Religions Abuse Children
April 18, 2008 7:46 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays, Maui Curmudgeon Religions Abuse Children |
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Int’l Jugglers’ Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ano hepa: Retarded PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Longlong: Stupid HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Be steadfast.” (Onipa’a) HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “A cult is a religion with no political power.” (Tom Wolfe)
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Draft of Maui County General Plan WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — JibJab.com PODCAST OF THE WEEK — The Ethicist, NYT BLOG OF THE WEEK — TheRoot.com
April 18th, 1993: Twelve Hawaiians are among the 86 people who burn to death in the Waco, TX compound of the cult of the Branch Davidians. We can’t discover if that is the largest group of people from location, though the number seems high, and makes us wonder: what was so enticing about that sick cult that 12 Hawaiians decided to join?
Which reminds us of other child-abusing religious cults currently in the news:
The Catholic Pope, head of the largest child-sex-abusing organization in the world, is visiting the U.S and conducting mass in athletic stadiums on the East Coast.
Convicted felon Warren Jeffs’ polygamist cult near Eldorado, TX — at what age did these women who are denying sexual abuse in the compound of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints first “marry”? (They refuse to answer when questioned directly.) And where are all the male children of the sect? The fathers? The husbands?
From here it looks like a 19th century vagina factory for Mormon pedophiles.
– Maui Curmudgeon
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 18th
- 1775: Paul Revere, Samuel Prescott and William Dawes ride to alert that “The British are coming!”
- 1838: The Wilkes’ expedition sets sail to the South Pole
- 1853: The first train in Asia begins operating (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)
- 1861: Colonel Robert E Lee turns down an offer to command Union armies
- 1906: 700 (confirmed) people die, 4,000 are injured, and $350 million in damages occur in the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire (“The Big One,” which hit at 5:12am, has since been estimated to be 8.3 on the Richter Scale)
- 1907: The Fairmont Hotel opens in San Francisco
- 1942: James H Doolittle bombs Tokyo & other Japanese cities
- 1955: Physicist Albert Einstein dies in Princeton NJ
- 1983: A lone suicide bomber kills 62 people (including 17 American citizns) at the U.S. Embassy in Beirut Lebanon
- 1989: Thousands of Chinese students demanding democracy attempt to storm Communist Party headquarters in Beijing
- 1994: Former President Richard Milhaus Nixon suffers a stroke at his home in Park Ridge NJ (he dies in four days at a New York hospital)
- 2007: Four large bombs exploded in mainly Shiite locations of Baghdad, killing at least 183 people.
BORN ON THIS DAY — April 18th
- 1480: Lucretia Borgia, Italian Duchess/murderess
- 1857: Clarence Darrow, defense attorney
- 1882: Leopold Stokowski, conductor
- 1924: Henry J Hyde, (Rep-R-IL)
- 1946: Hayley Mills, actress
- 1947: James Woods, actor
- 1953: Rick Moranis, actor
- 1956: Eric Roberts, actor
- 1963: Conan O’Brien, talk show host/comedian
- 1968: Christian Slater, actor
- 1984: America Ferrera, actress
- 1989: Alia Shawkat, actress
