Well, lookee here – the esteemed Mrs Gaines-Crockett went a staggering 22 hours and 13 minutes (approx. – the time that a post is made is for some reason not given, but comments are) from the time at which the  rules are added to the time in which they are broken; note the first word of that title. Yes, she used the word ‘rag-head’, which, as far as I know, in the former US Satrapy in which I reside, is a term of racist abuse, and thus criminal under race hate laws, which means that she’s breaking her own rules,  basically here (in bold):

‘4. You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this Blog to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person’s privacy, or otherwise violative of any law.

5. The use of profanity will not be tolerated under any circumstances. This includes sexually explicit, vulgar, or other profane language or usernames as well as any any signs or symbols that suggests such. Do not post sexually explicit, vulgar or offensive website addresses (URL’s) to the forum. (Eph. 4: 29)’

Yeah, OK, those are all subjective things, and I’m fairly sure what the response is going to be -

    ‘Oh no, they’re not offensive/abusive , MISinterpreted, you LIEberal DEMONcrat moonbat! Why, I have many friends of < insert slighted ethnic group >, who don’t mind me calling them < insert appropriate term of racist abuse >. If you think so, you’re going to hell!

Of course, this is different -

 ’or otherwise violative of any law’

There are race hate laws, ergo anything that violates race hate laws is banned, ergo using terms of racial abuse is banned, ergo using it without being banned, especially by one of the blog’s founders, is deep hypocrisy.

Watch this space for any more confirmation of what we already know and probably don’t need to be told again – either Gaines-Crockett and the rest are deeply and scarily divorced from reality, or they’re parodies who are beginning to push it a bit.

Anyway, now that that’s over, some random screed -

Point 1 of my random thoughts – do we change the CSS for the page?  I’m bored of its current look, and something with more mad stylin’ might liven it up. I’m thinking of modeling it on this fine example of the websmith’s craft. You’ve gottta admire Zefrank’s work in bring us some of the finest stuff on the internet.

Point 2 of my thoughts – I’ve found someone new to have a go at! Bring on Melanie Phillips!

OK, I was kinda fooled …

… by the two B4B sites. I went into self-righteous liberal-left overdrive when I first saw the stuff there, and didn’t take a second look.

Ultimately, though, I think that it’s better to be taken in. Look at it from a utilitarian point of view. The options are a), they are real – in which case, we were right to argue against them seriously, or b), they are spoofs – in which case, we provide them with lulz, reinforce their spoof, and still probably hit some genuine scary folk anyway. There’s my feeble self-justification, that’s all.

This might also be tied into Linus’ recent ‘outing’ of them – shutting down any chances he has of doing that wouldn’t be what I would consider, in their shoes, but is an option.

If they are parodies, though, what next? Whither do we go? Shall we find some other scary blog to troll?

Thoughts, please.

Baptists for Brownback

Okay, I’m going to state this here, because, over at our good friends blog, all of my comments are mercilessly censored.

THEY’RE PARODIES.

Or satires, trolls, or whatever term you wish to apply. It’s entirely obvious, the only reason I comment there at all is because I get some satisfaction from telling even a mock-up of this kind of person what I think of their views.

A very… enlightening piece of information is their legal notice:

By visiting this entertaining Godly site OR by sending an e-mail submission to Mrs. T.D. Gaines-Crockett©, Lynelle Bryant© OR posting to this site, YOU ARE CERTIFYING THAT YOU ARE 18 YEARS OR OLDER AND you are granting Baptists For Brownback 2008© a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive and fully sublicensable right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display your submission (in whole or part) and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed. The original posts, prayers, all materials and even the pasquinading by our mockers and antagonists found on this site and all materials within are Copyright© protected through 2007 by myself and/or the contributors. Many antogonists on the political Left would like to call it political satire so perhaps everything posted here should be understood in that context. Whatever it takes to keep their tiny brains from overloading. Please keep in mind that Posting of personal phone numbers or information that may lead to personal injury or harassment is deemed illegal on this forum under congressional legislation, state law and various personal protection acts. Please refrain from divulging information of this kind in such a public forum for obvious security purposes. God Bless America.

Notice the plentiful copyright symbols? Q.E.D.

July 4!

As out two friends for Brownback make no hesitation in telling us, today is July 4. So I would just like to remember with you readers all of the great events that have happened on this day -

• Alan Johnston has been freed! This is most certainly a Good Thing, as it reinforces the universal principles of free speech and reporting from around the world. It is also good from a human perspective; a badly mistreated man was freed from the clutches of the Dogmush. But one of the most interesting things about it would be who instituted it; why, none other than the formerly nasty Hamas! They wouldn’t really be thought as great fans of Western journalists and influence, associated as it is with their mortal enemies, Israel. But why? Melanie Phillips has responded, fairly predictably, that this is nothing more than an action by the ‘pincer … of jihad through terrorism and jihad through cultural capture’, and that this is just a encroachment of what she deems to be some sort of evil Islamic conspiracy. But I’m not quite sure; there’s more to it. It’s not just an action to please Britain; Hamas also seem to want to do a deal with Israel to get Gilad Shalit found and released from the same group. This leaves us with two interpretations; either Hamas is genuine, and they are going to ‘do an Arafat’, and seek a proper peace with Israel (and from there, one hopes, resolve the Palestine-Israel conflict), or they are playing along, as Phillips believes. To some extent, does it really matter? Looking at it from a teleological perspective, so long as Hamas could be carefully shepherded into making concessions that the UN, international community, &c. want, then it doesn’t matter what their motivations are; the end result could be peace. I know that this is fairly optimistic, and so far, every chance at peace in Israel and Palestine has crashed and burned (often literally), but this time could be the one.
• 1947 – with the Indian Independence Bill, the first governmental move is made towards the liberation of India and Pakistan from British colonial authority.
• 1966 – Lyndon Johnson signs in the Freedom of Information Act in America; thus (as far as I can tell) making the USA the second nation ever to grant its citizens such a powerful means of holding the state to account (Sweden got in there first, in 1966. Sorry Americans! )
• 1987 – our good friend Skeptic was born.

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