Bruce Llama

So, lets get to all the important bits for this years Federal Election.

Tony Abbott was confronted by a man wearing speedos while he was on the campaign trail at the Knox Shopping Centre.  That shows true grit and determination, it’s bloody cold out in Knox.

The photos sort of show poor Tony being shielded from they guy, some burly security guard is keeping him at bay.  Mind you, I don’t know why anyone would want to get too close to the Rabbit, and perhaps he might have felt a bit threatened should the speedo wearing dude be gay.  Or just maybe the Rabbit sneaked a peek when he thought no one was looking, not that it would have been worthwhile, on account on it being so cold and all.

The voters in Australia will be forced to go and vote at an election in a few of weeks.  Forced, because if we don’t vote we get fined.

Yesterday the Prime Minister of Australia went to visit the Governor General of Australia, both women and I’m sure they were moist as they sat down to talk about having an election.  Nipples standing on edge no doubt.  Which is probably unusual, it’s normally men sitting cross-legged trying to hide their raging boners as they discuss such things.

Anyway, what’s been missing in the Australian system is a party that isn’t beholden to religion. Until now.  Just recently the Secular Party of Australia has been registered, and guess what, they’re standing at this election!  At last a bunch of people who want to get rid of stupid laws that allow governments to fund religion.

I’ve been saying for ages that we need to tax the bastards, we need to stop our leaders from taking part in debates organised by religion.  We need to shut up people like Cardinal Hell who has way to much influnence in the political sphere.

And here it is.

So, that’s the Greens and the Seculars who get my vote this time around.  No pandering to the religious nutters, equality for all Australians, protection for the environment and at last, pollies that won’t get moist and hard at the thought of all the power they will wield…. I think.

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Over at the blog, Galus Australis, Mark Baker has written a delightful piece on a recent trip to Germany.  He explains how he and his students found a monument and inside the monument was an image of two men kissing.

During World War II, gay people, as well as jews and others were rounded up and killed by the nazis.  This was a stark reminder of those times gone by.

Mark talks about how the laws that contributed to the murder of gay people stayed in place long after the war.  He questions how we continue to let that sort of discrimination happen.

It is indeed telling that even today hatred and discrimination abounds around the world for gay people.  The comments still reflect this pathetic notion that while the torah/bible prohibits homosexuality, and it can never be approved of, we have to tolerate them.

Religion gets in the way of freedom of others.  Sure, you can believe whatever you like, but you may not use your faith, your religion, to restrict the freedom of others.

Religion is so fucked up, that prohibiting anything in our society based on it’s texts, it’s rules, is flawed.

Some of the respondents still use religion as a weapon to hide behind.  They spout all the right things, but refuse to see that their words, their faith, still creates an environment that breeds hate and distrust of gay people.  Their god still permits the religious to  cause great emotional stress to gay people of faith, just look at how the current pope talks about us:

The homosexual inclination is however ‘objectively disordered’ and homosexual practices are ‘sins gravely contrary to chastity’.

and there are still pockets in the jewish tradition that think it’s possible to convert to heterosexuality.

The accusation of having a closed mind whips around the chat forums, people accusing each other of being closed minded.  Time and time again I’m suprised at how easily those who are silly enough to believe in a rather stupid notion of god are prepared to throw science out the window and accuse those that want to use it as being closed minded.

Here it is for you again, there is no god, there is no reason to treat gay people as second class citizens, there is no reason to deny marriage equality to all Australians.

Take your god and shove his head in a bucket of warm cow shit and tell him to inhale deeply.  Get it?

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When you are a muslim, you should pray to your god at least five times a day.  Makes me wonder how they have time to do anything else.

And when you pray, you have to face Mecca, because that’s what the prophet did.  Imagine the consternation of the Indonesians when they discovered that for all these years, they’ve been facing the wrong way!

So if you’re in that part of the world, stop facing Africa and look a little more to the north-west, otherwise your prayers may well miss their mark.

