The followers of the religion of love and the religion of peace duking them out.

And we liberals watching on the sidewalk, noting every bit of irony in the episode.
The followers of the religion of love and the religion of peace duking them out.

And we liberals watching on the sidewalk, noting every bit of irony in the episode.
Contrary to popular belief, there are only 266 people in Hell. According to Wikipedia:
The first holds that a pair of German travelers stepped out of a stagecoach one sunny afternoon in the 1830s, and one said to the other, “So schön und hell!” – roughly translated as, “So beautiful and bright!” Their comments were overheard by some locals and the name stuck.
The second holds that after Michigan gained statehood, George Reeves was asked what he thought the town he helped settle should be called, and replied, “I don’t care, you can name it Hell for all I care.” The name became official on October 13, 1841.
I didn’t I came this close to Hell when I was in Michigan but I’m sure many conservatives are disappointed that there are only a little over 200 people in Hell.
Sometimes, religious conservatives, regardless of beliefs, share common traits. Here are few commonalities among conservatives (tag). The list is by no mean exhaustive nor it is exclusively attributed to religious conservatives. Nor a person has to have these attributes to be a religious conservative. It’s just a guideline. However, if a person shares more than a few attributes stated below, chances are, the person is a religious conservative. Enjoy:
Any more?
Oh yeah. Probably intolerant of jokes too. They like to make jokes on other people but can’t accept jokes on themselves. They’ll burn the whole city to the ground just to prove that they can’t accept joke. Or they just sue you.
The word “shoot” is the new no-no in Malaysia (tag)!

I want to shoot Guna too! Let’s all shoot Guna! You shoot me, I shoot you and everybody shoots everybody! Shoot, shoot, shoot! Bang!
Sorry Jeff, you’re a bad influence. I’m going to shoot you too! Bang!
See P Gunasegaram says his life is threatened and other related posts at Screenshots for a clearer view.
But be advised, put your hands on your guns. You’ll never know who’s going to shoot you.

p/s – on TV3’s Buletin 1:30 just now, as crude as it may sound, I think Chua Soi Lek implied that Sarawakians are filthy and are unable to maintain cleanliness, in reference to the spread of the hand, foot and mouth. Sounds like foot-in-mouth disease, to me. Look out for Buletin Utama because TV3 is totally gonna replay that!
But Sarawakians, are you just gonna take that?

pp/s – from time to time, WorldChanging blogs on great stuff. An article on traffic congestion tax trial in Stockholm is one of them.

ppp/s – re: Chua Soi Lek and HFMD, at Bernama:
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 5 (Bernama) — The increasing number of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) cases in Sarawak is attributed to parents’ perception that it was not a life-threatening disease, and thus they had not taken the disease seriously.
Health Minister Datuk Dr Chua Soi Lek said: “But even so, there are already 10 deaths recorded to date and 13,000 children have been infected since the endemic started (in May last year).”
The spread of the disease was generally associated with the cleanliness level practised at home and in kindergartens, which he claimed had not reached a satisfactory level, the health minister told reporters after the MCA’s Nine Point Party Platform Seminar at Wisma MCA here, Saturday.
I wish I had the audio and visual recording of his words. It sounded more sensational than this report by Bernama.
A week ago, I was in Bangkok and I’m missing it greatly (tag). The last time I felt like this was when I had to leave the Sierra Nevada behind for Los Angeles and eventually Ann Arbor. Minus a dose of “I’m famish”, definitely.
While Bangkok is dirty and congested, the city impressed me greatly. The city is blessed with eye-pleasing structures unique to this part of the world. Not to forget, walking angels too!
If I were a god and Bangkok was built to please me, I’d be a satisfied supreme being. I’d live in Bangkok and leave heaven behind in shamble.
One of the places that I’m so much in love with is Wat Pho. I love it so much because I had never seen anything like it with my naked eyes. Its halls, its stupas, its doors, its floor and ceiling, everything – I’m lost for words to describe it. A picture worth a thousand word and so, I’ll stop writing and show you Thai’s gift to the world instead:

That’s one of the main spires at Wat Pho. Works on Wat Pho itself was initiated by Rama III over 200 years ago, in 1788. The complex itself is huge and I wish I had spent more than a day there. I wanted to scrutinize every little bit of it but alas, time was of an essence; an unfortunately rare commodity. This is a map of the whole complex:

Since it’s a working Buddhist temple, there are lots of statues all over the complex. There’s a huge reclining Buddha there but I didn’t take a peek at it. Instead, I saw this:

Majestic, isn’t it?
I’m sure some intolerent conservative Muslims would disagree. I’ve no doubt that some far rightists here in Malaysia would like to torn it down to pieces and sell them as scrap metals. Barbarians know nothing of art; they value art pieces like monkeys value flowers. Still, beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

p/s – Viacom to buy The Onion:
It almost sounds like one of The Onion’s made-up news items: Variety is reporting — without even mentioning sources, much less identifying them — that Viacom may acquire The Onion, the satirical newspaper and Web site whose headlines made “Area Man” into a minor celebrity. Other sources, including the Huffington Post, Paidcontent.org and Gawker, have also reported on a potential Viacom-Onion connection, even as they played up the speculative nature of the story.
Ha ha ha…?