Chinese Bloggers

Apparently Chinese Bloggers want to invade Vietnam now.  Now I’m not saying Chinese bloggers have a strong grip on reality at the best of times – lets face it, half of them believe their own government’s lies, and the other half are just white-noise-generating script-robots, whether of the silicon or human variety – but this is better than the usual idiocy these folk produce.

Lets stop and think about this.

Vietnam, who beat the Chinese, then the Japanese, then the French, then the Americans, then the Chinese again, when each of these tired to invade.  At least two of whom were, at the time, major, undefeated superpowers – and I mean the US and Japan here, before any Chinese bloggers get excited.  Vietnam which has terrain about near perfect for guerilla war, which has some of the worlds leading practitioners of guerilla warfare still alive and well, and again, which has already chased China off in the recent past.  Vietnam which is proud and independent and very unlikely to let China bully it except through an outright invasion – because unlike Chinese bloggers the Vietnamese know recent history.

Against China who’ve never beaten anyone, ever, except elderly Tibetan monks.  

Yeah, this should be a good show.  China’s well, Vietnam, coming right up.

Suppose that’s what you get when you come from an education system that teaches you to parrot, not think, and which stops you reading half the internet.  Including, I’m guessing, this.

So what’s the point in even discussing this?  That can be today’s question.

Landscape Architects

I’m sure Landscape Architects are lovely people, but they must be idiots.

The only important thing they have to do is get paths in the right places.  Everything else is decoration – nice, but you can live without it.  The path is what gets you from the street to the door, which is the thing you can’t live without.

And they can’t even do that right.

How often do you walk around public buildings or campuses and see worn dirt trails between doorways, or across lawns, or around trees?  Worn dirt, while the official concrete path meanders around ten yards away.  This kind of implies that the landscape architect hasn’t entirely thought through what they’re doing.

Here’s  a tip, guys.  Look around.  There’s a corner people will walk around.  There’s the doorway.  Think about it, just for a second, before you get all designy.  It’ll save me getting muddy feet in winter.  Even better, go back after a couple of months and put a path where people are walking.  Instead of – as seems to happen around my part of the world – a fence or other barrier.

Now I’ve saved another profession from self-inflicted ruin, I’ll get to the question: why are they landscape architects, not gardeners?  They don’t really build anything, just plant it, and nature and so forth does all the rest.  Just wondering.

Tim LaHay says Obama isn’t the Antichrist

LaHay’s the guy responsible for those awful Left Behind books (and what’s probably worse, for thereby resurrecting Kirk Cameron’s career).  Apparently he’s looked into his magic eight-ball (or maybe his evil witchcraft crystal ball) and decided Obama isn’t the antichrist.  More about this staggering stupidity here too.  And yes, obviously I shouldn’t read this kind of thing since it gets me all worked up, but in my defense I accidentally followed links.

I’m having trouble taking this seriously, but then again I tend to have trouble taking any of it seriously.  Is this guy an idiot, or onto a good money-spinner, or an anti-Semite and closest racist like the other John Birchers, or does he really believe his own magic-mojo voodoo mumbo-jumbo?

That wasn’t the question.  

Let’s face it, a man who looks like this can’t be loved by god.  Remember those house elves from Harry Potter?

This is the question: LaHay and Dobby – separated at birth?

Pervert Porn Pastors

Seems another pastor’s got got caught with bits of himself where they shouldn’t be – in this case in his own hand.  Michael Guglielmucci has been claiming cancer and getting lots of nice donations in order to ‘cover up’ his porn addiction.  Setting aside the whole concept of a porn addiction, what did he need to cover up, exactly?  

And more fun.  There’s some confusion over what’s happening to the money he was given.  Headlines say he’ll give it back, but then you read closely and, oh wait, its going to charity.  Is his church a charity by any chance?  Add to the mix that dad is the boss, and that dad and his church took a week or more to get around to doing anything about this dire confession, and it starts looking like everyone’s winning but the suckers who gave him money in the first place.  (Think about it – they have a big forgiveness prayer-fest and everyone’s sorry, then they hand around the donation plate.)  Fortunately his wife is standing by him.  Isn’t that nice.  And by the way, the ‘porn pastor’ thing is News Corp’s alliteration, not mine.  Someone’s having fun over there.

Must be some pretty good porn, though.  Apparently it made him vomit blood and his hair fall out. 

This the same week as yet more Catholic priest schoolboy abuse is revealed.  It all seems to beg the question: are any of these guys actually not perverts, in some way shape or form, or are there only the ones who’ve been caught and the ones who haven’t?