Archive for February, 2010

Brutally Honest Rant on the Austin IRS attack

Posted in Uncategorized with tags on February 20, 2010 by David 2

(The following is the transcript from the February 20th show “Brutally Honest” on ShockNet Radio pertaining to the February 18th attack on the IRS building in Austin, TX.  The transcript appears with permission of David 2.)

This past Thursday, a disgruntled American boarded his single-engine airplane and flew it into a federal building in Austin, Texas.  Specifically, the offices of the Internal Revenue Service.  The resulting explosion engulfed the whole building, but thankfully the loss of life was limited.

Prior to his Kamikaze flight, he posted a very lengthy diatribe online explaining WHY he did what he did.  He focused his anger largely at the IRS because of the ongoing problems he had with them over taxes, but from the tone of his manifesto, he was largely angry at government in general.  He was angry at how big corporations would get billions without strings, but ordinary people would get the shaft.  He was angry at the ongoing status quo in Washington, despite the numerous elections and promises, and he recounted how he lost most of his money due to the games being played in government.  After he posted his manifesto, he set his house on fire, and then hopped on his plane to personally deliver what he called his “pound of flesh”.

As with previous tragedies, I’m not going to give his name on my show.  I’m not going to dignify what he did by saying who he was, even though his name is now a household word thanks to the media.

I understand his frustrations.  I understand his growing bile for how the system is.  You’ve heard me vent the same kind of frustration on this program.  But this guy crossed a line that should not BE crossed.  He went from being a victim of the situation into a villain, and he expected other people to do the same.

And I got a problem with that.  I would have had more respect for him and the burdens he carried if he crashed his plane into his own house.  If he crashed his plane into a hillside.  If he crashed his plane into a lake.  If he just took his own life, I would have had more respect for him and the burdens that he carried.  He would actually have gotten far more support and sympathy for what he was going through if his was the only life that he tried to take.

But he didn’t do that.  He deliberately targeted a building full of people.  He committed a deliberate act of terrorism.

Yes, that’s right, you heard me… TERRORISM.

Terrorism in the same light as the act committed by Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols in Oklahoma City.  Terrorism in the same light as Ted Kaczynski, aka the Unabomber.  Terrorism in the same light as Eric Robert Rudolph, the bomber of the 1996 Olympic Games.  He didn’t have to belong to a group to be a terrorist any more than the Unabomber was.  He didn’t have to survive to be called a terrorist.  He did what he did because he wanted to take as many lives with him as he could and to incite others to do the same.  He WAS a terrorist.

And let’s get brutally honest here… as soon as he did that, he LOST his argument.  He was no longer the victim of the evil government and evil corporations.  It stopped being about the system being screwed up and the story became what HE did.  HE became the bad guy.  HE became the villain.  HE became the monster of the story.

Worse yet for him, he left a wife and daughter behind, who now have to live with the fact that their husband and father died not a hero, but as a terrorist.  They now have to apologize for his actions.  They now have to try to justify what he, by his actions, made unjustifiable.  THEY are the victims in this story.  Not just the people who were attacked, but also his own family members, who now have to shoulder the burdens of HIS actions.

His actions were inexcusable, but the circumstances that led him to this level of despair and hate was not isolated to just him.  And I think that was the reason why he believed he could inspire other to follow his course.

I’ve said it before on this program and it is always worth repeating… this recession is being paid for IN BLOOD.  I do not wish that this was so.  This is not something that I would WANT to have happen.  I would rather this situation be resolved BY the people we elected into office to do just that.  But if there is anything that can be done to prevent this kind of tragedy from repeating itself, it HAS to come from the people up top.  This HAS to come from the politicians, the game-players, the banks, the Wall Street Masters of the Universe.  They have to look at this tragedy not as some macabre disjointed form of entertainment but as a serious red flag that things HAVE gone too far.

THEY are the ones that can put a stop to this.  It has always been within their power to do it.  The real question is how many other forms of tragedy will we collectively have to experience before they do their jobs?

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Jesus wrapped in swaddling…breasts?

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on February 20, 2010 by RJ Evans

(Editorial Comment from the American Heathen® radio show – Air Date 02/19/10)

Breasts.  Memories of the warmth of a mother’s bosom.  It brings visions of caring, nurturing, tenderness… it warms the heart and soothes the mind.  How wonderful!  Yeah.  Right. Try this on for size!

