Here are some charming young american chaps with a sentiment I think we can all get behind.
The fun never stops here!
Tuesday, 30 September 2008
Doity Boids Eating Doity Woims
It's all hotting up over the pond with Fox news resorting to yelling at their guests! Who'da thunk it, eh?
Also the answer to the question on everybodies lips: Is John McCain a Crook?
Also the answer to the question on everybodies lips: Is John McCain a Crook?
Friday, 26 September 2008
help!
not that this will but...go here to vote on whether some crazy fascist lunatic should be a heartbeat (surely attack?) away from one of the most important/dangerous jobs in history.
clue: the correct answer is 'no'
thanks to formsmostbeautiful for the tip.
also see the Palin for President site for a REAL alternative!
clue: the correct answer is 'no'
thanks to formsmostbeautiful for the tip.
also see the Palin for President site for a REAL alternative!
Thursday, 25 September 2008
Nihilist Quote from Fundie Shocka!
who'da thunk it? Oliver Cromwell, arch-puritanical, anti-heretical, religiously zealotous to the Nth participal came out with one of the great nihilist quotes of all time, to whit:
"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken"
and, before you all start (all sodding one of you) just because he talks of christ's nether regions don't make it somehow 'un-nihilist' after all what's the son of god taking craps for anyhoo? 1/3rd of the holiest of holies wiping his arse? i don't think so. makes it more nihilistic if anything.
thanks to GrumpyLion for the quote-rustling.
"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken"
and, before you all start (all sodding one of you) just because he talks of christ's nether regions don't make it somehow 'un-nihilist' after all what's the son of god taking craps for anyhoo? 1/3rd of the holiest of holies wiping his arse? i don't think so. makes it more nihilistic if anything.
thanks to GrumpyLion for the quote-rustling.
Monday, 22 September 2008
OMFG!
Many bites to be had here for the fundie-fishers amongst us. Classic stuff: angels come to help us, ghosts, demons the works! For ink stains:
"My Mother-in-law,when a young girl lived with her Mother and sister in a remote home way out in the country... One night with a raging snow storm they heard a knock and at the door there was a man asking if he can have something to drink as he has been walking for quite a while on his journey... They let him in gave him some food and drink and dryed his wet clothes at the fire..The man thanked them and left... they went out the door and looked all over for footsteps in the snow but none to be found... I always remembered that story...Now my MIL always told that the stranger was a Angel sent from God... I always believed her."
So God sent an angel because...there are no tumble dryers in heaven?
and:
"I believe that we are under constant demonic attacks daily. Some natural some supernatural."
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"Yes, your worst enemies will be they of your own household.
Satan can use them the most because they are closest to your heart and also the ones you know best.
You can let him do that without being too concerned about it if you learn to use those types of attacks to better yourself."
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SOME CRAZY FAMILY DINNERS!
Just remember kids, you can either think about something or believe in it, not both!
"My Mother-in-law,when a young girl lived with her Mother and sister in a remote home way out in the country... One night with a raging snow storm they heard a knock and at the door there was a man asking if he can have something to drink as he has been walking for quite a while on his journey... They let him in gave him some food and drink and dryed his wet clothes at the fire..The man thanked them and left... they went out the door and looked all over for footsteps in the snow but none to be found... I always remembered that story...Now my MIL always told that the stranger was a Angel sent from God... I always believed her."
So God sent an angel because...there are no tumble dryers in heaven?
and:
"I believe that we are under constant demonic attacks daily. Some natural some supernatural."
+
"Yes, your worst enemies will be they of your own household.
Satan can use them the most because they are closest to your heart and also the ones you know best.
You can let him do that without being too concerned about it if you learn to use those types of attacks to better yourself."
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SOME CRAZY FAMILY DINNERS!
Just remember kids, you can either think about something or believe in it, not both!
Sunday, 21 September 2008
Guest Post - Esther Eve Ensler
Esther Eve Ensler, the American playwright, performer, feminist and activist wrote the following about Sarah Palin:
Drill, Drill, Drill
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.
Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task from God."
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.
She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference.
This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.
Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, "Drill Drill Drill."
I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain. Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?
