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!

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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Rebuttals of stuff

I’m sorry that I have not recently had the chance to address you with my fœbrile ramblings, but I’ve been recently struck low by a nasty strain of flu that was released in an evil conspiracy by the pharmaceutical companies caused by a combination of being stuck next to a violently coughing person on the train and overwork, and so have only had the energy to post inanely on RW, and spam Biblical quotations on the two B4Bs. I’m still in a convalescent stage, so if I begin posting random gibberish, then fish bicycle overlord tenderises somnambulist.

Anyway, the easiest target I can find would be the most recent racist and/or genocidal comments on the two Brownback blogs (here is a sickening call for the ‘extermination’ of the French nation by … well, you can guess; while here is a fear piece by our dear friend Mrs T. D. Gaines-Crockett about the fear that people speaking Mexican (her words) will soon come to encamp ‘near your [sic] Chrisitan homes’; if that wasn’t enough, she also objects to the casting of Morgan Freeman as God in the (admittedly fairly rubbish looking) film ‘Evan Almighty’, on the grounds that he is ‘a nasty talking, ghetto-acting, colored’ actor).

Our fellow internet-warrior ‘lanfranc‘ (according to Gaines-Crockett, a ‘terribly foreign’ name) has already succintly outlined several good arguments against the bigotry and prejudice expressed here (of course, these have to be Biblical ones, or they will be naught in the eyes of those right-wingers; but don’t get me wrong, there are enough arguments from science, logic, and culture to condemn racism a hundred times over without the following) -

(look away if you are a Dawkins-ite; the following passages may shock and disturb sensitive viewers)

• Revelations 7:9 – ‘…a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood before the throne, and the Lamb…’ – in other words, Christianity should welcome anyone (also, this would go against any rejections of Spanish or French from their grounds, if they’re following their scripture right)
• Matthew 24:14 – ‘…this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come’ -fairly obvious – to say that any one nation is unique in holiness would be wrong. 
• Galatians 3:28 – ‘There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.’ – Again, fairly unequivocal – no difference or discrimination on any grounds.

The wisdom in using religious arguments against these people when there are perfectly good secular ones may be questioned, but I’m fairly sure that it’s the only way.

Sisyphus, for example, has repeatedly stated the quasi-solipsistic view that, contrary to scientific evidence, things don’t happen because of the interactions between (evil) protons and (angelic) electrons, but because God makes these things happen. Thus, any argument that refers back to stuff like, say, the real world, empirical data, or tried-and-tested theories, can be denied by him as an illusion. He has repeatedly used the Bible as a citation, however – since he believes this to be God’s direct word, that is the only thing he can rely on. Thus, to argue against him, we must beat him and others at their own game (although they fairly seldom quote from the whole Bible, preferring to use the Old Testament, rather than venturing into the New, where, as Skeptic sweepingly summarised, ‘God turned Buddhist’). There is certainly enough material to do this; the Sermon on the Mount alone provides a fairly decent refutation of the main points of the Brownback-backers’ beliefs. Even if you’re not a Christian, this argumentative technique still works; just remember, almost without fail, they are.

Anyhow, after all that, I think that we are in high need of some lulz -

This ‘blog is now one of the ’sinners of the week’, according to this; an honour we share with, among others, the illustrious ilk of Rationalwiki (‘an internet compund comprised of Liberals, atheists, and witches seeking to undermind Christians and Republicans’), Hillary Clinton (a ‘vile, treasonous woman’) and Barack Obama (whose name, with a master-stroke of wit and genius by Gaines-Crockett, sounds a bit like ‘Osama’, so she now calls him ‘Obama bin Laden’. D’yer see? What wit.). Just to cement her point, she also states that she would like our fellow contributor, Linus, ‘drown[ed] … in the blood of the Lamb’.

Anyway, I leave you with her prayer that you should have said before coming here (and if you haven’t, PWND!), which has made me laugh and laugh (more like wheeze and wheeze, but still) (bold parts are ones that I particularly enjoyed) -
‘IN JESUS NAME, I BIND UP EVERY DEMON COMING ACROSS THE COMPUTER LINES, AND I RETURN THEM AND ANY CURSES.IN JESUS NAME, I COVER MYSELF IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS. I COVER THIS COMPUTER AND THE INTERNET ROAD I TRAVEL IN THE BLOOD OF JESUS. I TAKE AUTHORITY AND DOMINION OVER ALL WEB SITES, WEB MASTERS, WEB DOMAINS, AND DEMONS OF THE INTERNET SUPER HIGHWAY SO THEY DO NOT CROSS MY PATH. I DISPATCH ANGELS AHEAD OF ME TO PROTECT ME.

IN JESUS NAME, I CUT ALL UNGODLY SILVER CORDS AND LAY LINES.

