My lovely cat, Ozzy, is ill. He's currently staying overnight in a vets. They think he has either a bladder infection or acute renal failure. If it's the latter it can be cured with fluids. Hopefully he's going to be fine, the little tyke.

If anyone's keeping up, Ozzy is now fine again. Apparently, cats haven't evolved to digest wheat properly, so the dry food I'd given him recently wasn't really the best (IAMS and Purina One). He got struvite crystals in his bladder and got a little blocked up.

I encourage you, if you *think* your cat is ill, take it to the vet to get it treated.

From the Daily Mail:
I read the Koran every day, says former prime minister Tony Blair who claims it keeps him 'faith-literate'
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Reading the koran just makes you a dickhead, Mr. Blair. No one cares about your own faith or beliefs, because you aren't important anymore. However, we do like to keep an eye on you because it's people like you who cause massive problems in this world. And to say that, "the [Islamic] Prophet Mohammed had been ‘an enormously civilizing force’", simply shows that you haven't actually bothered to read the other 90% of the literature that makes up Islam. The hadith - the collection of sayings and actions of Muhammad - show how he once personally beheaded HUNDREDS of people. How is that a 'civilising force'?!

Mr. Blair, you're a prick. Away with your nonsense.

From The Telegraph:
A committed Christian GP has been accused of harassment and told by the medical regulator that his behaviour was unprofessional after talking about his religious beliefs with a patient.
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In the video he tries to explain how giving his patients a way of helping themselves with faith is perfectly fine to do. No, dickwad, it's not okay. You are a GP. You are not supposed to be proselytising to your patients. They go to you to help them with their health problems. That is your fucking job! Telling them your own personal beliefs about the origin of the universe have fuck all to do with treating their health conditions.

Let's say you're shopping in Sainsbury's and the Muslim girl at the checkout is putting your bottle of gin through the till, and then tries to get you to go to her mosque to learn about her faith and how Islam could help you with your 'alcoholism'? Would you be happy to listen to her, or would you be annoyed that someone has decided to inflict their personal religious beliefs upon you while you were trying to get your shopping done? I mean, she's just done the same as you. She just made an assumption that her faith could help you with something she perceived was your problem. You did the same thing.

You should be reprimanded for this.

From The Mirror:
David Cameron faced a furious backlash last night after claiming Jesus was the original founder of the Big Society.

His remark - made to Christians at a Downing Street reception - provoked astonishment among religious leaders, charities and politicians.

Labour MP and former Anglican vicar Chris Bryant said: "It's ludicrous and offensive for ­Cameron to try to recruit Jesus to the Tory cause. He is just using decent people in the church and charities to mask the unfair way he's cutting services for the vulnerable."

Mr Cameron told church leaders they would be "absolutely right" to claim Jesus founded the Big Society 2,000 years ago, joking: "I'm not saying we've invented some great new idea here."

He added: "One of the best things about our country is that people step forward as individuals, as families, as communities, as organisations, as churches, and do extraordinary things... helping to build a bigger, richer, more prosperous, more generous society. And all I'm saying is, 'Wouldn't it be great if we did more of that?'"

But Jonathan Bartley, director of Christian think-tank Ekklesia, said Mr Cameron's brutal cuts ­programme was attacking the poor and the weak - and would not have had Jesus's support.

"Jesus's harshest words were reserved for those who had wealth and power and who failed to protect the most vulnerable," he said.

A senior Labour source added: “We know politicians like a big-name endorsement but this seems to be going a bit far."
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Christians are so happy to push their religion into our faces, and then they get upset when someone tries to directly link politics to Christianity...? Yes, and fucking right too! Stop linking religion with government. The government is here to govern everyone in the UK, not just the fucking meely-mouthed Christians. How much more religious bullshit is going to be forced upon those of us who are not religious?

Fucking Tories.

TwitPic is a very popular service for Twitter that lets users upload photos and attach them to their tweets.

