The Almighty has made it perfectly clear that cruelty and injustice disgust him. Yet humanity persists.

He could, of course, drop a lightning bolt on the likes of Hitler and Stalin, but I have a horrid feeling that a fair bit of holy zapping might be my lot also if that was His general modus operandi.

Christians believe His solution was something similar, but very tightly focussed.

“God didn’t make any of us”
Yet you keep talking about Him as though he exists.
You also make disparaging comments about ‘God botherers’ all the time and then claim you don’t challenge that belief.
I suppose logic isn’t what it used to be.

Johnny Rotten
May 23, 2024 7:35 pm

God gave mankind free will, the will to do good and the will to do bad.

And you believe that?

It is a more complex issue than first meets the eye, as I am finding it out.

One thing I can definitely tell you, others will dispute it, you cannot get faith by reading books. Be it the Bible the Torah, Koran or any other Hindu or Buddhist sacred book.

There are just as many, if not ten times more scientific books out there that dispute the existence of A or multiple Gods.

In short you have to have some belief, be it ever so little, in a God and then read the Bible or other to confirm your belief.

I am at this stage but I am afraid I am failing badly at the moment, upsetting my lecturers with my impertinent questions.

My little faith in God comes from not being able to explain how the universe and us an all came into being.

42 is a good answer but not the ultimate one.

Plus a little spiritual experience I had and also cannot explain and won’t go into it.
All I can say I wasn’t drunk at the time.

Zulu Kilo Two Alpha
May 23, 2024 7:15 pm

Byron Pickett: Broke footy legend who once earned almost $300,000 a season opens up about having to explain to his kids why he doesn’t own a house or car after stellar 11-year career

Pickett doesn’t have much to show for stellar footy career

He alleges that he had money stolen by his former agent

Says his kids ask him where the money has all gone

Yeahhh money stolen, that’s a good one.

He lost it like all the other big lottery winners did, spent it all as if it was coming out of a never ending money spring.

Comedy news (the Courier-Mail), and as previously reported:

Townsville’s mayor has produced his military service number to “put an end” to speculation, however the full contents of his record reveal he did not spend five years in the army or SAS as he told voters.

Of course he didn’t.

Mayor Troy Thompson also compared his treatment in the media and community to that of returning war veterans who he said were “mistreated, spat on, spoken about poorly, and not supported”.

Why would liars lying about their military service be supported? Actual veterans, Mr Thompson, would be well entitled to spit on you. But they haven’t. Yet.

This flog actually claimed – publicly, while running for Mayor – he was a signaller with 152 Signals Squadron in Perth, which supports (and goes on operations with) the SASR.

Documents witnessed by the Townsville Bulletin reveal the mayor spent less than six months undertaking entry-level training within the army reserves over a period of two and a half years.

And:

Records show Mr Thompson completed a two-week recruit course from June 8 to June 22, 1991 before completing a reservist cooking course between July and December 1991, with no listed courses or activities past 1991 until his date of discharge on October 23, 1993.

This appears to be in contrast to Mr Thompson’s claims throughout his mayoral campaign where he was captured on a video interview stating he “spent five years in the military in Perth, so I was in signals, in … Karakatta, Fremantle and SAS Swanbourne.”

Also:

Mr Thompson’s service records show he joined the Australian Army Active Reserve on March 26, 1991 in 109 Signal Squadron at Leeuwin Barracks in WA.

Mr Thompson was posted to the Army Reserve’s 13th Brigade as part of the Australian Army Catering Corps on December 8, 1991 upon the completion of his cooking course, but remained inactive from thereafter, according to documents sighted.

Reservists who remain inactive for two years are automatically discharged, but records show Mr Thompson discharged at his own request on October 23, 1993.

However:

Responding to a question about his timings on Facebook, Mr Thompson said: “the time line was incorrect, but I couldn’t remember the exact timeline, so I fall short, so I’m told”.

This is of course horseshit. Can’t remember the year you joined, can’t remember your regimental number. How he can show his face in that garrison town escapes me.

Lesbian news (the CM, again):

A married couple forced their child to stand against a wall for 12 hours without food or water and hit the seven-year-old girl with a metal bat over 10 months of prolonged cruelty, a Cairns court has heard.

The Cairns women

Here we go.

both aged 30 who cannot be named for legal reasons, escaped jail in Cairns District Court this week.

Crown prosecutor Seamus McManus said the women were living in a caravan park with the victim and a younger sibling when the crimes occurred around June 2021 to April 2022.

And:

Mr McManus said they failed to provide adequate care and adequate food for the child, she had heavy duty chores and was made to stand with her hand on her head facing a wall for up to 12 hours as “time out”.

During these times, the girl was not allowed to eat, drink, or go to the toilet and she urinated on herself more than once, and on one occasion, vomited because of the heat, Mr McManus said.

Happy Mother’s Day, you harridans. These are the upstanding citizens:

The court heard the women were initially indicted on a charge of torture.

One woman has had five biological children removed from her care and the other woman has had three biological children removed.

These moles were so shit at being humans that between them they had EIGHT children removed from their care.

The court heard the women had taken domestic violence orders out against one another and the mother had started divorce proceedings, but they remained together for some time after the children were taken from them.

Fantastic.

