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TORIES BLAME GAY MARRIAGE FOR EASTLEIGH

Mar 1st, 2013 by

polling-stationDespite all the scandals currently surrounding the Lib Dems & how lowly the Lib Dems might currently be polling nationally, its not really a great surprise to me that the Lib Dems won the Eastleigh by-election; as Eastleigh is something of a Lib Dem stronghold.

I might be a political commentator & total political anorak; but knowing that it was pretty likely that the Lib Dems would more then likely win Eastleigh, I didn’t stay up for the Eastleigh result & got my beauty sleep. I might the of decided not to stay up for the result from Eastleigh as many a political anorak might, but I did hope as I went to bed that Eastleigh was going to be a miserable result for the Tories & I awoke to find out that Eastleigh by-election had been a miserable result for the Tories.

UKIP pushed the Tories into third place at the Eastleigh by-election & now grassroot Tories are blaming their piss poor performance at the Eastleigh by-election upon David Cameron’s push to expand marriage equality for same-sex couples. All morning I’ve heard backbench Tory MPs & grassroot Tory members on the radio say they reckon that the reason the Tories performed so badly at the Eastleigh by-election was due to Cameron’s support for gay marriage.

Supposedly the Tory leadership’s push to expand marriage equality for same-sex couples has had grassroot Tories ripping up their party membership cards & driven them en-masse towards UKIP. Personally I’d of thought that forcing out homophobic bigots from the Tory party would potentially make the Tory party a more inviting prospect for LGBT people & isn’t that a god thing for the Tories, ah but of course there are still those who reckon being tolerant & accepting towards the LGBT community isn’t really proper true blue conservatism. The Tories are better off without those who reckon that true blue conservatism is to continue to treat gays & lesbians as second class citizens, the Tories are better off without these bigots; fuck it let them go & join UKIP.

The Eastleigh by-election was the second parliamentary election in a row that UKIP scored a second place & it’s bewildering to me that there can be that many people voting for UKIP not realizing what a bunch of head-banging reactionary rightwing bigots UKIP happens to be. The UKIP leadership recently sacked the leader of UKIP’s youth wing after he came out in support of gay marriage, as this didn’t fit in with the very public play of Nifgel Farage (UKIP’s leader) to attract bigoted Tory homophobes dissatisfied with Cameron’s push to expand marriage equality for same-sex couples. UKIP are a party openly making a play in attracting bigoted homophobes, what does that say about the true nature of UKIP’s attitude towards equality & specifically LGBT equality? It’s obvious to me that behind all the bullshit spin UKIP a bunch of reactionary bigots & I’ve been saying for a while that UKIP are the BNP for respectable people, the BNP for supposedly respectable middle class people.

As it goes it’s probably not the issue of gay marriage which is the underlining reason for the Tories plummeting electoral fortunes. The reason the Tories are performing badly at the ballot box has likely nothing to do with gay marriage but probably everything to do with austerity, but hey some Tories just won’t be told that it’s their incompetent economic policies that is the reason they’re performing badly at the ballot box & they’ll keep on blaming expanding LGBT equality.

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MORE CATHOLIC HYPOCRISY

Feb 26th, 2013 by

Cardinal Keith Patrick O'BrienCardinal Keith O’Brien who has been one of the most vocal opponents to gay marriage & has resigned because….

The irony of ironies & the irony is so rich, but It’s not as if Keith O’Brien is the first prominent Catholic to of been rabidly homophobic whilst….

Keith O’Brien is just yet another Catholic priest in a long succession of Catholic priests to be caught out in his personal life when it’s come to practicing what he preaches & one can only groan tiresome at the fact that Cardinal Keith O’Brien is only the latest in a long Catholic priests to be caught out in his personal life in regards to preaching the homophobic rhetoric of the Catholic Church.

I hope that Keith O’Brien doesn’t spin some kind Ted Haggard type excuse that he was somehow inflicted with homosexuality, I hope that Keith O’Brien comes to the realization that in fact there’s nothing wrong with being a homosexual & that it’s only the Catholic dogma which he was indoctrinated with which says that homosexuality is somehow wrong. I hope that in time that Keith O’Brien comes to the realization of the harm he & the Catholic Church has done in assisting with perpetuating hatred against the LGBT community with the homophobic rhetoric preached.

