Whilst the world falls apart, I'm actually enjoying myself.

[tcpip]

greylock informs us that if you're a fundamentalist Christian the latest invasion of Lebanon by Israel is cause for celebration because the Rapture is coming! zey provides this image of the special love that Israeli children are being enculturated with. Let's sort this out. Hezbollah kills eight and captures two Israeli soldiers. Israel responds with an invasion of Lebanon, killing almost three hundred civilians, wounding a thousand and displacing half a million. Strikes on Lebanon's civilian infrastructure include Beirut airport, ports, grain silos, bridges, roads, factories, medical and relief trucks, and the country's largest dairy farm Liban Lait. If Israel wants to deal with Hezbollah they should offer military and police support to the Lebanese government, not launch an invasion of a sovereign state that has a tenuous religious balance and semi-democracy. As Antony Lowenstein points out, this action will to generate more terrorists.

Back at home, Wealth gap in Australia. Latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics show that almost 60 per cent of Australian households' wealth is owned by the richest 20 per cent of households, while the bottom 20 per cent own just 1 per cent. I'd bet my meagre dollars it's even more disproportionate in land values too. Appropriately from the cream of society (the rich and thick) Young Liberals chant "We're racist, we're sexist, we're homophobic". Malcom Fraser's takes Trotsky's dictum of equating the head of a facist with the pavement. "Where people are being racist or discriminatory in their comments or policies, wherever they are, they ought to be clobbered," he said..

So whilst all these disasters are happening I've been having a great time. Work this week at both Borderlands and Naturelinks has been interesting; the former involving some great hardware repairs and the later required moving and re-establishing a network and associated remote desktop requirements and so forth - there's even a 80 metre trench being dug to connect two buildings. Further, I've been working on yet another website this time for a PR company who pay quite well indeed. Off-hours, The Norman Britian RetroAD&D game continues to be great fun and this Sunday we're playing Cybernoia, which imajica_lj has been saying very nice things about. Also on Sunday, a person of no less greatness than claudine_c is speaking at the Melbourne Unitarian Church on her rural health work in India. Finally, the bunny, Astaroth from the second summoning, is doing well. And whoever the anonymous stranger who sent me a dozen virtual red roses, thanks!

Comments

[kits-the-dm.livejournal.com]

You better be careful. They may label you anti-semitic.
Me, I can handle the labels. After all, I'm Filipino, and all we live for are labels neh?

Now I'll just sit and wait for the men in black suits, funny hats, and yarmukles to come along and take me away. I wonder sometimes, if there is a Jewish conspiracy, what do they call their agents?

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

You better be careful. They may label you anti-semitic.

*snerk* Would you believe that I'm in the midst of debate on the anarchist's community (FFS!) for calling those who are engaging in the bombing as 'fucktards'. Apparently 'retard' is not politically correct in the United States anymore.

I responded that I think the sand niggers and hook noses should stop killing each other ;-)

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

GOLD hahahaha...

[kits-the-dm.livejournal.com]

Y'know, they're right though.
There's no need to be degrading about it. Or for that matter to bring those mentally incapable of defending themselves into the debate.
Especially when such words as "Asshat" and "Cock-jockeys" are perfectly suitable :) [1]




[1] Though I'm not sure if the sex industry would have anything to say about that.

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

Mossad. "By Way of Deception, Thou Shalt Do War."

Lovely people.

History may say otherwise... if the yanks have their way.

[leadgend.livejournal.com]

via jesusandrew http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0717-22.htm

Re: History may say otherwise... if the yanks have their way.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Ahh, nothing like a claim of "facts" to get in the way of moral imperatives...

Re: History may say otherwise... if the yanks have their way.

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

Holy crap, that is scary as... Our major study in high school history was the Kennedy assasination, for the very reason that it illustrated the concept of history as a construct. Was the Warren Commission report a true account of events? Was there possibly another gunman on the grassy knoll? We'll never know.. I wonder what the official take on that is in Florida. I suppose it considers the Warren Report to be doctrine.

Re: Enjoying the destruction

[cinematic.livejournal.com]

Trotsky and Malcolm Fraser connected together in the same sentence... that is pretty ingenious! I actually went to a Young Liberals meeting a few years ago (don't ask why). It was pretty scary stuff. As for the rapture, this the best Rapture site ;) ->

http://www.raptureready.com/rap2.html

Whenever people die in the middle-east it seems religous fanatics run around shouting the end times are here. Obviously it is first and foremost a way to indoctrinate people into Christianity. But who knows? Perhaps they are right. The world is a pretty fucked up place. Maybe we are the last generation.

Re: Enjoying the destruction

[jahbulon.livejournal.com]

There have been many events recently which, to an apocalypt of any persuasion, are quite suggestive. My favourite is the end-date of 2012. If certain theories are correct, over the next six years things should get much crazier. May you live in interesting times, eh?

Re: Enjoying the destruction

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

That rapture site is hilarious.

You've gotta post on your Young Liberals experience one day...

Maybe we are the last generation.

Apart from all the technological singularity issues and the Mayan calendar version there is just the possibility we'll destroy the planet.

Childhood's end, eh?

[neonchameleon.livejournal.com]

Young Liberals chant "We're racist, we're sexist, we're homophobic".

O_o

Did someone redefine the word "Liberal" while I wasn't looking? Or is the Australian "Liberal" party actually the Conservative party by an odd name?

[curufea.livejournal.com]

Yes - our Liberal party is right wing conservative - similar to the USA's Republican party.
However, our Labour party while left wing, is also conservative.

[purrdence.livejournal.com]

"We're racist, we're sexist, we're homophobic".

Are you sure you weren't actually listening to my year 8 students' converstations?

[omnot.livejournal.com]

Students? Ha! One of my teachers talks like that. Okay, he's a sessional at a TAFE, so not a real teacher, but seriously, he seem oblivious to the fact that his students are conspiring to throw him off the balcony...

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Heh. Year 8 students are so confused about their sexuality they often have to proclaim loudly that they're not gay. Many of them protest too much.

Guess some people don't ever get over it. Then they join the Young Liberals.

[ehintz.livejournal.com]

Ya know, I don't worry about it too much. I do what I can to make it better, but there's no point being miserable about something I've got no control over. Being in NZ has helped a lot, since my adopted govt is quite a bit less obnoxious.

Completely off topic, but you still interested in doing web design for unitarians.org.nz? I'm thinking I really should get off my ass and do something about it. :)

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Good advice... And yes you're quite correct about the NZ govt.

Still quite interested in doing the unitarians.org.nz website. I believe there are four congregations now... two in Auckland, Blenheim and Christchurch?

[evil-genius.livejournal.com]

Is madincleveland completely insane or what?

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

Insane and suspended.

[evil-genius.livejournal.com]

Am I the only one that noticed Isreal has invaded lebenon before in an attempt to stop hezbollah? It didn't work in 82' and it won't work this time. You can't blow up an idea.

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

No, you're certainly not the only one.

However in this instance I think there's a larger force at play.

Militarily it makes some insane sense to establish a frontline that goes from the Egyptian border, through Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan.

I suspect this is why the U.S. and the U.K. both have refused to call for a ceasefire. They're weighing up their options.

As for Hezbollah they'll exist as long as Israel exists.

[darknova666.livejournal.com]

invasion of iraq, afghanistan etc no doubt led to more terrorism recruits but i wonder if all/most of the willing recruits have now been recruited.

can the usa and israel do much moe to push the arabs?

[evil-genius.livejournal.com]

Everyday another 10,000 come of age(at least).

[tcpip.livejournal.com]

They want compliant regimes; like Saudi Arabia.