Thursday, November 26, 2009
Sunday, November 22, 2009
We All Worship the Same Schizophrenic
Some congressional Republicans are threatening a filibuster to block confirmation of a federal appeals court nominee because of his religious rulings. But they won't get the support of Indiana GOP Senator, Richard Lugar.
In 2005, Judge David Hamilton ruled that the Indiana House of Representatives could not open its sessions with prayers that mentioned Jesus Christ or used terms like "savior."
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions noted that Hamilton was willing, however, to allow a Muslim cleric to offer invocations that mention Allah.
But fellow Republican Richard Lugar of Indiana, who supports Hamilton, said the judge was simply allowing use of the Arabic word for God in non-sectarian invocations.
Here's a quick jaunt into history. Before Muhammed, the word "ilah" meant god or divinity. The Pagan Arabs worshipped a pantheon of gods. Each tribe had its own chief god, whom it called "al-ilah," or "the god." Allah is a shortened form of al-ilah, made conventional prior to Muhammed, and surviving into modern parlance.
The moon god, Hubal, was one of the primary gods of the Quraish tribe (Muhammed's tribe) preceding Islam's advent. Evidence exists that Hubal was Lord of the Kaaba, and known as Allah. Muhammed's contribution to the equation was separating Hubal -- or Allah -- from the flock and enthroning him as the one genuine god. This is the god of Islam. Though monotheist, Islam is a religion with pagan polytheistic origins.
Allah isn't just the Arabic word for God. It means different things to different people. To a Christian Arab, Allah is a generic name for the One True God of the Bible, whose nature is Trinitarian, and who reveals Himself and reaches out to us in the person of Jesus Christ. To a Muslim Arab, Allah is the god of the Koran, who tells his people to smite the infidels and slay the idoloters where they find them. He is the god of dhimmitude and destruction.
I see this ruling as discrimination against Christianity, regardless whatever noises to the contrary Lugar and Hamilton make. The attitude they have cultivated is that a Muslim cleric praying to Allah is a non - sectarian event -- an absurdity, on its face -- but a Christian praying to Jesus Christ is somehow partisan. They ignore context, such as the absence of a trinity in Islam. A Muslim invoking Allah is the Islamic equivalent to a Christian invoking Jesus. Yet they find no fault with the first, and decry the latter. This is either anti - Christian bigotry, or gross ignorance of comparative religion.
The implied assumption from these two men is that Muslims and Christians worship the same god. Most informed Christians would disagree; but the burden of proof lies with those making the audacious claim that two wildly divergent personalities are expressions of the same supreme being. That Muslims claim reverence for the same God as Christians is an assertion of which I remain skeptical. Claims require evidence, and the available evidence does not support the contention that Jehovah = Islam's Allah.
In 2005, Judge David Hamilton ruled that the Indiana House of Representatives could not open its sessions with prayers that mentioned Jesus Christ or used terms like "savior."
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions noted that Hamilton was willing, however, to allow a Muslim cleric to offer invocations that mention Allah.
But fellow Republican Richard Lugar of Indiana, who supports Hamilton, said the judge was simply allowing use of the Arabic word for God in non-sectarian invocations.
Here's a quick jaunt into history. Before Muhammed, the word "ilah" meant god or divinity. The Pagan Arabs worshipped a pantheon of gods. Each tribe had its own chief god, whom it called "al-ilah," or "the god." Allah is a shortened form of al-ilah, made conventional prior to Muhammed, and surviving into modern parlance.
The moon god, Hubal, was one of the primary gods of the Quraish tribe (Muhammed's tribe) preceding Islam's advent. Evidence exists that Hubal was Lord of the Kaaba, and known as Allah. Muhammed's contribution to the equation was separating Hubal -- or Allah -- from the flock and enthroning him as the one genuine god. This is the god of Islam. Though monotheist, Islam is a religion with pagan polytheistic origins.
Allah isn't just the Arabic word for God. It means different things to different people. To a Christian Arab, Allah is a generic name for the One True God of the Bible, whose nature is Trinitarian, and who reveals Himself and reaches out to us in the person of Jesus Christ. To a Muslim Arab, Allah is the god of the Koran, who tells his people to smite the infidels and slay the idoloters where they find them. He is the god of dhimmitude and destruction.
I see this ruling as discrimination against Christianity, regardless whatever noises to the contrary Lugar and Hamilton make. The attitude they have cultivated is that a Muslim cleric praying to Allah is a non - sectarian event -- an absurdity, on its face -- but a Christian praying to Jesus Christ is somehow partisan. They ignore context, such as the absence of a trinity in Islam. A Muslim invoking Allah is the Islamic equivalent to a Christian invoking Jesus. Yet they find no fault with the first, and decry the latter. This is either anti - Christian bigotry, or gross ignorance of comparative religion.
The implied assumption from these two men is that Muslims and Christians worship the same god. Most informed Christians would disagree; but the burden of proof lies with those making the audacious claim that two wildly divergent personalities are expressions of the same supreme being. That Muslims claim reverence for the same God as Christians is an assertion of which I remain skeptical. Claims require evidence, and the available evidence does not support the contention that Jehovah = Islam's Allah.
