The politics of Jesus

[facthunter]

You can't leave the earth without passing over Mecca. Like declaring your backyard to be the holy land and of course YOU are GODS chosen people. What could be more convenient?  Nev

[willedoo]

3 hours ago, facthunter said:

You can't leave the earth without passing over Mecca.

I've passed over Mecca, but it was in a Bangladesh Biman DC-10. Half the passengers at least rolled their prayer mats out in the aisles and had their head down and rear end up. That, and a few onboard fights broke the monotony of an otherwise fairly boring trip.

[facthunter]

You're Game. I once went through Karachi on a  flight  Singapore to Dubai and guys with machine guns came in a ran down the aisles looking at everyone. It was an unscheduled landing as well. Something I can do without.  Nev

[Bruce Tuncks]

I don't think it is fashionable to declare war any more....  the Korean war was called " a police action" at the time. I don't think that Vietnam was a declared war either. My guess is that declaring war makes the pollies doing so more legally liable than if they say " special military operation" or some similar nonsense.

Does anybody know?

[Bruce Tuncks]

I agree nev. In the middle-east airports I saw in the late 1970's, there were lots of retarded kids with machine-guns, bored out of their brains, as guards. They sure frightened me.

[facthunter]

That was Pakistan in the early 80s  I went through Columbo, Ceylon? another time and it  wasn't much better, the war with the Tamils was about to start . Dubai and Bahrein were relatively civilised but everybody's name was like it was out of a Humphry Bogart film.  The scariest times was going through Frankfurt when the Bader-Meinhof gang were active .  Nev

[pmccarthy]

I arrived in Stockholm the morning after the PM was assassinated. Talk about boys with machine guns!

[Jerry_Atrick]

The first time I encountered proper machine guns was transiting through Singapore to London. I still vividly remember it; a lone gard just keeping an eye on things; there was no civil or military unrest at the time. I was sort of fixated by the guard and gun, and thought to myself "Jeez, I hope his wife didn't say no to him last night." We made eye contact, and he just game me a wry smile; I think he saw I was a little taken aback by it.

[spacesailor]

'' Does anybody know? ''

Yes , the English declared war ON Germany .  ( Neville Chamberlain announces war with Germany, 3 September 1939.).

Did you know ? .

spacesailor

[Bruce Tuncks]

No I didn't know spacy, but now I think better of Chamberlain than I did before. He stood up to Hitler after all.

It is WW1 that I am sad about Australia being involved. WW2 was quite a different event.

[Old Koreelah]

19 hours ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

I agree nev. In the middle-east airports I saw in the late 1970's, there were lots of retarded kids with machine-guns, bored out of their brains, as guards. They sure frightened me.

One of those bored retards put a bullet through the head of an Australian journalist as he was passing a checkpoint in some African hot spot.

Reporting on the news is a dangerous occupation.

[Bruce Tuncks]

Quite right old K.

I reckon journalists should always be well-protected. They stand between us and living in a dictatorship.

[Old Koreelah]

9 minutes ago, Bruce Tuncks said:

Quite right old K.

I reckon journalists should always be well-protected. They stand between us and living in a dictatorship.

Agree totally Bruce, but who is gonna protect journos in a war zone?

At least one side would like to hide what it’s up to and often deliberately target the reporters.
Why has Julian Assange been deprived of freedom for decades?  He broadcast footage of American troops killing journalists in Iraq.

[facthunter]

You should inform them of that but many of them are unworthy of the title "Journalist" when they just write what Rupee wants or they don't come Monday.  They used to tell me  "there are only two types of Journos in Australia, Those who work for Murdoch and those who are going to". So there you have it. Nev

[Old Koreelah]

Probably right Nev, but maybe what the fresh-faced new journo writes gets chopped by the editor.

These days a lot of what’s printed is pretty much copied from “media releases” and you can’t blame our surviving newspapers for skimping on costly reporters when they can

I too am guilty; next week our local paper should print my report on our Aero Club hosting the ASRA Nationals.

[Bruce Tuncks]

Good onyer, old K. I support Assange too. It's my one big criticism of Julia, that she didn't support Assange better. I think though that Albanese is. Assange is Australian, and deserves to be treated as such.

[onetrack]

Back to the religion/taxes/money worship topic, a mate sent me this today ....

 

 

[Old Koreelah]

Cleese is right on the money as usual.

 

Here is just one example of what he’s talking about:

 

 

[kgwilson]

He and others have conned the gullible religious nutters that inhabit the southern US states and laughs all the way to the bank. The US has hundreds of these and are all bouyed bythe main stream religions who run the country in the guise of political parties. They are so obsessed they print "In god we trust" on all their bank notes.

[pmccarthy]

He is a tax- free prophet. 

[old man emu]

1 hour ago, pmccarthy said:

He is a tax- free prophet. 

Yep. That's the bottom line.

[Jerry_Atrick]

well, if you think the above is bad, check this out:

 

 

[nomadpete]

The lord works in mysterious ways, indeed.

[Old Koreelah]

5 hours ago, nomadpete said:

The lord works in mysterious ways, indeed.

Nope. If he ever existed, the Lord gave up on humankind long ago. 

Like Elvis, he has left the building.

[Marty_d]

Don't worry OK, he's just a figment.