If you have trouble determining which way to bend your arse towards god, check out Wikipedia.

More examples of the really stupid nature of religion and how easy it is to get distracted with the unimportant things and ignore all the things you should be attending to, like education, poverty and general health and well being.

Thanks to 1minionsopinion for the tip!

The holy babble is full of things to do.  Christians in particular are really good at just picking out the bits they want and leaving the nasty stuff alone.

Oh no, they say, all that nasty stuff, before jesus was born of the BVM, doesn’t count anymore.  This jesus we are lead to believe is the son of god, and, depending on who you listen to is in fact god, so therefore, all that stuff in the old book of the bible is his rules too.  Pretty nasty bit of work the ole jc, just like his old man, who is his father, but not sexually, but also he is his own father because they are the same person, but split, one of them died as a sacrifice for the sins of the people to appease the other one, but yet they are the same one.

And people believe this?

Here’s a good short video of the bible – shows just how stupid and inane it is.  Our morality can not be derived from this hateful book that is cherry picked for the good bits only….

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Some rabid muslim leader wants Australian muslims to shun democracy because apparently it’s forbidden, no human is suppose to make laws, only their goat fucking god can do that.

He said democracy was incompatible with Islam because the Koran insisted Allah was the sole lawmaker, and Muslim political involvement could not be based on “secular and erroneous concepts such as democracy and freedom”

This ‘leader’ is from the UK, visiting Australia, both nations are democracies, he lives in a democracy and takes full advantage of it.

A non-Muslim attendant at the conference, Ervin Zurell, provoked mild consternation among the audience when he asked why Muslims don’t “go back to the country you came from”.

That is indeed a good question, why if you feel that way would you live in a democracy.  I would imagine it’s because of the freedom  they enjoy.  So, if you are the one in control, if you can be a ‘leader’ then sure, you want to get rid of people’s right to disagree and throw you out of office, that’s what these nutcases want to do.

Another clear example of why religion is crap and should be purged from the planet, along with all the bogans from the western suburbs.

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Billy “babe” Muehlenberg over at CultureWatch is struggling with the idea of truth.

Ideas have consequences and bad ideas have bad consequences. Unfortunately in the secular West, the rejection of God – which was meant to bring freedom – has simply resulted in bondage: bondage to bad ideas, bad thinking and bad worldviews.

Umm…. no.  That’s only a ‘truth’ if you think that there is a god.  I think it’s you who has the bad idea, bad thinking and bad worldviews Bill.

Stupid theories always bang their heads against the realities of life.

Bill then goes on and on about reality and how people want to make their own realities and truth.  Which is true, what he doesn’t see is that his own reality and outlook on life is jaded by a silly belief in something that just isn’t true.  God.  He has been banging his head against the reality of life, trying to spread the reality of his gospel with some sort of hope that the rest of us will fall in line and praise his rather pathetic god.

He wants to make points about Julia Gillard, the new Prime Minister, being an atheist.  She seeks to appease those that find her non-belief confronting by saying that it’s ok, she grew up baptist.  He has a real problem with that idea, as she can’t have it both ways.  Alas, again he misses the point, she wants to keep stupid dumbarsed believers happy and comfortable so that it doesn’t have a negative effect on the vote, that is, after all the reality of her world.

He’s closing statement however just sums it all up:

But as truth goes missing, it is time for God’s people to stand up and be counted. Christians are always the true radicals, the true revolutionaries. We go against the prevailing worldview and the spirit of the age. We proclaim black and white in an age of 99 shades of grey.

Uh huh.  Radical.  Revolutionary.  Let’s face it, you really just want the world to stay back when men like you could tell everyone how to live.  You want to be the only font of truth.  You should get out more, the world is not black and white, we have plenty of other things to celebrate and be happy about, you and your ilk need to accept that you no longer have the sway you once did, and rightly so.  You’re not a radical, true or otherwise, you are a throwback to a bygone era, and I’m glad you’re a bygone.