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Don' Ax Me (Or, Alternately, The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships)
"I don't know where the @#$%!^&* he was born! No one does!
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Surprise!
I bet you never saw this one coming:
Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother's funeral was held there in May that year.
Hasan, the sole suspect in the massacre of 13 fellow US soldiers in Texas, attended the controversial Dar al-Hijrah mosque in Great Falls, Virginia, in 2001 at the same time as two of the September 11 terrorists, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. His mother's funeral was held there in May that year.
Friday, November 6, 2009
The Sacred Other Shows Its Taste for Blood. . .Again
It seems that a Muslim attacked Ft. Hood on November 5, killing 12 and wounding 31, at last count.
Can you imagine how startled I was at this revelation? One of Muhammed's Peaceniks?! Why, I never! After all, Muslims exploding in violence -- both literally and figuratively -- only happens everywhere that Allah's Amiables rub shoulders with dirty, rotten infide -- uh, I mean, non - Muslims. It's a recent development, too, having started just before A.D. 632. That's shy of 1,400 years; by the standards of deep time, we're talking yesterday.
This blindsided me like a mujahid on camelback -- a scimitar - chop to my comfort zone.
Now let's watch the media transform this fellow from a prayer - rug - prostrating, shahada - babbling, goat - amourizing jihadi, into a Tennessee redneck who voted for Reagan, has a gun rack in his pickup, and believes the South will rise again.
Can you imagine how startled I was at this revelation? One of Muhammed's Peaceniks?! Why, I never! After all, Muslims exploding in violence -- both literally and figuratively -- only happens everywhere that Allah's Amiables rub shoulders with dirty, rotten infide -- uh, I mean, non - Muslims. It's a recent development, too, having started just before A.D. 632. That's shy of 1,400 years; by the standards of deep time, we're talking yesterday.
This blindsided me like a mujahid on camelback -- a scimitar - chop to my comfort zone.
Now let's watch the media transform this fellow from a prayer - rug - prostrating, shahada - babbling, goat - amourizing jihadi, into a Tennessee redneck who voted for Reagan, has a gun rack in his pickup, and believes the South will rise again.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Of Pirates, Pin Cushions, and Purple Hearts
I understand why women pierce their ears: tasteful earrings accentuate a woman's natural beauty. I get it.
What I don't get is the infatuation men have with doing the same. No offense, "guys," but I just don't see the allure. Unless you really, really wish you were a "Danica" instead of a "Dan," or "Billie Jean" instead of "William," I can't figure out why you'd enjoy sticking dangly bangly frippery in your earlobes. I suppose a sufferer of Adam-and-Steveism is acting consistently with his perversion when he goes to the mall and gets his ears pierced, but this specimen of hu"man"ity is Not Right, in the first place.
I can think of two exceptions in which a man may retain his masculinity and also adorn himself with aural hula hoops or glittering baubles:
The first is if you are a woad - painted, naked Celt screaming across a fenland with axe raised high enough to split someone from stem to sternum. I won't question your manliness; I'll just duck out of the way. Insert any other barbarian killer, if this one doesn't fit your fancy.
The other is if you are an honest - to - goodness pirate -- and I'm not talking about the namby pamby modern equivalent with machine guns. I'm referencing the cutlass - waving, eyepatch - accessorizing, parrot - befriending, pegleg - hobbling, rum - guzzling, wench - slapping, keelhauling, plank - walking, maiden - despoiling, Jolly Roger - saluting, shark - baiting, Davy Jones' Locker - accomodating, chantey - bellowing, barnacle - chomping, doubloon - filching, tricorn - hatted Port Royalist with an open - throated tunic and hair on your chest thick and gnarly as steel wool.
If you're of the male persuasion, and this description fits you, then you have my blessing. Deck yourself out to your heart's content. If you're female and fit the above characterization, God help you.
Now we've come to the point at which Things Get Worse: I'm talking about the "fellers" who have discovered that a ring in each ear just won't do. Nope. But maybe one through the nipple will satisfy. Or the upper lip. Or the lower. Or the nostril. Or the tongue. Or the eyebrow. Or the eyelid. Or -- for the love of Blackbeard's navel - ring -- through the eyeball. Or all of the above. Yeccch, I'm just making this up as I go.
If you walk through a metal detector, and the thing begins to smoke and scream for help, you just might be a human pin cushion. Ditto if electromagnetic exposure means decapitation, your girlfriend wears ten thimbles when she touches you, or if someone mistakes you for an extra from that disney favorite, Hellraiser.
I once went to a family get - together, and as I spoke to my younger cousin, I noticed an honest - to - goodness silver metal bar about two inches long protruding through the middle portion of his ear.
I asked him if he'd received a Purple Heart.
Puzzled, he said "Huh?" and smiled.
I said, "Well, it appears that you've just come back from the front with an injury, and I believe you're still in need of having that shrapnel extracted from your ear," at which point he laughed me off and acted as if I was a little bit nuts.
Okay, the latter was a fair observation; but if I'm nuts, what about the guy who refused the medic when he offered to remove the shrapnel?
As one of the unpierced, I find myself confused when in the presence of primitives.
