And here is a picture of Jesus with his pet ferret
Filthy animals want us so badly dragged down into their filthy corrupt narrow mad ape world, trapped in a bubble in which it is given that their bloody books are revelations from a god that requires being worshipped, placated, appeased, who gets angry if you disobey him, given that their various insane, stupid, vicious beliefs are greeted with solemnity, gravity, instead of the contempt and derision they merit, treated as though they were propositions every sensible rational person should consider seriously, and opposing or otherwise distinct ideas are to be discarded as evil, the world of creatures to whom there is only one set of ideas in the world, but a whole busy buzzing world of ideas exists outside those from the Middle East, which is essentially what we’re talking about, even though some are represented in Rome, ideas from China, from India, from America, from Europe. A world where violence is normal, especially violence against women, where it is not questioned that words are met by violence.
And these dirty animals view it all through the prism of their spastic beliefs, in terms of their mad Troof, and whether or not in meshes with their derangement, but the rest of us don’t. The rest of us trip through the world of ideas and assess its contents on such merits as we think they possess.
Maybe the smelly old apes are so profoundly mad and sick that they really believe they are going to once more rule a Christian Europe. A Europe profoundly influenced by the teachings of Jesus is an entirely different matter, a free and democratic Europe, opposed to their monkey puke. Certainly they have convinced the traitor politicians that Europe is to be carved up between the Catholic Church and Islam, the Church a bulwark against the Muslim threat. That freedom and democracy represent a complete defence against any Muslim threat mysteriously eludes them, as does the fact that Islam and the Catholic Church are two sides of the same coin, both fascist, sexually and religiously supremacist, opposed to human autonomy, whether intellectual, emotional or sexual, both upholding some drivel about a revelation, both convinced they alone possess Truth, and that coin was surgically removed from western Europe in 1789, sick shit in short, to both the blessed, the chosen the dead from the neck up who know only the Truth pumped into their brains, question nothing and obey, both something left behind by history with no place in C21st England.
Thus no matter how often I have pointed out that this is not a Catholic country, the Vatican has neither legal nor political power, the answer from evil insolent filthy vermin is it is now, from dirt and scum, perverts, fascists, all squawking it is now.
PANTHER -> Site news -> Voltaire and Jesus
by Ysabel Howard - Wednesday, 14 December 2011, 10:12 PM
[29] After enjoying some time in conversation with Socrates, he went forward with my guide into a grove situated above the thickets where all the sages of antiquity seemed to be tasting sweet repose.
[30] I saw a man of gentle, simple countenance, who seemed to me to be about thirty-five years old. From afar he cast compassionate glances on these piles of whitened bones, across which I had had to pass to reach the sages' abode. I was astonished to find his feet swollen and bleeding, his hands likewise, his side pierced, and his ribs flayed with whip cuts. " Good Heavens! " I said to him, " is it possible for a just man, a sage, to be in this state? I have just seen one who was treated in a very hateful way, but there is no comparison between his torture and yours. Wicked priests and wicked judges poisoned him; is it by priests anhd judges that you have been so cruelly assassinated? "
[31] He answered with much courtesy--"Yes."
[32] "And who were these monsters? "
[33] "They were hypocrites."
[34] "Ah! that says everything; I understand by this single word that they must have condemned you to death. Had you then proved to them, as Socrates did, that the Moon was not a goddess, and that Mercury was not a god? "
[35] "No, these planets were not in question. My compatriots did not know at all what a planet is; they were all arrogant ignoramuses. Their superstitions were quite different from those of the Greeks."
[36] "You wanted to teach them a new religion, then? "
[37] "Not at all; I said to them simply--' Love God with all your heart and your fellow-creature as yourself, for that is man's whole duty.' Judge if this precept is not as old as the universe; judge if I brought them a new religion. I did not stop telling them that I had come not to destroy the law butt to fulfill it; I had observed all their rites; circumcised as they all were, baptized as were the most zealous among them, like them I paid the Corban; I observed the Passover as they did, eating standing up a lamb cooked with lettuces. I and my friends went to pray in the temple; my friends even frequented this temple after my death; in a word, I fulfilled all their laws without a single exception."
[38] "What! these wretches could not even reproach you with serving from their laws? "
[39] "No, without a doubt."