Let’s talk about Jesus, the crucifix, tits and porn.  Yes, Jesus, the crucifix, tits…and porn.  I noticed something not too long ago.  Something that I was surprised hadn’t cratered my cranium many, many years earlier.  I was checking out some hot amateur women on the net.  Nothing out of the ordinary for any guy who actually likes women and his penis.  In fact, I really like checking out hot chicks and depressing myself over the fact that I’m too old for the vast majority of them, and the other fact that they wouldn’t have anything to do with an elder statesman such as myself to begin with.  Anyway… mid-tug I suddenly realized that over ninety percent of the smart phone photos I was looking at had Jesus bleeding profusely, dying in agony, hanging from an ancient torture device at the end of a chain and tightly nestled between two heaving, gorgeous tits.  Tugus-Interuptus!  Mind you, I wasn’t disparaged by the fictitious tragedy of Jesus.  No. The fiction got what he deserved anyway.  No. I was distracted away from my orgasmic bliss by my own hysterical laughter.  The blood that had inhabited my phallus was being detoured to the amusement center of my brain.  My funny bone stomped all over my love bone.  The juxtaposition of a religious icon at the center of self-righteousness, bigotry and hate…that proclaims ethical and moral superiority over all… that attacks human sexuality with more ferocity than any other human biological function other than taking a piss or shit… against the backdrop of the most obvious sexual organ other than the vagina (which is typically hidden from view), was too much for me to take.  This unexpected moment of compare and contrast destroyed my libido, and left me wondering if this moment was simply a coincidence, or a plague of hypocrisy the likes of which have never been seen before. I decided that if I were to ever get a hard-on again without breaking into gut wrenching laughter, I needed answers, and I needed them quick.

It’s not often that I go in search of tits and porn for matters other than pleasure.  But, this was one of those rare times when my hands were twiddling the keyboard as opposed to twiddling myself.  I was dead set on visiting as many porn related sites as possible and examining as many photographs as my eyes could handle, in the quest to find Jesus.  And boy, did I find Jesus!  From the tame to the extreme, Jesus loves porn!  In fact, it could be argued that Jesus is most likely the biggest male porn star of all time.  His likeness can be seen in so many photos, movies, e zines, posters, novelties… The Jew is one hell of a stud!  As I cruised the net and found Jesus, I had a revelation.  I wondered if this might be a better way for people to find Jesus?  I mean, he’s everywhere, he’s really a chick magnet, and what better way to save the sinner than to partake in the sin?  Everywhere I looked, there was Jesus, or the instrument of his death.  Gold, silver, bronze, jeweled, macrame, tattooed… the diversity of presentation was astounding.  And yet, with each page and with each photo representation of this icon of self-righteousness, I found my laughter growing exponentially.  And, then I saw it.

I had to check out a side of porn that really has no interest to me.  There’s nothing at all wrong with it.  But, for me, it just isn’t…well…me.  I went to a gay men porn site.  And there, low and behold, was Jesus!  Yes, Jesus is not only a stud with the women, but he’s also a fag!  Queer as sunlight and too hot to handle!  Jesus loves fags too!

I logged off the computer.  I had laughed myself into a potential puking fit.  My stomach was cramped to the point where I actually developed a temporary six-pack, my eyes were blood red, and my head pounded so hard it felt like I was being hit across the forehead with a baseball bat.  As I gathered myself together and slowly relaxed, I realized that I had indeed found Jesus and he wasn’t behind my couch.  He was on the Internet, and was the king of porn! What’s more important was that I was saved… saved from the excruciating pain of endless laughter and tugus-interuptus.  Now, I could go back to my daily biological routine, never the worry for my salvation, for Jesus was jizzin’ with me.