What I don't get is the infatuation men have with doing the same. No offense, "guys," but I just don't see the allure. Unless you really, really wish you were a "Danica" instead of a "Dan," or "Billie Jean" instead of "William," I can't figure out why you'd enjoy sticking dangly bangly frippery in your earlobes. I suppose a sufferer of Adam-and-Steveism is acting consistently with his perversion when he goes to the mall and gets his ears pierced, but this specimen of hu"man"ity is Not Right, in the first place.
I can think of two exceptions in which a man may retain his masculinity and also adorn himself with aural hula hoops or glittering baubles:
The first is if you are a woad - painted, naked Celt screaming across a fenland with axe raised high enough to split someone from stem to sternum. I won't question your manliness; I'll just duck out of the way. Insert any other barbarian killer, if this one doesn't fit your fancy.
The other is if you are an honest - to - goodness pirate -- and I'm not talking about the namby pamby modern equivalent with machine guns. I'm referencing the cutlass - waving, eyepatch - accessorizing, parrot - befriending, pegleg - hobbling, rum - guzzling, wench - slapping, keelhauling, plank - walking, maiden - despoiling, Jolly Roger - saluting, shark - baiting, Davy Jones' Locker - accomodating, chantey - bellowing, barnacle - chomping, doubloon - filching, tricorn - hatted Port Royalist with an open - throated tunic and hair on your chest thick and gnarly as steel wool.
If you're of the male persuasion, and this description fits you, then you have my blessing. Deck yourself out to your heart's content. If you're female and fit the above characterization, God help you.
Now we've come to the point at which Things Get Worse: I'm talking about the "fellers" who have discovered that a ring in each ear just won't do. Nope. But maybe one through the nipple will satisfy. Or the upper lip. Or the lower. Or the nostril. Or the tongue. Or the eyebrow. Or the eyelid. Or -- for the love of Blackbeard's navel - ring -- through the eyeball. Or all of the above. Yeccch, I'm just making this up as I go.
If you walk through a metal detector, and the thing begins to smoke and scream for help, you just might be a human pin cushion. Ditto if electromagnetic exposure means decapitation, your girlfriend wears ten thimbles when she touches you, or if someone mistakes you for an extra from that disney favorite, Hellraiser.
I once went to a family get - together, and as I spoke to my younger cousin, I noticed an honest - to - goodness silver metal bar about two inches long protruding through the middle portion of his ear.
I asked him if he'd received a Purple Heart.
Puzzled, he said "Huh?" and smiled.
I said, "Well, it appears that you've just come back from the front with an injury, and I believe you're still in need of having that shrapnel extracted from your ear," at which point he laughed me off and acted as if I was a little bit nuts.
Okay, the latter was a fair observation; but if I'm nuts, what about the guy who refused the medic when he offered to remove the shrapnel?
As one of the unpierced, I find myself confused when in the presence of primitives.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Michelle Okenya: "See, I Told You He Ghetto."
In little noticed remarks, Michelle Obama stated at a public event that her husband's mother, Ann Dunham, was "very young and very single" when she gave birth to the future U.S. president.
Her comments further undermine the official story as told by Barack Obama – that Dunham was married to his father, Barack Obama Sr., at the time of birth.
So let me get this straight: We're supposed to believe Okenya's Spawning Tale, though his own wife contradicts it? Makes perfect sense to me, Bwana. At the very least, Balack should release his full birth certificate to Michelle; after all, if she doesn't have the right to know the number of official parents in his possession when the tribal gods smiled upon humanity and hallowed a bit of Earth with the wonder of him, then no one does. Maybe he can even clue her in on which portion of sub - Saharan Hawaii relishes that holy ground.
I suppose she's unaware of her flight from the official narrative, what with adjusting herself to the romantic pride that spontaneously generated over her husband acquiring that trifle, the U.S. presidency. What a superlative conglomeration of all the best elements of pride and humility!
Next, we'll learn the real truth -- that there was no father -- that his conception was a bona fide miracle, at which point we'll have a narrowed field of options: Messiah, or Darth Vader?
I expect a Midichlorian count will show us the Will of the Farce. . .
Her comments further undermine the official story as told by Barack Obama – that Dunham was married to his father, Barack Obama Sr., at the time of birth.
So let me get this straight: We're supposed to believe Okenya's Spawning Tale, though his own wife contradicts it? Makes perfect sense to me, Bwana. At the very least, Balack should release his full birth certificate to Michelle; after all, if she doesn't have the right to know the number of official parents in his possession when the tribal gods smiled upon humanity and hallowed a bit of Earth with the wonder of him, then no one does. Maybe he can even clue her in on which portion of sub - Saharan Hawaii relishes that holy ground.
I suppose she's unaware of her flight from the official narrative, what with adjusting herself to the romantic pride that spontaneously generated over her husband acquiring that trifle, the U.S. presidency. What a superlative conglomeration of all the best elements of pride and humility!
Next, we'll learn the real truth -- that there was no father -- that his conception was a bona fide miracle, at which point we'll have a narrowed field of options: Messiah, or Darth Vader?
I expect a Midichlorian count will show us the Will of the Farce. . .
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Belly Up
A Mexican, an Arab, and a Tennessee girl are in the same bar.
When the Mexican finishes his beer, he throws his glass in the air, pulls out his pistol, and shoots the glass to pieces. He says, "In Mexico, our glasses are so cheap we don't need to drink with the same one twice."