[40] "Why then did they put you in the condition in which I now see you? "
[41] "What do you expect me to say! they were very arrogant and selfish. They saw that I knew them; they knew that I was making the citizens acquainted with them; they were the stronger; they took away my life: and people like them will always do as much, if they can, to whoever does them too much justice.'' . . .
[42] " You therefore contributed in no way by your speeches, badly reported, badly interpreted, to these frightful piles of bones which I saw on my road in coming to consult you? "
[43] "It is with horror only that I have seen those who have made themselves guilty of these murders."
[44] " And these monuments of power and wealth, of pride and avarice, these treasures, these ornaments, these signs of grandeur, which I have seen piled up on the road while I was seeking wisdom, do they come from you? "
[45] "That is impossible; I and my people lived in poverty and meanness: my grandeur was in virtue only."
[46] I was about to beg him to be so good as to tell me just who he was. My guide warned me to do nothing of the sort. He told me that I was not made to understand these sublime mysteries. Only did I conjure him to tell me in what true religion consisted. [47] "Have I not already told you? Love God and your fellow-creature as yourself."
[48] " What! if one loves God, one can eat meat on Friday? "
[49] "I always ate what was given me; for I was too poor to give anyone food."
[50] " In loving God, in being just, should one not be rather cautious not to confide all the adventures of one's life to an unknown man?"
[51] "That was always my practice."
[52] " Can I not, by doing good, dispense with making a pilgrimage to St. James of Compostella? "
[53] "I have never been in that country."
[54] " Is it necessary for me to imprison myself in a retreat with fools? "
[55] "As for me, I always made little journeys from town to town.''
[56]" Is it necessary for me to take sides either for the Greek Church or the Latin? "
[57] "When I was in the world I never made any difference between the Jew and the Samaritan."
[58] "Well, if that is so, I take you for my only master." Then he made me a sign with his head which filled me with consolation. The vision disappeared, and a clear conscience stayed with me.
Dictionnaire philosophique, Religion. Translated Hanover Historical Texts Project.
So, no, we don’t want for a moment to suggest there is anything in Christianity inimical to psychopaths like Sacranie and his filthy rabble; on the contrary we want to advance them. This to a nation that grew up trilling ‘The King of Love my Shepherd is’ in morning assembly. If those disgusting animals are religion, you can keep it. Naturally the numbers fell through the floor. What is a suitable response to a murderous mob of sick animals who don’t like a book? Gun them all down. There is of course nothing in Christianity to support that either, but fine, if you want to define Christianity as friendly to psychopaths, why not go for it.
Whatever lies are squawked, however many people are prosecuted, reviled, how many Labour animals scream about Islamophobia, you will not get the Christian and post-Christian world to accept moral equivalence between Jesus and for that matter Buddha and Mohammed, between the non-violent and the violent. OK, a decent guy for his time, thoughtful, wrote a very long poem. A general who had considerable numbers of people killed. What is holy about this dude? Let alone the loony-tune should have been dragged to the International Court of Justice Khomeini. A holy man has spoken! Bwahahaha.[YH1]
How did it go? High crimes and misdemeanours against the Queen’s most excellent majesty. Anyone or ones who put me, an Englishwoman and a British subject, under or consider me subject to the authority of the Roman Catholic Church should be hanged. Especially if his name is Tony Blair, a Prime Minister trying to force docile acceptance of, respect for, filthy monkey puke on England, all got to crawl to the cravings of filthy vermin like Murphy O’Connor and Sacranie, dirt-monkeys, sick-boys, scum. Otherwise get a few of the vile filthy despicable evil pigs on camera to explain they hate England, hate the free world.
As I read the runes, it was done remotely, probably via that evil old ape Mruphy O’Connor. In the front line we have blustering stupid vicious, ineducable, vindictive Catholic peasants who should either have been summarily told which end is up or thrown out. The old ape’s solution would have been to put me in the hands of ‘our lovely Catholic nurses’ who would ‘look after me’, knowing of course what they were, that they would listen only to their masters, who were backed all the way up the tree of evil, cardinals, popes, politicians. Do these obscene perverted nutjobs not understand the majority of us live in the C21st. Of course they do. They just don’t care. Their vile primitive drool is to be imposed on us, their dirty monkey psychosis and perversion. I’m sure you can write the script. Crippled, you say? Oh that doesn’t matter. A woman’s place is on her back anyway, haw-haw. A nasty piece of work by all accounts, one of those libby types, some kind of slut who’s been putting it around. A degree? Well, I mean really, what a load of nonsense that is. How can a woman have an intellect. Who would possibly pay any attention to anything said by a woman? Of course she should bloody do what she’s told. We all know the dear ladies can be a little exuberant, need a firm hand. Democracy? Oh, I really don’t think we need to bother with nonsense like that. Quite unacceptable that senior people be questioned.
