Rep. Pete "Women, you will be raped so plan for it!" DeGraaf Was Right

See what happens when you don't listen to Kansas state Rep. Pete "Women, you will be raped so plan for it!" DeGraaf?

You go walking in one of the poshest areas of the city at 6:30 AM and the inevitable rape (you're a woman who wears clothes and is out and about; enough said) catches you unprepared.

God to Army Chaplain: "Rape, It's All Me"

Army Maj. Gen. David Quantock, the commanding general at Fort Leonard Wood, calls a press conference and declares the Army to be a culture intolerant of sexual assault and sexual abuse of any kind.

Okay, except as far as I know chaplains are still part of the Army:

Seventeen current and former service members who say they were raped or assaulted by fellow soldiers said they filed the federal class-action lawsuit to force the Pentagon to change how it handles such cases. One of the plaintiffs was a former Army sergeant who claimed that when she approached a chaplain at Fort Leonard Wood to discuss stress related to running into a service member who had allegedly raped her in the past, the chaplain told her that "it must have been God's will for her to be raped" and suggested she attend church more often.

Assuming the sergeant's charges are true, the chaplain's action is anything but intolerant of sexual assault and abuse. Irrespective of personal religious beliefs, a chaplain's job is to offer aid and comfort to the troops not to cause them more harm.

Pope Benedict XVI's Final Word on the Case of the Nine-Year-Old Rape Victim Who Underwent an Abortion

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Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church have come out with the definitive pronouncement on the case of the 9-year-old Brazilian girl who was raped by her stepfather and underwent a therapeutic abortion: the Ob/Gyn who performed the abortion and the parent who consented, still totally excommunicated.

Apparently, the Catholic Sky Fairy wanted to make sure you didn't get the wrong impression from the Brazilian bishops who overturned the original excommunication or from Monsignor Rino Fisichella's gentle criticism of insensitivity.

So the Catholic Sky Fairy told the Pope to tell you that a therapeutic abortion constitutes a grave offense that does irreparable harm to the whole of society.

In other words, formal cooperation in emptying the uterus of products of conception constitutes a grave offense punishable by excommunication. On the other hand, allowing a 9-year-old kid to die a slow and painful death constitutes a whimsical gaffe, free of repercussions, one sanctioned by the Catholic Sky Fairy as an invaluable benefit to the whole of society.

No wonder President Obama recently explicitly expressed his commitment to Pope Pope Benedict XVI to reducing the number of abortions and to listen to the Church's concerns on moral issues. Withholding needed medical treatment from little kids and allowing them to drop dead prematurely in droves under the watchful eye of the Catholic church will go a long way towards insuring there will be fewer sexually mature people around capable of becoming pregnant. Brilliant plan if you ask me.

Brazilian Bishops: Not All Abortions Are Bad, But All Women Are Child-Like

In an article on the widespread problem of sexual abuse of under-age girls in Brazil, the The New York Times has an interesting update on the case of the 9 yo who was raped by her stepfather.

The Brazilian archbishop who promptly excommunicated everyone involved with rendering proper medical care to the girl -- her mother and the medical personnel -- but not the rapist, has been overruled by a conference of Brazilian bishops:

The storm intensified when a high-ranking Vatican official supported the excommunications. But then a conference of Brazilian bishops overruled Archbishop Sobrinho, saying that the child’s mother had acted “under pressure” from doctors who said the girl would die if she carried the babies to term, and that only doctors who “systematically” performed abortions should be thrown out of the church.

Got that? The girl's mother is not to be held responsible for her actions since women, by definition, are not capable of making their own decisions. [Great news for all female Catholic Ob/Gyns who perform abortions.] Also, it looks like not all abortions are created equal (heh, I said "created"). As long as an abortion here and there helps shield the church from criticism, performing abortions isn't an excommunicable offense.

Who says the Catholic hierarchy isn't firmly grounded in reality and, dare I say it, quite progressive?

Marines Torture, Kill Fellow Marine; Rape, Torture, and Kill His Wife

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Doesn't the failure to screen out not one, not two, but four psychopaths represent a serious failure of the Marines' recruiting and training processes?

Spot the Rapist Enablers

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Good to know that a conservative Islamic society would never tolerate rape. This must mean all those janjaweed rapists and their enablers, listed below, are just a figment of the imagination. I'm sure the women of Darfur will be most pleased to find out they've been imagining things.

Rapist enablers:

- the Sudanese government

- the African Union

- the international community

- people/families in the refugee camp

And, last but not least, the utter incompetents at the U.N., you know, the ones working closely with Sudanese authorities to improve the government's response to rape allegations.

UPDATE: President Bush orders new economic sactions and wants to propose a U.N. resolution to strengthen international pressure on the Sudanese government of President Omar al-Bashir.

Note the reply of someone working to ease the suffering of Darfuri people:

Save Darfur Coalition director David Rubenstein welcomed the sanctions, but said they might be too little, too late.

"President Bush must not give further months to determine whether these outlines measures work — the Darfuri people don't have that much time," he said. "The president must set a short and firm deadline for fundamental changes in Sudanese behavior, and prepare now to implement immediately further measures should Khartoum continue to stonewall."

Now, the response from the oil exploitersChinese (emphasis mine):

Meanwhile, Liu Guijin, China's new troubleshooter on Africa, defended Chinese investment in Sudan Tuesday as a better way to stop the bloodshed rather than the sanctions advocated by the U.S. and other Western governments.

Fresh from his first trip to Sudan since his appointment this month as a special government envoy, Liu said he saw no desperation in refugee camps in Darfur last week and found that international and Sudanese groups were working together to solve humanitarian problems there.

"I didn't see a desperate scenario of people dying of hunger," Liu said at a media briefing. Rather, he said, people in Darfur thanked him for the Chinese government's help in building dams and providing water supply equipment.

To the Glory of the Chinese [Vaterland] the Darfuri people most gratefully bow! If we could just bottle up Liu's garbage, we could sell it as a 100% proof emetic. And what about the reporter? Isn't a reporter's job to get the facts. Either there's no genocide going on in Darfur and the refugee camps are, in fact, resort-type destinations, or Liu Guijin, an official of the Chinese government is lying through his teeth. If the latter is true, shouldn't the report ask Liu to explain why he's lying?