Annus Crappus

Current mood: Dresden pilot
Current music: none


Please take some time out to check this link:
https://www.concern.net/christmasappeal.php

This is an interesting site detailing dodgy sectarian groups posing as charities:
http://progressivetsunamihelp.blogspot.com/

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So 2004 was a pretty good year for me, and a bloody awful one for pretty much all of the world, with a real kicker right at the end there.

Not that most of the 'Christian' Right could care, they are too busy campaigning for 'family values'.
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Dec2004/Berkowitz1230.htm

Here are some major Evangelical 'Christian' Right organisations, who at time of writing haven't bothered to feature the tsunami disaster on their websites:

http://www.afa.net/
http://www.frc.org/index.cfm
http://www.cc.org/
http://www.cwfa.org/main.asp
http://www.coralridge.org/
http://www.falwell.com/

I'm surprised that I'm still surprised by these people. How do we tolerate intolerance? I want to cry.

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This cheered me up though:

http://theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4052&n=1


I've just finished The Adventures of Luther Arkwright by Brian Talbot. I highly recommend it.

On New Year's Eve I chose to go to the supermarket. Unfortunately the world and his wife had the same idea. It was a distilled form of hell. I only coped because I had my new mp3 player programmed with a randomly rotating mix of Kate Bush, The Lemonheads, Pet Shop Boys and Whitehouse.