No More Barbarity?

New Canadians will no longer be able to engage in honour killings, forced marriages, spousal abuse or genital mutulation. Damn it, what's left to do with our time now???

This makes me wonder just how little we expect from our immigrant screening programs in the first place. A bit like asking applicants for jobs at nuclear power plants to promise they won't blow anything up in place of conducting proper security screening.

Why We Love Pres Obama

1. He ensures we have more products left in Canada by banning them from Amerikkka.

2. He spreads wealth. From those who "earned" it to those who really deserve it.

3. He is green, loves environment. Exceptionally good at generating wind which is an environmentally friendly source of energy. Does not want us to drive our cars.

4. He gives people some of their own money to buy new cars.

5. He is for democracy. Restored President Zelaya in Honduras. Zelaya is a very gifted man anyway, but he also happens to be an expert in nuclear physics. Thanks to that he discovered that wicked Israeli spies were torturing him by using high-frequency radiation gases.

6. He is for Independence. Did not interfere into the independent choice of the Iranian government to step hard on their own electorate.

7. The whole world loves him! Or at least the whole world will love him ones he is finished with the fascists at Fox.

8. I see erotic dreams about Pres Obama. We have threesomes with this New York Times journalist (make sure you check out the comment section).

9. If you don't love Pres Obama then you are a racist.

10. He is tolerant of sexual minorities. I heard he was in the Brokeback Mountain with Pres Putin.

Say "No" to Import of Islamonazism

Canadian immigration system isn't working.

Do we need immigrants in Canada? Yes. From China, India, Africa, Eastern Europe. We need peace-loving people who come here because they share our values.

Do we need to give asylum to people who need it? Not if it means importing supporters of terrorist organizations.

Whatever they do, the fact that this gentleman was given the right to reside in Canada spells "FAILURE" in capital letters.

Islamonazis Are Scared of A Dead Girl

One has to wonder whether at this point in time there is a more cowardly and disgusting ideology.

Cruelty and Immorality of the Judeo-Christian God

Anyone taking the Bible literally and worshipping the god of the Old AND New Testament: beware. You are subscribing to a notion of god as a creature who is both criminal and immoral.

Take the extermination of the people of Jericho by Joshua's troops on god's instructions. Everyone was murdered except for the traitor. I have seen Christians explaining it by the need to remove pagans so that Jews are not seduced into the idolatry. Don't accept this explanation, but suppose I do... Then why was it necessary to murder babies???

Those Christians claiming that their "New Testament" deity is of a different, kinder nature than his "Old Testament" counterpart are talking utter bullshit. Sorry, but I just have to assume they never read "revelations" in which Jesus is torturing people who did not give him cloths when he was naked in an Eternal Lake of Fire. Eternal torture? That's a bit harsher than the Inquisition, don't you think? The words that come to mind are "vengeance", "utter cruelty" and "immorality".

Literal reading of the Quaran also leads us to a genocidal/robber/child molesting pairing of god and Mohamed as his Prophet (PBUH).

I am not saying that there is anything wrong with believing in God. Not at all. However literal reading of this text taken out of the historic context, claiming that a deity wrote all these stuff AND then worshipping the resulting utterly cruel and immoral god does make me wonder about the morality of such believers.

Bad Things About Israel

Not in any particular order:

1. Queue jumping.

It's actually worse than in Russia which is quite an achievement. I've seen 20-year old men forcing their way in front of 10-year old kids lining up for a water ride. When I approached the men they pretended not to speak English. Their English improved quite remarkably when I asked whether they understood the word "assholes".

2. El Al.

How on earth can an airline ground all its flights for one whole day??? Oh, and one has to wonder whether the service could possibly be any worse. The answer is simple enough: f-ing socialism. El Al is run by the state.

3. Bedouin towns.

Some are full of shacks; others are nice-looking buildings built by the state. How can you tell it's a Bedouin town? There are mountains of garbage right under people's windows. And please don't tell me that it's the state's fault. Do they not have legs and arms so that the whole town just dumps all the garbage right where they live???

