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I get subjected to the news twice a week when I visit a friend who watches it almost religiously, and today they just kept going on, and on, and ON about the Paris attacks and ISIS, and after over an hour of this constant harping on about one single goddamn subject, I remembered something that puts the US news in an interesting context:

I used to watch BBC news on PBS years ago, and I watched it often enough that now, years later, I could tell you exactly how the BBC news would have compared to today's national news. They would have covered the Paris attacks for, like, 15 or 20 minutes tops, and then gone on to something else. Whereas the US news picks the bloodiest, nastiest, most horrifying news item and just beats that dead horse until they're pounding on equine bone dust, and then just keep on beating that dead horse until there's no bone dust left anymore. And that, more than anything, is why I loathe and detest the US news.

Also, I don't remember there being any of those stupid pointless cutesy human interest stories on it, like "Your gonads will explode with glee when you see this puppy dancing to Michael Jackson's Thriller" and other such bullshit. Because the BBC news is about actual news, or was last I saw it, and the US news is just pointless infotainment.
alex_antonin: TST Antifascist (Default)
The TV news I’m subjected to when over at my friend’s house, KGW TV, has today been doing a news report about how government workers (blue collar, etc; not Congress-critters and the like) who were furloughed got unemployment *and* back pay of $450 each. They’re acting like it’s this huge outrage, calling it “double dipping” and yakking about it being a waste of taxpayer money. They’re pissed that these workers don’t have to pay it back. They’re even calling it “time off.” Time off? Yeah, because weeks of worrying about how you’re going to feed yourself and your children, weeks of dipping into your savings and your children’s college fund (from a previous KGW news cast) REALLY counts as “time off.” FUCK YOU, KGW.

Where was this outrage at the idiots who orchestrated the shutdown to begin with? Why are they blaming blameless people? The shutdown itself cost millions of dollars, and were’re going to begrudge blameless workers a few thousand total?

I mean, that back pay isn't even really pay in normal sense. It’s basically the government giving them a monetary apology for putting them through all that stress and worry.

What’s worse, the station was extremely sympathetic to the furloughed workers during the shutdown. Then the minute it was over, they turn on these workers like rabid dogs eating their masters. Because as anyone paying attention knows, the media doesn't give a shit; anything for ratings.

Grr... this fucking news cast makes me want to punch the news critters in the throat.
alex_antonin: TST Antifascist (Default)
The Internet is starting to go bonkers about Whitney Houston being dead now. I can't say I care one way or another; her "music" was in a genre I don't like.
alex_antonin: TST Antifascist (Default)
If right wing is gonna take DC earthquake as sign that YHVH/JHVH is angry with gay marriage, I'm gonna take the last earthquake in Japan as a sign that Pele is angry that nobody is sacrificing virgins to Her anymore. Hey, it makes just as much sense!

Seriously, gay marriage has been legal in New Hampshire for years, and legal in New York for months before the DC quake. If it were really God, don't you think he'd, I dunno, make an earthquake in the New York State legislature as they're passing the bill, swallowing the offending legislators into the bowels of the earth?

Dear right wing,

Fuck you. The DC earthquake was just a random shifting of tectonic plates. Either that, or Newt Gingrich decided to do some jumping jacks.
alex_antonin: (Baphomet)
The Washington Post thinks a religion has to look like Xianity to be a religion (link goes to About.com's Alternative Religions page about the article)

The article is basically about how The Washington Post doesn't think Scientology is a religion because it has very little in common with Xianity, aside from both of them being absurd. The article then goes on to refute the statement by saying very few religions resemble Christianity, and basically calling the author of the Post's article out for being a dumbass where it comes to religion. Seriously, go read it. It will take you maybe 5 minutes at most.

And, just in case they delete my comment:

1. Kudos for mentioning LaVeyan Satanism!

2. Um, pretty sure Judaism DOES have a Hell. Pretty sure Christianity got the concept from Judaism, since both religions share the Old Testament.

3. I would most definitely call Christianity a cult. It isn’t as organized as it used to be, but it IS a cult. And so is Scientology. Not sure which is worse. Probably Scientology, since L. Ron Hubbard made Scientology solely to screw people out of money. He was even quoted as saying that religion is where the money is. There’s also a rumor that he had a bet going with another author that people could be made to believe anything, no matter how blatantly ridiculous it was. I’d say Hubbard won that bet.

