Folks,

This recent row in the US over the buying of P&O by the UAE government has got me thinking. What is the big deal? So a Saudi-Lite company owns ports in the US. So what? Singapore owns three ports there and so does China, so why shouldn't the US's model free market capitalism allow the Emirs a share of the action?

It is not like the US does not do business with the Arabs. If it wasn't for them the US would still be a backwater militarist regime forced to eat bullets for lunch. Oil made the US rich and the Arabs were and are the ones who continue to sell them that.

So why is it that the US can put up bases in the Middle East but a Dubai company cannot own ports in the US? The people of the US started to shout that suddenly the ports will be hotbeds of terrorism. Please! It was a white guy who owned the Dulles Airport and the WTC (well a white Jew in any case) and the terrorists got through anyway. If they want to hit ya, they'll hit ya, regardless of whether your ports are owned by Dubai, Hong Kong or Timbuktu.

Something like this happened in the EU a month or so back. When Mittal Steel wanted to buy Arcelor, the EU raised a ruckus. Was it because the deal was a bad one? Was Lakshmi Mittal intending to fire every Arcelor employee? Was he threatening to bring the company down to its knees? No. The only reason they objected was they couldn't stand the concept of an INDIAN (not even by citizenship but by race: Mittal steel is actually based in Rotterdam, Holland; an EU country but Lakshmi Mittal is an ethnic Indian) owning Europe's largest steel mills. If this same offer was by Arcelor on Bharat Steel, the EU bastards would have blessed it richly. OF course the Brusselsprouts did not say it in such terms. They simply felt it would "create a monopoly situation". Right. Like that has actually worried them in the past when dealing with other countries. Now I am against a few greasy bastards controlling the world as much as the next guy and I am against any one company controlling the reins of a vital resource like steel, but since when has this become an issue for EU? French companies own majority stakes in Indian firms, so do the Dutch and Germans. So why can't it be vice versa?

All this just bings to the surface what was known for years; the white man is the most racist fuck around and only he can profit from pain. He spouts the virtues of the free market when the cause serves him and suddenly becomes protectionist when there is a threat of a non-white starting to dictate terms. When developing countries rightly exercise tariffs and quotas to protect their fledgling companies in the world market these guys get all up in arms but when these companies become ecocomic powerhouses, suddenly the free market is abandoned and these guys get all worked up over "workers' rights" and oligopoly watches. Worthless bastards, the lot of them.

Fuck Valentine, Up His Crusty Asshole (An Oldie but a Goodie)

Folks,

Now before you guys go ballistic about how sad I am to be single on Valentine's day, I would like to tell you I am NOT. So shut the fuck up and go fuck yourselves, and your piece of shit girlfriends.

What the hell is wrong with us? Valentine's Day my ass. What the fuck is so special about a day that celebrates breeding?! And who the fuck started this shit? I googled it up, and the best thing about this day is, it could be completely made up, coinciding with other spring and fertility festivals. Who gives a shit? Why not just celebrate “Mars day” and start beating the shit out of everyone we see on that day?

So what happens on this day? Guys are supposed to spend shitloads of money on their girls, in “honour” of Hallmark (The company responsible for other monstrosities like “secretaries day”, “mother's day”, “fuck your cat up its nose day”..). Fuck, these guys aren't even trying!

Hallmark: (To Guys) Buy our shit and give it to your girlfriends today so she won't think you're an unromantic boor who can't follow mindless societal trends.

(To Girls): Lose all your principles, placing your happiness on a day we created so your cheapass boyfriends will buy our shit.

And we are stupid enough to fall for that. What the FUCK is wrong with us?

Conversation:

Idiot Dork: Hades! Woah, nice clothes.. going somewhere special today?

Hades: No. Going home to read

Idiot Dork: Not doing anything on Valentine's Day?

Hades: No. Couldn't give a shit.

Idiot Dork: Why? You don't celebrate it?

Hades: Why do you celebrate Valentine's day?

Idiot Dork: Oh to honour love and to show our boy/girlfriends we love them.

Hades: So does that mean that you only show your love to your partner on V'day? Sheesh... What are you dating? A cow?

Idiot Dork: No no.. We show our love everyday but today is extra special.

Hades: Why?

Idiot Dork: Because it's Valentine's Day

Hades: *Sigh* (WISH I had a broad sword. Circular logic is such a bitch). So you decide to be extra nice to your girlfriend on Feb 14 because someone thought that would be a good idea. Now if I said, tomorrow is “Mars Day” where you go beat the shit out of people randomly, you'll do it...

Idiot Dork: I am not disturbing you with my beliefs. If you want to not follow it don't! Why are you being so rude to me?

Hades: You started this shit. And besides, it's fun laughing at your stupid ass. Also, I like to think myself as a foul-mouthed social commentator, and I am just fulfilling that role.

I wonder why, really. If you really care about your partner why the hell would another day make a difference? What kind of message are you telling each other: “I love you enough to buy you a bunch of roses whose prices are artificially inflated in response to an artificially created association with a hitherto nondescript “holiday” that has been raped up the ass by corporations. The emotional bond we share thanks to Hallmark is so deep!”

