I have an apology to make
I'm afraid I've made a big mistake
I turned my face away from you, Lord

I was too blind to see the light
I was too meek to feel Your might
I closed my eyes; I couldn't see the truth, Lord

But then like Saul on the Damascus road,
You sent a messenger to me, and so
Now I've have had the truth revealed to me
Please forgive me all those things I said
I'll no longer betray you, Lord
I will pray to you instead

And I will say thank you, thank you
Thank you, God
Thank you, thank you
Thank you, God...

Thank you, God, for fixing the cataracts of Sam's mum
I had no idea, but it's suddenly so clear now
I feel such a cynic, how could I have been so dumb?
Thank you for displaying how praying works:
A particular prayer in a particular church
Thank you Sam for the chance to acknowledge this
Omnipotent ophthalmologist

Thank you, God, for fixing the cataracts of Sam's mum
I didn't realize that it was so simple
But you've shown a great example of just how it can be done
You only need to pray in a particular spot
To a particular version of a particular god,
And if you pull that off without a hitch,
He will fix one eye of one middle-class white bitch

I know in the past my outlook has been limited
I couldn't see examples of where life had been definitive
But I can admit it when the evidence is clear,
As clear as Sam's mum's new cornea
(And that's extremely clear! )

Thank you, God, for fixing the cataracts of Sam's mum
I have to admit that in the past I have been skeptical
But Sam described this miracle and I am overcome!
How fitting that the sighting of a sight-based intervention
Should open my eyes to this exciting new dimension
It's like someone put an eye chart up in front of me
And the top five letters say: I C, G O D

Thank you, Sam, for showing how my point of view has been so flawed
I assumed there was no God at all but now I see that's cynical
It's simply that his interests aren't particularly broad
He's largely undiverted by the starving masses,
Or the inequality between the various classes
He gives you strictly limited passes,
Redeemable for surgery or two-for-one glasses

I feel so shocking for historically mocking
Your interests are clearly confined to the ocular
I bet given the chance, you'd eschew the divine
And start a little business selling contacts online

Fuck me Sam, what are the odds
That of history's endless parade of gods
That the God you just happened to be taught to believe in
Is the actual one and he digs on healing,
But not the AIDS-ridden African nations
Nor the victims of the plague, nor the flood-addled Asians,
But healthy, privately-insured Australians
With common and curable corneal degeneration

This story of Sam's has but a single explanation:
A surgical God who digs on magic operations
No, it couldn't be mistaken attribution of causation
Born of a coincidental temporal correlation
Exacerbated by a general lack of education
Vis-a-vis physics in Sam's parish congregation
And it couldn't be that all these pious people are liars
It couldn't be an artefact of confirmation bias
A product of groupthink,
A mass delusion,
An Emperor's New Clothes-style fear of exclusion

No, it's more likely to be an all-powerful magician
Than the misdiagnosis of the initial condition,
Or one of many cases of spontaneous remission,
Or a record-keeping glitch by the local physician

No, the only explanation for Sam's mum's seeing:
They prayed to an all-knowing superbeing,
To the omnipresent master of the universe,
And he quite liked the sound of their muttered verse.

So for a bit of a change from his usual stunt
Of being a sexist, racist, murderous cunt
He popped down to Dandenong and just like that
Used his powers to heal the cataracts of Sam's mum
Of Sam's mum

Thank you God for fixing the cataracts of Sam's mum!
I didn't realize that it was such a simple thing
I feel such a dingaling, what ignorant scum!

Now I understand how prayer can work:
A particular prayer in a particular church
In a particular style with a particular stuff
And for particular problems that aren't particularly tough,
And for particular people, preferably white
And for particular senses, preferably sight
A particular prayer in a particular spot
To a particular version of a particular god

And if you get that right, he just might
Take a break from giving babies malaria
And pop down to your local area
To fix the cataracts of your mum!

He forgot to mention that the rebel scum Luke disengaged his missile targeting system moments before he supposedly fired the missiles.

"Get government out of healthcare" ... yea fuck tricare

briefly: it takes a handful of full time employees JUST to call and get insurance approval and do billing for a busy medical office like an eye surgeon.. that money could be better spent, thats basically cutting overhead that should occur, and now on to mention the taboo, profits made by insurance companies.. ya know, the guy in between you and your doctor?

yea F the govt that is extending health care benefits for people under their parents plans, i want Mr. X to die before i have to pay out my profit!

u see why u scum... yea...

