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It has been reported (in The ChristLast Media, I must note) that the current Pope does not like the phrase "lead us not into temptation...

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Friday, October 20, 2017

Just in time for Halloween! A cool new way to dispose of your loved ones.

The ghouls are winning, kids, and we aren't even putting up a fight.

Respect for the dead. Only we the living can provide it.



An alkaline hydrolysis unit at a funeral home in Windom, Minn.    



An Alternative to Burial and Cremation Gains Popularity - The Old Gray Whore -


It is an unnerving but important question, and for most Americans there have long been only two obvious choices: burial or cremation.

But a third option, a liquefaction process called by a variety of names — flameless cremation, green cremation or the “Fire to Water” method — is starting to gain popularity throughout the United States.


This week, California became the 15th state to outline commercial regulations for the disposal of human remains through the method, chemically known as alkaline hydrolysis.


It may seem markedly different from the traditional means of digging graves or burning the dead. A machine uses a chemical bath to dissolve protein, blood and fat, leaving only a coffee-colored liquid, powdery bone and any metal implants, like dental fillings.


Jeffrey Dahmer wouldn't have liked this. He preferred his dead people pickled.

The California bill was sponsored by Assemblyman Todd Gloria, who represents much of San Diego, after he was contacted by executives from Qico Inc., the company that advertises the process with the trademark “Fire to Water.”

Assemblyman Gloria said that he supported the bill partly to advocate for a constituent but also because he thought that people should have more choices.


“It was definitely new to me,” he said. “I think like most people I don’t talk a lot about death. I don’t think about it a great deal; I probably shy away from it. But when the concept was brought to me, of course I needed to understand it better.” He added, “It’s pretty fascinating stuff.”


Alkaline hydrolysis was patented in the United States in 1888 “for the treatment of bones and animal waste” and modernized by Dr. Gordon I. Kaye and Dr. Peter B. Weber, two professors at Albany Medical College about a century later.


It works like this: An alkali, or salt derived from an alkaline earth metal (usually sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide or a combination of the two), is combined with water in a specially made machine.


About 65 percent of the human body is already water, while another 20 percent or so is protein, including blood, muscle and collagen, which is found in tissue and bone. The alkali breaks down the body’s proteins and fats. The machine produces sterile brown effluent made up of minerals, salts, amino acids, soap and water, as well as weakened bones that can be crushed into an ash, and any metal in the body.


Bio-Response Solutions is one of the few working manufacturers of such machines in the United States. Joe Wilson, its chief executive, said the field is so new, people do not yet agree on what to call the machines. He sells two models: the High-Temperature 28 and Low-Temperature 28. The first sells for $220,000 and can dissolve a body in as little as three hours; the second costs $150,000 and takes up to 16 hours. Some competitors sell far costlier models. (The number refers to the diameter of the cylinder, 28 inches.)


One of his competitors sells a $500,000 model. “It’s a very high-end unit, like a Rolls-Royce,” he said. “And Rolls-Royces are nice but you don’t see many of them around. I watched it for a couple years and finally decided to do a Chevrolet.”

Flameless cremation seems to have caught on among younger funeral directors.

Ryan Cattoni, 28, who graduated from mortuary school in 2010, said that he learned about the method from a trade magazine and thought it was probably “the wave of the future.”


He opened AquaGreen Dispositions (Holy Euphemism, Batman!) in South Holland, Ill., in September 2012, about a year after the state legalized the process.

He offers a flameless cremation package covering the paperwork, an urn (filled with powder from the bone) and transport for $1,795. He said that he performs hundreds of them a year. A simple nonceremonial cremation in Chicago can cost as much as $3,000.


The environmental benefits of alkaline hydrolysis are significant. Its carbon footprint is about a tenth of that caused by burning bodies. Mr. Wilson said liquefaction uses a fraction of the energy of a standard cremator and releases no fumes.

Shit, you can sell anything these days with the word "green".

Funeral directors thought the machines would be popular for their environmental benefits, but they were surprised to discover other motives.

“When it’s a family that has just lost Mom or Dad, they’re in a more emotional state and they look at it and say it seems more gentle,” said Jason Bradshaw, the president and chief executive of a funeral and cremation service with six locations in the Twin Cities.

