Pimpi Longstocking

Sorry, guys. I couldn't resist.

January 28 Headline Reactions

Roof collapse blamed on pigeon droppings

Whatta load of crap

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Sleeping with pets exposes owners to nasty diseases

Sorry, Abdul.

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Woman falls 23 stories, lands on taxi, survives

When she yells, "Taxi!" she means it.

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New couples who Facebook each other end up in bed quicker

That's because they're tired from all that instant massaging.

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'The Green Hornet': Desperately seeking God

They finally made a sequel to Deperately Seeking Susan.

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Not all energy boosts are equal

Yes, they are. But some are more equal than others.

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Travelers from other planets ... or from hell?

If this is a question pertaining to Algore or Obama, I don't think it offers a false dichotomy. The answer fully explains why no one can find Obama's birth certificate.

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Michael Savage on what's 'trickling' from Obama

That's just nasty.

They Come Here to Work

See? Here's proof.

Welcome, Ahmad Jihad Velasquez!


Immigration officials have previously discovered items along the U.S.-Mexico border from Middle Eastern origin, including Iranian currency in Zapata, Texas, and a jacket found in Jim Hogg County, Texas, that was covered in patches including an Arabic military badge that illustrates an airplane flying into a tower.


Those family values and dedication to hard work bring a tear to my eye. This is the stuff of Ellis Island.

Remember Alderaan?

George Lucas says world will end in 2012.




I'm guessing this is the reason:

E.U.: We've Outgrown Christianity

A 2011-2012 school calendar published by the European Union has omitted Christian holidays, while continuing to note important Jewish and Muslim celebrations.

While Christian holidays such as Christmas and Easter are missing from the calendar's pages, days commemorating “Sikh Baisakhi-Day, the Jewish Yom Kippur holiday, the Muslim holiday Aid-el-Kebir,” remain in place" . . .


There you have it, my friends: the spawn of multiculturalism; the natural outcome of mass immigration; the stinking droppings of apostasy. In the cradle of western civilization, the first great mission field for Christianity where the children of God brought His Good News from the land of Israel -- now the mere acknowledgment that Christians are one religious group among many is too much to expect from the E.U. Perish the thought that Christianity and its two thousand-year influence on Europe and the world might merit a position of privilege. The E.U. school calendar cannot even mention its existence.

Christianity is the only religion in the world that receives transparent disrespect from the powers that be. How interesting that this treatment fits Jesus' words like a hand fits a tailor-made glove:


And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake. -- Luke 21:17


But He leaves us with a promise -- a positive message of hope for the future:


Blessed are ye, when men shall hate you, and when they shall separate you from their company, and shall reproach you, and cast out your name as evil, for the Son of man's sake. Rejoice ye in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in the like manner did their fathers unto the prophets. -- Luke 6:22-23

"Hey, Moron, Why Don't You Like Me?"

In a post about why people regard atheists with disdain, Vox Day shares an email from an atheist who calls himself "Uber Dawks":


Color me not at all shocked that your kind hastily pointed out Jared Lee Loughner's highly debatable atheism. This only serves as further evidence that the religious right is completely intolerant of those who hold to an atheistic view. Like McVeigh or Seung-Hui Cho or James Jay Lee before him, Loughner's atheism has absolutely nothing to do with his actions [Or Stalin's, or Mao's, or Pol Pot's... they keep saying that and their co-non-religionists just keep inexplicably killing more people. It's a mystery - VD] and to make any claim to the contrary is tantamount to bigotry-fueled profiling. It is more than obvious that the man was mentally unhinged and given his reading material was reacting irrationally and violently to the barrage of capitalist and biblical rhetoric coming from the right-wing. If you "money, guns n' bibles" types would stop forcing your silly notions upon the rest of us, we might be able to prevent misguided and mentally ill young men like this one from taking this kind of action.

