It seems that there are .... categories...of "green energy". Apparently having the joke of the Left Coast (California) cave to the enviro's demands for power derived from non-consumable, non-polluting sources is not enough for some of our little green friends. Not so much.
The knothole-rapists (TM) at the Western Watersheds Project have sued the US Department of the Interior, the Bureau of Land Management and the Fish and Wildlife Commission for their approval of Oakland-based Brightsource Energy's 370 MW Ivanpah SOLAR PLANT. The WWP has their collective panties in a bunch because they don't think the agencies named in the suit (along with the individual Heads of those agencies and their staffers who are ALSO named in the suit) did not exercise enough due diligence to protect ...... migratory birds, the desert tortoise, desert bighorn sheep, groundwater resources and "rare plants".
"In an ill-conceived rush to accommodate massive renewable energy projects ... the federal defendants precipitously approved unnecessarily destructive energy development of the California Desert Conservation Area without first conducting adequate environmental reviews." reads the complaint, in part. (emphasis mine). This, despite the fact that Brightsource had ALREADY bought up thousands of additional acres of desert land to provide habitat for the poor lil' critterses....to placate a different lawsuit-happy Environmentalist concern (the Center for Biological Diversity).
So let me see......according to the Church of Gore doctrine...... we nassssty humanses are destroying the planet with our raping and pillaging fossil-fuel and nuclear power plants and need to IMMEDIATELY!!! abandon those in favor of sunshine, gentle breezes and perhaps unicorn farts. In fact, we may already be too late. Even so, we need to begin RIGHT NOW!!! But when a company actually tries to meet the shrill demands of the unhinged disciples of Gore, they (and the regulatory agencies involved) are presumed to be engaged in a .... how did that go? Oh yeah, an ... "ill-conceived rush".
Well there you have it .... trying to meet the MOST URGENT!!! demands of the Church of Gore is "ill-conceived". Thanks, Knothole Rapists(TM), for admitting what I've been saying all along! Glad to have ya on board!
http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/detail.dot?id=d3bc6d01-d55a-4cc8-b24f-fc18472beed8#comments
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
I hurt myself for this blog....
Since I had a couple of hours to kill..I took a gander at that Zeitgeist (or should that be "Shite-heist"??) Yeah..I'm THAT bored....lol.
In the absolutely metric tonnes of craptastic atheist, truther, anti-fed conspiracy dogma I noticed a couple of interesting things....
First, as a general indictment of the whole sorry "film", they spend the first third of the movie PROVING that all religion, BUT MOST ESPECIALLY CHRISTIANITY, is a big ol' lie...and ALL of them pretty much are rip offs of the zodiac. Then, in the segment on how the evil banking cabal is out to rule the world, they claim that some "film-maker" was told by one of the minor Rockefellers, some 11 months prior to 9-11, that there was going to be a big event which would allow the US to go to war in Afghanistan, Iraq and Venezuela....and the ultimate goal of all this chicanery is to have EVERY PERSON IN THE WORLD implanted with an RFID chip which would be "coded" to allow it to be used as money!!!!
Whaaaa?!? Ummmmm....ok....movie-dudes...did you not FINISH READING the Bible all the way to the end?? Now you're telling me that the ultimate goal of the evil "shadow government" is to fulfill one of the main prophecies in the Bible.....which you claim to be a made-up book of ripped-off zodiacal mumbo-jumbo?!? For the purpose of...... Well, since the movie doesn't actually address this conundrum, I guess just for sheer perversity?! Irony?!? Just to screw with us?
In another segment, wherein the director tries to convince us that EVERYTHING we know about what goes on in the world is a fabrication woven by the media at the behest of the evil overlords....the only news media shown on the screen is.....FOXNEWS!!!! So, given the Idiot Killer was a heee-yooooge fan of this movie (one might even go so far as to say he was a "cultist"), and the movie visually equates FOX with "This mass media outlet lies through it's teeth about the world you live in"....how was he influenced by "the RIGHT" again?!?
In between they spend a LOOOOOTTTTT of time rehashing the usual "Truther"-isms. ZZZZZZ!
