The "Yearning for Zion" cult

I have to call the organization that calls itself "Yearning for Zion" a cult. Tell me I am wrong about it. Certainly, it is a cult derived from the more orthodox Church of Latterday Saints, but they are radically different in some essential ways. They also have brainwashed everyone or else forced them to comply, at least. I keep hearing new goodies about these people. Not only were young girls taken by force as soon as they had matured enough to get pregnant, but they also played around with "wife-swapping", if you want to call the females "wives". They were more like sex slaves in a baby factory. They have found girls under the age of 18 who are pregnant. There are some girls or women there who bore children as young as the age of 13. The questions I have are: (1) why didn't the local authorities act? They have known for a long time what was happening there. It took the state of Texas to shut them down. (2) Who paid to build the facility and how is the continued operation financed? I feel rather sorry for mothers separated from their children, but it is unavoidable. The mothers are victims as much as the children are.

Ancestry.com

I lucked out in having two distant cousins from different parts of my family who have built family trees in Ancestry.com and have attached photographs. For my mother's family, I have had to do research. Fortunately for me, my mother is old enough so that her parents and grandparents show up in census records from 1930 and earlier. Without that, I would know essentially nothing new.

Oops, he said what he really believed

The Chicago Sun-Times has an article about Barack Obama's recent gaff. Barack Obama made hte mistake of saying what he really believed about rural people. Yes, his "remarks on 'bitter' working class voters [were] ill chosen". The basic problem is that Barack Obama is an elitist, leftist snob who disdains the people he talked about.

Big-time law breakers

The Chicago Sun-Times has more about the "polygamist sect". What I don't understand is why authorities were so hesitant to move against these guys, who were big-time criminals (if you call people who break criminal law "criminals", which I do). The guys behind the "sect" had the perfect system set up. As soon as young girls were old enough to bear children, they were given to one of the guys and they were repeatedly raped until they were pregnant. They had children who were raised. When the girls were old enough, they too went into the system and were raped and brutalized. The girls were fed a cover story that painted the outside world as being even worse than their hell-hole lives. The system worked as designed. All you have to do is to realize that the sixty-some guys at El Dorado, Texas had produced over 400 children, who were just removed. So what is the big problem about inforcing the law against polygamy and child sex abuse? The police were also enforcing the law against assaulting women and children, who were physically abused, as well. Now, the authorities have withdrawn from the "compound" and are extremely apologetic about having acted. Why is that? They did the right thing and enforced the law. They knew what was happening at this place. They had an informant. Were they afraid of Mormons rioting and carrying out terrorist attacks? I doubt it.

I am starting to feel ill: IndexTools is being acquired by Yahoo

I have been relying on IndexTools for almost three years. Now, I am feeling ill, as I just received an email saying that they are being acquired by Yahoo. I hate to think what that might mean for IndexTools customers.

The "Polygamists"

Make take is that the situation with the so-called polygamist compound in Texas is less about polygamy and more about fifty-year old guys who figured out a way to have harems of 14-year old girls. Of course, when they turned 18, they didn't necessarily discard them. If this was just about "polygamy", I would be more sympathetic, but this is something else. They are about like the Muslim guys in Dearborn, Michigan, who have their small harems of15-year old girls that the local authorities ignore. The problem is that the authorities are trying to be so non-judgmental that they ignore sexual abuse of young girls. The guys in Texas have these large harems of girls and are busy having sex with them, making babies, as fast as they can, up to their capacity to "do it". They all deserve to be "taken out", and as soon as possible. It is all done under the cover of "religion", of course.

"Ipso Facto" is finally back!

I received an email from Mike Wallster saying that his "Ipso Facto" cartoon is finally back and being updating regularly.