Unless religion is finally replaced with science and reason, this illness and the violent reaction to it will keep on perpetuating. That is what religious belief is, an illness. Whenever a Christian asks why religious scientists are not hired for certain positions in academia or do not get their contracts renewed, the answer is simple. It is because their religious affliction affects their ability to do their work, just as the affliction of an alcoholic or serious drug addict leads to a similar inability. Like the illness of alcoholism and drug addiction, we need to treat these harmful behaviors for the good of both the individual and the society.


Let's explore the notion that "the religious right is completely intolerant of those who hold to an atheistic view." Why would this be so? "Uber Dawks" reveals his accomodating nature by answering this question for us throughout the body of his email. He claims that religion is an illness, an affliction. He tells us that violent reactions to it may pose legal or rational problems, but they are understandable responses to an agenda forced upon people against their will. He likens religious belief to drug or alcohol addiction. He implies that even mental illness has an internal logic of sorts, just so long as its manifestations aren't religiously motivated.

What's not to love? A tiny minority of unbelievers tells the great, teeming religious majority that their religion is a sign of psychological instability, and that the sole cure is embracing the twin gods of science and reason for whom they are the chief interpreters.

Let's brave this twisted labyrinth of logic. Evangelical atheists are every bit as religious as the most cloistered monk or the dizziest dervish. The difference is that they are not followers of the religion of Christ or Muhammad or Buddha, but acolytes of the religion of "Hating Every Other Religion Except The One I Made Up." Unfortunately, rather than admitting that this unwieldy mouthful is their religion, they deny that they harbor a single religious atom in their bodies. All the better to stare down their tiny collective of noses and guffaw at the rest of humanity for its stupidity. This seems perfectly reasonable, if one assumes that integrity is a four-letter word.

The atheist schtick in a nutshell: "You're stupid and deranged. If you don't love me for informing you of your sorry state, well, that's because you're stupid and deranged."

Why, oh cruel and malicious world -- why do you despise them so?

Happy New Year

To all my readers and commenters: May God bless you and bring you prosperity and peace in the upcoming months.

Merry Christmas

May the peace and love of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ be with all of you. Enjoy your day, everyone, and remember that the greatest gift was and is Jesus, who freely gave Himself to a lost and dying humanity. I thank my Lord for loving the unloveable, and bestowing His grace upon those who do not deserve it. Including me.

Happy Christmas Eve

The weather forecasts in my neck of the woods claim an 80% chance of snow on the 25th, so it seems we might have a white Christmas. That doesn't happen often in east Tennessee.

Y'all keep warm and stay safe. God bless you.

Why do atheists love reason so much?

Absence makes the heart grow fonder.


(Hat tip to The Deuce)

The Christmas Truce: 1914

This is a great story. You can read about it here and here.

The film Joyeux Noel is an excellent dramatization of this event, and well worth your time.

Bizarre Border Busts

No, I'm not talking about triple-breasted senoritas, mi amigos.

Here's a sample:

I'm Thankful for All Those Dead Injuns

Angelina "The Stick Figure" Jolie and Johnny Depp bomb at the box office.

I'm sure sundry reasons exist for this turn of events, not the least of which are the nearness of Christmas, and the vibrant economy our Monied Mulatto Messiah has helped bestow upon us.

I wonder if this is one possible explanation?:

Jolie hates Thanksgiving and refuses to celebrate.

“Jolie hates this holiday and wants no part in rewriting history like so many other Americans,” the friend said. “To celebrate what the white settlers did to the native Indians, the domination of one culture over another, just isn’t her style. She definitely doesn’t want to teach her multi-cultural family how to celebrate a story of murder.”

I wouldn't classify that as the most circumspect public announcement one could make, just before a big film opening. Remember how brazen, vocal stupidity served the Dixie Chicks?

As for my family, we had a delightful time sitting at the dinner table and recounting the innumerable massacres of Indians throughout American history, including the torture of Squanto, followed by hearty belly laughs over the smallpox-ridden blankets "gifted" to Indian hunters by our malicious ancestors. After dessert, we sat and admired our extensive collection of buck, squaw and papoose scalps proudly displayed over the mantelpiece. We've taken good care of them ever since my great-great granddaddy, Lucifer Armstrong Sheridan, passed them down to us.

