Crimes against the fetus

(Below is in response to the conjecture that  Scott Petersen didn't murder his wife, his perhaps rejected girl friend did.)

But that's not the actual subject of this Entry.

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I'd never thought of that, or even heard
of that as a viable scenario. The girl friend was
weird enough that's for sure, so weird it was hard to believe that Peterson could have
preferred her over his beautiful wife. But,
against that argument is the police belief
that his wife had demanded a divorce. I
think Peterson's wife's family believed that too.

Wasn't 'Girl Friend' a tad too eager to trap him into a telephone confession?

I've read of a woman who'd announced

she was pregnant, discovered she'd counted

her eggs before they hatched, and tore a

baby out of the stomache of another woman

with the key to that woman's truck, and left

her to die. It happened outside a US Air Force

clinic.

It's no mystery that the miracle of

reproduction can be a hot button subject,

such as the constant waffling on the

subject of abortion, but the crimes committed

against the very idea of having a baby, and

when the general populace thinks it is permissible without the sanction of being shunned,  gets rapidily into displays of madness.

The two people Online who have posted

contempt for me for having fathered another child have, in effect, committed a crime against a fetus. I feel I should go armed. I'll definitely keep very close watch over my wife.

I grew up in a safe place, the sea coast North of Sydney, Australia where there was almost zero crime. Manly, Dee Why, Collaroy, Narrabeen were places where I lived or frequently visited. Children and women were safe at any hour, any place. There was less media hysteria, far less violent, lying advertising, almost no brutal crime movies or fiction. But as the population grew and the global, money-making frenzy swelled so did the crime rate. WW2 last a shorter time than the war in Iraq!? Can that be true!?

The world has gone mad, and Bilious Crud (SN)is its product. 

Bow down, kneel folks, Bilious Crud (SN)married to Lorry Truck (SN) who is actually a man via surgery, is the future!

Barry

Mystery Coin

This coin, see. It appeared beside my keyboard mysteriously. Could, might be one of Michael's jokes. Michael is four going on ninety four.  Money here is green so I type in green hoping against hope this coin is worth gold, big gold. It has seven sides. Gambler's pretend money? Slot money? On the back is says, cheekily, "New Pence." Do they mean penance? It's kinda dull silver colored. Oh, yes, and there's the number "50". Gee, that might be a lot, a lot of moola. Owwww, I'm drooling.

Suggestions anyone?  What do you figure it could buy me, if the real McCoy? Is it Irish money? Catholic or Protestant? I'm picky, you know.  It just showed up.

- Barry

Movies

I just read a former friend's list of fav. movies. Her list reads to me as that of someone anxious, desperate even, to psychologically distance herself from America. I can't converse with her on the subject because she has me filtered, blocked, roped off and handcuffed, ha ha ha ha.

But, she has done me a service: when I look back on my present list of fav. movies I think I see that I've always gone to the movies primarilyto feel connected with my native home, America.

Oh, and btw, this list I will present to Netflix when I get ready: that is, the list in not 'all time' favs necessarily, just the ones I want to watch now, and watch with members of my family. Some of them might bore my young children.

1. Grand Hotel (1932) Greta Garbo

2. A Place in the Sun (1951) (aka An American Tragedy,novel by Theodore Dreiser)

3. Spirit of Saint Louis, Dir: Billy Wilder, German Immigrant, at his very best. (J. Stewart)

4. Born Yesterday (from the play) Judy Holiday

5. Twelve O'Clock High (1949) Zanuch's triumph

6. Red River. Cowboys and Indians/ The West, John Wayne, Montgomery Clift.

7. Gervaise (Maria Schell) French

8. Laura (1940s) Clifton Webb, Gene Tierney

9. A Night To Remember (English version Titanic) Clifton webb, Barbara Stanwyck

10. A Tree Grows In Brooklyn (Elia Kazan Dir.)

11. On The Waterfront, Brando/Kazan

12. The Hanging Tree, Western/Gary Cooper still in the saddle and better than ever. Maria Schell.

13. Boy's Town (Spencer Tracy as Father Flanagan, "There is no such thing as a bad boy.")

14. All the King's Men (1949 - the current remake will bomb, trust me. Every critic will cite the 1949 superior version. Broderick Crawford. Politics out of control. I must read the novel by Penn Warren.

 

So, that's my list. What the hell is wrong with AOL? Twice while trying to type this everything went haywire: for one thing GD McAfee almost derails everything by demanding to "scan" now, or else....drop dead McAfee; I rely on another.

The movies: pls see CRASH so we can talk about it. A demented woman college something or other on a writer's message board said she won't see it 'cause she's already read The New Yorker review. "With respect to critics the only thing that would satisfy me is revenge." - Lee Strasberg co-founder of The Group Theater.  Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha..................... 

 

Barry

 

 

 

My Comment (A preparation)

(While waiting for reading matter to be sent to me from NY, material from my Catholic chum Dick, I responded, made a Comment on the Journal of another. Maybe I can sidestep all the work required to make an entry of my own. I'm Catholic, but errant lots of the time; sloth, isn't that a sin? Try confessing that these days; you'd be asked if you've robbed any banks lately, ha ha ha ha....)

