Joan Rivers and Free Speech!

There we are: http://www.aol.co.uk/article/2014/08/14/call-to-ban-rivers-after-gaza-tirade/20946928/?ncid=webmail2 This sums it up. It sums up the current lack of thinking that we are faced with in the world, on a daily basis. People are just too dumb! It looks as though the name of Islam, Gaza, Palestine, the Middle East, and a whole lot more cannot be mentioned, as it upsets the sensitivities of some people. Not Joan, apparently. I am not a fan of Joan, I don't like her acid tongue, but she calls a spade a spade! Good for her. If she is being threatened with some form of censorship, then how? On what basis? What has she said that has upset some pathetic (oops, sensitive) people? Nothing really. She has merely mentioned that Hamas and the occupants of Gaza started this latest fiasco, years ago. They have diverted millions of dollars of aid (that did not get to the person in the street; it did however get to the person under the street), and built dozens of tunnels. Why? Why build tunnels? Are the Gaza people being shelled or bombed on a daily basis? No (until recently, you understand). There were no missiles randomly landing, threatening the lives of thousands of civilians. They simply were not there! So, why the tunnels? Come on, you may play dumb, but no-body is that dumb. Have you read any of the Hamas charter? No? Why not? Oh, you should do. It's like being a good Christian, but never having really read the Bible - you simply don't know what you are talking about! Read it, and weep: http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/www.thejerusalemfund.org/carryover/documents/charter.html?chocaid=397 Now, for all you bleeding-heart Anti-Israel types, who have have been bleating on recently about the 'genocide' taking place in Gaza. (1) You clearly have no understanding of what Genocide is, and (2) you clearly support the Gaza people without understanding just what their mind-set is. If I get called names, and told that I shouldn't take the name of someone's god in vain, then why do I have to put up with their sickening announcements and actions, every single damned day? Why do I have to read about the latest Islam-based group of utterly mad fools, who are only intent in massacre after massacre being created, with as many as they can being elimintaed (all in the name of Peace, you understand) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-in-iraq-us-far-less-likely-to-evacuate-yazidis-trapped-on-mount-sinjar-9667827.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22410392 So, what this means id that Islam is now officially the worlds nastiest, vilest, and lowest social group that you can imagine - it will continue to descend into its own form of social 'group', wioing out anyone and anything that stands in its way. Islam cannot even agree with Islam; what chance does the rest of the world have? http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07/07/isis-blow-up-heretical-shia-mosques-in-mosul-pictures_n_5563860.html Christians aren't that different - in the USA its the apathy of the voters that has allowed so many Christian-based senators and congress people. It's time for a change - UKIP next year, maybe? But while we are waiting, many thousands more will be dead, thanks to the rise of insanity, and the utter contempt that those in power have for the rest of the population. Oh, yes - back to Joan Rivers. I don't care if this petition gets a few million votes, is she continues to talk like that she is welcome in my country, while it still is my country. If it ever looks like becoming some part of a disgusting Caliphate then I'm off - Australia, if they'll have me. New Zealand? Speak out - be heard, while you still can be heard!

August 2014 All ready to blame Israel? Again?