OK, now you know what is governing England. To the extent that it is in the House of Commons, it needs to be exposed and subsequently voted out of the House of Commons, as would closet homophobes or racists. 50% of the population being governed, having decisions made for us, by men who hate and fear women is clearly not considered a problem.
Just nothing but filthy butchering murderous bonehead animals, the whole filthy lot of them, disgusting repulsive slave-mnokeys. How may we please you, o Master, we know only thy will , o Master, whatever you dribble is Truth, o Master, whatever you command is the Good, o Master, in you resides all good and truth, o Master, we yearn only to be instruments of your purpose, o Master, cripple her, destroy her, we can only obey, o Master, how may we best please you, o Master, freedom and democracy are such silly evil nonsense, aren’t they, o Master, as it beats in their filthy animal brains you gotta do what you’re to-old, you gotta be obeed-yunt to your superiors set over you who know best and who are not to be questioned. Especially when they command the destruction of your spinal fusion and your country. Obscene scum. Or else they’re in it for the money.
Like you are fucking who, o fellow small hairless monkey on the third rock from the sun, but a delusional one that thinks it cannot be wrong, misinformed, ignorant, flawed in its reasoning or of course evil.
Or of course it can’t be questioned because it has no answers, as is the case with the religious, who have no evidence for their claims.
No creature who rejects the standards of democracy is of course fit for power and they should all have been stripped summarily of all power but that to make clinical decisions.
Anyone who thinks I have to obey a sick cunt who demands I do work threatening my spinal fusion is by definition a nutjob who belongs in a padded cell, as indeed is anyone who thinks I should have accepted being put in conditions intended to continue damage to my spinal fusion. Which is everyone.
No-one was ever going to sue me for four reasons: the reading list, exposure of cowardly cockroaches, exposure of their multiple crimes and exposure of my body. Exhibit A, m’lud, x-ray of my spinal fusion; later they would have wished equally to conceal my grossly bent body. In a wheelchair. I could explain to the court that I can walk a modest distance with a rollator but the distances involved in attending are too much for me. Doubtless the rollator could be provided so I could show what I can and can’t do, all the while enthusiastically explaining that I did so want to attend in order to eyeball for the first time the cowardly cockroach vermin who did this to me. I could add they assaulted my spinal fusion and went on assaulting it. All they can do because they’re psychotic and intellectually useless is use force against me, hence this trial. Order in court! Not sure I’d be allowed to add that bit, but who cares. No, I thought not. But of course any feeble flimsy excuse for inaction would do. Hey, maybe the evil bitch Fenton would like to sue me. Show itself devoid of education, devoid of intellect, devoid of intelligence, contemptuous of truth, fact, justice, democracy, reason and most of all devoid of ethics and devoid of integrity. Show itself to be completely criminal, conspiring to pervert the course of justice, conspiring to overthrow democracy, giving aid and comfort to the enemies of the Queen, causing grievous bodily harm, conspiring to achieve my mental and physical destruction, numerous offences against gender, the demand I perjure myself, say things I know are not true.
Since these are animals who understand only power, force, corruption, violence, slyness, secrecy, criminality, bestiality, they would inevitably end up with bullets in their sick monkey brains, were it not for a trio of global catastrophes which concentrates attention elsewhere.
There is of course pandemic. The elephant in the room has for some time been automation. There is climate change.
I’m assuming that pandemic makes automation an even bigger elephant since clearly it is saner to have robots doing things than humans crowded together. This might seem bad news particularly in the poorer parts of the world but if you have a lot of very poor people living on top of each other, under-nourished and therefore with weak immune response, to whom any possibility of social distancing or shielding is a distant dream, horrifying reality begins to look more like Third World countries need automation because their workforce has been decimated, rather than that workforce desperately needs work.
