The Conservatives (Hong Kong edition)

If you're tried of the Christian Right in the States, I would like to introduce you to their Hong Kong equivalent. Check out 3 videos about Society of Truth and Light*:


Part I


Part II


Part III

*This is a group that is against legislation of anti-discrimination based on sexual orientation.

Is this censorship?

By now every web surfer must have become familiar with Google's ubiquitous advertisement boxes. Many websites are supported by revenue from Google's ad these days.

My favorite free newspaper Easy Bay Express has this article: "Publishers vs. the Censorbot", about Google pulling ad when it sees sensitive keywords on the page where ad supposed to appear and thus indirectly censoring contents of websites using its ad program.

I'm all against censorship (see my previous posts) I have never been a fan of Google and enjoy reading every bit of criticism on its practice. However, in this case I think it's just a technology issue: while a news report about porn and a story which is porn share some keywords, there must be some that only appears on the latter but not the former. Google's filter is simply not good enough to identify them.

What I'm really curious about is now that my page has the keyword "porn," will Google pull its ad? (i.e., show "public service announcement" instead of revenue generating ad)

What happened to separation of church and state?

"Bush: Miers' Religion Key Part of Her Life"

I suppose the constitution is not a key part of USA anymore.

Update: Miers has just withdrawn her nomination. The irony is: no matter how much our President wanted to sell her being a conservative, the ultra-conservatives just won't buy! Even hints of anti-abortion is not enough for them.

I have responsibility but no right

... sounds like slavery, huh?

"Software developers should be held personally accountable for the security of the code they write, said Howard Schmidt, former White House cybersecurity advisor, on Tuesday."

Mr. Schmidt: I dunno what medication you've taken but last time I check at most company developers have no right to code they have written (i.e., code are properties of those company and developers are not allow to "take" it with them when they change job, in most cases)

Let's see who he used to work for... President Bush!

Enuff' said.

American's tolerance level has reached a new low

A lady boarding a Southwest airline flight got booted off the plane.

The reason? She wore a shirt that says "Meet the Fuckers" with pictures of
President Bush, VP Cheney and Secretary of State Rice.

Here is a link to a Nevada TV station with a video clip. The lady, Lorrie Heasley, wore that shirt in the video. Check it out if you wanna see what it looks like.

Southwest said some other passengers complained about that. I think that's a lame lame excuse. It's not like she's bugging people by telling them her political views. It's a shirt for god sake! If you don't like what it says, turn away! No one force you to look at it. In fact, it's never polite staring at women's front side.

I can't boycott Southwest though 'coz I seldom fly it. Its service is below par to me anyway.

Hawk attacked Dove

So you think this is an analogy of what happens in politics today.

Well, symbolism turned reality. it actually happened in Hong Kong yesterday!

The result? Both dead. (Cause of death: bone fracture. Suspected both collided into a building during the chase.)

Politicians out there should learn something from this.

Fight Censorship

Here is a follow-up to the article below: Adopt a Chinese Blog is a program to help Chinese bloggers by hosting their blog oversea to avoid being banned.

Well, those bloggers may still run into trouble back home as all traffic is being monitored over there.

I hope someday such program will become unnecessary.

Band banned from concert at church-owned venue

The band in question is 'Lamb of God', who was previously known as 'Burn the Priest.' More details here.

The irony is: they are replaced by Obituary, a death metal band who is probably no more God (or Christian) pleasing than Lamb of God. May be they can't figure out what John Tardy (Obituary's vocalist) sings. Even Tardy himself admitted some of the stuff he sang weren't real words.

BTW, both are awesome bands. (Personally I even prefer Obituary more.) So metal fans attending the concert shouldn't be disappointed one way or the other.

This article probably belongs to my music blog but since it's also about over-religious hypocrites, I might as well leave it here.

The conservatives lost, again?

They wanna outlaw all interesting TV programs like those episodes from Friends and Simpsons but failed! Can you believe conservative groups lost another fight (see this for details of the previous round) in the States?

Round 1: Evil (a.k.a. Liberals) 1 - Jesusland 0

Bad news for the religious folks in Atlanta: they can't re-emphasize that evolution is a theory, not a fact.

I thought we all knew that already, don't we?

BTW, I don't recall we evil liberals ever requesting a "Christian is a religion, not a fact" sticker on all Bibles.

Too sensitive?

Just watched "The Da Vinci Code Deception" on PBS. This program is backed by Christian organization aiming at separating facts from fiction in this vastly popular book. They claimed this book is no challenge to the religion since it's a fiction and people are not suppose to learn religious fact out of a fiction.

My question is: if that's the case, why bother making a program to dispute it?

The alternative

Now we all have to accept the fact that USA is a very conservative nation.
Could this be an alternative?