Inversion

A little inversion on the mountain today.

Pentagon eats Canadian Bacon

Well this is pretty bizarre. How does someone get a job at the pentagon anyways? I thought you needed a GED to work there? Apparently not. The latest news is the declassification of Pentagon documents that think Canada's fancy new quarters are get this, spy coins with hidden microphones: http://news.ca.msn.com/canada/cp-article.aspx?cp-documentid=22784611

Must have been a George Bush document. Looks like his Pentagon didn't realize John Candy was a comedian and that the movie Canadian Bacon was a comedy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG-CFJ74X1o
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What next Al Yankovic becomes the director of the CIA? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_TfBbR6L0M

Sunrise Sunset

Today's sunrise over Vancouver.
Followed by today's sunset over Vancouver.

Ramadan's moratorium on stoning adulterers

There's an interesting but disturbing article about the practice of stoning adulterers in the Muslim faith: http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/communityofinterest/archive/2009/11/27/ramadan-s-moratorium-on-stoning-adulterers.aspx

It's a Jewish law that the Muslims agree is prophetic revelation. Christ was challenged on the doctrine when they brought a woman before him to be stoned for adultery according to the law. They said she was caught in the act of adultery and asked him what they should do with her. They wanted to trick him. If he said let her go they could arrest him instead.

Jesus' response was let he who is without sin cast the first stone. That has become a popular phrase within Christendom. Along with judge not least ye be judged and people in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. The idea is none of us are without sin. Yet it goes beyond that.

Christ specifically said let he who is without sin cast the first stone. I am told that according to the old law, it is the witness who casts the first stone when the person is stoned which in itself is somewhat ironic. Perhaps the only witness in this case was the person she committed the adultery with. If that was the case it would be somewhat hypocritical for them to stone the woman and not the man for committing the same offence. Yet that appears to have been the intent.

That's what came to mind when I read this article about stoning women for adultery. The law said adulterers should be stoned. It didn't say men are exempt. How that law became perverted to mean only stone women for that offense is beyond me. Nevertheless I do agree the punishment for that sin is pretty harsh.

I agree adultery is serious but concede there are different degrees. A married man who is living with his wife and sleeping with her who goes out and has an affair and sleeps with another woman is very different than a man who has been legally separated for some time and finds a new partner before the paper work on his divorce is final.

One time my brother in law asked me a similar question. He said how would you feel about a married man who moved in with a younger woman? Not much I said, the guy's an adulterer. He smiled and said but that's me. I moved in with your sister before my divorce was final. I smiled and recognized he had tricked me and said you didn't say the married man was no longer living with his wife.

In their case he was married at one time and his wife left without a word or trace. He hadn't finalized the divorce as he didn't know where she was and wasn't very good with court papers. He met my sister later on. They moved in together and were later married. They have had a long standing successful relationship ever since. That in my opinion is very different than the desperate housewives thing where swingers commit adultery at the drop of a hat.

Now back to the equality of women issue. Stoning women not men for the same offence is unjust. Yet it seems to have become a common practice in biblical times which seems to be continued with this recent article about stoning in the Muslim faith. Yes that historical tradition seems to be biblical which only means it was an injustice Christ tried to correct not that is was the right thing to do.

Look at the story of Judah, one of the sons of Jacob who became the father of one of the twelve tribes of Israel. He was a widower. His daughter in law became a widow. According to the law in those days, if a woman's husband dies before they have children, the woman is to marry her deceased husband's brother so she can have a child. Don't ask me where that tradition came from. That's just the way it was.

Anyways, Judah's son Er married Tamar and died without children. Er's brother Onan didn't want to father someone else's kid so Judah just left Tamar a widow. Tamar wanted to have a child and is ticked they aren't following the rules. So she disguises herself, dresses up as a prostitute and stands on the street corner where she knows her father in law Judah will pass by.

Judah sees her and being a widow himself, gives in to temptation and sleeps with her thinking she is a prostitute. Only he didn't have any money with him so he leaves his staff with her as collateral and promises to send a servant the next day to pay her for her services. Only the next day, she isn't on the street corner and the servant can't find her.

Time passes and Tamar becomes pregnant. This is an embarrassing outrage for Judah. This is his son's widow getting pregnant out of wedlock. They bring her to Judah to be stoned according to the law. He asks her who the father of the child is and she produces Judah's staff and says the owner of this staff is the father of my child. Oh crap says Judah. He's caught and can't very well stone his daughter in law for committing adultery when he is the person she committed adultery with. He lets her go and Tamar ends up finally having a child of her own, twins.

My point is that I find this historical tradition of stoning women and not men for the same offence is wrong and it appears to continue within the Muslim faith today which is surprising because although Muslims don't regard Jesus as the Messiah most do regard him as a prophet.