The "conclusion" of the film is typical hippie pablum, replete with all the usual pantheon of 20th century "great men"....The Ghandi, MLK and.....John Lennon?!?!?!
Ow! My head hurts!
Oderus Urungus had it right when he crooned.....
"Stupid f-in' humans, payin' money to die"
In the absolutely metric tonnes of craptastic atheist, truther, anti-fed conspiracy dogma I noticed a couple of interesting things....
First, as a general indictment of the whole sorry "film", they spend the first third of the movie PROVING that all religion, BUT MOST ESPECIALLY CHRISTIANITY, is a big ol' lie...and ALL of them pretty much are rip offs of the zodiac. Then, in the segment on how the evil banking cabal is out to rule the world, they claim that some "film-maker" was told by one of the minor Rockefellers, some 11 months prior to 9-11, that there was going to be a big event which would allow the US to go to war in Afghanistan, Iraq and Venezuela....and the ultimate goal of all this chicanery is to have EVERY PERSON IN THE WORLD implanted with an RFID chip which would be "coded" to allow it to be used as money!!!!
Whaaaa?!? Ummmmm....ok....movie-dudes...did you not FINISH READING the Bible all the way to the end?? Now you're telling me that the ultimate goal of the evil "shadow government" is to fulfill one of the main prophecies in the Bible.....which you claim to be a made-up book of ripped-off zodiacal mumbo-jumbo?!? For the purpose of...... Well, since the movie doesn't actually address this conundrum, I guess just for sheer perversity?! Irony?!? Just to screw with us?
In another segment, wherein the director tries to convince us that EVERYTHING we know about what goes on in the world is a fabrication woven by the media at the behest of the evil overlords....the only news media shown on the screen is.....FOXNEWS!!!! So, given the Idiot Killer was a heee-yooooge fan of this movie (one might even go so far as to say he was a "cultist"), and the movie visually equates FOX with "This mass media outlet lies through it's teeth about the world you live in"....how was he influenced by "the RIGHT" again?!?
In between they spend a LOOOOOTTTTT of time rehashing the usual "Truther"-isms. ZZZZZZ!
The "conclusion" of the film is typical hippie pablum, replete with all the usual pantheon of 20th century "great men"....The Ghandi, MLK and.....John Lennon?!?!?!
Ow! My head hurts!
Oderus Urungus had it right when he crooned.....
"Stupid f-in' humans, payin' money to die"
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
Them's fightin' words....
Rep. Alan Grayson represents the 8th Congressional District here in Florida, which includes parts of Marion, Lake and Orange counties, including the metro Orlando area. He is being challenged by Dan Webster, a former State Representative and Senator, small-business owner and Tea-Party conservative. RealClear Politics has this race leaning toward Webster by around 7 points, for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that Grayson is a smarmy, semi-literate wanna-be tough guy who instantly grates on the nerves. Not to mention an unapologetic shill for the Pelosi-Reid-Obama team.
So Mr. Grayson decides a new attack ad is in order and puts this out....
OH CRAP!!! Looks like ol' Dan is sunk. There he is using those verses in public...the ones that talk about women submitting to their husbands that all the biblically illiterate get all pissy about, claiming that this is PROOF! that Christianity is anti-woman, misogynistic and patriarchal. But hold on a second.....let's give Mr. Webster the opportunity to respond. Or let's at least look at the video this damning evidence was culled from.
Whaaazzzat?!? He was actually urging men NOT to concentrate on those verses, but to focus on the verses immediately preceding which teach men to cherish their wives, even as Christ cherished the Church...to the point of dying for her if need be?! He was actually promoting selflessness on the part of the husband in the marital relationship? He wasn't actually coaching a bunch of neanderthal Church men on how to force their wommenfolk into de facto slavery? Huh? Whod've thunk Alan Grayson would've distorted the truth like that?
Makes ya wonder what else he and his cronies have been "distorting"...doesn't it. You know it's bad when Contessa Brewer and Anderson Cooper are busting your chops and calling you on your sleaziness.
So Mr. Grayson decides a new attack ad is in order and puts this out....
