Apply Occam’s and predict the likelihood of who is ultimately responsible for the Victoria bushfires- and who is just driving an ideological barrow over the dead bodies of 201 fire victims:

Danny Nalliar: Uppity women

Fred Phelps: Uppity fudge packers

Miranda Devine: Uppity hemp smoking tree-hugging yurt dwellers who knit their pubic hair into jumpers

Kieran Bennett: Underfunded Vic DSE

Ian at BLL invites idiots to STFU. So do I.

-weez

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Religious Opinion and Bible Commentary on Current Events
Monday, February 9, 2009
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GOD HATES AUSTRALIA.

THANK GOD FOR KILLER

FIRES & FLOODS, 100+

DEAD; PRAY FOR MANY

MORE; AS WE WARNED.

Yes. It is WBC’s sincerely held religious belief that
Australia is a land of False Prophets, many ofwhom
are fags or fag-enablers. They helped create a
hellish Zeitgeist wherein a world-wide Sodomite
cult flourishes, and wherein Final Antichrist Beast
Obama has been able to come to the Presidency of
the United States and the de facto Leader of the socalled
Free World. Mat. 7:15-20; Rev. 13:1-18. God
is punishing Australia for her part in this worldwide
fiasco; worse and more of it is coming from God.
“And the anger of the Lord
was kindled against this land, to
bring upon it all the curses that
are written in this book.”
Deut. 29:27.

I wish the fundonuts would come together on what their god was pissed off about. It’s either abortion or homosexuality. I suppose it could be either. Why then don’t Danny Nalliah and Fred Phelps just make the beast with two backs and then hurry off to get a nice, pleasant abortion when Danny falls pregnant? It could be THE APOCALYPSE, which both fairly obviously want desperately.

I’d like to offer a free plane ticket to Mr Phelps to come to Kinglake or Marysville and make the same statements in front of the local community. I somehow think that a one-way booking will be sufficient.

In the meantime, news.com.au are back on their usual Muslim bashing trip…

Jihadists celebrating Victoria fires; taking joy in the scenes

…while they ignore Phelps.

-weez

You couldn’t make this stuff up.

Pastor’s abortion dream inflames bushfire tragedy

The Catch the Fire Ministries has tried to blame the bushfires disaster on laws decriminalising abortion in Victoria.

The evangelical church’s leader, Pastor Danny Nalliah, claimed he had a dream about raging fires on October 21 last year and that he woke with “a flash from the Spirit of God: that His conditional protection has been removed from the nation of Australia, in particular Victoria, for approving the slaughter of innocent children in the womb”.

Pastor Nalliah said he was helping to co-ordinate fire relief, including providing trucks to distribute clothes and food and giving his own blood, but he said he must tell “the truth”.

Asked by the Herald if he did not believe most Australians would regard his remarks as being in appallingly bad taste, he said today: “I must tell people what they need to hear, not what they want to hear.”

He said it was no use “molly-coddling” Australians.

Asked if he believed in a God who would take vengeance by killing so many people indiscriminately – even those who opposed abortion, Mr Nalliah referred to 2 Chronicles 7:14 to vouch for his assertion that God could withdraw his protection from a nation.

“The Bible is very clear,” he said. “If you walk out of God’s protection and turn your back on Him, you are an open target for the devil to destroy.”

[…]

He quoted a headline describing the fires as “The Darkest hour for Victoria”. “A few months ago the news media should have reported `the darkest hour for the unborn’, but unfortunately the `Decriminalisation of Abortion bill’ went through parliament and was passed, thus making many people call Victoria `the baby killing state of Australia,’ ” Mr Nalliah said.

Pastor Nalliah said there may be criticism. But he said he did not send out his media statement thoughtlessly. “We spend two days working on it.”

He had previously said drought and the world financial crisis could be partly blamed on human sin.

You’d think this idiot would wait until the victims’ bodies stopped smouldering before blaming them for their misfortune.

How stupid would you have to be to buy in to this offensive dolt’s superstitious nonsense?

