Last night Elisabeth and I went to my folks place for supper. We had pasta and watched the weakest link on my mother's BIG screen TV. I capitalised BIG because this is the biggest TV I have ever seen in my life, it's like those ones they have in sports bars. A friend of hers gave it to her when they got a new one. It's about ten years old and I think that it's been bumped and the projection lenses knocked out of alignment because it's a bit fuzzy, but that shouldn't be too hard to fix. It is very cool though.
Anyway, enough being jealous at my mother's BIG TV, on with the post.
IN THE NEWS
The Pope has an IPOD, but who doesn't? Except for me of course. It was given to him by Vatican Radio and he's often spotted with the "distinctive white earphones" listening to religious and classical music. You'd have thought that Vatican Radio would have sprung for at least a 30GB IPOD Photo and not the silly little IPOD Nano.
The granddaughter of Gauteng Judge President Bernard Ngoepe has been kidnapped. The police are not linking this kidnapping to the Judge President's work, or his son's who is a magistrate, especially not the Jacob Zuma trial, but I think it's possible that a link may exist, especially when regarding the manner in which JZ's supporters have been acting.
A twelve year old child in East London has managed to get to Grade 6 without being able to read. The principal of the school says it's not their fault!
A nursery school in London has ordered that an age old nursery rhyme be changed to Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep after deciding that the word black may offend some children. Honestly I think it's got more to do with offending the children's parents, four and Five years olds rarely care about Politically Correct issues, preferring to worry about crayons and how icky girls are.
Raging feminist Germaine Greer has expressed outrage about a car advert that she says is humiliating and offensive to women. The advert apparently shows a man daydreaming about "doing daring things in a four-wheel drive" with a woman who is not his partner. Greer advocates violence against the Holden motor company as a form of protest. She further goes on to state that "I promise you, they wouldn't dare do it in Europe - they wouldn't dare." Um, lady, Europe is where they use sex and naked women to sell everything from fruit juice to newspapers. What planet are you from?
This dude in California believes that he was held-up and shot as an act of god because surgery to repair his injuries led to the discovery of a tumor in his abdomen. Wow, you really can convince yourself of anything can't you. There's also a story about a bunch of people that died in church when a wall collapsed on them, where's your god in that?
An finally another IOL penis story. British model Jodie Marsh keeps Polaroid snaps of her boyfriend's penises. She says she keeps them because it's a good way of remembering them and also to blackmail them into not selling stories about her. BTW: if you do an Google Image search for "Jodie Marsh" make sure your safe search is on or you aren't at work, porn pops up! Did you just go search for porn?
THE JZ RAPE TRIAL
This started of in the NEWS section but got so long that I've put it in another so that people who are bored can skip it. Also I haven't propagated the text with links, but a cursory search of www.iol.co.za will show you everything.
Lots of interesting revelations in the JZ rape trial. Apparently the victim has been raped multiple times before. All by members of the ANC who were living in exile and had some kind of family connection. Once while she was five and twice in her teens. One of the previous accused stated that her mother had "given her to him" by letting her wander around the house "improperly dressed". These men were tried by an ANC court and found innocent of rape, but docked six months pay for having sex with a child. This all came to light when the defense team produced a few pages of an autobiographical manuscript that the victim is busy working on, she had not provided them with this private document and was distressed by the fact that they had it. Now something bothers me here, the rapes in her teen were conducted while living in exile, but where apparently covered up by the ANC because it appears that criminal charges were never brought against these men, the matters seem to have been handled internally by the ANC. Isn't that a little odd? The ANC leadership knew of a crime but it appears that they did not report it to the relevant authorities. Sex with a minor is usually a crime, unless you are somewhere like Mexico, but you can check out the Schpat Dope for more details on that.
The other revelation is that the victim admits to never telling JZ to stop having sex with her, she also admits that she could probably have fought him off but didn't. When asked she told the court that he may have thought the act was consensual. Well JZ's entire defense rests on this. The obvious question is whether lack of complaint equates to consent. In my view it does not. According to testimony the victim had told JZ that she was asleep when he entered her room and offered her a massage (at this point she was lying with her back towards him), he continued to massage her back and she told him to stop. At this point he turned her over onto her back and she saw he was naked, he then took her hands and held them above he head as he straddled her thighs. He placed his knee between her legs to spread them and continued to have intercourse with her. The whole incident took about fifteen minutes. The victim maintains that the shock of seeing a naked man on her bed left her unable to act.
So if the accused thinks it's consensual and the accuser thinks it's rape what should the outcome of the trial be? Well it's all about the reasonable man, would the reasonable man think that the victim was consenting to sex? If the answer is yes then the verdict should be "not guilty". In my opinion no reasonable man could possibly think that being rebuked twice meant "come give it to me daddy!". I hope he doesn't get off, if you'll excuse the pun.
btw: what is the emotocon for rage?
THESE PEOPLE ARE SO RIGHT
THAT'S ALL FOLKS
This section really should be renamed, a movie I watched last night. This time it's "Shade" a movie about people who cheat at poker staring Gabriel Byrne and Sylvester Stallone. This move get a 2 out of 5. Other than showing some truly amazing shuffling and one method for dealing from the bottom of the deck it's totally boring and predictable. The movie sells itself on having great actors and being about poker. If you're interested in poker you'll laugh that the mistakes it makes and if you're not interested in poker you'll find three quarters of the film boring, especially when they make an effort to use as many obscure poker terms as possible, and then explain them to people who should already know what they mean for the audience's sake. The twist was also really predictable, it might have gotten really interesting but I'll never know. My copy of the DVD fucked up three minutes before the end and I couldn't continue watching it, really I'm not upset about it at all.
