Tuesday, 31 March 2015

Muslim Students Do Their Duty

If you are a compassionate human being who prefers not to view details of the horrendous violence inflicted on others by religious fanatics in the name of their God of Peace, then don't scroll down - leave this page immediately.



These fundamentalist Muslim students (young Zikrulla and little Arif) were getting quite bored at their religious school where they were trying to learn the Koran off by heart. So bored in fact, they decided to do something special to brighten up their day. They decided go out and kill someone!

Madrasa students Zikrulla & Arif killed Washikur Babu today. 
Killers said it’s their duty as Muslims to kill freethinkers.


Eventually they found Wahikur Babu whom they knew to be someone who disagreed with Muslim fundamentalism so they decided he should be the one to die.

They weren't the bravest little students however, so they took out their butcher knives and snuck up behind their unsuspecting victim and started the attack while he wasn't looking. They tried to cut his head off but the poor little boys weren't strong enough and that's when they gave up the attack and ran away as fast as their little legs could carry them.

And then their day got even worse. Not only were they not strong enough to complete the task the God of Peace had given them, they weren't rich enough to pay the police bribes and now they are in jail awaiting trial.

It's Bangladesh, though, where killing infidels is fast becoming a spectator sport, so they'll almost certainly get away with a very light sentence. And if their families can gather up enough money to bribe the prosecutor they might still be completely exonerated.


This is Wahikur Babu:



This is what they did to him:
Allahu Akbar
God is Great







Friday, 27 March 2015

Despicable Christian Politician

A pregnant Colorado woman had her baby cut from her womb on Wednesday during an alleged attack by a stranger ... The victim told officers that she was pregnant and an attacker had "removed" her baby ... Police said that some time later, a 34-year-old woman showed up at the same hospital with the dead baby claiming she had suffered a miscarriage and when police made the connection, they took her into custody.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/19

Gordon Klingenschmitt is an unprincipled American preacher (and politician) who is convinced that legal abortions are destroying America and he came up with a pathetic explanation for the crime you have just read about. He said the woman had her baby cut from her womb because that was God's punishment for legal abortion in America! 

This vile Christian lawmaker is saying that God tries to prevent legal abortions by having mentally unbalanced people perform abortions on unwilling victims!
 
In the following video you will hear his incredible explanation and then you will hear the cowardly bastard trying to avoid answering questions about his despicable behaviour.




After all the bad publicity, this horrible Christian preacher told the victim he had donated $1,000 to help pay for her medical expenses. She very quickly sent it back to him.


Other sources:
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/klingenschmitt

http://www.9news.com/story/news/local/politics/2015/03/26




Monday, 23 March 2015

For The Wine Connoisseur

I used to work in a winery bottling department. My favorite memory is the day when four of us were working on the labelling line (two each side of the conveyor belt) with the bottles of wine moving slowly past us. We each grabbed a bottle from the conveyor, slapped a label on it, returned it to the conveyor, and then grabbed another bottle. It was just a matter of chance which bottle we grabbed but it didn't matter because it was all the same wine. It all came out of the same stainless steel tank.

The funny part was that all four of us had different labels!

The girls in the tasting room often amused themselves when a pretentious wine connoisseur tried to impress his friends by sampling different wines and passing his judgement upon them. They would deliberately suggest wines with different labels (but which they knew to be exactly the same stock) and then settle back to listen while the connoisseur declared one superior to the other.




Sunday, 22 March 2015

Jesus Warned Us About Demons

Deasia Watkins is one of those ratbag Christians who thinks she is best friends with Jesus and everyone else is a no-hoper. On January 24, 2015, Chris Gulley reported that, "She kept saying we were sinning so much, we didn't realize we were sinning ... We need to come to the light and see what God wanted us to do." She also declared that her three month old daughter, Jayniah, was a demon who deserved to be punished.

Police got involved and social workers gained custody of the child.

Then social workers gave custody to Desia's aunt with specific orders to not allow the mentally disturbed parent into the house under any circumstances. The aunt agreed to the terms and then immediately called the mother and invited her to stay in the house with the baby. (What could go wrong?)

On March 16, 2015, Deasia waited until the aunt was asleep and then started bashing baby Jayniah; broke her arm, stabbed her fifteen times, and then cut her head off ! She put the knife into the dead baby's hand and toddled off to bed for a well-earned rest.

Next morning a five year old member of the family walked into the kitched and found the dead baby

The aunt was awakened and immediately began screaming for assistance. Twenty-four hours earlier she was pompously declaring that she knew better than all the social workers and no way was she going to let them break up her beautiful Christian family. Now she is coming to terms with the consequences of her idiotic actions.

