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The Great American God Complex:Continuity Issues
 
I read comic books. As with any form of serialized fiction plot details can get lost over the years. The Simpsons gave up plot continuity long ago in order to keep up with the younger trophy wife known as Family Guy. Star Trek, though cartoons, books, comic books and film have done a pretty good job of it (until recently).
 
Long running TV shows usually have continuity editors to help them keep up with plot layers and/or character development. Because I am insane this seems like fun to me. When past plot developments are abandoned without explanation I am also driven insane (see the crippling bad Battlestar Galactica final.  So far away from it’s former greatness I believe it is the only TV show in history of man, to jump the shark on the last episode!).  See?  Insane.
  
Last week I posted about the case of the silly nekkid Christian, Rumsfeld & Bush’s idiot mixing of God, faith and country and of Christian nymphos. It baffles me that many Americans continue to mix patriotism and religion believing whatever they imagine is justifiable via God or the constitution. Some of this stuff is relatively inoffensive but veers from root philosophy they espouse. Faith is injected in like so much creme filling into their disgusting twinkie concoction (maybe that wasn’t the best metaphor).
 
 To wit! 
 
A senior at Heritage Christian School will be suspended Monday for attending Findlay High School’s prom because the event involves dancing and rock music.
 
 
So a kid who’s committed his whole life to his faith gets a large portion of that commitment taken away for one action.  What if he attended that secular school?  Would that mean he wasn’t a Christian?  Meanwhile  Ms California is lauded for all intent and purpose, walking around nekkid.  What the what?
 
Torture debate prompts evangelical soul-searching
 
Now, President Barack Obama’s release of Bush administration memos justifying harsh interrogation techniques and a new poll showing white evangelicals more sympathetic to torture have leaders taking stock of whether evangelical opinion has shifted on the topic.
 
“I have said before that torture is like a bone caught in our throat — we can’t swallow it and we can’t spit it out,” said David Gushee, a professor of Christian ethics at Mercer University in Atlanta and president of Evangelicals for Human Rights. “I think we’re still there.”
 
 
Conservatives and Republicans.  You can’t pretend the last 8 years were some sort of really long one night stand, waking up to a particularly unattractive skank sleeping on your arm. Like you didn’t know Karl Rove was that ugly before you got into bed with him.  Even beer goggles couldn’t remove that kind of ugly. Didn’t you know sleeping with W Bush would leave the country with a retarded baby?  Do you now see why liberals could not believe you’d vote for him again?  Bush/Cheney may have been less moral most of the liberals you criticise!  According to your own skewed standards! 
   
There’s still the little issue of capital punishment, a woman’s right to choose (bumping up nicely against the American Christian perspective of having to choose faith, not having it forced on anyone) etc etc etc.  Do you see the confusing continuity issues you’ve set in place?  My rantings just scratch the surface.  So which one is it, American Christians?
 
When I lived in the NYC area there were dozens of store front churches in some of the poorer, high crime areas but no decrease in crime or poverty? I’ve seen this repeated in every place I’ve ever lived.  Why is there the need for 20 different mom & pop churches (not to mention the more established houses of worship ) professing pretty much the same thing? Choice? Instead of accomplishing something together they were all accomplishing nothing seperately.  Couldn’t you all at least save rent by sharing a building and working out your continuity problems?
 
Some 20 years ago church groups went nuts over the willful antics of Bart Simpson and vowed to boycott the Fox network. It’s 20 years past and the show is still on the air. And conservatives love the Fox news network. I used to love the Simpsons. Now it’s a confusing mess. Now I think I’ll just watch the even more vulgar but very clever Family Guy. It might be crass but it makes sense. The creator is an Atheist you know. It’s also on Fox.
 
Your faith is in jeopardy, Christians  Of being cancelled for weak acting, weak story telling and huge continuity errors.  Your show doesn’t make any sense.
 
Busom Buddies
Two very big Continuity Errors


The Great American God Complex:California Love Edition

 Before I justly tear into the case of the Nekkid Christian.

A lack of understanding about our culture and government sprinkled with the ignorance of religion can lead to some pretty crack headed amalgamations. George Bush, the neo-cons and the religious right imagining September 11th 2001 as a holy war and justifying it with a crusade in Iraq for example. Sort of summed up in the revelation of Rumsfeld’s reports to Bush, furnished with pictures of our soldiers, underlined with Bible quotes. Thus undermining all the good qualities, the postive possibilties in our culture, government and freedom of religion. And in part allowing exactly what they were trying at minumum to prevent: A liberal or moderate ever taking the presidency ever again. 

