Evangalists of Moloch

I'm addressing this blog post to my fellow Canadians and to any Ugandans who may encounter it by accident. I'm going to be forwarding it to the Ugandan High Commission in Ottawa and to the attention of my member of Parlement, for there are a number of issues that they should be considering. 

I don't give a flying fig about the sin of homosexuality. I'm not convinced of the argument and for me it's moot. And if it is a sin, it's mentioned as being fairly much on the level of mixing flax and wool in one garment.


It's not mentioned at all in the big ten - but the bearing of false witness, that's right up there. So, if you must throw stones, you might consider starting there. And I assure you, all the things stated about gay people by those responsible for agitating you all to commit what is a legal and moral abomination are liars and are bearing false witness in the precise biblical sense. 

It's not difficult to find out that there is a great deal of evidence that these people are lying, and very, very, very little evidence to suggest that anything they say is true. Even their use of the Bible is... dubious. 

But I'll leave that to you. Because of one, overriding issue: "Thou Shall Not Commit Murder." That's what this is about. You are being encouraged to murder your neighbors. 

Because a "priest" tells you that is a good idea - claiming to speak for God. 


Any child may be born gay, and we don't really understand how that happens. But the direct advice to you by these people as to what to do with such children is directly equivalent to sacrifice of children to satisfy an angry pagan god.



The Bible is very direct about what should happen to people who sacrifice children to their god.

A government, encouraged by supposedly religious people people are saying God is in favor of murder. You should probably have a pretty damn good idea as to where this leads, given Africa's history over the last hundred-odd years. I'm not even going to bother making a religious argument against this idea. If your religion says it's good - than your religion is evil. Walk away. 

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The Bitter, Low Hanging Fruit Begins to Fall

Pennsylavnia cop killer obsessed with conspiracy theories:

"Richard Andrew Poplawski was a young man convinced the nation was secretly controlled by a cabal that would eradicate freedom of speech, take away his guns and use the military to enslave the citizenry.

His online profile suggests someone at once lonely and seething. He wrote of burning the backs of both of his hands, the first time with a cigarette, the second time for symmetry. He subscribed to conspiracy theories and, by January 2007, was posting photographs of his tattoos on white supremacist Web site Stormfront. Among his ambitions: 'to accumulate enough 'I punched that [expletive] so hard' stories to match my old man.'"

It seems like I've been writing about this sort of thing from various angles for years now. Bad ethics, poor education, bad fellowship, gullibility and probably some combination of depression and early trauma came together to create a lethal mixture.

Whether that lethality is the result of deliberate policy or simply toxic waste from a conspicuously tactical political agenda is, sadly, immaterial. Cause leads to effect, regardless of intent. Part of the effect of this attempt to "defend the Second Amendment" is to become far more a threat to legitimate recreational, survivalist and well balanced self-defense advocates than any "left wing" agenda.

It's not the tools. It's not the cause. It's the culture that has gotten stuck to the cause and the tools; it's like gun grease; You just can't get the smell off your hands.

For most of us, this sort ignorant, testosterone-fueled gullibility passes soon enough; we grow up, we get a life, we get married and begin careers. All of these things tend to socialize us, give us the opportunity to reality-check our views about other people, politics and life. But this only works if we allow it to work; if we do not expressly reject all the countervailing hints that life is an exercise in pastels and shades of gray, not black and white with Red White and Blue. (Or Red and White, domestically speaking.)

When you isolate yourself, surround yourself with like minded people and rigidly maintain an authoritarian world view - well, let's just say that it's a failure-prone situation. Maintaining that zone of absolute control requires an "or else." The more absolute the control, the greater the violence that you have to promise as a consequence of "misbehavior."

Police: Dad killed 5 kids because wife was leaving
Tammy Dettwiler, right, and her sister Penny Flansburg, left, are comforted by Dettwiler's son, Tim Martin, center, Saturday, at trailer park near near Graham, Wash., where the bodies of five children belonging to the women's niece Angela Harrison were discovered dead in their home Saturday afternoon. (Ted S. Warren / AP)

The night before, the father and his eldest daughter went in search of the wife, Angela Harrison. The daughter used a GPS feature in her mother's cell phone to find her with another man at a convenience store in Auburn, said Ed Troyer, a spokesman for the Pierce County Sheriff.

The woman told her husband she was not coming home, and was leaving him for the man with her at the store. The father and the daughter left, distraught, Troyer said. Sometime after the children went to sleep, he shot them each multiple times. Four died in their beds. The fifth was found in the mobile home's bathroom, surrounded by signs of violent struggle.

