Diggapedia Presents: Moments of WTF
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Charles and Te’Andrea Wilson, a black couple,
were told by their church, the predominantly white First Baptist Church in Crystal Springs,
Mississippi that they could not be married in the church. In 2012, there still remains a racist element
that denies fellow congregation members the right to get married in their own
church. Then again no one should be
surprised about anything in Mississippi after all it finally ratified the 13th Amendment that
banished and prohibited slavery and involuntary servitude on March 16, 1995;
130 years after the country ratified it. On the plus side,
another church stepped up and allowed the couple to be married and other
members of the First Baptist Church have reached out to the Wilsons to welcome
back and apologize for the acts of other congregation members.
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Recently
elected French President Francois Hollande was irate over California’s recent
banning of the French delicacy foie gras. Hollande said “I will not allow any
challenge to the foie gras exports.” The
ban is due to the process where geese and ducks are mechanically force fed to
grow the animal’s liver to 10 times normal size. Now Monsieur Hollande needs to remember that
French tradition means nothing to sovereign nations and Americans should
realize that the French process is no different than our chicken farmers genetic
modifications to our poultry to make the breasts so large the chickens cannot
move. Think of that the next time you
enjoy your next Chick-fil-A sandwich.
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The
government of India announced a plan to spend $80million to send an orbital
probe of Mars in 2013. Meanwhile on
earth 670million Indians lost power for two days during a nationwide
blackout. Sadly, many didn’t notice in
India because 300 million Indians do not have electricity. But what the heck, send a probe to orbit Mars
in search of Marvin the Martian.
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Florida is on pace to become the 1st
state with over 1million concealed weapons permits as the state is issuing over
15,000 new permits every month. Not
surprisingly, 80% of the permits are going to middle aged white men. Oxy Express, and now millions of concealed weapons
on the street; what could go wrong?
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In 29 states it is legal for companies to fire a
worker for being gay according to the Human Rights Campaign. So while unrestricted gun access gains
momentum basic human decency and REAL CIVIL RIGHTS are being shoved aside. You’re gay?
Want to get married? Too
bad. Oh you’re gay? You’re fired.
I’m sorry but state’s rights should not supersede the civil rights of US
Citizens.
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The Obama administration has been pushing this
idea of a reset with Russia while the still authoritarian state readies for
admission to the WTO on August 22nd.
Not only as the Putin government been a persistent thorn in the side of
the U.S. and the UN in dealing with Syria, it has shown its true totalitarian
colors when the new boss/old boss passed four new laws: big fines for participating in protests, creates a blacklist of ‘harmful’ websites,
defamation criminalization, and declares all NGO’s with overseas funding as ‘foreign
agents’. So in the resurgent
totalitarian Mother Russia, speaking out against the government will get you
fined in the least, jailed in the next, and disappeared in the worst.
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In 2011, Google received 12,271 requests for
data from the US government and Verizon claims that requests from the
government have increased by 15% over each of the last five years. Nearly all of these requests were
fulfilled. In 2011 federal and state
courts approved 2,732 wiretap requests while the government made over
1.3million requests for data to mobile phone companies. What is going on? Simply two diverging federal laws: the 1986 Electronic
Communications Privacy Act governing access to electronic communications and
the 2001 Patriot Act. The former was
written when the internet was for mostly academics and the latter in response
to 9/11. The law protecting citizens
needs to be greatly updated to meet a world where electronic emails should have
the same protection as phone conversations and mail while the ability for the
government to use a shot gun approach to collect data indiscriminately must be
curtailed.
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