The Arab, obviously impressed by this, drinks his beer, throws the glass into the air, pulls out his AK-47, and shoots it to pieces. He says, "In the Arab World, we have so much sand to make glasses that we don't need to drink with the same one twice either."
The Tennessee girl, cool as a cucumber, picks up her beer, downs it in one gulp, throws the glass into the air, whips out her .45, and shoots the Mexican and the Arab. Catching her glass, setting it on the bar, and calling for a refill, she says, "In Tennessee, we have so many illegal aliens that we don't have to drink with the same ones twice."
When the Mexican finishes his beer, he throws his glass in the air, pulls out his pistol, and shoots the glass to pieces. He says, "In Mexico, our glasses are so cheap we don't need to drink with the same one twice."
The Arab, obviously impressed by this, drinks his beer, throws the glass into the air, pulls out his AK-47, and shoots it to pieces. He says, "In the Arab World, we have so much sand to make glasses that we don't need to drink with the same one twice either."
The Tennessee girl, cool as a cucumber, picks up her beer, downs it in one gulp, throws the glass into the air, whips out her .45, and shoots the Mexican and the Arab. Catching her glass, setting it on the bar, and calling for a refill, she says, "In Tennessee, we have so many illegal aliens that we don't have to drink with the same ones twice."
Monday, October 19, 2009
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Racism? What Racism?
You've got to hear this. As you listen, keep these tidbits of information in mind:
1. Roughly 96% of black voters chose Obama for the presidency.
2. Blacks make up about 13% of the U.S. population.
1. Roughly 96% of black voters chose Obama for the presidency.
2. Blacks make up about 13% of the U.S. population.
Monday, October 12, 2009
And the Unelected Shall Rule Them
I found a list of our illustrious president's czars. Something's rotten in the state of Obamark:
Afghanistan Czar: Mullah Omar
AIDS Czar: Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr.
Bailout Czar: John McCain
Border Czar: Jorge W. Bushandez
Car Czar: Dale Earnhardt
Climate Czar: Paul Ehrlich
Copyright Czar: Vox Day
Cyberspace Czar: Bambi
Drug Czar: Keith Richards
Economic Czar: Paul Krugman
Education Czar: Tupac Shakur
Energy Czar: Abdul Aziz
Faith-Based Czar: Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Great Lakes Czar: Erie S. Huron
Green Jobs Czar: Algore
Guantanomo Closure Czar: Muhammed Inshallah Castro
Health Care Czar: Rahm Emanuel
Income Redistribution Czar: Michael Moore
Information Czar: Joseph Goebbels
Intelligence Czar: Forrest Gump
Internet Fraud Czar: Abimbola Abubakar
Iran Czar: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Latin American Czar: Shakira
Mideast Policy Czar: Osama bin Laden
Middle-East Peace Czar: Ahmad Jihad
Mortgage Czar: Barney "Congressional Queen" Frank
Pay Czar: Bernie Madoff
Performance Czar: Viagra Jones
Radio-Internet Fairness Czar: George Soros
Regulatory Czar: LL Cool J
‘Safe Schools’ Czar: Dylan Klebold
Science Czar: Richard Dawkins
Stimulus Accountability Czar: Nancy Pelosi
Sudan Czar: Jafar Hasan
Tarp Czar: Ken Lay
Technology Czar: Bill Gates
Terrorism Czar: Bill Ayers
Urban Affairs/Housing Czar: Je$$e Jack$on
Violence Against Women Czar: Ted Bundy
Voter List Czar: ACORN
War Czar: Cindy Sheehan
Weapons Czar: Rosie O'Donnell
WMD Czar: Hans Blix
Zoning Czar: Timothy Leary
Boy Toy Czar: Ashton Kutcher
American Pride Czar: Michelle Obama
Afghanistan Czar: Mullah Omar
AIDS Czar: Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr.
Bailout Czar: John McCain
Border Czar: Jorge W. Bushandez
Car Czar: Dale Earnhardt
Climate Czar: Paul Ehrlich
Copyright Czar: Vox Day
Cyberspace Czar: Bambi
Drug Czar: Keith Richards
Economic Czar: Paul Krugman
Education Czar: Tupac Shakur
Energy Czar: Abdul Aziz
Faith-Based Czar: Rev. Jeremiah Wright
Great Lakes Czar: Erie S. Huron
Green Jobs Czar: Algore
Guantanomo Closure Czar: Muhammed Inshallah Castro
Health Care Czar: Rahm Emanuel
Income Redistribution Czar: Michael Moore
Information Czar: Joseph Goebbels
Intelligence Czar: Forrest Gump
Internet Fraud Czar: Abimbola Abubakar
Iran Czar: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Latin American Czar: Shakira
Mideast Policy Czar: Osama bin Laden
Middle-East Peace Czar: Ahmad Jihad
Mortgage Czar: Barney "Congressional Queen" Frank
Pay Czar: Bernie Madoff
Performance Czar: Viagra Jones
Radio-Internet Fairness Czar: George Soros
Regulatory Czar: LL Cool J
‘Safe Schools’ Czar: Dylan Klebold
Science Czar: Richard Dawkins
Stimulus Accountability Czar: Nancy Pelosi
Sudan Czar: Jafar Hasan
Tarp Czar: Ken Lay
Technology Czar: Bill Gates
Terrorism Czar: Bill Ayers
Urban Affairs/Housing Czar: Je$$e Jack$on
Violence Against Women Czar: Ted Bundy
Voter List Czar: ACORN
War Czar: Cindy Sheehan
Weapons Czar: Rosie O'Donnell
WMD Czar: Hans Blix
Zoning Czar: Timothy Leary
Boy Toy Czar: Ashton Kutcher
American Pride Czar: Michelle Obama
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
There's No Sex Like Gay Sex
"Gay" sex is morally good and is as "wonderful" as heterosexual relations, according to Chai Feldblum, President Obama's nominee to become commissioner for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
"Gay sex is morally good," she said. "Now you may think that might be a little crazy to go out there and say gay sex is good. But think a second. Society definitely believes that heterosexual sex is good. Right. Heterosexual sex within a certain framework – marriage – I mean, you can't get more dewy-eyed and romantic in this society about how wonderful that is."
