Vox Popoli

AD wishes to see some atheist-vlogging:

Enjoy your columns and blog, it’s great to know there are other intelligent, technical people who are Christian. I know you’ve done some podcasts, but have little interest in the usual talking head media shows.

Have you thought about Vlogging? YouTube (or others like LiveVideo) seam to have some steam currently. There are several Atheist types vlogging on YouTube recently who try to present arguments against Christianity and religion in general. Mostly they are an embarrassment to themselves, but I can see they are attracting an audience. With the number of young frequenting these sites, it would be great to have a practiced debater such as yourself pointing out the flaws in their argument and ramblings. I think your creativity and imagination could have you owning these sites in no time.

Yes, I actually wrote a bit about Nick Gilburn’s situation in tomorrow’s column. (Don’t worry, it’s in context with some other stuff which should provide some small matter for amusement.) Anyhow, I’m open to trying this if someone will provide me with a transcript from which to work, perhaps taken from one of Mr. Gilburn’s more popular videos.

I can’t watch many videos without my brain going into sleep mode, usually after the second or third obvious howler I can’t even bear to listen to it. For whatever reason, I’m much more amenable to critically reading logical nonsense than listening to it or watching it.

I think I have the Microsoft video software on my other laptop, does anyone know if that will let you pop in still images such as Excel charts or whatever? Alternatively, is there any good open source video producing software, similar to Audacity for audio?

Miss Khindiwoilkajfioehieqhg of Sports Illustrated objects to an inkorrekt attitude:

Rene Portland still has a job. And I am utterly stumped at how….Five Big Ten titles and one Final Four apparently forgive a heckuva of a lot.

So, apparently the fact that the woman is an excellent, championship winning coach shouldn’t count as much as her failure to love the lesbians. What are nearly three decades of success compared with a reluctance to embrace abnormality?

It’s clear that SI is more concerned about die korrekt Attitüde than Penn State, otherwise one doubts Miss Khiwarbliahekfj320i1okjsdf01ij would have a job writing for it, given her complete lack of interest in sports.

Come to think of it, that swastika was an Indian thing originally, wasn’t it. And it’s more than a little ironic to be enduring lectures on korrekt thinking from a woman who apparently hails from the country that invented caste.

The more reasonable question is: how long will Miss Aei1893482upncai1[34091jfqpoi have her job? The answer is: not very.

Carolus offers misguided praise:

Not even when the gayly righteous ‘stache developed a hysterical case of the vapors over Vox’s WND piece, sending over swarms of flying monkeys, did VD cave.

Gotta give you credit for than one, VD.

Thanks, but honestly, none is due. It never occurred to me to even consider apologizing, much less retract the statement. To credit me for that is like praising a dog for bravery under fire, when in truth the dog has no idea that the big booming noises are anything but thunder.

I don’t regard Medved’s yapping as any different than anyone else’s. If criticism is based on substance, it demands consideration. If it isn’t, it doesn’t. In either case, it doesn’t matter who is doing the yapping.

But don’t mistake my indifference for courage. I could walk away from WND and this blog tomorrow without it costing me anything except negative time. (Not that I plan to do so, it’s just a fact.) But in fairness, even if it’s a cheap integrity, it is a form of integrity nonetheless.

I don’t think this sort of statement is particularly helpful to the cause of those who insist that President Bush isn’t intending to attack Iran at the behest of Israel:

Ex-Israeli Prime Minister “Bibi” Netanyahu has told CNN: “Iran is Germany, and it’s 1938. Except that this Nazi regime that is in Iran … wants to dominate the world, annihilate the Jews, but also annihilate America.”

Wait, I’m having trouble keeping this straight. I thought Hussein was Hitler, or was it Milosevic? And where does Kim Jong-il, who appears to actually have nukes and is formally still at war with the USA, fit into this ever-increasing multitude of Hitlers?

