tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-192651182024-03-07T06:07:22.389+00:00Feed Yourself To The Moss.Adorning the Internet with the crisp, spicy seasoning of uninformed rambling.The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-43834085664780584872015-09-14T10:09:00.002+00:002015-09-14T10:16:45.611+00:00Je Suis Charlie Hebdo, Part II
I've seen this and similar articles and can't help but feel they are an attempt to once again shore up the murders committed by terrorists; they are, inevitably, accompanied by mockery of the 'je suis Charlie Hebdo' campaign, which had the gall to condemn murders conducted in response to the depiction of Mohammed and general irreverence towards a religion. Those murders and the The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-44450766321342502992015-08-27T16:54:00.000+00:002016-07-10T16:37:48.891+00:00A Catholic agrees with the Pope, who is a CatholicA very important news article finds that a Catholic is Catholic.
'Perhaps we should de-politicize human sexuality', he said, 'by abandoning women's health to uncertainty and privation for political reasons'.
Literally every claim here is the most beautiful ever made. Corporations are a fiction designed to prevent individual shareholders and owners from being personally liable for The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-36499338771775708902015-01-25T13:17:00.002+00:002016-06-28T02:12:07.773+00:00Je Suis Charlie HebdoThe vision I have of the world I want to live in includes a huge amount of ideas, a perpetual battle of words, the vast majority of which I am going to find at least wrong and often morally unpalatable, but which ultimately are going to lose, because I live in a liberal democracy and the best ideas will win. So often politicians and journalists scramble to blame the victims for the acts of The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-65661775547848984832014-03-25T17:08:00.002+00:002014-03-25T17:21:53.624+00:00Sharia Not to be Adopted into UK Legal System for First Time, says more accurate headlinehttp://rt.com/news/sharia-law-uk-legal-713/
But really, let's face it, it could be any article by a rag about sharia in any Anglo nation because it feeds into, amongst other things, the popular Londonistan myth.
'Sharia law to be adopted into UK legal system for first time' bleats the headline, and as with most such sensationalist headlines is somewhat contradicted by the article. Nonetheless The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-22150893007998190342014-03-06T22:32:00.000+00:002015-03-26T00:57:56.414+00:00Journalist Hypocrite Shock Bonk HorrorRT Host Abby Martin Condemns Russian Incursion Into Crimea – By Glenn Greenwald 4 Mar 2014, 7:26 AM EST
The vast bulk of the commentary issuing from American commentators about the Russian military action in Ukraine involves condemning exactly that which they routinely advocate and which the U.S. itself routinely does. So suffocating is the resulting stench that those who played leading The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-77498112968399160692013-09-21T00:56:00.002+00:002014-10-08T22:20:22.859+00:00Shock and Horror as Pope Less Awful than Last Popehttp://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/20/world/europe/pope-bluntly-faults-churchs-focus-on-gays-and-abortion.html?_r=1&Seriously though think of all the suffering gay people go through because of bigotry, tending into outright persecution and murder socially and legally in many countries, such as, for instance, majority Catholic Uganda, in which homosexuality is illegal upon pain of death. It is allThe Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-42174589877502126722012-12-01T00:05:00.000+00:002012-12-01T00:05:17.791+00:00Popes N Kids
The
Catholic Church comports itself as a moral authority, speaking and
lobbying regularly on temporal matters. As a matter of routine its
opinions are treated as worthwhile fodder for reproduction by all
mainstream news agencies across Europe, the UK, the US and beyond.
Meanwhile, many very important people within the Catholic Church,
both within individual diocese and within the Holy See The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-29209369934360481822012-11-26T08:00:00.000+00:002014-03-20T13:37:06.642+00:00sceince, facts, theories, laws, proofs, dogs
right
All the observations in the world are insufficient for proof: we must rely on our senses and instruments, which are necessarily faulty, and repeated experiment, which relies somewhat on the assumption that after seeing a hammer fall hundreds of times, the five hundred and first time it won't turn into a bird. Proof as such only really exists in internally consistent abstractions The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-84101016103321225022012-11-24T22:12:00.002+00:002014-10-08T22:35:17.444+00:00Don't Godwin yourself you silly goosehttp://rt.com/news/israel-gaza-hamas-war-103/
'Israel', of course, is not such people any more than 'Palestine' is the febrile and fatuous and autonomous armed wing of Hamas. The geopolitics involved are, as people will go to great lengths to point out, horrendously complicated.
One thing is not quite so complicated however. Exterminationist rhetoric is never excusable, never ameliorated by The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-25047675258499842032012-07-11T01:34:00.000+00:002015-05-21T15:30:36.303+00:00Everything is amazing right now and nobody is happy
I
find it a bit difficult to accept that the greatest time to be
American was in essentially any point in its history, although it
seems a culturally popular idea that America has degraded from a
perfect vision. Such attitudes are not uniquely American – British
and Russian psyches seem in an endless arms race to be the most
curmudgeonly nostalgic about an idealised and fictional past,
The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-67188116827233911262012-07-04T05:06:00.000+00:002014-10-08T22:38:39.986+00:00always more gaysI believe that basic human rights, that equality under the law should be assured; should be fought for by all decent people. I believe this not out of slavish devotion to ideological consistency but because I recognise the fundamental dignity of my fellow person and the fundamental depths of the mutual affinities of the people around me. They are me, and I am they, and would but we could all haveThe Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-11376719798217621882012-05-11T13:31:00.002+00:002015-10-08T00:29:35.487+00:00The American Civil War, apropos of nothingWe'll pretend it's about my favourite American politician though, if you like, who frequently says some very stupid evil things.Every state that pro-offered reasons for their secession - Mississippi, Georgia, South Carolina and Texas - stated unequivocally that their reason for seceding was the fear that the federal government had been and would continue to encroach on the capacity for The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-15025229450945808822011-12-17T01:14:00.007+00:002012-07-11T11:59:12.579+00:00hadCRUT's 'dumped' data has been published for a while now
This is more-or-less cross posted from an internet message board, and originally written in July, but has obtained new relevance with a cheeky little Fox News Story.
