summer patriot, winter soldier

from the pope, the patriarch, the arch bishop and the other whining hanky wringers who run the christian churches ....

00.

nothing more.  hey, if the pope were infallible in the crusades, he's infallible now.

dust off the old encyclicals, prod the old bulls, and let us get to the task of defending western civilization and christendom.  yes, i am aware of the dangers of religious and "sectarian" passions loosed, and it is hard to get the dogs of war back into the kennels & on their leashes, all nicely held in restraint w/ the choke chains and the muzzled.

i am also aware of the danger of lying on your back while your "brother" pokes you in the belly w/ a bayonet and saws off your head with a dull knife.

"enough!  enough!  enough!"   the west, the judeo-christian ethos has taken enough, and it is time that our religious leaders authorize us to strike back in self defense, and do whatever is necessary to quiet this unrelenting assault upon us.  the pope, the patriarch, that idiot arch bishop and the rest of the quivering poopies are worried about a 40 years war?

well, how damned long has it been since leon klinghoffer went off the decks of the achille lauro?  how many times does adam of baghdad have to die before the pope and the poopies get some spine?

all i am asking, actually demanding of this silly bunch of sissies, is that they confer religious sanction upon those of us who will defend the faith.  who will defend our faith in g_d and in christ.  the papal bulls and encyclicals that launched the crusades are still in the vatican libraries, and just as serviceable as ever, and it is time to revitalize them, and to let the faithful defend truth and faith.

john jay, bar naphka  @ 12.30.2010

 

a world war ii vet talks about a part of military service not so glamorous ... the sea going tug & salvage ship ...

he sat in the open frame of his car door, summoning the will & energy to get out of the car.  i walked to the door of the burger joint, and watched him get out, and then held the restaurant door open for him as he hobbled on in.

we chatted while we ordered, and then sat together after a shouted conversation over a couple tables just didn't work.

it was something about a guy who cobbled up a steam boiler in world war ii, causing his ship, a sea going tug, to miss an invasion fleet bound to iwo jima, and then having to bide it's time for some months while the ship was repaired to make sea and to pick up another invasion fleet.

well, that's that way it turned out.

the conversation started as he sat at another table, and he tried to tell me the story.  what i gleaned at first was that he was on a tug boat, but a large open water tug, and that some guy w/ stripes who'd had a couple boats "shot from underneath him" had cobbled the ship and been court martialed, ... , the last he had seen him, was working on coffins for the chaplain, looking happy, or some such.

it didn't make much sense.

but, i asked him over to my table to talk about it, and as he sat down, he apologized for the workings of his mind, explaining that he was 85 years old, and waving his finger around in circles at his temple to indicate that the old head just didn't process memory as it used to.

but, we worked at it.

he explained that his boat was about 120 feet in length, about 35 feet in beam, and that it was a big tug to tow injured ships at sea, and to pull boats from the invasion beaches when the islands were secure after invasion.  he said that it was a wooden hulled boat, and that he did not like it, as it creaked and groaned as it was underway, especially in any kind of sea.

he explained that it carried about 50 men and 10 officers, and recalled that the boat was armed with a 3 inch gun on the bow, but that the gun was not fired as its old ammunition was too smoky and gave away the ships position when fired.  he also said that the boat had a couple of 20mm guns, and a 50mm gun of some sort, which i discounted thinking surely he had meant a .50 caliber browning machine gun.  50mm is quite a bit bigger than .50 calibers.

he described how they had used a steam powered wheel and a block and tackle arrangement to pull boats mired in beach sand back out into the open water, where they could make sail, and described setting the rigging, and using anchors off the bow to secure the tug as it pulled the big landing craft loose.

he said it wasn't such bad duty, and that because of the steam power and the desalinator on board they were only out of fresh water for showers for one day while he was on her.  

he described that at the harbor for the okinawa invasion the fleet came under air attack 33 times in one month, although not at all on other occasions.

he was a nice old man.  living in town now, at the insistence of his wife who did not like being left alone in their house up couse creek as he pursued a trucking business, he said he was lonely in that she "had been gone" for about nine years now.  he said he thought that was while his mind was going, being alone, talking to himself a lot in her absence, "... asking questions and not getting the right answers..." was the way he put it.

it was not a way to live, he said.

a nice old man, and we chatted as we ate our burgers.

i asked him if he'd ever got shot at, and somehow we got onto the subject of a burial at sea amongst a group of ships, of an officer who'd managed to shoot himself with his .45 acp sidearm.  he said they didn't know if he'd committed suicide, or shot himself accidentally, ... , "... they didn't tell us such things about officers ..." he'd said.  he could remember that the man had been buried at sea, "... all stitched up in his body bag, just right ..." and that while he was not on the ship were the burial took place, his crew was on deck to observe the ceremony.  we talked of the ballast placed in the bag, so that it would sink.

