Jesus for President
Not much to report from The Emerald Isle today.
It looks like Michael D “Bilbo” Baggins Higgins is to stay on as our Prez for another seven years or until he reaches his eleventy first birthday, whichever comes first.
Also it looks like blasphemy is to be erased from our constitution which means that if I so wished, I could have a pop at any or all [whichever is the greatest] religions. That might be fun. Or not.
There are a couple of notable features of this election thingy.
The first is that half the candidates for the Prez job are from Dragon’s Den which is a pretty poor reflection on the celebrity culture here. Mind you, we previously had Dana whose only claim to fame was that she once won the Eurovision Song thing with a song that’s best forgotten. It was a song that was so sickly sweet that it has been banned by the Healthists on the grounds that it was a major cause of obesity.
Another feature is that one of the “Dragons” who obviously put himself forward as superior not just to the other “Dragons” but to everyone else in the country, is coming in last and in fact in some areas polled less that Spoiled Votes. I don’t know who Spoiled Votes is [I don’t remember him from any of the debates] but he polled particularly well apparently. So Gavin Duffy is to be consigned to history which is a massive sigh of relief.
Lastly is the story of Casey.
Now Casey is yet another “Dragon” who trailed in at the bottom of the polls. He was doing spectacularly badly, which is some accomplishment when you consider just how bad some of his rivals were. Anyhows he made some comments about Tinkers Knackers Itinerants Travellers which incurred the flaming wrath of The Politically Correct. Fair play, and what’s more he refused to retract his comments saying that Tinkers Knackers Itinerants Travellers were as Irish as the rest of us and had no business claiming ethnic identity and that they were far too fond of hiding behind racial discrimination. Hot stuff! Anyways, he is romping along in second place now with a massive vote. So fuck the Politically Correct. and their self-righteous pomposity.
I’m off now.
I have to think up some really blasphemous things to write about.
“…it looks like blasphemy is to be erased from our constitution…” You reckon? Don’t forget your ‘constitution’ is subordinate to the diktats of the EU, so maybe you’d better temper that ‘having a pop’. See the following:
Defaming the Prophet Muhammed “goes beyond the permissible limits of an objective debate” and “could stir up prejudice and put at risk religious peace” and thus exceeds the permissible limits of freedom of expression, ruled the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday, upholding a lower court decision.
Mind you, if you’re having a pop at anything which isn’t the Religion of Peace, that’s OK and is at least permitted, if not positively encouraged.
Don’t be so sure about the Blasphemy law no doubt they will get people under ‘hate laws’.
Wot Ted Treen said.
“The woman, named as E.S. in the European court’s judgement, had suggested the Prophet Mohammed was a paedophile due to his relationship with his wife Aisha, who was married to the religious leader aged six and consummated her marriage to him aged nine, according to most — although not all — Islamic religious writings.
The European court agreed with judgement of the Austrian courts that Muslims would find the woman’s statements “wrong and offensive, even if Muhammad had married a six-year-old and had intercourse with her when she had been nine”, and ruled that they “carefully balanced her right to freedom of expression with the rights of others to have their religious feelings protected, and to have religious peace preserved in Austrian society.” (Breitbart)
Judgement press release here: https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/app/conversion/pdf?library=ECHR&id=003-6234980-8105265&filename=Judgment%20E.S.%20v.%20Austria%20-%20conviction%20for%20a%20critic%20of%20Islam%20did%20not%20violate%20Article%2010.pdf