I’m away grazing in the mountains,enjoying the fresh smells of the bush. Love Llama has nodded off, so what’s a llama to do but pick up the copy of the HOLY BIBLE PLACED BY THE GIDEONS and have a random look. You don’t have to look to far to find bizarre stuff like this

“Behold, I am against you,” says the LORD of hosts; “I will lift your skirts over your face, I will show the nations your nakedness, and the kingdoms your shame. I will cast abominable filth upon you, make you vile, and make you a spectacle. It shall come to pass that all who look upon you will flee from you, and say “Nineveh is laid waste! Who will bemoan her?” Where shall I seek comforters for you?” Nahum 3 4:7

He’s a nasty bit of a deity really isn’t he. Here he is killing the first born, stoning people to death and smiting them every chance he gets, and yet the dirty old perve can only manage to lift the skirt and show her pink bits to the world to shame her, the he will cast filth upon her – now that’s kinky, I bet the old man is getting his jollies. Getting ready to poke a virgin no doubt. Nice job, no wonder your priests are screwed up baby.

Oh, Love Llama has awoken.

There’s been a change at the top, we somehow managed to change Prime Ministers mid-stream. It has been a very impressive handover of power.

Krudd gave a speech that told us all how proud he was about his achievements while in power. He was clearly deeply emotional and took long pauses as he gathered himself together and ploughed on through. He spoke fondly of his family, wife and children and thanked his staff. He gave thanks to god – that would be the same god that he has clearly fallen out of favour with. He had a cry and then with the world ‘zip’ he was gone, back in the doors and away.

Krudd said he’ll be sticking around, it’ll be interesting to see where he goes next. Back bench? Front bench? Ambassador to the Holy See?

Julia Gillard then appeared, quite unrepentant about what has been unfolding, took responsibility for the change and clearly is already in charge. She acknowledged the great job that Krudd did, took responsibility for some of the questionable decisions of the previous administration and then told us all what she was thinking about in the future. She was unemotional and pretty matter of fact about the transition. Very forthright.

The head of government in Australia is not directly elected by it’s citizens, despite the words that tumble out of their mouths. We don’t get to vote directly for them, we have to elect members of the same party so that that party has a majority. This means, as has clearly been demonstrated over the last 24 hours, that we don’t get to pick our PM. In fact, the PM is only PM while he (or she)enjoys the majority support of the parliamentary party. I don’t like that idea. There really has been no public outcry for the PM to step down, and let’s face it, the real reason why Krudd has been ousted is because the Labor Party really thinks that they’ll loose the next election with Krudd at the top. So, this really isn’t about what’s best for Australia, it is about what’s best for the Labor Party to stay in power. Of course they believe that in the long run they are doing this for the best interest of Australia, but I think they show a certain about of disrespect to the Australian electorate for not allowing us to make the decision about who leads us. It’s time for some reform, we need to directly elect our leaders and we need to directly sack our leaders.

Oh, she’s a woman, a red head, not married and childless, probably an atheist. So?

How quickly things move, Kevin Rudd steps down while Julia Gillard steps up and there’s a change of leadership. Krudd was saying how he’d been elected by the Australian people. What twaddle, the only way you get to be PM is for your party to vote you there. It has nothing to do with the rest of the nation, because if it did Krudd would still be in power.

There’s only reason why the Labor Party has changed leaders, it’s because they want to stay in power, and they reckon that Krudd was a liability, Gillard is their best chance at clinging on to the reigns of power.

And… she’s a woman, so history is being made. Our first female prime minister. It’s a pity she gets there in this way and not by election by the people, but we’ll see.

So, our Head of State is the Queen, her representative in Australia, The Governor General, she’s a woman and now our Prime Minister is an unmarried atheist who’s also a woman! She’s in a relationship with a hairdresser, a man.

The change at the top is quick and ruthless, there has been no blood shed and no battles on the street, the army has not been called out and the police are not in riot gear. The action of government means the rest of us can get on with our lives. That’s something to be happy about.