OH CRAP!!! Looks like ol' Dan is sunk. There he is using those verses in public...the ones that talk about women submitting to their husbands that all the biblically illiterate get all pissy about, claiming that this is PROOF! that Christianity is anti-woman, misogynistic and patriarchal. But hold on a second.....let's give Mr. Webster the opportunity to respond. Or let's at least look at the video this damning evidence was culled from.
Whaaazzzat?!? He was actually urging men NOT to concentrate on those verses, but to focus on the verses immediately preceding which teach men to cherish their wives, even as Christ cherished the Church...to the point of dying for her if need be?! He was actually promoting selflessness on the part of the husband in the marital relationship? He wasn't actually coaching a bunch of neanderthal Church men on how to force their wommenfolk into de facto slavery? Huh? Whod've thunk Alan Grayson would've distorted the truth like that?
Makes ya wonder what else he and his cronies have been "distorting"...doesn't it. You know it's bad when Contessa Brewer and Anderson Cooper are busting your chops and calling you on your sleaziness.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Dear "Green-Power" lovers....
Here's a cautionary tale for all about the mad rush to replace eeeevil fossil-fueled power plants with those that will exhibit a much smaller "carbon footprint"....from Merry Olde England no less.
"The Thanet wind farm will milk us of billions"
Thus screams the headlines of an article by one Mr. Christopher Booker in today's online edition of the London Telegraph. It seems that the UK, with much fanfare and back-patting, opened the world's largest wind farm of the coast of Kent last week. Their Climate Change Secretary (!)
slobbered all over the knothole-rapist aspect of this endeavor in his speechifying.
Seems like there is a problem though. As is too often the case when policy is built around political correctness rather than solid fact, the hype far exceeds the actuality. The British government, who is set to pay over 1.2 billion pounds to the Swedish owners of the wind farm over then next several years, have been hoodwinked...flim-flammed....bamboozled. Instead of using facts, say by hiring their OWN engineers to look at the project, the government just based everything on the BUILDER'S claims. The builder, Vattenfall, claimed the wind farm's three 100 MW turbines would generate a total of 300 MW of electricity...roughly enough to power 200,000 to 240, 000 homes. And it will.....on the rare occasion that the wind is blowing at design velocity. Which, it turns out, isn't all that often. Data from last year shows that the farm's delivered power at 26% of rated capacity for the year.
Which is what I've been saying about these "alternative' power sources that the knothole-rapists have sold as the salvation of America's energy and economic future. They just cannot produce the amount of power required by a modern industrial, comfort-driven society reliably. The wind doesn't always blow as hard as the guys with the slide rules and pocket protectors decided it needed to blow for a plant to produce a given amount of energy. The sun doesn't shine as much as it needs to...you know..things like clouds, storms and that little period of absolutely no sunshine we like to call night! So any call to replace all of our fossil-fueled power with these sorts of sources is either woefully misinformed (stupid really) or disingenuous. They either don't know it's not feasible, or they don't care...since depopulation is the real goal off many of these jack-wagons!
For the cost to the British tax-slaves of this ONE wind farm, which will produce about a quarter of the power the government was counting on, they could have gotten an entire new nuclear power plant, which would have delivered 13 times the amount of energy that this plant can deliver on it's best day. And the nuclear plant would have been able to deliver it day-in, day-out, rain or shine, breezy or calm...in other words reliably! I know I'd be pissed if I was a British tax-payer.
The take-away is that we over here in the US need to learn from debacles like this, not repeat them. If it makes you feel better to supplement the reliable power provided by fossil fuels and nuclear with these costly, trendy, uber-chic "green" sources....go right ahead and do that. But leave the decision up to the consumer...not some functionally retarded "legisleech" (to swipe a phrase from my friend Nicki at http://thelibertyzone.com/). Mandating a certain level of "renewable" generation capacity only ensures that EVERYONE's electricity bill goes up. Make those who really want to put their money where their mouth is as far as saving our fragile little planet put up or shut up. Give them the option to pay the added cost of the "green" power, but don't make me subsidize their "Gaea-guilt". Betcha not too many are willing to pony up.
