Some days when I blog...

...I feel sick.

"Enforced exclusion", "quarantine of carriers", "eradication of foci of infection" and "immunization"....

These were words used to describe how one commenter - on another blog - wants to deal with Islam. By checking his blog I infer he is aligned with the British National Front.

He had the nerve... the supreme hypocrisy... to preface this by comparing Islam to the Nazis.

He was duly counter-commented...by someone who wants to destroy every church in America because apparently all Christians are fascists.

"My... yes, we will have such a tolerant world after everyone different has been dealt with?"

And when the faith of atheism begins its own crusade... don't count on me.

Passing thought of the day about blogging

I was reading a review of a French film, and noted the following remark:

" the dialogue can get a bit precious at times. This is certainly true of L'Etudiante. When I was a student, I rarely fell out with people because of their opinions on social anthropology, political philosophy or career options "

...aha haha ... he he...

Just a comment on Melanie Phillips

Melanie Phillips is the author of 'The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth and Power', yet another book that seeks to say there is something fundamentally wrong with the world and - you guessed it - it's all the fault of Obama, gay people (about whose rights she has used the word "toxic"), Muslims, the theory of evolution, and people concerned about climate change.

Yawning already?

Oh and all centres around the eternal plot to destroy Israel, naturally...

Political commentator Matthew Norman writes:

" On her Spectator-hosted blog, Melanie Phillips disabuses readers of the suspicion that she can be vulnerable to the lure of hysteria. Responding to Joe Biden’s criticism of Israel for building more homes in east Jerusalem, she disputes his assertion that the Palestinians deserve a state of their own.

“To put it another way,” she writes, nimbly twisting the VP’s point in vintage Mad Mel style, “why does Joe Biden think that Israel “deserves” to surrender? And why, once again, is a final solution being imposed by America on democratic and besieged Israel ? ?” Is it me being fanciful here, or might MM be using that “final solution” subtly to compare Barack Obama with Hitler ? a tactic previously reserved for the more ostentatiously in-bred extremity of the Tea Party spectrum? "

guffaw snort..

Now let's be clear... you cannot reasonably use the phrase "final solution" when talking about Israel and mean anything other than a direct comparison to Nazi evil.

Phillips is deliberately inferring Obama is a Nazi just as she explicitly says he's a revolutionary Marxist and secretly a Muslim.

Phillips... One more bigmouth who has decided HER heritage and HER faith are the gold standard by which everything can be measured for virtue and justice, and anything outside of that experience is to be despised or devalued. All the world must fight HER fight. All the world is topsy turvy and only SHE can explain it.

piss off Melanie

Slight change

Due to posting issues I had to change the template for this blog. It's not quite as I had it or as I liked, but it functions better. Let me know if you have any probs.

Technical trouble

It might just be me... but I can't see all comments attributed to posts on this blog and some other blogs too. Hope it's a passing glitch....

If anyone else is having this problem, please let me know (assuming I can see the comment).

Blogger-nut sighted

In the US, a female teacher, Amy Bishop, shot three people dead Friday, and wounded three others, after learning she had been denied tenure at an Alabama university. Tragic incident. She can't have been okay in the head.

Implications for gun control? Well... none it seems.

Now... some people who fly in the same blog stream as magpie will know of a certain neocon loon. I was willing to bet HE had it all worked out, and I was not disappointed:

"Amy Bishop, Detained in Huntsville University Faculty Murders, is Harvard-Trained Left-Wing Professor." says he.

Right. She was Left-wing and went to Harvard. Ergo it was obvious she was going to kill someone. Genius. Perhaps everyone who ever went to Harvard and doesn't believe in American hegemony through force of arms should be pre-emptively jailed. Dunno.

Perhaps someone should take HIM away in a straitjacket before he goes on a rampage after hearing an academic sneer at Sarah Palin (He's real tough though...shows pictures of male models to a blogger he doesn't like and swears he had abs like that 20 years ago).

Appropriating a tragic and violent crime to serve one's personal political paranoia is loathsome and without merit. It's not the first time this blogger has done this. And if she was a life-long Republican and an avowed neoconservative, it still wouldn't mean jack shit as far as the case goes.

No coverage I have seen indicates her political leaning - whatever it actually is - had anything to do with the crime. Unless Bishop was a member of a radical organisation the remainder of which is an immediate threat to public safety, there is absolutely no reason to even hypothesize what her political leanings are.