Postcard from Cape Town No. 2

Mrs TE writes:

As we stayed overnight on Coral Princess, there was no difficulty getting off the ship, thank goodness.

We joined an independent tour to Boulders and Cape of Good Hope National Park. Along the way we stopped at some brightly coloured changing huts – the water was a little too chilly even for me!  (TE: the missus is famous for trying a dip anywhere even the English Channel when none of the locals would go in.)

Boulders has a colony of African Penguins – bigger than Melbourne’s Fairy Penguins.  They have a hilarious, awkward walk – of course they are smooth and sleek in the water, using their wings for propulsion.  It was fun watching them trying to sit on their fluffy, large, babies – no feathers yet.  Lots of them and happy to be around humans. Co-existing there as well was an animal called a rock rabbit (scientific name “Cape Hyrax”)  To me it looked like a miniature fluffy wombat. 

Onto the Cape itself, a barren rocky region with ginormous waves crashing into cliffs and beaches.  The sound was tremendous.  Up the top was a fabulous view of surrounds – lots of flowers related to red-hot poker and succulents. A very isolated spot for the lighthouse keepers – the wind probably drove them mad!  Saw some wild ostriches.  Drove back via Chapman Road – a scary mountainous route (made more so by our racing car driver) with fantastic cliff drops.  At the top, the fog rolled in.

Two days in Cape Town was probably not enough time to form any firm opinions.  We definitely saw two extremes of living – shanty towns and deluxe housing.  The city was clean – people with a broom sweeping rubbish off the streets. Lots of palms, natives, bougainvillea and frangipani.  Surprisingly it is on the same latitude as Sydney – I had always imagined it to be further south.  The wind shapes the vegetation and trees and the power of the oceans and height of the waves is amazing.  The city is surrounded by mountains with the magnificent Table Mountain the centrepiece.

We’re now on to Namibia further north up the western coast of Africa.

Having been away for a while, I find the new format a bit confusing, if I click on the blockquote button to refer to the previous post, all of my comment seems to be included as well.

What am I doing wrong?

The Real Reason For The Campus Protests

A travesty (the Tele):

One lucky Australian has won $150 million on the Powerball, the largest ever single-person lottery win in the country’s history.

Not only is this not me, but – ramming salt into this gaping wound:

All that’s known is that the person lives in South Australia and bought the ticket from a licensed lottery outlet in Adelaide.

A barrel-stuffer. The Lotto people might has well have burned the cash, or built wind turbines with it.

Not allowed to arrest criminals.

Police Forces Told to Stop Arresting People to Save Prison Space (23 May)

British police forces have been told to arrest fewer people to reduce the strains on the prison system, sparking warnings that the move could endanger the public.

Internal advice from the National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPCC) has advised local police forces throughout Britain to suspend “non-priority arrests” and stop launching police operations which may result in a “large number of arrests”, the Times of London reported. …

The disclosure comes amid a growing distrust of the police to do their job, with over half of the British public saying in a recent survey that they do not trust police forces to solve crimes while just over a quarter said that they expected police to make an arrest if they were burgled.

This is another one that comes right to Mr Sunak’s door. I don’t know the stats for the UK but it was recently reported that 60% of violent criminals in Germany are immigrants. I suspect something similar in Britain.

Fluff on the bull bar.
Flush as well

Germany warned Wednesday it will arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he enters the country following allegations of war crimes by the International Criminal Court (ICC), a spokesperson has confirmed.
Asked by reporters in Berlin if Germany would execute any ICC arrest warrants if issued against Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, Steffen Hebestreit, a spokesman for German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, said, “Of course. Yes, we abide by the law,” Politico reported.

If ICC judges grant the requested warrants, 124 countries across the world – including every member of the European Union – will be obliged to arrest Netanyahu and Gallant on sight. It is the first time in the court’s history that a sitting Western-backed leader has been targeted by the international court in this manner.

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/05/23/germany-warns-netanyahu-it-will-execute-icc-arrest-warrant-against-him/

All these supra-national bodies, like the UN, the EU, ICC and its European equivalent are being pumped up by politicians who see them as their next career move. They are aided and abetted by bureaucrats with the same objective.

Don’t forget, the UN’s hundreds of thousands of employees all over the world pay no income tax, and get treated like diplomats wherever they go.

Politicians sign up to their bogus directives in the hope of hopping on to the gravy train when weary constituents throw them out of their padded leather chairs.

As for arresting Benny – I suspect that a lot of EU members would be hesitant and possibly opposed. After all – who’s next?

I remember a young Yazidi ‘sex slave’ testifying how her captor would say his prayers, rape her, then go back to his prayers.
The same apparently with Hamasis on 7 October.
Welcome to islam.
https://x.com/JewishWarrior13/status/1793649167778173351?t=dHYV6jFdJtIoMowdk8v4pQ&s=19

How DEI can kill you. The thread shows the collapse in standards, coming to an operating theatre soon;

@aaronsibarium

SCOOP: Whistleblowers at UCLA medical school say it has dramatically lowered admissions standards for minority applicants.

As a result, they say, 50% of some cohorts now fail basic tests of medical competence.

We’ve obtained shocking internal data.

https://x.com/aaronsibarium/status/1793657774767022569

Dover, when I use the Ctrl find thingie, it tells me that there are no matches, when I know that there are more than one. It’s not working.