Though I’m tempted to chide the Church of England’s leadership for entertaining the idea of “rejecting England’s patron saint St George on the grounds that his image is too warlike and may offend Muslims,” I’ve resisted the urge to brand them timid, tab-collared, PC appeaseniks —largely because of their brave fight to keep a certain brand of bulldozer out of the hands of Jews.
Who they know aren’t likely to cut off heads and videotape it. And really, who doesn’t admire that kind of pragmatism?
(h/t Ace, from whom I stole the title for this post because it was better than anything I was able to come up with.)
If you’re out to not offend Muslims, you’d think the gay bishops would’ve been a better place to start…
I set out to hassle some moonbats picketing the local Caterpillar establishment in honor of St. Pancake one day, but none of them showed up.
I was disappointed. It’s no bulldozer, mind you, but I was pretty sure my diesel pickup was going to be noisy enough with the high idler cranked up that I would at least be able to get some dirty looks out of them.
This just in:
Rachel Corrie, St. Pancake of the Dozers, is still dead.
I don’t understand why a *Christian* church is worried about offending *Muslims*…I mean, they aren’t exactly lining up at the pastor’s door for conversion…
When I see things like this from the C of E only one word comes to mind. Cringing.
It seems poignant that the cathedral at Cantebury was once used by a country that often beat the fuck out of muslim nations.
What’s the fuss?
Israelis and Muslims each have their idiosyncratic methods for killing innocents.
The bulldozer or the blade. Morally and functionally equivalent. However, when it comes to murdering Americans, the bulldozer is more aesthetically satisfying in the wide-screen, cinematic, Hollywood sense.
Anybody can cut someone’s head off. But crushing a peace activist in slow-motion is a genuine art form. And an unarmed woman—what pathos, what heartbreak!
Israelis really know how to kill innocent people, gratuitously, for effect. I guess 58 years of grinding down their neighbors hasn’t been wasted. The Palestinians would be well advised to watch, and learn.
Zzzzzzzzzzz…
This part sounded somewhat more reasonable:
Also, nice to see the English edge in grammar is eroding apace:
Will George be slayed? How long has his flag flied?
Ah, yes. Just a “peace activist.” “Unarmed”, no less. Innocent waif. A real can’t-we-just-get-along? type. No motives. No guile.
Hey! I think I just described the perfect pancake!
Let’s see you dig a swimming pool with a knife then. And morally? I don’t recall Daniel Pearl or Nick Berg having the option of getting out of the knife’s way when either was decapitated.
Okay, I’ll give you that one.
Yeah, I think the Palestinians could use some pointers on taking innocent lives gratuitously. A lot of times when they send a suicide bomber into a wedding party they don’t even wait for the chicken dance.
Saint George knew how to kick some serious dragon ass. At the first opportunity, I’m going to get a t-shirt with his likeness on it. Maybe two.
I’m thinking about making up a t-shirt that says “Kelly Leak was SAFE!”—and then selling them to the 30-40 other BNB geeks in the world so that we could identify each other without the secret handshake. Which, embarrassingly, is really just a smack on the ass.
In our defense, we came up with that in the seventies. So we were probably stoned.
“Neighborhood bully, just lives to survive
Gets criticized and condemned for being alive.”
Bob “Zimmerman” Dylan, Infidels, 1983
“Not supposed to fight back when his door is kicked in…”
looks like the Muslimfication of England is in full force. What next? Name change to Great Britainstan?
Oops. Should be:
“Not supposed to fight back and have thick skin
Supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He’s the neighborhood bully”
Apologies to any and all Dylan purists residing at PW.
You know who you are. I’m not naming names.
Oh, ElK, don’t be modest. No one kills innocents gratuitously, for effect like the Palestinians. The Israelis can only dream of being as cynically inventive.
You need to think about that real hard, there, kabong. There is actually alot of truth in it, if you aren’t too stoned to see it.
You’ll get my D9 when you pry my cold dead hands from around it.
Sheesh, I have “France” in the pool on which Euroweenie country goes Sharia first…
Who has England?
El,
I have nothing witty to say about your comments so I will keep it simple. F**k Off.
El Kabong: horse’s ass.
El K,
Congratulations! You really know how to stun innocent people with your ignorance, gratuitously, for effect.
I’m pretty sure that with that idiot comment, you just became the world’s first suicide commenter.
Isn’t El Kabong a strange handle for a NaziLowRider gangbanger?
Well, its been a while since you could accurately define the Anglican Church as Christian. There are Christians in the church, but the organization as a body is just missing the boat by several cable lengths.
El Dong
I concur with Mr. Lou
El Kabong (you pinhead)–
The Palestinians know how to use bulldozers. First thing they did when the Israelis moved out of the occupied territories? Knocked over the synagogues. Because, you see, it was more important to insult the kafir than it was to make use of the buildings.
The Ottomans had other ideas. I mean, the Hagia Sophia seemed somehow mosqueworthy. Of course, Islam has advanced a great deal since then, so . . . really, who am I to judge?
El Kabong,
Your right man if Israel would just pull out of Gaza the Palistinians would totally stop firing rockets into Israel and randomly kidnapping Israeli soldiers…….Hey, wait a minute…
Seriously Kabong just because you’re on drugs doesn’t mean you have to buy into that kind of Leftist bullshit. Seriously, I’ve been doped up for yeeeeaaarrrs and I can still grasp reality. I know you don’t want the man holding you down but I don’t think that embracing socialism and extreme leftist dogma is going to do anything to get the government out of your life. OK, they might legalize pot, which definately would be sweet but at what cost? You’ll have a job some day, you want to pay a 90% tax rate? Fuck that, I’ll take my chances on a misdemeaner pot bust.
