05.11.2009 - 3:19 p.m.

This is a lovely and continuing example of the trampling of peoples basic human rights in a (supposedly) first world country, and accompanied by all the lies, spin and deliberate narrowminded noncomprehension you've come to expect from the neocons, do as we say not as we do:

"gays are bad mmmkay, they'll infect our children with the viral version of gayness (because that's how you get gay), soon no-one will be making children any more and this will cause the collapse of humanity within a few generations, so we better start burning the gays, along with all these books that aren't KJV bibles"

Mind you these are same people who fail to understand evolution on the basis of "so you get this new male species which has somehow evolved, how long does he have to wait for a female to evolve into the new species as well so they can breed" I wish i was joking, but that last statement is practically verbatim, it's like a peek into a misogynist labyrinth of ignorance fuelled by paranoia and lied to childrens stolen prayers to a god who doesn't exist. But you can use your right to free speech to call for the burning of gays, however when the boot's on the other foot suddenly it's all

"you can't blaspheme god and use freedom of speech as an excuse for that"

Hang on, isn't that the sole purpose of freedom of speech, i can tell you that your god's a child hating mass murderer, mohammed was a paedophile, and jesus was black (or at the very least arabish), i can also tell you that you're a fuckwit of galactic proportions with the comprehension skills of a wet boulder but yet somehow you manage to keep living and thumping that bible, proof enough that evil rules the world and the good die young (or are killed by teh evils early on)

But it's ok to deny rights to a sizable subset of your own people based on projecting your prejudices across the whole population, there's a word for that, hmmmmm, oh yeah, arrogance and communism. Hang on, did you just call the republican party and their supporters communists, i guess i did, but i better clarify. This is not the ideological communism in it's purest form that Lenin sought to achieve, but the communism we actually have in practice around the world which is closer to oligarchic imperialism and consists of a bunch of men dictating to a slavish population about how they should all behave while all the time exercising the very fetishes and perks they denounce in public and use as excuses to mobilise action against their enemies both real and imagined.

So when can you use freedom of speech ? I assume it's still acceptable to shout at brown people and you can use freedom of speech to hurl abuse at abortionists and gays and you can use freedom of speech to air fascist agenda's but you can't say out loud that someone's god doesn't exist or that a prophet may, in the mind of a playwright, be portrayed as transsexual for the purpose of explaining his 'journey of faith' Although the whole idea of a 'journey of faith' starts to look a little hollow in the greater context of how faith has been (ab)used by humans.

At least there's one shining light of hope in europe in the form of the European Court of Human Rights ta daaaaaa, which has upheld the separation of church and state in catholic Italy no less, and i'm very happy to report that the vatican is most likely suffering meltdown at this decision. I love the quote that the vatican called the decision 'myopic' because of course a slavish devotion to a single book of stories discounting all external influences and rational thought and systematically dismantling any opposition as it arises isn't myopic at all, you dress wearing paedophile bastards.

I read somewhere that the USA has never invaded a country (for balance, here's a list of places they have interfered with) in which exist mcdonalds franchises, i'm not going to try and reference this 'fact' but it sounds reasonable and i've seen enough scattered references to this, although they may have all stemmed from a single false statement, but as i'm lazy and we all understand how the internet works it's good enough.

Maybe Iceland should have thought of this before rescinding the three franchises they have had. Now that the Keflavik airbase has been downscaled i doubt there's the demand for grain-fed 100% beef (as in "we guarantee that all the meat here came from a cow, but we're not saying where, and don't worry about the farina, additives and flavourings, just concentrate on the 100% beef thing") patties and freedom fries that there once was.

This is probably a good thing for iceland, at least until they get invaded, a move away from global commercialism and step towards fast food whale burgers, it appears they do have beef farming (and organic beef farming at that) so they probably have the fluffy highland breeds which = yummy yummy meat, and probably a whole lot more palatable than minke, mmm blubbery.

I'd like to go there and explore but i've just checked flights and i ain't that rich, i'll have to save up for an arctic circle trip during the solar maximum in a few years time, i was going to go to Norway but it was way too expensive, same applies to Sweden, that just left Finland (everyone loves the Finns) but Finland would involve a long train journey to get to the arctic circle from an airport, so i'm left with Iceland, a holiday of volcanoes, schnapps and star gazing as well as the main reason for going, the purdy night lights, go go aurora borealis you wobbly green neon bastards.