If anyone says that they belong to a relgion of peace, or that they think that religion is somehow a good thing, walk away. You are conversing with the Devil. Pretty good, as I don't think that there IS a Devil, but never mind... At the start of August, 2014, we are seeing daily news reports of the conflict between Israel and the occupants of Gaza. More bodies, more rockets, more hatred, more crying children. Oh, yes, the children, the women, the old, the infirm, all are somehow targets for Israel. So they say. I doubt that anything told to the worlds press from Gaza can be trusted. At least Israel tries its best to verify things! Its a slanging match - you shout, I shout, they shout louder...seriously, there will be no winners from this - only a better class of losing. The media pay attention to the wackos, those who should just STFU! Take this one: disproportionate. Apparently Israel is using a 'disproportionate' amount of force. What? That is not even a valid statement. It is meaningless. Are you telling me that if a burglar comes in with a knife, and threatens me and my whole family, then because I have a gun I can't use it? I have to go to the kitchen and find a similar knife, and hope I can overcome this burglar? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28619671 That is a stupid thing to even suggest. (1) Israel has been fighting one war or another since it was born. (2) I do believe that Israel does not want this confrontation, but (3) it has been forced on them. Instead of picking apart Israels plans they should be applauded for being as concerned as they are with keeping casualties down. Hamas has shown that is has no such notion - they want more casualties, as this will reflect badly on Israel. The people of Gaza are mad to have voted in these animals. This guy is delusional: http://www.leksikon.org/images/gaza20090108carter.pdf Peace? Peace in our time? we are at least three generations into Israel, and look how close we are to peace. Nowhere. You simply cannot trust much of what the media says - where did they get their information? From Hamas? Lies, lies, lies... It seems that Gaza has an endless supply of these rockets, which are far from the 'home-made' label being used. They can fly many miles and kill just as easily as more sophisticated and larger rockets. End the supply of the arms to Gaza. Then there are foolish people who are calling for BDS against Israel. Ban the sale of arms to Israel! Do you realise what that would mean? Israel wouldn't last a few weeks, and Hamas would win. Then we will begin to see a REAL genocide! Hamas is vile, it's people are vile, and their ideas of the modern world have no place in it, so why are they even given air space? They are mad, bad, and very dangerous people, and should be treated as such. Oh yes - those tunnels? Anyone care to guess their purpose? Peaceful, perhaps? Something that takes thousands of tons of supplied concrete and makes raid tunnels, with the sole purpose of mass murder is a dreadful machinery that should be dismantled, and way we can. I object strongly that my country is sending my money over to Gaza - I am subsidising terrorism!

And so to war! Again! In case anyone has been asleep, Israel has 'invaded' Gaza, and proceeded to 'massacre' lots of people, amounting to some as a 'genocide'. Did you notice all those 'quotes'? That means that they are so-called... Israel has had enough of rockets being fired from Gaza into its lands, with no definite plan or target, other than to 'kill the Jews'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas_Covenant This amounts to a scary read. If any government, anywhere, announces to the world that they have very little plans for their area, except kill the Jews, then I think a few people would be upset. Why, then, has Gaza had millions of tax dollars given to it? It amounts to me subsidising terrorism, and I strongly object to that! So, why has Gaza been invaded? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/02/tunnels-hamas-israel-struggle-gaza-war It isn't hard to see that these tunnels are long and well thought out. They are not like Tom, Dick or Harry, these are expensive enterprises, taking years to build. And why have they been built, I hear you ask? To invade! To get an easy access into Israel, where they would plan to do the most damage that they could. The Israeli casualties would be in the thousands. Look at them - http://mashable.com/2014/08/04/the-tunnels-in-gaza/ As has been mentioned, the concrete used in the tunnels would have built schools, hospitals and more, benefitting the Gaza community, instead of which the population has gone short, because Hamas (and one must suppose) the PA are madly besotted with the notion of eliminating Israel. Why? What is it about this tiny country that makes it such a target for most of the Arab world? Even the United Nations (Useless Nations) seems to have been highjacked by an Arab-based set who will jump up and down with excitement over anything that Israel does, but will casually ignore all attrocities delivered elsewhere in the world. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/joseph-klein/the-un-continues-to-blame-israel-for-everything/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-un-continues-to-blame-israel-for-everything http://www.cija.ca/issues/un-reform/ http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/16/israels-un-ambassador-calls-for-immediate-suspension-of-unrwa-spokesman-chris-gunness/http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/16/israels-un-ambassador-calls-for-immediate-suspension-of-unrwa-spokesman-chris-gunness/ Such nice people: http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/08/06/hamas-shoots-fatah-member-in-legs-forces-him-to-be-human-shield/ http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/08/05/france-24-reporter-reveals-hamas-rocket-launcher-fired-near-civilians-united-nations-facility-and-reporters-video/ At the end of it all, we have seen that the Gaza 'news' is heavily doctored, and in a lot of cases faked. Screams of 'Israel did this' are simply lies, as we have later found out after all the mud slinging. The latest is for the media to get 'big names' on the wagon, calling for an end to the so-called genocide (it isn't genocide - you really need to check your dictionaries before you start to use log words that you clearly don't understand). Thankfully there are big names who will speak out about the crass utterings of some people: https://uk.yahoo.com/movies/jon-voight-slams-ignorant-javier-bardem-and-penelope-93760158541.html

Dangerous times...

