Patrolling the Euphrates

MNF-Iraq – Most Soldiers who join the Army can honestly say they would have never imagined patrolling the Euphrates River in a boat. Some Soldiers will soon be able to say they’ve done just that. Company A, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Brigade Combat Team (BCT), 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), is training to operate boats the unit received, May 2.

“I’m pretty excited,” said Cpl. Tomas Montoya, Co. A, 3-187th Inf. Regt. “I never thought I’d have the opportunity to work on boats over here in Iraq.” “The boats will create new opportunities and capabilities in their operations along the Euphrates River,” said Lt. Col. Andrew Rohling, commander of 3-187th Inf. Regt. “They bring a sense of security, strength and versatility the local populace has not always seen from the water.”

You’re paying for a 12yr-old girl’s sex change

Courier Mail – A FAMILY court judge has allowed a 12-year-old girl to start a taxpayer-funded sex change procedure – in the face of objections from the child’s own father. The girl, who cannot be named, has begun court-approved hormone treatment in the first step towards a total gender switch. Orders by the Family Court of Victoria also permit the girl to apply for a new birth certificate, passport and Medicare card in a boy’s name. The application to allow the hormone treatment was lodged by the girl’s mother.

An endocrinologist, a psychiatrist, a family counsellor, a Victoria Government watchdog and a lawyer acting on the child’s behalf all supported the plan. Only her father, who lives interstate, opposed the proposed sex change, though he did not attend the final court hearing and could not afford [I'm sure if he had been for it, the taxpayer would have been made to pay for that] to send a lawyer on his behalf. [snip] The court was told early intervention was needed because the child was stressed and anxious at the prospect of starting her period and had threatened self-harm.

Gee, aren’t we taxpaying schmucks just such giving folk. I guess it’s simply too much to ask the Judge, the endocrinologist, the psychiatrist, the family counsellor, the Victoria Government watchdog and the lawyer acting on the child’s behalf to cough up their wages for this eh. Why should they, when they can help themselves to taxpayers money? So there you go kids, threaten a bit of ’self-harm’ and you’ll get your way, I want a penis or a vagina, bigger breasts even, give it to me now, or else!

Unfortunately, poor diddums will have to wait till she/he turns 18 for the fake penis, which I take it you lot will be forking out for as well. You can hardly expect him/her to fund her own lifestyle choices you know, it’s after all your fault isn’t it. I wonder what will happen if at 30, he suddenly decides this whole penis thing ain’t all that flash and wants to become a she again. Are we going to have to fork out for that as well, don’t see why not. Well get to work now, somebody’s got to pay for all this.

When all else fails, blame whitey!

IHT – South Africa’s security chief on Friday accused rightists linked to the former apartheid government of fanning violence against foreigners that has spread to Cape Town, the country’s second-largest city and its tourist center. At least 42 people have been killed and more than 25,000 driven from their homes in 12 days of attacks by mobs who have stabbed, clubbed and burned migrants from other parts of Africa whom they accuse of taking jobs and fueling crime.

The South African government has come under strong criticism for its slow reaction to the violence, which started in a Johannesburg township on May 11, and for not adequately addressing poverty widely blamed for the bloodshed. But Manala Manzini, head of the National Intelligence Agency, said that people linked to the apartheid-era security forces were stoking the violence. “Definitely there is a third hand involved. There is a deliberate effort, orchestrated, well-planned,” he said.

Does anyone know at which point exactly will all the world’s ills, evils and problems no longer be blamed on the white man? By the way the technology that this Manzini uses to blame the white man for his governments incompetence and people’s xenophobia and savagery is thanks largely to the despised white man. Please forgive the white man for thinking, no good deed ever goes unpunished.