All the Tories screaming about the economy reside just as much as Labour in a Lowry painting with all the little workers trooping to the factory. There is absolutely no reason why full-scale manufacturing should not continue. Robots can do many things. One of them of course is work 24/7.
Got a new sofa from the 3D printer in the town square
Right now, the Labour Party has only one problem: automation. A very large number of people recently arrived in the country, together with a very large number of people already here, aren’t going to have any jobs. They’re not going to be fighting each other over jobs because there won’t be any jobs to fight over. If they are not already reasonably rounded human beings with interests Labour needs to be developing their hearts and minds and turning them into people who are nice to be near, whether because they contribute ideas or they contribute human warmth. Thinking of useful things they can do and be paid for and of course working out how they can be paid and be formally idle, an ironic end to austerity, if ever there was one. Some people will naturally return whence they came and fall over themselves to do so, an ironic end to endless hoo-ha about immigration, if ever there was one, though they quite possibly won’t find it any better elsewhere. As below, the proportion of jobs threatened in India by automation is 69% When Younge writes in the Guardian, End all immigration controls, his heart may be in the right place but which particular planet he is inhabiting is less clear.
McDonnell, I think was at one point caught on camera calling for violent revolution. Woo-hoo, the noble workers shall seize the means of production. And smash the evil machine. The word is Luddite. If he wants to keep the country in the C19th, well, that will be interesting, just don’t blame Brexit for Britain falling behind the rest of the world. But co-ops indeed are a possibility, the people put out of work who have contributed to the success of the enterprise ‘retiring’ with shares in it.
Thus having done its best to turn us all into illiterate ignorant grunting violent animals who respond to words with violence and pride ourselves on our ignorance, having turned as one on anyone who said anything should be demanded of the masses, any adherence to any intellectual or moral standards, for did we not understand they were victims (mostly of Labour’s love of animals, I mean, we’ve all gotta be equal, ain’t we), Labour now has an urgent need to cultivate interest in the arts, love of gardening, enthusiasm for exercise, the joys of cooking or wild flowers, fascination with local history, the pleasures of family life, pets, DIY, argument, intelligent conversation, who am I, what am I, why are you reading my bloody slogan?
Unless of course it wants mobs of drunken and/or stoned animals in the streets, which it may well want, but which is unlikely to find mass approbation.
Ostrich Land: the future is 20 years away.
Time to get the crucifixion of medicine in first, before the country has other things on its mind
Maybe won’t affect me much at all, let alone such place as I continue to play in the labour market, but technology moves fast. For the moment the lovely guys and girls from Ocado will continue to check my eggs and ask me how many bags I’m returning, the lovely guys or girls from Amazon will worry if the package they’re handing me is too heavy for me.
Ocado has shown off a prototype driverless van designed to deliver goods at short distances.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-40421100
Amazon, the world's largest online retailer, is testing unmanned drones to deliver goods to customers, chief executive Jeff Bezos has said.
The drones, called Octocopters, could deliver packages weighing up to 2.3kg to customers within 30 minutes of them placing the order, he said.
However, he added that it could take up to five years for the service to start.
The US Federal Aviation Administration is yet to approve the use of unmanned drones for civilian purposes.
"I know this looks like science fiction, but it's not," Mr Bezos told CBS television's 60 Minutes programme.
"We can do half-hour delivery... and we can carry objects, we think, up to five pounds (2.3kg), which covers 86% of the items that we deliver."
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-25180906
The UK, I read, employs a mere 8% of the population in manufacturing. But that’s all right, because there are always jobs in the service industries.
Medical records have bar-codes and paperless is the world of the fantasist. If ever there was a job a robot could do it’s gathering medical folders for clinics, sending simple emails to whomever the system deems to have the notes. ‘You have these notes?’ ‘No.’ For that matter of course scanning sets of medical records could be done by a robot. Open the folder, start at page one.
Tianran Wang seems a sensible guy
Tianran Wang, a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and an expert on industrial automation, spoke about China’s manufacturing industry at the Beijing event. He said that it lagged behind those of other nations and would need a major technological overhaul. He also emphasized that part of the challenge will be figuring out which tasks can be automated most effectively, and how machines and humans can share the workload. “Not all labor-intensive industry can be automated,” Tianran said. “We need hybrid automation.”
