Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Organ sales 'thriving' in China

Article


The sale of organs taken from executed prisoners appears to be thriving in China, an undercover investigation by the BBC has found.

Organs from death row inmates are sold to foreigners who need transplants.


this is so wrong , in just so many ways ... starting from why those prisoners were on Death Row in the first place (activists for a more democratic china) to the very concept of death row in a totalitarian state in the first place ...


(ring ring)
Excuse me.
Hello , Doctor ? Whats that you say ? I need a new liver in six months or I'm dead meat ? Thanks I'll get back to you on that.

Now where were we ? Oh yes.

It is a fine and generous example of chinese society to provide this much needed service of organ donation to the world at large at such a reasonable cost, really it is ! honest !

2002: Security Now Job One

Microsoft Corp. puts out fix for a security flaw in its Internet Explorer


...because computer users could come under attack just by visiting a Web site that had been manipulated to take advantage of the flaw. That, in turn, would give an attacker complete control of a user's computer,...


In other words, visit the wrong web site , poof ! Infected, emails stolen ,credit card numbers stolen , you now have half a dozen virii on your computer, and you didn't even get a warning or a little pop up window asking for your permission.

In 2002 Bill Gates stated that Security was Now Job One.

It's 2006. He's had 4 years. You're still at the point where you wander off the beaten path on your computer on the internet explorer and you could potentially lose your life savings , your bank account emptied of the rent, your personality stolen , your house sold from right underneath you, and more, just because you're 10 year old hit the wrong web site.

This is not acceptable.
Get off the internet explorer.

getfirefox.com

Friday, September 22, 2006

OK , I'm confused ...

Article


Hezbollah won't disarm till Lebanon can defend itself, leader says

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah says the militant group won't disarm until the Lebanese government can defend the country.


Umm... I'm confused. Hezbollah is a muslim insurgant organization backed by other nations in the middle east with the purpose of overthrowing the lebanese democracy.

What was that again that just popped out of your mouth ?

Nasrallah addressed thousands of cheering supporters in Beirut Friday, his first public appearance since Israel attempted to dislodge the militants from southern Lebanon in July.

If Hezbollah disarms, the government led by Prime Minister Fouad Siniora is so weak that Israel will be able "to kill and detain and bomb whoever they want, and clearly we will not accept that."


Umm... the only people the Isralie's are trying to bomb are the Hezbollah, mostly because you're attacking them, firing rockets off at them, kidnapping their soldiers , etc etc ....


Hezbollah will talk about disarmament "when we build a strong and just state that is capable of protecting the nation and the citizens," Nasrallah said


You know , I was just watching a Television special yesterday about Islam. It kept constantly mentioning that Islam was a "Just" religion. You don't think their notion of a Just State is a non - democratic islamic one , do you ?



Lebanon protested against the Israeli attacks, but Hezbollah fought the incursion, winning what Nasrallah called "a great divine, historic and strategic victory" over Israel in 34 days of fighting in southern Lebanon this summer.


Ummm... Lebanon was never attacked. Only the Hezbollah were. and for a victorious army you got a lot of blown up buildings and pretty much little or no enemey casualties to point to. (40 israeli citizens killed by rockets fired at random into israel. )

Who wrote this confused pro-terrorist diatrabe anyways ?

Last Updated Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:55:39 EDT
CBC News


Figures.

Thursday, September 21, 2006

Jordanian Suicide Stupidity

Article

Jordan sentences female would-be bomber
AMMAN, Jordan - A court sentenced an Iraqi woman to death Thursday for her role in an al-Qaida-led triple hotel bombing that killed 60 people in Jordan's worst terror attack ever.

IDIOTS !!!

You don't sentence someone to death for deciding not to kill someone ! And you certainly don't sentence a failed suicide bomber to death ! Are you trying to encourage them to go through with it ? Do you really want them thinking "I could try to ditch the bomb and run , but the government will execute me anyways ..."

That's just stupid.
You want these suicide bombers to cut and run and not go through with it. A lesser sentence and some kind of good treatment is clearly mandated in a situation like this , if only by common sense.

