It's 7:47pm, and the phone rings during dinner.
I leap from the table, and run to the office. "Hello can I help you?" is my standard line when answering the phone.
Silence.
Then a very brief flash of music. Aha - it's obviously a telemarketer.
A voice with not-too-thick an accent greets me. "Hello, I am calling from Dodo."
Hmmm - I have worked for Dodo Internet in the past, so maybe it's not a telemarketer after all.
"I am ringing about our services and how we can save you money. First, I have to inform you that this call is being recorded for quality purposes."
Ah - ok, so it IS a telemarketer.
He continues right on with his script :
"Let's start with your mobile phone."
Time for some fun... I love playing with telemarketers. So let's try something new :
"What if I'm a member of the Mafia and I don't want my voice to be recorded?" I enquire.
"I'm sorry?" he asks.
I repeat myself, slightly slower. "What if I'm a member of the Mafia and I don't want my voice to be recorded?"
"Sir, you don't have to be a member to take advantage of our specials" he replies.
It's a lost cause. No point making fun if his English is so bad he doesn't get the jokes. So I hang up.
But it's official : I have it directly from a Dodo Internet representative that you don't need to be a member of the Mafia to join Dodo! What a relief! My Mafia membership was due to expire soon... :o)
Friday 20 March 2009
Friday 6 March 2009
Women's Rights & Safe Abortion
(Continued from Women's Rights & Equal Responsibility)
Hang on a second! This is wildly contradictory.
For starters - there is no such thing as a "safe" abortion.
Almost always at least one person dies. For every abortion. That's not very safe.
Oftentimes the survivor suffers extreme depression, and occasionally they commit suicide.
And occasionally two people die as a direct result of the "procedure".
This statistics are pretty alarming.
Over 50% of patients directly involved in an abortion are dead within a week.
Sometimes it's an infection that kills the mother - pretty rare these days.
Sometimes it's a living human baby that survives the abortion, comes out into the life-giving air, only to be abandoned on a shelf, like a piece of junk or a disinteresting book, until their pitiful cries are weakened by thirst and they finally succumb to the cruel harsh reality of a compassionless industry.
Most of the time, it's just the intended, pre-meditated, calculated, and very painful --- dismembering or other cruel torture and killing of a very healthy and often very viable member of the human race.
If you killed your animal this way, without anaesthetic or other painkiller, the RSPCA would charge you - you be jailed or fined for "cruelty to animals".
But so long as its a human, its ok. At least, as long as the human has no voice and can't defend itself.
Or at least, as long as we can by some way or other get away with it... (and "legal protection" provides such a way)
---
But look at their idiotic contradictions!
"Sexual and reproductive rights", for all!
Where are the sexual and reproductive rights of the girl they killed?
That baby, supposedly, has the same sexual and reproductive rights as anyone else. After all - that's the point of a "right" - it's universal - everyone gets it.
But mercilessly slaughtered, that "right" has been stolen from the girl.
Oh - and let me talk about "sexual rights". They insist that I have the right to choose when, where, with whom, and even if I will have sex, but only so long as I am engaging in sex with someone else who is equally willing.
In other words - they claim that the will of the individual is supreme, that a person's choice or desire or intention to have sex with another is of cosmic importance, and if the other is willing, no-one should stop them.
But if this sexual right is so fundamental, so powerful, so intrinsic to humanity and life itself, then why are we denying our babies the chance to utilise this right?
If we deny them the chance to grow and mature physically, we deny them the right to exercise their "sexual and reproductive rights".
So much for abortion promoting rights. It destroys them.
---
And look at this :
So much for "representing us". Apparently your voice is only important if you agree with their predetermined agenda... nice.
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What to do?
* Pray specifically. That God changes hearts. That people have compassion for ALL humans - including the unborn. That the idiocy that is the pro-death movement will be shown to be compassionless, contradictory, and based on bad science and bad philosophy. That UN officials will choose life or be replaced promptly. That US judges and lawmakers and law enforcers will see the importance of valuing life at EVERY age. That the US population would be unblinded and outraged at the holocaust within.
