Persecution Complex – A Christian in the US Army

A like-minded fellow has an article about the army deciding to remove some permanant crosses from a chapel, as per army regulations.

The soldier expressed agitation at a perceived double standard after an American sniper accused of shooting a Quran for target practice faced disciplinary action and removal from Iraq for desecrating the religious property.”It is very discouraging as a Christian soldier to see our Army punish him for destroying a Quran, but then it pays a private company to destroy some crosses,” the soldier said. “I feel it is a slap in the face to me, my Lord and my freedom.”

That’s because you’re an idiot with a fake persecution complex. Just imagine this dolt’s reaction if he had to hold Christian services in a chapel covered with Jewish or Muslim symbols.

I love it.

Lost Tribe Found

The BBC is reporting that a tribe of peoples with no contact with the outside world have been discovered in Brazil.  Some amazing pictures here.

The huff’s article inspired some interesting comments from readers:

They weren’t lost until we found them.
Now they’re so screwed.

And, what’s on everyon’s mind:

I wonder if they’ve accepted Jesus as their Lord and Savior yet?

UPDATE 6/24/08:

Evidently this story is only half true – the tribe has been known since 1910 (although isolated).  The photographer came clean and told authorities he wanted to draw attention to the dangers of logging.  Read the story here.

Quote of the Day – Charles Darwin

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.

-Charles Darwin

Believing In God

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Republican Party Slogans

Evidently the Huff ran a contest for new republican party slogans, after there slogan turned out to be a registered trademark of Effexor, the antidepressant drug.  Most of the top 20 are crap, but there are a few good gems:

9. We’re Like Wonder Bread. White. Puffy. Tasteless.

5. GOP: Nowhere To Go But Up

2. Thanks For Your $ – Sorry About Your Kids

 

Assasinating Obama for Freedom – on Memorial Day Weekend No Less

A pundit on fox news recently decided it would be nice to kill both Osama and Obama:

Sure – that’s a bad idea.  But what really pisses me off about this whole thing is the reaction Jeffrey Feldman had to it, which he wrote for the Huffington Post:

There is no question that broadcast pundits “can” make jokes about assassinating a Senator and a Presidential candidate. The United States Constitution protects freedom of expression to the extreme. But that is the wrong question to ask in this situation. The issue is not “can” pundits make jokes about assassinating Sen. Obama, but “should” they?

It is astounding that Americans should even be forced to have such a conversation, let alone on Memorial Day Weekend when we remember with respect the sacrifices of fallen soldiers. But here we are.

I have to wonder how many people there actually are in the U.S. who think it is funny to make jokes about the assassination of Sen. Obama? What percentage of the American population consists of people who think that the assassination of Sen. Obama–or anyone for that matter–makes for a good punchline? Is it 50 people? 75, maybe?

If there is indeed no question that broadcast pundits can make jokes about assassinating a Senator than why are you writing about it?  Why don’t you pen an article about the controversial idea that people are mamals?  We don’t hear enough about that one . . .

And I don’t think that it is astounding that Americans are forced to have such a conversation . . . mainly because they’re not.  You evidently (who are opposed to the conversation) are the only one who wants to have it, which is peculiar – wouldn’t you say?

And during Memorial Day Weekend no less?  How dare people be free to make bad jokes during Memorial Day Weekend!!  Couldn’t they hold off until labor day?  Seeing as though memorial day and this poor attempt at humor have absolutely nothing to do with eachother, one can only assume that you brought memorial day into the article as a miserable attempt to appeal to our emotion, which is a far worse offense than making a bad joke about wishing someone you don’t like were dead.

My guess is that the number of people who would find an Obama assasination joke funny is in the millions.  And i’m only talking Americans here.  That is, given the joke is properly crafted and is actually a funny joke.  The woman on fox news wasn’t so much telling a joke as expressing the idea that she doesn’t like Obama and that it would be better for her if he were not around.  I guess you, Mr. Feldman, have never used exageration to make a point.

But you don’t stop there, you take on freedom itself (and on this, our memorial day weekend, no less!):

The reason for a free press–for our free press–is not to degrade our political institutions, undermine our elections, and threaten our politicians, but to strengthen and sustain our deliberative democracy.

If FOX News or any other broadcast media outlet cannot live up to that standard, then they should shut off their lights, sell their equipment, and choose another line of work.

 

Freedom doesn’t have a reason.  That’s what makes it freedom.  If it were bound by a goal, by a reason, than it wouldn’t really be free – would it?  And so here you are acknowledging that Fox news is free to do what they want, but since you don’t like what they do, they should close up shop . . . interesting . . . that’s quite the complicated view on freedom you got there  . . .

Basically, it all comes down to this: 

Mr. Feldman, grow the fuck up.  On memorial day weekend no less!

Who wants to be as dumb as Focus on the Family?

I got bored and found myself reading the Focus on the Family page “Condoms and Abstinence: Separating Truth From Myth” and I was blown away by the logic and sheer genius of it all. It points out a study in which condom failure rates in teens were shown to be as high as 22.5%. Well fuck! Guess we should stop teaching about correct condom usage then, after all “in the heat of passion kids are likely to forget the eight-step process for proper condom use.” Eight steps! That is too complicated for anyone to learn. So I have given it a lot of thought and realized the wisdom of this abstinence only education plan. And so I present my own plan…

Street-Crossing-Abstinence Only Education!