Keith O’Brien is just another Catholic priest in a long succession of Catholic priests who has been publically denouncing homosexuality whilst being a closeted homosexual. It seems bizarre to the likes of me that you’d have homosexuals spouting homophobic rhetoric & yet we’ve seen instances of it time & time again! You don’t have a choice in being LGBT, but ultimately you do have a choice in being a Roman Catholic spouting homophobic rhetoric; however it’s obvious many get indoctrinated with Catholic dogma to the extent that it infects the minds of those whom it’s counterproductive to have such dogma propagated & those people infected with such dogma need to be made to see that just because some old crusty book says etc doesn’t make etc true!

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FROM UKIP TO TORY – FROM BARKING EVIL TO JUST PLAIN EVIL

Feb 24th, 2013 by

_66032116_017305095Marta Andreasen, a South East region MEP, has announced that she was resigning from the United Kingdom Independence Party & joining the Conservatives.

Marta Andreasen is defecting from UKIP to the Tories; put another way she’s going from barking evil to just being plain evil!

In resigning UKIP Marta Andreasen has described the UKIP leader Nigel Farage as a Stalinist & misogynist; I’d add that Farage & co in UKIP are as well as being misogynistic generally happen be racist, sexist, Xenophobic & homophobic reactionary rightwing headbanging bigots! Essentially UKIP are the BNP for middle classes, the BNP for supposedly respectable middle class people, which in fact makes them far more dangerous than the BNP.

Recently the UKIP leadership sacked the head of UKIP’s youth wing because he was a libertarian who had expressed support for gay marriage & of course Farage has made a play in attracting bigoted Tories disaffected with David Cameron’s support for expanding marriage equality for same sex couples. It should now be pretty obvious then its ever been obvious that UKIP are a bunch of batty reactionary rightwing bigots, though it’s always obvious to me & I ask myself why is it that it’s taken so long for mainstream left to suss out what’s been obvious to me for ages?

A couple of weeks back there was an article published in the centre left magazine the New Statesman entitled ‘Is UKIP a party of bigots?’ & my first reactionary was that yet again it appears that the mainstream political left are slow on the uptake (as they’ve been on numerous occasions); but I guess I should be grateful that the mainstream political left have finally woken up to truth that UKIP are a bunch of reactionary bigots.

Of course Marta Andreasen defecting from UKIP to the Tories will be used by the Tories in an attempt to benefit them, but it’s not as if I much less detest to Tories as a I detest UKIP, I mean both parties pooh-pooh the need for social justice & want to make life far harder for the vulnerable & less able. It’s only that David Cameron has tried evolving the Tories to be more liberal on social issues that I’d say that the Tories are slightly better prospect than UKIP.

UKIP describe themselves as a ‘libertarian party’ yet it appears on social issues such as gay marriage & multiculturalism they’re far from what I’d imagine would libertarian stances.

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OSCAR GETS BAIL

Feb 24th, 2013 by

Oscar PistoriusSo on Friday Oscar Pistorius got bail & the magistrate explaining his decision to grant Pistorius bail, took over 90 minutes in doing so (something told me he was likely milking his time in the media spotlight).

In his lengthy explanation as to why he was granting Pistorius bail the magistrate had some rather choice things to say about the lead detective leading the investigation into Oscar Pistorius shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp. Essentially the magistrate atPistorius’s bail hearing said that Warrant Officer Hilton Botha had ‘bungled’ the investigation.

Of course it has emerged that Warrant Officer Hilton Botha is also facing serious charges, seven counts of attempted murder. Since it emerged that Hilton Botha is himself facing serious charges, he has been removed as lead investigator; but the fact is that the investigation was bungled & as the magistrate said (in his lengthy decision to give Pistorius bail) this case rests purely on circumstantial evidence.

