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Just because I'm in a bad mood....and this made it worse:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/29/uganda-death-sentence-gay-sex

What the fuck?

Scott Lively, Don Schmierer, and Caleb Lee Brundidge probably think they're doing the work of the Lord by exporting this sort of re-inforcing hate message to a country which already has almost no toleration of homosexuality. I happen to think that they'll spend a lot longer in purgatory than gay folk. Aeons uncounted, even.

The quotes from James Nsaba Buturo, the minister of state for ethics and integrity, are revealing both in their ignorance and their oppressiveness.

"We are talking about anal sex. Not even animals do that"

"We believe there are limits to human rights."

I'm sure folk can find their own examples of anal sex in the animal kingdom....Google is pretty good on such things. As for countries which believe Human Rights are all a bit much really, the list is long, and Uganda is evidently trying to be in the lead.

Jolly good show.

Murdoch....

I've been thinking of Rupert Murdoch's coming attempt to charge for news and his ongoing battle with the BBC.

Murdoch has stated that he will attempt to charge for online access to News Corp's various online titles like The Times, and The Sun, and Fox News sometime next year. Evidently this will be after the Conservative Party win the coming general election in the UK, and his tame puppets-in-government enact legislation to prevent the BBC from putting its news content online.

Now, for all my US chums, which news organisation would you rather read or watch online? Fox News? or The BBC? And even if you'd rather read or watch Fox, which organisation would you trust to give accurate facts?

I think the Tory Party have to distance themselves from Murdoch. The old model of newsgathering and journalism is dead, much like the old model of the Music Biz, or the old model of the retail book trade before Amazon. Recognising this fact, and also recognising the fact that this is the last election which an old-fashioned newspaper Baron will ever be able to influence, does David Cameron really want to emasculate the BBC just to pander to either Roops, or the anointed son James.

If he does I will not forget, nor will many other folk.

As is Roops appears to be batting on a losing wicket. Even if he manages to charge for news on the web, he won't be able to stop people from disseminating the information across the web. I await to see the stroke-of-genius (apart from, of course, suborning the Tory party) which will rescue the old-fashioned notion of journalism from the evils of the interweb.