Dakryn's Batshit Theory of the Week

[cookiecutter]

It's fucked up that anyone thinks a woman is ever to blame for rape or that it is okay to hit women.

 

[Belligerent]

I was watching an older episode on Howard Stern where one of the jagoffs from Insane Clown Posse was talking about how he used to go around beating the hell out of girls in Detroit. Not that suprising i guess since they are from ICP, and Detroit of all cities.

 

[Krow]

So did anyone see where the priest was beaten to death with a brass candle stand, then left for dead in the church... The Congregation went on, then they found him dead at the end.

The intruder wore a white, hooded robe, as if playing dress-up as a priest. When he was startled by an early-bird parishioner, he bolted from the sanctuary, leaving behind a dead Roman Catholic priest wrapped in a green and gold banner.

The bloody bundle had been stashed in an out of-the-way section of the pews, beneath the final Station of the Cross. So when the Rev. Robert J. Lysz, the pastor of the Church of St. Matthew, did not show up for Friday's 7:30 A.M. Mass, the 70 or so parishioners figured he had just overslept. A lay minister led a few prayers, read the Gospel, then served the Eucharist.

The congregation was breaking up, according to several people who were there, when three men followed a path of linens that they at first thought were left over from a renovation project. Tugging aside the banner, the men saw a badly scraped forearm, then recognized the bracelet of Father Lysz (pronounced lish). His body was face down. They put the shroud back and called the police.

''Father was with us one last time,'' said Lionel E. Martel, 77, a retired police officer, who had scared off the intruder.

The linens covered a trail of dried blood from the baptismal font. Detectives believe that Father Lysz's killer bashed him over the head with a four-foot brass candle stand, a Bristol police investigator said.

The massive candle stand, which was broken in the assault, held the church's paschal candle. The large candle depicts Christ's suffering on the cross, and its flame, lighted on the eve of Easter, symbolizes His resurrection.

The State Medical Examiner's office said the cause of death was ''blunt traumatic head injury.''

Father Lysz, 50, the pastor at St. Matthew's for 11 years, had been known to co-sign car leases and to pay overdue light bills for parishioners.

Sandi Bean, 74, recalled that whenever Father Lysz, who was known to many as Father Wish, visited her in the hospital, her purse always mysteriously ended up with a few extra dollars inside.

He made church a treat for young people by giving out Halloween candy after Mass and building a gazebo for prom pictures. He was famous among fellow priests for hilarious impressions of parishioners. His sense of humor even extended to telling naughty priest jokes, his friends said.

After today's three Masses, each packed to overflowing with snuffling and hugging parishioners, many parents said that after a spate of school shootings, now a killer had even mocked the word ''sanctuary.''

''What's left?'' asked Tim Gamache, 52, a plumber. ''This guy took the one place we all thought we had left.''

Is it wrong that all I could think when I heard it was "Where is your God now?"

 

[Dak]

Clearly the ability to purchase brass candlestands need to be severely restricted. There needs to be at a minimum: 3 Day Waiting Period/Background Check, Age 21, and a special permit for anything weighing over 5lbs. Brass candlestands of any kind need to be banned from being openly carried or even carried concealed, because there can only be one possible reason for anyone to have one outside a house, and that is to KILL innocent people.

There needs to be a total ban on anything over 10lbs, because that is just excessive and no one needs a candlestand that heavy.

Look at the lives we can save.

 

[MasterOLightning]

You have such bad opinions constantly. I don't think you are a dumb person, per se, but you're just so misguided about everything.

 

[Krigloch the Furious]

Clearly the ability to purchase brass candlestands need to be severly restricted. There needs to be at a minimum: 3 Day Waiting Period/Backgorund Check, Age 21, and a special permit for anything weighing over 5lbs. Brass candlestands of any kind need to be banned from being openly carried or even carried concealed, because there can only be one possible reason for anyone to have one outside a house, and that is to KILL innocent people.

There needs to be a total ban on anything over 10lbs, because that is just excessive and no one needs a candlestand that heavy.

Look at the lives we can save.

 

[Dak]

When I see biased, intentional spin like this it pisses me off:

Man with grudge kills 10 in AL

Towards the end of the article:

Mass shootings have become more frequent in recent years in the United States, where guns are widely available for purchase and the right to own weapons for self defense and hunting is defended by many.

In one of the worst recent shooting incidents, a gunman dressed as Santa Claus killed nine guests at a Christmas Eve party before taking his own life in Covina, California, a suburb of Los Angeles.

