A voice of reason – PHEW! Finally!!

William Gibson, in his latest blog posting, points to the comments by a Lord Hoffmann of the British House of Lords (December 17th post). In this post the Lord essentially states that holding anyone without trial, including terrorists, gives terrorists a victory by trampling even those same terrorists’ rights. A brave statement, to be sure.

Nice to see someone have the guts to come out and speak for maintaining freedoms and rights, in the face of the fear generated by terrorists’ acts. I’m sure a large number of Brits will appreciate this stance, after the debacle that was Blair signing the UK up to join Gorgeous George’s troops in Iraq.

Play that DELIVERANCE music, White Boy!!

Egads!! William Gibson points to an article that makes me tremble with rage (and I’m as white as they come) – rationalisation of slavery in the Southern states – see RUBBISH, utter.

Figures though – where else in America would saying that the pamphlet in question “offers an accurate portrayal that is overlooked of how many slaves were treated kindly by their owners.” seem like a really good idea. Doesn’t much matter how they were treated. What, me sterotype? If the shoe fits… (CLICHÉ OVERLOAD!! ABORT!! ABORT!!)

Bloody idiots

FUCKING OPPORTUNISTS – You’re cut off!!

Ahh – gotta love those people standing with their hands out at the tops and bottoms of stairwells in the Metro stations here in Montreal. Not that it’s much different in Vancouver or Victoria, mind you. I’ve just grown quite tired of this – especially when I see these same people lighting up a cigarette – compassion is one thing, feeding an addiction another. Not becuase I’m without my frequent vices, but how hard off are you if you can afford to – or are stupid enough to – buy cigarettes instead of FOOD?

[soupnazi]NO MONEY FOR YOU!![/soupnazi]

JOKE – please bear with me

Ok – I can only hope this works in print – my favourite joke (really, the only one I can seem to remember semi-reliably). Told to me by my mother, I believe. Heavily edited by said weak memory.

[deep breath]

A man dies and goes to Hell.

When he arrives, he finds himself standing with the Devil in front of three doors. The Devil turns to him and says “Since you haven’t been TOO bad, I’m going to let you choose how you want to spend your eternity here in Hell. Behind each of these doors is a different type of torture, so take your time and choose which one you want”

The doors open.

Behind the first door, the man sees an endless plain of broken glass on the ground, and hundreds of people walking across it barefoot, screaming with each step.

Behind the second door, the man sees another endless plain, but this one of hot coals.

Behind the third door, he sees hundreds of people standing around, hip deep in shit, drinking coffee.

He immediately turns to the Devil and says “I’ll take door number 3, thank you.”

No sooner has he walked through the door than it slams shut, and he hears a voice:

“Alright – Break’s over! Everyone, back on your heads!”

[/deep breath]

And you thought Abstinence Ed was bad…

How about this little gem pointed out by William Gibson, yet again – from the Birmingham News.

“HOMOPHOBIC CONGRESSMAN PROPOSES BANNING PRINTED MATERIALS ON ANY SUBJECT HE’S UNABLE TO DEAL WITH” – no news at 11 – it’s just another day in a bright Red State, after all.

Seig Heil, Puritan Boy! And please just finish dying already – you’re halfway there, so why stop now – take a 44mag w/ hollow-points, put it under your chin and FINISH THE JOB!!

Yet another reason I’m thankful to be living in Canada. Things may not be perfect, but the chances of anti-homosexual literature legislation passing federally, or provincially, are insignificant at this point – PHEW!!

Awww, CRAP!! Fundamentalist CRAP, that is.

WOW – ol’ Gorgeous George Jr is at it again – doing everything he can to make the nation’s youth as ignorant as he can get them. Sounds like Abstinence Ed is just going to get more and more funding – Dubya wanted $270 Million for the cause this year. Thankfully, Congress cut that by $102M, but it’s still too much for so heavily partisan a project. William Gibson pointed to this article in the Washington Post.

It is truly frightening to consider the desperation with which puritanical anti-sex (Pro-abstinence? HAH! Just a euphemism for “We want to scare you into not doing the things we’re unable to deal with”) groups promote this agenda. Do you really think this is going to do your kids any good when they finally do get around to having sex? Or is it that you don’t want them to have any kind of sex except for the 1 or 2 times to make you some new recruits to the walking corpse (already dead on the inside) agenda that you’re so intent on pushing? I only wish I could be there on the other side when you die and find your God isn’t there.

You only have this time, not some eternity in the company of God and Angels, that you can know, and feel, is real. Why do you think you need to spend so much time convincing yourselves that God (as you define him) exists? I’m not saying abstinence is patently bad – but to use scare tactics to create compliance – only cowards would do that. I’m not even anti-Christian – if those beliefs work for you, that’s great, and I hope they give you something that enriches your spirit – but if they worked that well for you, would you need everyone else in the country, or on the planet, to agree with you? I doubt it.

Give it up – please.