Refugees? Bullshit! Lock them up and send them back...

The asylum seeker we sent home to his death

Read the article. The late Mr Gul, murdered by the Taliban, is not the only one. Darth Ruddock has many deaths on his conscience. If he has a conscience, which seems in doubt.

I don't really know for certain that we're doing better now. I hope so. GetUp hasn't sent me any email about asylum seekers recently, and I hear good things about Chris Evans, so I feel cautiously optimistic.

"Oh God, Doctor, I was hoping it was cancer"

Read this story to understand. It's not a rant; this is the story of an admirable man.

Genocidal maniac goes BWAHAHAHAHAH! to Africa

Linky to actual news story

I am reduced to inarticulate spluttering wrath.

Yet Another Reason to Hate the Catholic Church

Not only does Pope Benny The Rat continue old JP2's policy of sheltering the child molesters, now the church shows an extra wonderful level of compassion for the victim!

Brazil girl, alleged rape victim, aborts twins

The procedure on the 9-year-old girl draws complaints from Catholic church

Right. Because an 80lb (36kg) 9-year old little girl who has been repeatedly raped can totally get through a twin pregnancy without any life-endangering physical or emotional trauma! And so she must, or be excommunicated, along with all who help her. Because the church may be all about love and compassion and community and all that shit, but not for filthy little woman-child sluts. No loving compassionate community for you, you knocked-up mini home-wrecker! You deserve it for daring to hit puberty so early!

And you've gotta love the extra twist in the headline: "alleged rape victim". Ya know, it's got to be "alleged" because she might not have actually been raped. All undeniable evidence of age and pregnancy notwithstanding. Nine year old girls engage in consensual sex, like ALL THE TIME, amiright?

Oh wait, they're religious. Perhaps they mean that she need not have had *any* sex, consensual or otherwise. It could be a magical virgin birth!! OMG she aborted 21st century Twin Jebus!!11! Burn her at the stake right now!


(BTW, having just done my first editing class, I dare say that this aspect is merely a copy editing FAIL. The legal adjective "alleged" belongs to the perpetrator, not the victim. The text of the article is better.)

I'm not sure I'm up to this

Fuck Politeness nails it on that fuckwitted douchebag Nalliah. I'm not sure I can come up with any better words. In fact, just about every time I see something that makes me want to rant, someone else has already done it better.

Meh. So it may become a blog'o'links. Whatever.

First Rant: Venus is Too Fat

Holy fucking crap, how ridiculous is this?!

If you are an art lover who wants a souvenir of some famous painting, but you are also a big fan of the Hollywood lollypop women, dieted to concentration-camp thinness and then further photoshopped down to be finally acceptable, this is for you!! Buy it now!

Image source: Daphne P. Winnebago and Aretha's Hat at Ten Apples and a Flat Sponge. She says in the comments that you can use her images, so I did.

Jabberwocky

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.

"Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!"

He took his vorpal sword in hand:
Long time the manxome foe he sought --
So rested he by the Tumtum tree,
And stood awhile in thought.

And, as in uffish thought he stood,
The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame,
Came whiffling through the tulgey wood,
And burbled as it came!

One, two! One, two! And through and through
The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!
He left it dead, and with its head
He went galumphing back.

"And, has thou slain the Jabberwock?
Come to my arms, my beamish boy!
O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!'
He chortled in his joy.

`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.