Yet another horrific mass shooting in "The greatest nation on earth."

Eight bodies found in Houston home after standoff with suspect http://t.co/11TAWC0wxQ #KSATnews pic.twitter.com/fi7pr1NPSd

— KSAT 12 (@ksatnews) August 9, 2015

Courtesy of The Washington Post: 

Houston authorities have charged a 48-year-old man with multiple counts of capital murder after deputies discovered the bodies of six children and two adults in a home where the man was arrested. 

The man, David R. Conley, allegedly was involved in a standoff with deputies that ended when he was coaxed out of the home by hostage negotiators without incident, according to the Houston Chronicle. 

Once deputies entered the residence, they discovered the gruesome scene. 

“He restrained, shot and killed eight people,” Celeste Byrom, an assistant district attorney, said during a court hearing Sunday in which Conley was ordered held without bail, according to the Chronicle. 

Byrom said Conley gained access to the home through an unlocked window and restrained his victims using handcuffs before shooting them in the back of the head, according to CBS affiliate KHOU.

Apparently Conley, who has a history of violence, had previously been in a relationship with one of the victims, Valerie Jackson.

On fact one of the victims, a thirteen year old boy, is believed to be the son Conley had with Jackson.

Can we not go at least one week in this country without yet another report of a horrendous massacre involving a gun?

And let us remind ourselves once again that after Australia's 1996 Port Arthur massacre their politicians bravely said "No more fucking guns!" And there has not been a mass killing since. 

It can be done, we just lack the will, and perhaps the intelligence, to do it.

More than 5,000 buffalo slaughtered as part of Hindu celebration, because...you know...religion.

Courtesy of The Independent: 

The slaughter of more than 5,000 buffaloes at the Gadhimai Hindu festival in Nepal has drawn global condemnation from animal charities. 

Many more buffaloes and farm animals including chickens, goats and pigs are due to be killed as part of what is thought to be the world’s largest animal sacrifice ritual. 

Devotees believe the event brings good luck and will encourage Gadhimai, the Hindu goddess of power, to answer their wishes. 

Several charities had worked to stop the slaughter – the first of its kind since an estimated 200,000 animals and birds were sacrificed in 2009 – but only succeeded in pressuring the Indian Government into stopping animals being transported across the border.

I sometimes receive criticism for always picking on Christianity, with  comments such as "Why don't you ever go after Islam or Judaism? Why is it always Christians that you target?"

And of course the answer is because it is Christianity that is currently having the most negative impact on the politics and education in this country. Not to mention being used as an excuse for racism, sexism, and the manipulation of the ignorant.

However trust me when I say I have nothing but disdain for ALL religions, and I certainly find this practice both barbaric and inhumane.

Of course we must also remember that in America we slaughter far more than 5,000 cows a day simply to keep all of us in Big Macs. However that is done to appease OUR great god of capitalism, so of course that is to be excused out of hand.

Oh and before any of you start feeling superior because your religion does not participate in such primitive rituals you should remember that Judaism has a long history of animal sacrifice, and the only reason that Christians did not usually participate is because of the sacrifice of Jesus, and seriously who can top that?

So yeah this is pretty gross, but in a world where we are still cutting off bits of our genitalia as a sacrifice to one god or another, and murdering our fellow man due solely to almost imperceptible religious differences, it seems fairly hypocritical to get too worked up over this.

Though I have little doubt that many will.