You might be tempted to dismiss this as inexplicable, the sort of insanity that simply cannot be predicted or anticipated. But in fact, it makes perfect sense to an extremely authoritarian parent, and the patterns of that sort of authoritarian personality [pdf] are there for anyone to see. Isolation. Micromanagement. Control. Restrictions on behavior, thought control, arbitrary rules that control every aspect of life. And no matter how it's packaged, no matter what excuses or doctrines are presented, it is always about power and control. I guarandamntee you that that home will be filled with symbols and totems that underline the maculine authoritarian right to dominate and control, much as Poplawski chose to conspicuously tattoo himself with a Teutonic eagle.

James Harrison's world was wrecked by his wife's break for freedom; his self-worth depended entirely upon controlling and dominating his family - and his wife was the keystone. Without her example of mute compliance, how long would it be before his children escaped? This was of particular urgency, given that his eldest was already older than when he impregnated her mother - who was 13. He'd already "had to" commit a "minor assault" on one of his children in a way that his exercise of control was noticed by others. He could feel his grip slipping - and this translated into anger and fear, which turned inward and was focused upon his own children.

"He wanted the kids dead," Troyer said. "It wasn't like he shot a few rounds. He shot several rounds."

The woman told her husband she was not coming home, and was leaving him for the man with her at the store. The father and the daughter left, distraught, Troyer said. Sometime after the children went to sleep, he shot them each multiple times. Four died in their beds. The fifth was found in the mobile home's bathroom, surrounded by signs of violent struggle.

"He wanted the kids dead," Troyer said. "It wasn't like he shot a few rounds. He shot several rounds."

Investigators believe he then returned to the area near the convenience store looking for his wife. His body was found near the store, Troyer said.

"A working theory is that he probably went back up there looking for her, wasn't able to find her, realized the gravity of what he'd done and shot himself," Troyer said.

The story mentions that several weapons were found in the home. Given the personality type, we can safely assume that they were as much symbols of authority as hunting or sport weapons.

From a Buzzflash review of Gun Show Nation, by Joan Burbick

Guns do more than just shoot; they are powerful iconic symbols in American culture and have been used to label who's in and who's out; who is a "real American" and who is not.

More disturbingly: "She found hate literature at all the guns show that she attended, except for one. That should tell you something in itself."

I'm not saying that Harrison was exactly the same sort of nut as conspiracy-theorist Richard Andrew Poplawski, I'm not saying Harrison took Limbaugh or Beck as Serious People With Opinions That Matter. What we DO know about him is a related syndrome - a wide streak of authoritarianism, a need for control and the willingness to use violence to get his way.

Candy Johnson, Angela Harrison's aunt, described James Harrison as a strict, controlling husband and father who didn't allow his wife to make any decisions without asking him first.

"My niece has been so controlled from the time she was young," Johnson said, adding that James Harrison had impregnated Angela when she was 13.

"It's unbelievable," Johnson said. "My whole family is in shock. How does this happen? How does anyone do that?"

Others will tend to blame the guns and ammunition. I disagree - guns are in some ways innocent victims of "gun culture." If it's simply about killing people, In this day and age, it's not at all difficult to come up with truly lethal substitutes for conventional munitions. I could easily create such a text - but as tempting as it is to make a small fortune selling it to Paladin Press, I shall refrain.

Just take my word for it that available materials - electronics, compressed gasses, commonly available explosives, easily available high strength materials and common, Yankee ingenuity have already managed to come up with some pretty damn terrifying ideas.



Now, that's what you can accomplish with a spare bulldozer and a little jack-leg engineering skill. "Killdozer" could have gone one on one with many WWI tanks and turned them into scrap metal. Now, imagine if it had mounted a slightly more sophisticated variation of this terrifying device developed for - of all people - the US Department of Agriculture!

(Joel Suprise previous owner of spudtech.com)

Above is a picture of the massive custom air cannon that was built for the US Dept. of Agriculture a few years back. It's a tornado simulator designed to fire a 12 foot long, 15 pound 2 x 4 at a wall at 100 MPH. Testing this monster was a RUSH!!!! Believe it or not... 22 of these "pneumatic artillery pieces" have been built. Click HERE for a video.

Trust me - if you are even slightly male, you want to see the video.

Of course, it has no reloading mechanism, no elevation controller, no way of aiming it, and two-by-fours are hardly aerodynamically stable. So, as is, it doesn't seem all that terrifying a weapon.

