Goodbye and Hello

It is with great regret that I close this blog, but a loss of interest in politics and the eventual death of this sites terrible commenting system has led me to change blogs and start anew.

Lost in a Forest will probably be a very different sort of blog, a bit more personal or as I call it "emo rambling" and a bit less giggling at whoever is leading the Liberal Party to failure this week.

Thanks for the giggles, arguments and good times on the blogosphere over the last two years and I hope to see some of you at my new blog.

Till next time.

Objectivity for Dummies

Faith, religion and all that stuff is a subject that the media treats with a great deal of care (except if they want to rile up some anti-Muzzie hatred of course). So I was quite surprised at how the the Daily Terror's standards have dropped with this piece.

A WOMAN cured of inoperable lung and brain cancer through prayers to Mary MacKillop has broken her silence, 16 years after being cured of the disease.

Kathleen Evans, 66, a self-confessed "ordinary woman" from Lake Macquarie beat an aggressive cancer which riddled her body, with the help of Mother MacKillop.

A woman was saved where medicine had failed by the spirit of a woman who died over a hundred years ago, so declares journalist Clementine Cuneo. Oh but global warming, now that's CRAZY! Angels and a magical invisible man in the sky control the climate.

Ummm, OK.

It's obviously a fantastic thing that the woman, who thought all hope was lost won her battle against cancer. I cant say that Mary Mackillop didn't save her life, but the Terror for a mainstream news organisation to declare a miracle as fact in a news story is just a bit rich if they want to be taken seriously.

In contrast, here is how the ABC handled the story.

The woman said to have been miraculously cured of inoperable cancer after praying to Mary MacKillop has been identified for the first time and has spoken of her experience.

Better, respectful to the woman's beliefs and leaves the judgement to others.

And given opinion editor Tim Blair's recent jihad against scientists one cant help but wonder how the Terror can harm their credibility further. Perhaps a return to angel, UFO and Elvis sightings.

Because all black people are the same

Oh for fucks sake, yes we do have racism in this country much like any country. No, this advertisement is not racist.

AN ad by KFC Australia showing a man giving fried chicken to West Indies fans has been labelled racist in the US.

In the "cricket survival guide" ad, an Australian fan named Mick asks viewers "Need a tip when you're stuck in an awkward situation?" after being surrounded by cheering West Indies fans.

He then shares a bucket of KFC chicken with fans around him to calm the situation.

Is this ad racist? Tell us below.

The video has caused a huge stir in the US after it was posted on YouTube. The ad has been seen by some in the US as a reference to racial stereotype that African Americans eat fried chicken.

Here is the shocking travesty here.

The funny thing about black people is, much like white people they don't come from one single country. The stereotype of the lazy black man eating fried chicken comes from the American South, and has little to no relevance in the rest of the world. The people in the ad are meant to be from the West Indies which is about as far removed from the American South as Moldova is to Norway.

Yet dumb (and possibly racist) Americans see a group of black people and instantly assume they are African Americans. We aren't the ignorant ones here, you guys are.

Here is the otherwise amusing Young Turks putting their racial stereotypes on the black crowd.

Skip to 2:48 and listen to nitwit Ana make a rather ignorant judgement.

"People see it and they think Oh Yeah Yeah, those African Americans, they're so rowdy those rowdy bunch"

Ana you half-wit, just because someone is black doesn't instantly make them an African American you insular, ignorant nitwit. Just like because I am white it doesn't instantly mean I am Swedish. They are supporters of the West Indies cricket team, the Carra-fucking-bean (You know, like that Pirate movie), yes black people exist in other countries!!! Shocking isn't it.

Yes but somehow we are racist once again, because Americans fail to realise the world doesn't revolve around them.

Fighting Intolerance with Intolerance

Having one of those lazy days I've been reading a lot of crap I should otherwise ignore.

As a few may know, I don't have a high opinion of modern feminism. I don't deny the achievements made in the past by the feminist movement, but I think anything vaguely sensible supported by feminists is also supported by the left side of politics anyway.

Hey I could be wrong, but when feminists jump en masse to do really important things like call the film Avatar sexist and racist, its hardly on par with the fight for voting and property rights is it?

Anyway I started reading the writings of deranged dingbat Julie Bindel today. To be fair her nonsense would probably be dismissed by most feminists with a functioning brain but anyway she still deserves to be ridiculed for the hate filled dingbat that she is.