"Morally good" according to what moral framework? Certainly not the Judeo - Christian worldview upon which the U.S.A. is founded. I'd be interested in hearing an explication of how she reached this bizarre, aberrant conclusion -- especially the part where she extols the virtues of behavior that makes one more susceptible to disease and a subsequent truncated lifespan.
Continued Feldblum: "If you're not being cynical for the moment, I think that does reflect a correct understanding that sex is often a basic building block for intimacy and that intimacy and connections within couples and within families are integral building blocks for a healthy society."
She's admitting that sex has a moral component. The question is determining where the line must be drawn between moral virtue and moral decrepitude. I wonder if she sees sexual relations between adults and children as wholesome, or relations between humans and animals? If "intimacy" and "connections" are taking place in such relationships, upon what basis would one condemn them, utilizing her logic?
She is co-director of Workplace Flexibility 2010, which she described at the UCLA symposium as a homosexual rights group that aimed to change "the American workplace and revolutionize social mores."
"Revolutionizing social mores." Yes, that's what we need in abundance. Because it's worked so well elsewhere.
"This is a war that needs to be fought, and it's not a war overseas where we are killing people in the name of liberating them. It is a war right here at home where we need to convince people that morality demands full equality for gay people," she said at the symposium.
And by "equality," she means "bestowing special rights upon a persecuted minority." In no sense is this synonymous to treating someone as an equal.
"Gay sex is morally good," she said. "Now you may think that might be a little crazy to go out there and say gay sex is good. But think a second. Society definitely believes that heterosexual sex is good. Right. Heterosexual sex within a certain framework – marriage – I mean, you can't get more dewy-eyed and romantic in this society about how wonderful that is."
"Morally good" according to what moral framework? Certainly not the Judeo - Christian worldview upon which the U.S.A. is founded. I'd be interested in hearing an explication of how she reached this bizarre, aberrant conclusion -- especially the part where she extols the virtues of behavior that makes one more susceptible to disease and a subsequent truncated lifespan.
Continued Feldblum: "If you're not being cynical for the moment, I think that does reflect a correct understanding that sex is often a basic building block for intimacy and that intimacy and connections within couples and within families are integral building blocks for a healthy society."
She's admitting that sex has a moral component. The question is determining where the line must be drawn between moral virtue and moral decrepitude. I wonder if she sees sexual relations between adults and children as wholesome, or relations between humans and animals? If "intimacy" and "connections" are taking place in such relationships, upon what basis would one condemn them, utilizing her logic?
She is co-director of Workplace Flexibility 2010, which she described at the UCLA symposium as a homosexual rights group that aimed to change "the American workplace and revolutionize social mores."
"Revolutionizing social mores." Yes, that's what we need in abundance. Because it's worked so well elsewhere.
"This is a war that needs to be fought, and it's not a war overseas where we are killing people in the name of liberating them. It is a war right here at home where we need to convince people that morality demands full equality for gay people," she said at the symposium.
And by "equality," she means "bestowing special rights upon a persecuted minority." In no sense is this synonymous to treating someone as an equal.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
For fans of classic science fiction and fantasy, here's a website with many of the master's public domain books available for free.
Monday, September 28, 2009
Give the Devil His Due
This is my entry to The Friday Challenge, 9/25/09 edition. I had fun with this:
Dear Sainted Cephas:
I know that manning the Pearly Gates is both full - time and taxing work, so I'll keep this epistle short and not take up a lot of your eternity with idle chatter. I'm writing in reference to one Edward "Ted" Kennedy, as I cannot understand how he became an inmate of my rather storied asylum. I'd like you to pass this message on to our Holy Lord, in hopes that He will attend the clerical error that sloshed Ted out of hot water and plopped him down into the fire, as it were. Surely this illustrious man deserves a thousand acres with plenty of frontage on a street paved with gold; to wit:
Ted loved women; no American politician loved women more, with the possible exception of one William Jefferson Clinton; however the latter no doubt is the subject of a future letter and not the present one, so we'll end with him on that tantalizing note. Setting aside the late Chappaquiddick unpleasantness -- in which Ted did everything short of risking his life and status for Mary Jo Kopechne's safety -- Ted has proven a sterling example to hormonal exuberance everywhere. Speaking of women, Ted was a firm believer in a woman's right to choose. This is a profound point in his favor, for if women have no right to choose, then what choice do they have, besides back alleys and rusty coat hangers? Jehoshaphat, how such barbarism offends my delicate sensibilities!
