THIS-IS-THE-AFTERNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON UP-DAAAAAAAAAATE!
The newly revamped Afternoon Update I might add.
First up!! We've got Candy-Gate 2008.
Michael Sheridan, an eighth-grade honors student in New Have, Conn. was suspended and stripped (stripped!) of his honors status and his position of class VP for being caught buying a bag of Skittles from anothe student. Connecticuit schools have a ban on candy on school property. After reviewing the situation, the school board has decided to be lenient (THIS TIME) and to restore the boys honor as Vice President of the 8th grade.
I salute their decision and I hope this young man has learned a valuable lesson. And that lesson is that some of the people who make these rules are absolute nutjobs.
In much more odd news, a woman was surgically removed from a toilet seat. The woman had been sitting on the seat for two years, with her boyfriend bringing her food and drink everyday, and trying to coax her off the seat. He finally (after two years) called the authorities for help. The issue was that he skin had grown around the seat and she was literally attached to the seat.
I would appreciate any of you to leave your own comments on this one. PLEASE.
As promised, I have some red-hot-sibling-love for yaaas.
The Supreme court in Germany has ruled to uphold the current law that incest is a criminal offense. The law was being challenged by a 31-year old German man who has four children with his sister who is in her early 20's. The man was given up for adoption when he was four years old. Then in 2000 he was introduced to his biological mother and his sister. Apparently sparks flew and they had some children together.
Now I understand that since they weren't raised together, there is some type of detachment in their (her) minds about the familial connection. HOWEVER, common social practice should nonetheless instilled a red flag in their brains when they decided to get it on. And kids?!
How many birth defects could they have? I think its gross, "love" be damned, you dont screw your sister and even MORE so you don't have kids with her.
800 small dogs were rescued from a mobile home in Tucson, Arizona yesterday by animal control officials. The dogs were being kept inside a triple-wide mobile home by an elderly couple who claimed that they were breeding the dogs to sell. While the dogs were well fed, their living conditions were extremely inadequate, mostly because there was poop everywhere. The dogs breeds were mostly Chihuahuas, terriers and Pomeranians.
800! that is so many freaking dogs. 800? in a mobile home? how do you move?
Finally, a reputed mobster in Italy has been released from prison and send home under house arrest because he was too fat. Salvatore Ferranti, who weighs 462 lbs. was too fat to fit into the prison beds, and some prison cells. guards complained about having to helphim get dressed and undressed, help him bathe, and use the facilities.
At least there is no flight risk.
That's all for today, leave a post if you dare.
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7 comments:
Hey JR! About the toilet girl, the most surprising thing was that she had a boyfriend. It definitely kinda makes u feel like a loser if toilet lady could nab a guy. Wow. I know that when ppl stay on the john too long they need Preperation H. I wonder what could salve toilet-girls hemerhoidal sores?
As for the German couple, I hope they enjoy having kids with tails and 3rd eyes. In Meah Shearim they have very organized sperm banks that prevent this from ever happening.
sperm banks in meah shearim?
sounds unkosher.
Yet it's true! Halacha has no fear of modern methods, especially when it comes to conception. Every new advancement can be utilized (look at the popularity of Viagara in the religious/charedi world). For further reading, Rav J. David Bleich, in his 5 books series Contemporary Halakhic Problems, has many fascinating and insightful essays concerning modernity and halacha, especially medical halacha.
to push the envelope a bit,
how might said rabbi view the confluence of old medicine with new techniques - i.e. treatment / reduction of chemotherapy induced side effects of cancer treatment (nausea, lack of appetite) with medical marijuana (increased appetite, colorful rabbits)?
Specifically, Rav Bleich, in Judaism and Healing, has been in favor of using whatever treatment possible (including for now illegal drugs) to alleviate medical issues and says that its anti-thetical to have the means to ease pain and not use it, as long as it is within the confines of halacha. This is a strong caveat and an unstinchingly strict requirement. Thus, those tokers who smoke marijuanan due to stuff like "undiagnosed glucoma" whenever one feels the need is clearly against Rav Moshe's teshuvah in Igros Moshe. This would not be sanctioned.
This is the exact quote: Legalizing Drugs
Legalizing drugs... for medical use, of course.
R. J. David Bleich, Judaism and Healing: Halakhic Perspectives (2002 edition) pp. 178-179:
[E]verything possible should be done to alleviate the patient's suffering. This includes aggressive treatment of pain even to a degree which at present is not common in medical practice. Physicians are reluctant to use morphine in high dosages because of the danger of depression of the cerebral center responsible for respiration. The effect of such medications is that the patient cannot control the muscles necessary for breathing. However, as has been discussed in the preceding chapter, there is no halakhic objection to providing such medication in order to control pain in the case of terminal patients and maintaining such patients on a respirator. Similarly, there is no halakhic objection to the use of heroin in the control of pain in terminal patients. The danger of addiction under such circumstances is, of course, hardly a significant consideration. At present, the use of heroin is illegal even for medical purposes. Judaism firmly believes that everything in creation is designed for a purpose. Alleviation of otherwise intractable pain is a known beneficial use of heroin. Marijuana is effective in alleviating nausea which is a side-effect of some forms of chemotherapy. There is every reason to believe that these drugs were given to man for the specific purpose of controlling pain and discomfort. Jewish teaching would enthusiastically endorse legislation legalizing the use--with adequate accompanying safeguards--of these substances in the treatment of terminal patients.
Familiarize yourself with this great Gaon here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._David_Bleich
and of course at yutorah.org
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