The law is supposed to protect the population , and that means convincing the suicide bombers not to go through with it , not telling them they might as well they're dead anyways !


"The harsh verdict today sends a clear message to all terror groups: Jordan's stability and security is a red line that can't be crossed," said Mahmoud al-Kharabsheh, a lawmaker who sits on the parliament's Legal Committee.


The hash verdict today sends a clear message to all terrorist bombers. Once the bomb is strapped on , you might as well do it , if the bomb doesn't get you the government will.

And is that a message you really want to send ?

Monday, September 18, 2006

The Matryr Pope

Article

Ok, so I'm an 80 year old man , rather religious, in charge of an entire religion, and I'm facing my own mortality. I'm pope now , and I'm gonna die pope , and it
isn't going to be a long reign because us 80 year old men, you know , we probably got a long list of illness's we're not telling anyone about already before we even became pope.

I put out a speach about how conversion by the sword is evil , and named Muhamad as guilty of it , even calling him evil.

The Muslim religion went wild.

And so there I am on TV. Wringing my hands, saying "I'm sorry , I'm sorry" while all these vile and evil clerics are making death threats at me , essentially proving my very point that they are evil.

I love it ! Yah gotta know , I did it on purpose !



The Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of Sunni Arab extremist groups that includes al Qaeda in Iraq, issued a statement on a Web forum vowing to continue its holy war against the West. The authenticity of the statement could not be independently verified.

The group said Muslims would be victorious and addressed the pope as "the worshipper of the cross" saying "you and the West are doomed as you can see from the defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and elsewhere. ... We will break up the cross, spill the liquor and impose head tax, then the only thing acceptable is a conversion (to Islam) or (killed by) the sword."


Ok , so my speach to open dialogue on the merits of pushing your religious views by violence has received an answer. You beleive it's perfectly ok. (And you want to kill me for suggesting such a thing is evil).

Oh yes, this is just bearing fruit like I don't believe. I dont' have to say a thing, these muslims are stupidly putting on the horns and picking up the pitch fork all by themselves ! I love it !


The secretary-general of the Turkish HUKUK-DER law association submitted a request to the Justice Ministry asking that the pope be arrested upon entering Turkey.

The appeal by Fikret Karabekmez, a former legislator for the banned pro-Islamic Welfare Party, called for Benedict to be tried under several Turkish laws, among them obstruction of freedom of belief, encouraging discrimination based on religion, and inciting religious hatred.


Ho ho ho ! we won't discuss how Islam breaks all of those laws (freedom of belief and inciting religious hatred top the list) .

Instead , let us consider what happens if I show up in Turkey , and you arrest me , and I LET YOU DO IT !

Now you have a pope in a muslim jail cell, surrounded by angry muslims who are known for dishonesty. One small word in the wrong place by me , and these evil fools who can't control their own temper will cut my head off like they do all those captured jews. And no one is going to believe any story they make up.

And the religious storm that will cause will be like nothing you have ever seen. You think the west hates you now ? Try uniting all the various squabbling christian sects by assassinating a pope , and then you'll learn what hatred is.

If you have to check out ... what a way to go !

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Prison Camps

Article


BAGHDAD, Iraq - In the few short years since the first shackled Afghan shuffled off to Guantanamo, the U.S. military has created a global network of overseas prisons, its islands of high security keeping 14,000 detainees beyond the reach of established law.

Captured on battlefields, pulled from beds at midnight, grabbed off streets as suspected insurgents, tens of thousands now have passed through U.S. detention.

But others say there's no need to hold these thousands outside of the rules for prisoners of war established by the Geneva Conventions.

U.N. Secretary-General
Kofi Annan declared last March that the extent of arbitrary detention here is "not consistent with provisions of international law governing internment on imperative reasons of security."


Ok. so , you caught this guy , on the battle field , with a rifle in his hand , shooting at you. Only instead of killing him on the spot you got him to surrender.

And you want to do ... what ? Send him back home so the enemy can put another rifle in his hand and he can shoot at you a second time ? Is that what you're thinking ?