Until you realize that the only reason that it's a lousy weapon is because nobody has added possibly fifty dollars worth of extra parts and a small computer. With that tiny addition - and an easily added breach mechanism - this monster could be flinging spears, metal and concrete projectiles, explosives, or anything else with impressive accuracy. This is damn impressive artillery - and it's actually more sophisticated than a field mortar.

Here's the problem; you cannot outlaw physics. This is why the right to bear arms is in fact an inalienable right. Pass all the laws you wish; it's quite immaterial, if the people you legislate against having weapons feel safer having them then not. This thing could easily be used to level a police station, in either direct or indirect fire mode. Even more fearsome things can be created with a trip to a junk yard and a welder's ticket. "Punkin' Chunkin" air cannon can fling a pumpkin - not the most ideal projectile in the universe - over a mile. Imagine the same device being used to launch a fin-stabilized projectile?

Oh, and did you know there are amateur rockets that can launch a bowling ball over a thousand feet - straight UP?

The problem is not one of availability or even of effective lethality. It's all about symbolism, will and intent. Punkin' chunkers and amateur rocketeers don't belong to toxic subcultures. They are gleeful, playful kinetic engineers. They don't sit in the dark jacking their slides and fantasizing about putting a full mag into someone deserving.

While amateur rockets and air-powered kenetic weapons are, or could be devastatingly lethal, they simply don't communicate to the psyche the way an AK-47, a Colt .45 or an M16. It's not what the weapon can do - it's about the associational values and the culture they serve as totemic badges.

Let me illustrate by counterexample.

This weapon fires 11 3/4 mm lead ball (.463" caliber) with air pressure supplied by a bike pump.

It was created in WWII by a French bicycle-maker turned partisan, out of what appears to be common plumbing pipes. And it very likely has several bodies on it.

It's capable of perhaps 10 or 20 shots at useful power, and it's a true semi-auto.

By useful power, I mean somewhere in the neighborhood of ".38 Special area of modern firearms, or even, as probably overstated by Fred Baer (1973) into the range of the .45 ACP cartridge, famous in pistols and submachine guns favored by police, gangsters, and the military for several wars of the 20th century." -Beeman

That is certainly impressive lethality - but it's cultural connotation would be "child's toy." Even though it will cheerfully create messes like this, it's a seen as a geeky, steampunk curiosity, although it should be intuitively seen as a truly amazing survival tool, easily capable of taking deer and smaller game.

You can build your own with parts from any hardware store. The ammunition is cheap or free. It's perfect for recreational shooting - if that shooting is not about conspicuous consumption and vicarious violence. If your "recreational shooting" is about proving that you can afford to feed your weapon, and therefore that you are a "solid citizen," an air rifle simply will not serve your needs.

Even though it actually would - if shooting was about feeding and defending your family.

Weapons of this sort are used even today as very serious hunting weapons, capable of firing a wide range of lethal projectiles. Are they part of American Gun Culture? Nope. Nobody takes you seriously if you brandish an air rifle - because they don't go "bang."

I see the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot as being a malignant devolution of Potlatch culture - an exercise in white male bonding and cultural immersion. It glorifies violence, paranoia and authoritarian group-think. And this is the culture that produces people like Richard Andrew Poplawski
and James Harrison.

It's all about the upbringing, the culture and the associations. The guns, as I said, are innocent bystanders - chosen for their appearance of power, rather than their functional effectiveness.

I hate to say this - but we have to. This is NOT a "Second Amendment" problem. It's a "First Amendment" problem. It comes directly from willful misinformation; lies and deceit. I think it's time to talk about means to regulate culture. I don't favor a legal approach - what I do favor is a far stronger and more effective cultural approach. We - sane, freedom loving people - need to take over the soapboxes. We need to verbally and materially demonstrate our displeasure with and informed dissent with xenophobic idiocy and special interest sedition.

Real Men don't shoot kids. They don't excuse it as "the price of freedom," either. Rational people - even rational paranoids - don't create pretexts to kill people, to "defend their rights." And most particularly, they don't kill pointlessly, just to make a conspicuous show of their demise. That's not patriotism, it's terrorism.

So, when you see cultures like this - and you hear them howling about being "profiled" due to their association with various political groups and activist associations known for their problematic - nay, wackadoodle belief structures - respond with a horselaugh. They are potential terrorists. Tim McVeigh came from JUST such a subculture. So did these two. They all have a common thread - the belief that they are - or were - right, and have the right to use force to impose their world view.