Given that two heads are better than one, Ted's Janus - faced brand of politics brought new meaning to cutting edge political opportunism, which in turn stoked such innovations as pandering, demagoguery, and bipartisanship. I contend that this polysyllabic praise should not go unnoticed. Nor should Ted go unrewarded -- for how many mere men could balance a giggling girl on one knee, and a good stiff Chivas Regal on the other -- without spilling either one? Ted Kennedy and none other, that's how many. I know Heaven already has a Lion of Judah, but how about the Lion of the Senate? Collect them all. Our Father's house has many mansions; and I'm certain that at least one needs a Fifth Column; in matters temporal and spiritual, that's where Ted Kennedy comes in. Please give my tiny request all due consideration. Thank you for your attention. Give my best to Michael.
Your Humble Servant,
Prince Lucifer S. Brimstone
P.S. The air conditioner's on the fritz, and we're having a devil of a time with the heat! Send someone from maintenance A.S.A.P.! Thanks.
"L"
Dear Sainted Cephas:
I know that manning the Pearly Gates is both full - time and taxing work, so I'll keep this epistle short and not take up a lot of your eternity with idle chatter. I'm writing in reference to one Edward "Ted" Kennedy, as I cannot understand how he became an inmate of my rather storied asylum. I'd like you to pass this message on to our Holy Lord, in hopes that He will attend the clerical error that sloshed Ted out of hot water and plopped him down into the fire, as it were. Surely this illustrious man deserves a thousand acres with plenty of frontage on a street paved with gold; to wit:
Ted loved women; no American politician loved women more, with the possible exception of one William Jefferson Clinton; however the latter no doubt is the subject of a future letter and not the present one, so we'll end with him on that tantalizing note. Setting aside the late Chappaquiddick unpleasantness -- in which Ted did everything short of risking his life and status for Mary Jo Kopechne's safety -- Ted has proven a sterling example to hormonal exuberance everywhere. Speaking of women, Ted was a firm believer in a woman's right to choose. This is a profound point in his favor, for if women have no right to choose, then what choice do they have, besides back alleys and rusty coat hangers? Jehoshaphat, how such barbarism offends my delicate sensibilities!
Given that two heads are better than one, Ted's Janus - faced brand of politics brought new meaning to cutting edge political opportunism, which in turn stoked such innovations as pandering, demagoguery, and bipartisanship. I contend that this polysyllabic praise should not go unnoticed. Nor should Ted go unrewarded -- for how many mere men could balance a giggling girl on one knee, and a good stiff Chivas Regal on the other -- without spilling either one? Ted Kennedy and none other, that's how many. I know Heaven already has a Lion of Judah, but how about the Lion of the Senate? Collect them all. Our Father's house has many mansions; and I'm certain that at least one needs a Fifth Column; in matters temporal and spiritual, that's where Ted Kennedy comes in. Please give my tiny request all due consideration. Thank you for your attention. Give my best to Michael.
Your Humble Servant,
Prince Lucifer S. Brimstone
P.S. The air conditioner's on the fritz, and we're having a devil of a time with the heat! Send someone from maintenance A.S.A.P.! Thanks.
"L"
Dungus Darwinius
A newly discovered dung beetle is named after Charles Dungwin -- I mean, Darwin.
I can think of nothing more fitting.
Except perhaps an intestinal parasite named after Obama.
I can think of nothing more fitting.
Except perhaps an intestinal parasite named after Obama.
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Evidence of a Biblical Patriarch
This is very interesting:
Egyptian coins carrying the name of Joseph, the biblical patriarch whose arrival in Egypt as a slave eventually provided salvation for his family during decades of drought across the Middle East, have been discovered in a cache of antique items shelved in boxes in a museum, according to a new report.
The report from the Middle East Media Research Institute said the coins with Joseph's name and image were found in a pile of unsorted artifacts that had been stored at the Museum of Egypt.
"A thorough examination revealed that the coins bore the year in which they were minted and their value, or effigies of the pharaohs [who ruled] at the time of their minting. Some of the coins are from the time when Joseph lived in Egypt, and bear his name and portrait," said the newspaper report.
One even had the image of a cow "symbolizing Pharaoh's dream about the seven fat cows and seven lean cows, and the seven green stalks of grain and seven dry talks of grain," the report said.
"Joseph's name appears twice on this coin, written in hieroglyphs: once the original name, Joseph, and once his Egyptian name, Saba Sabani, which was given to him by Pharaoh when he became treasurer. There is also an image of Joseph, who was part of the Egyptian administration at the time," the report said.
This must be another example of those "biblical inconsistencies" that surface so often.
Egyptian coins carrying the name of Joseph, the biblical patriarch whose arrival in Egypt as a slave eventually provided salvation for his family during decades of drought across the Middle East, have been discovered in a cache of antique items shelved in boxes in a museum, according to a new report.
The report from the Middle East Media Research Institute said the coins with Joseph's name and image were found in a pile of unsorted artifacts that had been stored at the Museum of Egypt.