Or ... more entertainingly....
You pick up this suspect out of his bed at night , and question him for a while , and then let him go. But of course , you have to let him know why you picked him up in the first place, thats the LAW isn't it ?
"Your next door neibour Abdul turned you in."
Two days later Abdul's body shows up with his head cut off.

Yeah .... right.


"If you, God forbid, are an innocent Afghan who gets sold down the river by some warlord rival, you can end up at Bagram and you have absolutely no way of clearing your name," said John Sifton of Human Rights Watch in New York. "You can't have a lawyer present evidence, or do anything organized to get yourself out of there."


Afghan Warlords don't send secret messages to the western forces that you're a bad boy. They Just shoot you. And your whole family. And your whole village if they're really pissed off. Having you picked up by the wimpy westerner's who wont even touch your women and will probably release you in a few months or years is just the wrong message to send to a warlords enemies. A bullet to your head is the way to go , from their view point.


so what do I think of these detention camps ?

yah got two choices when you pick up someone off the field of battle with a rifle in his hand. shoot him , or make him a prisoner of war until the war is over. Turning him lose is like shooting at the western soldiers yourself, and thats negilgence causing death on YOUR part. Peace activists who believe otherwise need to spend some quality time in our prison system.

Saturday, September 16, 2006

I'm sorry , I didn't realize that you didn't you know you were evil.

Article

>>The worst crisis since Benedict was elected in April 2005 was sparked by a speech in Germany Tuesday that appeared to endorse a Christian view, contested by most Muslims, that early Muslims spread their religion by violence <<

Really ? Tell me again about all these Jihad's and 9/11 and all these Sunni's and Shiites assassinating each other in Iraq again ?

"Of course as we know the meaning of jihad can only be understood by Muslims," Budianto told the crowd. "Only Muslims can understand what jihad is. It is impossible that jihad can be linked with violence, we Muslims have no violent character."

So how many people did these no violent charactar muslims kill today ? It was 60 yesterday in bagdad. And not soldiers, but random civilians. Random Muslim civilians at that.


Muslim Brotherhood Chairman Mohammed Mahdi Akef also expressed anger over the pope's academic speech.

"The pope's statements come to add fuel to fire and trigger anger within the Muslim world and show that the West with its politicians and clerics are hostile to Islam."


The west is hostile to Islam ? but you're the one doing all the killing here ?

I'm sorry, didn't anyone tell you ? Killing is Evil. Lying is Evil. And the Clerics of Islam are doing both, and demanding of their worshippers to do both.

Hate to break this to you , but Islam is Evil.

Friday, September 15, 2006

Pope 'meant no offence' to Islam

Article

The Vatican has denied that Pope Benedict XVI intended any offence to the Muslim religion, after a speech touching on the concept of holy war.

Speaking in Germany, the Pope quoted a 14th Century Christian emperor who said the Prophet Muhammad had brought the world only "evil and inhuman" things.


I didn't mean to insult you , I just wanted to point out that your religion is the epitomb of evil.


quote from speach
The emperor, after having expressed himself so forcefully, goes on to explain in detail the reasons why spreading the faith through violence is something unreasonable. Violence is incompatible with the nature of God and the nature of the soul.


What you have is a long , reasoned debate that violence to forward religious ends is a bad thing (I agree), and repeatedly mentioning Muslims as doing precisely that.

Well....

Yup. Call a spade a spade. How many places around the world do muslims inflict violence upon non-muslims ? Lots.

The black cat complains it is colored black. This is the cats fault , not the observers.

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Ok , I stole this ... but I like it !

Stolen from :




Greetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States. We are Unitarian Jihad. There is only God, unless there is more than one God. The vote of our God subcommittee is 10-8 in favor of one God, with two abstentions. Brother Flaming Sword of Moderation noted the possibility of there being no God at all, and his objection was noted with love by the secretary.

Greetings to the Imprisoned Citizens of the United States! Too long has your attention been waylaid by the bright baubles of extremist thought. Too long have fundamentalist yahoos of all religions (except Buddhism -- 14-5 vote, no abstentions, fundamentalism subcommittee) made your head hurt. Too long have you been buffeted by angry people who think that God talks to them. You have a right to your moderation! You have the power to be calm! We will use the IED of truth to explode the SUV of dogmatic expression!