But...the article does shine light on one bright spot in this whole sorry mess. The Thanet Wind Farm will create jobs..."green" ones at that! Yessiree...a whopping 21 permanent jobs will be created. Wonder how many jobs that nuke plant would've created?
Do go read the article for yourself.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/8025148/The-Thanet-wind-farm-will-milk-us-of-billions.html
"The Thanet wind farm will milk us of billions"
Thus screams the headlines of an article by one Mr. Christopher Booker in today's online edition of the London Telegraph. It seems that the UK, with much fanfare and back-patting, opened the world's largest wind farm of the coast of Kent last week. Their Climate Change Secretary (!)
slobbered all over the knothole-rapist aspect of this endeavor in his speechifying.
Seems like there is a problem though. As is too often the case when policy is built around political correctness rather than solid fact, the hype far exceeds the actuality. The British government, who is set to pay over 1.2 billion pounds to the Swedish owners of the wind farm over then next several years, have been hoodwinked...flim-flammed....bamboozled. Instead of using facts, say by hiring their OWN engineers to look at the project, the government just based everything on the BUILDER'S claims. The builder, Vattenfall, claimed the wind farm's three 100 MW turbines would generate a total of 300 MW of electricity...roughly enough to power 200,000 to 240, 000 homes. And it will.....on the rare occasion that the wind is blowing at design velocity. Which, it turns out, isn't all that often. Data from last year shows that the farm's delivered power at 26% of rated capacity for the year.
Which is what I've been saying about these "alternative' power sources that the knothole-rapists have sold as the salvation of America's energy and economic future. They just cannot produce the amount of power required by a modern industrial, comfort-driven society reliably. The wind doesn't always blow as hard as the guys with the slide rules and pocket protectors decided it needed to blow for a plant to produce a given amount of energy. The sun doesn't shine as much as it needs to...you know..things like clouds, storms and that little period of absolutely no sunshine we like to call night! So any call to replace all of our fossil-fueled power with these sorts of sources is either woefully misinformed (stupid really) or disingenuous. They either don't know it's not feasible, or they don't care...since depopulation is the real goal off many of these jack-wagons!
For the cost to the British tax-slaves of this ONE wind farm, which will produce about a quarter of the power the government was counting on, they could have gotten an entire new nuclear power plant, which would have delivered 13 times the amount of energy that this plant can deliver on it's best day. And the nuclear plant would have been able to deliver it day-in, day-out, rain or shine, breezy or calm...in other words reliably! I know I'd be pissed if I was a British tax-payer.
The take-away is that we over here in the US need to learn from debacles like this, not repeat them. If it makes you feel better to supplement the reliable power provided by fossil fuels and nuclear with these costly, trendy, uber-chic "green" sources....go right ahead and do that. But leave the decision up to the consumer...not some functionally retarded "legisleech" (to swipe a phrase from my friend Nicki at http://thelibertyzone.com/). Mandating a certain level of "renewable" generation capacity only ensures that EVERYONE's electricity bill goes up. Make those who really want to put their money where their mouth is as far as saving our fragile little planet put up or shut up. Give them the option to pay the added cost of the "green" power, but don't make me subsidize their "Gaea-guilt". Betcha not too many are willing to pony up.
But...the article does shine light on one bright spot in this whole sorry mess. The Thanet Wind Farm will create jobs..."green" ones at that! Yessiree...a whopping 21 permanent jobs will be created. Wonder how many jobs that nuke plant would've created?
Do go read the article for yourself.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherbooker/8025148/The-Thanet-wind-farm-will-milk-us-of-billions.html
Monday, September 6, 2010
I hate it when my crossword gets interrupted...
I'm surfing on over to USA Today to do the daily crossword and my gaze just happens to fall on this catchy headline....
"Would Oklahoma City have opposed Okla21?"
