this is interesting...

go check out these guys over at this address. they are on top of things. seriously. The Iranians need to have their farsical notions of regional hegemony squashed--and quickly. This "common front" that they have formed with Syria is nothing more than an attempt into daring the United States into entering into a two front war. Do they believe that most of their troops would seriously risk an engagement with the United States? And do they not understand, that unlike other Western enemies they have faced before, the United States Army and Marine Corps learn quickly, and that the number of second and first Lieutenants who return to the battlefield as Captains far outnumber the number of jihadis who even return to the conflict. I guess that the alternative really is worse: you know, people actually taking showers and shaving and maybe even once and a while going out and seeing the skin of a woman from say her hand to the end of her shirt sleeve-I heard this fantastic story about some part of medieval europe, perhaps a small independent city in Germany, although I could be wrong, but anyway, they believed in bathing once a year. Consequently, most of the children in the village were all born about nine months after the, uhm, bathing. Coincidence?
No, not at all. People are smelly, stinky animals when not properly cleaned and maintained. It's no wonder that was the only day those poor medieval people had sex, and it's also no wonder why so much of Europe spent so long engaged in so many pitifully inconsequential battles that today interest only the few of us who care about Ruprecht II and the seven electors of the Holy Roman Empire. And it's also no wonder why the Catholic Church is rotten from the inside and out--since the Council of Nicea the Church has been as is, and since that time, fifteen years give or take, the Church has prohibited its' priests from marrying. What does that do to someone? To be denied the ultimate reality of biological existence, every individuals responsibility to procreate, what does that do to someone? Well, look what it does to people. Look at it. Look at it and see that any authority driven hierarchy that regulates sexuality, whether a centralized one as in the Catholic Church, or a decentralized one in Islam, will ultimately destroy itself because it is attempting to control biological destiny. There is no way of getting around the drive that is implicit within each and every human being--to do so, whether in the interest of pursuing a monastic or spiritually "pure" life is to delude oneself into believing that any one action is any more moral or ethical than any other. Actions merely are--it is how we judge those actions that determine their status within the realm of subjectivity. A monk who has spent his life in isolation has lost something of his humanity through his own resolute determination to avoid all the trappings of life. And this is not say that there lives were in vain, merely that they were vainly wasted--vainly because they believed they were doing it for a greater purpose and wasted because they failed to see that their own purposes will always be the one consideration that is not subject to any requirement of faith. And because our own purposes are the only yardstick through which we have to gauge the value of our lives--how we lived, what we did, were we content? we must strive to be honest in our evaluation of whether or not we lived up to our own expectations. I think that many people who claim "faith" as one of their primary values are not being honest--they, when confronted with the world, turn to the only explanation that requires no effort upon their part--the word Islam means after all, "to submit", born-again Christians will often talk about their own moment of personal "submission" to Jesus Christ, accepting that Jesus is the only path to salvation and that everything else is irrelevant. But there's an essential disconnect between that kind of faith, blind, submissive, and hierarchial, and reality at large. By submitting to whatever Man with white beard incarnation people "submit" they are ultimately subsuming their own interests in favor of whatever they are submitting to. The same occurs with any ideology--a person must forget their own personal interests, beliefs, ideas, in order to accomodate the ideology. Really faith and ideology are the same two things--I should know. I was once a rapid idealogue--I was an Objectivist and I worshipped at the sacrificial shrine of Ayn Rand--but then I realized that I was no better than the Marxists, postmodernists, deconstructionists, and any other statist ideology that I had faced. Any ideology is inherently self-limiting. Most of your choices are already made, and worse, almost all of the questions already answered. The important thing about questions is that the answers they produce generally only lead to more questions. There is no single, final answer in the realm of life and of options available to people. There are only more questions, because to be satisfied is to be complacent and to be complacent is to be dead. And many of the people that I have encountered who were genuine in their blind acceptance of faith are among the most uninteresting, most unimaginative, most humorless (except for of course, members of the Rabid Left, who would probably never laugh at any of my jokes)--which again points to the similarity between blind faith and blind ideology. They both stimulate the same kinds of behavior. Both seek to restrict free association and choice, both seek ultimately to enforce their beliefs upon others, and both have only the ends in mind--for people of faith, it is the afterlife that matters, not this pitiful sham of existence that we are forced to endure--for people of ideology, the ends are the means, it doesn't matter how it must be done, but people must be forced to drive prissy little electric cars and that right of way must be given to bicycles and that really the country would be better off if we just had one great big giant bicycle path through every state so that we could have .000000032% more GDP than we otherwise would have. Of course, not counting the huge lag time we would have to add to people's commutes. I can just see it now:

And today on Bicycle path J stroke 9 stroke 838474 stroke 12 you can except heavy so keep your eyes on your handlebars and don't let your laptop and Ipod fly off and please remember, keep both hands on the handlebars at all times--we wouldn't want anyone to ride freestyle or without a helmet or knee pads or any thing else that the worry association of America worries about....AHGHGHGHGH

The lesson folks is that when you mess with nature, you're gonna have a bad time. And when you try to contain the procreative forces that are, for all intensive purposes, the defining characteristic of all lifeforms, you are, messing with something that has more than four billion years of experience on you. Do you think that if procreation were personified that it might not be slightly irritated that there was this one particular species that developed these silly ideas that some people should be able to say what kinds of things you can and can't do and who can and can't and where and how you can do it and at what time of the month--I mean, honestly, where are the feminists--don't they know that women are still treated as pariahs when they are menstruating in most Muslim societies? Where's the outrage?

I'll tell you what though--ultimately all systems tend toward chaos--the more they try to control those forces, the more they will lose control of it. Sort of like what's happening in the MSM right now--they are trying to hold on to the whirlwind, and instead they're just getting the piss beaten out of them. I never thought that life could be so good.