Some people are so mad it is almost impossible to take them seriously – unfortunately we have to take them seriously, because they are so damned dangerous! http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2014/06/muslims-outraged-after-saudi-soldier-puts-foot-on-holy-rock/ That’s a shame. Much that Islam does raises few eyebrows (because it’s so patently nuts!) these days (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-27633227; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-27619669; http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2510542/Britains-white-honour-killing-Teenager-brutally-murdered-Muslim-lover-exposing-relationship-family.html) and we in the UK seem so damnably sensitive to not upset ‘their’ sensitivities. This results in the UK being trampled, legally and socially, and it is getting worse, because few people are in a position to stand up and object. The UKIP successes in the recent MEP elections raises a few eyebrows, too. Are they racist? Are they left wing or right wing? And who cares – really, who cares? Not even 40% of those who could vote did vote! That means that fewer than 40% of the British public have bothered, and made their stamp, and the other 60% have got to put up with the results. And this is a democracy? I think it’s a failing democracy, and it is sadder by the fact that we are supposed to be the home of democracy and decent elections. It will be interesting to see what happens this time next year, at the UK elections. Will UKIP do damage, or will the fickle UK public fall back on the two-party scenario? We shall see… The current power-plays around the world are a real threat to world peace – we have had centuries of blood and tears, and having survived the mess of the 1900’s I hoped that the 21st century would be a time of enlightenment, not a reversion to primitive mentality from hundreds of years ago. Whatever happens in the elections – and I include the USA ones, which are not far away – is vital for the next few decades. Do we submit to ancient ideologies that honestly have no place in the modern world, or do we identify borders and limits, and enforce them? In spite of the limitations of the modern political systems in the West, they are the best that we have! To allow Islam to destroy is literally suicide for millions of people, and it must be prevented. We must have decent legal processes in place for all of us to survive.

A waste of good Oxygen

There are people on this planet who clearly should not be. On this planet, that is. It would be better for all if they were under it (about 6 feet will do) or off it completely. It's not hard to find these 'people' (I use the term loosely...). They are animals, with no real understanding of the world today. They live in some centuries-old mentality, and expect all others to accept this! http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/05/boko-haram-girls-nigeria-kidnap_n_5267267.html?1399303308&icid=maing-grid7|ukt3|dl1|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D262236 These animals are a waste of good Oxygen. They really would not be missed if we could move them to the moon, or somewhere else.

War is declared!