The CRU has obtained the permission of the national meteorological services from which it used weather station data to release all of the data supplied by them, except 19 of Poland's weather stations, the met office of which The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-78770429078597329392011-08-05T16:41:00.002+00:002012-07-11T11:57:42.040+00:00I hate quotation.
-Common misquotation of Ralph Waldo Emerson, written May 1849 (Emerson, Emerson and His Journals, 1984 ed. Joel Porte.)
Quote mining does not refer simply to taking a quote out of context
-Conservapedia, Quote Mining, actually making a very daffy point which I've cleverly hidden by quote mining them. Accessed this morning if I get my bum in gear writing this.
-Mike The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-12228012214788635052011-07-15T14:54:00.010+00:002012-07-11T11:56:29.980+00:00Just Asking Questions
Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the "body of fact" that exists in the mind of the.general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy.
-Brown & Williamson internal memo, 1969.
In such cases teachers should not teach as true only one competing view, just the Republican or Democratic view of the New Deal in a history class, for exampleThe Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-16792944120707819992011-06-27T14:42:00.004+00:002011-06-27T15:07:35.042+00:00DenialismWelcome to the most exciting, the most thrilling and the most sexually anticipated series of posts on this inane blog. I thought up most of this text while falling asleep once, and then forgot it all. These are the dregs of my somnambulance. Embrace them. Falling Asleep Denialism is the employment of rhetorical tactics to give the appearance of argument or legitimate debate, when in The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-21703502584856412052011-06-11T13:58:00.005+00:002011-06-11T14:43:50.177+00:00Je voudrais une petite mouette s'il vous plaitFirst France banned the face veil, and then Belgium, of course, followed suit. Much talk was made of protecting Muslim women from discrimination, of protecting France and Belgium's cultural heritage.For many Muslims, although of course certainly not all, the hijab, the religious requirements of modesty, require an almost-complete covering of the body for women, including a covering of the face The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-88170103885622562142007-11-30T11:16:00.000+00:002015-10-08T00:41:27.109+00:00The intermittent return of GloryAnd such sweet sorrows it brings. Updating will probably be very irregular - how a good year between posts is not irregular is anyone's guess.So, agnosticism - fence sitting, stealth atheism, weak atheism, non position, and so forth. As mentioned previously - and rather long ago - there are many different definitions of agnosticism, as there is of atheism, making explanations referring to atheismThe Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-1148074689920030892006-05-19T22:32:00.000+00:002006-05-19T21:38:09.993+00:00SCIENCE!Hello, friends! My computer at unviersity exploded - a rather unfortunate circumstance and one which meant I ended up ignoring this poor, flailing blog even more than usual. I should really have prepared an entry for what is turning out to be a somewhat wet return; instead I figured I'd do some vaguely and annoyingly introspective post about my rehabilitation, in the hope that inspiration The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-1145507381911409612006-04-20T05:24:00.000+00:002007-11-30T11:16:51.812+00:00Thank Heavens My God Hates You TooI'm at home, and my critically slow internet connection combined with my passionate desire to be lazy means that I thought I'd pounce on a story which didn't require much research.Hm! Quotations from this article unless otherwise noted.Ruth Malhotra went to court last month for the right to be intolerant. Malhotra says her Christian faith compels her to speak out against homosexuality. But the The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-1143244096677217652006-03-24T23:41:00.000+00:002006-03-24T23:48:16.706+00:00Libertas et natale solum.Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. -The Rev. Schmitt.The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-1141956061637193612006-03-10T02:10:00.000+00:002006-03-10T10:29:55.106+00:00I'm Pretty Certain I Owe Thanks To Someone For The Sullivan Article.A quick gander at the Internet before I do some more detailed entries:THE BBC prints, hot on the heels of the most ironic article ever, an article entitled Can Acupuncture beat Addiction? The BBC's conclusion: yes. Mystery solved!It is 'nothing new', 'based on ancient Chinese medicine dating back thousands of years', helps with something very sciencey called 'detoxification' and two The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-1141610065036278842006-03-06T01:49:00.000+00:002006-03-06T01:55:02.673+00:00A Crash Course In IronyPosted without comment.Oh, alright: my biggest regret with this article is that I will not get to see Ben Goldacre's face when he reads it.-The Rev. Schmitt.The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-1140563293435262042006-02-21T23:03:00.000+00:002006-02-21T23:10:42.163+00:00And Now: A Touch of ClassIn the interests of promoting a clean, high-brow primness to proceedings: a photodiary of peoples' first introduction to the phenomenon known as Goatse. Only mildly amusing, until you recognise one of the photographed:-The Rev. Schmitt.The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19265118.post-1139170721434448492006-02-05T20:06:00.000+00:002015-01-25T12:44:10.430+00:00Say Cheese!I was going to write about the Muhammed cartoons a few days ago. (Actual images here, explanations here.) Some of them genuinely are ridiculous, insulting, and seriously don't seem to have a purpose other than infuriating Muslims. A couple are immensely childish. As much as I can't stand religion I can respect and love the people who have it - I disgaree with everybody on some level. But hey, The Reverend Schmitt., FCD.http://www.blogger.com/profile/15562755198947639152noreply@blogger.com0