This appears to be the 2007 remake of The Boys From Brazil. (Frankly, I much preferred the sequel, The Babes From Brazil, starring Miss Adriana Lima.) But here’s the important question: if it turns out that it’s George W. Bush who is actually Hitler after all, does this mean that Bibi and everyone is down with nuking Washington DC?

Personally, I’d be against it on the grounds that radiating the Lizard Queen is more likely to supersize her than neutralize her, and let’s face it, those thunder thighs are big enough already.

See, he went to Bible school!

Scores of police have been sent to the jungles of remote Papua New Guinea to hunt for a cult leader known as the Black Jesus, who is said to have sacrificed three young women to the devil and eaten their bodies.

In one case reported by villagers, a mother who had fallen under the cult leader’s spell led her 14-year-old daughter to his hideout, offered her to him as a virgin then stabbed her to death.

The Black Jesus, 31-year-old Steven Tari, started his cult last year after he was expelled from a Bible college for stealing from fellow students

Now do you see why evil men might like the idea of women’s suffrage? If you can talk a woman into sacrificing her virgin daughter, I imagine you can talk her into pretty much anything you might want. But this actually makes me think of how nonsensical it is when atheists attempt to prove that obvious non-Christians are Christians based on a definition that would prove that they themselves are Christians.

I’m not talking about the No True Scotsman fallacy, but rather, ignoring overt evidence that people have actively set themselves up in direct opposition to basic Christian principle as well as the Church.

Atheist: “Sure, Hitler may have tried to create a new church with himself as the Christ figure, but you know, he was an altar boy. And he said some nice things about Jesus when he was trying to get elected to office, so obviously he was a Christian.”

Vox: “Didn’t Mohammed say some nice things about Jesus?”

Atheist: “Well, yeah.”

Vox: “Didn’t you go to Lutheran school and get confirmed?”

Atheist: “Well, yeah, but I don’t believe in God now!”

This does, of course, make one wonder if the Christian seminaries of the world might not want to examine their prospective students a little more closely. This whole “let in the gays and the devil worshippers” concept doesn’t seem to be a particularly effective strategy.

In any case, you’d think the media would realize that the more sensitive term for this devil-worshipping cannibal would be “African-Papua New Guinean Jesus”.

More proof that there is no law in the USA, only pronouncements from the bench:

Sixteen months after his divorce, Richard Parker made a devastating discovery. A DNA test revealed that his 3-year-old son had been fathered by someone else.

Mr. Parker immediately filed a lawsuit claiming fraud by his apparently unfaithful ex-wife. He took his case all the way to the Florida Supreme Court.

Last week, the Florida justices ruled 7-0 against him. They said that Parker must continue to pay $1,200 a month in child support because he had missed the one-year postdivorce deadline for filing his lawsuit. His court-ordered payments would total more than $200,000 over 15 years to support another man’s child.

No doubt he’ll be labled a “deadbeat dad” despite not, in fact, being a father at all. Of course, if the court genuinely had the interests of the child in mind, they wouldn’t have left it with the lying cow in the first place.

The thing is, all contracts are null and void if there is fraud on the part of one of the contracting parties. You can’t be held liable for something that isn’t yours, except, of course, when a judge magically declares you to be on some imaginary basis.

And this is just yet another example of how women are legally inferior to men, given the courts’ customary expectation that they are incapable of providing for themselves or their offspring, whereas a man is quite clearly considered capable of providing even for those who are not his.

Or he will be for the next month, anyhow. It seems Fox News is reporting that Anna Nicole Smith died today. It’s a pity, but not exactly a shock. Physical attractiveness, psychiatric problems and drugs just don’t seem to be the ideal recipe for a long and happy life.

