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The reason for this bizarre recommendation is the party’s socialist idea that family life is a matter for the political elite. When a heterosexual couple have a child—there are no gay people in communist utopia—the woman tend to stay at home as long as the child is breastfed. This cannot be tolerated in a socialist society, so last night, Lars Ohly, leader of the Communist Party, suggested on television that mothers of newborns pump their breast. It is said that society will be fairer and more equal if men and women ignore the biological differences between the sexes.

Here’s why.

That’s the latest Catholic argument against marriage equality. They are getting desperate.

An already big government is about to become obese.

Aryeh Cohen asks the question.

In the debate about Israel and the Jewish State, far to many find it necessary to slander Muslims. It is true that Hamas and many of the other terrorist groups are Islamists and use religious rhetoric to legitimize the killing of Jews, but it is not necessary for Jews to give them right by making Israel a conflict between Islam and Judaism.

The poor boy likes the attention.

Dan Savage gives the background:

“I get a thrill out of being seen,” writes the boy in the video. “When I am horny, I look at that YouTube I posted, see view count, and get hard. In fact because of it I can’t really wear my purple boxers now.”

Could helping the lad count as a mitzvah? I will take it up with God at some point.

The national guidelines are crystal clear. Boys whose parents’ religion subscribes circumcision have the right to have the procedure done by a professional in a safe environment. But doctors in several counties refuse to comply.

“Our doctors don’t think it’s right to prioritize these operations ahead of others who need care,” says Marie-Louise Forsberg Fransson, chair of the Örebro County Council Board.

So instead, Örebro County tells the parents to travel to more liberal counties, which many of them cannot do and therefore seek an illegal procedure where the boy is at great risk. If the boys are then injured and in serious pain, the doctors must treat them—and the xenophobes will use the tragedy in their propaganda against Jews and Muslims!

This is absurd. It’s the abortion debate all over again. People get hurt because lawmakers and professionals care more about their own ethics than the people who need their help. Millions of women are unnecessarily wounded in countries where safe abortions are illegal, and now many Swedish boys risk having to suffer from illegal circumcisions because safe and legal ones are not available where they live.

What people need to understand is that religion is a very strong force. It is quite possible that Islam and Judaism will at one point stop the practice of circumcision, but we are not there yet. In fact, we are not even close. It is a far too important tradition to give up easily.

Doctors, lawmakers, and secularists can make their case against circumcision all they want, but reality is that they stand no chance against God and tradition in most families that hold circumcision sacred.

One day the anti-circumcision crowd might win the argument, but until then the procedure should be safe, legal, and available for all boys.

The islanders are angry because alleged Mossad agents, who used stolen Irish passports, shot a Hamas terrorist dead in Dubai. Ireland is the sole member state to object to the data transfer plan, which would have recognized Israel’s data protection regime as equivalent to that in the European Union.

I spent the day campaigning for the Moderate Party at Jägersro, a large horse-racing track in Malmö. It’s now two weeks to go to Sweden’s general election.

Here are a few pictures I snapped with my iPhone during the day.

The latest opinion poll looks good. But there is another two weeks to go before the general election. Who knows, maybe we wake up on 20 September and find the first ever communist in government and a bunch of racist Sweden Democrats in parliament. A scary thought.

I find this interesting:

The string theorists who came up with the term have never agreed on exactly what the “M” stands for, although the words “membrane,” “matrix,” “mystery” and “magic” have all been floated as possibilities. My favorite explanation is that M-theory is the “mother of all theories.”

Hm.

I’m jealous of the new owner. Ben Cohen is fab.

Sweden is full of mad communists. Here is one who posted a comment—seen in picture above—on a far-left blog (my translation):

As long as liberals refuse to take responsibility for the ethnically motivated mass murder in AIDS their defence of market economy resulted in, they have no right to demonize a contemporary socialism that neither defends nor wishes to repeat the crimes of the Stalinist regime. A catastrophe is unfolding before our eyes as a result of liberal politics. Put your own house in order—repent. Then you are worthy to take part in the discussion.

Like the mad conservatives in America, they hate everything liberal and use every trick in the book to blame liberalism for everything. Apparently, freedom causes racism and AIDS. This is something anti-liberals on the right and the left can agree on. No evidence is presented, though. It’s true because they say it is.

Update: By the way, I wonder how many bureaucrats it would take a command economy to develop medicine to successfully combat AIDS? In a socialist system, people are not paid in relation to what they do or invent. People’s abilities and efforts are the property of the state, and everybody is treated “equally” regardless. In theory, at least. The Soviet system developed terrorism against its citizens to motivate them to work, but what would the “new socialism” do to get results?

When asked by the New York Times if he wrote his autobiography for money, Christopher Hitchens answered, “Of course, I do everything for money. Dr Johnson is correct when he says that only a fool writes for anything but money. It would be useful to keep a diary, but I don’t like writing unpaid. I don’t like writing checks without getting paid.”

It’s refreshing with a skilled writer who doesn’t try to act as if money doesn’t matter. Of course it does—it’s stupidity to think that writers should work for free. Sadly, far too many writers do and the publishers know it. That is why so many newspapers and magazines are filled with crap articles. You get what you pay for.

If I had my way, I would not do anything for free. My dream would be a life of non-stop prostitution. But my ugly mug made that life impossible, so now I have to convince people I’m worth getting paid for the writing I do.

(By the way, go nuts on the Google advertisement in the sidebar. I’m not doing this blogging for nothing.)

Isn’t it about time someone in the Palestinian leadership told Hassan Nasrallah to fuck off? The bloodthirsty terrorist organization he heads has nothing to do with any future Palestine. It lives off war and hatred. Lebanon is a free country—or rather, it could be had it not been for the Iran-controlled Hezbollah fighters that occupies southern half of the country.

So, it comes as no surprise that Nasrallah dismisses a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians.

According to the Guardian, both parties seem to agree that it’s possible.

Update: Jerusalem Post has more here.

If you want to get married to your same-sex partner on a flight from Stockholm to New York on 6 December, this is something for you.

Orwellian—or something. Well, sort of. Whatever it is—it’s funny.

Cartoon found here.

Stephen Hawking talks about the beginning of the world as we know it. He says, “It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.”

His idea is not new. The theory of nothingness being unstable is a version of his theory of gravity. The religious philosopher will of course say that gravity is that first cause that Thomas Aquinas and other advocates of the cosmological argument hold as a proof of God’s existence.