* Continue to speak. They can ignore. But the more of us speak and the more often, the harder and harder it will be. They will try every threat and trick in the book to silence us, but if no-one else speaks for the innocents they slaughter (who cannot speak for themselves, except by writhing in pain during "procedures", and crying themselves to terminal sleep when they "survive the procedure") - if no-one else speaks for them, they will never be spoken for. Oh - and they will not be the last innocents to be mass-slaughtered...
Norway and Sweden partnered with the International Planned Parenthood Federation to host a panel on “Promoting Sexual and Reproductive Empowerment.” Both governments expressed the need to prioritize “sexual and reproductive rights.” In his brief address, Norwegian State Secretary Hakon Gulbrandsen proclaimed that “sexual rights are a cornerstone to gender equality” and that “safe abortion is a crucial component of sexual and reproductive rights.” (emphasis mine)
Hang on a second! This is wildly contradictory.
For starters - there is no such thing as a "safe" abortion.
Almost always at least one person dies. For every abortion. That's not very safe.
Oftentimes the survivor suffers extreme depression, and occasionally they commit suicide.
And occasionally two people die as a direct result of the "procedure".
This statistics are pretty alarming.
Over 50% of patients directly involved in an abortion are dead within a week.
Sometimes it's an infection that kills the mother - pretty rare these days.
Sometimes it's a living human baby that survives the abortion, comes out into the life-giving air, only to be abandoned on a shelf, like a piece of junk or a disinteresting book, until their pitiful cries are weakened by thirst and they finally succumb to the cruel harsh reality of a compassionless industry.
Most of the time, it's just the intended, pre-meditated, calculated, and very painful --- dismembering or other cruel torture and killing of a very healthy and often very viable member of the human race.
If you killed your animal this way, without anaesthetic or other painkiller, the RSPCA would charge you - you be jailed or fined for "cruelty to animals".
But so long as its a human, its ok. At least, as long as the human has no voice and can't defend itself.
Or at least, as long as we can by some way or other get away with it... (and "legal protection" provides such a way)
---
But look at their idiotic contradictions!
"Sexual and reproductive rights", for all!
Where are the sexual and reproductive rights of the girl they killed?
That baby, supposedly, has the same sexual and reproductive rights as anyone else. After all - that's the point of a "right" - it's universal - everyone gets it.
But mercilessly slaughtered, that "right" has been stolen from the girl.
Oh - and let me talk about "sexual rights". They insist that I have the right to choose when, where, with whom, and even if I will have sex, but only so long as I am engaging in sex with someone else who is equally willing.
In other words - they claim that the will of the individual is supreme, that a person's choice or desire or intention to have sex with another is of cosmic importance, and if the other is willing, no-one should stop them.
But if this sexual right is so fundamental, so powerful, so intrinsic to humanity and life itself, then why are we denying our babies the chance to utilise this right?
If we deny them the chance to grow and mature physically, we deny them the right to exercise their "sexual and reproductive rights".
So much for abortion promoting rights. It destroys them.
---
And look at this :
At a youth caucus meeting, organizers refused to incorporate pro-abstinence suggestions from a group of over 20 pro-life youths. One pro-life student told the Friday Fax, “I don’t know which youth they represent, but they don’t speak for me or any of my friends that are here.”
So much for "representing us". Apparently your voice is only important if you agree with their predetermined agenda... nice.
---
What to do?
* Pray specifically. That God changes hearts. That people have compassion for ALL humans - including the unborn. That the idiocy that is the pro-death movement will be shown to be compassionless, contradictory, and based on bad science and bad philosophy. That UN officials will choose life or be replaced promptly. That US judges and lawmakers and law enforcers will see the importance of valuing life at EVERY age. That the US population would be unblinded and outraged at the holocaust within.
* Continue to speak. They can ignore. But the more of us speak and the more often, the harder and harder it will be. They will try every threat and trick in the book to silence us, but if no-one else speaks for the innocents they slaughter (who cannot speak for themselves, except by writhing in pain during "procedures", and crying themselves to terminal sleep when they "survive the procedure") - if no-one else speaks for them, they will never be spoken for. Oh - and they will not be the last innocents to be mass-slaughtered...
Women's Rights & equal responsibility
Let's get a few things straight.
