TheEncogitationer

Jake,

My take on military enrollment is that unless someone can demonstrate that melanin content or nationality or what someone has between their legs or how they swing can repel bullets, shrapnel, and Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical (NBC) weapons, then none of that matters.

And as some in the Sioux tribe learned the hard way, what people…[Read more]

Simon,

If these people are religious extremists, and not just criminals, then I think this is a case of sacredness of an overriding principle or idea leading to committing evil in other ways.

In other words, if something has infinite value, then other things can legitimately be sacrificed in favour of it.

Assuming the language translation of…[Read more]

Jake and Fellow Unbelievers,

Well, Jake, I guess that’s one of those things where miles may vary. I, myself, am perfectly satisfied with a futon for a bedframe and a compactable memory foam mattress, and folding camp chairs and folding tables, sometimes described nowadays as Masculine Minimalism.

One good thing about Ollie’s is that the book…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

Visual confirmation that Religion and Morality are two very different things:

(Not graphically gory, but still disturbing)

https://x.com/OliLondonTV/status/1793299517279768965

If only those girls could have given their captors a swift kick in the coccyx and gonads while the captors brayed like cattle towards Mecca, followed…[Read more]

Unseen,

Your intentions may well be good and you may well have Jews as some of your best friends. In an online Forum, no one has a way to be sure, so I assume innocence.

But the intentions behind thoughts and deeds and the results of those thoughts and deeds are always very different things. It is possible that results of thoughts and needs…[Read more]

Jake,

Diversity can mean diversity of ideas, but ideas are not inate to immutable traits and when the term “diversity” is used in the context of a workplace, ideas are not what the proponents are concerned with, but who checks which demographic box on a questionnaire.

Also, even with diversity of ideas, the sole legitimate goal of everyone in a…[Read more]

Jake,

My mistake on something. The person I’m thinking of is a Professor John Meersheimer. Who the soldier could be, I don’t know.

Jake,

I have a few points of contention with Cynical Publius and a question:

One, he says:

The IDF’s enlisted forces are drawn from across the entire society, giving it the natural diversity that U.S. military leaders crave.

Military men in every rank who don’t go by the “Current Thing” of Wokeism, (and can manage to get away with it,) d…[Read more]

Jake,

Even if discounted, Bob’s Discount Furniture is out of my more meager price range, which is more suited to Big Lots, Olliie’s, and Value Thrift, but I do love Bob’s marketing acumen.

I wonder if the likes of The Family Research Council or The Catholic League went after him for taking JHVH-1’s name in vain.

Jake,

Back in my day, Looney Tunes and sitcoms co-existed side-by-side, first on rabbit ears with four or five channels, then on Nickelodeon as one of 57 channels on cable TV, then on-demand streamed from endless sources on the InnerToobz! They’ll all be playing all at once in my synapses when I can get them neural-networked! (It’ll probably be…[Read more]

Unseen,

@ Enco

So, do Iranians hate and want to murder every last Jew or not? Your depiction is of a country that wants to join the civilized nations, it would seem.

The answer is obvious. The Ayatollahs and their Revolutionary Guard hate Israel and the Jews and the Iranian people who live under the oppression of the Ayatollahs do not hate…[Read more]

Fellow Unbelievers,

Some great news on this front: The Ayatollah benefactors of Hamas are now distracted with suppressing all the Iranians celebrating the helicopter crash deaths of Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian and President Ebrahim Raisi:

Fireworks and dancing as Iranians defiantly celebrate Raisi’s death
Jubilant scenes p…[Read more]

Jake,

The Beaver is not Kosher and thus has no reason to fear Jews. As June asked Ward: Don’t you think you’re being a bit hard on The Beaver?
🦫 😁

Reg,

Sumaghiyyeh sounds soothing and sumptuous…but a Secular Ramadan? How is that possible?

Ramadan celebrates the 40-day game of “Telephone Tree” between Allah, The Archangel Jibril, and illiterate, cave-blinded Muhammad. How can that be Secular?

Are your hosts just in it for the food?

(This also inspires a question to Stump The Imam if…[Read more]

Unseen,

There have been many opportunities to address the very real and universal problem of police brutality. We could have abolished asset forfeiture, we could have ended “The War On (Some) Drugs,” as well as ended “Victimless Crime” laws, we could have instituted Civilian Review Boards and held officers to their Constitutional Oaths and…[Read more]

Unseen,

Did any of this talk about Israeli torture include links to the tortures committed by Hamas on October 7th, not to mention standard operating procedure in all of Israel’s neighbors?

After October 7th, a lot of the #MeToo and #BelieveAllWomen crowd suddenly switched hashtags to #IsraelWoreTheSkirtTooTight.

Unseen,

Kyle’s video evidently triggered YouTube curators to make it “Age-Restricted” Before I could watch it.

Anyway, psychos attracted to positions with badges is pretty much a universal phenomenon if this is what is portrayed. It is a problem not unique to any nation and in and of itself, does not mean genocide.

Truth in advertising would…[Read more]

Simon and Unseen,

And, of course, as The Hitch points out, people can do great things for others without Christianity or any other religion.

Jake,

I’m from North Carolina. We have our own batch of zany religious hatemongers.

The most notable, The Rev. Billy Graham, now has his own non-Gold Golden Calf-esque statue in Washington, DC:

Billy Graham statue engraved with Bible verses and a cross unveiled in U.S. Capitol
by Lisa Moseley | May 16, 2024 | Billy Graham,…[Read more]