And because countries are slashing children at younger and younger ages (an ironic result of the success of anti-FGM campaigns in reaching older girls), it’s not unusual to see mutilated infants in Europe and America.

The incidence of the practice is astonishing:

Somalia (99 percent), Guinea (95 percent), Mali (85 percent), Sudan (87 percent), Egypt (87 percent), Sierra Leone (83 percent), and Eritrea (83 percent). 

Note Egypt. There goes the argument that it’s confined to chaotic third world locations.

These are countries where people think God commands them to bloody and disfigure infants. I know you’re too disgusted or morally relative or in denial or indifferent to think it happens here, but I’d ask you to recall Hopkins-educated Dr Jumana Nagarwala, who along with other slashers continues to bring the benefits of FGM to all parts of this great nation.

Dunno. Hope so.

If you don’t get off on fascism, poor you! It’s the coming thing, here and plenty of elsewhere in the world, its hour come round at last yada yada don’t be last in line c’mon in the water’s fine.

Not asking you to have the courage of Rector Father Calvin Robinson at that right to life thing, where the crowd went wild at his nazi salute… Not asking you to out yourself to that extent —

I gave a salute

That started the whole room clapping —

I mean, there are consequences… Robinson’s Grand Rapids church – and hey the whole Anglican Catholic confession – has dropped him like a hot McMosley, setting off the twentieth or so iteration of the Father’s Faith Journey … Dude’s been all over the map and I’m wondering what’s next and I’m thinking Romanian Orthodox (“A scandal erupted in 2011 when nuns at the Petru Vodă Monastery in Piatra Neamţ were filmed singing a fascist hymn to celebrate their abbot’s birthday.” OOOH les girls!)…

And yes there’s a gaping hole next to the word “Rector” at the bottom of the St Paul welcome page and Father R is out in the cold again. But don’t worry about him! Don’t you worry about little Calvin Robinson! In a world bristling with black shirts, he’ll be fine.

A Christogram buffeted by booze.

The hotel used to be a monastery.

Midair collision of an army helicopter and a commercial flight.

Rescue operations ongoing in the Potomac River.

*********************************

Just stood on my back deck, eight miles from the airport.

The sky is pretty clear; visibility isn’t bad. But it’s seriously cold out there.

*********************************

Apparently no survivors. Kennedy Center cameras captured the crash, and you can see a fireball and then broken fragments falling into the water.

*********************************

Images like this make it very real.

Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

********************************

“Some of those onboard were figure skaters flying from Wichita, Kan., which had hosted the U.S. Figure Skating Championships earlier this month.”

From a Nebraska professor’s obit. Since he died at 85, this would make his parents at least 110, so UD‘s not sure the writer for Roper & Sons Funeral Home in Lincoln needed to include this.

“He was best known for his work in restructured pork, which led to the development of the McRib.”

… they live.

lolol

Three naughty lads from the heartland headed out to Ohio’s Jungle Jim’s — a supermegasuperstore— and stole “candy, cookies and ice cream,” the scamps. Well, the boys in blue caught up with them, wouldn’t you know, and out popped Devin’s gun magazine! And not only that! Devin’s face got all red when they found a Glock in his jacket! Haha!

“I have known Bobby my whole life; we grew up together,” Caroline Kennedy wrote [ahead of RFK jr’s confirmation hearing]. “It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because he himself is a predator…  [Through] the strength of his personality, [other family members followed Kennedy] down the path of drug addiction… His basement, his garage, his dorm room were the centers of the action where drugs were available, and he enjoyed showing off how he put baby chickens and mice in the blender to feed his hawks. It was often a perverse scene of despair and violence.”

She commended Kennedy for “pulling himself out of illness and disease” but lamented that “siblings and cousins who Bobby encouraged down the path of substance abuse suffered addiction, illness, and death while Bobby has gone on to misrepresent, lie, and cheat his way through life.”

Brava.

A couple of months ago, he argued that a man who makes under the table payments to women for sex, cheats on his taxes, and so on, should have all cases against him dropped IF he’s an exceptional person – like, frinstance, if he’s the just-elected president of the United States.

Now Goldstein has himself been indicted on “four counts of tax evasion, 10 counts of aiding and assisting the preparation of false and fraudulent tax returns, five counts of willful failure to pay taxes, and three counts of making a false statement on a loan application.”

He also seems to have hired women he was shtupping to work at his law firm, where their duties were apparently extremely specialized.

He lived a mile or two from UD, in sooperprestigious Chevy Chase, but then decided he wanted something even prestigiouser — a $2.6 million DC manse — and reportedly committed mortgage fraud to get it.

But all should be forgiven, if you follow his NYT opinion piece about dropping all charges against Trump, because he, like Trump, is a very exceptional individual.

The Amarillo police have tried to get the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission to shut down the abattoir where the latest mass shooting in America took place, but TABC’s too drunk to do anything. Or too rich from abattoir bribes. Keep the killing coming!

Background on the lunacy behind the killing at the border. Think Charlie Manson and his gang.

That comfortable majority supports Quebec’s secularism laws, about to be reviewed by the Canadian Supreme Court cuz ain’t it unfair to be secular? Shouldn’t all Canadian provinces be compelled to have identical laws governing things like the wearing of hijabs by public sector employees? “Last year, three judges from Quebec’s Court of Appeal unanimously upheld the [secularism] law,” and it’s “rare for the [Canadian] Supreme Court to take on cases when a lower court of appeal has come to a unanimous decision,” but allons-y! Let’s see if we can go against the will of Quebeckers.

You wouldn’t want to impose any serious closing hours on your bars in a city where every drunk fucker has five guns; better to wait until two AM when everyone’s maximally drunk and concentrated in a chaotic nightclub with other violent people in order to insure a mass shooting.

This keeps happening in our gunniest, stupidest, bloodiest, cities – the late-night lounge loaded with bullets; the hours of bar-boosted boozing; bad behavior that finally gets you thrown out and makes you vengeful blahblahblah. Absolutely by the book. Absolutely happens every weekend somewhere in the states.

Cities with a flicker of brain activity have begun imposing relatively early closing hours on their abattoirs, but apparently Amarillo prides itself on its status as one of America’s most dangerous cities.