One picture damns all – The Israeli Foreign Minister reasons rationally

At the risk of being accused of criticising Israel and thus being subjected to accusations of hating everything Jewish. I found this page wherein the the seemingly confused Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman is insisting that a picture be sent around the world.

The reason for this is because the Minister appears to have gotten himself involved in a land deal involving annexed territory in Jerusalem, and needs a distraction to divert attention.” A dodgy land deal Me?   Oooh look a moslem meets Hitler.”

Well I guess we can all play at that game:

one of many from this site

Rabbis at the Holocaust denial soiree in Tehran

I will take your mufti and raise you a pope, a crap load of cardinals, tonnes of priests, lutheran ministers galore and a knot of rabbis to boot.

Yet another example of somebody being a bigoted wowser in order to cover their own sorry arse. And yet another idiot who cannot see that all dogma has the same faults, but seeks to excuse his own from that which he vilifies.

h/t Dawg

Why is the rest of the world allowing the US to repeat the mistakes that created this financial crisis?

• The same people who laid waste to our money are back in charge of the institutions that they caused to fail.
• The same economists who failed to spot the impending disaster are still listened to on the various business channels.
• The same folk are still anchoring the same business programmes

And now George W Bush has started an institution to push more of this on the USA. One line:

The Institute will have four initial areas of focus for research….. economic freedom

Yeah because nothing says freedom like screwing up the entire world and not having to take responsibility for your actions.

Let me put it this way: This would be like giving the Captain of the Exxon Valdez free reign on a newer and bigger oil tanker.

When will the idiots in the financial and business sectors ever be held accountable for their actions? America will not do it because they view these dolts with what can only be described as a religious reverence. So it will fall to the rest of the world to deal with the crooks and liars that the USA hold dear.

• China should call in some of the debts that the USA has with them.
• Trading links in the future should ignore any US business that was involved with this debacle until those responsible have paid back what they owe.
• The USA should be marginalised in trade and finances until it learns to accept responsibility for its huge failures.

I know it will not happen, but all I am saying is take responsibility for your actions. A lot of us suffered because of your greed America and now it appears that you are so arrogant that you will have another go at the same thing again.

I remember a time when conservatives were all about honesty and being responsible.

 

Corrupt sports organisations run by money grabbing wankers – Olympics and FIFA

I know the title seems harsh but there are a lot of questions that the IOC and FIFA need to answer with regards to their corrupt practices.

IOC showed in Utah that they were bribable and the racist Jack Warner of CONCACAF showed that he was not averse to making money as a scalper and defrauding players from his own national team.

I am so pleased Andrew Jennings is trying to expose the truth. It’s a shame that the mainstream media is so bought off. Canada is hosting the corrupt winter games this year and S Africa will be bankrupted by Sepp and his criminal cronies in a couple of years. When will someone in a position of authority step up and stop their criminal enterprises?

How do you know that a modern conservative is lieing? Their lips are moving.

Whoo hoo

Stewart of the Daily Show is more of an investigative journo than most of the so-called real journos.

He caught the liars at News Corp doing what they do best, lieing for the hate filled side of the political spectrum.

Apparently the idiot square jawed lair himself is gonna try and get out of it tonight.

The idiots at News Corp like Beck and Co are trying to call everyone else nazis, but wow Goebbels would be proud Hannity you idiot. Fox the lieing channel full of propagandists whose viewers are too stupid to realise they are being lied to even when they are being lied to.

You know the reason why most folk with brains watch Stewart and Colbert? They actually report the truth.

Attacking soldiers on the eve of Remembrance Day – Really?

Demonstrating against something you find wrong is to be encouraged. However attacking folk with eggs is not, especially when those folk are not free to protect themselves.

Okay the police intervened eventually, but the attackers had to know that the soldiers they targeted would not defend themselves initially. What do you call folk who attack people who can’t defend themselves?

Weasel words were then used to justify the actions of a cowardly few on the eve of the day we set aside every year to remember those who fought so we could demonstrate and enjoy that freedom to do so.

The 200 or so cowards who chose to dishonour a great right of ours deserve nothing but derision for their actions.

Wowser – a great word that will apply to all of us some of the time and some of us all of the time

Came across the magnificent word “wowser” today.

It’s Australian in origin and means:

“An ineffably pious person who mistakes this world for a penitentiary and himself for a warder” CJ Dennis

Women’s Soccer hoo-ha – bad game management all around and a chance for the media to get all self righteous

A certain video tape has been doing the rounds lately highlighting the behaviour of a Lobos player.

There is no doubt that her actions were outwith the laws of the game and should have been dealt with by the officials in accordance with the laws. But and it is a large but, the first blow in the sequence was struck by the BYU player and Lambert’s first illegal action was through retaliation. The failure of the officials to notice both these events is worrying for this level of football.

Then the red mist seemed to descend upon Miss Lambert and she committed two questionable tackles, the second of which was from behind and didn’t make contact with the ball. It was definitely reckless, used excessive force and was likely to injure. This should have been penalised with a red card and an expulsion, the laws are unambiguous on this.

