Folks,

Have you wondered, as I have, about some schools in the American education system contemplating teaching "Intelligent Design"? The great Dubya said he wants to introduce alternative points of views in schools (Ironic, him talking about INTELLIGENT design when he is obviously the product of a bad experiment involving Barbara Bush and a retarded chimpanzee; nothing intelligent there). ID is just fundy-speak for "Creationism", like what "christian rock is" for "crappyass BAD music". So let me get this straight, for the sake of an alternative view we have to accept that "Simsalabim Abracadabra *POOF*" is as valid as a thoroughly tested and researched topic like natural selection. Sure, let's introduce alternative viewpoints in ALL subjects.

1> When teaching medical students how to perform angioplasties and baloon stents, let's also teach them the healing power of crystals.

2> Let's teach history kids that the holocaust never happened and that it was a product of Jewish conspiracy to create Israel. Hey, it is a point of view!

3> Let's teach geography students that the earth is just 3000 years old and the complex geographical formations are formed by a global flo... oh wait, scratch that. It's already part of ID curriculum

4> Shakespeare did not exist! All his plays were written by an Arab named Sheikh El Sabar, which became corrupted to Shakespeare. Let's teach "My Pet Goat" or any of Arundhati Roy's junk as literature. Hey, alternative points of view!

5> Teach Britney Spears to classical music students. Hey, alternative points of view!

When they start listening to alternative viewpoints in church, only then should they expect others to listen to alternative viewpoints in schools.

These retarded apemen have their heads so far up their asses that they forget what reality is like. They parrot ID as if it's a viable theory. I have just two questions for these ID nuts.

1> Prove ID happened.
(SAying how else do you account for the complexities yadda yadda is NOT proof)

2> Provide the mechanism by which it happened.
(Evolution works by natural selection, which is a mechanism for selecting for certain traits by the environment and against others. What's yours?)

3> *BONUS QUESTION* Explain how Noah got all species of plants and animals in that boat of his (Yes plants too. What would the animals eat otherwise?). If he took only 2 of each kind, what about the lions and tigers who need meat?

I mean, when you want to come up with a curriculum you must have something more solid than "and god said...". I suspect that most of ID curriculum would be wishful thinking and taking pot shots at evolution.

How many years can you teach that stuff? Stupid Americans.

"Land of the Free" My Ass

The recent evacuations of Galveston and the rest of the Texan coast highlight a very important thing about America, the "Land of the Free", the "Free World". It's all a bunch of crap. New Orleans was 68% black, and look what happened to it in Katrina. Galveston is 76% White, and even before Rita is anywhere near, the place has been evacuated, the warnings are up, the resources have moved in, and all is in place to weather out the storm.


Of course some will say "oh, we learnt lessons from Katrina so we're better prepared!" Bullshit! The US gets on average three of four MAJOR hurricanes a year! Katrina was nowhere NEAR the first hurricane to hit the US! This is not something they didn't know the effects of. They knew, but they didn't give a shit because all the white people had already made their escape from New Orleans. Who gives a shit for a bunch of niggers? But Galveston is mostly white. A completely different story altogether. Officials are tripping over each others feet in trying to help the poor rich white folks get away and maybe do something to mitigate the PR disaster that was Katrina. Once they appease the media, who gives a shit what black people think? Its not like they watch TV or are influenced by the media anyway.

If this is how a developed nation, a nation that is the mightiest on earth, a nation whose 5% of the population control 20% of the world resources, treats its poor, and we hold it as the beacon of freedom and virtue in this world, then there is something seriously wrong with the way we look at freedom, equality and human dignity.

Freedom doesn't just mean we are able to talk whatever we want

Freedom doesn't just mean we can watch tit porn as and when we want to, on forty channels plus cable.

Freedom doesn't just mean we can do what we want to the earth and our surroundings, regardless of consequences.

Ask those black people who were left high and wet on 29/08 till a week later what freedom means to them. To them it means freedom from want. Freedom to pursue dreams, freedom to associate with whomever they desire, freedom to exercise their right of franchise, freedom to move about safely at night, freedom to walk into a restaurant or store without being stared at like a criminal, freedom to get a job they want... freedom to stay alive.
What is the point of being free to see fuckmenow.com through high speed cable when you are not even sure where your next meal is coming from, through no fault of your own but your skin colour? What's the point of being free to travel where you want, when you can't even afford to buy a car because you can never ever aspire to be anything higher than second head waiter? Again, because you went to a school that was "urban" (mostly black) and thus could never get real, good white boy education?

What is the point of living in the "freest country on earth" when laws exist to incarcerate you for crimes by upto 5 times longer than whites?

What's the point of living in a country that aims to promote freedom and democracy around the globe when it treats you like a third class citizen simply because of your skin colour/economic status?