“But the traditional economic path from increasing productivity of agriculture to light manufacturing and then to full-scale industrialisation may not be possible for all developing countries,” Mr. Kim said in response to a question at the Brookings Institute during a discussion on extreme poverty on Tuesday.
“In large parts of Africa, it is likely that technology could fundamentally disrupt this pattern. Research based on World Bank data has predicted that the proportion of jobs threatened in India by automation is 69 per cent, in China it is 77 per cent and in Ethiopia, the percentage of jobs threatened by automation is 85 per cent,” he said.
“Now, if this is true, and if these countries are going to lose these many jobs, we then have to understand what paths to economic growth will be available for these countries and then adapt our approach to infrastructure accordingly,” Mr. Kim said.
http://www.thehindu.com/business/Industry/Automation-threatens-69-jobs-in-India-World-Bank/article15427005.ece
And what is it in the UK?
Almost half of all jobs could be automated by computers within two decades and "no government is prepared" for the tsunami of social change that will follow, according to the Economist.
The magazine's 2014 analysis of the impact of technology paints a pretty bleak picture of the future.
It says that while innovation (aka "the elixir of progress") has always resulted in job losses, usually economies have eventually been able to develop new roles for those workers to compensate, such as in the industrial revolution of the 19th century, or the food production revolution of the 20th century.
But the pace of change this time around appears to be unprecedented, its leader column claims. And the result is a huge amount of uncertainty for both developed and under-developed economies about where the next 'lost generation' is going to find work.
It quotes a 2013 Oxford Martin School study that estimates 47% of all jobs could be automated in the next 20 years:
"Our findings thus imply that as technology races ahead, low-skill workers will reallocate to tasks that are non-susceptible to computerisation – i.e., tasks requiring creative and social intelligence. For workers to win the race, however, they will have to acquire creative and social skills," that study says.
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The Economist also points out that current unemployment levels are startlingly high, but that "this wave of technological disruption to the job market has only just started".
Specifically the Economist points to new tech like driverless cars, improved household gadgets, faster and more efficient online communications and 'big data' analysis to areas that humans are quickly being superceded. And while new start-ups are raising billions, they employ few people - Instagram, sold to Facebook in 2012 for $1 billion, employed just 30 people at the time.
Those conclusions are echoed elsewhere. Another study ('Are You Ready For #GenMobile?'), to be released in full on 21 January by Aruba Networks, points out just how fast traditional working models are changing.
It says that 72% of British people now believe they work more efficiently at home, and that 63% need a WiFi network to complete their tasks - not bad for a technology that was barely standardised 10 years ago.
Meanwhile in 'The Second Machine Age', out this week, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee argue workers are under unprecedented pressure by the automation of skilled and unskilled jobs.
In a recent Salon interview Brynjolfsson said: "technology has always been destroying jobs, and it’s always been creating jobs, and it’s been roughly a wash for the last 200 years. But starting in the 1990s the employment to population ration really started plummeting and it’s now fallen off a cliff and not getting back up. We think that it should be the focus of policymakers right now to figure out how to address that."
The BBC also produced a report earlier this month which claimed, in stark tones, that "the robots are coming to steal our jobs".
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/01/17/rise-of-the-machines-economist_n_4616931.html
Haldane said the Bank had used methodology pioneered in the US to model the impact of smarter machines on the UK labour market and its more than 30 million employees.
It classified jobs into three categories – those with a high (greater than 66%), medium (33-66%) and low (less than 33%) probability of automation, and made an adjustment for the proportion of employment those jobs represented.
“For the UK, roughly a third of jobs by employment fall into each category, with those occupations most at risk including administrative, clerical and production tasks.
“Taking the probabilities of automation, and multiplying them by the numbers employed, gives a broad brush estimate of the number of jobs potentially automatable. For the UK, that would suggest up to 15m jobs could be at risk of automation.”
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/12/robots-threaten-low-paid-jobs-says-bank-of-england-chief-economist
At some point the doors of nations are going to slam shut, and it won’t be because of race or religion, and it won’t be the ‘First World’ versus the ‘Third World’ because although people may be falling over themselves to get the hell out there probably won’t be anywhere to go if you’re not techy, not possessed of some other specific skill or talent. Don’t know about North Korea. Maybe North Korea will solve the problem for us, abolish the future.