Wondering with half my brain (cuz the other half was already gearing up for said crossword puzzle) if there was some interesting new law on the books in OK or something, I made the mistake of clicking on the link to the "opinion" piece by one Serene Jones
A side note here...Serene...REALLY?!?! Parents hippie much, sweetie? Or maybe they envisioned the noble career of "exotic dancer" for you! Either way....Serene?!?! OOPS apparently it's the REVEREND DOCTOR Serene Jones, 16th President of the Union Theological Seminary, an independent, multi-denominational seminary dating back to the early 1800s. Still no word on whether the REV DOC has exceed the parents expectations.....
Ok..back to the issue at had; to whit, Serene is a frackin moron..and not in the good way! Apparently the REVDOC has decided that the position of the Union Theological Seminary on the "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy needs to be known. It is the reasoned and learned opinion of said seminary that all of us stupid provincial racists need to get over our Islamophobia and embrace the victory mosque because like, if you close your eyes really tight and really, really, really think about it....why 9-11 is JUST like the OKC bombing! I'll not rehash the entire bit of drivel here, but will provide some of the more interesting bits.....along with my own cogent analysis.
The opening statement is ripe with libtardation...
"Rancor surrounding the proposed Park51 community center in New York City is a painful indication of how little progress America has made in healing the national wound created on Sept. 11, 2001."
No Serene, America would be just fine with the healing process if numb-nutz like you didn't insist we keep allowing the attackers to rip the scab off and pour alcohol in the wound all the time. Just sayin'.
The REVDOC next goes on to chronicle the fact that in the immediate aftermath of 9-11 "the majority" of the worlds 1.5 Billion Muslims were outspoken critics of the terror attacks. And that somehow us racist 'murricans not only wrongly equate Islam with terrorists, but also lots of us hick-stains think our current president bows to the east 5 times a day. Since the REVDOC herself is recently relocated to the Big Apple from OKC, she "feels NYC's pain" so to speak. She too remembers a terrorist attack on her city and that act's aftermath. The only problem is her memory is faulty. The "majority" of the world's Muslims did NOT vehemently condemn the attacks. The only thing other Muslims officially condemned was the US for "causing" the attacks in the first place with our imperialism and misguided foreign policy. Oh and our warmongoling ways!
As far as throwing the "and alot of silly Americans think President Hopey Changitude is a Muslim" thing in there, it was done just to show how ignorant the average Joe really is. Serene ought to realize (being the head of a theological seminary and all) that whatever BHO's true religion...it ain't Christian by any stretch of the imagination.
Then she veers truly into nutso-land.
Next she wants us to take an trip back with her and imagine a series of hypotheticals. I'll let her weave her fairy-tale magic...
"Imagine we are back in 2004, nine years after Timothy McVeigh perpetrated what at the time was the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Let's extend the analogy, too, and pretend that angry misunderstandings about McVeigh's Christian beliefs have metastasized into animosity toward anyone who professes Christianity, and even toward those who just "seem like" Christians. As the trauma of McVeigh's bombing lingers in people's hearts and minds, blatant slurs about Christians are made in the news media by elected officials and by religious leaders. Christianity, we are told, is a violent religion at its core, doing more harm than good.
Now, push this upside-down scenario one more step. Imagine the Christian churches in Oklahoma City are working hard to counter this "anti-Christian" attitude, and one particularly progressive group decides what's needed is a new youth and community center. "
Say What, Princess? First, by inviting to her readers to "imagine", "pretend" and "extend the analogy", the REVDOC is telling us that the two events she is attempting to compare have nothing in common! And her memory fails her yet again, since there are a couple of flaws with her musings...
First, she rambles about Timothy McVeigh's "Christian Beliefs" as though he detonated the rental-truck-bomb whilst quoting from the Bible he held firmly in his sweaty little palm. Let's let Mr. McVeigh himself weigh in on his belief system...
"In a recorded interview with Time magazine[80] McVeigh professed his belief in "a god", although he said he had "sort of lost touch with" Catholicism and "I never really picked it up, however I do maintain core beliefs." also....
"The Guardian reported that McVeigh wrote a letter to them claiming to be an agnostic and that he did not believe in a hell" .
Furthermore, he also once professed to believe that the universe was guided by natural law, energized by some universal higher power that showed each person right from wrong if they paid attention to what was going on inside them. And that "Science is my religion".
