Archive | October, 2008

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It’s about time!

Posted on 31 October 2008 by fiddlesticks

A slogan opposing the religious viewFinally, something, for what the majority call heathens and non-believers and atheists, and who I call rationalists, a campaign in London to advertise that god probably doesn’t exist, something for the other side. The iconic, red London buses will now carry slogans countering the slew of ads put up by the faithful, an idea forwarded by the British Humanist Association (BHA) and supported by Prof Richard Dawkins of Oxford University. As of October 23rd, the donations for this campaign had crossed £83,000, which in itself was a new record, considering that it was open for donations from the 21st.

The slogan on the bus in the image above reads: “There’s probably no god. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life”. Couldn’t have put it better, and it’s passed all the filters put in place by the British regulatory authorities for advertisements. Continue Reading

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Lankan Tamilians ain’t our problem

Posted on 30 October 2008 by fiddlesticks

Let Karunanidhi starve and die. No, just kidding, but let him and the rest of the pro-LTTE chums (overt and covert) from the so called Dravidian parties in Tamil Nadu cross over into Sri Lanka and get bombed by the Sri Lankan army. It’s high time we call, nay demand, for such action. The clamouring by the Dravidian parties for India to pressurise Sri Lanka to protect the rights of innocent Tamilians in northern Sri Lanka, a euphemism for stopping attacks on the LTTE, is nothing short of a political gimmick to gain mileage with the locals who may be overtly or covertly supporting the Tamil terrorists.

Firstly, the Sri Lankan government needn’t have to protect the “rights” of the Tamil civilians because the LTTE controlled north isn’t considered to be a part of Sri Lanka by both the LTTE and the local Tamilians living there, so technically, the Lankan army doesn’t have to go out of their way to protect the “rights” of civilians there, at least not the rights ensured to a Sri Lankan citizen in the Sri Lankan constitution. Continue Reading

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