Case 1:
Insulting a religious Deity by drawing a cartoon, defended by the argument of "freedom of speech" despite upsetting many many many Muslim people.

Case 2: Iran leader faces Holocaust case
Someone denying the Holocaust, is demanded to be trialed at a German court for denying the Holocaust which upset the West.

Although these cases are quite different in the details, to me, they are broken down to the basic facts that some ignoramus with significant media exposure expressed an idea which offended a lot of people. the only difference i see is that in Case 2, its gotten so offensive to deny the Holocaust that an international law has been issued. Considering the position of Iran and their hatred for Jews and Israel, it is understandable, in my opinion, that he and others of the same background and environment would develop the perspective of denying the Holocaust.

Hatred when confronted with Sympathy will often dismiss it, for the purpose of continuing its own existence. These two emotions rarely co-exist.

To allow the west to tout freedom of speech in Case 1 but enforce the law centred around "the denial of the Holocaust" in case 2 shouts hypocrisy, which really annoys the crap out of me.

This raises another interesting question (interesting in my mind anyway), What is the significance of denying the Holocaust? I don't fully understand the depth of significance of the Holocaust and thus probably am missing the reason why the global community gets their knickers in a knot when anyone denies it happened. In my mind its like an American (who hates Japanese people) denying they used the A-Bomb on Hiroshima, I'd think he'd be an idiot and move on. It makes no difference that a person denies an event that happened, it still happened and nothing they say can change that fact. Unlike the Holocaust, the radiation fallout of the A-Bomb is an almost everlasting physical remnant of the event, while in the case of the Holocaust there is no such obvious empirical evidence.

Cant believe i got another road ticket. Actually to be honest i think i'm more in shock of the actual existence of un-uniformed police. After a fair bit of attitude from the cop he took my licence and said id recieve a ticket in the mail. For the record, (could i use a blog as a record?) the cop was saying that i was speeding over speed humps 15km/hr over the speed limit off a side road leading to the castle hill courts, which put me in a definitely shit mood. On top of that we lost the game. sucks.

But like thanks to the power of the internet, by definition that road which has no buildings and no street lighting, the road clearly has a speed limit of 100km/hr and it would be extreme bullshit to say i was actually going 120km/hr and even if i'm wrong about that id stil ahve to be going 75km/hr which is likely to be physically impossible with the state of my car. Man, i wish there was like a prize for winning at court, because if this ticket comes i'm gonna own this guy.

(and the cop said i parked shit)
sucks to the police.

--quote from the RTA website--
Speed-limit elsewhere
(1) If a speed-limit sign does not apply to a length of road and the length of road is not in a speed-limited area, school zone or shared zone, the speed-limit applying to a driver for the length of road is the default speed-limit.
Note Length of road is defined in the dictionary, school zone is defined in rule 23, shared zone is defined in rule 24, and speed-limited area is defined in rule 22.

(2) The default speed-limit applying to a driver for a length of road in a built-up area is 60 kilometres per hour.
Note Built-up area is defined in the dictionary.

(3) The default speed-limit applying to a driver for any other length of road is:
(a) for a driver driving a bus with a GVM over 5 tonnes, or another vehicle with a GVM over 12 tonnes — 100 kilometres per hour; or
(b) for any other driver — 100 kilometres per hour or as otherwise provided under another law of this jurisdiction.

built-up area, in relation to a length of road, means an area in which there are buildings on land next to the road, or there is street lighting, at intervals not over 100 metres for a distance of at least 500 metres or, if the road is shorter than 500 metres, for the whole road.

Was looking up the stars for tonights Comedy Festival and was surprised to see that Mitch Hedberg wasnt there. So i decided to look up where he went too, unfortunately he's been dead for since March last year. Which was a great downer for my night of Comedy. He was my favourite comic, one of a kind material, a master of delivery and super funny. His whole act was like a 100 unrelated jokes strung together that would put you on the ground panting for air and your stomach aching.

You know when you go to a concert like punk-rock and the kids get on stage and they jump into the crowd? People think that's dangerous, but not me... because humans are made of 95% water, so the audience is 5% away from a pool.

I don't have a girlfriend. I just know a girl who would be really mad if she heard me say that.

You know when you see an advertisement for a casino, and they have a picture of a guy winning money? That's false advertising, because that happens the least. That's like if you're advertising a hamburger, they could show a guy choking. "This is what happened once."

I haven't slept for ten days, because that would be too long.

I had an apartment and I had a neighbor, and whenever he would knock on my wall I knew he wanted me to turn my music down and that made me angry 'cause I like loud music... so when he knocked on the wall, I'd mess with his head. I'd say, "Go around! I cannot open the wall! I dunno if you have a doorknob on your side but over here there's nothin'. It's just flat."

This one time I was in a convenience store, and a guy came up and asked me, "What's the score?" and I said, "What is the game? If it's a competition between me and you, and the object is to ask the other guy questions he doesn't give a shit about, then you are winning, one to nothing."

Quotes of Mitch Hedberg
Google Video of Mitch Hedberg

He rocked.

A slow ballad RnB song, nothing special, just nice and slow. Spose its a song about the struggle in his life? A song about the tremendous adversities he had to overcome to get into comedy and then to kick it with the big names in show business? Maybe about a girl who broke his heart and all those emotions that come with that? Perhaps... or perhaps not. Here is a select snippit of the song...

Girl the weatherman said...
Its cloudy skies, right there between your thighs
I'm pluckin' for scattered showers, for about an hour
Rain on me tonight
Now let me love you (love you),
(and soon I wanna kiss you) and girl let me kiss you, (all over you) let me
sex youuu, (I just want you to) rain on meeee, yeah.

Girl, Let me feel the raindrops fallin' down all over my love
I want it soak and wet all over the bed
I want the rain to come
Let me feel the raindrops fallin' down all over my love
I want it soak and wet all over the bed
I want the rain to come

Come on. How crass do you really wanna get? RnB music like this is just so wrong. He's other songs are all JUST LIKE that as well.
*sigh* I suppose sex always sells.