we left at about the same time.  a nice old man.

i got home, and googled "u.s. navy, sea going tugs," or some such, and this was the result.  it was an article, entitled "fleet tugs in world war ii" by commander edward h. lundquist.  the article describes the various sea going tugs that were placed into service by the navy during world war ii, including a wooden hulled tug called an "atr," wooden hulled, 116 feet long and 34 feet in the beam.  they were steam powered, and insufferably hot in the summer, so much so that crews slept out on the decks:  they were so hot because steam piping ran right through the crew's quarters.

they were armed with a hodge podge of weaponry, including older 50mm and 100mm guns.  the tugs as a class were used to tow damaged vessels, and to pull landing craft off the beaches after the invasion beaches and surrounding seas had been cleared.

the article described the ships rigging, including two large anchors for mooring the ships as they towed larger vessels from the beach, or performed salvage operations.

65 years ago, or more, a young man from milton freewater, oregon served on a vessel that participated in one invasion, and would have made another had it not been for a guy with stripes, ... , and whenever he said this, he took the four fingers of his right hand and moved them in a slashing motion across his left sleeve to denote considerable rank, ... , sabotaging a steam boiler somehow.

85 years old, and decrying the decay of his physical plant and sensorium, but taking each day as it comes.  and, having lived each day as it passed.

john jay @ 12.29.2020

 

cry the children in the agony of their deaths an eloquent assertion of their faith in christ .... blather their elders in pitiful parody of piety, pretending holiness when there is only cowardice ...

update:  why is it that nicolas sarkozy understands what the pope, the patriarch and the arch bishop of canterbury cannot grasp?  nicolas sarkozy asserts that christians in the middle east are targeted by an islamic policy of "religious cleansing," before a congress of christian coptics on january 6, 2011at a location undisclosed in the article.  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/8246278/Nicolas-Sarkozy-says-Christians-in-Middle-East-are-victim-of-religious-cleansing.html   why in the name of g_d are the "leaders" of the west's christian churches unable to make this judgment?  more importantly, if these "leaders" are incapable of making such a judgment, and/or lack the courage to utter it publicly, why do they remain the "leaders" of christendom?   end update.

 

the "leaders" of christendom mock their child martyrs.--

at "tasty infidelicacies," passionate and soul rending accounts of the magnificence of two children who died in the expression of their faith, here and here.  two children, who without formal education and learning in matters theological rose to eloquent assertion of faith, and gave very full measure of valor and bravery in its defense.  two children, too young to know cowardice and hypocrisy.

"dissecting leftism" relates blather uttered by the pope of the catholics, and the arch bishop of the church of england, as they speak in inanities of such matters, author jon ray, "persecution of christians in muslims lands" quoting this source.  two religious leaders, who would mute the voice of two young children, and who would suppress the news of their sacrifice by the bland recitation of their fates, as though the murder of children is reducible to statistic or historical imperative: two youngsters died, so sad, ... , next item on the agenda.

where in god's name is the passion of the shepard protecting his flock?  where do the leaders of these two great congregations advocate for christianity, for christ?  the utter blandness of their comments debase the memory of those who have died martyrs for christ.

quoth the pope, "may the comforting message of the coming of emmanuel ease the pain and bring consolation amid their trials to the beloved christian communities in iraq and throughout the middle east."

said the arch bishop, in an equally "stirring" assertion, "we may feel powerless to help, yet we should also know that people in such circumstances are strengthened simply by knowing they have not been forgotten ... ."

lord god, almighty.  i have heard small town morticians pressed into service upon moment's notice to give "eulogies" to the dead lying behind them, met first when draining the fluids from and injecting the formalin into the recently deceased acquaintance, give more stirring remembrance to total strangers, corpses they knew nothing about.  rowan williams, saying that christianity is "powerless" to address the islamic slaughter of innocents, and, yes, even of innocence itself, and pope benedict, offering the comforts of martyrdom before quickly offering the collection plate.

where in god's name is there recognition by these two prelates that people have died, that children have died, and that their deaths are to be redressed?  where in god's name is their any passion, at any level, over the deaths of persons?  why can these two tired or institution men not summon any passion whatsoever over the fate of those to whose care they have been entrusted?  this is now, intellectual and emotional and spiritual distance is for later, not for the immediate circumstance and occasion of the brutal murders of so many.

