Onward Christian Soldiers, Digital Fun

Now, right up front I'm saying I don't agree with the progressives here. Nosiree.
Christian Christmas gifts every Christian kid needs this year...

Liberal and progressive Christian groups say a new
computer game in which players must either convert or kill non-Christians is the
wrong gift to give this holiday season and that Wal-Mart, a major video game
retailer, should yank it off its shelves.

The Campaign to Defend the Constitution and the Christian
Alliance for Progress, two online political groups, plan to demand today that
Wal-Mart dump Left Behind: Eternal Forces, a PC game inspired by a series of
Christian novels that are hugely popular, especially with teens.

The series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins is based on
their interpretation of the Bible's Book of Revelation and takes place after the
Rapture, when Jesus has taken his people to heaven and left nonbelievers behind
to face the Antichrist...."

It's an incredibly violent video game," said Stevens.
"Sure, there is no blood. (The dead just fade off the screen.) But you are
mowing down your enemy with a gun. It pushes a message of religious intolerance.
You can either play for the 'good side' by trying to convert nonbelievers to
your side or join the Antichrist."The Rev. Tim Simpson, a Jacksonville, Fla.,
Presbyterian minister and president of the Christian Alliance for Progress,
added: "So, under the Christmas tree this year for little Johnny is this
allegedly Christian video game teaching Johnny to hate and kill?"

I say all Christian families should buy this game for every child, just as soon as they can hold the controller in their little hands. Christian children need to practice their faith. What better way? I mean come on, if it's good enough for our Lord(the destruction of the non-believers) it should be good enough for our kids. I can't think of a better way to witness for their faith than to demonstrate that not accepting that same faith will lead to being killed(Level 1) or tormented(Level 2), or both(Level 4).

So to hell with the " message of intolerance" bull. Train up a child correctly and he will remain faithful. Spare the violent Christian video game and spoil the child. (I'm paraphrasing). They can tell we are Christians by our hollow points and semi-automatics.

Anyway, sounds like great Christian fun. Merry Christmas and...hey, you missed the Muslim....

The Snake

WARNING! The following screed uses the root word fuck and it's derivatives frequently. Don't bitch later that I didn't warn you.

It has been quite interesting watching and listening to the conventional fucking wisdom experts in D.C since the election. Many Americans simply dismiss the whole voting thing because they believe it really doesn't matter, the crooks will do what they want to, no matter what. So it is in that spirit I want to point out what is now happening as we transition to a Democratic majority in Congress January 2007.

Voters chose Democrats because of Iraq and corruption. In other words, Americans are tired of the killing and the stealing. So what happens when all the wise ones recently reported on the Iraq debacle through the Iraq Study Group? The conventional fucking wisdom snake simply began shedding it's old skin. You have probably seen a snake shed it's skin. What happens to the snake? Does it turn into a different creature? No. It sheds and remains a fucking snake. That's what is happening right now in Washington, the snake is simply shedding a skin and remaining a snake. A snake that will continue to bite the ass of the American people when it can.

How does Bluester know this? The conventional fucking wisdom group decided on the Goldilocks and the Three Bears strategy for Iraq. They are oh-so-wise, this conventional fucking wisdom group. They recommend no additional troops to be sent into Iraq. The group doesn't recommend any immediate redeployment of our troops out of Iraq either. No, no, just as in the Goldilocks story everything, according to the conventional fucking wisdom group is, "just right".

"Oh but Bluester" somebody may say, "how can that be when the conventional fucking wisdom group said Georgie's policies were all fucked up?" To which I answer, "How fucking wise can a conventional fucking wisdom group be if it took them 9 months to tell us what we already knew?" Over 60% of Americans have believed for almost a year now that Georgie's policies(assuming he has any) were fucked up. But you see, the fucking media, those who really really appreciate conventional fucking wisdom groups, were not allowed to tell us for over 3 years now that Georgie's Iraq policies were actually...how should I put it....fucked up. No, no, no. Only the conventional fucking wisdom group is allowed to do that. And so they have.