On April 16, 2007, Virginia Tech, a university in Blacksburg, Virginia, became the site of the deadliest rampage in modern U.S. history when a student gunman killed 32 people and himself.

In Germany on Wednesday, a 17-year-old gunman went on a shooting spree at his former school in the southwest of the country, killing up to 15 people before dying in a shootout with police, authorities said.

If one of these 66 people who died or any of the wounded had actually had a gun for self defense these catastrophes could have been either entirely prevented or at least way fewer people killed. But because people are getting conditioned that guns are some sort of evil sentient being instead of a tool (and because laws don't allow them in many places/settings), everyone is vulnerable. Thank god for the police though right? If it hadn't been for them these men might not have stopped with 10/20/30 etc.

Oh wait, if Krig had been there the guy might have killed one.

 

[skeptik]

If I felt the need to walk around carrying a gun, I probably wouldn't be living a life worth living to begin with.

 

[Dak]

people are getting conditioned that guns are some sort of evil sentient being instead of a tool

It's working.

 

[skeptik]

You didn't even read what I said you stupid hick. I said if I felt the need to carry a gun. As in if I thought that I needed to have a gun or else I would die walking out of my house, like so many people seem to think these days, then I probably wouldn't really care for my life to begin with. I just so happen to not care about guns and wouldn't buy one unless I felt that I needed one.

 

[Dak]

You didn't even read what I said you stupid hick. I said if I felt the need to carry a gun. As in if I thought that I needed to have a gun or else I would die walking out of my house, like so many people seem to think these days, then I probably wouldn't really care for my life to begin with. I just so happen to not care about guns and wouldn't buy one unless I felt that I needed one.

I did read what you said. Your further statements prove you have been brainwashed to have a negative opinion of guns by repeated subconscious negative associations regarding them.

You feel that needing a gun means life must suck. You associate pro-gun-rights with being a hick. These are both irrational feelings.

To top it off, you close by basically contradicting yourself and say you would get one if you thought you needed it. Shouldn't you just end it all? Since life wouldn't be worth living anyway, based on your earlier comment.

Guns are not the enemy. Bad people are. If someone wants to kill they will do it with a candlestick if they have to, or a knife, or a shiv, etc. If the priest mentioned earlier had had a gun on him, candlestick wielding dude would be dead.

Crime rates are dropping while gun/ammo sales are skyrocketing in the US.

Tens of thousands more people are killed in auto accidents in the US each year than by gun violence. If saving lives is the issue lets ban automobiles.

There is no situation in history where the common population was heavily armed and crime was prevelant. There are plenty of situations though where the general populous was denied guns and crime/tyranny was rampant.

The facts support my position, your feelings support yours. But I am talking to Dodens, so of course I must still be wrong. Because I am a "hick from texas" LDO. :Smug:

 

[skeptik]

Almost everything you said was just really stupid and not worth responding to, so let's try to break this down in a more simple manner that hopefully even a worthless piece of shit like you can understand.

My statement in no way implied that I believe an inanimate object is inherently bad. If you read this in my post, you are rather fucking stupid. What I actually said was rather clear. Namely, if I felt that I needed to have a gun--and I'm assuming a good definition for NEED would be I NEED TO HAVE A GUN IN ORDER TO NOT DIE--then life would probably fucking suck. I don't happen to care about guns, not because I think they're evil things, but because I actually don't happen to care about guns. You are confusing the two things because you are stupid. IF I was to buy a gun, it would only because I FELT that I NEEDED a gun, namely I thought that if I didn't have a gun, I would be shot and killed by somebody else. I think it's rather clear how leading this life would be a life that probably sucks. And I never said that I wouldn't just kill myself before buying a gun if life was this bad, so don't jump the gun hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

I don't FEEL that needing a gun would suck. I KNOW that needing a gun would suck. Do you want to NEED a gun or do you just want to WANT a gun? Do you really feel like you NEED a gun, or do you just like guns? Either we're working under different conceptions of need or you like the idea of feeling that your life is constantly in danger. I don't. Therefore life would be shitty if I felt like I needed a gun I.E. I felt that my life was constantly in danger. Who the fuck wants to live in constant fear? That's why gun sales are skyrocketing, because people are scared. They're clinging to their guns and religion.

The facts support that you're an idiot, by the way.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Sheeit dawg, they be some crazy niggas up in this muhfuckin GOP, fo' real.