A grand time was had by all.

Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Soil: Summation

Thereligionofpeace.com included honor killings in its thorough listing of terrorist attacks around the world (and in the U.S.), so I have included them, as well. If we call into question attacks made by Muslims against their family members for perceived or real religious violations and erase them from the list, we still have twenty-six separate terrorist attacks perpetrated by Muslims or Muslim-sympathizers in America between 2002 and 2010. That averages out to more than three acts of terrorism each year. None of these assaults rivals the 9-11-01 atrocities, yet they are examples of terrorism all the same, and should be characterized as such.

The oft-bandied term "Sudden Jihad Syndrome" springs to mind, as it is a sly recognition of the one common element in all these disparate cases: Islam as a motivating force.

The establishment media would have you believe that coincidence explains Nidal Hassan's screeching "Allahu Akbar!" just before gunning down a slew of people at Ft. Hood, that a rare alignment of the planets -- not his admiration for Osama bin Laden -- reveals why a teenage boy crashed a plane into a building in a suicidal act of destruction, and that perhaps Elvis was just as inspirational as Islam, when a Muslim murdered a Jew for no apparent reason outside religious enmity at a movie theater.

But those of us who are well-read and informed about Islam's 1,400-year war against Western civilization, against anything not subservient to itself -- a war waged continuously since its inception in the 600s A.D. -- we know better.

We're not discussing a static problem. We're examining a dilemma that grows in magnitude with the thousands and tens of thousands of Muslims who immigrate -- legally or illegally -- to the U.S. each year. They bring their non-assimilation and their virulently chauvinistic religion with them; they don't check either at the door. We now have dicey issues in our backyard with which we must contend that were unheard of twenty years ago: mosques in the Bible-belt, Islamic terrorism, demands for the institution of sharia, foot baths and Porn-O-matics and getting felt up by strangers in airports, insistence on halal butchers and restaurants, the list goes on. How can we expect solutions when the people who create these alien obstacles increase their presence on our shores every single day?

Our elitist "leaders" have a commitment to multiculturalism and its attendant "diversity" and political correctness that guarantees no fix, but in fact an escalation: an increase in the number and audacity of terrorist attacks, a broadening of Muslim demands of the government and the citizenry, and an expansion of the Balkan states built on our lands under the blind and permissive eyes of those whose duty is our protection.

Islam is an existential threat to our nation, but only with our consent. The ummah lacks the power to defeat us in a conventional war, so they've opted for the unconventional war: immigration, terrorism, and propaganda. What they cannot accomplish on a field of battle will be won in manipulating the judicial system, or proselytization, or lobbying groups that paint happy faces over every bomb-vest, or protests and riots in the streets.

As Edmund Burke said: "All that is required for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing." For Islam's victory, all the powers that be have to do is keep the status quo, to continue playing the game of pretend that all men everywhere have the same values and loves and loyalties, that's there's no difference between a Bedouin and a Brooklynite, or a jihadi and Julia Child.

It's as if we're caught in a waking nightmare, a nightmare whose lurking shadow grows in its menace toward us. But how do we dispel the monsters that people its umbra if we refuse to wake up?

Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Soil: 2009 - 2010

2009


1. Buffalo, NY. The founder of a Muslim TV station beheads his wife in the hallway for seeking a divorce. 2-12-09

2. Little Rock, AR. A Muslim with 'religious motives' guns down a local soldier in a drive-by attack. One other injured. 6-1-09

3. Glendale, AZ. A woman dies from injuries suffered when her father runs her down with a car for being too 'Westernized.' 11-2-09

4. Ft. Hood, TX. A Muslim psychiatrist yelling 'Allah Akbar' murders thirteen unarmed U.S. soldiers on their base in Texas, including a pregnant woman. Thirty-one injured. 11-5-09

5. Binghamton, NY. A non-Muslim Islamic studies professor is stabbed to death by a Muslim grad student in revenge for 'persecuted' Muslims. 12-4-09