Pistorius doesn’t deny shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, but claims that it was a tragic accident of mistaking her for an intruder. Of course whilst Pistorius claims shooting his girlfriend was a tragic accident, the police & state prosecutors have made out that it’s a case of premeditated homicide. The South African police have definitely gone out of their way to try to wreck the character of Pistorius in the press as a means of swaying public opinion that he’s guilty of premeditated murder. I’m not saying that Pistorius is innocent of premeditated murder, but really this is a case of whose version of events etc one believes or to be more accurate it depends on which version of events a judge will believe when Pistorius stands trial for the shooting dead of Reeva Steenkamp. I’m certainly not saying that Pistorius is innocent of premeditated murder; as the magistrate at Pistorius’s bail hearing noted, before Pistorius fired thorough the bathroom door why didn’t Pistorius call out to check whether it was his girlfriend in the bathroom?

With the media coverage there’s been surrounding Pistorius’s bail hearing, you might f thought it was the murder trial itself, but that’s yet to come. What’s weird for me personally as a person with disabilities & a former parathlete, I’m not sure that this much media attention upon a Paralympian is a good or bad thing, I mean I’ve never known there to be this media attention on any Paralympian before. I guess it’s good that a Paralympian can cause so much attention from the international media, it’s just sad though that it’s for such a negative reason.

It’s now emerged that Oscar isn’t the only member of the Pistorius family to be facing murder charges, Oscar Pistorius’s brother Carl Pistorius is charged with culpable homicide over the death of a woman motorcyclist in a traffic accident in 2008.

I’m just wondering that when Oscar Pistorius finally gets to trial that its going to be a situation where the judge is facing child abuse charges, the prosecuting lawyer is facing charges of embezzlement, the defence lawyer is facing charges for drug possession & lead detective is charged with fraud.

As I heard a South African journalist say last week about the then lead detective facing multiple charges of attempted murder ‘it’s pretty typical in South Africa’.

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TRIAL BY JURY ON TRIAL

Feb 22nd, 2013 by

imagesBack in the late 90s there was the high profile trial of Louise Woodward, she was a British au-pair on trial in the United States on charges of manslaughter for shaking a baby to death & who’s trial had wall to wall media coverage here in Britain. I remember somebody telling me that they’d seen all the television coverage that there’d been on Channel 4 (which was continuous), they’d seen all the testimony given & all the evidence presented & that their conclusion was that Woodward wasn’t guilty & it was the parents who were guilty of shaking their baby to death, when I asked this person what made them think that Woodward was innocent they responded by saying they could see guilt in the eyes of the parents. In the very unlikely circumstance that I might find myself on trial for a serious crime, I just hope anybody on the jury doesn’t find me guilty purely on the basis of what they reckon they can see in my eyes.

It’s a rather cynical to say that most verdicts in jury trials seem to come in come Friday because jurors want to be discharged & not be sequestered over the weekend, but if you listen to the news as much as I do then you start spotting a trend that come Friday there’s always an increase in juries reaching verdicts.

With the outcome this week of the Vicky Pryce trial, trial by jury has kind of been put on trial by the media. The jury in the trial of Vicky Pryce were discharged after they said they were highly unlikely to reach a verdict, but prior to this they had asked the judge a series of questions which included ‘Can you define what is reasonable doubt?’ & ‘Does the defendant have an obligation to present a defence?’, oh & my favourite ‘Would religious conviction be a good enough reason for a wife feeling she had no choice, ie she promised to obey her husband in wedding vows, & he had ordered her to do something and she felt she had to obey?’. Vicky Pryce who is the wife of former Lib Dem MP Chris Huhne was on trial for perverting the course of justice & will now face a retrial commencing next week, but the outcome of her first trial for perverting the course of justice has got commentators in the media seriously questioning or denouncing the trial by jury system.

On last night’s edition of the BBC’s Question Time programme, Peter Hitchens was making out that it was the doing away with the requirement of being a property owner to sit on a jury which is why the trial by jury system is in trouble. You’d kind of expect a rightwing reactionary like Peter Hitchens to be of the opinion that the only people who should sit on juries should be property owning Tory voting Daily Mail readers, but of course Hitchens isn’t the only person who reckons the only people who should be sitting juries should be Tory voting Daily Mail readers.

