Beat The Drums Loudly

 Drummer Steve Moore
Original video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItZyaOlrb7E

Top Secret Swiss Drum Corps
Original video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JHXNaYoguNU

The Drummer of Ravel's Bolero
Original video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCex9IjPNCo

Gordo the Bucket Drummer (Australia)

I won't link to the original video on You Tube
because the uploader has made tens of thousands of dollars from it
but refuses to share even a cent of the cash with Gordo

So here's a link to an interview with Gordo himself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2T6jrot03E

Verbal Diarrhoea

This is atheist Steve Shives reading an excerpt from the Cornelius Van Til book titled Defense of the Faith. Steve's interpretation of the text is short and to the point:

Original video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4nJiN6Lpj4

(at about the 21 minute mark)

St Ephrem

I thought this was funny:

http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/

Another Memory Shattered

There is a famous Australian folk song composed in 1891 and titled, "Click Go The Shears". It tells the story of an incident in a sheep shearing shed where the "ringer" (fastest shearer in the shed) is beaten by the "snagger" (the oldest shearer in the shed) when the snagger was lucky enough to get the "bare bellied ewe" (which is often mistakenly called the "bare bellied joe" and in some versions the "blue bellied joe"). Anyway the snagger gets the bare bellied ewe and, because it has no wool on its belly, he saves himself a few seconds of shearing time and manages to beat the ringer by a single "blow" (of the shears).

I've always thought it was the most Australian song ever written - until tonight - when I came across an American folk song composed in 1865 and titled "Ring The Bell Watchman". Both songs are posted below and if you listen to them you will understand why my memories have been shattered: my favourite Australian folk song is nothing more than a rip-off of an American original !

Click Go The Shears (Australia 1891)

Original video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB3EDLqEllI

Ring The Bell Watchman (America 1865)

Original video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNOP5tYPTqI

Another Atheist Gone Berserk

He may or may not have called himself an atheist, but latest reports make it clear that he was definitely anti-religion. It is possible that he was a deist who believed in god but disagreed with organized religion, but my guess is that he was an unbeliever and most likely an atheist. Now he's dead and nobody cares. Serve him right.

The man linked to a violent assault on Dallas police headquarters on Saturday was accused two years earlier of choking his mother, then fleeing to an east Texas town where schools were locked down out of fear he would attack them as “soft targets”, according to accounts from police and family members.

Police said the suspect, who planted pipe bombs outside headquarters and fired at officers from his armoured van, told them he was James Boulware. He was killed hours later by a police sniper. 

Boulware was arrested for family violence in Dallas two years ago, in a case that was later dismissed. According to a Dallas police report, a witness said Boulware was in his mother’s house and “began talking rudely about religion, Jews and Christians”. The report said Boulware then grabbed his mother by the neck for two to three seconds, until a third person could pull him off. The two men fought until Boulware left the house.

The police report said he was then reported on the same day to be in Paris, Texas, about 100 miles away, where he grabbed weapons and body armour and talked about “shooting up schools and churches”. Andrew Boulware and his father, Jim, confirmed the incident.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/jun/14/

Kills Innocent Victims - Harbours No Ill Will

Talha Asmal

This is what the ISIS commanders refer to as a "useful idiot".

TALHA Asmal, who reportedly detonated a vehicle fitted with explosives while fighting for Islamic State in Iraq, has been described as "a loving, kind, caring and affable teenager" who never harboured any ill will against anybody.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/

Yes of course, as the shrapnel tore his victims into agonized shreds, the last thoughts of this loving, caring sweetie-pie were, "No offense...Nothing personal."

The ISIS bosses pick up these 17 year old idiot virgins, convince them that if they blow themselves up they can go to heaven and fuck themselves senseless every day for eternity - and the silly buggers fall for it !

Well Done That Boy

He should be able to dine out on this story for years to come.

A teenager on work experience discovered a new planet 1000 light years away. Tom Wagg was 15 when he spotted a tiny dip in the light of a distant star during his week-long placement at Keele University. After two years of further research, astronomers have confirmed that he witnessed a mystery planet passing in front of the star.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/69341609/

Did you notice that it is not described as a "previously unknown" planet, but as a mystery planet. (Even a little bit of woo is better than none at all.)