Friday, June 27, 2008
Gülen top of the brainless
Deleted 113. Thus paragraph Paragraph 115 de facto is paragraph 2, or vice versa.
Just checked the headlines posted by Erkan 30 minutes ago. Lots to read, indeed!
Gülen tops intellectuals list. Can't stop laughing.
You see, an intellectual per definitionem is an intelligent person without brains.
Saturday, April 26, 2008
Pope converts to Moneytheism
A row has broken out in Rome about whether the speeches and writings of Pope Benedict should be freely available to everyone or subject to copyright.
The dispute was prompted by revelations that a publishing house in Milan had to pay £10,000 to reprint 30 lines from the first speech by the Pope following his election in April, after the Vatican transferred copyright on papal texts to its own publishing house, Libreria Editrice Vaticana. The Vatican also plans to charge rights on any papal texts of the past 50 years.
Full story here.
Hear hear! Even His Oddity seems to have come to the conclusion that it's moneytheism which keeps the world together in its innermost.
No applause from the wrong side, please. Anybody calling his religion, his worldview the 'one and only' is - with all respect - an idiot.
Yes, yes. There's a difference.
Thus, all idiots in the classical sense, come on and sue me!
Does it help (me) that I am laughing at them? That I am fed up? So damn fed up. With all those opportunists, who'd call themselves pragmatists.
Whatever politician/bishop I asked 'what's the difference between opportunism and pragmatism' smiled, raised his/her brows, but would not (try an) answer. In 30 years!
Back to 'Moneytheism':
I am exaggerating? What's about this?
SAN GIOVANNI ROTONDO, Italy - The exhumed body of Padre Pio, a saint considered a miracle worker by his devotees, attracted thousands of pilgrims on Thursday when it went on display 40 years after his death.Ah, the older I get, the less time I do have to be diplomatic. No one needs to believe in a god. It's just enough to be good*. To be kind to your neighbours, to the 'strangers/foreigners you meet and to those you love. That's all**.
Full article here.
* Sometimes it is difficult to be good.
** I repeat: That's all.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Forza Italia!
Well, already Seneca knew: Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Time for some special drops of vino then. You'll find them in any well-assorted Italian shop.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
37 laughable Popes
Exactly 100 years later, thus 47 years ago , Juri Gagarin happened to be the first human earthling in the orbit.
Well, and 375 years ago was the first day of the process Pope(s) versus Galileo Galileo.
And only 37 Popes or 359 years later, 23 years after Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon, the damned heliocentrist, got rehabilitated, which makes me still laughing. Ha. Ha. Ha.
Ah, anybody feeling offended?
So ... err ... No sorry. You see, I am agnostic. Thanks god? :) Oh well, anyway, I am.
... Well, yes :) Science by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. [Bertrand Russell, 1950]
Friday, February 29, 2008
Hoisting St. George's Cross
One should never say never (and, actually, I am mostly - noticed I did not write ' always'? :) - trying to avoid superlatives).
Today I am 'hoisting' a flag.
No, not the Irish. The English. The Cross of St. George.
Why?
By visiting James at nourishing obscurity you will understand.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Peace be upon them
Yes.
Friday, February 22, 2008
Le petit verbicide struck again
Surely le petit verbicide will call his latest effusions again "libertarian paternalism".
And what would I do? Sentencing the 'nasty little control freak' to severest swearboarding in the devil's kitchen?
No. Variatio delectat. Longrider, take over.
Thursday, February 14, 2008
Milliband's spreading democracy militarily
He will warn that the rise of China means that the world can no longer take "the forward march of democracy for granted", and that Britain must unambiguously be on the side of what he describes as "civilian surges" for democracy. Continued here.
Interesting that the Milliband would mention China, but not Zimbabwe, isn't it?
Well, having received my Valentine's Day present by reading the world's most intelligent and peace-loving leader saying '"Prosperity and peace are in the balance", I shall neither write this man suffers from stupidity and megalomania nor comment his words, but leave this to Archbishop Cranmer, in whose piece you will find following nice anecdote, which I shall soon - in a other context - find the opportunity to recall:
'When Sir Charles James Napier [in the India of the early 19th century] was confronted with Hindu demands for a lifting of the ban on suttee. And the general famously replied: ‘You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.’And now's your turn, His Grace.
Valenking's Day
RIYADH - Agents of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice visited flower and gift shops in the capital Saturday night to instruct them to remove all red items - from red roses and wrapping paper to boxes and teddy bears - from their shelves, shop workers said.Why would this happen?
Two possibilities, says Tetrapilotomos.
1. The defender of human rights thought of that many people count their costs for those Valentine flowers in shortened lives and intended to set an example - once a year.
2. The wise and pious King Abdullah in his benevolen ce ordered to ban Red until Friday in order to push the black market prices for red roses and thus make Saudi Arabia's florists happy - at least once a year.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Hurray! They're not capitulating
And again I do regret that - not listening to Tetrapilotomos' advice - I did not found factories in which I could let produce flags on demand in all those countries in which pious philanthropists would encourage their (sic) people to give evidence of how peace-loving and tolerant their religion is.
Instead of presenting pictures showing burning flags and / or well educated humanitarians holding posters with slogans such as Death to / Kill /Massacre / Slaughter those who insult Islam" and or "Europe you will pay, your 9/11 will come", I do allow myself to recommend reading following essay by Henryk M. Broder which is an excerpt from his book Hurra! We're capitulating.
Ah, well, and due to a recent occurrance here another piece by the same author: Shariah Is for Everyone!
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
All these illegal buildings!
The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein has condemned a decision by Israeli authorities to demolish the Al-Omari mosque in the village of Umm Tuba near Jerusalem under the pretext that the [700 year old] building had been built without a license.
Would anybody, please, show me building application and licence for the Second temple?!
No, not what is written in the Book of Ezra; a notarized building application, an authenticated design and full planning permission and a certified and legalized building licence.
Otherwise, I think it were logic to immediately raze the Western respectively the Wailing Wall.
The Peace of the Night, and good luck!
Oh well, just in case any persons thinking they were peace-loving Muslims, intend to enthusiastically lavish me with virtual back-slapping and oriental flowery hymns of praise - think twice!
Next you might be asked for certain documents according the Dome of Rock and the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Salam!
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Casting out the devil by 70 Beelzebubs?
Indeed. Trying to fight carbon oxide with laughing gas seems as if trying to cast out the devil by 70 beelzebubs.
Therefore, reading this article might be of interest, the more when keeping at the back of one's mind what has been thematized in previous posts.
Friday, January 25, 2008
In mood for meatless food? III
Personally, I am not thoroughly convinced.
It's is not easy to convince an agnostic. :)
But when even those few German TV-stations I do consider slightly reliable are getting interested in the issue*, Mr Engdahl who makes himself ring a bit hollow by sensation mongering titles as
Judge for yourself.
* There will (hopefully) soon a post covering this
In mood for meatless food? II
Part 1: The Choice between Food and Fuel
Part 2: The New Chinese Appetite for Meat
Part 3: Snapping Up Land Across the Globe
Part 4: Can the Poor Afford to Eat?
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Le petit verbicide
A certain Professor Le Grand seems to have very special ideas how to change so-called health habits of Her Majesty's subjects, of course on behalf of common purpose.
By the way, Mr Grand would call his (?) proposals "libertarian paternalism".
That is why le petit verbicide landed well-deserved in the devil's kitchen.