Everything Done To Blacks Was Done To Whites First

One of these days, America's racism will be seen as the obstacle to justice that it is, but, until then, take race out of it:

"Slavery’s Shadow on Switzerland"

Extending the shame of unwarranted, and state-sponsored, "beatings, starvation and sexual abuse" - by trying to silence the truth - only makes the lives white people think of as a money-making enterprise costlier.

Which kinda defeats the point.

Wash, Rinse, Repeat,...

What's Wrong With People? I Honestly 100% Don't Know

A Swiss business school teacher accidentally taught his students more than they bargained for when he forgot to turn off the overhead projector before browsing sexy videos of amputees.

The KV Zürich Business School instructor immediately told school officials about the incident, apologizing and explaining that he didn't know why he didn't just wait until after class to watch porn,...

Stop It! Stop It! Stop It! I Seriously Can't Stop (Laughing)

Racism doesn't exist. Oprah doesn't know. White conservatives see all. Crazy talk:

“Talk show host Oprah Winfrey says she encountered racism while shopping in Switzerland — and the national tourism office agrees. 

The media mogul, who is one of the world's richest women, told the U.S. program "Entertainment Tonight" that a shop assistant in Zurich refused to show her a handbag because it was "too expensive" for her. 

Forbes magazine estimates that Winfrey earned $77 million in the year ending in June.”

Two things should be obvious from this story:

She CAN afford it - and conservatives have no idea what it's like to be black,...

 

People Hated Zappa (But Not Because He Was Wrong)

From Wikipedia:

"1971–72: Accident, attack and their aftermath

In December 1971, there were two serious setbacks. While performing at Casino de Montreux in Switzerland, The Mothers' equipment was destroyed when a flare set off by an audience member started a fire that burned down the casino. Immortalized in Deep Purple's song "Smoke on the Water", the event and immediate aftermath can be heard on the bootleg album Swiss Cheese/Fire, released legally as part of Zappa's Beat the Boots II compilation. After a week's break, The Mothers played at the Rainbow Theatre, London, with rented gear. During the encore, an audience member pushed Zappa off the stage and into the concrete-floored orchestra pit. The band thought Zappa had been killed—he had suffered serious fractures, head trauma and injuries to his back, leg, and neck, as well as a crushed larynx, which ultimately caused his voice to drop a third after healing.[109] This accident resulted in him using a wheelchair for an extended period, forcing him off the road for over half a year. Upon his return to the stage in September 1972, he was still wearing a leg brace, had a noticeable limp and could not stand for very long while on stage. Zappa noted that one leg healed "shorter than the other" (a reference later found in the lyrics of songs "Zomby Woof" and "Dancin' Fool"), resulting in chronic back pain,..."

   

Hmph.

Looks like I better get back to work so somebody can try and kill me,...

 

Hit Gidget With The Gadget And She's Got It (Gays, Too)

See - it was worth it to wake up this morning:

'Healer' gets 13 years jail for infecting 16 with HIV

We just need to be properly inspired,...

 

Waxing Philosophical (On Not Being So Philosophical)

If I'm right - and this tale is only about a *single* "healer" who got caught - then there's a lot more victims, hurt, that we've never heard about:

Swiss acupuncturist charged in 16 HIV infections 

Awww, never mind. Sticking needles into non-existent pressure points is a fine tool. Or rather, tools are fine thinking non-existent pressure points need needles stuck in them. Or rather, non-existent pressure points are fine for needling tools who got stuck.

Wait - no they're not. Those tools are DEAD. Because they weren't skeptical enough to know they shouldn't have been letting some moron do things to them that were completely unnecessary in the first place.

Life, in many ways, may be a joke; but how that elevates quack practices, or the deaths that result from them, I don't know. Making a mockery of the only existence we have can be fun, but dumbing us down isn't the answer to that problem either. I don't dance around no golden calf.

Somehow, someone, somewhere, convinced the previous generation that a firm foundation of knowledge isn't a way to raise a smile, but that being permanently grinning idiots was better than the occasional discovery when you were really and truly happy. They said, "Anything goes," and so anything went, and now it seems like almost everything is gone.

Nothing could stop them. Nothing had to. There was nothing there to begin with. Except for all the hard work, other people had invested, convinced these fools were wasting their time.

What's really funny is, we hard-nosed types are the folks not afraid of death, so we don't find ourselves getting scammed as often. Our last thoughts aren't, "What a fool I've been," but that life can make fools of us all.

There's a comfort in knowing you didn't get struck down - or stuck dumb - and especially for a fee. 

"Believe" me, I've seen it, I know,...

See: They Always "Crack" Under Pressure (But Society Has To Decide To Apply The Pressure)

"GENEVA (AFP) — A Swiss court has denied residency to the French head of the controversial Rael sect, which believes extraterrestrials created Earth, after a canton said he posed a [threat to] public order.

But guru Claude Vorilhon -- better known as Rael -- says he will appeal Wednesday's ruling before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, on grounds of religious discrimination, his followers said Thursday.

Moreover the decision does not bar Rael from spending up to three months in Switzerland as a tourist.

Both the Swiss federal court and the southwestern canton of Valais took issue with the sect's positions on paedophilia and human cloning, which are both banned in Switzerland. The movement claimed it had cloned a human in 2002 but never produced evidence.

'Public interest to abolish threats the integrity of minors and human dignity prevails above all other considerations,' the judges said in their ruling.

Rael had argued he also opposed sexual relations with minors and that a cloning service the group allegedly ran in fact never existed. [Busted! - TMR]

Founded in France in the 1970s by Rael, a former auto journalist, the group claims 65,000 followers in 93 countries. "

-- AFP News Service, catching Claude in yet another lie, on the AFP.