They belive they have the right to freely assemble in order to present an "or else" to the rest of us. Well, I suppose, strictly speakiing, that's true. But they don't have the right to do so without the rest of us taking notice - and a few reasonable individual and collective precautions.

Vaccines, Toxic Speech and Rhetorical Questions.

It’s Time For Vaccine Talk Detox:

by Kristina Chew, PhD on December 26th, 2008

Seems a pity that, on seeing the words “top 10 unfounded health scares,” the first thing I thought about was……….vaccines and autism.

Many speak of a “debate” about an alleged vaccine-autism link and that there’s a “controversy” brewing here, but it’s a false controversy. 2008 saw the publication of more studies refuting a link, and yet there’s been a call for more studies—-among the $1 billion in research initiatives noted in the Strategic Plan of the IACC is an item about the “different health outcomes in vaccinated, unvaccinated and alternatively-vaccinated groups”—so it’s not as if this particular topic is going to go away.

Sometimes, one starts to wonder, will this particular topic ever go away? How many studies will it take to convince those who believe so very much that there is a link, that there really isn’t one?

I love answering rhetorical questions. I grew up doing it in all innocence, now that I understand that it's unexpected and often amusing, I do it deliberately.

I'll leave it to others to put a positive human spin on the issue. Indeed, Dr. Chew does it quite well herself. But I have a certain rhetorical niche and it involves saying things in public that are usually whispered in private. The problem with the latter is that these inconvenient truths never reach the proper ears in any useful way.

Here's your problems. Lennie Schaefer. John Best. Autism Speaks. And an entire industry that sees autistics (or rather their parents) as a community to be exploited. If their rhetoric were directed at any other population, it would be quite correctly named for what it is: hate speech. Nor is it founded in any better science than other racialist theories.

This would outrage me a good deal less if we were not speaking of parents and children and what amounts to the marketing of systematic abuse as "cures."

As Orac puts it:

Because autism is a condition of developmental delay, not stasis, and because it frequently has periods of stasis followed by periods of rapid development followed by periods of stasis again, if a parent tries enough quackery, sooner or later by coincidence alone he or she will be seem to be able to match up a remedy with an apparent improvement.

All the time and money sucked up by these parasites is time and money that could have gone toward positive things that enhance the lives of autistic children and their families. Music lessons. Respite care. Model train sets. Feed a perseveration, build a future - but for heaven's sake, take care of your own sanity first! That way, you can be part of a particular solution, rather than a symptom of a widespread social disease.

On The Frontlines Of The Culture War: James Hartline Reports Exclusively!!!

James Hartline T-Shirt
by webcarve

Lesbians Terrorize San Diego Community

During Obscene Political Event

As Parents Are Forced To Keep Their Kids

Off The Streets To Protect Them

During The 2008 San Diego Dyke March.

Public Obscenities By Radical Lesbian Group
Spells Doomsday For Family Values
If Same-Sex Marriages Are Not Banned In California.

Warning: This Article Includes Evidence That Contains Graphic Language

Don't we all? Boobies are friendly and warm, soft and cushy.
How could anyone NOT heart Boobies?

Be afwaid, be vewwy vewwy afraid!
Public displays of affection between women might lead to...

James, vhat is zis between you undt your Muzzer?

The James Hartline Report: "Friday, August 08, 2008
National Outrage Over Lesbian March in San Diego
Comments have come flooding in on the report of lesbians marching through a San Diego neighborhood with profanity-filled signs and public displays of immorality.
Here is one of many Comments regarding the Lesbian March Through A San Diego Suburb that has terrified many families with children:

I wanted to see the "comments flooding in" and, to be honest, I wondered if the "profanity filled signs" were funny enough to put on t-shirts. I steeled myself to wade through several pages of the sort of xenophobic crap I'm used to seeing on sites such as this - but I was glad to be disappointed. The comment cited was pretty much the sum total of "the flood" in support. There were a few taking exception, far more politely than he deserved. As the only real support was unsigned, it could easily have come from Hartline himself - and considering his page rank is actually lower than mine, I'd say that's kinda likely.

But nonetheless, I was led to believe that there was much more to this story by this "flood of comments" than there actually was.

"Some gays shoot themselves in the foot once again. In trying to be accepted like regular people wanting to live regular lives, they parade their freaks for all to see...proudly even. These freaks are an embarrassment to those in the homosexual community who just want to live and not bring down anything in order to bring themselves up. So, these freaks will never have my sympathy. They got their attention, now they can kiss the respect that they want goodbye."

Ok, I've seen freaks flying their freak flags in Pride Parades before. I like that sort of thing. Hell, I AM that sort of thing. So, of course, I had to look...