Now I'm no head of an independent, multi-denominational theological seminary, but I'm pretty sure these beliefs fall outside the basic "Christian" doctrine....and the holder of these beliefs could in no way be considered a "devout" Christian.
In contrast, the 19 ISLAMIC fellows who carried out the 9-11 attacks were devout in their faith, mainstream in their doctrines (at least if you read their "holy book" for yourself ) and DID voice the preferred Islamic rhetoric while killing thousands...come to think of it...so were those who planned and financed the whole thing, and those "few" immoderate Muslims who celebrated the atrocity. So sorry Serene, I can't stretch my mind far enough to encompass this load of BS....
Come to think of it, I remember hearing about the authorities issuing an APB on a couple of gentlemen of swarthy, middle-eastern descent in the immediate aftermath of the explosion at the Murrah building. An APB which was soon cancelled...because after all, the OKC bomber was home-grown and totally devoid of influence from Central Asian provocateurs....right?
You guys might want to check out a little dissenting opinion on this "fact" . I highly recommend a book called "The Third Terrorist" by Jayna Davis. Ms. Davis, a TV reporter from Oklahoma, credibly links eyewitness accounts, evidentiary trails and avenues of inquiry dropped like a hot potato soon after the "official" version of the bombing came into focus upon McVeigh's capture. Shockingly, the trail leads right back to ..... Central Asiatic adherents of a certain religion...... told ya you'd be shocked. Of course, all of Ms. Davis' evidence and the conclusions drawn from it has been "officially disproven"....and by that I mean we're told it never happened....and you can't see the source documentation because ....uh....it's lost?
Hmmmmm...maybe I was wrong....maybe the OKC attack does have something tangible in common with the attacks on 9-11.
Go read the REVDOC's whole "opinion" if you've the stomach for it.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-09-01-jones03_ST_N.htm
Oh and just cuz I'm such the nice guy....here's a little background on the good REVDOC Serena...
The Rev. Dr. Serene Jones is the 16th president of the historic Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. The first woman to head the 174-year-old nondenominational seminary, Jones came to Union after seventeen years at Yale University, where she was the Titus Street Professor of Theology at the Divinity School, and chair of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Jones is a prolific and popular scholar in the fields of theology, religion, globalization, and gender studies. Her most recent book, Trauma and Grace: Theology in a Ruptured World, explores the devastating social and personal effects of violence on the human psyche and the role religious communities can play, both negative and positive, in healing wounds. Her book, Feminist Theory and Christian Theology, is a standard textbook in feminist theology.She holds degrees from the University of Oklahoma, Yale Divinity School and Yale University. Jones is ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ.
We Christians really gotta implement a screening system of some sort for those seeking ordination..... I suggest anyone who authors a book on Feminism fails the screening process! She is kinda cute though..for a feminist engaged in Islamist apologia that is.....
"Would Oklahoma City have opposed Okla21?"
Wondering with half my brain (cuz the other half was already gearing up for said crossword puzzle) if there was some interesting new law on the books in OK or something, I made the mistake of clicking on the link to the "opinion" piece by one Serene Jones
A side note here...Serene...REALLY?!?! Parents hippie much, sweetie? Or maybe they envisioned the noble career of "exotic dancer" for you! Either way....Serene?!?! OOPS apparently it's the REVEREND DOCTOR Serene Jones, 16th President of the Union Theological Seminary, an independent, multi-denominational seminary dating back to the early 1800s. Still no word on whether the REV DOC has exceed the parents expectations.....
Ok..back to the issue at had; to whit, Serene is a frackin moron..and not in the good way! Apparently the REVDOC has decided that the position of the Union Theological Seminary on the "Ground Zero Mosque" controversy needs to be known. It is the reasoned and learned opinion of said seminary that all of us stupid provincial racists need to get over our Islamophobia and embrace the victory mosque because like, if you close your eyes really tight and really, really, really think about it....why 9-11 is JUST like the OKC bombing! I'll not rehash the entire bit of drivel here, but will provide some of the more interesting bits.....along with my own cogent analysis.