Fuck, it's annoying. True, people can always say “hey it's my lookout whether I celebrate meaningless commercialised holidays or not”. True it's not my business, but damn, don't you guys think it's stupid?!

Religion has this same effect. Why do we believe in god? Dunno.. Just seems like it's the right thing to do. Why do we think there is a heaven and hell? Because everyone says there is. Human beings love to follow instructions without being told that they are being led on. Why else would we dedicate a day to celebrate everything from jerking off to selling a loved one on eBay? We now have “mother's day”, “father's day”, “molest a mammal using only eraser heads day” and any other day that card companies can squeeze your money out, media can keep you stupid, while you pop in another dozen pills in your mouth and convince yourself that “life is so meaningless” little aware of the way you're being led around from one meaningless event to another by your nose until you die a bitter cynic of society and culture (Or something like that)

A day of meaningless ritual affection, followed by ritual dinner at some schmancy restaurant a night of ritual sex, and this makes people feel that their lives are worth something. Fuck them.

I vote, since we are going to be like this, to set aside a day called “Mars Day” (The Planetary Society already has a Mars Day on August 27th, but fuck them, this is serious business here). On Mars day (named after Mars, the Roman god of war), everyone has a slugfest with any one person they absolutely HATE. I know we hate many people but we can pick only one. To make it more special, it can only be done in couples. If someone is someone else's Mars Date, He/she is off limits to other haters. They go out, exchange Mars Day Cards (details below), meet at the backyard of an “abandoned” building (they can either go dutch or one person pays). This “Abandoned” Building can be run by any of the top hotel chains and for different rates you get different equipment, from standard room with two-by-four to the deluxe steel factory with metal chains. Dinner will consist of nothing but whisky/tequila shots and hard drugs and then they'll have a go at each other, undistubed by the rest of humanity for the next two hours, after which the surcharges would start kicking in and the person still standing would pay. Surely everyone hates SOMEONE enough to care. Let us celebrate Mars Day on January the 11th. Hell we could have celebrity Mars Day events featuring George Bush and Saddam Hussein, or what about this? The next American President will be determined by hand to hand combat on Mars Day! It's much better than the current shit system they have there now, that makes elections in banana republics look free and fair. I would pay to watch that on Pay Per View, fuck.

Mars Day gifts would feature this enduring symbol of hatred worldwide (or at least the western world): The EXTENDED MIDDLE FINGER! (EMF for those acronym seekers)

Anyway, with globalization, this shit will spread from Africa to Ukraine. Imagine that, on Jan 11th, people walk around the street displaying this symbol of human history, showing everyone else around them the one aspect that they all share in common, regardless of race, language or religion: Anger and hatred (and stupidity, which is why there will be enough suckers to make this shit work). Show them the EMF!

Cards and posters can feature this symbol and instead of “Be My Valentine” the slogan for this day shall be simply “Bite Me”. People walking down the streets, extending the middle finger and shouting “BITE ME!” and it shall all be perfectly legal. Companies like Jack Daniel's and Smirnoff will make a killing on this day, along with Ikea and Handifix. Instead of diamonds from De Beers, give them a diamond edged saw from Handifix. Instead of champagne and chocolates, Jose Cuervo and PCP. Instead of a night of wild unprotected sex, a night of wild, beating the shit out of each other. Fuck, I can see this thing getting off. See you, next January.

Fuck, I am a business genius.

Folks,

Something strikes me as rather strange in this recent fracas over the publishing of the prophet Muhammad's cartoon.

Just one question: Whenever some Islamic nutjob suicide bomber blows up a hospital full of kids, Why don't muslims decry that act as anti-islamic with the same ferocity as when they do when someone allegedly blasphemes their faith? You never see street protests against terrorists, you never see violent burnings of Saudi Consulates everytime some Saudi idiot runs a plane into a building. You never see that. Why not? No muslim burns the Saudi flag when someone from that country blows himself up in crowded markets, or for that matter the Indonesian flag when the next JI cultist blows up a hotel in Bali. Why not? If they can respond which such eagerness over the publication of a silly cartoon in a Danish paper, surely they can come together for a cause that is as glorious as protecting the reputation of islam from the scourge of terrorism!

I for one certainly think that the former is a much greater crime than the latter. If moderate muslims are not to be branded as hypocrites then they must establish amongst themselves what constitutes a heinous crime and what constitutes a silly prank. Drawing of Allah's portrait is not a crime, regardless of what muslims say. Drawing a caricature of Muhammad eating dog doo, insensitive and vulgar as it is, is also not a crime.

Driving bombs into buildings is.

So what if some Danish paper published a cartoon on Muhammad? In what way has the life of an individual muslim been affected? In what way has his "service to the Lord" been affected? Why give a shit?

If moderate muslims want to be taken seriously they should denounce acts of a terrorist with much greater vehemence than that of a cartoonist who is simply exercising his universal right of free expression. If most muslims think that acts of violence against the innocent are far greater crimes than some non-muslim saying something against islam, then they should say so in no uncertain terms. If they don't they are showing that they themselves are part of the problem. This refusal to be open minded and living in a 3rd Century mindset has no place in today's world.