in "unutterable," at tasty infidelicacies, jewel relates the death of a young saudi girl named "rania", a convert to christianity, at the hands of her father, a muslim zealot.  the father, a member of the saudi commission "for promotion of virtue and prevention of vice" first cut the offending tongue of his daughter from her mouth, and then burned her to death following a "debate" over religion.  this related in an article from an islamic news service.  may the coming of the emmanuel ease this child's pain, and i hope it offers some solace to her spirit and soul, because it does little to calm my outrage over her death.

i take the following passage from "adam of baghdad: enough! enough! enough!" by jewel at "tasty infidelicacies" about the death of a little boy named adam, who in the presence of much slaughter and ultimately a victim of murder at the hands of ruthless savages, had more native wit, eloquence and wisdom in the defense of his faith than a worthless pope and a nit wit archbishop:

 

it is hunting season on christians in the middle east. naked genocide. our churches, for the most part say nothing about it, because it might offend. everywhere in this country and in other western countries, christians are being told that their symbols and traditions are offensive and they must be more inclusive. someone in the ["] department of selective outrage["] needs to visit baghdad. maybe go to church on sunday and partake in the holy rite of communion and eat his flesh and drink his blood....literally, because that is what christians do when they are slaughtered by muslims. lisa graas has penned a gripping and gruesome account about the bravery of one of christ's littlest lambs. all i can say is, "out of the mouths of babes...." 

from her report:

now, at the end of last month, on the vigil of the feast of all saints, in the syriac catholic cathedral of our lady of deliverance in the city of baghdad, many dozens of catholics were killed as they gathered for mass. two were priests: one was killed at the altar and the other as he left the confessional. they are joined in death with hundreds of others who have died for their faith in christ since the current conflict began. an american dominican sister, a friend of a friend, has written from that country: “waves of grief have enveloped their world, surging along the fault lines created in iraqi society by the displacement of thousands of iraq’s christian minority who have fled what is clearly a growing genocidal threat…one survivor was asked by a reporter, what do you say to the terrorists? through his tears he said, ‘we forgive you.’…among the victims of this senseless tragedy was a little boy named adam.three-year-old adam witnessed the horror of dozens of deaths, including that of his own parents. he wandered among the corpses and the blood, following the terrorists around and admonishing them, ‘enough, enough, enough.’ according to witnesses, this continued for two hours until adam was himself murdered.” as bishops, as americans, we cannot turn from this scene or allow the world to overlook it. 

 

the brave death of this little boy does little to assuage my anger.  it is well and good that the christian faith can stir such steadfast bravery and devotion to faith in circumstances related above, but it is regrettable that those qualities are found in children, and not in their elders who profess such faith, but who profession is turned into pretense and posture by their continued removal and insulation of such events, by their passivity which lets the lambs go to slaughter while they glisten in the fat of a comfortable opulence earned by the sacrifice of the flock.

it seems to me that with the job of shepard comes the responsibility of tending the flock in danger, and such tending demands that it be done in the company of the flock.

theology classes.  divinity school.  priesthood.  the rise to cardinal.  the consecration of arch bishop and pope.

and, yet these two men have not the native wit, the elocution, the presence of mind, or even the simple grace of god extended to mortals in time of extremis and facing death, to muster the faith of a little girl in saudi arabia to defend their faith, or a little boy in iraq, to utter, "enough, enough, enough by god!!"

i pity them.

 

these poor dried up emotionless shells of men, and of man's spirit.  they are devoid of those emotions which give us a decent human reaction to such events, they cannot even begin to muster genuine outrage.  nor can they summon the courage to go among their flock, and to suffer their predations, and to help uplift and share their faith.

they cannot begin to muster faith.  they surely do not offer any evidence to the contrary by their limp speech.  where is the ringing summons to devotion?  instead they offer tired and insipid platitude.

and, they cannot even come remotely close to fulfilling the function of shepard of the faithful, cannot even remotely perform the stewardship of their faith.  they haven't the physical courage to perform the job description.  they are tired, and cynical, and i can conclude non other by the pathetic performance of their jobs they offer.  there is not a parish priest or even a novitiate could not have come up with a more soaring invocation to christ's spirit than these two zombies, pope and arch bishop.

they are dead, indeed, even as they walk, even while they continue to draw fetid, cool, desiccated breath.

little adam, 4 years of age, followed the murderers of his mother and father, and summoned the courage and the presence of mind to voice his outrage, to condemn his killers, to reproach them for their evil, to cry out to god for atonement and the punishment of their sins, and uttered their condemnation and damnation to hell, in a way that these two poor lifeless men can never hope to muster, can never hope to summon the wisdom, to summon the help of a wrathful god.

"enough, enough, enough."

god bless "rania" for defending her faith.  god bless adam, for the presence of mind, the grace under the most trying circumstance, the courage to confront his attackers and offer his bravery before their savagery.  blessed children.