But really, how could he have lost? If people are willing to believe that a talking snake lured the incestuous first two people on Earth into sin and God had to turn his half-mortal son into a zombie and get people to ritually cannibalize his zombie flesh to “save” them from that sin, I’m pretty sure there’s nothing so ridiculous that you’ll never find anyone to believe it.
alex_antonin: (Demon)
Fines proposed for going without health insurance

GAAAAAHHH! Jit... fuck... grr... ARGH!!!

Must. resist. temptation... to kill. MUST. RESIST. TEMPTATION. TO... KILL! AAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!! *headdesk*

I am so utterly PISSED at this, that the people who proposed this are goddamn lucky I'm a pacifist, because if I weren't I would hunt them down, vivisect them, and wear their fucking face as a mask.

*Giggles*

Feb. 5th, 2009 07:43 pm
alex_antonin: TST Antifascist (question)
Wish I knew who this guy was so I could congratulate him: 'Litterbug vigilante' stops cigarette tosser.

Heh heh

Feb. 3rd, 2009 06:45 pm
alex_antonin: (infohazard)
Now THIS is what I call a fair punishment for the crime. (Okay, so maybe it's just a trifle extreme. 15 lashes should be enough).

In related news, Portland banned smoking in restraurants and bars and suchlike. Now all the smokers are out on the sidewalk where innocent passers-by get lungfuls of toxic gas. You know what needs to be done about this, right? BAN SMOKING FROM THE PUBLIC ALTOGETHER. If you wanna smoke, do it at home. Non-smokers should not have to breathe in your toxic crap.

And whoever invented hiccups needs to be tortured by having their skin peeled away and getting a salt scrub, while they're still alive.

FINALLY!

Apr. 2nd, 2007 01:10 pm
alex_antonin: TST Antifascist (FSM2)
Student punished for spaghetti beliefs
Thursday, March 29, 2007

A student has been suspended from school in America for coming to class dressed as a pirate.

But the disciplinary action has provoked controversy – because the student says that the ban violates his rights, as the pirate costume is part of his religion.

Bryan Killian says that he follows the Pastafarian religion, and that as a crucial part of his faith, he must wear 'full pirate regalia' as prescribed in the holy texts of Pastafarianism.

The school, however, say that his pirate garb was disruptive.

Pastafarians follow the Flying Spaghetti Monster (pictured), and believe that the world was created by the touch of his noodly appendage. Furthermore, they acknowledge pirates as being 'absolute divine beings', and stress that the worldwide decline in the number of pirates has directly led to global warming.

Pastafarianism gained wide attention when its key prophet, Bobby Henderson, wrote to the Kansas School Board during the height of the controversy over 'Intelligent Design' being taught in science classes. His letter, also published on his website, demanded equal time be given to the teachings of the Flying Spaghetti Monster as was given to ID and evolutionary theory.

Since then, the Flying Spaghetti Monster has gained countless followers worldwide, although there are those who remain spagnostic.

The school, in North Buncombe, North Carolina, remains adamant that their decision to suspend Killian for a day has nothing to do with his religion, and quite a lot to do with his repeated refusal to heed warnings against wearing pirate outfits.

http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=43272&in_page_id=2

Another link about the same incident:

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770328123
alex_antonin: (memetically active)
On The Colbert Report, Steven Colbert reported that the Chinese branch of the Catholic Church elected two new bishops without approval from the Pope.

Now, think about that for a moment... and, if you don't know much about China, then listen to me and you'll learn why I'm going "WTF?" over this:

China is a communist country. Communist countries, like China, have forsaken religion. Religions are actually ILLEGAL in China. Even Falun Gong, which is not a religion by any stretch of the imagination, is getting flak from the Chinese government (which is putting it likely). So when I heard this about a Chinese branch of the Catholic Church, I was like "WHAT THE FUCK???" because I would think that China would have hunted down all the Catholics in their borders and had them executed, or whatever they do to people practicing religion over there.

And so now, I am unsure if this is a real story now or not. I'm thinking that it must be real, but I'm not sure how it can be. Anyone know anything about this?

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