"A thorough examination revealed that the coins bore the year in which they were minted and their value, or effigies of the pharaohs [who ruled] at the time of their minting. Some of the coins are from the time when Joseph lived in Egypt, and bear his name and portrait," said the newspaper report.
One even had the image of a cow "symbolizing Pharaoh's dream about the seven fat cows and seven lean cows, and the seven green stalks of grain and seven dry talks of grain," the report said.
"Joseph's name appears twice on this coin, written in hieroglyphs: once the original name, Joseph, and once his Egyptian name, Saba Sabani, which was given to him by Pharaoh when he became treasurer. There is also an image of Joseph, who was part of the Egyptian administration at the time," the report said.
This must be another example of those "biblical inconsistencies" that surface so often.
Friday, September 25, 2009
A Hymn to Obama
Sing with me now:
Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!
He'll steal your cash and take your soul.
World domination is his goal.
Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!
In your hand he holds your fate;
You're just a wage - slave of the state.
Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!
If your skin is pearly white,
Watch out for the new Dark Knight.
Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!
Won't you come and join, with me,
His cult of personality?
Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!
Honolulu or Mombasa --
Whence came you, my Dear Mufasa?
Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!
Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!
He'll steal your cash and take your soul.
World domination is his goal.
Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!
In your hand he holds your fate;
You're just a wage - slave of the state.
Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!
If your skin is pearly white,
Watch out for the new Dark Knight.
Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!
Won't you come and join, with me,
His cult of personality?
Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!
Honolulu or Mombasa --
Whence came you, my Dear Mufasa?
Mmmm! Mmmm! Mmmm!
Barack Hussein Obama!
Friday, September 18, 2009
What a Crock Part II
Part I
If you read the text of Okenya's health care deform speech to Congress, you'll discover that he, too, was accusing people of lying just moments before Joe Wilson set his preapproved script aside and uttered the unvarnished truth. Here's a relevant excerpt:
Some of people's concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but by prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens. Now, such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie, plain and simple.
There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms -- the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.
Judging by media reactions, it seems that accusing people of lying during a speech given before a joint session of Congress is perfectly acceptable -- if you happen to be the president.
Summation:
Our illustrious president making false accusations before Congress of radio and cable talk show hosts and prominent politicians lying about his health care plan = good.
Joe Wilson rightfully pointing out before Congress that Okenya is lying about his health care plan = evil.
Clearly, the Mulatto Messiah is held to different standards than the rest of us peons -- far lower ones.
If you read the text of Okenya's health care deform speech to Congress, you'll discover that he, too, was accusing people of lying just moments before Joe Wilson set his preapproved script aside and uttered the unvarnished truth. Here's a relevant excerpt:
Some of people's concerns have grown out of bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost. The best example is the claim made not just by radio and cable talk show hosts, but by prominent politicians, that we plan to set up panels of bureaucrats with the power to kill off senior citizens. Now, such a charge would be laughable if it weren't so cynical and irresponsible. It is a lie, plain and simple.
There are also those who claim that our reform efforts would insure illegal immigrants. This, too, is false. The reforms -- the reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally.
Judging by media reactions, it seems that accusing people of lying during a speech given before a joint session of Congress is perfectly acceptable -- if you happen to be the president.
Summation:
Our illustrious president making false accusations before Congress of radio and cable talk show hosts and prominent politicians lying about his health care plan = good.
Joe Wilson rightfully pointing out before Congress that Okenya is lying about his health care plan = evil.
Clearly, the Mulatto Messiah is held to different standards than the rest of us peons -- far lower ones.
What a Crock
By now, I'm sure everyone has heard about Okenya's little speech to Congress, during which Representative Joe Wilson (R - SC) stated, "You lie!" when the subject of illegal alien health care coverage arose.
Leaping on the story faster than Kanye West on someone else's microphone, the Okenya Sycophancy Media (OSM, hereafter) denounced Wilson as boorish and reprehensible in his behavior; Maureen Dowd and others - including Jimmy Carter - have even gone so far as to suggest that racism was the motivating factor in Wilson's outburst. Of course, no evidence need apply. The mere fact that one disagrees with the Mulatto Messiah is proof of racism, in and of itself; this has been Rule Number One for Democrats and the OSM since the day Okenya strolled into office after selling the nation a bill of goods.
Inevitably, the matter of whether or not Wilson was correct in his accusation is of less importance to the OSM than the question of Ronald Reagan's favorite Bible verse.
So while the OSM is checking for racists in every wood pile, let's address and answer the question: Was Joe Wilson correct?
I'll let the following passages speak for themselves:
Barbara Simpson: I have the full copy of H.R. 3200 at home on my dining room table – all 1,017 pages of it. I've read it all. There's nothing in it that screens out non-residents, much less illegal aliens.
Indeed, two congressional committee attempts to pass legislation to specifically require proof of legality were twice voted down by Democrats.
Ann Coulter (responding to Rachel Maddow of MSNBC): In other words, illegal aliens are excluded from precisely one section of the thousand-page, goodie-laden health-care bill: Section 246, which distributes taxpayer-funded "affordability credits" to people who can't afford to pay for their own health care.
