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Conservative MP Fred Nile says he wants Muslims banned in NSW to protect Sydney’s topless bathing communities. The Reverend Nile has rejected allegations that prudishness is behind a bill he has prepared to ban Islam on the state’s most popular beaches. Australia’s reputation as a conservative but culturally inclusive sociery was at risk of erosion by more liberal overseas visitors, he said. “Our beaches should be a place where no one is offended, whether it’s their religious or cultural views,” he said. [...] “I think it’s important to respect all the different cultures that make up Australia. I don’t want to have any provocations or disturbances on our public beaches,” he said.

[Article continues at link. Of course my re-telling of the article above comes from the other tomorrow. In the other tomorrow conservatism is about less intrusion of the state on individual people's lives, and the conservation of what's worked so far rather than accommodating the most recent bullies. In the other tomorrow constantly appeasing an invisible monster that lives in the sky is less important than people relaxing in public once in a while. In the other tomorrow women getting some sun is better than women being compelled by theocratic law to be constantly covered to the point of contracting vitamin D deficiency disorders. And in the other tomorrow, nobody votes superstitious chowder-heads into office. Just to be clear, I don't advocate outlawing Islam or any other religion. I advocate the withering away of Islam and all other religions under the twin suns of reason and scorn. - Trevor Blake]

Young v. Jackson County, (OR Land Use Bd. App., Dec. 23, 2008)

Religion Clause: Oregon Appeals Board Says Animist Church Must Be Permitted Under RLUIPA

The threat of 9/11 ignored. The threat of Iraq hyped and manipulated. Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib. Hurricane Katrina. The shredding of civil liberties. The rise of Iran. Global warming. Economic disaster. How did one two-term presidency go so wrong?

An Oral History of the Bush White House: Politics & Power: vanityfair.com

What’s the Islamic answer to acid attacks? More acid attacks! Yay Islam!

An Eye for an Eye: Justice or Injustice, Poetic or Barbaric? | MetaFilter

access anonymously hosted websites

tor2web.org – Making the Internet a more interesting place since 2008

The piece begins with Jankowski arising from Spencer’s congregation with a handy-video camera, approaching the pulpit, and collapsing at the pastor’s feet, while Spencer, speaking directly to the TV camera, delivers a sermon about art, preaching against a “one-dimensional view of painting” while praising contemporary art as “a bridge between religion, art, and television.”

Christian Jankowski | List Visual Arts Center

Moderate drinkers often have lower risks of Alzheimer’s disease and other cognitive loss

Moderate Drinking Can Reduce Risks Of Alzheimer’s Dementia And Cognitive Decline

CUTE THINGS FALLING ASLEEP

TOS crew wiggin’.

Star Trek – White Rabbit

A seven-year-old girl is taken by her mother to be circumcised in Kurdish Iraq, where more than 60 percent of women have undergone the traditional and controversial procedure. [Is slavery controversial? How about torture? Are some things just WRONG, not controversial?]

Widespread Female Circumcision Highlights the Plight of Kurdish Women – washingtonpost.com

1968年10月18日 日本人初のノーベル文学賞を受賞した川端康成と三島由紀夫、伊藤整との対談です。場所 は鎌倉にある川端邸で、ノーベル文学賞を受賞した翌日に特別番組として放送されたもの です。

Mishima – 川端康成氏を囲んで (三島由紀夫　伊藤整)1/3

Yomiuri Nippon Symphony

Mishima Conducting

from the LP

YouTube – Mishima Yukio – eirei no koe (voices of the heroic dead)

Arthur Moeller van den Bruck – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

at the IISG

Archival Finding Aids – Archives Harold Walsby

at the IISG

Archives George Walford

Neanderthal extinction was principally a result of competition with Cro-Magnon populations [and we haven't had anyone to talk to since.]

Competition, Not Climate Change, Led To Neanderthal Extinction, Study Shows

Do you know how important this is?

Chris Carter’s original GRISTLEIZER ‘Industrial’ audio effect unit

I will show you how to build a net gun out of materials available at any big box home improvement store.

Build A Net Gun

Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a religious decree to Muslims around the world on Sunday, ordering them to defend Palestinians against Israel’s attacks on Gaza, state television said. “All Palestinian combatants and all the Islamic world’s pious people are obliged to defend the defenseless women, children and people in Gaza in any way possible. Whoever is killed in this legitimate defense is considered a martyr,” state television quoted Khamenei as saying in a statement outlining the fatwa.

[Article continues at link. I'm glad that the Supreme Leader is calling for Muslims to defend defenseless women, children and people. Maybe now he can get around to speaking out against how Muslims have child slaves. And how Muslims practice female genital mutilation. And how Muslims put people to death for blasphemy. And how Muslims blind women with acid to punish them for going to school. And how Muslims have offered 12,000+ human sacrifices to Allah since 9/11. - Trevor Blake]