Day 34, and time out for a little fundamentalism courtesy Pat Boone and Miranda the Devine ...

The pond is always on the lookout for for good examples of bigotry for a Sunday meditation ...

Well there's only so many times and ways the pond can find room for the Bolter ranting up hill and down dale at Malware ...

Oh yes, he's such a spurned and alienated possum, and he's offered an olive branch, but surprisingly it hasn't been taken up.

Who knew anyone would be wary of a literary sociopath, boofhead and thuggee, all rolled into one?

But back to other rabid forms of bigotry and it was Pat Boone that caught the pond's eye.

Back in the early days of the blog, the pond used to get angry comments because the pond had dared to suggest that Pat Boone had performed many crimes against music, aesthetics and life in general, by the simple act of living and singing...

This had nothing to do with the bonus fact that he's a very weird conservative.

How weird?

Well Taliban fundamentalist weird ...

Now the pond found that here, and the source is here, but the pond takes this sort of threat seriously.

After all, it was only recently that the pond shared the "God is a boob man" meme, and here's a fundamentalist proposing it worthy of punishment, a fine and the end of the blog.

Taliban Daesh style.

Admittedly Boone isn't up there with fundamentalist Islamic ratbags ... of the kind to be read about in Bangladeshi professor hacked to death in attack claimed by Islamic State militants.

Not yet anyway ...

But the spirit's the same when it comes to atheism.

After all, Islamic fundamentalists like Daesh and the Taliban banned music, while Boone routinely murdered it ...

Meanwhile, the pond woke up to read Generate Ministries to reap $4m from National School Chaplaincy scheme in 2016.

Evangelical Christian groups continue to dominate funding granted in the National School Chaplaincy scheme, earning millions of dollars despite new rules imposed by the NSW education department. 
Generate Ministries has won $4 million to provide chaplains to 202 of the 438 NSW schools participating in the scheme in 2016. 
The Hillsong-linked Your Dream will earn $1.4 million for 70 schools (up from 50 last year), while Macquarie Life Church will provide chaplains in 20 regional schools.

Generate, Hillsong ...

Never get beyond a barking mad evangelical Xian and Australian tax dollars and a taxpayer-funded chance to poison the minds of young children and further the cause of bigotry.

A pastor linked to Generate Ministries had led the campaign against Gayby Baby last year amid accusations Burwood Girls High, which planned to screen the film, had cancelled religious classes run by the group...
...The then Australia's Human Rights Commissioner Tim Wilson wrote to the Baird government last year expressing concern that the national school chaplaincy program could be detrimental to gay and lesbian students, in the wake of the Gayby Baby furore.

They're even on the nose to Tim Wilson?

This is the work of John Howard, the onion muncher and the rest of the conservative cabal dedicated to bigotry and the funding of private schools with a religious bent ... and they say the crusades are over.

And yet the pond is proud to advise that these were just hoarse doovers, the lead up to a fine example of Miranda the Devine bigotry and hysteria, fresh dung from the Sunday Terrorist stable this day ...

Talk about a sinking Sunday feeling ... but Sunday duty calls ...

Oh FFS, it's another attempt by the Sunday Terrorists to whip up interest in the rag with a bit of trolling ...

And this sort of bizarre ad campaign ...

Weird or what?

What did that text reveal?

Every useless bigoted Devine story  inflicted  revealed mindfucked for just $3 per week * (* Conditions apply. If mind is fucked, no refund is applicable.)

Never mind, the pond felt the need to rush through the rest of the Devine by resorting to the free, freely available Devine blog - the pond has mentioned this to the reptiles before - where you can swill the mind poison in the way the Nazis in the bunker swilled cyanide with Adolf ...

Yes, the pond caught a little of Downfall last night, and we just had to do a little Godwin's Law routine, on the principle that if you can't beat 'em, beat it endlessly in the Devine style ...

The pond really couldn't think of a better explanation of why domestic violence continues at such a remarkable rate in Australia.

With the Devine on side, bullying and abuse have a vocal supporter at work at the Sunday Terror...

Such an enormously, inordinately stupid woman ... and yet with such a remarkably prominent platform for her bile.

And for those who have complained in the past that the pond has skewered the Devine for her prominent photos at the top of her piece - this day's effort was a beauty - did they spot the clue in the Devine piece that this was okay and good form?

There it was, towards the start of the abuse: "a bespectacled GPS debater." 

Now she didn't say Headlights Pranay Jha, but the pond caught the drift...

Ralph made a step forward and Jack smacked Piggy’s head. Piggy’s glasses flew off and tinkled on the rocks. Piggy cried out in terror: 
“My specs!” 
He went crouching and feeling over the rocks but Simon, who got there first, found them for him.
Passions beat about Simon on the mountain-top with awful wings. 
“One side’s broken.” 
Piggy grabbed and put on the glasses. He looked malevolently at Jack. 
“I got to have them specs. Now I only got one eye. Jus’ you wait—” 
Jack made a move toward Piggy who scrambled away till a great rock lay between them. He thrust his head over the top and glared at Jack through his one flashing glass. “Now I only got one eye. Just you wait—” 
 Jack mimicked the whine and scramble.
“Jus’ you wait—yah!” 
Piggy and the parody were so funny that the hunters began to laugh. Jack felt encouraged. He went on scrambling and the laughter rose to a gale of hysteria...

But enough of the bully Devine, because the pond would just like to offer up a little Pat Boone as a closer.

For years Boone was notorious for white-faced presentations of black music that gutted same. The pond can't imagine a finer example than this ...

Anyone who writes in claiming that's music will be fined for blasphemy.

And much later, being deprived of attention and because much of what he does, is, like the Devine, attention-seeking, Boone did the same to metal music.

The pond was never a big Deep Purple fan, but an infinite wave of sympathy swept over it listening to this ...

Talk about a good reason for the internet to lose its license to operate.

And what a pleasure to discover that, outside the studio torturing Alice Cooper, Boone sings flat ...

Okay, on the upside, there are many good things to be found on the full to overflowing intertubes. It's just that it's not the pond's job to find it, or to talk about watching Visconti's Bellissima or the benefits of the Berlin Philharmonic streaming (better catch up SSO).

But here, to cleanse the palate, have a serve of Leoš Janáček. Yes, it's possible to listen to a mass and avoid the bigotry and the bullying and the silly mindless fundamentalism of the Boones and the Devines...