Guns and Christians

"The bottom line here is that as a Christian, as someone who calls Jesus Lord, you simply do not get to appeal to your “right” to kill someone with your gun in self-defense. You lose that right when you give your life to Christ. It is really that simple. To hold on to your gun as Charlton Heston says, until it is “pulled from your cold dead hand” is to hold on to your sin, just as much as it would be to hold on to your riches or hold on to your sexual exploits instead of following Jesus. This needs to be said. We should not kid ourselves and think we can hold on to our swords and still follow Jesus. There is a clear and direct conflict here, and to ignore it is to ignore Jesus as Lord." Christ vs the Constitution: Why Christians Do Not Have the Right to Bear Arms ☀

NRA Nonsense

Another popular bullshit line asks why should we bother passing laws – since the “bad guys” don’t bother with laws anyway. This sounds really savvy until you start to dig in. By that logic we shouldn’t outlaw murder either, because murderers don’t follow the law, right? But if it weren’t illegal, then we wouldn’t be able to put someone in jail for murdering someone. Right? And if we make owning automatic weapons illegal, we don’t have to wait until we catch you killing 49 people in a night club on a Saturday night. We can arrest you as soon as we see that you have in your possession a gun whose only use is to mow down dozens of people. This would of course prevent some number of murders by automatic weapon. NRA nonsense ☀

Christina Grimmies Killer

The pyscho that killed singer Christina Grimmie was nothing but a hate filled, pyschotic pile of pigshit. He never accomplished anything in his life nor to society. I don't know his name but I'm glad he was tackled by Christina's brother whom tried to save her. This fucking pig and coward then blew his fucking brains out. May he burn either in hell or oblivion for eternity for his hate and killing Christina.

Nixonland

The syllogism is simple: first in 1966 with Ronald Reagan, then in 1968 and 1972 with Richard Nixon, Republicans ascended to higher office by pinning on the Democrats responsibility for riots and disruptive protests carried out on the left, successfully framing themselves (as I detailed in my 2008 book Nixonland) as the preservers of order and decorum in a society that seemed to be falling into chaos. The Chaotic Trump Campaign ☀

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A Tribute To Facebook Group Shipwreck Island

A tribute to Shipwrwck Island on Facebook, with Etty, Morgan, William, Charles, Jennifer and the other castaways (I'm Gillagan).

The Second Amendment was Ratified to Preserve Slavery 

The real reason the Second Amendment was ratified, and why it says “State” instead of “Country” (the Framers knew the difference - see the 10th Amendment), was to preserve the slave patrol militias in the southern states, which was necessary to get Virginia’s vote. Founders Patrick Henry, George Mason, and James Madison were totally clear on that … and we all should be too.

What makes the AR-15 an assault weapon ☀

After another mass shooting in which an AR-15 most certainly posed a problem to many people trapped inside a nightclub, such a blasé approach to powerful civilian weapons may be harder to maintain. Ludwig Wittgenstein, a great 20th-century philosopher and a veteran of the first world war, wrote in his “Philosophical Investigations” that when “we employ the word ‘meaning’,’’ we are most often referring to the everyday purpose of some phrase. “The meaning of a word”, he wrote, “is its use in the language”. By that sensible if trivial standard: if an AR-15 can be used to assault large crowds of people, killing and maiming scores of them, on multiple occasions, it qualifies as an assault weapon.

Kicked off of Shipwreck Island on Facebook

Well I'm pretty sure I've been kicked off of one of my liberal groups. Shipwreck Island on Facebook. A family member had made some bullshit right wing comments while visiting me. On a private group which SI is. They had done this before. I asked them not to while using my Android but forgot to change my passwords. Their comments represent their ignorance and do not reflect my own views which are liberal.


In any case so long Etty Block, Morgan Miller, William Govern and the many others on Shipwreck Island I've come to known over the years.


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War on Islamic State

War will be waged on #ISIS, #ISIL and all #Islamic extremists. This war will involve every American and Westerner and peaceful Muslims. It will be an ongoing war 24/7. It will be a war for all freedoms. For survival. Lives will be lost but others will be saved.

Every American, Westerner and many others must stand up against this threat. Sacrifices must be made. Martyrs too.

The #IslamicState is pig manure. It means nothing. It is nothing. It will be nothing. #Death to #ISIL. #Ametica will survive this #jihad and become stronger then ever before.

Condolences to #Orlando and all #LGBT's. Shame on the #NRA.