If in Nalliah’s world of black magic and superstition, women being able to legally control their own reproduction causes massive bushfires, what sin could I commit that would cause JUST Nalliah to burst into flames? Chewing gum in an elevator on Sunday, perhaps? Taking the goddamn Lord’s name in vain? A little making of the beast with two backs without intent to procreate?

Right here and now, I’m offering to swap my boarding pass to heaven for a sin that turns Nalliah into a pile of stinking ashes. Just tell me how I must transgress…

-weez

Electronic Frontiers Australia member Geordie Guy receives death threat over web filter plan

By Andrew Ramadge, Technology Reporter

NEWS.com.au

February 05, 2009

A DEATH threat has been made against a vocal opponent of the Federal Government’s web filtering plan in a grim escalation of the already heated debate.

Online rights campaigner Geordie Guy received a threatening phone message last month after publicly disagreeing with an article supporting the filtering scheme.

“I got home from work and found a message on my answering machine telling me to keep my name out of the paper,” he said.

“It said to ‘cut the libertarian bullsh—’ or I’d be sorry.”

Under the Government’s controversial plan all Australians will be served a “clean feed” by internet service providers, with websites on a secret blacklist blocked.

Mr Guy, a member of online civil liberties group Electronic Frontiers Australia, has been an outspoken critic of the plan and has been regularly quoted in newspapers.

He said police were concerned as the threat appeared to be made from a public telephone.

“My wife was very concerned. It was very unfortunate she had to hear that,” he said.

Mr Guy said it was likely the caller found his home number after his suburb was printed next to a letter responding to an opinion piece written by Australian Christian Lobby managing director Jim Wallace in January. […]

Authoritarians want to impose their values on us all, by any means necessary.

Not in MY Australia.

-weez

Brilliant. Poised. Succinct. Well spoken.

image: LA Times.com

And a smokin‘ hot babe. Boy, I hope that doesn’t work against her.  😉

I don’t think the fight to get atheist ads on Australian buses is quite over yet.

The indignant reaction of religionists to Sherine’s ads is hilariously hotting up. They SHOULD be fearful. The plain truth is that there’s no reasonable defence for faerie-tales, much less for inflicting them upon non-believers.

-weez

Big Day Out teen dies of suspected drug overdose

A 17-year-old girl has died from a suspected drug overdose after attending Perth’s Big Day Out.

The girl collapsed at the music festival at the Claremont Showgrounds yesterday and was taken to a first aid post, before being transferred to Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, where she died early this morning.

Friends of the teenager told police she had taken an ecstasy tablet before she arrived at the event.

They said she then took more tablets as she waited in line because she was frightened she would be searched by police.

While the girl’s family has all of my sympathies… could there POSSIBLY be a better argument for harm minimisation? Zero-tolerance is clearly lethal.

The BDO organisers claim there was nothing they could have done to keep this girl from harm. Disagree. There was quite a lot they could have done, merely with the stroke of a pen.

MDMA by itself is not quite as hazardous as some of the other crap dealers mix in their pills. However, in the black market, there’s no truth in advertising. Kids wind up doing their testing in the worst possible way, on themselves.

Pill testing, which would reveal the true content of pills or at very least, an ‘amnesty box,’ where kids who change their minds while waiting in line could deposit pills without fear of arrest, could have saved this girl’s life.

Now a 17 year old girl is dead and all the cops and BDO will say is ‘not our fault.’

*sigh*

-weez

According to Senator Stephen Conjob, Labor’s proposed mandatory internet filtering scheme will block ‘illegal’ content- and after all, no-one but fans of child pornography can complain about ‘illegal’ content being blocked, because, according to the esteemed Senator, ‘illegal is illegal.’

Except when the esteemed Senator is lying.