Just in case you are someone who has not yet heard, the war has been declared. War? What? A war, declared? Where is this war, I hear you ask? It is all around you, people – all around. All you have to do is open your eyes, and take a look – take a good look. Just to confuse you, it is not one of those ‘offence’ wars, one where one side tries to beat the crap out of the other. It is a very subtle war, one that has been developing for the last few decades. It is a war of ideologies, where my ‘God’ is better than your ‘God;, or better than your ‘no-God’. It is a war that pitches a dark, hidden foe against many main-stream countries – notably what we currently call the West. It is in the press, mainly using Islam as the main antagonist, but it is more widespread, and far more ‘dirty’ then we first thought. In the USA, that so-called ‘bastion’ of humanity, the country with the moral high-ground (it does not have the moral high-ground, by the way. It has not had that for many years) we find that the two main parties – the Republicans and the Democrats are at war, fighting for the next election to go their way. The dirty tricks abound, and the Republicans (how does anyone actually vote for these people?) are out to control your lives, from the top down. The war that has been running for some years now is being fought over control – it is little different to the ideals of early Russia where the elite kept the rest in ignorance for decade after decade. It continues still, in other guises, true, but it is still the same war, the same battles. The two main parties are poles apart: http://www.diffen.com/difference/Democrat_vs_Republican In Britain we have recently been told that people want the Christian ‘way of life’ back into the main-stream. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/21/jack-straw-support-david-cameron-christian-britain Why? In the name of whatever you may hold holy, why? I had to read this, with a shock at some of the phrasing: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/17/christianity-compels-me-to-make-difference We are still faced with Governments and their ministers promoting their faith-based agendas – if it is of a faith, then it must be OK, somehow acceptable. This brings me neatly on to the depressing subject of the Middle East. Almost all of those countries are despotic, ruthless, religious-doctrine ruled. And it shows. We have Saudi Arabia and all the nightmares of that country, Iran, with its ever-closer nuclear program, and all the rest. I will include a nuclear Israel in this list, as it is physically within the Middle East, but may as well be a million miles from it, and centuries ahead of the level of the thinking for that area. I see no reason to trust any single country within that area, except Israel. They truly stand alone, against all their neighbours. The current fiasco of the USA government has not helped them recently. Any government, wherever it is, but be a secular one. To be a government run on religious doctrine and other antiquated ideas is to damn that country – it simply does not belong in the 21st century!

Religion? You call this a Religion? Nah, I'll pass.

I suppose that, after the 'wonders' of Christianity, I just had to have a few words about its sort-of cousin, Islam. This is the one that preaches that it is a religion of peace, all the while stoning women to death in obscure villages in Pakistan, and burning people as witches elsewhere. I could easily find a fuller list of modern-day horrors from this faith. In the 21st century! I will state here that I am sure I have worked with followers of Islam, and I either haven't known or haven't cared. They have been really nice people, a joy to know. Elsewhere we can only recoil in horror at the news entries which assault us on a daily basis. Sunni and Shi'ite simply do not get along, and the other denominations (yes, there are a few: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam#Denominations) simply cannot agree on the ground rules. Every week in Afghanistan or Iraq someone has blown up a market-place, killing dozens, and injuring dozens more. This is what passes for 'normal' in some parts of the world. In the time that we have had so far of the 21st century it has been something of a nightmare. That horrific day in the USA that we call 9/11 brought it home to the world - terror is here, and now. It is no longer in some far-off country that we simply couldn't point to - it is in the town of city that you live in! Yes, there is a list: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_terrorism#21st_century I remember the London 2005 only too well – one of my daughters sent me a text, saying that she was alright, and up to then I hadn’t heard. So no-one is safe, these days, and it all stems from Islam. Or does it? What is this Islam? If you read up on it (and I am no expert!) then it is the revelations told to Muhammed by Gabriel, and presumably others. A good insight is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam although it tends to go on a bit… The overall result of this is that like all the other faiths, Islam cannot agree! A branch of Islam is at odds with another branch or Islam, in the same way that the Catholics and the Protestants of Northern Ireland are both Christian, but disagree enormously on just about everything! If any faith cannot agree within itself, then how are we expected to take it seriously? How are we expected to listen to any form of discussion from these different sects? Anyway, back to Islam… look up Sharia law – it is the form of internal legal processes that Islam has. On the face of it, it would seem to be a good idea, as it would take a lot of the pressure off the already strained British legal system. But then you start to investigate, to look behind the scenes… what does this Sharia ‘law’ actually offer? Not much it seems. Islam is a faith that defaults all women to the class of second-rate – no woman can have the status of a man – it’s in the print! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_Islam I really think that state and faith have no part to play in each others lives: http://www.secularism.org.uk/what-is-secularism.html http://www.light-of-life.com/eng/reveal/ http://www.islamswomen.com/ and then reality will creep in: http://www.answering-islam.org/Authors/Arlandson/women_inferior.htm http://www.clarionproject.org/understanding-islamism/womens-rights-under-sharia the articles, and people you may speak to, will promote the equality, but in reality there is no such thing. Islam is a farce, damning all women be second class – and worse!