OCCUPIED COUNTRY

The Pretty Things are going to Hell

I see the God-botherers are out and about again. I like the fact that denying them the freedom to deny others their freedom is denying them their freedom. It's an odd world the religious one. It must take all your time up just running around making sure nobody is being offensive to God. It must be really hard finding folk who are just sat there, on their own, being quietly homosexual and visiting the wrath of a vengeful God on them. I'd be knackered at the end of the day I can tell yer.

It's funny how they only trot out "what the Bible says" when they want their prejudices supporting though isn't it? I don't see any of the smug fuckers campaigning to ban shellfish. And they should, for, as stated in Leviticus 11:9-12:

9 These shall ye eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales in the waters, in the seas, and in the rivers, them shall ye eat.

10 And all that have not fins and scales in the seas, and in the rivers, of all that move in the waters, and of any living thing which is in the waters, they shall be an abomination unto you:

11 They shall be even an abomination unto you; ye shall not eat of their flesh, but ye shall have their carcases in abomination.

12 Whatsoever hath no fins nor scales in the waters, that shall be an abomination unto you.

Deuteronomy also:

9 These ye shall eat of all that are in the waters: all that have fins and scales shall ye eat:

10 And whatsoever hath not fins and scales ye may not eat; it is unclean unto you.<

So, that takes care of prawns, lobster, crab, cockles, winkles and I guess angels on horseback won't be gracing the tables at any evangelical gala luncheons in the near future. I don't see any demos outside fishmongers though - or perhaps I missed them?

Similarly I haven't seen hordes of believers outside Marks and Spencer protesting against people who wear clothes made of more than one fabric (Leviticus 19:19) a habit that I personally find absolutely disgusting. (Honest!)

Still it's nice to be able to pick and choose your "Laws of God" isn't it?

The oleaginous, smug pricks.

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Speaking of oleaginous, smug pricks, I see everyone's favourite celice-wearer is back in the headlines and brazenly swanning around in differing fabrics to boot. Rumour also has it that, to add insult to injury, the occasional prawn cocktail has slipped down her blasphemous throat.

Still God helps those that help themselves as some rich twat once said.

It's the hypocrisy I can't take. From Blair, Dianne Abbott, Lord Falconer, Keith Bradley, Harriet Harmon and many others. "Do as I say not as I do". Just like the Tories over a decade ago. Seriously, if Cameron can get his act and his Party together there could be a very interesting General Election in the offing next time round.

I still blame Thatcher though.

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"I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of Parliament to decide on war," reads the headstone of the late Livingston MP Robin Cook. It's hard to remember a time when politicians with something to lose still held on to their convictions and sacrificed their careers in the face of it.

Just think, had he lived he could be sat on the backbenches still saying "I told you so" at every opportunity.