Meanwhile, poor little Jayniah is dead.

http://www.wltx.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/18/
 
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/03/20/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3004178/




Saturday, 21 March 2015

The Facts Have Been Changed
(To Protect The Religious)

 Live Science reports:
Manganese nodules have been found in every ocean, but are most common in the Pacific Ocean. The metal lumps, which most often look like pancakes, are formed of layer upon layer of metal ore that slowly crystallizes around a core. The core may be a fossil, a rock or fragment of another nodule.

"These were very, very circular, which is strange," Devey said. "They usually look like cow flops."

Scientists think the nodules grow very slowly, padding themselves by less than an inch (1 centimeter) in a million years. The largest nodules found by the R/V Sonne scientists could be as old as 10 million years, Devey said. Because the spheres are so old, they could provide a record of past climate change, he added.
http://www.livescience.com/49820


Charisma News reported the same story like this: 
Scientists Find Evidence of Genesis Flood and Noah's Ark 
"These metallic pellets provide strong evidence that most seafloor sediments were deposited rapidly, not slowly and gradually over millions of years. Are these nodules evidence of the Genesis Flood?" writes creation scientist Jake Hebert.
...
Evolutionary scientists are perplexed.
...
it's evidence of the Genesis Flood and Noah's ark.
 
http://www.charismanews.com/world/48839


I don't know why they even bothered to refer to the original article. They contradicted everything it said !

Actually I DO know why:
Charisma News knows that its readers will never bother to check out original sources for fear of disillusionment.

Charisma News also knows its audience well enough to realize that a reference to the scientific discipline of volcanology won't get emotions running high enough, so the experts in the field suddenly become "evolutionary scientists" !

(And what the hell does Charisma News think that evolution has to do with "metal lumps" ?)



Charisma News
We Report, You Believe



Thursday, 19 March 2015

Christian Documentary (With Background Music)


Original video here:


That same monotonous soundtrack just rolls on, and on, and on, and on, until the viewer is begging for relief.




Sunday, 15 March 2015

What's A Steadicam? (asks Australian TV Producer)




They think it's all very realistic.
"Gee whiz, everything is happening so fast we 
don't know where to point the camera next!" 
I think it's bloody pathetic.


[And what about the background soundtrack? Which unimaginative prick thought that might be a good idea I wonder.]



Saturday, 14 March 2015

A Day and Night In The Casino

I started the day with $360 in my wallet and decided to go down the pub and have a go at the pokies (In Australia the slot machines are called poker machines or "pokies" for short).

A lot of people bet only twenty cents per spin so a $10 note lasts for a long time, but I usually bet $1 per spin, which means I can go through fifty or a hundred dollars in just a few minutes when things go bad. On the other hand, when things go right, I can make heaps of money just as quickly.

So down at the pub I started with $100 and lost it within about twenty minutes. It was just spare cash so I didn't mind. In fact I was so unworried that I casually hauled out another $100 note and fed it into the machine. Unfortunately, that too disappeared in about ten minutes!

Now I was getting a bit worried. I had already blown $200 and there was only one more $100 note in my wallet. Should I just accept my losses and keep the last $100 for other things or should I risk it in the machines? I had no bills to pay; the fridge was full; the rent was paid. Even if I lost this last $100 I wouldn't be in any trouble (although I'd feel like a real dick-head) and there was still another $60 floating around that I could use for incidentals like bread and milk. So yeah, let's risk another $100.

But this time there was no point in fart-arsing about with $1 per spin because I'd never make my money back at that level. I decided to bet $3 per spin. If things went bad I'd be in trouble, but if things went well I should be able to recoup all my losses fairly easily. Unfortunately things went bad and there were just a few dollars left showing on the screen - when bugger me! I got three "scatters" and won eight free games. 

At $3 per spin I was pretty sure I would win back a fair bit of the money I'd already lost - but you can never be sure with free games and there was still a chance that I'd get back only thirty or forty dollars. 

But luck was with me. Halfway through the free games feature I triggered it again! And this time I scored an extra fifteen free games. Even better, I started getting some big wins along the way and when the reels finally stopped spinning I had $357 on the clock. So off home I went. Fifty-seven dollars ahead on the day.

After dinner that night I was thinking that if I hadn't recouped my losses on the feature win, I would have been sitting at home with only $60 in my wallet, but now I actually had $357 + $60 = $417, so maybe I ought to push my luck a little further. I decided to head for the casino and give it another go.

I sent $100 through the pokies in next to no time and another $100 disappeared just as quickly. Now I was getting a bit pissed off and decided to change tactics. I decided to risk my last $200 at the roulette table. Ten minutes later it was all gone. Only $17 left in my wallet.

