Women Arrested For Trying To Take Dead Relative On Plane
A 91-year-old German man has been refused entry to a flight in Liverpool's John Lennon Airport - because he was dead.
The recently departed man was brought to the airport by two relatives on Saturday, sitting in a wheelchair and sporting a pair of sunglasses.
Staff became suspicious when the man did not respond to questions by airport staff. His relatives, two women aged 41 and 66, were arrested.
The couple were believed to be attempting to flout repatriation fees for the dead man. Bodies being repatriated by air are required to be contained inside hermetically-sealed zinc-lined coffins and require paperwork to travel in the hold.
First, the fact that Leader Boehner is attacking birth control funding just goes to show that the forced birth cult wing of the Republican Party isn't really interested in snowflake babies.
That may be reading a bit too much into it. I think 'family planning' == abortion for a lot of people. Contraception is collateral damage but may not be the target itself. Doesn't make it not bad, but I don't know that the fight is really against contraception.
Nilly, there are some pics of the results of our yardwork at the new house here: [link]
I am working on getting up some of the house itself.
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
Madness! Madness, I tell you!
Happy birthday, Amy!!
Happy belated birthday, Stephanie!!
Boehner and his cronies are making me crazy.
Madness! Madness, I tell you!
I know, it's like New Coke all over again.
Rather, they are far more concerned with making sure that women--especially poor women--suffer consequences for daring to have sex unless they make sure to do it with a strong, powerful man who they know can provide for them--in other words, the medieval model of gender relations.
Ugh, I am SO GROSSED OUT by the patriarchy.
A Letter to Edgar Rice Burroughs
In 1931, a schoolboy wrote a fan letter to his favorite author, Edgar Rice Burroughs. It said, in part:
I am a fourteen year old boy and am a low Junior in High School. Today at school our teacher was discussing “good literature.” I asked if Edgar Rice Burroughs was all right for a book report. I knew she’d say “no” (teachers always do) but I didn’t expect her to lecture to the class for the whole period about how terrible your books were!
The author of the Tarzan novels wrote back, in part:
My stories will do you no harm. If they have helped to inculcate in you a love of books, they have done you much good. No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.
Which explains why I bought the Twilight books for my youngest daughter. The 14-year-old boy who wrote the letter was Forrest J. Ackerman, {wiki} who grew up to coin the term “sci-fi”. Ackerman was a film producer, actor, and the editor of the magazine Famous Monsters of Filmland, and made a name as the biggest science fiction fan ever. Read both letters in full at Letters of Note.
