Ketchup on Ice Cream is a Matter of Taste

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"If someone asks you "Do you like ketchup on your ice cream?" and you say "No." are you basing that negative reaction on experience, morality or taste? You haven't tried ketchup on your ice cream, so you can't claim its a matter of experience. You don't have any moral reasons against someone else having ketchup on their ice cream, so it isn't morality. So it really comes down to taste. The same thing goes with homosexuality. Its a matter of taste. There is nothing immoral about it."

- Suzanne MacNevin

Topless Protester cuts down Cross in Kiev

On the day of sentencing for the feminist music band Pussy Riot, imprisoned for having a guerrilla concert on church property and demanding the Russian church stop supporting the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin, the women's group FEMEN decided to have its own show of solidarity...

By having a topless protester cutting down a cross with a chainsaw in the Russian city of Kiev.

FEMEN are demanding the church stop supporting the dictatorship of Vladimir Putin.

Meanwhile Putin and Putin supporters are passing new laws which inhibit free speech and allows the government to arrest dissidents.

FEMEN is actually an Ukrainian feminist group. They posted a video online showing a topless blond FEMEN protester wearing red shorts, with the words “Free Riot” scrawled across her chest and arms, cutting the cross with a chainsaw and then pulling it down using a rope pulled by two other activists, and then posing with her arms extended crucifix-style.

You can see the video and many other FEMEN videos at http://vimeo.com/user4967407

A lot of their videos utilize breast baring in an effort to get the attention of the media and have gained notoriety in both the Ukraine and other countries for their brazen acts.

“By this act, Femen is calling on all the healthy forces of our society to mercilessly cut out of our brains the rotten religious prejudices which dictatorships rely upon and which prevent the development of democracy and women’s freedom,” the activists are quoted as saying.

The activists warned Russian President (turned-dictator) Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia that they would “turn the blade of our chainsaw” against those “responsible for the suffering of innocent women” if the Pussy Riot members are jailed.

Three Pussy Riot participants – Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 30 – have been charged with hooliganism over their protest in Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Savior on February 26, during which they performed a musical “punk prayer” calling on the Virgin Mary to “drive Putin out.”

If it had been anyone else they were mocking they probably would have got a slap on the wrist. But because Putin is cracking down on dissidents the Russian government decided to send a message to protesters by jailing them.

The verdict in the controversial trial, which has been condemned by Russian and international rights groups, led to the Russian musicians ti being imprisoned for 2 years. A hefty sentence for a minor protest.

In December 2011, FEMEN activists staged a topless protest at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour screaming "God Turn Tsar Out!" The protest followed parliamentary elections in Russia on December 4, which the opposition said were mared by mass fraud in favor of the pro-Kremlin United Russia party.

In July, a topless FEMEN activist attacked Patriarch Kirill during his visit to Ukraine. She ran up to the patriarch screaming "Get out" and tried to block his way as he was reportedly walking towards the press at Kiev Airport.

Hatpins as Self Defense Weapon for Women

"Really, Captain Jinks, I don't see why women should not bear arms as well as men."

"It isn't necessary. Every woman has two or three hatpins."

- Caption from a May 1900 cartoon from the newspaper "The Evening Democrat".

Between 1880 and 1910 many women in Western culture wore hats in public. It was considered immodest to NOT wear a hat in public. Due to the changing fashion styles of the time it became customary to have a 10 to 14 inch long hatpin which they could use to pin their hat into their hair bun.

However as women are often the subject of physical attacks by men, and certainly not about to take such attacks laying down, the hat pin quickly doubled as impromptu weapon with which they could defend themselves and others.

So much so that by 1910 some places were passing laws banning the use of hatpins.

Suzy's Oatmeal Cookies Recipe

Ingredients

* 2 cups sugar
* 1/2 cup butter
* 1/2 cup milk or chocolate milk
* 2 tbsp. peanut butter
* 1 tsp. vanilla
* 3 to 4 cups uncooked quick oats (1 minute is best)

1. Heat the sugar, butter, milk, and peanut butter in a pot until boiling and boil for 1 minute.
2. Remove from heat. Add vanilla and oats.
3. Use a wooden spoon to drop onto wax paper.
4. Wait until they harden and cool. Store in a cookie jar.
5. Remember to get really good at this recipe and give to grandkids.