Mark Newton, network engineer for Internode, explains:

In a Senate estimates committee hearing on 20 October 2008, Minister Conroy confirmed that the existing ACMA prohibited online content list would form the basis of the mandatory ‘illegal material’ censorship scheme. The problem is that the ACMA prohibited online content list doesn’t actually restrict itself to illegal material. In addition to the illegal material Minister Conroy would like to ban for adults, the list also contains material the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC) has refused classification but which may still be legal to possess (if not to sell, hire, exhibit, or import) in Australia, as well as material rated X18+, R18+ material not protected by an adult verification service, and some MA15+ material. Material in these categories is mostly legal in Australia. (more…)

In her SMH opinion piece from yesterday, Helen Razer both demands that Senator Conjob not interfere with her ‘private internet time’- and bravely admits to being a pornocriminal.

Australia has some of the most restrictive censorship laws in the English-speaking world. It is unlawful under Australia’s long existent draconian censorship regime to possess sexually explicit materials which have not been vetted by the Office of Film and Literature Classification (OFLC). Under OFLC rules, you can only legally buy ‘softcore’ porn in what are known as ‘restricted premises’ (aka adult shops) in most of Australia, including NSW. Only in the ACT & NT can you even legally buy explicit sexual imagery. In the meantime, every single internet viewer of explicit sexual imagery in Australia is a criminal waiting to be arrested, under the OFLC regime. (more…)

In a first for any American President, Barack Obama pointedly acknowledged ‘non-believers’ alongside xtians, Jews, Muslims, etc. in his inaugural address.

While it’s nice for this atheist to be included, it’s not so nice to have that acknowledgment sharing the stage with Rick Warren, an especially wretched extremist xtian hatemonger. I mean, Obama could have invited Fred ‘God Hates Fags’ Phelps and would have done no worse.

image: ubertoonist, the 50 foot Mikhaela B. Reid

While the majority of Americans, if asked, will claim to be xtians, you won’t find many of them far away from the football game on teev on Sundays.

Despite some exposure to Islam in his early school days in Indonesia, Obama’s upbringing was absent religion. Obama writes in his 2006 book, The Audacity of Hope:

“I was not raised in a religious household . . . Without the help of religious texts or outside authorities, (my mother) worked mightily to instill in me the values that many Americans learn in Sunday school: honesty, empathy, discipline, delayed gratification, and hard work.”

Certainly, as part of his political education, Obama learned about Americans’ general ersatz xtian beliefs and began attending a church soon after his move to Chicago, clearly to avoid impeding his political aspirations, not because he has any particular interest in religion. It’s plenty that the man had to overcome the political obstacles of having an Arabic name and being not just black but of mixed race. Being an out-n-proud atheist would surely have been a showstopper for a man with ambitions in US politics.

Hypocrisy? You bet. However, sometimes you have to break a corrupted system from the inside- can’t score unless you have the ball. I’ll suggest the strategy works. Look who’s President now and look who included atheists in his inaugural address. I’ll cope.

One of these days, faerie-taleists, no matter how happy the face they put on their hatreds, will be consigned to the same historical rubbish tip as witch burners. I reckon they’ve already been loaded on the garbage truck.

-weez

Thanks to partisan ‘newsfotainment’ from right-wing pundits like Rush Dimbulb, tripe fountains like Fux Noise and to a lesser degree from irresponsibly written conservative nutbag blogs, what sensible folk once all rejected as drunken pub-spew now not only sees the light of day but has a few 750W klieg lights shone upon it and is then given international exposure via the ‘net. What used to be simple nonsense is now nonsense on very tall stilts.

Malcontents, conspiracy theorists and nutballs have been around as long as there’s been such a thing as bullshit which can be labelled a personal opinion, thus justifying public dissemination of nonsense, since opinions can never be wrong… or can they?

toon by the brilliant Matt Bors

In the only moment I’ve ever seen him even slightly nervous, President Obama fluffed a line when taking the oath of office. The line that Obama was to repeat was misread by Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. Obama dutifully repeated the line as read to him.

Obama, keenly aware since well before his run for the White House of how asshats are known to spin shite into political gold, had Justice Roberts re-administer the oath of office, though law scholars saw no particular legal need for him to do so:

Jeffrey Rosen, a US constitutional law expert and professor at George Washington University in Washington, said stumbling over the oath had “no impact. News flash: He’s President”.

Let’s hope Obama doesn’t make a habit of getting mired in defences against internuts.

-weez