China For Life

California - Jose Antonio Mosqueda was ruled as guilty by fellow lawyers after torturing a tortoise he found in a backyard. The tortoise, named Bob, is a precious pet of the local autistic boy William Sullivan.

Mosqueda brutally mutilated the 40 pound creature, slashing its neck and legs, puncturing its shell, and smashing it against a wall. Bob is recovering at the moment, though its condition and bodily form is overall horrendous. Now, autistic children are known to be quiet and introverted; in this case, Bob was the first thing William ever spoke to. Poor kid, now he is terrified believing that he will be taken and harassed like the tortoise (through his imagination... autistic children have absolutely amazing imagination).

The accused 18year old was sentenced, on Monday, to 270 days in jail, 5 years of probation, and a fine of $5479. Funny how Mosqueda used to own an iguana, a dog, and a snake. The court ruled that he may not have access to any animals in the future and that he is to abandon his pets. His lawyers didn't have a chance.

Some consider it a curse, some even a mutation, but to Poonam, her two year old daughter Lakshmi Tatma is a blessing sent by the gods. Lakshmi was born with nearly another body (it's just missing a head) attached to her butt, somewhat like a mirror image, giving her a total of 8 functioning limbs. Wow, I found some of her picture peculiarly strange; can you imagine someone without a head stuck backwards from your butt? Take a look if you dare.

The Hindu goddess of wealth comes with 8 limbs, which is why when Lakshmi was born, the entire population from her tiny village of 500 inhabitants came for blessings. Of course, her mother is proud of giving birth to such a symbolic baby, but it is too bad that with her condition, Lakshmi won't live past adolescence.

For £100,000 and after many rejections from hospitals, Lakshmi have successfully found a gurney to have her bottom half cut off by 30 professional surgeons. It is said that this won't be a complicated process, but will require a lot of time.

The entire surgery will involve brutally slicing through her mid-section, restoring the kidney that is currently being shared between the two bodies, reorienting her bladder and genitals, and finally using plastic surgery to fix up her pelvis and skin. Really, this is one of the easier cases with attached identical twins, her x-ray reveals that she does have a fully functioning body with all the required body parts.

In fact, I believe that her surgery is going on right now. I wish her luck (she probably won't need any, being a reincarnation of a goddess) and I'll be looking forward for her results.

This will be a brief post base on the war in Iraq. As a Canadian, I don't feel as strongly about this issue as many Americans do. Though it was saddening to see that instead of being our aegis, the Americans slaughtered quite a few Canadians with friendly fire, and though it is sneaky of Bush to decrease the dollar's value to pay back national debts (we really did trust America as a fine fiduciary... not anymore), I still feel strongly about the fact that money is being burned and lives are being taken for a mission that has long since lost its purpose.

And so I have added a link on the right dedicated to the war in Iraq. Personally, I believe men have had enough evolution to realize that there are bigger issues at hand - such as how are we going to survive the next century if we keep lavishly supplying fossil fuel to wage war?