This story frightened me.
A man from Humble, Texas...let me just stop the story right there. Humble, Texas? HUMBLE? Texas? They think they are their own country! Humility is not in their genetic make up. And isn't naming a town Humble kinda asking for trouble anyway?
But I digress. A man from Humble,Texas was arrested for beating a man to death with a rock at a New Jersey rest stop. (See, I told you Humble was just asking for trouble.) The accused is Brian White, age 25. The deceased is Michail Makarenko, age 70.
What provoked White to lash out so violently against Makarenko? Makarenko refused to buy something from White: RELIGIOUS CD's! I guess White figured he was without sin and so he...well, you get where I'm going here.
In the interest of fairness, White is a DJ who goes by the name of DJ Coldblooded so there were warning signs. But I'm not here to defend the indefensible.
Makarenko had been living in the US since 1982. He was originally from the former Soviet Union where he ran a gallery. He used his gallery to exhibit the works of artists that were banned by the communist government. As a result spent 11 years in a Soviet prison.
He survived the godless Communist's and their prison system only to be beaten to death in America by a crazy religious fanatic.
The Queen Is My Shepherd, I Shall Not Wear White After Labor Day
0 Comments Published by Chris on Tuesday, November 07, 2006 at 11:33 AM.
According to an article in gay.com "scientists" at Oregon State University at working to turn gay sheep straight.
I'm gonna give that sentence a moment or two to sink in. Gay sheep, turned straight. University of Oregon. Research. Working. "Scientists." Ok? Let's continue.
Gay sheep. Before you begin any serious discussion about gay sheep (if there can in fact BE a serious conversation about the sexual preference of domesticated animals) you must first ask yourself, "How do you know the sheep are gay?" If I was forced to guess I would have to say that perhaps the gay sheep spend an unhealthy amount of time in a fraternity, but that is hardly scientific. Who had the unenviable job of sorting through the herd of sheep and determining which of the rams like to be rammed? Presumably lonely, socially awkward farm kids. In which case, didn't the sheep really just have gay thrust upon him...so to speak?
But in order for the issue to move any farther I suppose we need to conceed the point that gay sheep do exist and that that is where fabulous sweaters come from. Ok, point taken. But then the question becomes, how does one make a gay sheep straight? I'll let the gay.com article handle that explanation.
"According to the animal rights group PETA, Oregon Health and Science University experimenter Charles Roselli is medicating sheep to prevent the actions of hormones in their fetal brains. Roselli is also dissecting the brains of "male-oriented" (homosexual) rams in order to find the hormonal mechanisms behind homosexual tendencies . Once found, he hopes to change them."
Ahhhh, well, there you have it. Find out and change it. Uh-huh. There couldn't be more straight forward a scientific practice than that. Find it and change it. Perfectly clear. In fairness he's not saying that he WILL change it, only that he HOPES to change it. This seems to fall under the Bush Administration's Office of Faith-Based Science.
And what possible good could come from this tax-supported science, you ask? "According to the grant applications, the experimenters plan to extrapolate the test results to humans -- with the insidious implication that homosexuality in people can be 'cured.'"
For those of you who are keeping score of the science initiatives the Bush Administration will fund that's a NO on curing diseases with stem cell research and a YES to curing homosexuality.
Labels: Anger, Gay, Gay.com, News, Politics, President Bush, Religion, Science, Weird News
Apocalypse...now...no, wait....NOW!
1 Comments Published by Chris on Saturday, September 16, 2006 at 10:45 AM.
The House of Yaweh is a doomsday cult started in Abilene, Texas that has a very large following in Kenya for some reason. I haven't quite figured out that part of the story yet. I thought they would have branched out into maybe Oklahoma or Louisiana or, if they're really ambitious, even Mexico. I don't know why they figured Kenya was the next logical domino to fall to their end times rhetoric. I suspect the Kenyan Chamber of Commerce lured them with tax breaks and a large spec building on the outskirts of town in the newly developed Cult Park Improvement Corridor.
Well, the Kenyan sect seems to have come unhinged...well, maybe not by doomsday cult standards, but certainly to the eyes of the Kenyan government. According to an article on Reuters the Kenyan sect was preaching a nuclear holocaust that was to have begun on September 12th between the U.S. and North Korea. To prepare themselves for this seemingly inevitable catastrophe they built an underground bunker, which, to the local authorities, seemed more like a shoddily built hole in the ground. (Where's our spec building?) So the government, who apparently have very strict zoning regulations for underground bunkers and other miscellaneous crack pot structures, made them reinforce the walls with wooden pillars. In the cult's defense I guess if they thought the lord was going to defend them from a nuclear holocaust it was just a given that he would protect them from shitty carpentry.
"'Those who have been doubting us will in hours be ashamed and if the effect of the war is not felt here, then let the police arrest us,' Mosheh Sang, leader of the sect in Kenya, told journalists while packing sacks of flour into a bunker," Reuters reported. "We shall stay in the bunkers for a period of one year."
Well imagine the cult's dismay when, despite the best efforts of the Bush administration, there was no nuclear holocaust. Well they decided to hole up in their bunker for a year anyway. They'd already had a year's supply of dried fermented corn flour and if didn't start eating it right away it would just go bad...or go worse I suppose.
Sang told reporters that the nuclear war only failed to get going due to "difference in international time zones."
I'm starting to lose faith in today's cult leaders. At least when Orel Roberts was not "called back to heaven" for failing to raise enough money it was all a miraculous part of God's grand design. (And by "grand design" apparently God meant "fundraising campaign.") But all Sang gives you is, "Sorry. Technical error. We've got our boys in IT working on it right now. In the meantime, could everyone just reboot their CPUs? We apologize for any inconvenience and assure you that the infidels will be cleansed by...uh...a week from Thursday at the latest."
People want their cult leaders to rule them with an iron fist. To give them absolute, hard and fast, black and white rules to live by. They want their cult leaders to clear up any messy ambiguity in their lives and replace it with mechanized routine and robotic efficiency. They want to have their marching orders. They want to be told what to think and how to feel. They want to be freed from the surly bonds of rational thought. And that, my friends , is why there is a Republican Party!
Labels: Cult, House of Yaweh, Kenya, Lost Post, North Korea, Nuclear War, Orel Roberts, Religion, Republican Party
On my Google homepage today I found this quote, "Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. " It's from Elbert Hubbard and I find it invaluably enlightening. Follow me. Elbert Hubbard is the uncle of L. Ron Hubbard who founded Scientology which is the religion of Tom Cruise who doesn't explain anything...especially his sexuality, insane behavior and irrationally exuberant love on his automaton "wife."
Now, I'm sure I'm not the first person to publicly make fun of Scientology, but by God they make it so easy! L. Ron Hubbard is a well known writer. He wrote Dianetics which is basically a self help book and Battlefield Earth a science fiction novel. He also founded the church of Scientology because, you know, he was well qualified having already written self help and science fiction.
Now, most religions have at the heart of them some sort of fantastical story that stretches credulity almost to the breaking point. That's why they are called faiths. If you could prove it they would be facts and we all know how religions hate those. But Scientology has the extra burden of having their sacred tracts shackled to a science fiction writer. FICTION is right there in his title.
Anyway, I've veered a little off topic here. My point is this: Elbert Hubbard is the uncle of L. Ron Hubbard who founded Scientology which is the religion of Tom Cruise who was in A Few Good Men with Kevin Bacon.
Labels: Celebrity, Hollywood, Kevin Bacon, Lost Post, Religion, Tom Cruise