But no, the four officials present and the coaching staff on the Lobos team still failed to do their jobs. It was obvious that that situation was only going to get worse. The BYU players correctly recognised this and kept the pressure on Miss Lambert via some niggling behaviour to see if it would turn out to their advantage. Notice before the hair pull, the BYU attacker grab the shorts of the already seriously agitated Lobos player.It was so predictable what was going to happen next.

The ball in the face thing I have seen happen tons of time when the ball is cleared as the whistle is blown so that isn’t too huge a deal. But the smack in the face by her follow through in the last challenge is also worthy of a red card.

This young lady clearly knew that she had messed up. She apologised and accepted the disciplinary sanctions that her college imposed on her.

But as a referee I also know that the officials at the game were grossly incompetent and should be disciplined too. Somebody could have been seriously injured through their inability to recognise violent conduct on the field of play or their refusal to deal with it if they did recognise it.

As a coach I would also like to suggest that the University also look into the conduct of the coaching staff in protecting their player from herself. After the first couple of challenges she should have been warned and watched if not substituted immediately. It was obvious that she was not handling the situation well and that it could turn pear shaped rapidly. Spending the rest of the game on the bench talking herself down with an assistant coach would have been the more educational thing to do.

Then finally we have to watch a few anchors get vicarious pleasure from watching these athletes while at the same time acting all holier than thou and tut tutting. It’s terrible, but hang on let’s watch it in slo-mo.

Miss Lambert messed up and behaved badly, but the players on the field were not helped by the officials and the coaching staff on the day.

More evidence that the catholic church officially tried to subvert the course of justice.

Via J Turley it appears that the church hierarchy tried to hush up all reporting of child abuse in the late 20th century. It even went as far as interfering with police inquiries, even if those inquiries were at best insipid and the behaviour of the officers involved seems suspicious.

The lead investigator in the case – retired Detective Fern Kingsley – recalled in an interview that the arrival of the clergymen had no real effect on the meeting.

“By the time that the priest and bishop reached the house, the boys had recanted,” Mr. Kingsley said. “They said that nothing had happened. So, I couldn’t go anywhere with it. It’s just the way things happen sometimes.”

But

Mr. Justice Paul Kane of the Ontario Superior Court was skeptical about Mr. Kingsley’s version of events. He said that he preferred the testimony of the altar boys and their parents, who insisted that Bishop Dionne, 90, had angrily taken over the meeting. The bishop took the boys upstairs individually to be questioned in private, they said, while the officers meekly waited in the dining room.

It’s scary that the officers even thought that they could accurately be described as detectives. They quite clearly couldn’t detect their own …. etc etc.

Even the judiciary is becoming aware that the catholic church acted wrongly with respect to their members’ behaviour towards children. Hopefully this conspiracy will be investigated properly by those who claim to be our police services and those responsible made to pay for their horrific conduct.

The catholic church has very little of substance to say when it comes to defending itself, but the best quote that sums up their myopia is:

The statement, read out by Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican’s permanent observer to the UN, defended its record by claiming that “available research” showed that only 1.5%-5% of Catholic clergy were involved in child sex abuse.

Which was followed up by the juvenile statement, “all the others are doing it too.” What Tomasi also glosses over is that while  between 1.5 and 5% of the membership might actually be abusing the kids, there are a lot more members of his cult at the higher levels trying to hide what actually happened and make it go away. This is a criminal conspiracy of the worst kind.

I would like to see the wrong doers punished and I do not want my government to sponsor this kind of organisation by indirectly funding them through tax relief and education levies.

Xtians say the moslems hate them and just to prove it’s true they make stuff up – A spat between the truly delusional

Murdoch’s empire is so concerned about the moslem hoards that they are willing fabricate stories to show just how bad these moslems are.

My view is that all religions are equally as screwed up as each other and it is purely a matter of who has the swallowed the biggest pill of retard that determines who will kill as many folk as possible for their invisible sky faerie at any given time.

Born again fundie, rabid rabbi or murderous moslem they are all cut from the same delusional cloth. Lieing is all fine and good as long as you do it in the name of your imaginary friend.

Irrational thinking kills people – the respect given to religion encourages irrationality

I was reading pharyngula and came across a post stating that many non-first world security services are using a tarted up dowsing rod to try and detect explosives and munitions at road blocks.

After more digging I found a post at the ministry of truth website and they indicate the consequences when folk put their faith in these instruments touted by con-men, happy for folk to die so they can line their pockets.

But unlike other junk science frauds, such a vocal lie detectors and perpetual motion machines, this is a fraud that has serious consequences…… This is not just fraud, its culpable involvement in negligent homicide.

Yes indeed it is. It is also illustrative of what can happen when people are accustomed to giving weight to irrational beliefs. If you think belief in an invisible sky faerie is fine and dandy then what is your benchmark for other fantastic claims?