The previous Labour government had at one time proposed doing away with jury trials, but this might have been because the criminal justice system was under severe strain due to the enormous amounts of un-necessary asinine laws the Labour government were enacting.

Though you occasionally hear of stories about juries using weegie board to assist them in reaching a verdict or some other nutty bullshit, juries being completely incompetent as with the trial of Vicky Pryce is the exception. I don’t think there’s anything wrong with scrutinizing & questioning the criminal justice system, but I’m no expert & so I’m not sure as if it would be or wouldn’t be a good thing to do away with jury trials; however those who are more knowledgeable about the criminal justice system have said we are better off with having jury trials.

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A WEEKEND OF KOOKISH INTELLECTUAL MASTURBATION IN NEW HAMPSHIRE

Feb 21st, 2013 by

This weekend in the US state of New Hampshire libertarians will be congregating for a convention where there’ll be panel discussions about why should they have to care about the vulnerable.

The Liberty Forum is one of two events (the other being Porcfest) held annually by the Free State Project, an organisation attempting to get 20,000 libertarian minded people to move to the state of New Hampshire to create some kind of libertarian utopia or dystopia for anybody living in New Hampshire who isn’t a libertarian. Personally I prefer to refer to the Free State Project as the Free State Cult, because if anybody has had any dealings with libertarians (as I have) you quickly suss they’re pretty cultish; because if you don’t agree 100% with the perspective of libertarians that government is uber evil then they start snaring & hissing at you branding you as a statist heretic.

So this weekend libertarians with be travelling from all over to the US state of New Hampshire for the Liberty Forum convention, all gathering around the mantra of government baaad & the free market goood & anybody who disagrees is either just ignorant or just closed minded statist. To be called a ‘statist’ by a libertarian is essentially a libertarian calling you a shithead & well a shithead I’m proud to be. I’m proud to be a shithead in the opinion of any sociopathic libertarian, as I think it’s a jolly good thing that government helps spread the wealth & gives opportunities to those less fortunate who otherwise wouldn’t have those opportunities. Libertarians generally believe that the redistribution of wealth to be evil, but this because most libertarians haven’t really seen how the other half live. Most libertarians are typically White, male, socially dysfunctional, from a middle income family, living in mom’s basement spending their time intellectually masturbating over Ayn Rand novels & trolling online.

A journalist who once attended a Libertarian Party convention described it as a more White man’s event then a Klan rally, it’s true to say that libertarian conventions are more White then a KKK lynching being as there’s at least one Black guy at a Klan lynching. Tom Woods who’ll be one of the keynote speakers at the Liberty Forum was one of founding members of the League of the South & the League of the South is a white supremacist organisation that has ties with the KKK. Believe me when I say that libertarians are prepared to get into bed with anybody or any entity that fits in with their anti government agenda whether they are homophobes or racists or anti-Semites or hate filled religious zealots, I mean libertarians have often got behind Alex Jones & Ron Paul who are both well known bigots.

I’m wondering if Adam Kokesh (who’s a chum of Alex Jones & Ron Paul supporter) will be attending the Liberty Forum, he should be able to afford to do so with the welfare cheques he receives. How dare Adam Kokesh live off the stolen money of others & how dare he travel with other libertarians along a system of roads funded by stolen money to a convention where he & other libertarians will be bitching about being forced to pay for the healthcare less fortunate. Easy to be a kook who continuously critical of government when you’re living off government, easy to be a spoilt brat who thinks government is evil because it doesn’t allow them to get their own way when your living in mom’s basement, easy to be a libertarian when your living off the compassionate nature of others, easy to be a sociopathic libertarian without consideration for others when you’ve you refuse to see how the other half live.

Adam Kokesh thinks its okay to live off the stolen money of others yet readily lambasts others for living off for living off the same system of theft he does, but this hypocrisy of libertarians is pretty typical of libertarians. Libertarians happily use roads, welfare & other government services; but then will lambast others for using those same services & wanting those same services.