 

Your subject is definitely rivetting. You give
a comprehensive overview of the elements
present in the Pope's disparagement of Islam,
Muslims, whatever is the correct word(s).
I'm warming up to 'Journal' my own take on the
brouhaha which given that only words are
involved and not bombs, is pretty entertaining
except for the riots in response, violence from
the very people the Pope was indirectly correcting.
Muslims, IMO, are violently jealous of the glamor
of Christianity. A Parish newsletter from the
Church reported some years ago that there are
more words devoted to Mary, The Mother of God,
in the Koran, than there are devoted to Her in
The New Testament. Odd that the same people who
have been so worshipful of The Virgin Mary, Mother
of Jesus, in the Koran, shoot women, mothers
included, in the head in broad daylight in a football
stadium in Afghanistan. (The highest percentage of
infant deaths per number of births occur in Afghanistan.) As to terrorist suicide bombers, it's pretty hard for any Christain to swallow how murder, plus suiicide, two heavy-duty sins, could possibly benefit, or please Allah.

And, your points are well taken.

Barry
http://journals.aol.com/bbartle3/Vengeance/

Rambling Thoughts

Can you imagine? a bank robbery is in progress (what progress? scooping up the money?) in Chicago. Oh, oh the lore of the Prairee.

Perhaps because I'm in an inter-racial marriage I've blogged on the subject of race quite a few times. Waiting for the birth of a baby, as I hope you can grant, is a mite more suspenseful than ordinarily. Mother and father have played the game - which ancester's physiognomy do you pray does not show up in the 'Expected' (March 7th? '07)?  What facial features, color hair etc.? Healthy is my sole prayer. The mother wants all kinds of things I consider irrelevant. I do love black hair on a woman, so if the baby is a girl I'll have it made 'cause, I think, black hair is a dominant gene. Hybrid vigor is on our side, too.

Here's what's happening in Los Angeles. Racial pride is on the March. At the laundromat the other day I watched a tall, oh so tall maybe 6'3" Black woman with a perfect figure. So far so ordinary; but what really wowed me was that she had perfect posture, and lyrical movement, so might have been a dancer. An old guy can get away with murder so on the strength of a 'Hi there' or two, when I was leaving, I said to her, "have a great life." "Thankyou," she said looking down on my 6'0" shortness, with a smile. I've confessed this 'infidelity,' ha ha ha, to my wife who is supremely self-confident. (Sweet tempered Filipina.)

More news as it happens: A shooting at a Montreal College.

The world is nuts, so by comparison my life is perfect. Hope yours is too.

I have a photo before me, a snapshot I took of son Vincent riding a horse in Griffith Park, in LA. The lighting was lucky so I'd like to post it here; I'll give it a whirl, if, it can be added later. I have to wait for Vincent, age, 11, to help me. Well! I had him for a reason: assistance. What other reason have people had babies, huh? Gar 'head, tell me. Next month we'll take the boat to Catalina Island, about 20miles offshore. It's been swum; I'd like to try it. Be the oldest, maybe. Might be too expensive, what with boat following etc. So, the ferry might have to suffice. Not sure, but I think Vincent and I could take our bikes. I know biking on the Island is popular. A whole day of clean, non-city air!

My "ramble" is at an end. Hope nothing rubbed you the wrong way. That was not my intent.

Barry  http://journals.aol.com/bbartle3/Vengeance/

 

 

 

 

9/11 & 911

TIME magazine, remember that rag? It now costs $3.95. I suggest you don't bother. The current issue is dated Sept. 11, 2006. Conspiracies, second guessing, quasi-philosophic Editorial gushing are presented with the sole motive of making money, the very thing the Twin Towers represented under the title World Trade Center, and now celebrated as such in a Hollywood movie.

John asks us to give our thoughts and experiences related to the calamity. Okay, "I'll bite" (an American expression from the 1930s I believe - it was a favorite of my English father) my first inkling of the event came from a laughing Mexican gas station attendant in a Mexican State North of the  State of Oaxaca. In Spanish, and then broken English he told us - my family and I were driving back to California - that Boston had been bombed. He had the news a bit garbled: a plane leaving Boston had changed course, as we now know from being hijacked, did a left turn and headed for the Island of Manhattan, specifically the North Tower. It's the laughter of the man in the gas station I want to dwell on. Not just millions in Mexico, millions all over the world got a huge lift from seeing America on fire and falling down. Since the subway bombings, and the more recent arrest of 24 English Muslim alleged terrorists, England might now be an even more ardent friend, and never did laugh anyway.

Suicide murder, such a popular hobby/tactic in the Middle East, a most grievous damning sin for Christians, was totally unknown to me for most of my life. The young Arab who dressed as a Rabbi to board a bus in Israel then blew up himself and everyone else on the crowded bus into black scrap lying in a black skeleton of what  had been the bus, is now a reverred hero honored at feasts given in his honor, feasts paid for with the $25,000 given his family for their sacrifice. 'Son for sale?' daughter for sale? husband for sale? must constantly be whispered all over the Eastern end of the Mediteranean.

As far as I know the 9/11 terrorists' families may have gone unrewarded. If so, that might, could possibly, put a brake of building bombing, but don't hold your breath. The more modest bus bombing seems slightly more warlike, than the grotesquerie of Twin Towers bombing which works as a declaration, but, lets be honest, spells doom for the participants and their cultures. It was over-kill. By that action Osama Bin Ladin committed slow motion  suicide; it could turn out that the angry spoiled brat was all along simply mad at Daddy, and not really mad at America at all?!  ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha................... who do you figure will get the last laugh?

 

You got it!

Barry          

http://journals.aol.com/bbartle3/Vengeance/