And now the Marines...

A show inside a cathedral featured raw chickens in diapers.

BERLIN (AP) — A performance inside a Catholic cathedral in Germany earlier this month that featured raw, plucked chickens wrapped in diapers onstage — and the country’s president and the local archbishop in the audience — has prompted the church and municipal leaders to apologize that the show “hurt religious feelings.”

The show, “Westphalia Side Story,” was part of a May 15 celebration to mark the 1,250th anniversary of Westphalia, a region in northwestern Germany.

Video footage shows one woman and two shirtless men singing “Fleisch ist Fleisch” (“Meat is meat”) — apparently spoofing Austrian band Opus’ 1984 pop song “Live is Life” — with scythes and dancing with the dead chickens on a stage in front of Paderborn Cathedral’s altar.

 islander wrote:

Yes, there have been thousands of protests and marches in this country since Mango Mussolini took office; peaceful ones. This is escalation on the fascist's part to find an excuse for even more escalation and eventually marshal law.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:

Good thing the cops have learned from all this and should now be able to deescalate things...

https://www.newsweek.com/la-protestor-stomped-police-horseback-violence-video-2082637.

Oops.

 Red_Dragon wrote:

Correct. I have no idea whether he's a fine family man or a "thug," but if he's tossed in jail or sent to some third-world hellhole after his day in court, we can all say "See how easy that was?"

Same problem with George Floyd: I cannot believe there was ever a "George Floyd Square" in Minneapolis or wherever. It was never about him and I don't give two shits about him. Pretty sure it's still a bad thing to have cops kneel on a dirtbag's throat until he's dead. 

 GeneP59 wrote:

Due process is what's at stake.

 Red_Dragon wrote:

Only to be sent to prison here.  

Kilmar Abrego Garcia reportedly on his way back to US

Speaking Truth To Power

 Steely_D wrote: Loon bins also.

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:

Unless they want to hang Mike Pence. Then they’re patriots.

Just before 7:00 this morning, the House of Representatives passed the Republicans’ megabill by a vote of 215 to 214. All Democrats voted no. Two Republicans, Thomas Massie of Kentucky and Warren Davidson of Ohio, joined the Democrats in voting no. Chair of the far-right House Freedom Caucus Andy Harris of Maryland voted “present.”
The measure now advances to the Senate.
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says the bill cuts at least $715 billion in healthcare spending, mostly from Medicaid, and $300 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, causing more than 2.7 million American households to lose benefits. Because the massive debt increase in the measure triggers a 2010 law requiring offsets, it will cut Medicare, as well, by an estimated $500 billion.
Economist Robert Reich points out that Americans making between about $17,000 and $51,000 will lose about $700 a year. On average, Americans with incomes of less than $17,000 will lose more than $1,000 a year. But if you are among the top 0.1% of earners, you’re in luck: you’ll gain nearly $390,000 a year.

Heather Cox Richardson — 5/22/25

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote: 
+1

 islander wrote: They're both loon bins as far as I'm concerned.
Anyone who wants to kill anyone because of their beliefs are lunatics.

 islander wrote:

kind of a weird fringe group. Personally I see more signs of the Kakapo syndrome applying:

So the reproduction rate of an animal in an environment with no predators will tune itself to an appropriate level of reproduction. Now, if there is nothing trying to eat you—particularly—then that reproduction rate will be very low.

scroll through to 33:30 for the section on the Kakapo's mating behaviour, though the whole talk is brilliant if you have time.

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote:

I hadn't read very far, so I jumped to a conclusion.  


"Officials have said that it is the first high-profile case linked to the pro-mortalist ideology and are now monitoring it as a potential emerging threat. Authorities have urged families and communities to remain vigilant for signs of ideological extremism, especially among those who may feel disenfranchised."


So that's one for a fringe group, vs. at least 40 bombings, 200+ arsons, a dozen murders, and that's not counting the 'attempted' column.  Sorry if I was overzealous in pointing a finger at the 'Pro-life' crowd.  I'll go ahead and pre-apologize, because next time there is a bombing at a fertility/family services clinic, I'm going to go ahead with the same assumption. Time will tell which group of idiots gets the largest tally.

"Home Depot on Tuesday reported disappointing first-quarter sales, but Richard McPhail, its C.F.O., told CNBC that the company would stick to its full-year guidance and that it was not feeling pressure to raise prices. That comes as Trump leans on companies, including Walmart and Mattel, to absorb the costs of tariffs instead of passing them onto consumers."


Allow tariffs to eat your profit$ so you can get a 'big, beautiful' tax cut    


. . . that rockets the Deficit into the unsustainable Stratosphere. 

 KurtfromLaQuinta wrote: 
 I hope they still live there, underground or something.

 islander wrote: I fixed your geography.

That's okay. I'm sure I'm not as accurate on your neck of the woods either.
Your right about one thing. Those high desert communities attract some interesting characters.
Way back in the late 50's- early 60's, my grandparents moved to the very north part of this valley... Desperate Hot Flash. Just below Menopause Valley.
I asked my grandmother one day in '59... "What's up that road?" She responded: "That's where the "saucer people" live."

I'm not sure I grasp your political statement.
This idiot wasn't targeting an abortion clinic. It was a fertility center.
They promote "expanding" the population. Something us "religious zealots" extol. Kinda.
Those "other groups"...  like Napoleon Blownapart here; want to curb the population.
Hence the assault on this business.
Ehhh?

The dumb Fu¢# blowed himself up. One less azzhole we have to feed for 50 years.