That still leaves us with the fact that is was Jehovah, the one who spoke to Moses in the burning bush that gave therm that extreme law in the first place and Jesus said before Abraham was I am. Which means he claimed to be the one who spoke to Moses in the burning bush. Problematic so it is. Nevertheless, the law was never meant as a way men could oppress woman. If you punish the woman you must also punish the man and I do agree, let he who is without sin cast the first stone. http://www.thestoning.com/

Judge Walker's Limp Fish Decision

Snapping back to reality I will cite the Judge Walker decision and record my dissent before I move on. On June 1st 2007 TELUS had 23 videos removed from YouTube. 12 of those videos they had no possible copyright claim on.

I filed a counter notification stating that I objected and they made an application to the US District Court in San Fransisco. Only they lied in their application and they never served me a copy of it until after I had acquired a copy from YouTube and filed a response to the court objecting to the fact I hadn't been served as they had my address.

It looked like they were trying to proceed ex parte, (without me) so they could get away with lying about the content of the videos in court. It was another dirty trick in a long line of Corporate legal decadence. Ronald Lopez dodged a US Sheriff three times and refused alternate service before I was permitted to e file documents. http://cupwnewvision.org/court/rat.htm

The litigation went back and forth for two and a half years. Finally the court directed the plaintiff to file a motion for Summery Judgement because I objected to having to go to San Fransisco to attend a trial since both I and the plaintiff were Canadians living in Canada.

On November 12 2009 the parties met before Judge Walker, (I participated by way of telephone) to simply confirm the written submissions on the Plaintiff's motion. TELUS' proposed order only listed 11 of the 23 videos they had originally taken off YouTube. I said that proposed order was an admission of guilt they over reached and committed copy fraud.

The court awarded their proposed order for the 11 videos about TELUS Idol. The video TELUS lied and said was contained in a locked vault claiming I had some how broken in and stole it when in reality they used it as a training video posted on their network since employees who didn't attend the conference were expected to watch it as part of their training.

I am somewhat disappointed in the courts decision for many reasons. Despite my clear requests for an order authorizing YouTube to repost the 12 videos they had taken off not listed in their proposed order, no such order was made. It appears the way they do things there is you submit a proposed order and if you win the court crosses off the word proposed and the judge signs the order. I kid you not.

The court said nothing on my request for perjury charges against the plaintiff who was caught red handed committing perjury and fraud. The court made no consequence for the perjury whatsoever. That is a shameful disgrace.

Judge Walker is no Texas Ranger. I had hoped he was going to be the Chuck Norris of American justice. Not so. Instead all we got was the limp fish of corporate crime.

The censorship continues... http://www.cupwnewvision.org/telus_censorship.htm

Living the Dream

Well I sure love my new second job. I'm working in a cafe at an old cabin on a local ski hill. You have to snowshoe or cross country ski to get to it and it was built in 1926. It's very rustic and they have lots of old photos with antique skis and snowshoes on the walls. They specialize in homemade soups and bread and do chocolate fondues for the snowshoe tours at night with head lamps.

Today I got up early and snowshoed in about eight inches of fresh powder to the cabin. Lit a fire in an old wood stove. Made some home made bread and worked the grill in the cafe for the snowshoers and cross country skiers. Now that's living the dream.

I got cut back to part time hours in my regular job so I had to find something on the side. So if you see my reflection on a snow covered hill, maybe a landslide will bring it down: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f46rv5EWbAU

Afghan detainees tortured

Not that this is new news but it makes ya wonder about the mission: http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/cbc-article.aspx?cp-documentid=22648551

MacKay 's denial: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/mackay-denies-seeing-afghan-torture-warnings/article1325490/

Yet McKay denied called Belinda a dog: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/10/19/mackay-stronach.html

When he was caught on tape: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya4zqgBWbGg

It was a funny comment after what she did. Why deny it?

Then there's the privatized orgies: http://finiansworld.blogspot.com/2009/09/privatized-orgies-us-embassy.html

The oil pipeline: http://finiansworld.blogspot.com/2008/11/centgas-afghanistans-oil-war.html

The rape law: http://finiansworld.blogspot.com/2009/04/afghanistans-new-rape-law.html

The election fraud: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/18/afghanistan-election-fraud-evidence

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/10/19/afghan-election-recount-vote-karzai115.html

and the Fake Bin Laden video: http://whatreallyhappened.com/WRHARTICLES/osamatape.html

Top general changes story: http://news.ca.msn.com/top-stories/cbc-article.aspx?cp-documentid=22823713

Things that make ya go hmmmm...