Take the case of christiannympho blog.

A nymph is female spirit from Greek mythology, sort of the posse to the Greek gods and goddesses.   “Scary and a little unpredictable”.  The content of the blog itself is rather inoffensive though I imagine it’s shocking for some hypocrites on the right.  The invoking of the word “nymph” undermines everything they think they’re trying to do because of it’s so called pagan origins. 

Sooo, lack of world knowledge, word origins and an abundance of stupidity would create the weird combinations calling themselves “Christian nymphos” or even “American Christian” as one and the same. There’s nothing wrong with either groups individual parts but you’d think the combining would give the weird participants some pause.  To wit- 

Christian breast implants.

I say again “Christian.” “Breast.” “Implants.”

No not really but sort of. I did get you to pause with the weird implications though. Probably.

According to the Huffington Post.com, contestants in the Miss U.S.A. contest were offered breast implants (not that there is anything  inherently wrong with that) in their efforts for the title. 

Jesus hates a 'C' cup

Jesus hates a 'C' cup

Will someone explain to me how she thinks she’s doing God a favor by

1)  Undermining woman everywhere by sexualizing herself (complicated issue there).

2) Placing herself on display to demonstrate how stupid she is

3) Praises tradition values then undermines them by posing more or less nekkid and tempting men all over the world.  

Bonus question: If a Christian fanticises about her mostly nekkid body does that count as a sin?  Can she be considered a “Christian marital aid” and thus written off as somehow attributing to the sanctity of marriage?  Disgusting questions I’m sure. 

Hell.  Sarah Palin came to her side.  That should tell you something.

Thus: The Great American God Complex. Believing you are extra special because you are born in the United States of America and were either born into a Christian family or gone to a Christian church once or twice.  An accident of birth and/or the power of choice.  It’ll give you the ability to justifing posing nude (then complain about it) and/or kill thousands of innocent people in the the Iraq War and call it God’s will and/or free speech. 

If we’re lucky Rumsfeld will do both.

P.S.  If Christians do need a marital aid I have a time tested tradition American solution: Beer Goggles.  How the hell do you think the Duggers have gotten as far as they have?



Dark Meat Plays Athens This Week!
May 11, 2009, 8:18 am
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Only picture, like, 20 dogs all singing in and out of unison through a distorted microphone, in and out of tune. With none of the talent or charm of a doggie playing synthesiser. Now if it were a monkey playing a theremin, OK then.

Far be it from me to think I’m 100% correct. It makes me happy when people find things they like. Sincerely.  I just see nothing in Dark Meat’s music to like, but like I said I’ve been wrong before. Here is a sample via Amazon (despite the preview, the link works) if you’d like to judge for yourself.

Track 10: There Is A Retard On Acid Holding A Hammer To Your Brain.  Only if you pay $12 dollars to see them. 

It’s even worse live.  Imagine listening to a middle school marching band fall down a flight of stairs. It’ll make you wonder why you had kids.  It’d be better and more entertaining if you pushed them yourself rather than subject yourself to this nonsense.*   

 *Excluding any and all members of hopeforagoldensummer. Those kindly saintly wida warshwomen-folk can do no wrong in my book.  May 23, 2009 at the 40 Watt  for Girl’s Rock Camp Benefit.  

See? Saints. Seriously, their music is magical.



Saturday Night Special

Once again I am reminded as to why I enjoy Warren Ellis’s work.

From the Memoir of Cathcart Zen

“Fisting Liza Minelli does less damage to your shirt cuff than you’d expect,” intoned Cathcart Zen”

In reply to a fan

@zoetica you are a godless bloodcrazed pervert and a sexual Mengele and this is why the people shun you”

In response to harrassment by some ugly Americans

“So presumably Twitter’s now mainstreamed to the point where people with flippers can use it.”

Sublime and elegant.  Insults from the 22nd century. 



Does Fox News Look Like the Maury Povich Show?

YOU DECIDE: Does the Baby look like John Edwards?

Here is an answer.  Are you bloody kidding me?

Does Trig Palin look more like Sarah Palin (keep up) than looks like Sarah Palin’s daughterIs Sarah an ignorant tramp for Christ?  The answer to at least one of these questions is yes.  But it’s not polite to point out the obvious in front of mixed company.  Especially where there is possibly family involved.

It was tacky when some did this during last year’s general election.  Can it be that Retards, I mean Repubs are so out of ammo that they are stealing embarrassing and discredited Dem and lib smear tactics?

Yeah.  That baby looks just like John Edwards.