GOP chairman Michael Steele says talking to God keeps him from hurting critics
By David Saltonstall
Thursday, March 12th 2009, 12:57 PM

Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele has been having some interesting conversations with God about the criticism he's gotten lately from his fellow GOPers.

"I just pray on it," he told GQ Magazine about the flak, some of it inspired by his comment that the GOP needs to go in a more urban, "hip-hop" direction. "And I ask God, ‘Hey, let me show just a little bit of love, so I absolutely don't go out and kick this person's ass.'"

Steele, a former seminarian, may soon be praying to keep his job, too, after other comments he made in the interview seemed to challenge Republican orthodoxy on several issues.

Asked if he thought women had a right to an abortion, he said, "Yeah. Absolutely."

And while he said he was personally opposed to gay marriage, he came out forcefully against a Constitutional amendment banning it — as the Republican Party platform recommends for both gay marriage and abortion.

"Just as a general principle, I don't like mucking around with the Constitution. I'm sorry, I just don't," he told the magazine.

The comment drew a stern response from Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, who said he had already talked with Steele earlier this week about similar comments.

"It is very difficult to reconcile the GQ interview with the chairman's pledge" to uphold the Republican Party platform on abortion and gay marriage, said Perkins, adding that the comment "could impact social conservative support for the RNC."

Other Republicans will certainly find much to chew on in Steele's interview.

He stood by his earlier comments that the GOP convention was "a sea of white people," saying it's "‘cause we have offered [minorities] nothing."

He said he left the seminary because, "I loved to party — still do — and have a good time."

He said he has voted for Democrats "lots of times" and that conservative talk king Rush Limbaugh "is a bomb-thrower extraordinaire" — but one the party needs because he "stimulates debate."

He said homosexuality is not a "choice" and proclaimed himself unworried about gay priests who are celibate. "No, it's your nature," Steele explained.

He said he felt pride, excitement and "honor" at the election of Democratic President Barack Obama, "because he and I are part of a small family, if you will, of black leaders who dared the system."

But he expressed regret that for years he hasn't been able to get a meeting with Obama. "I reached out to him brother to brother," Steele said of his first overture in 2006.

These days, his advice to Obama is mostly sartorial — especially the president's Inauguration Night choice of a standard tuxedo jacket with white tie.

"Sor-ry! Wear the tails, bro," said the always sharply dressed Steele.

As for Michelle Obama's mostly celebrated white chiffon dress from the same night, "I wasn't feelin' that.... It was not flattering to her," he added.

For now, however, Steele proclaimed himself happy — and maybe a bit surprised — to be atop the GOP.

"I mean, who'da thunk it in 1963 that in 2009 two black men would sit on top of the political world of this country?" he said. "How friggin' awesome is that?"

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...gop_chairman_michael_steele_says_talking.html

GOP head Michael Steele promises PR blitz in 'hip-hop settings' and for 'one-armed midgets'
BY Celeste Katz, Richard Sisk and David Saltonstall
Updated Friday, February 20th 2009, 1:36 AM

GOP head Michael Steele has some interesting ideas on how to expand the party's base.

The Republican National Committee wants to be the Grand Ol' Hip-Hop Party.

No doubt.

New GOP party chief Michael Steele is promising an "off the hook" public relations blitz into "urban-suburban hip-hop settings" in hopes of wooing Latinos and African-Americans.

Steele, the first African-American Republican boss, hopes to sign up Americans of all stripes - a point he underscored with an odd, politically incorrect jab.

"We need to uptick our image with everyone, including one-armed midgets," he joked.

Not everyone was laughing, much less taking seriously the notion that a PR blitz is all that's needed to bring blacks and Hispanics into the increasingly white GOP tent.

"He needs to deal with the substance of his party and its policies, which do not represent the interests of minorities," said the Rev. Al Sharpton, adding with a chuckle: "And I think he needs to have more compassion for one-armed midgets."

Steele, who did not return calls Thursday, told the Washington Times that he aimed to revive the party by reaching "beyond our comfort" zone in the South and Southwest to Democratic-leaning strongholds in the Northeast and Midwest.

"We missed the mark in the past, which is why we are in the crapper now," he said. "We need messengers to really capture that region - young, Hispanic, black, a cross-section," he explained. "We want to convey that the modern-day GOP looks like the conservative party that stands on principles. But we want to apply them to urban-suburban hip-hop settings."

Now, as the newly elected RNC chair, Steele says he's planning a massive advertising outreach online, on TV and on the radio that will "surprise everyone."

