually an illness — it is not a criminal condition.”

The 72-year-old added: “What do you do with disorders? You have got to try and put them right.”

He spoke of two priests he knew who were abused as children and went on to become paedophiles.

“Don’t tell me that those people are criminally responsible like somebody who chooses to do something like that,” he said.

“I don’t think you can really take the position and say that person deserves to be punished when he was himself damaged.”

Napier stoked controversy when he refused to expel South African priests accused of child abuse after the scandal broke out in 2002.

Francis’ predecessor Benedict XVI — who stunned the world last month when he became the first pope to resign in 700 years — offered a historic full apology in 2010 for child sex abuse by priests.

But critics said he failed to follow this up by acting against those responsible.

Abuse victims around the world have called on Francis to redouble efforts to ensure that clergy who covered up abuse are held accountable.

Barbara Dorries, from the US-based Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests, told the BBC: “If it is a disease that’s fine, but it’s also a crime and crimes are punished.”

She added: “The bishops and the cardinals have gone to great lengths to cover these crimes to enable the predators to move on, to not be arrested, to keep the secrets within the church.”

If a group of your peers says it’s a crime, it’s a crime.

#meanwhile #religion

There will be no sneaking on the wooden floors.

#random

Man charged with killing landlord over disputed chess move

An Italian man was charged Monday in Dublin with killing and mutilating his Irish landlord in an alleged argument over a chess game.

Police said Saverio Bellante, 34, admitted his guilt after being arrested Sunday at the home he shared with Tom O’Gorman, a policy researcher for a conservative Catholic think-tank in Ireland. Pathologists said the 39-year-old victim suffered dozens of knife wounds to his head and chest so severe that a lung was missing.

Mr. Bellante called police to report the killing. He claimed to officers that he had cut open Mr. O’Gorman’s chest and tried to eat his heart after a dispute over a move in a chess match the two had been playing.

Mr. Bellante offered no plea at his arraignment Monday in a Dublin court. When Judge David McHugh asked him why he had no lawyers, Mr. Bellante said he wanted to represent himself and would decline state-funded legal aid.

Of course the cannibal chess master will represent himself. I would expect nothing less.

#meanwhile #doctorlecter

Take a look around when you’re going down
Cuz you’ll never feel so high
As when you hid in her arms in the sky and the world slept

And there’s no use to say just how much it kills
When it still kills all the same
Every thought of her name like a hand to an open flame

She was the heart in your heartbreak
She was the miss in your mistake
And no matter what you take,
you’re never going to forget
She was the tear in a rainstorm
She was the promise that you would’ve sworn
And no matter what you say,
it’s never gonna come back

An ambulance goes by, and you wonder why
It never stops when you want it to
It never stops when you need it to take you away

And your friends don’t understand that the world could end,
And it would feel no worse than this
Every thought of the look in her eye
Like a cold California sky

She was the heart in your heartbreak
She was the miss in your mistake
And no matter what you take,
you’re never going to forget
She was the tear in a rainstorm
She was the promise that you would’ve sworn
And no matter what you say,
it’s never gonna come back

And no matter what you pray,
It’s never gonna take the pain away
And even if she’d stay you know it’s wrong
And no matter what you pray,
it’s never gonna take the pain away
Cuz even if she’d stay, you know she’s gone

The video is corny but I like the song.

I don’t see God as a figure but more a set of spiritual principles.

#advancedsoul

The description used when adding the event to a user’s Outlook calendar. Must be all on one line; DO NOT enter returns.

Way to go developer.

In my experience stripping carriage returns is trivial.

#devhell

MAKE YOUR OWN PRUNO AND MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON YOUR SOUL.

Pruno, a prison wine created from fruit, sugar and ketchup, is such a vile and despicable beast in the California state penal system that prisoners can’t eat fresh fruit at lunch.

Back in December 2002, the warden at Lancaster prison in Los Angeles County removed fresh fruit from box lunches in the maximum-security lockup, as an effort to reduce violence. Apparently, sober, scurvy-addled felons are much easier to control than drunken, violent convicts.

Delish.

A whittle goes a long way! Chinese wood art breaks record for longest carving out of single piece of timber

Artist Zheng Chunhui took four years to create this version of one of China’s most famous paintings and won the Guinness World record for longest wood carving.

I wish I had the time for such.