I use it.

I *used* it.

TwitPic have decided to change their terms of service so that they can make money off any image you upload to their site, but they won't pass this on to you. You retain copyright to the image, but they are free to sell it to anyone.

This is bad.

I've moved all my images to Yfrog whose Ts&Cs are more liberable and much more friendly.

There really *is* a god!!!

Good riddance to that murdering fuckface Osama bin Laden. Nuff said.

This was from a conversation I had today with a Muslim colleague:

Me: "You should try alcohol once in a while. It's not as bad as your 'prophet' made it out to be. Besides, it'll be good practice for when/if you get to paradise, what with those rivers of wine n' all..."
Him: "That's reserved strictly for paradise, not on Earth."
Me: "You really should try it. I mean, you might get to paradise and not actually like the taste of wine. What do you do then? You're pretty much fucked. Can you ask for a separate river of McDonald's banana milkshake, or Ribena?"
Him: "You don't have to drink it, it's just that it's not forbidden in paradise."

So, there we have it. He understands the idiocy of what he's saying, but his mind won't let him do anything about it. That's what indoctrination does to a human mind. He won't touch alcohol in the ONLY life he can prove he has. What a waste. It's not just alcohol though. This is a great example of everything they aren't allowed to do.

"I really don't believe in abortion," Bieber says. "It's like killing a baby?"

When pressed about abortion when the pregnancy is the result of rape, Bieber says: "Um. Well, I think that's really sad, but everything happens for a reason. I guess I haven't been in that position, so I wouldn't be able to judge that."
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So, if everything happens for a reason... I think you're an annoying little fucktard because of what you said there.

And yes, Bieber, an abortion is *like* killing a baby, but not *actually* killing a baby. There is a limit to when you can legally abort a pregnancy. Oh, and given that you're a Christian, please note the following:
- Most pregnancies do not come to term.
- Most are actually terminated by the woman's body itself.
- You think your Christian god created woman, and that everything happens for a reason...
That would make YOUR god the biggest abortionist EVER!!!

From ABC News:
It seems as though the Catholic Church really really wants us to go to confession, so much so that apparently it has sanctioned a new iPhone app aimed at bringing some of the wandering sheep back into the fold.

You can now wipe your slate clean with Confession: A Roman Catholic App, available through iTunes for $1.99.

Now I know what you're thinking: Great, no more dark scary box. No more having to look at a perplexed clergyman trying to figure out how anyone could have been so stupid as to do that. But, not so fast.

I'm afraid that the new app doesn't replace traditional confession. You still have to go to a priest for absolution. The app simply attempts to make confession more accessible -- and perhaps a bit more fun.

A spokesman from the company that designed it said, "Our desire is to invite Catholics to engage in their faith through digital technology."

He goes on to quote Pope Benedict XVI's message from last years' World Communications Address, in which the pope encouraged Christians to interact with the digital world in service of the faith. So much for those who have the impression that Pope Benedict is out of touch and anti-technology. If it's going to help the faith, apparently His Holiness is all for it.

So, how does the app work? It leads you through an "Examination of Conscience" to help you figure out what your real sins are -- and not just by retreading your run of the mill 10 Commandments. The sinful suggestions the app offers are inventive and even age appropriate.

If you are worried about all your personal sins being viewed in cyberspace, fear not -- the app customizes each user's list and is password protected for privacy. Once you go to confession, your nefarious revelations are wiped away. So you can text your heart out on your first draft, and then decide how you want to edit your transgressions for the spoken word -- all in the service of making the "big reveal" a little less ominous.
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I have no words. No, wait... I have a few. I'm sick to death of the Catholic Church. The internet isn't new. The App Store isn't new. Embracing the App Store so that people can confess their 'sins' on their iOS gadget is pathetic. Your religion is clearly - shamelessly - invented, and you know it. Keep your mits off things that you don't understand, and would destroy if you ever had the chance to be in charge of it.