Me, I see a crowd of normal-looking people who happen to be lesbians. They clearly ARE regular people living regular lives - without benefit of clergy. Doesn't seem to have done them any-much harm, either.

Many are parents, and those kids look suspiciously normal, too.

It's about as terrifying, as shocking and as perverted as a puppy stampede.

Perhaps you could have found actual "evidence" of something you could argue to be perverse, but the fact that you THINK you found abundant evidence makes me concerned for you. Truly.

The last thing I think of when I look at the parade is *hot*lesbian*sex*. Frankly, it was more along the lines of "aww, aint' they cute holding hands like that?"

And one person allegedly has a sign that says "I Heart my C*nt". Couldn't find it myself; I am apparently not obsessive enough. But, well, shouldn't she?

I mean, which is better, That Word used in a positive sense, or the fact that you clearly see all these women in the exact way that men like you mean when using That Word and all other references - connoting nasty, evil, vicious, prick-teasing, smelly...

Me, I just see a lot of women. At least one thinks her {(o)} is lovely. I'm sure it is, too. Or at least, I'd never be rude enough to disagree.

But clearly, you see that shaming her her dangerous vice of self-approval (and self-sufficiency, for that matter) as a mandate imposed by your personal faith. I intuit even more about the doctrine of your "faith" when you market this "vile event" as pornography, well, you do it for the same reason that pornographers do. To get the clicks which brings the money.

But, ya know, real porn delivers the full frontal goods. From you, we get a same-sex Hallmark card.

WHERE'S my HOT LESBIAN SEX, James? YOU PROMISED ME HOT LESBIAN SEX that would make the Eyes of The Children Bleed and Change our Families Forever!

Not only were the horses not scared, the ponies didn't even NOTICE!

The families looked just like... ah, I begin to garner a glimmer of your concern!

You'd be much less terrified if they were being conspicuously freaky. And as miserable as you are, you bitter old queen. Yes, I do mock. I do.

On the other hand, the fact that you can even MAKE your face do that while preachin' the Good News tells me that you ain't been mocked NEAR enough!

Nope, when you clearly loathe yourself to the very depths of your withered little soul, who am I to contest your self-assessment? All I do question is your ability to assess others. You know that proverb about "judge not, lest you be judged also?" Well, James, you are the poster boy for that proverb.

My Colors Flatter All Others

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I'm trying to be fiscally and tactically responsible and actually have designs for a holiday ready for the holiday THIS year. And yes, I just noticed it was almost time for the 4th.

And when it comes to patriotism and it's proper place, I have a few things to say about what it is, and what it ain't. This design is about what it is.

And this design, via Zazzle (never mind where) is what it is not.


This shirt may set a new record for most fallacious statements in the fewest number of words. (See how many you can find, kids!)

I'd really hoped that I'd seen the last of red-baiting fluoride-bashing foolishness, but it's still there, lurking within the traitor parks of uhmurika where there are actually people dumb enough to think wearing such a shirt makes you look smart.

Not that I'm trying to make this silly person shut up. I even approve of her selling shirts to the like minded. I LIKE knowing when I'm dealing with dangerous idiots.

You see, words like "communist" and "socialist" and "democrat" and "republican" and "fascist" and "neocon" mean pretty specific things. If you use them as if you were just reaching about for a handful of crap to fling at someone you don't like, it's pretty clear to everyone else that you don't have your shit together.

For myself, I choose a positive patriotism. I don't wish to point out the wrongs of others - especially as my views are indeed just that, my views. Rather, I wish to point out the things I feel strongly and positively to be GOOD things.

I've never seen anything wrong with communism as a philosophy. Or fluoride as a means of preventing tooth decay. Both have their place. Personally, I'd very much prefer that neither were imposed upon me. Both Communism and Flouride work best when applied directly to the relevant situation.

For me, patriotism can only be meaningful if it's pride in real achievements, rather than being of the "I'm an uhmurikin and you are not!" variety. I don't believe in building fences or picking fights to prove what a manlyman I am. That's neither manly nor patriotic - it's boorish and an invitation for a righteous crotch-kicking.

I've a perfect personal record, I humbly suggest, of never having justly deserved a crotch-kicking. But then, I wonder, how hard is it to choose to NOT be a total asshole?

As illustrated above - apparently harder than I would have thought.

Though I love my country, I cannot say that about us as a whole. Indeed, due to my love of her best at her best, I have been first in line with a grandmotherly shit-kicking from time to time. Metaphorically speaking, of course.