Whoa a minute. Biblically speaking, the man is 100% responsible for every aspect of family life. Biblically speaking, the man is responsible for providing food, clothing, and everything else that he, his wife, and his children, need. He is also responsible for overseeing their education, including the selection of appropriate tutors and training courses. Even yes the cleaning is the man's responsibility, if you comprehend Scripture correctly.
The role of the wife? Be the husband's helper.
There is not an "equal sharing of responsibilities between men and women" - and nature teaches us that there cannot ever be - and Scripture teaches us that there is not to be.
Nature teaches us - it is IMPOSSIBLE for a man to carry the unborn child, or give it birth, or truly breast-feed it. But according to the UN CSW, aren't we supposed to share this responsibility equally - because all responsibility is to be shared equally? It's impossible! Ah - in other words, right from the word go, the theory fails. But they'll still cling to it with everything they have.
The Bible teaches us - all responsibilities in the home are the man's responsibility - the woman is but a helper. There is no Biblically-legislated "his tasks" vs "her tasks" - he is responsible for them all, and she helps him discharge his duty. But again, nature shows us that women tend to find it easier to focus on the nurturing-oriented roles.
If one man happens to have no children, and happens to run a cattle ranch with 3,000 head of cattle, he is responsible for every aspect of the home. His wife's help may come in the form of flying their little helicopter to check the fencelines every week. i.e. the natural disposition towards the more nurturing-oriented tasks is not a prohibition against a woman helping her husband in any manner she is capable of.
But the buck still does stop - even for meals and cleaning - with the husband.
Continue reading - Women's Rights & Safe Abortion...
This week at the United Nations (UN), thousands of activists, government officials and UN officials gathered in New York for the annual Commission on the Status of Women (CSW). While the theme for the conference is “The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS,” several countries and non-government organizations (NGOs) have used the annual meeting as a soapbox to promote radical ideas on homosexual rights, abortion and sex education. (emphasis mine)
Whoa a minute. Biblically speaking, the man is 100% responsible for every aspect of family life. Biblically speaking, the man is responsible for providing food, clothing, and everything else that he, his wife, and his children, need. He is also responsible for overseeing their education, including the selection of appropriate tutors and training courses. Even yes the cleaning is the man's responsibility, if you comprehend Scripture correctly.
The role of the wife? Be the husband's helper.
There is not an "equal sharing of responsibilities between men and women" - and nature teaches us that there cannot ever be - and Scripture teaches us that there is not to be.
Nature teaches us - it is IMPOSSIBLE for a man to carry the unborn child, or give it birth, or truly breast-feed it. But according to the UN CSW, aren't we supposed to share this responsibility equally - because all responsibility is to be shared equally? It's impossible! Ah - in other words, right from the word go, the theory fails. But they'll still cling to it with everything they have.
The Bible teaches us - all responsibilities in the home are the man's responsibility - the woman is but a helper. There is no Biblically-legislated "his tasks" vs "her tasks" - he is responsible for them all, and she helps him discharge his duty. But again, nature shows us that women tend to find it easier to focus on the nurturing-oriented roles.
If one man happens to have no children, and happens to run a cattle ranch with 3,000 head of cattle, he is responsible for every aspect of the home. His wife's help may come in the form of flying their little helicopter to check the fencelines every week. i.e. the natural disposition towards the more nurturing-oriented tasks is not a prohibition against a woman helping her husband in any manner she is capable of.
But the buck still does stop - even for meals and cleaning - with the husband.
Continue reading - Women's Rights & Safe Abortion...
Friday 23 January 2009
Deflation is upon us
Inflation limits your buying options.
Deflation increases them.
Inflation makes the dollar in your hand worth less relative to the goods & services you may wish to consume.
Deflation makes it worth more.
What most people forget is that neither inflation nor deflation ever work uniformly across an economy. Different sectors of an economy - and even individual businesses (and thus individual products and services) all respond to the same inflationary/deflationary forces in a staggered manner, with prices in one sector increasing/decreasing before other sectors are affected.
Various governments have verbally committed themselves to "fighting deflation" (why? - but that's another story...).
The point of my present article is simply to show that deflation has already set in, and quite strongly so.
Oh - perhaps the "feds" will successfully "fight deflation", and bring inflation back online. But it'll take a while. And in the meantime, deflation is here, and some places in a big way.