 

and, god damn these two dried up, desiccated, passionless & pitiful excuses for spiritual leaders for not having even a hint of the capacity and spirituality of these two children.  they are miserable failures, and they should quit, and let someone with some fire in their bellies, someone with some faith in god, to take their places and defend the faith, and western civilization.

these two are unspeakable cowards.

and, this final note.  it is more than just a little disconcerting when a little boy of 4 years of age has more wit about him, understands what is happening more clearly, as he is being murdered, and comprehends that which is happening to his fellow christians more than the pope of rome and the arch bishop of canterbury:  when he has more god given sense than these two dullards.

don't you think so?

john jay @ 12.27.2010

updates:  no, no links to me, though this article is known to both.   i suppose that i should have a bit of a snit about no references/links to this article from the following, but, it is important in its own way that these matters be reference here.   so, that you may read about this adequately.   that you know about this child is important.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/12/if-muslims-were-being-gunned-down-and-bombed-in-western-mosques-by-christian-fanatics-there-would-ri.html  --  at jihadwatch, a big time blog, run by a big time blog host.

http://tastyinfidelicacies.blogspot.com/2010/12/o-christian-where-art-thou.html  --  at tasty infidelicacies, a big time blog, run by a big time blog host in the making.

no bones thrown this way for my piece above:  this is why the big time bloggers get bigger, and the small time blogs stay small.  "acknowledgment" is a one way street.  laughing.  oh, well, g_d preserves my anonymity, as always.  john jay.   end update. 

 

p.s.  you should go read these pieces, they are very good.  they just don't spread the news: you can learn it, if you read it there.

 

a quite extraordinary post at "tasty infidelicacies." ... please go there, and read it.

this post, by jewel.  

http://tastyinfidelicacies.blogspot.com/2008/08/unutterable.html .

the writing is wonderful, the graphics and music quite lovely, and she writes on a subject as deadly serious as can be imagined.  

we must fight islam.  simple as that.  we must be as savage in our retribution and defense as they are in their constant attack.  we must destroy islam's ability to attack us, and drive them back into their sandboxes.  

john jay @ 12.27.2010

rough draft ... "the politics of scarcity..." ... how the left aims to dominate ...

friends:

i have been kicking around an idea for about 3 weeks now, which occurred to me as i walked the foothills of my blue mountains.  the whole thing came ot me in a flash, in about 10 seconds i put it into 3 sentences.  trust me, i remember doing so.

and, then i forgot to write it down.  so, i have just been waiting for it to come back, and from time to time i have been earmarking articles i will use to illustrate my points.

but, an article at atlas shrugs kind of stirred things up, and in about 3 "comments" there i have kind of summarized what i have been thinking about.  so, i am gonna put them here, and then in the next couple days/week or so, i am going to come back in and submit my earmarked articles to shore up & illustrate my points of contention.

but, i would go see the article at atlas, as it is interesting, and the "comments" section is pretty sprightly with some good points.

but, keep in mind the main theme of the comments i made, and of the themes of this article as it gets roughed out.--  "green politics," friends, is simply a way for the left to assume controls over the way the rest of us live through a rubric that obscures their purposes.  "the environment" is a front for socialistic and bureaucratic controls over the means of our livelihoods and industrial production, and nothing more, nothing less.

we'll be elaborating on that in these pages, the next little bit.

well, without further elaboration, here are my comments from atlas shrugs.--

 

john jay said...

pamela, friends:

all this ass kissing of islam and the arab states is spurred by the shit head euro's, and for one reason only.

oil.

and, other natural resources.

both of which, the euro shit heads lack.

you gotta give the pricks credit. they have no oil, so they kiss up to the arabs. who are close. and, they have no coal. so, they do everything in their power to pass this global climate control bullshit holding down carbon emissions, to limit the use of coal by the indians and chinese, who have a lot.

finally, the last thing they have not, which they used to, is military power. they've squandered it all. the u.s., for instance, has 11, 12, 13 air craft carrier task forces while the rest of the world has none, a situation the chinese and the indians are going to try to rectify.

the euro's? well, the english and the french have decided to build one, and share it. they are going to share it operationally, get that. now, do you know how long it takes to plan such a thing, lay the keel, build it, fit it out and make it operational? well, the last (and first) one the ruskies built took them 25 years to complete the process.

and, it is worthless.

so, the euro solution is to diplomatically hamstring the u.s., and to negate its military power by blunting it diplomatically through the united nations.

sound familiar.

if you look behind this arab crap, what you will find is the hand of the french and the germans, but mostly those scheming bastards, the french.

so, time to take the internet back.

dust off the united nations, by which i mean to withdraw from it, and to kick it off our shores.