“My intention is never to offend anyone for his or her personal beliefs, and I am sorry if anyone was personally offended by writings meant only as criticisms of public politics. Freedom of religion and freedom of expression are central rights, and the sum of my personal writings is a testament to this fact.” – Amynda

“[I have] an unwavering support of religious freedom and a deep respect for diverse beliefs. It has never been my intention to disparage people’s individual faith, and I’m sorry if my words were taken in that way.” – Shakespeare’s Sister

I have no doubt there will be plenty of opportunity to hang both of these dimwits on those words. What a pair of cowards! If I was a fan of either of those blogs, I’d be sickened at the boot-licking on display here, especially considering how those fans were going on and on about how disgusting they found John Edwards’ presumed willingness to bow to necessity.

Of course, being a feminist means never having to make sense.

While I’m delighted that they’ll both be around for further public blog-kicking, I fully expect Amynda to break under the pressure of trying to watch her tongue. She’ll land herself in hot water again long before Edwards drops out of the race to endorse the Lizard Queen.

As for me, I shall intentionally offend whomever I wish, whenever I wish, for whatever reason I wish. This includes, but is not limited to, your personal beliefs, your intellect, your physical appearance, your opinion on a particular matter, your abilities or your lack of abilities, your sex, your race, your language or your national origin.

Furthermore, I have yet to apologize for or retract anything that I have written in a WorldNetDaily column or on this blog. Nor do I foresee any probability of doing so in the future.

It’s official:

The N.C.A.A. recommends that women not be weighed on a regular basis, said Dr. Ron A. Thompson, a psychologist and eating-disorder therapist in Bloomington, Ind., who consults with the collegiate association. He said he opposed making weights public and the practice of weighing female athletes. Lining athletes up for weigh-ins is a form of “public degradation,” Thompson said.

Naturally, we wouldn’t want to risk breaking their fragile little minds by allowing them to know how much their own freaking bodies weigh! Women apparently can’t handle that knowledge. But they can handle the sacrosanct responsibility of voting… which tells you all you need to know about how important voting truly is.

The thing that’s so stupid about this is that weight is an important aspect of many competitive sports. It determines whether a football team will try to run on its opponents defensive line or not, it is part of the equation determining whether a basketball center will need help defending against his opposite number and it is intrinsic to most martial arts matchups.

If single-sex education is banned, single-sex sports should be too. If you’re not good enough to compete with the big boys, then you’re not good enough, period. Or the little girls, for that matter. I wouldn’t expect men to compete in certain gymnastics events any better than women would in the NFL.

Space Diapers demonstrates one way in which women can have it all:

Lisa Nowak chose a juggling act of dauntingly high difficulty: to be an astronaut and a mother of three.

Her background – high school valedictorian, Naval Academy graduate, test pilot – seemed to equip her for the challenge. Yet as she and some of her acquaintances acknowledged, the stresses on her and her family were extraordinarily intense.

On Wednesday, transformed from space hero to criminal suspect, Nowak returned to Houston for a medical assessment, a day after she was charged in Florida with attempted murder and attempted kidnapping in what police depicted as a love triangle involving a fellow astronaut.

The woman viewed as a role model by the schoolchildren she often addressed was met on the tarmac by police and escorted into a waiting squad car. Her head was covered by a jacket. She was later released on bail, with orders to stay away from the other woman and to wear a monitoring device; she faced a medical exam at Johnson Space Center.

While the whole story is extremely funny, except for the matter of the three kids involved, it is only the latest example of a much-lauded, high-flying woman crashing and burning. Sometimes they do this quite literally, and I’d be quite interested to see someone do a study on these female models of accomplishment to determine what percentage of them end up as complete train wrecks.

Recently, one of Blair’s Babes died, a female MP whose life fell completely apart after she was elected to Parliament, a similar example of the particular toll that great success seems to exact from some women.

Now, there have always been a higher percentage of crazies than normal among the most accomplished men. But what’s striking here is the high percentage of crazies among the women and the level of self-destructiveness which only seems to appear after their success has been attained.

This does not bode well for a nation soon to be governed by Ms Pelosi and Ms Rodham.