Madonna illegally adopts a boy, OH NOES!

Okay, so Madonna has adopted a boy from Malawi.

Malawi is a country in Africa. Now there's a big ruckus going on because Malawi's legistation doesn't allow adopting over seas. Instead, the high coucil has allegedly waived the laws for Madonna's benefit. Today in IRC someone said that Madonna's illegal adopting is same as kidnapping and she should be in jail. That is very interesting.

Let's see what Malawi is all about.

Life expectancy in Malawi is now as low as 36.5 years; five years lower
than it was 50 years ago. This drop is due to the population's impoverishment,
which is constituted by many factors, including:

* low income (the mean per capita income in Malawi is less than $1 per
day)
* insufficient nutrition
* poor access to medical treatment
* insufficient school education
* spread of HIV/AIDS
* government economic
restrictions

Health
Child mortality is
103/1,000. There are more than a million orphans, 700,000 of whom became
orphans when their parents died of AIDS.
According to Malawi
government estimates, 14.2% of the population are HIV-positive, and 90,000
deaths in 2003 were due to AIDS. Unofficial estimates based on private hospital
entries give a HIV infection percentage of 30%.

Nutrition
Malawi's staple food is
maize but like other countries in Southern Africa, Malawi has repeatedly been
affected by famines since 2002, when food was
scarce for almost one third of the population. In 2003, 30 percent of the
population were affected.
According to a FAO report from June 2005, 4.22
million inhabitants of Malawi, ¼ of the population, would not have enough food
in 2005 to survive. In the south of the country, the rate of the population
affected will be between 55 and 76 per cent. In the end of November 2005, the
first famine deaths were recorded.
These repeated famines are caused by
different factors including:

* widespread monocultures
* poor distribution of fertilizers
* droughts
* widespread AIDS epidemic
* bilharzia
* malaria
* government corruption and restrictions on economic freedom

Some relief organisations, such as the Community of
Sant'Egidio, Catholic Relief Services and other local and international
organisations try to respond to the famine by distributing food parcels. The
government also had a starter pack farm input programme for maize seed and
fertilizer. The scheme was however subject to gross abuses and sometimes the
poorest people did not receive any of the items that were purportedly earmarked
for them. This programme was discontinued by the Bingu Wa Muntharika
administration, which instead subsidised fertilizer for the local subsistence
farmers.

Thanks Wikipedia.

HIV, corruption, famine and poverty. Doesn't like a nice place to live in, does it?

If you were an african boy, which one would you choose? Good health care, wealth and a life expetancy of 80 years and less political corruption or HIV, corruption famine, poverty and life expetancy of 35 years? Wouldn't you rather take the wealth, riches and a long life even if it was illegal? Sure as hell you would.

I don't really know what the hell is the problem here. Madonna comes in and saves a kid from all that crap, gives him a better and longer life, still some assholes come in and complain. Would it really be better for the new mother be in jail?

Okay, fine. Maybe the adoption from poor countries has gone a bit over the line among celebreties. We have Mia Farrow who has 14 kids. MAYBE the woman really can't show that motherly love to all her children. I bet at least half of them are being raised by a nanny. Still, I recon it's worth it for the kids.

I would understand this better if it was someone like Michael Jackson instead of Madonna.

How to prevent false testimonies

The main problem in the judical system is that people can lie.

We are trying to prevent the system by making them all swear an oath to speak the truth with the hand on the heart or on the Bible. But it doesn't work. People find it easy to go against the conscience and lie in front of their god. I just read that this hand on the Bible or over the heart tradition comes from an old hebrew tradition. The only difference is that in the hebrew tradition you place your hand over your testicles when you swear the oath. In other words, you're betting your nuts. If you lie, you get castrated.

Now, I think we should revive this old hebrew tradition. I mean really, have you ever seen a guy to swear over his nuts? Usually they swear over their soul or their grandmother's grave, their honor or some other disposable idea or item. Swearing over your family jewels is just hardcore. So hardcore that the Christians replaced the testicles with a less holy item; the Bible.

You just can't lie if you just bet your dear testicles. Of course, the problem is that women don't have testicles. Nothing seems holy to women. I don't know, maybe they could swear over their husband's wallet? If they're single, then well... The fridge, maybe?

Let's learn Finnish!



Grammar:

minä = I, me
ostan = I buy
irtokarkkeja = candies
valitse = choose
sinä = you
ota = take
jokin = some
leffa = movie
klassikot = classics
kappas = look at that
syvä = deep
kurkku = a throat/cucumber
mitä = what
ihmeen = kind of
törkyä = trash
tämä = this
oli = was
klassikko = a classic
hyllyssä = in a shelf

If you replace the english words with finnish words with the above grammar, you'll get this:

Viivi: I, I buy some candies. Choose you some movie. Take some a classic.
Wagner: Look at that, "deep a throat".
Viivi: What kind of trash?
Wagner: This was a classic in a shelf.

And then you just mix up the words, remove some, and make a few of your own until you get something like this:

Viivi: I'll go to buy some candies. You can go and get us a movie. Pick up some classic.
Wagner: Well, look at that, "deep throat".
Viivi: What kind of trash is this?
Wagner: It was in classics.

Easy, isn't it?

The word of the day is "Christian apologizer".

The word of the day and Second Life

Today's word of the day is titflesh.

No, I will not say where I heard that one. I let you use your own dirty imagination. It sounds funnier in finnish though... Tissiliha.

You know Second Life, right? Right. Of course you do. If you don't, I say it's virtual world, like Active Worlds.

Anyway, Second Life promotes cybering. Here's a direct quote:

The first type of unskilled job is the night club "dancer". Since club
owners earn some money by attracting crowds - through a complex formula that
converts the time and number of people that are inside their club for a period
of time into a weekly L$ stipend - it's natural for them to hire people to
attract these crowds and make sure they stay there as long as possible. Dancers
are one way to do that.

To become a dancer, you have three alternatives. Sometimes, jobs are
offered on the Classified section of the http://forums.secondlife.com/
forums. You can browse the forum groups to see if someone is hiring. The
second way is, some clubs sometimes announce special events just to hire
dancers. This has become slightly more rare in later months, so perhaps you
should try the third way: go to a club you like, try to get in touch with a club
owner, and ask him if a job is available.

Some club owners pay a fixed salary, but expect you to be at their club for
a certain amount of hours per week (including mostly all announced events at the
club, to get a "full house"). Others rely on tips - either paid directly to the
dancers, or through tip boxes. Some dancers also do stripping or offer
escort services.

Of course, this doesn't come as a surprise. Second Life is known for it's... X rated content. But still it's rather weird for them to be promoting it like that on their webpage.