And now the media whores can go hither and yon with the conventional fucking wisdom group's blessing..."Yes, yes my sons and daughters...bless you...go forth and tell the unwashed masses the conventional fucking wisdom gospel. Yes Georgie fucked up but now, because we are so fucking wise, we recommend staying in Iraq until 2008. See how fucking wise we are and after all, we ARE a bipartisan conventional fucking wisdom group?"

One anecdote from this group will suffice for now. Last night's Hardball on MSNBC featured two members of the conventional fucking wisdom group. Chuck Robb and Sandra Day O'Conner. Yeah, can you fucking believe it? A retired Supreme Court justice. Now that's some fucking wisdom, huh? O'Conner, when narrator Mike Barnacle said the current administration had been hiding the true cost of the Iraq mess by pushing off budget supplemental bills, said, "Oh, they wouldn't do that." That's fucking wisdom for ya'. Georgie wouldn't do something like that.

Once a snake, always a snake. Even when a snake is shedding skin, it's still a snake. Now as more and more of our soldiers are killed and horribly crippled, they and their families can take great comfort in knowing the conventional fucking wisdom crowd has spoken. Fuckers.

The Smart Guys

I'm starting to see the beginnings of a new trend or fad from D.C. "thinkers" and media hacks. It is being oh-so-slyly dropped in articles and TV head time that the only real problem with the Iraq conflict is that it has been waged incompetently. The underlieing premise, simply understood of course, is that invading and occupying Iraq was the "correct" foreign policy. The implementation was just messed up.

As this theme is woven like a web for U.S. consumption, many, many conservatives, and some libs too, will eventually, I predict, flock to this completely erroneous concept and embrace it as their own.

The reason why this will happen is simple. It is the proverbial "cover your ass" tactic. See if you recognize it in your own thinking. People who were enthusiastic about invading Iraq were snookered into a corner by the neo-con cheerleaders. WMD, al-Qaeda in Iraq, complicity in 9-11, Iraqi drones over the U.S. eastern seaboard, uranium from Niger, mushroom clouds, Atta meetings with Iraqis, and I'm sure many more falsehoods made up the "message" for Americans to swallow. This isn't in doubt now, is it? The "message" was a lie.

Now consider the great length the neo-cons and their enablers went in order to NOT admit these things were untrue. It would be comedic if it wasn't so tragic. Slowly but surely each and every "reason" to go into Iraq have been shown to be untrue. And yet, new reasons to justify the invasion kept coming. Democracy, freedom on the march, stand up stand down, fighting there so not fight here, oil in the hands of them there ter'rists, and much more.

None of this is happening, none of it is true, but neo-cons and their enablers keep right on truckin'. New lies and repeated lies like hordes of locus swarm the American scene. WMD were taken to Syria, Iran is really the enemy, we must protect Israel from Iran so we must stay in Iraq, and on and on.

All of this just in order to avoid saying, confessing even, "we were just wrong about Iraq". Even liberal columnists like Richard Cohen, who was for the "war", says he thought the invasion of Iraq would give us Americans some much needed "therapeutic violence" to calm our 9-11 national nerves. But alas, the real problem wasn't the pre-emption policy of the neo-cons, in Cohen's and many other oh-so-smart folks minds. No, it was just incompetence. They just didn't invade and occupy Iraq like they should have.

All of this crazy hopping around non-logic is for one reason and one reason only. To avoid admitting being utterly mistaken about Iraq. Republicans especially have bred an environment where admission of ANY mistake is anathema. Now, no one can do it if they once supported the pre-emptive mistake. So it can't be that pre-emption is incorrect or the illegal invasion and occupation was wrongheaded. Why? Well, after all, these folks leave unsaid, we can't be wrong.
Very few can admit it. As if being human no longer includes the possibility of being wrong or incorrect about something. It is simply "cover our asses" so we can live on to always be right in the future.

So, incompetence will be the word of choice for all the "smart" people who were originally for invading Iraq. It was the right thing to do, but we just didn't think George and Dick and Don would be so, well, incompetent. I'm sure the hundreds of thousands of victims of this "smart" conflict will find great comfort in knowing it was really incompetence and not just ignorance that led to their losses. Don't you?