The opening statement is ripe with libtardation...
"Rancor surrounding the proposed Park51 community center in New York City is a painful indication of how little progress America has made in healing the national wound created on Sept. 11, 2001."
No Serene, America would be just fine with the healing process if numb-nutz like you didn't insist we keep allowing the attackers to rip the scab off and pour alcohol in the wound all the time. Just sayin'.
The REVDOC next goes on to chronicle the fact that in the immediate aftermath of 9-11 "the majority" of the worlds 1.5 Billion Muslims were outspoken critics of the terror attacks. And that somehow us racist 'murricans not only wrongly equate Islam with terrorists, but also lots of us hick-stains think our current president bows to the east 5 times a day. Since the REVDOC herself is recently relocated to the Big Apple from OKC, she "feels NYC's pain" so to speak. She too remembers a terrorist attack on her city and that act's aftermath. The only problem is her memory is faulty. The "majority" of the world's Muslims did NOT vehemently condemn the attacks. The only thing other Muslims officially condemned was the US for "causing" the attacks in the first place with our imperialism and misguided foreign policy. Oh and our warmongoling ways!
As far as throwing the "and alot of silly Americans think President Hopey Changitude is a Muslim" thing in there, it was done just to show how ignorant the average Joe really is. Serene ought to realize (being the head of a theological seminary and all) that whatever BHO's true religion...it ain't Christian by any stretch of the imagination.
Then she veers truly into nutso-land.
Next she wants us to take an trip back with her and imagine a series of hypotheticals. I'll let her weave her fairy-tale magic...
"Imagine we are back in 2004, nine years after Timothy McVeigh perpetrated what at the time was the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil. Let's extend the analogy, too, and pretend that angry misunderstandings about McVeigh's Christian beliefs have metastasized into animosity toward anyone who professes Christianity, and even toward those who just "seem like" Christians. As the trauma of McVeigh's bombing lingers in people's hearts and minds, blatant slurs about Christians are made in the news media by elected officials and by religious leaders. Christianity, we are told, is a violent religion at its core, doing more harm than good.
Now, push this upside-down scenario one more step. Imagine the Christian churches in Oklahoma City are working hard to counter this "anti-Christian" attitude, and one particularly progressive group decides what's needed is a new youth and community center. "
Say What, Princess? First, by inviting to her readers to "imagine", "pretend" and "extend the analogy", the REVDOC is telling us that the two events she is attempting to compare have nothing in common! And her memory fails her yet again, since there are a couple of flaws with her musings...
First, she rambles about Timothy McVeigh's "Christian Beliefs" as though he detonated the rental-truck-bomb whilst quoting from the Bible he held firmly in his sweaty little palm. Let's let Mr. McVeigh himself weigh in on his belief system...
"In a recorded interview with Time magazine[80] McVeigh professed his belief in "a god", although he said he had "sort of lost touch with" Catholicism and "I never really picked it up, however I do maintain core beliefs." also....
"The Guardian reported that McVeigh wrote a letter to them claiming to be an agnostic and that he did not believe in a hell" .
Furthermore, he also once professed to believe that the universe was guided by natural law, energized by some universal higher power that showed each person right from wrong if they paid attention to what was going on inside them. And that "Science is my religion".
Now I'm no head of an independent, multi-denominational theological seminary, but I'm pretty sure these beliefs fall outside the basic "Christian" doctrine....and the holder of these beliefs could in no way be considered a "devout" Christian.
In contrast, the 19 ISLAMIC fellows who carried out the 9-11 attacks were devout in their faith, mainstream in their doctrines (at least if you read their "holy book" for yourself ) and DID voice the preferred Islamic rhetoric while killing thousands...come to think of it...so were those who planned and financed the whole thing, and those "few" immoderate Muslims who celebrated the atrocity. So sorry Serene, I can't stretch my mind far enough to encompass this load of BS....
Come to think of it, I remember hearing about the authorities issuing an APB on a couple of gentlemen of swarthy, middle-eastern descent in the immediate aftermath of the explosion at the Murrah building. An APB which was soon cancelled...because after all, the OKC bomber was home-grown and totally devoid of influence from Central Asian provocateurs....right?
