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Monday, January 09, 2012

There are none so blind as those who will not see
Posted by Jill | 9:27 PM
Especially those who think theocracy is a bad thing unless it involves worship of Tim Tebow Jesus.

Rick Santorum, yesterday, about why Iran is such a threat:
They're, they're a theocracy. They're a theocracy that has deeply embedded beliefs that the, the afterlife is better than this life. President Ahmadinejad has repeatedly said the principal virtue of the Islamic Republic of Iran is martyrdom. So when your principal virtue is to die for your--for Allah, then it's not a deterrent to have a nuclear threat if they would use a nuclear weapon. It is, in fact, an encouragement for them to use their nuclear weapon, and that's why there's a difference between the Soviet Union and China and others and Iran.

Deeply held beliefs that the afterlife is better than this life? You mean like this?
"God, who is rich in mercy, out of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with him, and made us sit with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus" (Eph 2:4-7).

That's from the New Testament. You know, the one that Christians like Rick Santorum regard as a holy book.

A principal virtue being to die for your deity? You mean like this:
According to the Vatican’s Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the official martyrology contains the names of 132 Catholics who have died for the faith since 2001. But this is not a complete list. Its 2005 report acknowledges that there are “many more possible ‘unknown soldiers of the faith’ in remote corners of the planet whose deaths may never be reported.”

Dying for Christ seems almost surreal to most Westerners. We live in a part of the world where Christianity rarely makes the news unless it is to be mocked or defamed. Otherwise, the media is strangely silent about modern Christian martyrdom. “Three things distinguish anti-Christian persecution and discrimination around the world,” said Denver’s Archbishop Charles Chaput to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. “First, it’s ugly. Second, it’s growing. And third, the mass media generally ignore or downplay its gravity.”


The denizens of wingnuttia say that Iran's top leaders believe "that the end of days has come" and this makes Iran more likely to deploy a nuclear weapon against the United States. Rick Santorum is one of them. And yet, the US has nuclear weapons and also a sizable number of people who believe the end of days has come. So why is it OK for us? Because our religious nutballs worship someone different?

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Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Like maggots crawling out from under a rock....
Posted by Jill | 4:40 AM
As George W. Bush's mean mug appears everywhere on television, urging everyone to "buy his book" (as if he needs the money), the maggots of his dead and putrefying term in the White House are emboldened to come out from under the woodwork. The latest are John "Mr. Congeniality" Bolton and John "Torture Boy" Yoo, advocating AGAINST any kind of nuclear cuts, because their little tiny penises can only be made large by having lots of Big Nasty Missiles. You've just got to read this, because the very same men who thought that the presidency meant absolute rule when THEIR guy was in office, are now citing the Constitution in demanding a strong Senate to maintain enough nukes to destroy the world ten times over.

In other news, the British say Bush is still lying. So do the Germans.

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Thursday, May 01, 2008

Fabricate evidence of WMD? Oh, no, they'd NEVER do that
Posted by Jill | 6:03 AM
Oh yes they would. Borzou Daragahi reports in his blog at the L.A. Times that that he's been passed a note from someone with security clearance noting some discrepancies in the presented photos which point to some Photoshopping being done. As hard as it is to imagine that anyone in the government would have the expertise with Photoshop to do this, necessity is the mother of invention, and this bunch needs a "rally 'round the flag pin" moment about as badly as it's needed one since the summer of 2001. And there's more at Whirled View.

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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Holy Shit II
Posted by Jill | 9:45 PM
Larry Johnson, who knows his shit, speculates:

Why the hubbub over a B-52 taking off from a B-52 base in Minot, North Dakota and subsequently landing at a B-52 base in Barksdale, Louisiana? That’s like getting excited if you see a postal worker in uniform walking out of a post office. And how does someone watching a B-52 land identify the cruise missiles as nukes? It just does not make sense.

So I called a old friend and retired B-52 pilot and asked him. What he told me offers one compelling case of circumstantial evidence. My buddy, let’s call him Jack D. Ripper, reminded me that the only times you put weapons on a plane is when they are on alert or if you are tasked to move the weapons to a specific site.

Then he told me something I had not heard before.

Barksdale Air Force Base is being used as a jumping off point for Middle East operations. Gee, why would we want cruise missile nukes at Barksdale Air Force Base. Can’t imagine we would need to use them in Iraq. Why would we want to preposition nuclear weapons at a base conducting Middle East operations?

His final point was to observe that someone on the inside obviously leaked the info that the planes were carrying nukes. A B-52 landing at Barksdale is a non-event. A B-52 landing with nukes. That is something else.

Now maybe there is an innocent explanation for this? I can’t think of one. What is certain is that the pilots of this plane did not just make a last minute decision to strap on some nukes and take them for a joy ride. We need some tough questions and clear answers. What the hell is going on? Did someone at Barksdale try to indirectly warn the American people that the Bush Administration is staging nukes for Iran? I don’t know, but it is a question worth asking.


Stay tuned, fasten your seatbelts, and return your tray tables to the upright position. We're about to fly into some "weather" here and it could get nasty.

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