Did you know that every year tens of thousand of children are hit by cars; more than 1000 children die each year in these tragic accidents. For decades now the liberal elite have told us that the only way to prevent these accidents is to teach children how to cross the street safely, looking both ways, but how effective is this permissive death-wish education? Has it stopped the number of accidents? No! In the last 100 years the number of children killed by cars has skyrocketed and shows no sign of stopping.

The only solution to this pestilence sweeping the nation is to stand up for street-crossing-abstinence education. Children need to be taught that there is no need to cross the street. The block they are on is perfectly fine. Look at Jesus. He walked down lots of roads, but did you ever hear about him “looking both ways?” No! He knew that God put him on the right street and that there was nothing else to do about it.

Our S-C-A program will also offer arm and leg weights that we can tie to our children to help them remember their “Cross My Heart, Not Cross the Street” pledge. Young children are simply not prepared for the fourteen step process to crossing the street, let alone the terror of what new things they may see once they cross that street. Call your senator today and demand the end to this death-teaching agenda of the liberals and protect the morality of our children. Won’t somebody think of the children?

-Kate

Creationists Infest Public Schools

A new study suggests that 18% of US science teachers are creationists and:

Despite a court-ordered ban on the teaching of creationism in U.S. schools, about one in eight high-school biology teachers still teach it as valid science, a survey reveals. And, although almost all teachers also taught evolution, those with less training in science — and especially evolutionary biology — tend to devote less class time to Darwinian principles…

We need to get these nutjobs out of the schools – although I wonder how many highschool students buy into their crazyness . . . .

My Beautiful Mommy

I just stumbled across this on the interweb and I am stunned. According to the website, this picture book is “a must-have for any mother with young children considering plastic surgery.” I am hoping that he means that it is the mothers rather than the children who are considering plastic surgery, but it creeps me out either way.

The book explains that mommy is going to see a special doctor who will fix mommy’s nose and tummy. Mommy “won’t be different, just prettier.”

The thought of this book makes me want to vomit, but then I would have to write a book for my son called “Mommy Throws Up To Be Pretty Enough For Daddy.” Come to think of it, not such a bad idea. Look for it as part of my Hell In a Hand Basket: Children’s Books for the End Times

-Kate

Business Time

I found this amusing:

California Legalizes Same Sex Marriage

The California supreme court overturned a referendum that banned sam sex marriage because it was unconstitutional.  Woo-hoo!

Edwards Endorses Obama

Very soon, Edwards will be endorsing Obama for the democratic nominee.  The only suprise here is that he is doing it now instead of in June.

An Awesomely Bad Idea

In November, Colorado voters will get to vote on an amendment to the state constitution that would define personhood as “any human being from the moment of fertilization.”  Some people point out that this is a stupid idea that will have unimaginable legal consequences.  Others have pointed out that this is yet another example of religious conservatives trying to force their arbitrary “ethics” on all people.  In fact, the very notion of defining life as beginning at conception is relatively new, the earliest biblical mention of the beginning of life is at quickening and that the fetus is defined as “mere water” until that point.

But I say that this amendment may be the most brilliant thing ever.  I am planning on harvesting my eggs as soon as possible.  Then I can fertilize them and have them all frozen.  Once this amendment passes, I am going to be applying for welfare for me and my 30 “children.” And just think of the tax deductions!

Also, I think that this will mean that everyone can start drinking 9 months earlier since your life began at conception, not birth.  Same thing with driving, and being prosecuted as an adult.

Of course the downside is that I can be charged with manslaughter just for having an IUD and will lose all rights to my own body, but I prefer to look on the bright side.

-Kate

News

I found this either amusing or sad, that the two lead stories on DenverPost.com were the two accidents on I-70.  One is about a dead pregnant woman and one is about beer that survived in a separate crash.  At least the woman gets a larger font than some free Keystone Light.

Einstein on Religion: “Childish Superstitions”

From the Guardian:

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.” So said Albert Einstein, and his famous aphorism has been the source of endless debate between believers and non-believers wanting to claim the greatest scientist of the 20th century as their own.

A little known letter written by him, however, may help to settle the argument – or at least provoke further controversy about his views.

Due to be auctioned this week in London after being in a private collection for more than 50 years, the document leaves no doubt that the theoretical physicist was no supporter of religious beliefs, which he regarded as “childish superstitions”.

Einstein penned the letter on January 3 1954 to the philosopher Eric Gutkind who had sent him a copy of his book Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt. The letter went on public sale a year later and has remained in private hands ever since.

In the letter, he states: “The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this.”

Einstein, who was Jewish and who declined an offer to be the state of Israel’s second president, also rejected the idea that the Jews are God’s favoured people.

“For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. And the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything ‘chosen’ about them.”

The letter will go on sale at Bloomsbury Auctions in Mayfair on Thursday and is expected to fetch up to £8,000.