First of all she is one of those try hard rebels that fights teh patriarchy through pointless bits of symbolism like refusing to wear make-up, you know until a lucrative promo offer comes along and tempts her to change her mind. Oh you rebel you! So subversive.

Anyway, she follows the teachings of radical feminist Sheilla Jeffreys who advocates that women cannot be free unless they refrain from all sexual activity with men.

"We think serious feminists have no choice but to abandon heterosexuality," it reads. "Only in the system of oppression that is male supremacy does the oppressor actually invade and colonise the interior of the body of the oppressed." It also asserted that penetration "is more than a symbol, its function and effect is the punishment and control of women".

Who else can spot that rather large flaw in that plan? What would happen to women (and humanity) in the long run if we stopped heterosexual sexy time? Something important, vital for the future of humanity..... Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Julie Bindel's main shtick seems to be fighting intolerance with her own intolerance, ie men are evil and are not individuals and every man is responsible for every bit of evil committed by other men. We are born guilty.

To me, political lesbianism continues to make intrinsic sense because it reinforces the idea that sexuality is a choice, and we are not destined to a particular fate because of our chromosomes. I also suspect that it is very difficult to spend your daily life fighting against male violence, only to share a bed with a man come the evening.

There are people who can see individuals and judge them as such. There are others who if they see a person of a certain race committing a crime, will judge all members of that race negatively. Julie does the exact same thing that racists do but applies it to sex, she is less interested in ending violence against women than she is at throwing a presumed guilt at all men.

Women are told we must love our oppressors, while, as feminists, we fight to end the power afforded them as a birthright. Come on sisters, you know it makes sense. Stop pretending you think lesbianism is an exclusive members' club, and join the ranks. I promise that you will not regret it.

Fight sexism by sexism, be discriminatory towards all men because of the crimes of a few.

As much as I think all her hateful nonsense is a heartfelt fuck you there is a a glaring hole is what for lack of a better word I'll call her logic.

The debate over the differing role in biology and environment over humanity is pretty complex. It is impossible to know how much of us is because of our genes and because of the surrounding environment.

One of the biggest debates is if sexuality is pre-determined by our genes or if is a result of environmental factors. Julie has determined with her superior non-scientist mind that everyones sexuality is a choice, because umm she says so.

Thirty years since homosexuality was removed from the list of recognised mental disorders, scientists persist in searching for a "cause", refusing to accept that sexuality and sexual desire are social constructs, not biological or genetically determined.

She presents no evidence of this rather large discovery, apart from some story about how she decided to turn gay because all men are evil. But therein lies the contradiction, how can she on one hand say that biology doesn't matter and that sexuality is purely a social construct which can be chosen, yet also say that men are all evil women hating rapists not because of choice but because of biology and their gender in particular? Eh?

Oh and Julie Bindell, fuck you you stupid cunt for being such a sexist intolerant hateful bitch.

You just Can't Please a Conservative

I went and saw Avatar last night in 3D (Good, not great movie yet an amazing technical achievement) and as usual the typical clowns have come out of the woodwork decrying it as leftist indoctrination.

The story is pretty basic, ex-marine hired to infiltrate alien tribe by evil corporation. Good guy ex-marine decides to side with the alien tribe against the evil corporation, cue love story, cliched army general and some pretty awesome 3D battle scenes. All in all, not a bad way to spend 11 bucks. But of course, the cartoon conservatives see an evil leftist plot in this standard Hollywood fare.

especially in the third act — is ardently left. It is pro-indigenous native, anti-corporate, anti-imperialist, anti-U.S. Iraq War effort, anti-U.S.-in-Afghanistan (and anti-troop-surge-in-that-country, or strongly against the thinking of President Barack Obama and Gen. Stanley McChrystal), anti-rightie, anti-Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld, etc.

Eh? and Wha?

The most surprising thing about that verbatim lunacy is they think something is leftist if it is pro-indigenous. Does that make them proudly anti-indigenous? Do they think conservatism is in itself racist? Because that is what they seem to be saying.

For those that have seen it, the film is stock standard cardboard cutout cliches. Heroic good guys, evil bad guys. It is so standard that it could be a metaphor for a dozen armed conflicts in the last 70 years, and James Cameron had the story in his head long before Iraq Mark II happened.