Enjoy your evening
schpat out
Anyway, enough being jealous at my mother's BIG TV, on with the post.
IN THE NEWS
The Pope has an IPOD, but who doesn't? Except for me of course. It was given to him by Vatican Radio and he's often spotted with the "distinctive white earphones" listening to religious and classical music. You'd have thought that Vatican Radio would have sprung for at least a 30GB IPOD Photo and not the silly little IPOD Nano.
The granddaughter of Gauteng Judge President Bernard Ngoepe has been kidnapped. The police are not linking this kidnapping to the Judge President's work, or his son's who is a magistrate, especially not the Jacob Zuma trial, but I think it's possible that a link may exist, especially when regarding the manner in which JZ's supporters have been acting.
A twelve year old child in East London has managed to get to Grade 6 without being able to read. The principal of the school says it's not their fault!
A nursery school in London has ordered that an age old nursery rhyme be changed to Baa Baa Rainbow Sheep after deciding that the word black may offend some children. Honestly I think it's got more to do with offending the children's parents, four and Five years olds rarely care about Politically Correct issues, preferring to worry about crayons and how icky girls are.
Raging feminist Germaine Greer has expressed outrage about a car advert that she says is humiliating and offensive to women. The advert apparently shows a man daydreaming about "doing daring things in a four-wheel drive" with a woman who is not his partner. Greer advocates violence against the Holden motor company as a form of protest. She further goes on to state that "I promise you, they wouldn't dare do it in Europe - they wouldn't dare." Um, lady, Europe is where they use sex and naked women to sell everything from fruit juice to newspapers. What planet are you from?
This dude in California believes that he was held-up and shot as an act of god because surgery to repair his injuries led to the discovery of a tumor in his abdomen. Wow, you really can convince yourself of anything can't you. There's also a story about a bunch of people that died in church when a wall collapsed on them, where's your god in that?
An finally another IOL penis story. British model Jodie Marsh keeps Polaroid snaps of her boyfriend's penises. She says she keeps them because it's a good way of remembering them and also to blackmail them into not selling stories about her. BTW: if you do an Google Image search for "Jodie Marsh" make sure your safe search is on or you aren't at work, porn pops up! Did you just go search for porn?
THE JZ RAPE TRIAL
This started of in the NEWS section but got so long that I've put it in another so that people who are bored can skip it. Also I haven't propagated the text with links, but a cursory search of www.iol.co.za will show you everything.
Lots of interesting revelations in the JZ rape trial. Apparently the victim has been raped multiple times before. All by members of the ANC who were living in exile and had some kind of family connection. Once while she was five and twice in her teens. One of the previous accused stated that her mother had "given her to him" by letting her wander around the house "improperly dressed". These men were tried by an ANC court and found innocent of rape, but docked six months pay for having sex with a child. This all came to light when the defense team produced a few pages of an autobiographical manuscript that the victim is busy working on, she had not provided them with this private document and was distressed by the fact that they had it. Now something bothers me here, the rapes in her teen were conducted while living in exile, but where apparently covered up by the ANC because it appears that criminal charges were never brought against these men, the matters seem to have been handled internally by the ANC. Isn't that a little odd? The ANC leadership knew of a crime but it appears that they did not report it to the relevant authorities. Sex with a minor is usually a crime, unless you are somewhere like Mexico, but you can check out the Schpat Dope for more details on that.
The other revelation is that the victim admits to never telling JZ to stop having sex with her, she also admits that she could probably have fought him off but didn't. When asked she told the court that he may have thought the act was consensual. Well JZ's entire defense rests on this. The obvious question is whether lack of complaint equates to consent. In my view it does not. According to testimony the victim had told JZ that she was asleep when he entered her room and offered her a massage (at this point she was lying with her back towards him), he continued to massage her back and she told him to stop. At this point he turned her over onto her back and she saw he was naked, he then took her hands and held them above he head as he straddled her thighs. He placed his knee between her legs to spread them and continued to have intercourse with her. The whole incident took about fifteen minutes. The victim maintains that the shock of seeing a naked man on her bed left her unable to act.
So if the accused thinks it's consensual and the accuser thinks it's rape what should the outcome of the trial be? Well it's all about the reasonable man, would the reasonable man think that the victim was consenting to sex? If the answer is yes then the verdict should be "not guilty". In my opinion no reasonable man could possibly think that being rebuked twice meant "come give it to me daddy!". I hope he doesn't get off, if you'll excuse the pun.
btw: what is the emotocon for rage?
THESE PEOPLE ARE SO RIGHT
THAT'S ALL FOLKS
This section really should be renamed, a movie I watched last night. This time it's "Shade" a movie about people who cheat at poker staring Gabriel Byrne and Sylvester Stallone. This move get a 2 out of 5. Other than showing some truly amazing shuffling and one method for dealing from the bottom of the deck it's totally boring and predictable. The movie sells itself on having great actors and being about poker. If you're interested in poker you'll laugh that the mistakes it makes and if you're not interested in poker you'll find three quarters of the film boring, especially when they make an effort to use as many obscure poker terms as possible, and then explain them to people who should already know what they mean for the audience's sake. The twist was also really predictable, it might have gotten really interesting but I'll never know. My copy of the DVD fucked up three minutes before the end and I couldn't continue watching it, really I'm not upset about it at all.
Enjoy your evening
schpat out
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