Even this minor restriction on taxpayer largesse to illegals will immediately be overturned by the courts. But the point is: Except for vouchers, the bill does not even pretend to exclude illegals from any part of national health care – including the taxpayer-funded health insurance plan.
Moreover, liberals won't have to wait for some court to find that the words "nothing in this subtitle shall allow" means "this bill allows," because the bill contains no mechanism to ensure that the health-care vouchers aren't going to illegal aliens. Nor does the bill prohibit the states from providing taxpayer-funded health care vouchers to illegals.
Democrats keep voting down Republican amendments that would insert these restrictions – just before dashing to a TV studio to denounce anyone who says the health-care bill covers illegal aliens.
Examiner.com: The Center for Immigration Studies reported that Obamacare could benefit 6.6 million illegal immigrants, costing taxpayers an estimated $31 billion. The Congressional Research Service stated that Obamacare "does not contain any restrictions on noncitizens – whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently – participating in the exchange." The CRS also noted that there is no requirement for people to present proof of citizenship for coverage. In July, Republican Representative Nathan Deal proposed an amendment that would require identity verification for coverage, but the amendment was defeated by the House. (emphasis mine)
Given that the health care deform bill is Okenya's pet project, belief in his ignorance about what it contains or omits simply isn't credible. That leaves us with duplicity.
Last time I checked, actions speak louder than words. So the OSM, Okenya, and his acolytes in the Democrat Party shouldn't expect our trust, when their actions don't match their words. Contrary to the zeitgeist, our president isn't a god; we're not obligated to accept on faith whatever steaming load he shovels at us -- despite all contrary evidence. Until Okenya and the Democrats explain why efforts at amending the bill by excluding illegal aliens were voted down, and when they provide rational answers as to why a one thousand - plus - page document includes no significant language banning border jumpers from blanket coverage, I'll continue in my agreement with Joe Wilson, and reiterate his words:
"You lie."
Leaping on the story faster than Kanye West on someone else's microphone, the Okenya Sycophancy Media (OSM, hereafter) denounced Wilson as boorish and reprehensible in his behavior; Maureen Dowd and others - including Jimmy Carter - have even gone so far as to suggest that racism was the motivating factor in Wilson's outburst. Of course, no evidence need apply. The mere fact that one disagrees with the Mulatto Messiah is proof of racism, in and of itself; this has been Rule Number One for Democrats and the OSM since the day Okenya strolled into office after selling the nation a bill of goods.
Inevitably, the matter of whether or not Wilson was correct in his accusation is of less importance to the OSM than the question of Ronald Reagan's favorite Bible verse.
So while the OSM is checking for racists in every wood pile, let's address and answer the question: Was Joe Wilson correct?
I'll let the following passages speak for themselves:
Barbara Simpson: I have the full copy of H.R. 3200 at home on my dining room table – all 1,017 pages of it. I've read it all. There's nothing in it that screens out non-residents, much less illegal aliens.
Indeed, two congressional committee attempts to pass legislation to specifically require proof of legality were twice voted down by Democrats.
Ann Coulter (responding to Rachel Maddow of MSNBC): In other words, illegal aliens are excluded from precisely one section of the thousand-page, goodie-laden health-care bill: Section 246, which distributes taxpayer-funded "affordability credits" to people who can't afford to pay for their own health care.
Even this minor restriction on taxpayer largesse to illegals will immediately be overturned by the courts. But the point is: Except for vouchers, the bill does not even pretend to exclude illegals from any part of national health care – including the taxpayer-funded health insurance plan.
Moreover, liberals won't have to wait for some court to find that the words "nothing in this subtitle shall allow" means "this bill allows," because the bill contains no mechanism to ensure that the health-care vouchers aren't going to illegal aliens. Nor does the bill prohibit the states from providing taxpayer-funded health care vouchers to illegals.
Democrats keep voting down Republican amendments that would insert these restrictions – just before dashing to a TV studio to denounce anyone who says the health-care bill covers illegal aliens.
Examiner.com: The Center for Immigration Studies reported that Obamacare could benefit 6.6 million illegal immigrants, costing taxpayers an estimated $31 billion. The Congressional Research Service stated that Obamacare "does not contain any restrictions on noncitizens – whether legally or illegally present, or in the United States temporarily or permanently – participating in the exchange." The CRS also noted that there is no requirement for people to present proof of citizenship for coverage. In July, Republican Representative Nathan Deal proposed an amendment that would require identity verification for coverage, but the amendment was defeated by the House. (emphasis mine)
Given that the health care deform bill is Okenya's pet project, belief in his ignorance about what it contains or omits simply isn't credible. That leaves us with duplicity.
Last time I checked, actions speak louder than words. So the OSM, Okenya, and his acolytes in the Democrat Party shouldn't expect our trust, when their actions don't match their words. Contrary to the zeitgeist, our president isn't a god; we're not obligated to accept on faith whatever steaming load he shovels at us -- despite all contrary evidence. Until Okenya and the Democrats explain why efforts at amending the bill by excluding illegal aliens were voted down, and when they provide rational answers as to why a one thousand - plus - page document includes no significant language banning border jumpers from blanket coverage, I'll continue in my agreement with Joe Wilson, and reiterate his words:
"You lie."
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