But these clowns can see leftist indoctrination wherever they look. Did you know Titanic, the highest grossing film of all time is actually an ideological Trojan horse that is preaching radical Marxism? Apparently so.

After Titanic I lost all interest in Cameron. Pure lefty crap.

Eh, you know because the good guy is poor and the evil guy is rich the storyline is leftist. Or something, fucked if I know. Lets hope if these morons ever read a book that they avoid the leftist texts of Dickens. Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol with its anti-materialistic message would put them into a fit.

One can really see what they want in these movies, I could argue that it has a conservative message because it is basically about the protection of property rights. But because the white people are bad the film is inherently evil.

Proving that the leftist indoctrination meme is a Rorschach test that shows each persons insanity. Local nitwit Andrew Bolt also sees Avatar as leftist indoctrination. But no, it isn't a metaphor for Iraq or Afghanistan, its about global warming, or something...

Avatar, in fact, is the warmist dream filmed in 3D. Staring through your glasses at James Cameron’s spectacular $400 million creation, you can finally see where this global warming cult was going.

If Tim Flannery, Al Gore and all the other Copenhagen delegates could at least agree to design a new kind of people, they’d wind up with something much like these 3m-tall gracelings.

The Na’vi live in trees, at one with nature. They worship Mother Earth and, like Gaians today, talk meaningfully of “a network of energy that flows through all living things”. They drink water that’s pooled in giant leaves, and chant around a tree that whispers of their ancestors.

Liking trees and water is leftist?

These people are insane.

But I'll leave the final word to conservative Ace.

If Sarah Palin sees Avatar and then sits down and actually thinks about what it’s saying (which is always a dicey proposition, I admit), she’ll hate this movie.

Yes, the prospect of Sarah Palin actually thinking is quite an unlikely scenario isn't it?

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah and jah bless Gaia everyone.

500 Posts! and a Song for Sunday

Blogger tells me this is my 500th post. It would mean more if I had something to blog about.

As happens occasionally, life has thrown me snakes and I haven't the passion for the semi daily bloggings of irrelevance that I was. I'm not throwing in the towel, but as is often the case by the time I can be bothered blogging about something that is on my mind the subject is already old news that has already been dissected on twitter and other blogs that are better than mine.

But anyway, I heard this song today whilst driving in a friends car. It was a song I really loved when it came out, all the way back in 2003. Usually when I hear a song that reminds me of a particular time in my past, I am hit with an almost painful nostalgia as I reminisce of times gone by and ponder about choices made and where I would be if I had done things differently.

Today however, I felt content. For the first time in a long time.

Anyway the song is David Bowie - Bring Me the Disco King.

From the film Underworld. Average film, great soundtrack.

Men's Rights

The eternal argument between men and women is probably the toilet seat. Women have for years cracked the shits with men for "leaving the seat up". Sure, it would be more practical for anyone who wastes time whinging about the angle of the toilet seat to simply move the seat themselves, but if women were practical Lousis Vuitton wouldn't be selling glorified purse's on handles for $1000 a pop.

Over the years however I have noticed a rising trend of toilet seats that do not stay upright by themselves. You know what I mean, it sticks in the back of your mind. You go to use a public toilet to do a number one, you put the seat up and notice that it doesn't stay up by itself, almost like it was never meant to be used by men in the first place.

You are stuck with a dilemma. Touching a toilet seat is not a desirable experience in the best of circumstances, so the prospect of using one hand to hold up the seat in a usually disgusting public toilet for the extended routine just isn't going to happen. You could sit down to piss, but the average public toilet seat gives off germs just by looking at it, so you wouldn't want to sit down unless it is completely necessary.

A middle ground is getting a square of toilet paper to hold up the seat without touching it, but odds are the seat is already in a disgusting state anyway so why bother. And it is much better to use two hands when doing your business, its a complicated and delicate process after all.

But I am sure I am not the only one that has noticed a significant rise in these defective toilet seats over the years. They used to be a rarity but now I am estimating they make up at least 20% of public toilets.

The only logical explanation is that they increase in female engineers/designers in the last decade or two has med the sisterhood to end the toilet seat up/down debate by stealth, by designing defective toilet seats that do not stay up by themselves.

We must fight this abomination.