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

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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!

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[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?

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

[leadgend.livejournal.com]

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

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.

[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?

[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?

[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. :)

[evil-genius.livejournal.com]

Is madincleveland completely insane or what?

[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.

[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?