john jay
milton freewater, oregon usa

p.s. i save the best/funniest part for last. and, that is the part where we are kissing arab/muslim/islamic ass over this oil reserves thing.

and, that is the bakken oil field in montana, north dakota and on up into canada. there is more sweet crude oil in these reserves, now recoverable, than in all of saudi arabia, or, for that matter, in all of arabia, ... , in multiples.

in short, we don't need the fucking arabs, for anything. no reason to kiss their fish dead skinny butts.

but, the liberals and the media won't tell you this. will they.

it goes against the "master plan" to integrate in with the arabs.

in short, it's time to kick arab ass, and it is time to kick the liberals out of power and influence them, by whatever means necessary, before they completely give away the geo political power the u.s. and the west have won. (through, let it be known, absolutely no contribution by the idiot froggies, and against the best efforts of hitler's nazi germany to wrest this power from the u.s. and england.)

it is simply time to turn away from these bastards, and fend for ourselves, which we can do quite handily, and much to our lasting benefit.

first, we have to get rid of the radical liberals, who want to kumbaya us with the rest of these worthless turds. simply put.

ReplySaturday, December 25, 2010 at 09:23 PM

POST*TENEBRAS*LUX said in reply to john jay...

John Jay, Y.O.U. for President. When are WE going to stop pretending we have a real president in OUR white house, not his!!!!

ReplySunday, December 26, 2010 at 11:36 AM

Richard 2 said in reply to john jay...

The last I heard the US has enough proven reserves to fuel the US for 500 years at our highest rate of consumption, if the watermelons of the green movement would let us drill and refine our own oil gas would be below $1.50 per gallon and the money that is now going overseas would be staying in the US and being spent and invested in the US so our economy would be humming. Instead the greens are now denying us the use of our own oil and damaging the economy, and by doing this they are damaging the ecology since it is only rich nations that can afford to stop the pollution the greens are suppose to hate so much.

ReplySunday, December 26, 2010 at 05:52 PM

john jay said in reply to Richard 2...

richard 2:

i think you have about all of that pretty much right, though i don't know the exact figures. the bakken reserves have been known for a long time, it was just that the way to extract it from the oil bearing rock was not quite figured out.

apparently the technical problems have been solved, in that regard. my older brother, who has worked in construction all of his life, is now 68 years old and can barely lift his arms above his shoulders, due to the wear and tear of his labors over the years.

he has friends who are working the oil fields, just begging him to come to work, and he is trying to talk me into going there with him, ... , which is, ... , for someone who once worked the bering sea crab grounds, ... , tempting. (nobody ever said that anyone in my family had any sense at all, except for my younger brother. and, he's not had as much fun.)

and, on this energy thing, we are not even factoring in our proven and established coal reserves, nor figuring the tar/sands/shale reserves in the coastal areas of the gulf states.

the greens/liberals face a life or death situation w/ this oil reserve business.

what do i mean about that?

well, their only real call to existence, their raison d'etre, as it were, is to be the arbitrators of a politics of scarcity and eco-environmentalism. that really is the g_d damned elitists son of a bitches only reason to exist, and their only really reason to assert a "right to rule" over the rest of us greedy avaricious bastards.

we cannot be trusted with using our own precious resources, so the argument goes from the pricks.

no, if you recognize that we have almost unlimited natural resources for power, even using it in our own profligate little ways (always the way initially with new power, until its subtle uses are mastered), ... , then there is exactly no reason whatsoever for the greens to exist.

who needs the "parsimonious & unctuous" pricks lecturing us on resource use, when we have the resources to last a very, very, very long time.

so, that is why:

1.)they deny the existence of the resource, or try to repress knowledge of it from the public, and 
2.)they announce the existence of an "aesthetic," which by the way, only they can assert with clarity, and only they can provide the "expertise" to regulate, which is to govern our conduct, use, exploitation and development of such resources.

in short, according to the short dicked bastards, they are the only ones smart enough to understand these things, and only they can tell the rest of us how to use such things.

yes, it is very much like the medieval catholic priesthood's domination of one's access to g_d, is it not?

and, so we slowly devolve into a system whereby wealth is suppressed, so that others may rule. pretty neat system, if you are one of the elite "experts." you think there is a metaphor here, to understand the global warming juggernaut of phony science and liberal politics? laughing.

this energy business.--

it is all politics, and nothing more.

and, this is why the energy companies who are going full steam ahead to exploit bakken and other energy resources, are the deadly enemy of the greens. and, the greens know this.

because if no one else, exxon and the rest will put the green movement into the political graveyard it so richly deserves. they will kill the greens. and, htis is why, the greens struggle to kill them first.

john jay
milton freewater, oregon usa

p.s. simple as that. and, you read it first, right here at atlas shrugs. the best blog in the known universe.