RADICAL THINKER GIORDANO BRUNO (1548-1600)

In the words of historian, John Kessler, "He was a sensitive, imaginative poet, fired with the enthusiasm of a larger vision of a larger universe ... and he fell into the error of heretical belief.

For this poet's vision he was kept in a dark dungeon for eight years and then taken out to a blazing market place and roasted to death by fire." Is Giordano Bruno still a problem for many today?

Julia Jones wrote: "How would Bruno, who denounced virginity, chastity and the Church's attitude towards abstinence as life-denying, react to Clinton's indiscretions; what would he say to Jerry Falwell and the religious right? How would Bruno, who claimed there was life on the invisible worlds throughout an infinite universe, react to SETI and the current belief in UFO's? How would Bruno, who condemned Columbus and the explorers for "disturbing the spirits of native peoples" react to colonial wars, to Vietnam, and Iraq?

What would Bruno, who spoke out against the popular view of women as passive and base, have to say about a woman's right to abortion and the use of contraception? How would he react to the violence of our Columbines? What would he say? How much would he have to say about nuclear weapons!"

February 17, 2006 is the 406th anniversary of one of the most infamous intellectual and spiritual crimes of all time: the public burning at the stake, in Rome, of the great radical thinker and theologian Giordano Bruno. Atheist, infidel and heretic Giordano Bruno was executed under orders from Pope Clement VIII. Bruno had repeatedly refused to repent for his heretical questioning of Church doctrine that the Earth is the center of the universe, and even for his questioning of the very existence of God. His claims of an infinite universe with inhabited planets were revolutionary and considered a real threat to the Church doctrine.

From: http://www.thereisnogod.info/English/Giordano.php

Today we are still celebrating the existence of a redundant papacy and the catholic church, that kingdom of whores which continues to rally against abortion, science and human nature. The same papacy which tortured Galileo, victimized Copernicus, denouced Darwin, and murdered untold numbers of rational, thinking humans in a bloody reign over a period of almost a thousand years known as the Dark Ages is now mired in controversies involving little boys, and fighting against every rational bastion of science.

The catholic church, far from being an organization of forward looking, sensitive spiritual-minded people has continued to show its backward reactionary nature. It still refuses to sanction contraception. It steadfastly opposes stem cell research and science, it doesn't budge in the face of mounting criticism to allow its clergy to marry rather than shield the perpetrators of horrendous crimes against the young. Why on earth do we actually respect the pope as a human, much less a spiritual leader when he is the offspring of a lineage of corrupt, cruel, brutal and violent dictators who have stood against all things that deviate from their narrow world view?

Why should anyone consider as "holy" the spiritual descendant of such violent bigots as Pope Pius IV (1499-1565) who sanctioned crimes like this:

Seventy of the heretics were seized and conducted in chains to Montalto. They were put to the torture by the orders of the inquisitor Pauza, to induce them not only to renounce their faith but also to accuse themselves and their brethren of having committed odious crimes in their religious assemblies. To wring a confession of this from him, Stefano was tortured until his bowels gushed out. Another prisoner, named Verminel, having, in the extremity of pain, promised to go to mass, the inquisitor flattered himself that, by increasing the violence of the torture, he could extort a confession of the charge which he was so anxious to fasten on the Protestants. The manner in which persons of the tender sex were treated by this brutal inquisitor, is too disgusting to be related here. Suffice it to say, that he put sixty females to the torture, the greater part of whom died in prison in consequence of their wounds remaining undressed.

Or what about Thomas Aquinas, one of the foremost Catholic thinkers? He had these gems to share.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.
-- Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
-- Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
-- Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica

Some others...

Kill them all; for God knoweth them that are His. (Tuez-les tous; Dieu reconnaitra les siens.)
-- Arnaud-Amaury, when asked by the Crusaders what to do with the citizens of Beziers who were a mixture of Catholics and Cathars, the Abbot takes the concept of the afterlife to its logical conclusion, in Henry C. Lea, The Inquisition of the Middle Ages, also in Helen Ellerbe, The Dark Side of Christian History, critical editing by Cliff Walker

Pope Gregory VII (1020?-1085)
Roman Catholic Pope, one of Roman Catholicism's best-loved Popes

Cursed be the man who holds back his sword from shedding blood.
-- Pope Gregory VII, inspiring the Crusaders, in Malachi Martin, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Church (1981), p. 134

Pope Gregory XVI (1765-1846)
Roman Catholic Pope, intransigent opponent of liberalism in all its forms, devoted remorselessly to the repression of rebellion

From the most foul well of indifferentism flows that absurd and erroneous opinion, or rather delirium, of liberty of conscience.
-- Gregory XVI, Encyclical, "Mirari Vos" (1832), quoted from Albert J. Menendez and Edd Doerr, The Great Quotations on Religious Freedom

and finally a cheery little one from our favourite inquisitor:

Bernard Gui
Christian inquisitor

[The layman must not argue with the unbeliever, but] thrust his sword into the man's belly as far as it will go.
-- Bernard Gui, quoted in Helen Ellerbe, The Dark Side of Christian History