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gross spam

04 Friday May 2007

Posted by azahar in media, rants, weird

≈ 3 Comments

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Is it just me?

Or has anyone else noticed that the spam being caught here by Akismet has been extra vile lately? I tend to zip through the spam list to check if a friend’s comment has been caught there by mistake. But wow – a lot of the titles and links I see are not only quite gross and disgusting but these sites are also promoting and promising stuff that is illegal in most countries.

Do you think they are for real? Makes me shudder to think about it.

Is there any way to officially complain about this shit?

secret? what secret?

26 Thursday Apr 2007

Posted by azahar in books & writing, health & happiness, media, rants, video, weird

≈ 6 Comments

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Decoding ‘The Secret’

Oprah lives by it. Millions are reading it. The latest self-help sensation claims we can change our lives by thinking. But this ‘new thought’ may just be new marketing.

Reading some of the excerpts in the Newsweek article, you’d almost think it was a spoof book if not for the millions of copies sold and the public support of celebs like Oprah, Ellen DeGeneres and Nicole Kidman. Are people really so desperately needy and pathetically gullible? The mind reels …

You’d think the last thing Americans need is more excuses for self-absorption and acquisitiveness. But our inexhaustible appetite for “affirmation” and “inspiration” and “motivation” has finally outstripped the combined efforts of Wayne Dyer, Anthony Robbins, Dr. Phil and Mitch Albom. We have actually begun importing self-help—and from Australia, of all places, that citadel of tough-minded individualism…

wtf?

24 Tuesday Apr 2007

Posted by azahar in health & happiness, life stuff, media, politics, rants

≈ 5 Comments

toilet-paper.jpg Crow calls for limit on loo paper

In my opinion it’s ‘celebrity environmentalists’ like this who give a bad name to the whole global environmental movement that is seriously trying to make things better.

By making such an idiotic public statement and suggesting that this is a way to help us ‘save the planet’ only serves to possibly make others who have dedicated their lives to the preservation of our environment look like cranks.

Crow has also commented on her website about how she thinks paper napkins “represent the height of wastefulness”.

Which again only shows how uninformed this person is. Paper napkins are the height of wastefulness??? What fucking planet is she living on? One where she is always served with the finest of linen napkins I suppose.

The 45-year-old, who made the comments on her website, has just toured the US on a biodiesel-powered bus to raise awareness about climate change.

And no mention of the many flights she’s taken on both private and public jets to promote her music career? How, um … hypocritical?

I am very concerned about the environment and do as much as I feel I can by recycling as much as possible. But using one square of toilet paper per bathroom visit? How is that even practical? I’d just end up having to use the bidet more often and waste water.

Presumably Ms Crow neither menstruates nor ever gets the trots, and also has the ability to always pee straight down every time without ever splashing … gee, lucky her.   🙄

fascist America…

24 Tuesday Apr 2007

Posted by azahar in life stuff, media, philosophy, politics, rants

≈ 14 Comments

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… in 10 easy steps

History shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. According to Naomi Wolf in this morning’s Grauniad, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all :

  1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
  2. Create a gulag
  3. Develop a thug caste
  4. Set up an internal surveillance system
  5. Harass citizens’ groups
  6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
  7. Target key individuals
  8. Control the press
  9. Dissent equals treason
  10. Suspend the rule of law
  11. Continue reading →

the most hated family in the USA

21 Saturday Apr 2007

Posted by azahar in life stuff, media, rants, religion

≈ 27 Comments

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The Most Hated Family in America

They call themselves the most hated family in the US and they picket funerals of soldiers killed in Iraq. The Phelps family pickets mourners across the country, to mark what it describes as God’s revenge on the US for tolerating homosexuality.

Buncha self-righteous sick fucks thinking they are above everyone else because they have God’s ear? I know it’s not polite to spit in public but I really can’t help it when I read about such extreme religious lunatics as this bunch.

If they switched ‘homosexual’ to ‘black’ or ‘Jew’, how far do you think they’d be tolerated? f_cross.gif

And now they are planning to picket the funerals of the Virginia Tech massacre victims . . . unfuckingbelievable.

~ originally posted March 31, 2007 ~

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