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February 28, 2007

The Jesus fraud

Simca and John

NBC NEWS
When this guy Simca Popolopowiotz (what I've called him)  popped up as the director of The Lost Tomb of Jesus, merry-go-round music played in my head.  This guy has been a regular on Discovery Channel for the past few months, and I've watched most every episode as he trudges through the ancient world looking for truth, or something. At some point - I wasn't looking for anything - at some point I saw a pattern to each of his adventures. The underlying theme seemed to be discrediting stories surrounding Jesus Christ. That's not unusual, but this guy was slick enough that I took him at face value ... some Jewish guy interested in history, until ... .

The Jewish historian Josephus is THE historical source for that period of time.  His published work Antiquities of the Jews contains a passage know as Testimonium Flavianum. That passage is one of about two references to the historical Jesus anywhere, and Josephus describes him as the 'Christ.'

When Simca got around to Josephus, and this particular passage, he was hyper, and found an even more hyper Jewish scholar to call the passage a forgery,  perpetrated by Christians (The passage came under attack around the 18th century). 

I'm not pronouncing one way or another on the legitimacy of  Testimonium Flavianum, but Simca's reaction to it was strong enough that I began to doubt his motives. I think my instincts were right.

At any rate, the NBC news story pretty much spells out where this story is headed.  Simca's credibility as an archaeologist is kaput, and James Cameron (''I'm not trying to undermine Christianity, just the opposite'') is just another Hollywood dickweed in a jungle full of dickweeds

By the by - here's some relevant statistics.
Out of a total number of 2625 males, these are the figures for the ten most popular male names among Palestinian Jews. the first figure is the total number of occurrences (from this number, with 2625 as the total for all names, you could calculate percentages), while the second is the number of occurrences specifically on ossuraies.

MEN
WOMEN
1 Simon/Simeon 243 59
2 Joseph 218 45
3 Eleazar 166 29
4 Judah 164 44
5 John/Yohanan 122 25
6 Jesus 99 22
7 Hananiah 82 18
8 Jonathan 71 14
9 Matthew 62 17
10 Manaen/Menahem 42 4
Mary/Mariamne 70 42
Salome 58 41
Shelamzion 24 19
Martha 20 17

(Source - THE JESUS TOMB? ‘TITANIC’ TALPIOT TOMB THEORY SUNK FROM THE START

February 27, 2007

Americans love Pepsi

Let me thank Lloyd Briggs for sending this link to WAR WEARY.  Here's some snippage.
People are war-weary, and that’s only natural - no one likes a long, protracted fight. The lines get blurry, goals are re-defined, eventually someone you care about will get caught behaving very badly, casting doubt on the rightness of the entire enterprise. There is so very much misery. But war weariness can be a dangerous indulgence. Partly for political reasons, people have been lulled into thinking that the choice on whether or not to continue the fight is a simple one. It isn’t.

<snip>

Because as tempting as it might be for some to see Mr. Bush lose his little war, it doesn’t end that cleanly. In order for him to lose, someone or something else has to win. And just because things are bad now does not mean that they can’t get worse.

After you read that, go to The Americans love Pepsi Cola, but we love death'

February 11, 2007

Uniforms

Samurai Attorney General TFV, and Special Services Commodore Colonel Juicy have formed  a Barn Army Reserve (BAR) uniform design committee.  I had some ideas about uniforms
          This is Msgt-Major Jodi
for my B-52 crew, but will keep them to myself so as not to unduly influence their creations.  Thank you.

February 08, 2007

16 words

Of necessity totalitarian regimes rewrite history, sometimes going to absurd lengths.   Joseph Stalin's hobby was airbrushing his commie friends out of state pictures after having them shot. (Don't worry, they were all commies).

Today's totalitarian wannabes have taken to photoshopping truth even as it enters the camera lens.  Ann Coulter, Commodore-Admiral in the Barn Army, uses a surgeon's knife to display one such particularly odious, metastasizing cancer node ["YELLOWCAKE AND YELLOW JOURNALISM"].   The backdrop is Scooter Libby's trial for, basically, wearing mismatched socks.  Our media are rewriting history as it occurs for chrissake, also called lying through one's ass.  After spending 8 years watching Bill Clinton get away with it, they have the magic. 

Chris Matthews also repeatedly says that Bush's famous "16 words" in his 2003 State of the Union address — which liberals say was a LIE! a LIE! a despicable LIE! — consisted of the claim that British intelligence said there was a "deal" for Saddam Hussein to buy enriched uranium from Niger.

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Considering how hysterical liberals were about Bush's "16 words," you'd think they'd have a vague recollection of what those words were and that they did not include the word "deal." What Bush said was: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

We now know that the British were correct, and Bush would have been criminally negligent to ignore the threat.

Wilson's unwritten "report" to a few CIA agents supported the suspicion that Saddam was seeking enriched uranium from Niger because, according to Wilson, the former prime minister of Niger told him that in 1999 Saddam had sent a delegation to discuss "expanding commercial relations" with Niger. The only thing Niger has to trade is yellowcake. If Saddam was seeking to expand commercial relations with Niger, we can be fairly certain he wasn't trying to buy designer jeans, ready-to-assemble furniture or commemorative plates. He was seeking enriched uranium.

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Wilson
           
admitted to the committee that he had "misspoken" to reporters about having seen the forged documents. Similarly, Cain "misspoke" when God inquired as to the whereabouts of his dead brother, Abel.

How can it be that the liar walks away scot free, while Scooter Libby is on trial for?  What?  Being there?

Here's why.

The left, no lets be specific, Democrats will subvert even national security if a political opponent stands to gain stature through its success. Joe Wilson's and Valerie Plame's lies are the fulcrum
          The Stooges
from which the left levered a series of false charges that have made it so difficult, if not impossible, to win this fight to the death we're engaged in.   The nation is split down the middle by media sponsorship of this assault on the truth. 

