Shame File

I don't often rant .... well at least not over email.

But today has *inspired* me to say just one thing.

That thing is "shame".

 

Humans, despite their smell, are precious miracles. Sometimes, it is easy to forget that. The people in the world who vow to serve and protect those precious miracles (such as clerics and politicians), seem to forget it most easily and quickly.

Here's two examples from today's rag - one from each direction:

one from the away team:

 

Jews and Muslims unite against gay rally
Tim Butcher in Jerusalem November 8, 2006
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/11/07/1162661683104.html
 

Great! How lovely for them that they've discovered a common bond in ignorance and bigotry.

 

 

and then one from the home team:

We'll help Indonesia go nuclear
Mark Forbes, Herald Correspondent in Jakarta  November 8, 2006
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2006/11/07/1162661684698.html

 

Gee, isn't that big of us. What a pack of arseholes, "We promise to look the other way while you perpetrate whatever human rights abuses you can think of, sell you dangerous materials, and make any other rules up as we go along, as we see fit. So help us God."

 

Shame, shame, shame.