Wasn’t El Kabong from the QuickDraw McGraw cartoon? Perhaps he should ask the Syrians how they tend to deal with recalcitrant neighbors. El…Kabong!
Now, then…”onward, Christian (er, let’s just say Unitarian) Soldiers (um, maybe insert peacekeepers here), marching off to…mediation…
eh, forget it.
Didn’t Quickdraw (cartoonists loved him) have some kind of sidekick? Robert Louis? It’s all so dim . . .
Pffft!!!! A D9 is for old women and children!!
Give me a D11 any time!!!!!
[W. C. Fields]
Barkeep, a snifter of your finest syrup!
[/W. C. Fields]
The Anglican Church is by and large a lost cause. The American branch – Episcopalianism – is suffering a major schism right now over the church leadership going P.C. And I mean the poisonous variety of P.C., to the point at which they won’t acknowledge Jesus as the one source of salvation because it’s not inclusive enough.
Indeed. Despite the fact that salvation through faith in Christ is more or less THE CENTRAL F–KIN’ PILLAR OF ALL CHRISTIAN BELIEF, they don’t want to offend non-Christians by saying there’s a good chance of them not getting into heaven.
TW: What on earth are these people thinking?
Michael A., I understand many Episcopalians are turning to Orthodoxy as an alternative.
Having wasted much of my childhood in the land of the Hannah-Barbarians, I can confirm that Quickdraw McGraw’s sidekick was a burro named Babalooie. (I also recall that the closing sequence featured an homage to Senor Wencas in which Babalooie falls off the stagecoach driven by QDMcG and then has the strongbox from the coach fall on him. As he struggles to keep up with the stagecoach, only his hind legs sticking out of the strongbox, QDMcD calls back, “You all right, Baba-boy?” The lid to the box opens for the reply: “‘Sa’right!” The image of QuickDraw driving the stagecoach, whipping the horses along, always seemed wrong, like when Goofy would pet Pluto.)
<hangs head in shame>
TW: old Yep, that’s me.
Gnostie–
Shit, man, you are good! I couldn’t remember that crap! Now I do! Bastard.
But didn’t Quick Draw McGraw occasionally assume the identity of the masked, Zorro-like avenger “El Kabong,” or am I remembering that wrong?
“In England, we have a curious institution called the Church of England. Its strength has always been in the fact that on any moral or political issue it can produce such a wide divergence of opinion that nobody—from the Pope to Mao Tse-tung—can say with any confidence that he is not an Anglican. Its weaknesses are that nobody pays much attention to it and very few people attend its functions.”
–Auberon Waugh
Let it go, man.
I was doing one of those google memory walks a while back innocently killing a rainy afternoon (as well as a few brain cells), when I came upon a website dedicated to H.R. Pufnstuf.
Oh God the horrors.
No wonder so many people my age are fucked up.
That shit was just wrong.
Mark Evanier, the comics writer, did an interview once where he insisted that everyone at Sid & Marty Krofft’s operation had been flying on acide the entire time they worked on all those shows, HRP, Sigmund & The Seamonsters, The Bugaloos…
I think Quickdraw was indeed the alter ego of El Kabong. His method of dealing with evil – doers was to don the mask, and then bring out a huge cymbal (I think), whereupon he banged the hell out of it, thereby disabling said evil – doer. The sound made, of course, was…El…(sound effect here)…KaBong!
Baba Louie would never make it past the PC censors today – more’s the shame.
As I recall, it was a guitar that El kabong used to thwart evildoers.
I think he was the only thing missing from Team America, personally.
Chairman me sez:
And just you try tearing through a hunk of prime rib with a D-9. You ever try spreading horseradish sauce with one of those things?
But actually, the idiot is right. They are morally equivalent. They’re both tools, and you can use them to do stuff. Those who wield them bear further observation.
which euroweenie will accept sharia first?
my bet is the french
FYI
when the ottomans inflicted the armenian genocide, the ottomans not only attacked the living, but they also dug up the graves to act out their viciousness. this is found in the book jihad a history from the 7th to the 21st century. (author paul fergosi)
FYI
the practice of cutting peoples heads off is encouraged in surah 47 verse 4 of the quran.
thank you
Hmmmm.
Is anyone really surprised by any of this?
The Brits are fucked.
Now can we move onto why Jeff won’t drink the damn cranberry juice box?
As in did he do something in it? Is the seal still on? And does he realise that cranberry is good for the prostate right up until some scientist discovers that it gives you cancer?
These are the question I want answers to!
Really. Who gives a shit about North Korean nuclear ballistic missiles? It’s not like the bastards can build trucks for christ sakes.
Hmmm.
My contribution tonight to completely whacked out off-topic comments.
In case the usual liberal crowd’s too busy to show up.
Please. Keep the applause to a minimum.
Dear Ed,
I have no idea what you are talking about – no way in hell I’d have time to read the wordy garbage that accumulates on this blog. But your comment does intrigue me. What exactly is your “contribution” tonight? Inquiring minds wanna know!
There’s an old saying: Lutherans will tolerate schism to avoid heresy and Episcopalians will tolerate heresy to avoid schism.
That is no longer true wrt TEC.
As a seventh-generation Episcopalian, my sense is that the Church will split (Orthodox/non-Orthodox) by 2008, if not sooner.
Pull the pin and throw it in…
Since Cranmer’s and Edward’s reforms separated sacramental intent and ritual from the theological obligations imposed by Christ upon His Church, the apostolic succession in the CofE ended 500 years ago.
…which explains why it is rife with error and cycling into oblivion…