What to do next? Cut my losses and run, or give it one more go? I decided to give it one more go and went to the ATM where I withdrew $500 from my savings account before heading back to the roulette table. This time I got some early winners and soon I was $200 ahead. I cashed-in my chips and went outside for a cigarette while I contemplated what to do next. Actually I didn't do much contemplating because I now had $717 in my wallet and fully intended to keep on going until I was showing an overall profit.

This time I went back to the pokies and quickly lost $100. No problems. I pulled out another $100 and put it into the machine. But this time I decided to go for broke - six dollars per spin! And would you believe it; I was down to the last few dollars when I hit the free games feature. Fifteen free games with all prizes tripled. I sat back and watched my winnings pile up - $300, $500, $600, $800, $900, $1100 - and when the feature was finally over I had $1,295 on the clock and $517 still in my wallet.

I went back to the roulette table and lost a quick $200 before deciding to call it a night, and heading out the door with $1,612 in my wallet.

Next morning I went to the bank and deposited $1,400 into my savings account and still had $212 in my wallet. Total profit on the day: $752.

[For those who may be wondering: I have never lost money I couldn't afford to lose. I usually risk only $100 per session and usually stop playing when I'm $100 in front. My biggest one day loss is $1,000 (that's happened only twice) and my biggest one day win was $4,000. I have never borrowed money to place a bet and I have never risked the rent money on a wager. In fact I am such a conservative character I don't even have a credit card. I pay cash for everything and have never owed anything to anybody. The only bills I get are for the usual things like gas, electricity, and the telephone. Gambling is not a problem for me, it's a hobby.]



Sunday, 8 March 2015

Dying For Jesus

While I was reading this article the term "death cult" kept on popping into my head.

Tom and JoAnn Doyle are longtime missionaries to the Middle East, and my very dear friends.  I pray every morning for their protection and ministry.  Tom's book, Dreams and Visions: Is Jesus Awakening the Muslim World?, tells the incredible story of Muslims worldwide who are meeting Jesus in miraculous ways, including visions and dreams.  As a result of such miracles, more Muslims have come to Christ in the last 15 years than in the previous 15 centuries.

His new book, Killing Christians, tells the other side of the story.  Tom profiles eight Christians in the Middle East who are risking their lives to follow Jesus.  I began reading it last weekend and couldn't stop until I was done.  I urge you to buy his book and share it with anyone who needs encouragement to follow Jesus courageously.

Here are some examples of what you'll find: A believer smuggles Bibles into Somalia by hiding beneath decaying corpses in coffins.  A Christian in Syria, speaking to an underground church, says of their shared faith, "This will cost us our lives.  We will die for this."  He and his friends have already purchased a plot of ground in which to be buried when they are martyred.

In Baghdad, a Muslim comes to Christ through the kindness of an American soldier who shared his faith and gave him a Bible.  A Christian in Saudi Arabia struggles to understand why her friend Mina was martyred while she was miraculously spared.  She concludes: "Too often, even Christians forget that our faith is not primarily for this life.  It is for the life to come.  We who are still here are the ones who have been left behind.  Our real life has not even begun, but for martyrs like Mina, it has."

A believer in Alexandria, Egypt who was spared by miraculous intervention knows that "Jesus left me here to lift Him up in Alexandria.  It's as simple as that.  I have no other purpose."  He knows he will probably be martyred one day unless he bows to Islam, but testifies: "I will never bow down but to Jesus."

 

http://www.christianheadlines.com/

That bizarre story about hiding under decaying bodies in order to smuggle bibles into Somalia sounds like complete and utter bullshit to me. Sure, I can imagine some necrophiliac using the bible smuggling excuse to cover his perversion, but no way do I accept that bible smuggling is so difficult in Somalia that the smugglers must resort to such methods. Just pay a bribe to the border guard and he'll probably let you drive a truck load of bibles into the country.


You can read most of the story here:
http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Christians
It starts at chapter 1.



Thursday, 5 March 2015

Back In The 1950s They Knew
How To Use An Echo Chamber

He was born Sidney Louis Gunter Jr. in 1925 in Birmingham, Alabama and recorded under the names of Sidney Jo Louis and also Hardrock Gunter. 

His nickname "Hardrock" came before the rock'n'roll era. He once hit his head very hard (on something) and the other band members marvelled that he hadn't been knocked out. They said his head must be as hard as a rock - hence "Hardrock".

In the early days of rock'n'roll producers occasionally recorded singers in a closet or some other confined space in order to get an "echo effect" on their voice.

This song by Hardrock Gunter (using the name Sidney Jo Louis) is a good example of the extremes to which producers went in the 1950s. There is enough echo here to make the song almost unintelligible (and that's why I love it).


Original video here:

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Probably one of the most famous 1950s example of the echo chamber's use was Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley - a song mercilessly parodied by Stan Freberg.