ReplySunday, December 26, 2010 at 07:15 PM

john jay said in reply to john jay...

p.s. in short, what the euro greens (and the chief aristocratic exponent of same, that dickless & feckless wonder prince charles) really want is to see most of us reduced to the level of peasants, while the elites live large, and, of course, control things.

but, this is hard to sell, when the "peasantry" has such an inordinate fondness for 3/4 ton pickups, motorcycles, snowmobiles, personal water craft, ultra light aircraft and anything else that can be powered and given motive force by the reciprocating piston engine. and, who is to deny the peasantry its little entertainments, with almost limitless oil reserves in north america, and coal reserves of vast size in north america, and emerging technologies such as energy production by the exploitation of moss, lichens, algae and other microorganisms, let alone ocean wave technology.

who is going to convince the peasants to give up their motors.

and, who is going to deny the peasants the thermostats set on 74-degrees f. in the winter, and 68-degrees f. in the summer, and running around indoors in the middle of winter in their bikini's and trunks, with limitless gas supplies?

this is why the greens/liberals/radicals, home grown and euro spawned, hate the united states. and, even worse, why they are envious.

the euro's simply don't have these things, by which to lever power, diplomatically, militarily and/or geopolitically.

if they are to stay relevant, they have to figure a way to gull gulliver within his own borders, and fetter him with aesthetics and green measures on energy use and industrial production.

this is the raison d'etre of the u.n., and the unholy diplomatic cabal of the euro's and the arabs/muslims/islam/o.i.c. trying to limit us, to tie us down and restrain our bumptious growth and ever expanding industrial and technological production.

simple as that.

john jay

p.s. oh, yes, it all ties in, and it is all a cohert world view. scary, ain't it?

well, it is if you are a greenie. it is fucking terrifying, if you are a radical/leftist/greenie, and there are peasants running around, "what got your number."

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not much from the arch bishop of canterbury, either, on the mass killing of christian celebrants ... this silence is sin, plainly put ...

let us just squarely address the silence of the "leaders" of christendom on the slaughter of christians generally, and specifically, the slaughter of christian celebrants during the high holy season, by islam, to advance the purposes of islam.

this failure of christian leaders, such as the pope and the arch bishop of canterbury, to address this issue is immoral, and it is sin.  this craven silence, this eloquent indifference to the suffering of the faithful at the hands of islam is cowardice in the face of attack, and such cowardice is immoral in the extreme.

it is immoral because it only encourages and incites islam to further outrage, outrages, i would note, that are perpetrated against the lambs in the flock as opposed to being directed at its "shepards."  it is one thing for the shepard to turn the other cheek to the ravening wolf, ... , that is a personal choice on the part of the shepard.

it is quite another matter for the shepard to stand idly by while the innocent lambs of the flock are slaughtered.  and, it is a matter of added sin and guilt for the shepard to make the way to the flock easier for the wolf, and moreover, to encourage the wolf to continuing his ravening attacks by not loosening the hounds in protection of the flock.

to stand by mute while these attacks occur, is immoral and it is grave sin for the pope and the arch bishop to remain silent in the face of such outrage.

how do these cowards meet their maker, with faces downcast in shame for their inaction, for their silence, for their very complicity in trucking with islam?

were i pope, where i the arch bishop, i would count it better to meet my maker with the blood of my enemy on my hands for having defended my flock, than to come before my maker with the shattered corpses of the faithful in tow, and only the lame excuse of my cowardice to explain them.

i have set out the 23rd psalm below.  i would ask you to remark upon the passage, "...  i will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me ... " and to think upon it just for a moment.  "thy rod and thy staff they comfort me."  the passage does not say, "thy presence at my meek and unresisting death lends me grace and composure for thou art with me."

given the day, the only thing that would have armed a shepard for protecting his flock in any more formidable manner would have been a bow and arrow.  the psalm, the prayer, contemplates that the shepard will step forward with force, and with confidence and moral suasion, to protect the lambs of his flock.  no pacifist bullshit here, but a firm resolve and knowledge that god will protect his faithful with force.

too damn bad that the pope and the arch bishop cannot read, reflect and resolve to do the same with their faithful.  too damn bad that the christians of the world are led by such useful tools, and will not resist islam.  i have no pity for the pope and for the arch bishop, for their consignment to the lower pits of hell for their cowardice.

damn their eyes, who bear witness, and will not comprehend.  it is willful immorality, and it is sin.

john jay @ 12.26.2010

john jay @ 12.26.2010

psalm 23, king james

1.  the lord is my shepard; i shall not want.

2.  he maketh me to lie down in green pastures; he leadeth me beside the still waters.