I wonder if at this year’s Liberty Forum there’s a panel discussion entitled ‘It would be more humane to let the severely disabled starve then for society to pay for their ongoing care’ because what libertarianism really boils down to is the ‘why me’ mentality. You will often hear libertarians bitch why is it they can’t opt out of government & taxation? Err answer because the world doesn’t fucking revolve around them & they use government services as much as anybody else & not to be considerate to those less able & fortunate then yourself means you’re a fucking sociopath. If libertarians really want to opt out then why is there never any discussion at any libertarian convention about building a big rocket & fucking off to the moon.

Considering how much of a nuisance that the Free State cultists have been towards those rational moderates living in New Hampshire in attempting to build their libertarian utopia, I’m surprised the people of New Hampshire haven’t sponsored the building of a big rocket for Free State cultists to fuck off to the moon.

Oh & finally as I always say to British libertarians n regards to Porcfest & the Liberty Forum, please go & please don’t come back, we don’t need your why me sociopathic bullshit polluting the British political zeitgeist.

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WHAT WE KNOW IS THAT OSCAR SHOT REEVA

Feb 20th, 2013 by

Oscar PistoriusWhat we know for definite is that Oscar Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, this not in doubt, this is not disputed. What we don’t know is whether Oscar Pistorius shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in a tragic accident of mistaking her for an intruder or in a deliberate act of premeditated murder.

We know Oscar shot Reeva, that’s not in doubt, that’s not disputed; but I’m not sure anybody will ever truly know as to what really happened that night which to Oscar Pistorius shooting Reeva Steenkamp & it’s kind of a case of whose version of events you believe the South African Police’s or Oscar Pistorius’s.

I certainly have issues with both Oscar Pistorius’s version of events & with the South African Police’s version of events.

I’ll admit as a South African, a disabled person & a former parathlete; Oscar Pistorius for all he has achieved has been somebody I’ve admired. I declare my bias & I admit I’ve had admiration for Oscar Pistorius & furthermore I admit that I don’t exactly trust the South African Police; however Pistorius bizarrely claims that he woke up in the middle of the night hearing a noise in the bathroom & not checking first that his girlfriend was lying beside him in bed. It does seem bizarre that Oscar Pistorius wakes up in the middle of night hears a noise in the bathroom & doesn’t first check whether his girlfriend Reeva is lying beside him, it would be the natural thing to do to assume it was likely your girlfriend in the bathroom & if you’re uncertain you’d first ensure it was.

My problem with the South African Police in regards to the shooting of Reeva Steenkamp, is that ever since they arrested Oscar Pistorius they’ve been making a play in trying to seriously damage Pistorius’s character in the public eye. First at a press conference they said that last week hadn’t been the first time they’d been called to Pistorius’s address & there was a massive hint that there had been domestic abuse perpetuated by Pistorius against Steenkamp & now the police are testifying in court that they found possible bottles of steroids & needles.

Even if Oscar Pistorius does eventually stand trial for murder & is found not guilty, it probably would tarnish everything Pistorius possibly does on & off the track in the future, it however doesn’t tarnish everything Pistorius has achieved on the track & built his career upon; but if there’s possible evidence of steroid abuse then everything he’s accomplished will seen as a lie & the character of Pistorius will be completely destroyed.

It’s almost as if the authorities want to make out that Oscar Pistorius is another Lance Armstrong to ensure he’s well & truly damned by all as scumbag murdering bastard.

Pistorius might very well of killed his girlfriend in cold blood & he might very well be drug cheating athlete, but he might very well not be; I honestly just don’t know. What I know is that Oscar shot Reeva & by Oscar Pistorius shooting Reeva Steenkamp has created a media shit storm.

Of course the reason there’s been so much media attention in regards to Oscar Pistorius is because of his status as the world’s most famous paralympian & the fact that a paralympian now gets so much media attention is ironically a sign of progress. Of course I’d prefer a parathlete got such media attention for something far better then the current reason Oscar Pistorius is receiving as much media attention as he currently is, but I can remember when nobody gave a crap about what athletes with disabilities did, & so there is some twisted irony that’s come from Oscar shooting Reeva for people with disabilities.

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WHAT HAVE YOU DONE OSCAR?!?!

