catholicism
Abbott: A Communiqué From The Leftist Central Committee
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Greetings, sisters and brothers of the underground movement the Australian Left.
It is with no small amount of righteous glee that we greet the Partyroom accession of Tony Abbott to the Leadership of the Federal Parliamentary Liberal Party. Such violent cupidity is typical of the imperialist hyenas in the Coalition. In this time of crisis it is no longer possible for these enemies of the people to hide behind more palatable puppets as Turnbull or Hockey. Every action further reveals them either as dangerous tools or as “village idiots”—as Mr Tuckey shamelessly quipped.
That Mr Abbott is a reactionary droog whose every thought is counter to the interests of all peace-loving people of the globe will be our movement’s most powerful tool. We will use the weight of the reactionaries to bring them down upon themselves—weak in its own ideology, the monster cannot support its own mass.
However, this is not the same as simply asserting that Mr Abbott is a Catholic. That’s just vaguely sectarian innuendo. C’mon people we can do better than that. The Central Committee hereby forbids such juvenilia upon pain of summary wedgie.
No seriously man give me the microphone back I’ll kick yer arse back to
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Resurrection In The Game Here To Save You
Lack of rhymes, meaningless punch lines
Battle for yo’ mind like Israel and Palestine
Good news in some fuckin’ hard-ass times
No more disses, repeated hook-lines or choruses
——Resurrection, Public Enemy (He Got Game, 1998)
It’s been a while since I hit [submit] here at stoush.net. Whether through the lack of anything to say, lack of time or sheer ennui, the place is in a bit of a lamentable state, no longer listed by Google, comments facility all but broken, template in shocking disrepair. Like the proverbial fire station, it needs a bit of work. Pretty soon I plan on blowing out the cobwebs, scrubbing off the pigeonshit and clearing for proper action.
As a matter of first steps, though, this place still works as a site for the sharing of interesting links as found on the web—and that’s an activity that doesn’t require futzing around with Drupal. That’s something I’d like to start doing again. Let this post serve as a declaration of Stoush.net’s resurrection; if not Christ-like and divine, then zombie-like, a shambling cliché of popular media and metaculture running in-joke.
I’m cool with either.
To kick it off, here are two thought provoking posts on Hillsong, pentecostalism and Christian worship in Sydney I read just now.
Now you read them. If I remember correctly, this is how the system of blogging works.