2010


1. Marquette Park, IL. After quarrelling with his wife over Islamic dress, a Muslim convert shoots his family members to 'take them back to Allah' and out of the 'world of sinners'. Five killed, two injured. 4-14-10

Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Soil: 2007 - 2008

2007


1. Nashville, TN. A Muslim cab driver runs over a Christian after arguing about religion. The young man's ankle and hip are broken by the vehicle. 2-20-07


2008


1. Irving, TX. A Muslim immigrant shoots his two daughters to death on concerns about their 'Western' lifestyle. 1-1-08

2. Atlanta, Georgia. A devout Muslim strangles his 25-year-old daughter in an honor killing. 7-6-08

Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Soil: 2006

1. Chapel Hill, NC. Calling it the will of Allah, an Iranian immigrant plows his SUV into a crowd of students as 'retribution' for foreign policy overseas. Nine injured. 3-3-06

2. Baltimore, MD. A 62-year-old Jewish moviegoer is shot to death by a Muslim gunman in an unprovoked terror attack. 6-16-06

3. Seattle, WA. An 'angry' Muslim-American uses a young girl as hostage to enter a local Jewish center, where he shoots six women, one of whom dies. 7-28-06

4. Louisville, KY. In an 'honor' attack, a Muslim man rapes and beats his estranged wife, leaving her for dead, then savagely murders their four children. 10-6-06

Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Soil: 2003 - 2005

2003


1. Houston, TX. After undergoing a religious revival, a Saudi college student slashes the throat of a Jewish student with a 4" butterfly knife, nearly decapitating the young man. 8-6-03


2004


1. Raleigh. Mental health problems behind member of tight-knit Muslim community deliberately running down five strangers with a vehicle? One died. 4-13-04

2. Scottsville, NY. In an honor killing, a Muslim father kills his wife and attacks his two daughters with a knife and hammer because he feared that they had been sexually molested. 4-15-04

3. Atlanta, GA. A man riding on an Atlanta commuter train mutters Qur'anic verses then attacks an army officer for no other apparent reason. An elderly woman and two arresting officers are hurt as well. 6-10-04


2005


Zero (to the best of my knowledge).

Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Soil: 2002

This list only details successful terrorist attacks within the fifty states. It does not include foiled or failed efforts, nor does it include attacks on U.S. soldiers and civilians in Iraq or Afghanistan. I gleaned the information below from www.thereligionofpeace.com.


1. Tampa, FL. Fifteen year-old flies plane into an office building in Tampa. Suicide note reveals his admiration for Osama Bin Laden and desire to commit a terrorist attack. 1-6-02

2. Tucson, AZ. A 60-year-old man is gunned down by Muslim snipers on a golf course. 3-19-02

3. Denton, TX. Muslim snipers kill a man as he works in his yard. 5-27-02

4. Los Angeles. Muslim gunman kills two people waiting at the El Al counter in the LAX airport. 7-4-02

5. Montgomery, AL. Muslim sniper kills one woman and injures another. 9-21-02

6. Baton Rouge. Muslim sniper shoots a Korean mother in the back. 9-23-02

7. Wheaton, MD. Muslim sniper kills 55-year-old man. 10-2-02

8. Maryland. Muslim sniper kills three men and two women in five separate attacks. 10-3-02

9. Manassas, VA. Muslim sniper kills 53-year-old man. 10-9-02

10. Fredericksburg, VA. Muslim sniper kills 53-year-old man. 10-11-02

11. Falls Church, VA. Muslim sniper kills 47-year-old woman. 10-14-02

12. Silver Spring, MD. Muslim sniper kills 35-year-old bus driver. 10-22-02

Back in Action

Howdy, y'all. I took a short break from writing new posts during and after Thanksgiving; it took the feast this long to digest. I hope everyone's having a good December, so far.

I'll be playing catch-up for the next couple of days, commenting on recent stories in the news. I hope you'll bear with me, and maybe even find these posts entertaining or illuminating in some fashion.

A Belated Note: To the victims of the Japanese Empire's attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and to their families. We have not forgotten what you gave or what you endured.