Starving Your Kid to Death Is Not Insane

In honor of April Fool's day, I'm posting only real news today (what a friggin' concept).

It's just friggin' dumb, and no doubt evil...

BALTIMORE (AP) — A former religious cult member who helped starve her son to death believes he will be resurrected, but legal experts say her extreme faith doesn't make her criminally insane. The mother made an extraordinary deal with prosecutors Monday that her guilty plea to child abuse resulting in death will be withdrawn if her 1-year-old son, Javon Thompson, comes back to life. Law experts and psychiatrists said there was no problem with the agreement because Ria Ramkissoon, 22, was mentally competent and freely entered into the deal, and extreme religious beliefs aren't deemed insane by law.

"To say that someone is crazy because they have beliefs is very difficult," said Dr. Jonas Rappeport, a retired forensic psychiatrist and the former chief medical officer for Baltimore Circuit Court. "If I believe that God wants me to starve my child, that gets close to the edge, but it's very questionable as to calling that an illness that would exonerate someone for a crime."

More at the AP.

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Starving Your Kid to Death Is Not Insane

21st Century Man (b. Hussein mix)

Based on “20th Century Man” by the Kinks, one of my favorite friggin’ songs. With apologies to Ray Davies….

This is the age of political machinery,
A Chicago Way nightmare,
The wonderful world of socialism,
“Stimulus” defenseless nation bad debt buyout,

This is the twenty-first century,
But too much coronation
It’s the age of insanity,
What has become of Ole Glory and the Constitution.

Ain’t got no ambition, I’m just disillusioned
I’m a twenty-first century man but I don’t wanna be here.

My senator said he can’t understand me
He can’t see my adulation
Just give me some more welfare please,
I’m a paranoid deluded product of the Obama century.

You keep all your weak modern socialists
Give me Ronald Reagan
You keep your tax-cheating cabinet members
I’ll take Jefferson, Franklin, Washington and Cato,

Lord, we gotta get out of here
We gotta find a solution
I’m a twenty-first century man but I don’t want to die here.

I was born in a welfare state
Ruled by Obamatocracy
Controlled by federal mandates
And robots dressed in grey
Got no privacy got no liberty
‘Cos the twenty-first century people
Made sure I’d never be free.

Don’t wanna get myself shot down
By some Obama civil defenseman,
Gotta keep a hold on my sanity
I’m a twenty-first century man but I don’t wanna die here.

My senator said he can’t understand me
He can’t see my adulation
Just give me some more welfare please,
I’m a paranoid deluded product of the Obama century.

This is the twenty-first century,
But too much coronation
This is the edge of insanity,
I’m a twenty-first century man but I don’t wanna be here.

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21st Century Man (b. Hussein mix)