@cosmovitelli he can't have understood Marx if he can't tell the difference between Communism and Socialism, and he shouldn't bother either since Marx rarely makes any goddamned sense. He's better off learning socialism from anybody else.

You make statements loudly, but you don't make a point. Yes, we need governments, but like you said, they're not agents of the people, they're corrupt and selfish power hungry institutions. I agree with you. If that's the case, doesn't it logically follow that having LESS government is the way to reduce the amount of damage the "powerful" can do to us?

@aaronfr I won't argue whether you were pandering, just that the points you made were awfully cheap, had nothing to do with libertarianism, but with the obvious and laziest misinterpretation one can make of it. Starting your reply with "Libertarian nonsense" is the easiest way to get upvotes from the videosift scum of mindless socialists that can't be bothered to read a full post worth of innacurate statements.

@dag it makes me even sadder that you seem to believe government has your best interests at heart. The government is the agent of that very wealth inequality that makes you so angry. I see limiting government as the way to limit that blatant social injustice, the very institution that tricks suckers into thinking it is "redistributing wealth", when in fact it's been acting as an inverse Robin Hood all this time, taking from everybody, and wasting or giving to the disgustingly rich 1%. Don't dehumanize me, don't dismiss me as some shill for the wealthy, as a brainwashed second-handed thinker. Can't you seriously consider the possibility that government is not part of the solution, but part of the problem? Is that too unbelievable for you?

the two most probable reasons why someone wouldn't come forward with information (allow information to be released)

1) it makes them look inept

2) (more likely) it cuts off the gravy train

the Conservative government in Canada are scum

Excellent. True craftmanship. Shame it's all for the sake of that LANNISTER SCUM

This guy is the worst kind of scum. Bullied, lied and cheated all his life. He looked his loved ones in the eyes and lied, he lied about other people to try and ruin their reputation, he even had goons threaten one of his team mate's wives with a beating.

I look forward to seeing him fiscally bankrupt to match being morally bankrupt.

US has the corruption at the very highest levels (so does a lot of western societies..). They just call it Lobbyism and approve it publicly. So it's not corruption if it's legal right? Most countries that are accused of corruption, it occurs at lowest level of the government: police, civil servants etc. But when it's the high end, it's not corruption anymore..

Same goes for most crimes: you swindle hundred bucks: you're criminal, low life scum with no human rights. You swindle billions: you're a businessman, a hero of sort and you get to keep everything.

He had a fucking knife. I'm very cautious in proclaiming any hypotheticals. I'd like to think i'd at least let her know I wouldn't let anyone hurt her, but getting mouthy with a nutbag would only inflame the situation. >> ^ChaosEngine:

>> ^kymbos:
http://ww

w.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/why-so-few-spoke-up-for-a-woman-who-was-abused-on-a-city-bus-20121121-29qc4.html
Scum. Sub-human scum.

Absolutely.
And I know it's easy to say this as a keyboard warrior, but I'm genuinely shocked that no-one stood up for her.
I hope if I'm ever in that situation I'd have the decency to punch that racist asshole.

>> ^kymbos:

http://ww
w.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/why-so-few-spoke-up-for-a-woman-who-was-abused-on-a-city-bus-20121121-29qc4.html
Scum. Sub-human scum.


Absolutely.

And I know it's easy to say this as a keyboard warrior, but I'm genuinely shocked that no-one stood up for her.

I hope if I'm ever in that situation I'd have the decency to punch that racist asshole.

Sigh, for context:

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/racist-rants-mar-suburban-bus-ride-20121121-29p2r.html?rand=1353524296205

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/i-realised-he-wasnt-kidding--i-stopped-laughing-20121122-29r48.html

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/why-so-few-spoke-up-for-a-woman-who-was-abused-on-a-city-bus-20121121-29qc4.html

Scum. Sub-human scum.

Isn't Australians mostly descendants of all the scum of the british commonwealth, if my history is accurate? It certainly shows here.

..and the sharks are saying, "bloody humans! I hate that scum!"

We're crossin' the scum line!!!!!

Why would any woman in this day and age go home with a man she met online on their first date? How can any woman think that is a good idea? Same goes for a man. Do people not understand how many sick, depraved people are out there?

It sounds like she was horribly raped and beaten. Terrible.

That defense attorney should be disbarred for requesting her diary and internet searches. Some defense attorneys are just scum. "It would help establish if she thought there was a criminal act from my client." Are you serious? So he assumes that she is into some kinky rape and beat me for 5 hours fetish?