People of the United States, why is everyone yelling at you??? Whatever happened to ... you know, everything? Why is the news dominated by nutballs saying that the Ten Commandments have to be tattooed inside the eyelids of every American, or that Allah has told them to kill Americans in order to rid the world of Satan, or that Yahweh has instructed them to go live wherever they feel like, or that Shiva thinks bombing mosques is a great idea? Sister Immaculate Dagger of Peace notes for the record that we mean no disrespect to Jews, Muslims, Christians or Hindus. Referred back to the committee of the whole for further discussion.

We are Unitarian Jihad. We are everywhere. We have not been born again, nor have we sworn a blood oath. We do not think that God cares what we read, what we eat or whom we sleep with. Brother Neutron Bomb of Serenity notes for the record that he does not have a moral code but is nevertheless a good person, and Unexalted Leader Garrote of Forgiveness stipulates that Brother Neutron Bomb of Serenity is a good person, and this is to be reflected in the minutes.

Beware! Unless you people shut up and begin acting like grown-ups with brains enough to understand the difference between political belief and personal faith, the Unitarian Jihad will begin a series of terrorist-like actions. We will take over television studios, kidnap so-called commentators and broadcast calm, well-reasoned discussions of the issues of the day. We will not try for "balance" by hiring fruitcakes; we will try for balance by hiring non-ideologues who have carefully thought through the issues.

We are Unitarian Jihad. We will appear in public places and require people to shake hands with each other. (Sister Hand Grenade of Love suggested that we institute a terror regime of mandatory hugging, but her motion was not formally introduced because of lack of a quorum.) We will require all lobbyists, spokesmen and campaign managers to dress like trout in public. Televangelists will be forced to take jobs as Xerox repair specialists. Demagogues of all stripes will be required to read Proust out loud in prisons.

We are Unitarian Jihad, and our motto is: "Sincerity is not enough." We have heard from enough sincere people to last a lifetime already. Just because you believe it's true doesn't make it true. Just because your motives are pure doesn't mean you are not doing harm. Get a dog, or comfort someone in a nursing home, or just feed the birds in the park. Play basketball. Lighten up. The world is not out to get you, except in the sense that the world is out to get everyone.

Brother Gatling Gun of Patience notes that he's pretty sure the world is out to get him because everyone laughs when he says he is a Unitarian. There were murmurs of assent around the room, and someone suggested that we buy some Congress members and really stick it to the Baptists. But this was deemed against Revolutionary Principles, and Brother Gatling Gun of Patience was remanded to the Sunday Flowers and Banners committee.

People of the United States! We are Unitarian Jihad! We can strike without warning. Pockets of reasonableness and harmony will appear as if from nowhere! Nice people will run the government again! There will be coffee and cookies in the Gandhi Room after the revolution.
Startling new underground group spreads lack of panic! Citizens declare themselves "relatively unafraid" of threats of undeclared rationality. People can still go to France, terrorist leader says.

Layton again calls for Afghan pullout, in wake of deaths

Article



"This is the wrong mission for Canada," Layton said.
...
"It's not balanced. It doesn’t represent the equilibrium between humanitarian aid, reconstruction and comprehensive peace process that Canadians would want to see."


I noticed self defence is not one of the points of equilibrium being balanced out here. Those guys are threatening canadians. And they are producing opium which gets turned into heroin and sold on canadian streets....


Layton, who made the same call for withdrawal on Aug. 31, also accused Prime Minister Stephen Harper's Conservative government of toeing the line set by U.S. President George W. Bush and his team in Washington, D.C.

"We need a made-in-Canada foreign policy, not one that's ideologically imported that follows along the pathway that has been set by the Bush administration," Layton said.


Yeah ! Just because when bush gets kicked in the balls and decides the solution is to pound on the ones responsible for kicking him , thats no excuse. We're supposed to smile when get kicked similarily and do things differently.

Not quite sure how , differently ...but different. Somehow. Canadian type different, not american type kick 'em right back. You know...different ....

Yeah , right.