4. (Ultra?)Orthodox Jews.

There is the matter of stink because they just have to dress in exactly the same way their forebears did in the Middle Ages. Some women cut all their hair on the day of the wedding and wear wigs their whole lives. Unfriendly bunch... What else? Oh, yes, stoning vehicles on Saturdays and rioting against the Israeli police and calling them "Nazis" just because they can. Their often useless lifestyle is subsidised by the state which gives them ridiculously high cash handouts for making babies. Which is why I call it a "fucking subsidy" in a purely technical sense of the word.

5. Poverty.

More than one expects. Certain towns reminded me of the "Republics" in the south of USSR.

6. Socialism.

Way, way, way too much of it. Even worse than Canada.

For a while we stayed in a supposedly wealthy kibbutz. Accommodation was great and the pool was simply the best I've ever seen. The trouble was that it was full of kibbutzniks, many of whom considered it to be their personal property. Such guys would not swim on either left or right of their lanes. The buggers would take the middle!

One of these gentlemen collided with my son and kicked the boy on the head. There was no apology. When confronted and told to stop swimming in the middle he changed lanes and told me that "he owns the swimming pool but lets me use it as I am a guest". I had to remind the old commie that I was paying $200 for the honour.

Yeah, and the kibbutz life sucked in many other ways - not really surprising.

7. Neighbours.

Let's not even go there.

8. Foreign Affairs Minister.

Guess Bibi wanted a kind of guy who could speak the same language as the Palestinians.

Still, it was probably the best vacation and the most interesting place to visit of all the ones that I have ever been to... And I have been to a few.

Early Christianity and the Causes of Antisemtism

We know very little about the first "Christians" - followers of Joshua (or Jesus "the Messaiah/Christ" as he was called by the Greeks). From purely historical perspective we know nothing at all. Religious texts written 100 years after the events are hardly reliable sources of historical information. Basing your history of early Christians on the New Testament is a bit like relying on Das Kapital and Mein Kampf for representation of events in the 19th/20th century.

Based on what we do know it appears that there were two separate groups of early "Christians" - one in Judea and the other in the Jewish Diaspora in the Roman Empire. For a while they were indistinguishable from other Jewish sects.

In those times Judeans were persecuted by the Romans as citizens of "the most insubordinate of all the provinces". They refused to worship the deified Emperors and constantly revolted against he legions. It did not help the situation that there was continuous infighting between different Jewish groups, corruption at the top, even terrorism. Romans used to Crucify Jews in their thousands on a regular basis until, eventually, they flooded Palestine with blood, expelled the Jews and renamed Jerusalem. At that time Jews generated a whole bunch of "Messiahas". The same phenomenon could be observed again during the most difficult times in the Middle Ages when people had no other hope.

At first "Christians" were subjected to exactly the same treatment as the other Jews. It was at that time that a fraction of this Jewish sect decided to step away from Judaism and commenced missionary activities among non-Jews. In order to achieve their purpose they removed those aspects of Judaism which were hard for non-Jews to accept (e.g. circumcision). To make conversion more attractive other religious practices and beliefs were borrowed from the people in the Empire. For example in this manner Christianity developed the concept of Resurrection (Zoroastrianism) and the cult of Mother-Goddess (Anatolia).

Judean uprisings, such as that of Bar Kokhba (132-136 AD) were not supported by the early Christians. This lead to a deterioration of relationship between the new religion and the Jews but served the objective of improving relationship with the Romans.

It was at this time (between 117 and 138 AD) that the New Testament was written, partly on the basis of earlier texts. It was this era, its purposes, propaganda and relationships that are preserved in the Gospels according to which Jews are "a brood of vipers and children of the devil".

This text caused medieval antisemitism. In the last couple of centuries Christianity developed and largely managed to rid itself of the disease but the ancient prejudices migrated into Islam and other political/religious movements including communism, nazism, neo-nazism and certain sections of the "progressive" community.