Example : Flights from Melbourne, Australia to Auckland, New Zealand - cost around $550 return just 12 months ago (purchased in advance, low season). Today, all taxes, fees and surcharges inclusive, you can buy the same flight for $254. The cheapest I ever saw such flights was around $450 - and that was ten years ago. So $254 return is practically unheard of.
But that is only representative of an incredible collapse in flight prices across the board. A year ago one would not have imagined such cheap flights - cheaper than I have ever previously seen.
Every airline is participating.
This means that the purchasing power of the Australia dollar has increased relative to the services offered in one sector of the Australian market. And not a small increase either - up to 100% increase.
This is powerful deflation.
Retailers are seeing fewer customers.
Their response?
Run more sales, give bigger discounts.
The effect?
The same dollar can now buy more.
Or stated more technically : "The purchasing power of the dollar has increased."
In a word : deflation.
House prices are lowering. Oh - in Australia, they've been hit (so far) very mildly - but decline they have. Maybe only around 5% across the board. But what is this? Fewer Australian dollars are required to purchase an Australian house.
i.e. the purchasing power of the Australian dollar has increased.
i.e. deflation.
Note that deflation hits different sectors of the economy at different rates. Flights : 50% deflation. Houses : 5%. And individual suburbs will vary - some have (reportedly) even increased in value.
In other words : deflation is inherently non-uniform. It works its way across the economy in fits and starts.
But it definitely is here.
And in a big way.
And it'll take a mighty big "stimulus" from governments to stop it. (But again, why not let it run its course, instead of "fighting it"? - but that's a story for another day...)
And if the governments do succeed in creating such an immense stimulus in the short term that a massive tide of deflation is reversed... then we will overshoot heavily into inflationary territory. Or so I speculate...
At any rate, it's kinda fun to watch... :o)
Deflation increases them.
Inflation makes the dollar in your hand worth less relative to the goods & services you may wish to consume.
Deflation makes it worth more.
What most people forget is that neither inflation nor deflation ever work uniformly across an economy. Different sectors of an economy - and even individual businesses (and thus individual products and services) all respond to the same inflationary/deflationary forces in a staggered manner, with prices in one sector increasing/decreasing before other sectors are affected.
Various governments have verbally committed themselves to "fighting deflation" (why? - but that's another story...).
The point of my present article is simply to show that deflation has already set in, and quite strongly so.
Oh - perhaps the "feds" will successfully "fight deflation", and bring inflation back online. But it'll take a while. And in the meantime, deflation is here, and some places in a big way.
Example : Flights from Melbourne, Australia to Auckland, New Zealand - cost around $550 return just 12 months ago (purchased in advance, low season). Today, all taxes, fees and surcharges inclusive, you can buy the same flight for $254. The cheapest I ever saw such flights was around $450 - and that was ten years ago. So $254 return is practically unheard of.
But that is only representative of an incredible collapse in flight prices across the board. A year ago one would not have imagined such cheap flights - cheaper than I have ever previously seen.
Every airline is participating.
This means that the purchasing power of the Australia dollar has increased relative to the services offered in one sector of the Australian market. And not a small increase either - up to 100% increase.
This is powerful deflation.
Retailers are seeing fewer customers.
Their response?
Run more sales, give bigger discounts.
The effect?
The same dollar can now buy more.
Or stated more technically : "The purchasing power of the dollar has increased."
In a word : deflation.
House prices are lowering. Oh - in Australia, they've been hit (so far) very mildly - but decline they have. Maybe only around 5% across the board. But what is this? Fewer Australian dollars are required to purchase an Australian house.
i.e. the purchasing power of the Australian dollar has increased.
i.e. deflation.
Note that deflation hits different sectors of the economy at different rates. Flights : 50% deflation. Houses : 5%. And individual suburbs will vary - some have (reportedly) even increased in value.
In other words : deflation is inherently non-uniform. It works its way across the economy in fits and starts.
But it definitely is here.
And in a big way.
And it'll take a mighty big "stimulus" from governments to stop it. (But again, why not let it run its course, instead of "fighting it"? - but that's a story for another day...)
And if the governments do succeed in creating such an immense stimulus in the short term that a massive tide of deflation is reversed... then we will overshoot heavily into inflationary territory. Or so I speculate...
At any rate, it's kinda fun to watch... :o)
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