Mold Test

Here is a photo of a seemingly innocuous kitchen sink. Little did the homeowner know is that sink had been leaking into the basement suite for some time. As the photo shows (yeah I know it's a panel on its side) the water damage was extensive. Note the corroded plumbers wire.

Needless to say, this is a test.

See ys

FMF

A lesson in humility

I had a lesson today. In discussing some of the bullshit in the world with a couple of good fellas, I had the great fortune of discovering that I had a misunderstanding of altruism. I understood altruism to be like giving someone in need your last loaf of bread - because they were in need. Does that not leave you without bread? I can see sharing to be an option, but then that would be selfish to a degree wouldn't it? Could 'sharing' be construed as altruistic? In doing some research on altruism, I stumbled upon a site that gave an argument as to why altruistic behavior could be harmful (and the only reason I introduce the idea is so I can illustrate why the idea of good and bad isn't always as clear as we think it to be).

"On a flight I took the other day, I watched the stewardess give the usual five minute safety presentation, and for the first time stopped to think about the implications of some of her words, which I had heard hundreds of times before without noticing them.

In the event the cabin depressurizes, oxygen masks will automatically drop from the ceiling. The stewardess warned us to make sure we put our own masks on before attempting to help our seatmates with theirs. This is part of an FAA-approved script, from which they never depart in making these presentations.

I imagine that this warning is aimed at the following scenario. The cabin depressurizes and anyone without a mask will become unconscious in moments. Your seatmates are children or otherwise helpless. If you attempt to help them without securing your own mask first, you will pass out without succeeding and everyone will die or become incapacitated. If you put your own mask on, your seatmates may pass out but will revive as soon as you have placed their masks on their faces. Thus, your attempt to help them will only succeed if you help yourself first."
The Ethical Spectacle - Feb 1997 - www.spectacle.org

Do we not have to make sure that our needs are met first? Would it be bad to help ourselves first instead of our seatmates? I guess it all depends on the outcome?

FMF

Holy Shit! Really!

I can't believe this, I mean I can, but I can't for the sake of people who don't give a shit. What I'd like to discuss here has two parts.

Part 1
There once was a Roman Catholic official (British Bishop Richard Williamson) who denied the Holocaust happened. The Vatican excommunicated (got rid of) the wanker, but then decided to let him back. There were a lot of pissed off people! The Pope himself lambasted Holocaust deniers. WTF? You can SEE the hypocrisy? Now the Vatican want's this wanker to recant. Ratzinger is kidding right? I guess it's like going to confession and being absolved of your sins. "Father forgive me for I have sinned - I thought the holocaust was all bullshit and still believe it was bullshit, but I want my job back so I'll just say that it did happen O.K?"

What a load of pig crap! The wanker was on Swedish television just before the lifting of his excommunication was announced and said "there was not one Jew killed by the gas chambers" during World War II.

Need I say more?

Part 2
Still with me?
You have someone who believes that no Jew was killed by the gas chambers during WWII. Right? How about the photos? The Newsreels? Interviews with camp survivors? One would think that the evidence is overwhelming. Evidently not.

However...

You have the same fella who believes that there is a 'god'. This fells also believes there was a guy named jesus who was the son of god and god at the same time. He believes in the virtue of murder, rape, stealing, incest, talking snakes (this one is for you Bill), lying, living in the sky, rabbits chew cud, blah, blah, blah. He believes stories from people who can't get their stories straight and people who NEVER MET the person (jesus) they were writing about! No photos, no film, no real evidence. Just ancient, edited messed-up stories, fragments, planted 'evidence' and a shitload of wishful thinking! Look this one up for yourself, but Leo X is on record saying as saying: "It has served us well, this myth of Christ". Whether the pope was a lying jackass stooge for the Medici family, he was still chosen by god! A tad screwy don't ya think? You can think?

In closing I would like to throw these two quotes -

Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer.

Not sure who came up with that one, but it's a oldie and a goodie!

"The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites." - Thomas Jefferson

Thanks Thomas and thanks eveyone for reading my blog.

Peace,

FMF

Moral values strike again!

I just watched a great movie. Milk is a story about Harvey Milk. Harvey was the first 'openly gay' person to be elected to public office in the US of A. The movie, and the movement, take place in the late 70's - a time when homosexuals were getting a bum rap (no pun intended). To make a long story short - one of Harvey's fellow city Supervisors (Ex cop, Ex firefighter, heterosexual and religious fella), was pissed off one day and waltzed into the mayor's office and shot the mayor dead. Then he proceeded to shoot Harvey Milk.

A man of that moral fibre had no regard for human life - after serving time in jail, he later committed suicide. This movie says volumes about moral fibre. Who's morals? And what exactly are morals anyhow?

FMF