The world could divide very simply into Luddite or automated. In some circs at least it will be incremental, and a matter of choice. The golden opportunity lies before me of asking Alexa to ask Ocado to add carrots to my order, but I find I don’t want to do that. If we stop short of the point where machines interact with personalities, then no robot can do things specific to me, or any individual. Undoubtedly a robot would have been invaluable in all the hauling and heaving of the nightmare of clearing the house, but without access to my memories of 5, 15, 35 it could not have chosen what to keep and what to throw. Yes, that book is falling apart but it revolutionized my thinking when I was 17. Since at the moment I do very little in terms of interacting with the outside world, indeed at the moment since I don’t see many people anyway it seems prudent to see none while the flu epidemic lasts, it is a little hard to see how robotics will impact on my life, but certainly my long-term transport needs would seem to be assured, mooching around in a little pod. Like probably a lot of people, if for a different reason, it’s a long time since I’ve trailed round shops looking for the perfect skirt or sweater. Indeed I am the retail-trade’s worst nightmare incarnate, since I barely go to shops at all, maybe pop round to the Co-op if I run out of something. What is the point of staggering around Marks or Ryman’s when I can order on-line.
It may by the by be said that, at the expense of many hours on the Internet and off it measuring and thinking, I have had no failed on-line purchases, nothing which I have unpacked only to think shit, that’s not at all what I wanted/needed/expected.
Even in this externally unexciting life, there are possibilities. I can’t really quite reach the top shelves in my kitchen cupboards, get things to the front and push them a bit. I can’t quite reach the hooks on backs of doors to hang my coat or jacket. So what else are the backs of chairs for. A robotic arm would have its uses around the place.
So much for the Labour Party spearheading the great forward march of the toiling masses to socialism. Certainly it will be necessary, but only if it’s not living in the C19th.
It doesn’t take much of a glance at the papers to conclude that both the people who run the country and those who comment on them are not living in the real world.
Living in a loony bin on all levels. Did you know you can buy a 3D printer on Amazon for less than the cost of a state-of-the-art laptop?
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Flashforge-upgraded-exclusive-technologyoutlet-Distributor/dp/B00LC6NVXO/ref=sr_1_17?s=industrial&ie=UTF8&qid=1505830261&sr=1-17&keywords=3d+printers
https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/manufacturing-design/coloring-complex-3d-printed-objects
Isn’t that just so cool?
https://youtu.be/FSu19nz7NlE
Comments are pretty good too.
What happens to all of it, insignia of wealth, status, diamond tiara, manor house, castle, palace, if people can just print the parts? I should imagine part of all this is a frantic attempt to maintain status and pecking order, hierarchy, must one not have respect? That Marxists are in full accord is just jam. What happens to ‘reverse insignia’, cheap thin clothes with shoddy stitching? After all, chemically, it’s all the same stuff.
What happens to everything when if you want a new sofa you pop to the community printer in the town centre?
I have in fact searched in vain for a mini-drone as a disability aid. Maybe next year. On the one hand if I’ve left my phone in the bedroom it would just be so cool to dispatch the little darling to flip flap fly locate and return. On the other hand of course it would mean I should remain seated even more, bad thing. There are of course enormous possibilities for anyone with a disability. A driverless shopping trolley could be sent trundling off to the Co-op or for that matter M+S programmed with a smartcard of needs. Product code on the Website, problem solved.
Oh how badly the bottomlessly vile fascist fake Left want everyone kept illiterate and ignorant and dead from the neck up, how desperately murderously important it is to them these animals at UCH are never confronted with knowledge or expected to think
But the future is not 20 years away because we’ve possibly only got 12..
Saudi and the Gulf States for instance have much bigger problems than the yelpings of western Muslims, in fact a peculiarly hideous problem that flooding cannot be escaped by going inland because the interior is or will be frazzlingly hot. Think back to those guys in the Middle Ages. Since through the narrow lens these are intelligent and rational people they are trying to do something about this. The flooding goes for all coastal regions on the entire bloody planet.