3.  he restoreth my soul; he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

4.  yea, though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death, i will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

5.  thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies; that anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

6.  surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and i will dwell in the house of the lord for ever.

http://wintersoldier2008.typepad.com/summer_patriot_winter_sol/2010/12/no-word-from-the-pope-on-killing-christians-celebrating-christmas-the-silence-is-deafening-.html

no word from the pope on killing christians celebrating christmas ... the silence is deafening ...

scores appear dead in jos, nigeria as christian celebrants gathering for christmas festivities are killed in a series of bombings, apparently about five in number.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/12/24/nigeria.bombs.fatalities/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn .

no word from the pope or other christian "leaders."  i think that you may anticipate that any reaction from church "leadership" will be "muted," most likely in fear of retribution.  muslims, of course, are permanently insulted by the very existence of judaism & jews, and christianity & christians, and this is provocation enough for them to attack.  whiners, we don't need no stinking whiners, we'll bomb your ass just because we feel like it!!

so, it is somewhat odd what the "leadership" of western religion thinks it gains by being passive and quiescent, but that is their gig, and not mine.  i will just observe that they are silly if they feel the "rank and file" are inspired to martyrdom because of their cowardice.

but, this is a breaking story, and maybe the pope and the various prelates of the world will rise to the occasion, and whimper some.  but, do not expect any papal bulls authorizing another crusade to rid the world of this islamic pestilence.

update:  this just in from pakistan, as muslim bombers kill scores who were gathering to receive aid.  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40806288/ns/world_news-south_and_central_asia/ .  muslims are adept at killing, though it is hard to discern that they have any other skills: they are scurrilous, and detestable, in my view, and abject cowards.  the world would not be poorer for their absence, period.  end update.  

john jay @ 12.24.2010

john kitna for another "comeback player of the year" award ....

i am a john kitna partisan.

he is from my neck of the woods.  he is an "aw, shucks" sort of throw back player.  he played at a small college near where i lived.

so, i am biased.

but, the facts are there to support this assertion.--

john kitna has played well enough in every game that he has started this year for his team, the dallas cowboys, to have won each and every one of those games.  in the first game he played he did "throw" 4 interceptions, but the fact is that on 3 or those throws the ball touched the hands of his receivers, eluding their grasp, only to end up in the clutches of defensive players who had been outplayed prior to receiving the gift from the dallas receiver.

in another game, a dallas receiver was headed to the end zone to pad an already existing lead, when tackled from behind and stripped of the ball, only to give the other team the chance for one last game winning drive, which the opponent "capitalized" on, to use nfl parlance.

kitna has played very well since taking over for tony romo.

so, what is he to expect next year for his efforts?   why, he will be benched again, and dallas heart throb tony romo will take the job back, by virtue of his ... .  well, the question must be asked.  by what "virtue" will romo take the job back, except by the "wisdom" of the nfl which "knows" that the higher paid athlete is the better athlete.

even if he shows it neither by aptitude, leadership or actual game performance.

as a personal note to john kitna, i can only add that this is a usual and not unexpected turn in your career:  you have not received a lot of "gratitude" for simply winning football games.  

the seahawks cut him, the detroit lions went with someone else (who did not materially improve them over kitna's contribution), as did the cincinnati bengels (ditto the previous observation), and now he is with dallas.  i doubt dallas will be much smarter.  but, john kitna will get a job somewhere, as a backup, and this season probably has earned him another 2 or 3 multi-million dollar contracts as probably the most respected 2nd string quarterback in the national football league.

the "new" (same old offensive coordinator who pulled the strings for tony romo) coach for dallas gets all the credit for the dallas turn around.  to the best of my knowledge, the silly bastard has not completed a single pass nor a 300+ yard game, nor hauled his aged & pudgy body down a sideline to heave it over the goal line for a touchdown, as has john kitna.

kitna has one solace.  he is playing the game he loves so much, as well as he ever has, and he is hauling money by the buckets to the bank.  he says little about any of this, except to exhort his teammates to better performances, to strive always to win, ... , something that kitna has done quite a bit in his entire nfl career, sometimes winning precious little respect for having done so.

oh, well.  he's had 14 years of such treatment to date, and likely has another couple years in him at the very least.  he will never act like he has been mistreated, because from john kitna's view of things, he has been a very lucky and well treated man.  it is not everyone who gets 14 seasons in the nfl.

he does not think he has been abused, or neglected.

hey, there are harder ways to make a living, after all.   but, speaking for just me, i do not think that he has gotten his due.

go, john!!

and, go ducks!!

john jay @ 12.21.2010

typepad is a worthless p.o.s. .... any hints on a better service to use for blogging ...

