Really Interesting Abandoned Island
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Stolen From http://www.proft.org/tips/evil.html, very funny
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I just spotted this over on the BBC website and the part I have put bold really sums things up for me.
Professor Raanan Gillon, Imperial College London, UK: "My immediate response was shock, horror and disgust. How could a child be mutilated in this way?
"But on reflecting, it seemed to me there were some reasons in favour. She could be looked after much better by her parents...in a much more appropriate way as a child because she will remain an infant [mentally] for the rest of her life anyway."
"There is no doubt that people who have got severe mental handicap find it difficult to cope with menstruation.
"There have been cases in the past in this country where children with severe mental handicap have had their uterus removed to prevent them accidentally becoming pregnant...and to mean they don't have to go through the trials of menstruation." - GP Dr Rosemary Leonard
Not a long post but I just want to add that personally I can see the parents side of the case in the dispute over the operation on Ashley X in Seattle. I spotted the story this morning on digg, then on the bbc then a comment over on Wings on Some Wheels. Personally I think that the operation will help the girl in the long run and its the parents at the end of the day who will be doing most of the girls care.
According to NME Mike Myers is going to play Keith Moon in the 2009 film 'See Me, Feel Me: Keith Moon Naked For Your Pleasure'.
Netvibes is really coming on as a feed reader and basically an online desktop. There was a review on Web Worker Daily recently of netvibes and its competitors. It seemed to come out on top and personally the only feature I see missing is the ability to save feeds you like forever.