 Original video here:



And here's the Freberg parody:

Original video here:




Wednesday, 4 March 2015

How To Beat A Con Man

It is often said that none of us are safe from the con man; that within all of us, there lurks a degree of gullibility which con men can recognize and easily exploit despite our best efforts to avoid those situations.

Well I am here to tell you that I have never been conned and never will be conned. Whenever somebody comes to me with any sort of money-making plan I don't make even the slightest effort to discover whether or not it is a legitimate business offer. I simply say, "You'll have to speak to my accountant about that." So far not one person has ever asked how to get in touch with my accountant! Not one! So the con starts and ends right there.

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The following letter is typical of those sent out by the 21st century con men known as 419 scammers. The 419 scam is a modern variation of a centuries old con known as The Spanish Prisoner. If you bother to read the letter you will see that a young man has found himself in a troubling situation. There is $177 million dollars held in trust for him, but his situation prevents him from gaining access to the funds so he wonders if it would be OK to have the cash moved into your bank account. If you agree to help him, he will let you keep $53 million (30%) while you transfer the remaining $124 million into an account he can access.

There are three obvious signs that it's a scam, and a particularly inept scam at that.
(1) The whole letter is written in the uppercase. It looks stupid. No sensible person would even bother to read it.
(2) The letter arrives unsolicited from someone you've never heard of. No sensible person is going to regard it as a genuine offer.
(3) The amount of cash ($177 million) is so large that no sensible person is ever going to consider such a ludicrous proposition.
But why is the scam so obvious? Why doesn't the con man write a more business-like letter; something a bit more believable? And why doesn't he mention a more realistic sum of money; perhaps $177 thousand instead of $177 million?

Well if he did that, the con man would get thousands of replies from people who have believed the story so far, and now want a bit more information about the deal. None of those people are silly enough to go all the way with the scam, so the  con-man will be wasting hours, days, and weeks, trying to convince these potential victims who will ultimately NOT be convinced.

So the scammer aims his letter at the dumbest, most gullible humans on the planet. He weeds out all the sensible people with his poorly written letter with its idiotic claims and unbelievable sums of money. No sensible person ever responds to his letter so he never has to waste time dealing with them. 

But some people do respond. They are the real idiots. They will believe anything. And they are the people the con man is prepared to spend time with - because they are dopey enough to fall for the con.






Tuesday, 3 March 2015

United Nations Human Rights Council

Saudi Arabia to behead man 
for renouncing Islam

Defendant to be executed after he posted a video of 
himself ripping up a Quran, hitting it with his shoe
http://www.timesofisrael.com/saudi-arabia-to-behead-man-for-renouncing-islam/


So the sensible thing would be to take the case to the United Nations. Go to the UN Human Rights Council and get the barbaric Saudi Arabian sentence overturned.

But wait a minute - look at the list of members of the United Nations Human Rights Council - Saudi Arabia is a member until December 31st, 2016.
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/MembersByYear.aspx


Now there's a conflict of interest if ever there was one. A country famous for abusing human rights has the United Nations backed power to decide whether or not it abuses human rights.



Monday, 2 March 2015

Not For Weak Stomachs

Be warned, this video will distress many viewers


The original (9 minute) video is here:


Mainstream Christians will try to dismiss this nonsense by saying, "Well we don't do that in our church," as if their good behaviour compensates for the bad behaviour of their fellow-believers. The main-streamers may not abuse their children in this way, but other Christians do - and not just a few of them either. There are probably tens of millions of children getting dumbed down in this fashion every week. And all for the sake of the almighty dollar. The preacher is thinking to himself, 
"If I can get these idiot kids under my control now, imagine how much money I'll get from them when they grow up and start working. Not just single tithes either. I'll hit these silly bastards with double tithes (and even triple tithes if I need to buy a new car)."
And all you main-streamers standing over there on the high moral ground, don't you go around looking so smug. Ask yourself what your preacher is doing to your children right now? Probably got them bent over a pew with their pants around their ankles.

You think I'm being unfair? Here's a little test you can try every day: Go to Google, click on the News button and search for "Youth Pastor". Without even scrolling down the list of results you will find at least one, and usually three or four stories, about preachers raping children. The further down the list you go, the more stories of child rape will find. And these are not isolated incidents. New stories are appearing on the list every day of the year. Here's the first few items on today's list:




https://www.google.com/search

Sunday, 1 March 2015

Different Views On History


Megachurch Pastor on CNN: 
Yes, Jesus Rose From the Dead
and That's Why We Still Talk About Him Today 


I thought it happened because Christians gained political power in about 400AD, destroyed the education system, burned the libraries, outlawed the rival pagan religions, and exiled or executed anyone who disagreed with them.