Here's a label that I will look for if it is used.

Hekhsher tsedek: Righteous certification indicating, among other things, that employees worked in safe factories and weren't exploited.

MercuryNews.com 01/13/2007 Jewish group wants symbol to signify how kosher food workers are treated

Psyhcological assessment of a nefarious form of sub-human sentient life

A person I know has major psychological problems. I had referred to this person as a "waste of skin". Another made reference to the uselessness of female sexual appendages on a large male bovine. This person seems to to be so far beyond hope that I have had to give up trying to help and have cut it lose (this sentence contains no grammatical mistakes).

I try to understand what the problem is but can't. It is always useful to identify the traits of a problem. Labeling the problem is the first step to understanding.

I don't know if there is already a scientific name for the traits that it exhibits so I did my own assessment and came up with "delusional sadistic necrophilia". As a necrophiliac derives satisfaction from dead people (I widened the definition from sexual pleasure to any pleasure) and a sadist from causing pain, beings who get their jollies by hurting the dead are sadistic necrophiliacs. As most people believe that it is at the least very difficult, and in my view impossible, to hurt dead people from the instant of their transition on, a sentient entity (it) that believed it truly could pull it off would certainly be labeled delusional.

Further study requiring line of sight viewing has become so distasteful that I can no longer work with it using my 11 foot pole. The subject is so disquieting to the average individual that I have only been able to discuss it with immediate family, my very closest friends and all the guys at the bar (I'm no lawyer).

I plan to look at existing research to find if other examples exist, if it has been studied and if a diagnostic label has already been applied.

I did find a reference to similar behavior in a poem by Kipling. Although the poem refered to the animal world, the last quatrain sent chills down my spine. Could there be a lifeform so base to be capable of eating the flesh and defiling the name?

The Hyaenas
by Rudyard Kipling

After the burial-parties leave

And the baffled kites have fled;

The wise hyaenas come out at eve

To take account of our dead.

How he died and why he died

Troubles them not a whit.

They snout the bushes and stones aside

And dig till they come to it.

They are only resolute they shall eat

That they and their mates may thrive,

And they know that the dead are safer meat

Than the weakest thing alive.

(For a goat may butt, and a worm may sting,

And a child will sometimes stand;

But a poor dead soldier of the King

Can never lift a hand.)

They whoop and halloo and scatter the dirt

Until their tushes white

Take good hold in the army shirt,

And tug the corpse to light,

And the pitiful face is shewn again

For an instant ere they close;

But it is not discovered to living men

Only to God and to those

Who, being soulless, are free from shame,

Whatever meat they may find.

Nor do they defile the dead man's name

That is reserved for his kind.

I'll keep you posted on my findings.

Relationship choices, science and spirituality

Monogamy, Polyamory, and Beyond — A Jewish Magazine, an Interfaith Movement: "Spirituality and Intimate Relationships
Jorge N. Ferrer"

Neighbours catch boy, 3, who fell from 4th-floor fire escape - World - Times Online

This is the type of action that gives me hope. When people realize that all children are their children maybe they can comprehend that we're all related and in this together.

Neighbours catch boy, 3, who fell from 4th-floor fire escape - World - Times Online

WORLDSTATESMEN.org This site is a complete and up to date encyclopedia of all the leaders of nations and territories. International organizations and recent religious leaders are listed separately. This site provides detailed chronologies, flags, national anthems, maps and indexes to enhance your research into the world of history and politics.

http://www.worldstatesmen.org/

How I want to go out...besides with a BANG!!

MEDICAL EXAMINER: Health and medicine explained.

Death Be Not Manicured
The latest in green burial.
By Joe Sehee
Posted Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2006, at 12:57 PM ET

What does green burial look like, and how does it compare to the usual death-rite conventions?

Click here for a slide show.

THE SENILITY PRAYER

I don't know where this originally came from. It was sent to me by a friend with some other "senior" jokes.

THE SENILITY PRAYER: Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway, the good fortune to run into the ones I do, and the eyesight to tell the difference.