Feb 14th, 2013 by

Oscar PistoriusThis wasn’t the subject which I was initially planning on writing about today & in fear of possibly prejudicing any trail to come I’m nervous to write about Oscar Pistorius being charged with murder & any speculation about what might or might not of happened. Though I do feel nervous to write about what’s possibly happened with Oscar Pistorius, as a South African & as a former parathlete I feel compelled to write about Oscar Pistorius.

I guess my immediate response on hearing that Oscar Pistorius had allegedly shot his girlfriend was shock it was Oscar Pistorius but not surprised that it happened in South Africa. When the story first broke that Oscar Pistorius had allegedly shot his girlfriend at his home, there were news reports speculating that he had shot his girlfriend mistaking her for a intruder; unfortunately this is an infrequent occurrence in South Africa. Unfortunately due to the legacy of Apartheid, there’s dire inequality in South Africa & this of course has meant a high crime rate, which has kind of meant that for many firearms are a necessity for personal & home protection.

My own family live in a gated community just outside Durban & everybody living there is armed to the teeth probably due to the fear of being victims of serious crime. From my understanding Oscar Pistorius lived in a gated community in the South African capital Pretoria & there have been past media reports about Pistorius’s personal gun arsenal being pretty extensive.

Though initial news reports speculated that Oscar Pistorius had shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, mistaking her for an intruder; the South African police have now seemed to of dismissed this to being the case & have stated that the police had previously been called to Pistorius’s address regarding complaints of domestic abuse.

I do vaguely remember hearing from somewhere that there had been accusations that Pistorius had been violent towards his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp; but I guess as nothing seemed concrete & considering how inspirationally successful Pistorius has been, one forgets rumours about personal flaws regarding Pistorius.

I guess it’s now with the legal authorities & a possible trial to decide whether the death of Reeva Steenkamp was a tragic accident of mistaken identity or a murderous result of a stormy relationship.

Even if Pistorius did shoot & kill Reeva Steenkamp mistaking her for an intruder, he’ll still be seriously tarnished; particularly as the South African police have said they’re been called upon to deal with incidents of domestic abuse possibly perpetuated by Oscar Pistorius. For any disabled person what Oscar Pistorius has accomplished in the past decade in athletics & business has been truly inspiring, not only has Pistorius become a the world’s most famous paralympian he’s also the first paralympian to become a multi-millionaire from his athletic achievements; but even if Pistorius is only guilty of domestic abuse & not murder, I’m still seriously personally disappointed in Pistorius. If Pistorius is guilty of murder, well not only has he gunned down a beautiful innocent woman who possibly had a great career ahead of her, he would of let down a nation as well as disabled people worldwide.

The actually truth I guess is yet to truly be revealed, but I keep thinking as I did when this story first broke…what te fuck have you done Oscar?!?!?

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MAGGIE Q IS DOING THE RIGHT THING SO WHY AREN’T WE?

Feb 13th, 2013 by

nikitaEven if you know you’re possibly eating horsemeat, how can you be certain that you’re in fact eating horsemeat?

This horsemeat scandal came about because of the overwhelming market demand for cheap processed meat, hence ready meals labelled as beef being in fact made of horsemeat. How long will it be with exhaustion of finite natural resources, over population & thus the greater demand for cheap processed meat that the cheapest form of processed meat becomes us?

How do we know that humans haven’t already become the cheapest form of processed meat? I heard the Environment Secretary (Owen Patterson) say the other day that there could be more worrying revelations to come in regards to the horsemeat scandal & he was going to demand answers from food suppliers. Owen Patterson might demand answers from food suppliers, but like Charlton Heston in Soylent Green he might like the reality those answers reveal.

Okay Soylent Green gags have been done to death recently with the constant news reports about the horsemeat scandal, but the scary thing is that if it’s not already our reality, a Soylent Green type scenario is our future if we don’t change the direction of the human diet.

There are numerous scientific reports; predicting that within 30 years the amount of cattle there’s likely to be needed to feed the world population come 30 years from now, will be unsustainable in regards to it’s impact upon depleted natural resources. Come 30 years from now if the majority of people haven’t already made the ethical choice to be vegetarian, then people are going to be forced to eat vegetarian or possibly face a Soylent Green type scenario.