One of his customers was Judy Kastelle, 68, a resident of Hudson, Wis., who has found herself averse to burial. Both her grandparents were buried, she said in an interview, and she thought it seemed wrong to put their bodies in coffins encased in concrete.

When her mother, Marcella Okerman, died at 95 earlier this month, Ms. Kastelle had already arranged for flameless cremation.

“I just liked the gentleness, of her kind of being dissolved away,” Ms. Kastelle said. “I didn’t think a lot about that. I knew cremation was the thing, and it just seemed like an option that felt kinder, to me.”

Not everyone feels this way. Some critics recoil, in part because the effluent is released into local sewage systems.


“They say ‘soylent green’ or ‘throw mama down the drain’ or all that stuff,” Mr. Wilson said.


SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!

But experts note that the fluid is sterile and contains nutrients, so much so that it can be and is used as a fertilizer. Rick Vonderwell, who manages Tails Remembered, a pet crematory in Delphos, Ohio, uses the effluent at his farm, as do several large universities.


Wouldn't it be better to just dump the dead folks in the fields so they can feed the buzzards and the vermin as well?

In some places where flameless cremation is available, it has quickly overtaken the alternative. Mr. Bradshaw, who has been offering both services for five years, says that more than two-thirds of families seeking cremation choose the new method when it is offered.


“Burial is dead,” Mr. Wilson said. (Here's proof of the classic saw: "Inside of every mortician lives a stand-up comic.") “It’s going to go away. It’s not sustainable. Too many people and not enough land.”


TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005.

You see, the trick is to convince the poor they are enslaved due to lack of money.

Or, "How do we keep the black man down? Give him free Wi-Fi."


Study: Lower-income kids give more time to TV, digital media  Washington's other other newspaper - 


Children in lower-income families spend more time watching TV and using electronic devices than kids in more affluent homes, according to a survey released Thursday.

The report by the nonprofit group Common Sense Media on the viewing habits of more than 1,400 children nationwide age 8 and under found that less-affluent youngsters spend nearly three-and-a-half hours daily watching TV and using varied devices including smartphones, tablets, laptops and video game players.


By comparison, kids in higher-income homes spend just under two hours on such activities. The offspring of better-educated parents also spend less time with media (1 hour, 37 minutes) compared with children of those with less education (2 hours, 50 minutes).


“Before we can begin to understand the impact of media and technology on kids and families, we have to better understand their attitudes and behaviors,” James P. Steyer, the nonprofit group’s CEO and founder, and Reveta Franklin Bowers, chair of its board, said in a preface to the report.


The survey found that Latino parents expressed the most concern about what their children are exposed to in media, including sex, violence and racial and gender stereotypes. African-American parents voiced somewhat less concern, with white parents expressing the least worry among ethnic groups.

But a majority of parents overall said their children’s use of digital media helps boost learning and creativity.


The time youngsters spend reading or being read to has remained steady at 30 minutes daily, compared with previous studies in 2011 and 2013. But fewer than half (43 percent) of children under 2 are read to each day, counter to the American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation that reading to kids should begin at infancy to help develop language and literacy skills.


Nearly half (49 percent) of children are watching TV or using electronic media shortly before bedtime, contrary to the academy’s recommendation of an hour gap between such activities and sleep.
According to its conclusion, the survey “should not be read as a judgment on the quality of children’s time with media; rather, it is a snapshot of how media and technology are infused into daily life. Additional experimental and qualitative work is essential to better understanding the full implications of children’s media use.”


Other key findings:


— Children 8 and younger spend an average of 2 hours, 19 minutes daily with screen media, about the same as in prior study years. TV gets the lion’s share, 58 minutes, but mobile has risen rapidly from 5 minutes daily in 2011 to 48 minutes in 2017.


— The “digital divide” is narrower but still exists between more and less affluent families. Home computers and internet access were found in 72 percent and 74 percent, respectively, of low-income homes, compared with 97 percent and 96 percent for higher-income families.


— In a surprising twist, children pick “old-fashioned” paper books over digital reading. Only three of the 29 minutes that kids spend reading each day are on electronic devices.