The Devil’s Dictionary: ACQUAINTANCE

The Devil’s Dictionary

ACQUAINTANCE, n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. A degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.
— Ambrose Bierce

I got one of these for Christmas

It's hilarious. I'm trying not to look at the inside until January 1st.

You can get it here:

http://www.calendars.com/product.asp?PID=1&MGID=-1&IID=34475&cm_mmc=google-_-Bush+Countdown+Calendars-_-Exact-_-2007+bush+countdown+calendar%7C-%7C100000000000000017132&gclid=CJ-YrP3wsYkCFSLrPgodgBebvA

Xenophobia certainly won't help the world

Lawmaker’s ‘xenophobic’ comments spark row Ashish Kumar Sen writes from Washington

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2006/20061225/world.htm#1

A Virginia Republican lawmaker has lashed out at America's first Muslim member of Congress for preferring to use a Quran during a ceremonial swearing-in service and has warned Americans that if they "don't wake up" many more Muslims will be elected to Congress.
Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr.'s xenophobic comments, made in a letter to constituents, have touched off a firestorm as Keith Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat, prepares to make his debut in the U.S. Congress next month.
"The Muslim Representative [Mr. Ellison] from Minnesota was elected by the voters of the district and if American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration, there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran," Mr. Goode warned in the letter.
"We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country."
He added: "I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped."
Mr. Ellison is a devout Muslim who prays five times a day and reportedly says he has not eaten pork or had a drink of alcohol since he converted to Islam as a 19-year-old student at Wayne State University in Detroit.
The U.S. Constitution says nothing about swearing on the Bible. Newly elected members of Congress raise their right hands and are sworn in together by the Speaker of the House. While no religious texts are used for the official swearing-in ceremony, some members have carried an expanded Bible that included the Book of Mormon, and even a Torah.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has expressed shock at the lack of criticism from the Republican Party of Mr. Goode's anti-Muslim remarks.
Meanwhile, Democrats, who won control of both chambers of the U.S. Congress in midterm elections on November 7, have chastised Mr. Goode.
Sen. Robert J. Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, called Mr. Goode's statement "an attack on the sanctity of religious freedom that all Americans are guaranteed under the Constitution" and asked him to apologise.
On Friday, the Washington Post slammed Mr. Goode in an editorial titled "A Bigot in Congress." "Bigotry comes in various guises -- some coded, some closeted, some colossally stupid," the Post said.
"The bigotry displayed recently by Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr., a Republican who represents a patch of south-central Virginia, falls squarely in the third category. Mr. Goode, evidently in a state of xenophobic delirium, went on a semi-public tirade against the looming peril and corrupting threat posed by Muslim immigration to the United States."
CAIR's national legislative director Corey Saylor said Republican leaders in Virginia should have learned a lesson in tolerance from the controversy over Sen. George Allen's "macaca" episode. While on the midterm election trail Mr. Allen called his opponent James H. Webb's Indian American campaign volunteer a "macaca" -- the word is considered a racial slur in some cultures. Mr. Allen lost his re-election bid largely due to the controversy generated by his remark.
The Post editorial contended: "the real worry for the nation is that the rest of the world might take Mr. Goode seriously, interpreting his biased remarks about Muslims as proof that America really has embarked on a civilizational war against Islam." Mr. Goode has refused to apologise for his letter.

This sounds like a good idea

From a group I belong to:

"I agree, gov't corruption seems to be everywhere, even small-town America. With regards to police cars trailing innocent "victims", I want to share something that a street-wise friend of mine shared with me a few years ago and I had opportunity to experience firsthand, with good results. When you see a patrol car obviously following (without flashing lights) in your rearview and you know of nothing wrong that you have done to provoke the "follow-up", pull over if at all possible as soon as possible, and hopefully in a safe place, well lit, out of the flow of traffic. Supposedly, if they don't have their lights on yet, they haven't gotten anything on you yet, but this gives you a measure of control since they don't have everything together against you yet. When they ask why you were pulling over since they didn't have theirlights on yet, respectfully tell them that you could see that theywere following you, and you wanted to know how you could help them. And remain respectful."