On a serious note…

What does this say about religion?  Well, for one thing it is another in a string of hypocrisies that reveals the lies of religion.  Because religion is so heavily focused on human sexuality, the compare and contrast of religious sexual morality with human sexuality is amazing.  The very idea that any believer is better than, or superior to, anyone outside of that belief system when it comes to sex is beyond ludicrous.  It is beyond laughable.  It reaches the realm of asinine.  Judge not lest ye be judged.  Yeah.  Right.  Keep in mind the judgment doesn’t come from me.  I could care less if you believe in a skydaddy and fuck like a bunny with Jesus as the third wheel.  But, I have to ask…  Since when do you have a right to tell me, or anyone else who, what, why, when, where, how, they can fuck, suck, jerk, work and flirt?  Yeah, you!  The bitch with the icon of self-righteousness hanging between your globes?  Who are you…the closet fag who declares that homosexuality is an abomination, but hangs your hat in a dirty bathroom stall, running your hand under the divider in hopes someone will stick their dick through the hole to satisfy your desires?  Who are you… the priest, reverend, pastor, who chooses to proclaim moral high ground while distorting normal sexuality, comparing it to child molestation while you threaten hell fire and damnation to get your dick sucked by an innocent child?
Who are you Jesus lovers?  I’ll tell you who you are.  You’re human.  You’re no better than anyone else.  You have the same sexual desires as everyone else.  And you also have the potential to abuse sexuality just as easily as anyone else.  The only difference between you and the rest of the world is you make claims to shield you from you and the world around you.  Your fear, your self-loathing, your denial…these are the things that make you a reprehensible human being who’s self-worth is wrapped tightly in a two thousand-year old self-righteous tantrum of ignorance.   So, while you wrap Jesus tightly between your tits, while taking it up the ass… While you secretly praise the King of Porn while sucking another mans dick… Jesus don’t really give a shit.  Want proof?  Check out a pair of tits.

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How Absurd!

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , on February 13, 2010 by RJ Evans

(Editorial Comment from the American Heathen® radio show – Air Date 02/12/10)

His home is at the Northern Pole of planet Earth.  He’s married, has 8 flying reindeer, gives away lots of free name-brand toys to children all over the world, and more importantly, he delivers them in person while checking through a list of millions of names to see who deserves a gift.  He doesn’t use a delivery truck.  He travels by flying sleigh, pulled by, the previously mentioned, 8 flying reindeer.  Absurdity number one.

He was born of a virgin, healed the sick through miracles, lived thirty-three years, was executed,  only to rise from the dead and ascend into a place called heaven to sit at the right hand of his father, an entity that created everything, knows everything in advance, hears everything, see everything, and on top of all that, demands worship and praise.  This guy’s Dad is always fighting another supernatural entity, one that is supposedly evil, over the souls (i.e. spirits that inhabit biological forms) of his Dad’s creation.  Yet, depending on who you talk to, this evil supernatural entity might have been his Dad’s brother, or it could be that his Dad created this evil entity to have someone to argue with.  Absurdity number two.

Absurdities.  There are a lot of absurdities in the world.  The two I’ve just mentioned have a great deal at stake when it comes to believability.  Both have financial stakes, and they are both equally absurd stories.  One is based on the other, yet the irony is that a majority of adults don’t believe in one of them, but absolutely believe the other.  They also spend a lot of cash on both, one spending cash for the fun of it, the other is considered essential spending to further the cause.  Children, of course, are easily led to believe both…at least until they discover that Daddy’s the one eating the cookies and drinking the milk, and the handwriting on the brightly colored package tags looks suspiciously like Mommy’s.  But, I digress…
Notice how ridiculously easy it is to use one absurdity to sell another?  And,doesn’t it make you uncomfortable to know that one of these absurdities is laughed and scoffed at by adults, while the other is taken at face value?  And, what about one of these absurdities being manipulated time and time again when it is decided that the story needs more flair, pomp and circumstance, or when some part of it is ridiculously weak?  Welcome to the absurd.

Absurd.  The meaning of the word absurd, according to the dictionary is as follows:

–adjective
1.     utterly or obviously senseless, illogical, or untrue; contrary to all reason or common sense; laughably foolish or false: an absurd explanation.
–noun
2.     the quality or condition of existing in a meaningless and irrational world.

The world of the absurd is fraught with example after example of human ignorance and idiocy.  In the absence of logic and reason, in a world of total stupidity, absurdity runs freely through our collective existence.  It does not beg for acceptance, it receives it without question.   Basically, people will buy into anything as long as it’s easy and doesn’t require any effort.  Much like going to the gym to exercise our bodies, effort is avoided to exercise our brains as well.  It’s as if we are anxious to get life over with, to see it through in the easiest way possible,  totally void of any effort to learn and understand our reality.  But, here lay the greatest irony.  As people sit on their collective asses, denying the obvious in favor of the absurd, they still demand that someone give them what they want in terms of making their lives even more absurdly easy!  They want  technological advancements that simplify their already oversimplified lives.  They want to make things even easier.  They like dumbing themselves down to the point where everything is done for them, where they never to have to raise a finger, never to have to make even the slightest effort.  And, at the same time they demand technological solutions to their laziness, they reject any  technological advancement that reveals the absurdity of their mindless absurdities.  The whole thing is absurd in absurdity!  But, as I said earlier, welcome the absurd.