Sorry.

People I know expect me to be reasonable and level headed when dealing with liars, traitors, and mortal enemies of our freedoms, so I say all this in the good way.  "Airbrushing" sounds pretty innocuous, don't you think? Yes, we need some media airbrushing
          
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February 07, 2007

Inventions

The "Surf and Turf"
I was so excited last night that I couldn't sleep.  I went out to the garage and invented the invention of the year.  Stay with me. 

We learned yesterday
          AWK!
that there is a market niche of people who want to walk their goldfish, and another one for people who don't want to use pooper scooper contraptions, or even baggies.  Some may call them useless human swine, but I call them cash cows.   Why not combine the two?  I took an old Euro Pro CW240 Shark Bagless Water Filter/Filtration Canister Vacuum Cleaner, adapted a 12 volt motorcycle battery, and bingo! 

I'm too busy to get involved in the manufacturing process right now, so I'll tell you what.  The first person who puts $100 in my Pay Pal gets the patent, and all other rights to this invention I call the ''Surf and Turf®."  But you gotta act now!

February 04, 2007

Commies are after me

My Blogger site is working okay for me, but evidently not for others. How about you?

Ratbastardcommies

Horry Clap!
This is tres' unusual.· One-two-three hits from the red Chinese all in a row.· From three separate guys.· All 3 to this page.· I wonder how those conversations sounded.

One Won Ton, no MSG

Horry Crap

Dear Penis

This old post is getting a lot of hits - from France?
(It is funnier than Jerry Lewis)

" I'll just go without one - snif"

My wife just washed her cell phone. Any suggestions?


  1. Her computer lost all her travel info, and confirmation number for her trip to Florida tomorrow (which I managed to retrieve).
  2. She's been sick as a dog for three days.
  3. She found my keg of beer, and stash of adult videos in the garage.*
  4. Her cell phone is presumed DOA
"I'm starting to think this is a message."

* Lie· When she's away I spend my time spackling and attending mass.
UPDATE
New Razor phone, car charger, leather case ... $100.· Put the old card into the new phone and, besides the C-Note, no pain.· She's talking on it now.· Cingular.· Thanks for the advice.

Mossad

Report: Iranian Nuclear Scientist 'Assassinated'
clap*clap*clap

The other idiot Senator from Virginia

Yes. Yes you are.

Warner to help block his own resolution on Iraq

That Hang Dog Look

Iran Uprising

Sorry Cindy, but the natives are restless
If this doesn't make you happy, you're a democrat. That's not to say that some democrats won't also feel the joy, but all who don't, are. Thanks to JamieMac for this Gateway Pundit link.

Two Minute University

All you need in 2 minutes
I realize that some may not have 30 minutes to spend watching the Penn & Teller slapdown of Al Gore Inc., so I prepared a 2 minute WMV capsule that summarizes.· Keep it in your wallet.

From the Front

Attention!


The Story

Hope Rides Alone
Sgt. Eddie Jeffers, USA

Just below you can watch live, in all their glory, the self aggrandized nincompoops who have hijacked our country. Yes, the Penn & Teller film was about environmental ilkdom, but they are the very same people who populate KOS, Democrats Underground, and every other warren of leftist ideologues who plague us like flea bearing rats. There are consequences, and Sgt, Eddie Jeffers speaks of some from Iraq. Here's snippage.

..... But even thousands of miles away, in Ramadi, Iraq, the cries and screams and complaints of the ungrateful reach me. In a year, I will be thrust back into society from a life and mentality that doesn't fit your average man. And then, I will be alone. And then, I will walk down the streets of America, and see the yellow ribbon stickers on the cars of the same people who compare our President to Hitler.

I will watch the television and watch the Cindy Sheehans, and the Al Frankens, and the rest of the ignorant sheep of America spout off their mouths about a subject they know nothing about. It is their right, however, and it is a right that is defended by hundreds of thousands of boys and girls scattered across the world, far from home. I use the word boys and girls, because that's what they are. In the Army, the average age of the infantryman is nineteen years old. The average rank of soldiers killed in action is Private First Class.

People like Cindy Sheehan are ignorant. Not just to this war, but to the results of their idiotic ramblings, or at least I hope they are. They don't realize its effects on this war ...

Jump

Terrorists cut the heads off of American citizens on the internet...and there is no outrage, but an American soldier kills an Iraqi in the midst of battle, and there are investigations, and sometimes soldiers are even jailed...for doing their job.

It is absolutely sickening to me to think our country has come to this. Why are we so obsessed with the bad news? Why will people stop at nothing to be against this war, no matter how much evidence of the good we've done is thrown in their face? When is the last time CNN or MSNBC or CBS reported the opening of schools and hospitals in Iraq?·Or the leaders of terror cells being detained or killed? It's all happening, but people will not let up their hatred of President Bush. They will ignore the good news, because it just might show people that Bush was right.

America has lost its will to fight.·It has lost its will to defend what is right and just in the world. The crazy thing of it all is that the American people have not even been asked to sacrifice a single thing. It’s not like World War II, where people rationed food and turned in cars to be made into metal for tanks. The American people have not been asked to sacrifice anything. Unless you are in the military or the family member of a servicemember, its life as usual...the war doesn't affect you. [continued]


Thanks to Merrily for this heads-up.

Penn & Teller: Bullshit! Environmental Hysteria

Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide NOW!

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These are the people who control today's democrat party. You won't be surprised, but you won't believe it either. What does it mean when the founder of Greenpeace disavows the entire movement? Hmmmm? Greenpeace.
Thanks to GrinfilledCelt for the heads-up.