AS YOUR WAR CLUB AND WEAPONS OF WAR I BREAK DOWN, UNDAM, AND BLOW UP ALL WALLS OF PROTECTION AROUND ALL HOMOSEXUALS, WITCHES, WARLOCKS, WIZARDS, SATANISTS, ATHEISTS, LIBERALS, DEMOCRATS, SORCERERS, AND THE LIKE, AND I BREAK THE POWER OF ALL CURSES, HEXES, VEXES, SPELLS, CHARMS, FETISHES, PSYCHIC PRAYERS, PSYCHIC THOUGHTS, ALL WITCHCRAFT, SORCERY, SATIRE, PARODY, MAGIC, VOODOO, ALL MIND CONTROL, JINXES, POTIONS, BEWITCHMENTS, DEATH, DESTRUCTION, SICKNESS, PAIN, TORMENT, PSYCHIC POWER, PSYCHIC WARFARE, PRAYER CHAINS, INCENSE AND CANDLE BURNING, INCANTATIONS, CHANTING, UNGODLY BLESSINGS AND HOODOO, CRYSTALS, AND EVERYTHING ELSE BEING SENT MY WAY, OR MY FAMILY MEMBER’S WAY, OR ANY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES WAY, AND I RETURN IT, AND THE DEMONS TO THE SENDER, TEN FOLD.

AMEN.’

Wow. Note the fact that, as the prayer is in caps, it should not be thought, whispered, or spoken aloud, but rather SHOUTED).

Also, for a professed Christian, she sure believes that a lot of decidedly non-Christian stuff needs to be warded off, doesn’t she?

This is madness!

It’s not even funny (OK, it is quite funny) when Sisyphus plays into our hands so easily.

300. One of the worst films released this year, purely because it tries so hard to be serious, and so hard to have a message, and then … a farce. Connoiseurs of youtube will already have discovered about a million permutations of the trailer (my favourites – Hamlet, lego, and PG-rated), so I trust you need no more explanation.

Anyway, the content of Sisyphus’ post -

‘ This one has no immediate political relevance, other than showing that Iran can be beaten, and has been beaten in the past.’

Pardon me while I laugh hysterically, but since when were the actions of a 2500 year old empire relevant to today? Oh, and one more thing which Sisyphus seems to have forgotten – the Spartans (and their 4900 allies; another point glossed over in the film. When looking at those figures, and seeing that Opuntian Locris only sent 13 people, I just wonder how badass they must have been, to send such a small number ‘in full force’) lost the Battle of Thermopylae. They all died! Classical Greece was (just slightly) outlived by the Persian Empire (both fell to Alexander the Great, who, as we know, was not Greek, but Macedonian).
‘Plus, I think this was a really good movie.’

I’m not going to argue this point, suffice to say

• Historical accuracy any one? I don’t remember that Persians having a cave troll on their side, at the very least, nor that just about all Persians were either

1. Mr T. (the messengers )
2. Lepers (the immortals)
3. Mutants (Xerxes’ harem)

• The film would probably be a good hour shorter if it didn’t gratuitously go into slow motion, just so we can see more gore.

‘The Spartans were Pagans, but I still respect the values of their society. Very enlightened Pagans.’

Oh dear. Must I really list to you some bad things that the Spartans did?

• refused to take part in the League of Corinth unless they could pillage, loot and plunder unrestrainedly
• were, according to Aristotle’s Politics (iii. I285a) governed by ‘a kind of unlimited and perpetual generalship’. A military, fascist regime, basically.
• practiced slavery (the είλωτες) on a massive scale
• practiced eugenics (children, if not up to the Spartans’ exacting physical standards, would be left on Mt. Taygetus to die)
• practiced state- and religion- sanctioned paedophilia.

I hope that when Sisyphus said that he admired the values of the Spartans, and called them ‘very enlightened’, he was merely being ignorant, and didn’t know the above.

Defies Thought

http://blogs4brownback.wordpress.com/2007/06/21/angels-and-atoms/

Wow. I don’t think there’s anything more to say.

Interesting

Have a little look at this. I don’t know what to make of it; is it the real WP Admin (please let it be; some of the postings are just way too extreme), or a fake? We don’t have access to the IP, and it wouldn’t be too hard to just disguise the name, so we can’t find out, but we can look at what they say -

‘With regard to recent press reports about WordPress hosting a blog entitled “Blogs 4 Brownback”.

WordPress has received some worrying comments with regard to this blog through our admin site. The “Blogs 4 Brownback” site is a parody. Please do not forward any comments with regard to racist language, personal abuse or civil action suits to WordPress as we are not responsible for the content on the blog, merely as a host for the site.

Please use the “Blogs 4 Brownback” blog as it was intented: for entertainment purposes only.

Thank you,
The WordPress Team.’

It confirms that B4B is a parodic website – discussion about this aside, I don’t know how they would know.

Also, I can’t find any of those press releases that were talked about.

I really wish this was true; it would make me feel happier about the human race – but I’m going to be cautious for the moment.

EDIT:Breaking news – Sisyphus rebuts this attack, and reaffirms that he isn’t a parody.

Given that he’s stating that ‘with faith in our hearts and God on our side, decent Americans will prevail over you moonbat scumbags’, he probably means it, too.

Also, note this – signing off with ‘May God be with you all’. Is this the Sisyphean version of the Aschlaflean ‘Godspeed‘?

Greetings from RationalWiki

Greetings, all.

Welcome to Blogs 4 Moonbats. Our name comes from the rampant overuse of the term “moonbat” on Blogs 4 Brownback, whether it is a parody or not. So, sit back, read, and enjoy!