So...They're saying there's a sliver of hope?

Nope. These damn LED lights will ruin the kids' eyes before they are 12.


TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005.

Wow. People are really stupid sometimes.


Massachusetts coffee shop closes after anti-police post - WCVB-TV

  The owner of a Massachusetts coffee shop says she's closing her business because of the firestorm created when her daughter, the store's manager, made anti-police comments on Facebook.

Kato Mele, owner of the year-old White Rose Coffeehouse in Lynn, said she is closing "so I can stop being harassed."


"I would just say that my daughter had every right to say something as stupid as she said, every American has the right to say something as stupid as she said," Mele said.

You are absolutely correct, madam. Everyone also has the right to overreact and ruin your business. The point is this: People should not do either of these things.

Mele tried to make amends after her daughter, Sophie, wrote on her personal Facebook page last weekend that the business would never host a "Coffee with a Cop" event. During the ensuing back and forth, she called police bullies and racists.

Mele fired her daughter and wrote police an apology calling the remarks "distasteful, biased and hateful." She invited officers to the shop Monday for coffee.

"I don't agree with what she said. It is not my opinion. I should never have been linked to my business and that's where I parted ways with my daughter, in regards to the business," Mele said.
The police did not show, and the usual morning crowd never materialized either.

"This is a community that's on the rise," Mele said. "We were hoping to be a part of that. It's very sad for me knowing we're not going to be a part of that."





STANDISH, Maine — A Maine high school has rejected a student’s submitted yearbook photo because it shows him holding a shotgun.

Bonny Eagle High School senior Wade Gelinas says he wanted his picture to feature hunting because it is a family tradition.

Principal Lori Napolitano tells WCSH-TV the school in Standish does not allow weapons in yearbook photos because administrators don’t want to be forced to decide which images are promoting violence and which aren’t.

Anyone with a brain and a modicum of sense can tell the difference, Principal Lori.

The photographer says she thought there was “no way” Gelinas would be allowed to use it.

Gelinas says he will submit a different photo but hopes the school will change its policy.

Master Gelinas (I know. He's already more mature than his Principal.) should submit a new photo showing him holding two Pop-Tarts carved into handguns. Or maybe a baguette carved into a rifle...

TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005.

Imagine $9.1 BILLION pouring into worthy charities each autumn...

That's right. kiddies. Americans will spend over $9 billion on Halloween this year. That's $86 for each and every one of us.

And for what? It certainly isn't to prepare for All Saints Day on November 1.


From CNBC:

Halloween spending slated to hit record $9.1 billion, NRF says



It might actually be worth it if that $9 billion was spent on helping kids have a fun and spooky night. I could live with that.

Sadly, Halloween has become the season when insecure, self-hating "adult" morons feel safe to pretend to be ANYTHING else for a little while and try to get laid. (Needless to say, alcohol sales are way up this time of year.) "No sweetie, I can't remove my mask. That's part of the fun."

If you are over the age of 12 and are planning to "celebrate" Halloween, please don't. Write a check for $86, give it to a worthwhile charity, and make the world a slightly better place.

TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005. 

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Ever wonder how a dumbass from bucolic Amishland sounds?

Just like the dumbasses in your neighborhood.

Sorry. SORRY!

That was uncharitable of me. Let me try again...

We can do that madam. We have that right. Did you ever hear of a Constitutional Convention?

I double-dog dare you and your totalitarian friends to call one. PLEASE CALL ONE. Then you will reap what you have sown.



From the paper that dares not speak its own name:

 Put gun control to a national referendum | Letters To The Editor ...


This gun control issue has gone beyond the ridiculous. The gun lobby seems to have a (rather personal) grip on our representatives in Congress that defies reason and common sense.

Here’s my idea: We hold a national referendum (put it to a countrywide vote) to decide the issue.


I haven’t talked to anyone who thinks assault rifles and other military-style weapons should be in the hands of ordinary, or not-so-ordinary, citizens. But apparently there are those who will release them only when their hands are cold and dead.