Rising Temperatures in the Middle East | Center for Strategic and International Studies (csis.org)
How the Middle East is suffering on the front lines of climate change | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)
I found some really good stuff from one of the universities in Egypt too, but I can’t be bothered to refind it.
A propos, it’s pretty sensible to cover every inch of you when the mercury is hitting 40. You do not go into the centre of the Arabian Peninsula to get a suntan. But to say this applies in Birmingham in July or for that matter in an air-conditioned shopping mall in Jeddah, is pure manipulation of women by evil. Similarly dietary laws, given the conditions in which people lived, as in for a start no refrigeration, must have contained some sense. But the interesting mind that styled itself ‘the Lord your God’ is still way over the edge
The sexually sick religious whether their hang-up is women or gays or both so far from being deserving of 'respect' are a national joke.
2. 'The Lord your God' as he styles himself is clearly a raving loony. A most interesting mind, unique, one might say. Why he went to the trouble of creating these outcasts of the animal kingdom in the first place is not explained.
Leviticus 11
1And the LORD spake unto Moses and to Aaron, saying unto them,
2Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, These are the beasts which ye shall eat among all the beasts that are on the earth.
3Whatsoever parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, and cheweth the cud, among the beasts, that shall ye eat.
4Nevertheless these shall ye not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
5And the coney, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
6And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you.
7And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.
8Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch; they are unclean to you.
9These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.
10And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:
11They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.
12Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.
13And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
14And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;
15Every raven after his kind;
16And the owl, and the night hawk, and the cuckow, and the hawk after his kind,
17And the little owl, and the cormorant, and the great owl,
18And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
19And the stork, the heron after her kind, and the lapwing, and the bat.
20All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.
21Yet these may ye eat of every flying creeping thing that goeth upon all four, which have legs above their feet, to leap withal upon the earth;
22Even these of them ye may eat; the locust after his kind, and the bald locust after his kind, and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.
23But all other flying creeping things, which have four feet, shall be an abomination unto you.
24And for these ye shall be unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcase of them shall be unclean until the even.
25And whosoever beareth ought of the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
26The carcases of every beast which divideth the hoof, and is not clovenfooted, nor cheweth the cud, are unclean unto you: every one that toucheth them shall be unclean.
27And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.
28And he that beareth the carcase of them shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: they are unclean unto you.
29These also shall be unclean unto you among the creeping things that creep upon the earth; the weasel, and the mouse, and the tortoise after his kind,
30And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
31These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.
32And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherein any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; so it shall be cleansed.
33And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean; and ye shall break it.
34Of all meat which may be eaten, that on which such water cometh shall be unclean: and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.
35And every thing whereupon any part of their carcase falleth shall be unclean; whether it be oven, or ranges for pots, they shall be broken down: for they are unclean and shall be unclean unto you.
36Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.
37And if any part of their carcase fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it shall be clean.
38But if any water be put upon the seed, and any part of their carcase fall thereon, it shall be unclean unto you.
39And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.
40And he that eateth of the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcase of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.
41And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth shall be an abomination; it shall not be eaten.
42Whatsoever goeth upon the belly, and whatsoever goeth upon all four, or whatsoever hath more feet among all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat; for they are an abomination.
43Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.
44For I am the LORD your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
45For I am the LORD that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
46This is the law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature that moveth in the waters, and of every creature that creepeth upon the earth:
47To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
If they campaigned vigorously against prawn cocktail and rabbit pie, we could at least give them credit for being loonies with integrity but to jabber endlessly on about gays ignoring all the other abominations just makes its clear they’re talking through their pricks and their twisted little brains.
God Hates Shrimp Shrimp, crab, lobster, clams, mussels, all these are an abomination before the Lord, just as gays are an abomination. Why stop at protesting gay marriage? Bring all of God's law unto the heathens and the sodomites. We call upon all Christians to join the crusade against Long John Silver's and Red Lobster. Yea, even Popeye's shall be cleansed. The name of Bubba shall be anathema. We must stop the unbelievers from destroying the sanctity of our restaurants.
The Shellfish Suppression Act is also good value.
God Hates Shrimp
Oh, does some dirty evil lying pervert they call the Pope claim religion is not mocked?
It just hasn’t caught on.
Here is a picture of Jesus with his pet ferret.