Eve Ensler
September 5, 2008
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Drill, Drill, Drill
I am having Sarah Palin nightmares. I dreamt last night that she was a member of a club where they rode snowmobiles and wore the claws of drowned and starved polar bears around their necks. I have a particular thing for Polar Bears. Maybe it's their snowy whiteness or their bigness or the fact that they live in the arctic or that I have never seen one in person or touched one. Maybe it is the fact that they live so comfortably on ice. Whatever it is, I need the polar bears.
I don't like raging at women. I am a Feminist and have spent my life trying to build community, help empower women and stop violence against them. It is hard to write about Sarah Palin. This is why the Sarah Palin choice was all the more insidious and cynical. The people who made this choice count on the goodness and solidarity of Feminists.
But everything Sarah Palin believes in and practices is antithetical to Feminism which for me is part of one story -- connected to saving the earth, ending racism, empowering women, giving young girls options, opening our minds, deepening tolerance, and ending violence and war.
I believe that the McCain/Palin ticket is one of the most dangerous choices of my lifetime, and should this country chose those candidates the fall-out may be so great, the destruction so vast in so many areas that America may never recover. But what is equally disturbing is the impact that duo would have on the rest of the world. Unfortunately, this is not a joke. In my lifetime I have seen the clownish, the inept, the bizarre be elected to the presidency with regularity.
Sarah Palin does not believe in evolution. I take this as a metaphor. In her world and the world of Fundamentalists nothing changes or gets better or evolves. She does not believe in global warming. The melting of the arctic, the storms that are destroying our cities, the pollution and rise of cancers, are all part of God's plan. She is fighting to take the polar bears off the endangered species list. The earth, in Palin's view, is here to be taken and plundered. The wolves and the bears are here to be shot and plundered. The oil is here to be taken and plundered. Iraq is here to be taken and plundered. As she said herself of the Iraqi war, "It was a task from God."
Sarah Palin does not believe in abortion. She does not believe women who are raped and incested and ripped open against their will should have a right to determine whether they have their rapist's baby or not.
She obviously does not believe in sex education or birth control. I imagine her daughter was practicing abstinence and we know how many babies that makes.
Sarah Palin does not much believe in thinking. From what I gather she has tried to ban books from the library, has a tendency to dispense with people who think independently. She cannot tolerate an environment of ambiguity and difference.
This is a woman who could and might very well be the next president of the United States. She would govern one of the most diverse populations on the earth.
Sarah believes in guns. She has her own custom Austrian hunting rifle. She has been known to kill 40 caribou at a clip. She has shot hundreds of wolves from the air.
Sarah believes in God. That is of course her right, her private right. But when God and Guns come together in the public sector, when war is declared in God's name, when the rights of women are denied in his name, that is the end of separation of church and state and the undoing of everything America has ever tried to be.
I write to my sisters. I write because I believe we hold this election in our hands. This vote is a vote that will determine the future not just of the U.S., but of the planet. It will determine whether we create policies to save the earth or make it forever uninhabitable for humans. It will determine whether we move towards dialogue and diplomacy in the world or whether we escalate violence through invasion, undermining and attack. It will determine whether we go for oil, strip mining, coal burning or invest our money in alternatives that will free us from dependency and destruction. It will determine if money gets spent on education and healthcare or whether we build more and more methods of killing. It will determine whether America is a free open tolerant society or a closed place of fear, fundamentalism and aggression.
If the Polar Bears don't move you to go and do everything in your power to get Obama elected then consider the chant that filled the hall after Palin spoke at the RNC, "Drill Drill Drill."
I think of teeth when I think of drills. I think of rape. I think of destruction. I think of domination. I think of military exercises that force mindless repetition, emptying the brain of analysis, doubt, ambiguity or dissent. I think of pain. Do we want a future of drilling? More holes in the ozone, in the floor of the sea, more holes in our thinking, in the trust between nations and peoples, more holes in the fabric of this precious thing we call life?
Eve Ensler
September 5, 2008
[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Friday, 5 September 2008
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Wednesday, 3 September 2008
No to drugs? You're a racist!
Yup, you read right, if you believe in any way that drugs should be illegal YOU ARE A RACIST SCUMBAG. It really is that simple. See The Emperor Wears No Clothes for more details.
In fact I believe we can go further than this (pushing the boundaries is, after all, the only way to affect the centre). If you are not currently high, as you read this, you are a jackbooted nazi thug of the lowest description. You might as well just get a swastika tattooed on your forehead and have done with it.
Fascist.
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