Just think about the weapons of choice in the 1770s when the Founding Fathers were writing the Constitution: flintlock rifles, pistols, blunderbusses. They unfortunately failed to be more specific in writing the Second Amendment, and this has fueled a centuries-old debate. But for sure, in their wildest dreams they couldn’t have envisioned these weapons we have designed for mass destruction to be necessary to defend life and limb.


For heaven’s sake, let’s move into the positions other developed countries have adopted and finally do something sensible about this once and for all.

Lillian Hill
Marietta, PA


TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005.

Love the First Amendment. It helps us spot the assholes from a safe distance.

Forget the high-minded principles of our Founding Fathers, kiddies. In the real world, letting the fascists, totalitarians, morons, psychopaths and other perverts among us to bleat and vomit their ignorance into the public square is a great help to us normals.

Think of it this way: Wouldn't it be helpful if child molesters and rapists walked among us with their dicks always in their hands? Sure it would be unsightly, but you'd know whom to avoid. Or shoot.

Allow me to demonstrate:

1) From The Washington Times comes the latest forked-tongue Realhatespeech Heap Big Lying Squaw left after squatting on Amerika's front lawn:


Elizabeth Warren confronted over 'one percenter' status, says 'it's not hypocrisy when I do it'...




Sen. Elizabeth Warren was forced to defend her wealth despite her frequent attacks on the rich after she was confronted by a Boston radio host earlier this week.





Ms. Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat who frequently attacks big banks and Wall Street, ran into WRKO radio host Jeff Kuhner at the studio Monday and was asked how she can justify “railing” against a class of Americans to which she belongs.





“Question: You often say, and I agree with you, that the 99 percent are getting shafted by the one percent. You live in Cambridge, you’ve got a $2 million mansion,” Mr. Kuhner said as Ms. Warren nodded in agreement. “Plus you’re a multimillionaire yourself. How can you rail against the one percent, when in a sense, you are and live like the one percent?”





Ms. Warren launched into her biography about her modest childhood and not having enough money to apply to college, much less being able to afford to attend. She started to get visibly annoyed when Mr. Kuhner interjected, saying, “You made millions of dollars, right? And you live in a mansion in Cambridge.”





Ms. Warren said she got to where she is today because she was able to attend a state law school that only charged $450 a semester.



“That’s how I had opportunity and I am deeply grateful to an America that made those opportunities possible. Those opportunities are not available in America today,” she said, speaking over Mr. Kuhner. “I had opportunities because America invested in kids like me, and that’s the reason I’m in public office.”





“I know,” Mr. Kuhner responded. “But you’re part of the one percent and you rail against the one percent. You don’t see the hypocrisy there?”





“It’s not hypocrisy!” the senator exclaimed. “What this is about is whether you believe in opportunity or not.





“I believe in opportunity and it’s what I fight for,” she said as she walked away.



Fake Indian and real fascist. Her point is this: "As long as you're a left-fascist thugette like me and spew the Party line, you can do whatever you want."


2) The dirty motherfucking Clintons took money from another dirty motherfucker. There's a big surprise. Would anyone like to bet me they won't take his money after he is "cured" in rehab?

And the Jug-Eared Jackass? Child, please. He was hoping Harvey The Self-Hating Commie would offer him a starring role in exchange for a blowjob.


Hillary Clinton, Obamas condemn Harvey Weinstein - CNNPolitics




3) Behold as the wondrous First Amendment allows us to see that Richard Spencer is a totalitarian dick and so are the left-fascist "protesters" who can't stand the thought that others might disagree with them. (P.S. I'm sure Little Dicky Spencer and his ilk [See 4 below.] also have some nasty plans for their enemies when they take over.)


Richard Spencer's Florida speech disrupted by protesters - Washington's other other newspaper ...




4) GermaineGreerInDrag thinks her transplanted armadillo dick makes her a tough guy, but the Russian doctors forgot to include the balls.

CNN discusses her desperate attempt to prove she can play with the big boys and force her way into the club:







In case you are tempted to try to take solace in the fact we have the Internet and the AmerikaLast Media to protect our freedom, you just haven't been paying attention. They would be the first to start shooting if they ever had any real power.


TheChurchMilitant: Sometimes anti-social, but always anti-fascist since 2005.


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