What is the point of living in what is touted as the "model for democracy" when you are ten times as likely as a white man to be wrongly defranchised?

Katrina brought out a rarely talked about topic of American history. The American blacks.

LEt's look at a brief history of American blacks:

Slaves started coming in about 1620, and with the boom in agriculture in the South, more and more were "imported", like cattle. The south thrived on their blood, sweat and tears. What right do rednecks have to call black, poor people as siftless, lazy bums I haven't a clue.

George Washington, the very man who wrote "All men are created equal" in the US constitution, was a slave owner.

So was Thomas Jefferson (Although to their credit they did question its morality and tried to eliminate it slowly).

The Civil War of 1861 was essentially a war over the right to keep slaves. Imagine that, 300,000 people had to die just so the rednecks could not keep slaves. The south actually formed a rebel country of their own by seceding from the union and forming the Confederacy of the United States. It took four bloody years of war and a presidential assasination to abolish slavery. This was in 1865. It was when your father's grandfather was alive. Not that long ago, was it? IF you think it was, ask your dad if he remembers what his granddad was like.

Well, now that slavery was abolished, blacks were free right? So anything that happened to them can't be blamed on slavery right? WRONG!

Enter "Mr. Jim Crow". Jim Crow was a satirised dance version of black inferiority. Laws immediately were put into place to segregate blacks as "separate but equal". The SUPREME COURT of the UNITED STATES, that great protector of the "most sacred" Constitution, the same constitution that said "all men are created equal" ruled in favour of blatant apartheid in upholding a series of laws called the "Jim Crow Laws". It was apartheid disguised as "Separate but equal". Blacks were to live in slums, travel separately (translation: Third class), eat separately (crap food) and were forbidden to marry whites (miscegenation laws). They worked in white farms to pay off debts that they had to take under ridiculous interest terms meaning they were basically slaves, white chain gangs lynched black men and women whenever blacks tried to rise above the socioeconomic ladder (The Ku Klux Klan was the most famous group), all this done with the silent complicity of federal governments.

What these laws meant was blacks lived in slums, they went to schools that were decrepit, they were lynched (there actually were TRAIN PROMOTIONS advertizing lynchings), they were disenfranchised by having ridiculous "literacy tests" and were discriminated against in jobs (that's a nice way of saying the highest job a black could get was "head nigger" in a restaurant).

In the US apparently, lots of regions in the south are STILL like that (like New Orleans)

Oh it was a long time ago, right? WRONG

It was only in 1944, that black candidates were allowed to stand for office without hindrance, it was only in 1950's that ridiculous "separate but equal" laws were abolished, it was only in 1964, 19 fucking 64 that the Civil Rights Bill was passed by President Lyndon Johnson and ONLY IN 1965 were black people allowed to vote without hindrance by the Voting Act. 1965! Can you believe that?! That was barely 40 years ago. Your dad was a kid then. How can such deeply ingrained hatred towards a race change in such short course of time? Of course it can't!

Only in 1965 were blacks seen as human beings and given human rights and freedoms by the government. But New ORleans show how deeply entrenched is the racial divide.

Only when the white man is dying is the US government forced to act. I bet you anything that had Katrina tried to hit some whiteboy town, they would have evacuated that town faster than a fart in a crowded ballroom. All the support systems and evacuation systems would have been in place for days before landfall, even if they had to get some of the poor kids being shot in Iraq back, there would be aid up the wazoo, but a bunch of niggers? As Barbara Bush said "they're underprevileged, so this (hurricane) is working out very well for them". That one statement sums it all up.

Am I the only who thinks that "Happy Tree Friends" is not funny?

What the hell has happened to us? Are our brains that starved for entertainment that we actually have to watch digital zombified cartoon characters have their lips torn off, their brains mangled, their bodies turned to pate?

For the record, I am not complaining about the graphic scenes of body mutilation on that POS show, but at least can we do it in more imaginative and entertaining ways? Between watching an HTF marathon and undergoing root canal, suddenly the root canal operation doesn't look too bad. Is this what entertainment is reduced to? Mindless scenes of pointless violence, and ignorant hayseeds making complete dipwads of themselves in front of mike? "Reality television" be damned. There is nothing real about living in a forest and eating bugs, outing each other.

Our society needs help, desperately.

Today folks, I am going to bash some atheists!

Please note, for the really dumb, I said "SOME" atheists. These are the kooks at the Ayn Rand Foundation (www.aynrand.org)

Ayn Rand, for those who slept through junk-philosophy class, was a pseudophilosophising narcissistic bitch-whore from the former USSR who settled down in America and started her Ayn Rand Cult (Of course Randies would skin you with a blunt knife if you so much as suggested they exhibited herd mentality). She promoted this idea of positive objectivism, which among other things claimed that:

A> All things can be understood by reason (fair enough, true for most things)
B> All humans can and should interact freely in a completely open, free market system (idealistic but stupid. There's no getting around the fact that people are stupid, horny and selfish)
C> Man is the measure of all things. The world is seen to exist so man can exploit it fully (conservation and discipline be damned)

Now this rant is not about her, suffice it to say that she was one hell of a hypocrite.