Nikita is a pretty silly espionage TV series (though definitely a guilty pleasure), but as well as being a damn sexy lady Nikita’s star Maggie Q is an outspoken vegetarian. Eating vegetarian isn’t about any protest about not wanting to kill the cute animals; there are social, humanitarian & environmental issues associated with the production & consumption of meat. Maggie Q is doing the right thing why aren’t the rest of us?

Some meat eaters with environmental concerns reckon that if they just lessen the amount of red meat they consume it will somehow be enough to save the planet, regardless that fish stocks are being depleted (in some areas to worryingly low levels) or that not everybody can afford the amount charge for chickens that are reared organically & free range.

Those who want to eat vegetarian who have busy working lives don’t just have to contend with restricted choices of convenience food products on the supermarket shelves, those who want to be vegetarian have to contend with the likes of Gordon Ramsey whose the equivalent to the school bully who goes up to the kid at school trying to be veggie & scoffs a cheeseburger right in front of their face. Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall did do TV series on vegetarian cooking but why isn’t there a regular cookery program dedicated vegetarian cooking? Rather then the regular promotion of vegetarianism on TV, we get the likes of Gordon Ramsey on TV mocking vegetarians & nobody challenging him for doing so. Rather then supermarkets promoting vegetarian food, we see them promoting cheap processed meat.

Unfortunately there’s still a prevailing attitude in society that eating vegetarian is something of an ‘alternative lifestyle’ (as if there’s something wrong with leading what’s considered an alternative lifestyle); but in the coming decades if scientific predictions are correct there will be necessity for vegetarianism to be very mainstream if the human race want to survive & avoid the Soylent Green type scenario I fear we are currently heading towards.

Some unapologetic meat eaters might say that come 30 years from now science will of progressed to the extent that a sirloin steak can be grown on demand in a petri dish, it might be so in 30 years but it’s still currently wishful thinking as an excuse not to change our habits to avert disaster & what is it they say about counting chickens…..

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THE POPE IS RESIGNING & HERE’S GUESSING AS TO REALLY WHY

Feb 11th, 2013 by

pope-benedictSo in a shock announcement his pontiff has said he’s resigning as pope.

Pope Benedict XVI is the first papal to resign the position in nearly 600 years & when the news first broke it got me wondering as to why he’s really decided to resign?

Did Pope Benedict really decide to resign because he’s been caught touching himself inappropriately one too many times or is it that he’s been caught touching the alter boys inappropriately one too many times or did the guilt got him of continuously having to cover up Catholic priests touching children inappropriately.

Is Pope Benedict really stepping down as pontiff because the guilt of the Catholic Church being responsible for killing more people in Africa then Hitler killed Hitler Jews because of the Catholic Church’s dogmatic objection to conception & birth control.

Maybe Pope Benedict is resigning because he’s come to realise there’s nothing wrong with two people of the same gender loving one another & that it’s in fact been wrong of the Catholic Church to of assisted in waging the persecution of the LGBT community & the continuing discrimination against LGBT people.

Personally I’d love if Pope Benedict has really resigned because he’s finally come to the sane conclusion that god doesn’t exist & all this religious stuff is just a means of trying to brainwash the masses to be obedient sheep.

The actual reason Pope Benedict has given for stepping down has been old age getting to him & thus not being able to fulfil his duties as pontiff. Pope Benedict is due to step down at the end of the February & the post will be vacant for a short time whilst a new pope is picked sometime prior to Easter.

It’s a shame the post of pontiff doesn’t stay vacant permanently!

Personally I’d like to consign organised religion all together & the idea there’s an all powerful sky daddy to humankind’s unenlightened suppositious past.

I’m sure the new pontiff (whoever he might be) will attempt to still brainwash the masses with Catholic dogma & make out Catholicism is still relevant; when in fact Catholicism, Christianity & religion in general is becoming far less relevant to the progress of humankind or it should be!

No matter what the new pontiff might say in an attempt to boost Catholicism, religion should be irrelevant to mankind’s progress, it’s job of atheists such as myself to make sure people free themselves from the yoke of supernatural despotism & make religion utterly irrelevant!

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