Day: February 15, 2006

Just finished a great conversation with the host of TWC (in case you didn’t notice, this is Lyn from FBO guest posting at David’s invitation).  One of the topics we touched upon is speaking the truth.  Not in love.  Just speaking the truth.  Which is an act of love. (I’m extrapolating here, Dave, so bear with me, it’ll come together in the end, promise.)

Some call this ranting.  I don’t rant a lot at Bloggin’ Outloud.  David likes to rant at more than a drop of a hat.  We have different styles.  We have different purposes.  But we share a belief:  Lies are lies.  Truth is truth.  And if you’re going to blog about life, you’d better be prepared to tell it like it is.  Which means, at times (more often than not?), you’ll have to rant.

But most of us don’t.  Yet we blog.  And boy, do some of us blog … on and on and on. Without saying anything.  Without speaking truth.  Why?  Are we afraid?  That could be.  Anyone who’s gotten a nasty comment knows the punch that idiot lurkers can land with their anonymous jabs in our blogger plexus.  Criticism can cause us pause. (Except in David’s case, who actually wants nasty emails – it tells him someones reading! lol)

Another option is that we’re too kind.  We don’t rant because we don’t want to offend.  For example, I’m prone toward gentleness (or maybe it’s weaniness).  Instead of calling someone a liar, I’ll point out the lie, and show you why it’s a lie.  But I’d never call anyone an outright liar!  How arrogant!  How rude!  How unChristian and unloving!

But wait.  If I really cared about the truth, wouldn’t I do everything possible to defend it?  Even at the risk of alienating the very ones I’m trying to reach?  Wouldn’t it be the loving thing to speak it clearly, boldly, incessantly?

Ah, now we’re getting somewhere.  Maybe the real reason we don’t rant is because we’re 1) not committed to the truth in our own lives (or possibly don’t even know the truth); and 2) not committed to loving others enough to speak light into darkness.  It is no virtue to exhibit confusion as to what is truth and the fate of those who live without it.

Therefore, rant.  Be free.  Let the truth be known.  Shout it from the highest blog.  Speak the truth…loudly.  This is an act of love!  Is there a place for tact?  Gentleness?  Soft words?  Yes (see my blog, lol).  But better, is there a place to rant?  To scream?  To point fingers?  Yes.  (That’s why I’m guest posting at TWC!) 

Ah, but can the two co-exist?  Can both tactics be used for the kingdom?  The answer is: Yes.  And if you say they can’t, you’re a d*mn’d liar.

[Exploding on the scene at TMH’s Bacon Bits and hitting the top of the charts at Liberal Common Sense.—ed.]

Nothing like a really informative post title, is there?

Latest scoop on the bleg for traffic to twc to make 50,000 unique visitors (excluding myself and spiders) by the end of March (which about the time I began tracking with Statcounter).

OK, I know my “Shortstats” plugin is reporting some phenomenal number of visitors, but it’s including cspider crawls, so that’s out. Just sticking with the Statcounter stats, which report that I have less than 5,000 unique visitors to go before busting that modest count, so small compared to other bogs the silly Technorati and TTLB games rank lower than twc (silly games, indeed: one counts EVERYTHING and the other weighs data any darned way it wants. *Pfui* :-))

Leading—so far—blog referrers? In alphabetical order,

Diane’s Stuff
The Real Ugly American
TMH’s Bacon Bits

Now, Diane’s already got her keys to post here; all I need to do is beegdle (a combo of beg and wheedle) a while and prostrate myself and maybe she’ll feel free to at least crosspost teasers to some of her stuff here. TMH and Rick… well, TMH is really under the gun with work and DL (also an active referrer from TMH’s Bacon Bits) is getting ready to go hunting (but NOT talking TMH along, so no possibility of a lapse into Cheneyism there), but Rick… Hey, Rick! Why don’t you post about your trip to the gunshow here?

heh.

“Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for the West as it commits suicide.”
— James Burnham

But,

“American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward to perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard to explain. It is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It tends to risk nothing serious for the sake of truth.”
— R. L. Dabney

We need serious reform in our political system. The quality of people running for office in recent years—from both major and darned near all minor political parties—is… appalling for the most part. Oh, sure there may be some examples of decent people running for office, but as soon as they’re in office, they spend way too much time associating with scum (see our current crop of congresscritters).

Remember the next time you’re in a voting booth: voting for the lesser of two evils is still voting for evil. If possible, write in a vote for “None of the above” in cases like that, cos that’s who we need in office—of those running—in most cases:

“None of the above.”

Submitted for consideration at Diane’s Stuff and Don Surber’s Best of Wednesday.

*sigh*

Those poor, backward, dumbasses. Oh, was that a lil too blunt? Let me give but one example of Muslim backwardness and stupidity: The Danish Cartoon Kerfuffle.

Backward? Stupid?

Well, you judge:

The cartoons first appeared back in September in a Danish paper. Plenty of Muslims in Denmark who could have and probably did see ’em. No reaction.

They were republished in THE major Egyptian newspaper in October. No Reaction.

It took five or six months for the “insult” to penetrate thick Muslim skulls?

Dumbasses. Either they are so amazingly stupid that it really did take that long for the “insult” to penetrate, OR they are too stupid to realize that fake outrage raised at a later date is an easily-recognized transparent ploy to manipulate Western opinion.

Dumbasses. We ought to treat them just like any other mentally handicapped: with pity and condescension. (Yeh, that’s what special treatment for idiots of all kinds really is: pity and condescension, no matter how nobly someone wants to color it.)

Let’ em all ride the short bus. But pack ’em in real tightly… Need to conserve oxygen for the folks whose brains actually need the stuff.

Tel-Chai Nation tracked back to my Open Post (below) with an interesting article:

“Two-faced British imam gets caught in the act”

Read the whole thing. My response to but part of T-CN’s post is “Duh.”

Well, of course that ole imam is two-faced. Following the principle of dealing with “dar-ul-harb” laid down by Mohammed (may he rot in hell forever), who made an easy job of conquering the city of Medina by lying to its inhabitants and promising them that no harm would come to them, Muslims readily practice “holy deception” of the “house of the enemy” (“dar-ul-harb”—which is… everyone not Muslim.)

If only one percent (or less) of Muslims are actively involved in violence against “dar-ul-harb” that leaves the rest as

1. Apologists and/or enablers who lie about the nature of Islam to those outside the tent
2. “Country club” Muslims who do not actually share the cultic faith of the followers of the Butcher of Medina but who are simply “cultural Muslims” who adopt whatever suits them and throw out the reality of the Koran and the example of the life of the founder of Islam.

Of this last class, it is obvious that, while decrying (tepidly, weakly, disingenuously) the excesses of true Muslims, they are nevertheless passive accomplices enabling the terrorists by not denouncing the root of the terrorists’ justification: The Butcher of Medina, hiimself. until these “cultural Muslims” soundly repudiate Mohammed (may he rot in hell forever), they share in their bloody brothers’ evil.

And they’ll lie themselves blue in the face about that, too.

(Bucking for some Muslim death threats here. I sure hope they come soon, cos I’m feeling left out… :-))

Slapped up on the bulletin board at The Real Ugly American (where Rick has some worthwhile reading posted–go check it out!) and at TMH’s Bacon Bits, where a good blogbuddy is lending me a hand (Yeh, TMH, I just might have to give you keys to this place after all… )

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