You guys might want to check out a little dissenting opinion on this "fact" . I highly recommend a book called "The Third Terrorist" by Jayna Davis. Ms. Davis, a TV reporter from Oklahoma, credibly links eyewitness accounts, evidentiary trails and avenues of inquiry dropped like a hot potato soon after the "official" version of the bombing came into focus upon McVeigh's capture. Shockingly, the trail leads right back to ..... Central Asiatic adherents of a certain religion...... told ya you'd be shocked. Of course, all of Ms. Davis' evidence and the conclusions drawn from it has been "officially disproven"....and by that I mean we're told it never happened....and you can't see the source documentation because ....uh....it's lost?
Hmmmmm...maybe I was wrong....maybe the OKC attack does have something tangible in common with the attacks on 9-11.
Go read the REVDOC's whole "opinion" if you've the stomach for it.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-09-01-jones03_ST_N.htm
Oh and just cuz I'm such the nice guy....here's a little background on the good REVDOC Serena...
The Rev. Dr. Serene Jones is the 16th president of the historic Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. The first woman to head the 174-year-old nondenominational seminary, Jones came to Union after seventeen years at Yale University, where she was the Titus Street Professor of Theology at the Divinity School, and chair of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Jones is a prolific and popular scholar in the fields of theology, religion, globalization, and gender studies. Her most recent book, Trauma and Grace: Theology in a Ruptured World, explores the devastating social and personal effects of violence on the human psyche and the role religious communities can play, both negative and positive, in healing wounds. Her book, Feminist Theory and Christian Theology, is a standard textbook in feminist theology.She holds degrees from the University of Oklahoma, Yale Divinity School and Yale University. Jones is ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and the United Church of Christ.
We Christians really gotta implement a screening system of some sort for those seeking ordination..... I suggest anyone who authors a book on Feminism fails the screening process! She is kinda cute though..for a feminist engaged in Islamist apologia that is.....
Mission Accomplished..eh?
Remember the outrage and scorn this caused?
Well I'm sure that aaaannnny minute now the outpouring of hatred from the same folks will commence after this....
"U.S. military helps repel suicide bombing attack, official says.
U.S. forces "provided suppressive fire" and helicopter support during the attack, said Lt. Col. Eric Bloom, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad. No U.S. soldiers were injured, Bloom said.
At least 12 people were killed and 36 others were injured in Sunday's attack, the Iraqi military command said."
Well I'm sure that aaaannnny minute now the outpouring of hatred from the same folks will commence after this....
"U.S. military helps repel suicide bombing attack, official says.
U.S. military personnel were involved in repelling a suicide bombing attack Sunday on an Iraqi military base in Baghdad, four days after the United States officially ended its combat operations in Iraq.
U.S. forces "provided suppressive fire" and helicopter support during the attack, said Lt. Col. Eric Bloom, a spokesman for the U.S. military in Baghdad. No U.S. soldiers were injured, Bloom said.
At least 12 people were killed and 36 others were injured in Sunday's attack, the Iraqi military command said."
Shrill Leftist ridicule in 5....4.....3.....
Yeah..hold your breath!
H/T Yoda
Friday, September 3, 2010
The Borg Conspiracy.....: NAACP Targets the Tea Party for more racism and so...
Found this little gem courtesy of Locutisprime.....do go check out the photo gallery they went to the trouble of compiling of "extremists" at Tea Party rallies....it's a hoot! Just remember....the NAACP is tracking YOU!
The Borg Conspiracy.....: NAACP Targets the Tea Party for more racism and so...: "Tea Party Tracking SiteNAACP, Left-Leaning Media Groups Form Tea Party Tracking Site A new website sponsored by the NAACP and left-leaning ..."
The Borg Conspiracy.....: NAACP Targets the Tea Party for more racism and so...: "Tea Party Tracking SiteNAACP, Left-Leaning Media Groups Form Tea Party Tracking Site A new website sponsored by the NAACP and left-leaning ..."
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