Anyway, back to this bunch. The ARI was formed by Rand and still attracts a reasonable following today (though most people gave up on Rand once they reached some level of intellectual maturity). It's head, Leonid Peikoff is currently "Rand's intellectual heir" (the earlier choice, Nathaniel Branden was branded a heretic after he admitted to having an affair with another woman other than Rand).

These guys, in their website come up with occasional tripe they dare call "articles".

Now these guys are supposedly the champions of reason. You would expect to see their articles filled with rational debate, evidence for their claims, researched rebuttals to claims by naysayers and suchlike, right? Right?

Here's a sample of their "research" (Remember, these are guys with PhDs):
... All of this evades one blatant truth: the hatred being heaped on America is irrational and undeserved. Consider the issue of treatment of POWs. Many Muslims are up in arms about the treatment of prisoners of war in Iraq and at Guantanamo--many of whom were captured on battlefields trying to kill Americans. Yet these same Muslims are silent about the summary convictions and torture--real torture, with electric drills and vats of acid--that are official policy and daily practice throughout the Middle East.
(Now I am a reasonable man. I would presume that if Americans went into a land they had no business being in, WITH big guns and Humvees, they are bound to get shot at. So I would deduce reasonably, that in this case, killing Americans is not a crime, it's merely an act of self defence. Rational, people, Rational.
So why are these people being abused in prisons? Regarding the second point, true, human rights are unheard of in the middle east, but guess who is supporting those governments? The same Americans who go in and blow the shit out of them. Saudi Arabia is a HUGE friend of America. Their TGIF event is a beheading.

The reason the "muslims are silent" is because if they open their mouths they would lose their tongues! They have enough shit on their plate without having stupid white guys come in with machine guns blowing their kids' heads off! Incidentally where did they get the info about the boiling vats of acid and drills being used on a DAILY basis? Evidence?)

Or consider "Muslim opinion" over the U,S, handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in which the United States is accused of not being "hard enough" on Israel--a free nation with laws that protect all citizens, Jew and Arab alike--for Israel's supposed mistreatment of Palestinians. Yet "Muslim opinion" reveres the Palestinian Authority, a brutal dictatorship that deprives Palestinians of every basic freedom, keeps them in unspeakable poverty, and routinely tortures and executes peaceful dissenters.

(Let's see now: Israel, a free nation with laws that protect all citizens, Jew and Arab alike... Sure. I wonder what this means then: (Al Jazeera, Nov 2004)
Two Palestinian teenagers have been killed by Israeli occupation army fire in the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

The victims were named as Amir Banat and Muntassir Hadadi, both aged 15.

Palestinian security and medical sources said the deaths occurred shortly after dark on Saturday after clashes between stone throwers and Israeli soldiers in the dilapidated old sector of Qasaba.

OR This:

2 July 2001 - Israel settlers set fire to four Palestinian civilian cars near Hebron
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights reported that:

At approximately 02:30 local time, two settlers from "Kharsina" settlement east of Hebron set fire to four Palestinian civilian cars in Al-Baq'a neighborhood near the settlement.

OR this:
4 July 2001 - 14-year-old Palestinian child pronounced dead after Israel shot him with live ammunition on 8 December 2000. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights reported that In the afternoon, a 14-year-old child, Murad Jamil 'Abdullah El-Masri, from Khan Yunis, was pronounced dead in Amman Surgical Hospital in Jordan.

OR this:
4 July 2001 - Israel shells Palestinian homes in Gaza for third consecutive day
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights reported that:

For the third consecutive day, at approximately 23:00 local time, Israeli occupation forces, positioned at the border with Egypt in Rafah, shelled Palestinian houses opposite Salah El-Din Gate on the border. etc. etc I just cut paste the first four stories in google.

Yeah, equal protection under law for all citizens, Jews and Arab alike)

Does anyone remember that gutwrenching scene of a poor Palestinian father trying in vain to protect his 10 year old son from machine gun fire? Equal protection my ass.

The Palestinians in ISrael are treated like second class citizens. They live in absolute squalor, their land has been snatched from them without their approval, their homes shelled, their livelihoods destroyed and their children shot at. The neighbouring Arab states don't want them, and no one apart from Jordan is willing to give them citizenship. So who will they attack? Reason, people. Reason.

All neutral bodies want the withdrawal, but these kooks would have none of it. To them it would "glorify the terrorists". I never understood this.

All this folks from just ONE paragraph of their work. I'll post another section when I can muster the energy.