Today’s practical application of absurd is really no different from that of yesteryear.  Absurdity still migrates freely through the human condition.  It worms its way through all people, places, things.  It manifests itself best in politics and religion.  It is here, in these two ideological strongholds, that absurdity thrives in an environment tailor-made for it.  It is here that absurdity masquerades efficiently as truth.  It is here that absurdity finds its greatest achievements through its destruction of common sense, reason, logic, science, civil discourse, honor, integrity, nobility and dignity.  Absurdity even openly defies these human tenets, choosing to spit in their faces and piss on their purity, all the while laughing with delight.

Politicians openly embrace absurdity.  A recent example of political absurdity are the Congressmen and women who oppose financial stimulus while openly begging for more money.  Absurd huh?  Of course, religion is the king of absurdity.  Thousands of years of practice have given religion the honor of wearing the putrid robes of absurdity. How is this for a recent example?  A place called Cherry Hill Seminary supports the Separation of Church and State.  Sounds fairly reasonable right?  But, take a look at the following quote from James Bianchi, Attorney at Law and a Cherry Hill Seminary professor who teaches on the subject of religion and the law.  In a recent article on talktoaction.org, Bianchi defends Separation of Church and State against WallBuilders Inc. in an amicus brief filed with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on behalf of the Rev. Patrick M. McCollum in McCollum vs.California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.  Bianchi states “The whole purpose of the First Amendment was to prevent the kind of civil strife which occurs when one religious group appears to dominate the political structure to the disadvantage of other religious groups. This is when churches burn; this is what our founders foresaw and wanted to prevent. Voltaire said ‘Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.’ This is why education is so vital to maintaining a democracy.”

Do you see the multiple absurdities in Bianchi’s statement?  A Christian theologian and attorney, quoting Voltaire, and using this quote, “Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices” is truly absurd!  If you don’t see the absurdity, then I guess I’ll have to spell it out for you.  Voltaire, a man who is arguably a pantheist – which is basically atheism light – has made a glorious and factual statement against religion of any stripe, and yet his quote is used as support for moderate Christianity?  Even more absurd is the fact that religion of any flavor is an absurdity in and of itself, and  it is devious and hypocritical to imply by quoting Voltaire that moderate Christianity is incapable of committing injustices!  Voltaire’s declaration against people having the power to make someone believe absurdities is not a nod and a wink to one version of a skydaddy!  It is a blanket indictment of ANY absurdity of belief.   But, Bianchi expects us to believe the absurd idea that their particular brand of Christianity isn’t absurd and is  incapable of committing injustices.  Sure thing!  Let me bend over and let you shove your dogma right up my ass while I smile for the camera.

Welcome to the absurd my friends.  Welcome to the big top. It’s the greatest absurd show on earth. By the way… If you have a taste for the absurd, simply look in the mirror.  You see, you are the reason absurdity continues to thrive.  It is people who refuse to acknowledge to themselves how absurd they are in not calling absurdity to account.  And, quite frankly, that is the most absurd thing I know.   How absurd?  You tell me!

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A Matter of Convenience

Posted in Uncategorized with tags , , , , , , , on February 7, 2010 by RJ Evans

(Editorial Comment from the American Heathen® radio show – Air Date 02/05/10)

Opposing viewpoints aren’t always welcome here.  It really depends on the strength of the opposing argument.  Unsubstantiated rhetoric, lack of credibility and integrity, play a large role in my decision as to whether an opposing viewpoint makes it to my blog.  Religious dogma does not qualify as a valid opposing view.  Otherwise, it’s the same old arguments, sometimes with a new twist, but never backed up by anything more than the Bible and someones “feelings”.  Excluding dogma, I make every effort to recognize opposing views by evaluating them carefully and with an open mind.  I don’t sweat publishing an opposing view on my blog if it is void of dogma.  Ever.