Some local Republicans were skeptical, especially with Democrat Barack Obama in the White House.

"I think it would be a lot easier to attract [Latinos] to the Republican Party than blacks," said former Staten Island borough President Guy Molinari. "Some people would probably take offense at that, but that's the way it is."

KT McFarland, the GOP candidate for Senate in 2006, was more optimistic.

"This is something new, but I think it has a chance of being very effective," said McFarland, suggesting Obama's march toward a "socialist" economy may cause people "to look to another way."

Darryl (DMC) McDaniels, of the Queens-based rap group Run-DMC, had his own bit of advice for Steele:

"Hopefully, he doesn't go the Hollywood route - you can't speak to an executive," he told the Daily News. "You need to go to the guys who created hip hop."

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/pol...gop_head_michael_steele_promises_pr_blit.html

 

[Dak]

@Dodens

What out of that entire rant was not merely your opinion?

You don't own a gun because you live in fear, you own one so you do not have to live in fear. You are choosing your feelings over statistics, which is no worse than these people clinging to religion (btw according to the latest statistics people in America are becoming less religious).

Yes gun sales are skyrocketing because people are afraid that Obama is going to take away the freedom to get them. Fear of a tyrannical government is a completely justifiable fear. The price of freedom is vigilance.

I don't think you are an idiot, you just happen to be wrong here. Not that you can be wrong about how you feel, but whether your feelings are justified or not is easily proven on this (and they aren't).

Edit:

@Vihris: Great, just what the GOP needs . When they put Ron Paul in charge I will be interested, until then they are just the other half of the two-ring circus on Capitol Hill.

 

[skeptik]

It's not my opinion that that I would only buy a gun if I feared for my life.

If people buy guns because they're afraid, do you really think them having a gun makes them feel like the danger is gone? Of course not. They wouldn't have bought the gun then. They still live in fear, they just feel better about it because they feel like they have something to retaliate with if they're lucky enough. That doesn't mean they don't still think their life is in danger.

I'm not choosing anything. You keep saying I'm choosing and that I'm saying things based on feeling, which is somehow contrary to statistics, and I don't know where the hell you're getting this from. First of all, America is an extremely religious country, whether or not the percentage of the population that is Christian dropped half a percent or whatever (besides, just a last year the most recent findings were that religion was on the rise, so if anything we're just heading back to where we were). Secondly, you try to be sneaky by conceding that the skyrocketing of weapons sales is due to fear, but then you attempt to frame the issue narrowly. You're implying that everybody is buying guns because Obama is president. Of course it has nothing to do with recent shootings and a massive, worldwide economic crisis, among other issues, that play a role. Nope, it's just a black guy. A black guy who's apparently a tyrant now because we like to throw around hyperbolic terminology against those we disagree with, even if we don't actually know what the word means.

Please explain to me what I'm wrong about, because I'm not. All I said is that if I felt the need to own a gun, then that wouldn't be a life worth living. Whether or not you think it's justified is irrelevant and can hardly be "proven." What makes life worth living is about as ambiguous as a concept can get. For me, living in constant fear is not a life worth living. If I was to buy a gun, it would be because I was in constant fear for my life. Transitively, a life in which I felt the need to buy a gun is not a life I want to live. This is perfectly justified.

 

[Achtland]

I wear spikes inside my vagina. Go ahead rape me! I dare you!

 

[Ross]

ok

 

[Vimana]

There's always the asshole ldo.

 

[Achtland]

got me

 

[Dak]

You're implying that everybody is buying guns because Obama is president. Of course it has nothing to do with recent shootings and a massive, worldwide economic crisis, among other issues, that play a role.

Do some research, although the economic crisis is playing a small part, the spike in gun/ammo sales is directly tied to Obama being president and a Democratic majority (which allows him to push things through) in Congress, as well as Rahm Emanuel being in the Cabinet. Obama and Rahm specifically have an anti gun legislative history and people who follow politics (gun rights specifically) know this. The spike in sales started around October, right before the election. Gun stores had signs up saying stuff like "buy now before Obama takes away your rights" etc. So yes, it is about Obama's policies/political history . It does not have to do with color or hyperbole.

Barack Obama

Rahm Emanuel

As far as all your statements on fear etc, I'll try to simplify this. Think of a gun as insurance. People have insurance for all kinds of things now. Medical, auto, homeowners, flood, cellphone, tires, electronics, renters, etc etc. Not because they are constantly in fear, but if something happens they are covered. A gun is something like crime or life or freedom insurance.