A couple of weeks ago the Americans United for the Separation of Church and State (AU.org) blog page disappeared.  If anyone tried to visit it, they would get a message that said the site was down due to technical difficulties.  I suspected from the get go that AU.org was most likely making a change to the way the blog is used by readers.  I was sure an effort to quell, or even deny the opportunity to publicly respond to AU blog posts, was in the works.  Why?  Well, the blog’s comments section had seen some very heated exchanges between hard-core fundamentalists and non-believers for several months.  These exchanges became a one-sided insult fest initially, the fundamentalists taking charge of the ad-hom arena as usual, unable to argue on facts and evidence.   But soon, even the non-believers and secular crowd jumped on the insult bandwagon.  Although, to their credit, the non-believers weren’t nearly as nasty and brash as the fundamentalist crowd.  Most of the non-believer retorts were benign jabs at the intelligence quotient of the fundamentalist mentality.  In any event, it became apparent that AU.org was growing concerned with some of the vitriol and decided to post a disclaimer at the head of the comments section of the blog.  Censorship also played a role as some words like “socialist” and “socialism” found their way into a dirt pile of other objectionable words that were apparently considered unproductive to the AU.org agenda.

The AU.org blog comments section is now gone.  None of this is surprising to me.  While AU.org strives to defend freedom of religion, they are doing so as an absolute matter of survival.  They are, in fact, founded by the Reverend Barry Lynn, and as such are concerned with religious freedom and faith as opposed to freedom from religion.  Indeed, it is this very idea of freedom of religion that is the main focus of the organization.  It is about freedom to believe in a myth.  While as a matter of course AU.org is compelled to defend their religious agenda, they certainly do not go out of their way to embrace the non-believer any more than they have to.  They simply must  support their skydaddy belief.

Comments posted to the AU.org blog by non-believers that defended Separation of Church and State, but at the same time were critical of religious belief, may have been the impetus for shutting down the comment section.  I say may have been for I do not have evidence to substantiate this.  Indeed, there is also reason to believe that the vitriol of the fundamentalists may have been a contributing factor as well.  I choose to deduce that the decision to shut down the comments section was the result of both camps, and the politically correct way for AU.org to walk away from controversy.  But is it really surprising that a political organization, designed to defend freedom of religion, runs scared when fundamentalist bullshit, and non-believer facts and evidence threaten to undermine their particular skydaddy vision?  No.

Herein lies the problem with religion.  Selective belief and selective exclusion.  AU.org really has no choice but to defend itself and its moderate interpretation of a skydaddy.  That’s also why it embraces other moderate Christian versions and other moderate religions.  But, in order to further its agenda, it also has to grudgingly embrace non-belief.  I say grudgingly because after several years of reading AU.org articles, the non-believer is always referred to as an afterthought.  An example of this is a common statement  in a large number of AU.org articles – usually in parentheses – that reads “…and those who don’t believe”.   It’s kind of like having a little brother or sister.  You can’t stand them, but you tolerate them because Mom and Dad (read the U.S. Constitution) says so.  You have to take them in tow, or you’ll be grounded.  But, once again is this really surprising?

AU.org has an agenda.  And, even though they may support the Separation of Church and State, they do so because they believe in a skydaddy and MUST defend their right to do so.  The only reason they defend the non-believer is because they have to, ultimately for their own benefit.  Period.  To expect anything otherwise is ignorant, and unrealistic.  Keep in mind that skydaddy worship is a pick and choose proposition, and it comes with blinders.  It can’t take criticism, and it doesn’t work through proofs of evidence.  Ultimately, any support for Separation of Church and State, from any religious organization, is not concerned with reality, but with the survival of  fiction.

AU.org really doesn’t care about non-belief.  To them, it is a little brother or sister that must be defended out of self-preservation.  While they claim to love all beliefs, they only tolerate non-belief as long as it keeps them from being grounded.  As far as freedom of speech… AU.org is a private, political, non-profit religious organization.  They can do whatever the hell they want.  Yeah, we don’t have to like it, but that’s the way it is.  Just as my blog has an agenda of facts, proofs of evidence, science, reason and logic, AU.org’s agenda is to further belief in the absence of facts, proofs of evidence, science, reason and logic.  Keep that in mind.  For AU.org  it’s simply a matter of skydaddy convenience.

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