friends:

twice in two weeks, while composing at the typepad "processor," i have lost good pieces when the processor simply locks up in the "spell check" function.

it is happening right now, and i cannot access my writing, and i am going to loose it, and it was a good piece.

god damn typepad to hell.  it is a worthless piece of shit.

i am going to dump it.  i am open to any suggestions on how to transfer the contents of this blog to another service.  i would like to avoid similar occurrences at my next lily pad.  any hints, or advice, on where to go to avoid this damned nonsense?

john jay @ 12.20.2010

the 6.8mm spc "whisper project" continues ... on the nature of muzzle flash w/ imr "trail boss" powder ...

this evening at the rifle range i sat in the trailblazer waiting for dusk, listening to annie lennox's "medusa" on the stereo, and warming my hands on air issuing from the ventilation ducts.

i wanted to see if imr "trail boss" produces much of a muzzle flash, the brilliant orange flash of incandescent gases hitting the open atmosphere and exploding in the boom characteristic of a rifle shot.  the odd thing is, when you see a rifle shot in daylight, you do not see the muzzle blast.  but, at dusk or early morning, it is quite the sight, ... , a sometimes large and long orange flame, rather a very elongated "tear drop" shape.

as the propellant gases follow the bullet up the bore, they are under tremendous pressures, upwards of 12,000 lbs. per square inch as they leave the bore, and still at tremendous temperature after having been ignited in the cartridge just milliseconds before: it takes the bullet roughly .0015's of a second to leave the barrel once started from the shell casing ahead of the burning powder.

this gas hitting the open atmosphere makes the rifle's "report."  pop a bike tire at 100 p.s.i.: it makes a pretty good "report."  understand the propellant gas hits the atmosphere at 10,000 p.s.i., "plus."

what i am looking for in my research on making a suppressed round, is making a round whose "noise signature" and whose muzzle flash can be greatly attenuated, if not entirely hidden.

this muzzle flash issue greatly bears on whether a cartridge's noise and visual signatures can be hidden.--  and, the overriding issue, oddly enough, is heat.  when smokeless propellant is ignited, it burns very rapidly, the rapidity of this burning greatly accentuated by pressure and confinement in the rifle's chamber and barrel: it is a process whereby burn produces & introduces tremendous volumes of gas into a limited space, causing pressure and heat, and whereby the pressure and heat in turn increase the rate of burn of the chemicals comprising the powders, this within limits designed by the chemical engineers: let the process get out of hand, and it produces an "explosion," which a rifle shot is not.

the mechanism that feeds this process is the creation of heat energy.

the way to harness the effects of this process, both in terms of noise and visual signature, is to remove the heat from the incandescent heat plume as it escapes the muzzle.  no heat, no flame.  no heat, no great big boom.

a suppressor, incorrectly known as a silencer (as there is no such thing) functions basically by providing a very large surface area over which the incandescent flame passes and by which process heat is transferred from the gas to the mass of the suppressor, before the powder gases hit the open atmosphere.

if you are seeking to reduce noise and flame signature from a rifle shot by the anticipated use of a suppressor, it only makes sense to reduce the work a suppressor is going to have to do, by working to create a load that does not dump tremendous amounts of high pressure incandescent (powder) gas into the open air as it follows the bullet from the rifle bore.  if you can reduce gas temperatures and bore pressure by the judicious use of propellant and propellant charge, then a well designed suppressor just has less work to do, and it will be greatly aided in helping produce lessened noise and flame signature.

so, to the range, to fire some cartridges into the dark as dusk became night to see if the loads i have developed made any muzzle flash.  from my standpoint, a lot of muzzle flash would not be helpful in achieving my ends, because it would mean that a suppressor in all likelihood would not be able to absorb sufficient heat energy quickly enough to properly attenuate the noise/flame signature of the rifle shot.

so, i fired some normal loads in the dusk (dark enough to see the muzzle flash, sufficient light to make sure i was aiming the rifle towards a proper backstop), and sure enough, they made a fairly significant muzzle flash, though not so much as a large magnum rifle round.

and, then i fired a load of 6.7 grains of imr "trail boss" behind a 130 gr. sierra bthp, and then a load of 6.3 grains of imr "trail boss" behind the same weight and type bullet.

the results were very gratifying.

there was no discernible flame, just a little smoke.  now, had it been darker, maybe some visible light would have been discernible, but, not so very much.

and, there was very little noise associated with the rifle's discharge, not really a whole lot more muzzle blast than discernible from a .22 long rifle's discharge.  

the reasons are pretty simple.  the round as fabricated/developed, or, if you prefer, concocted uses a very small amount of propellant to push a rather heavy bullet down the bore, as compared to a .22 long rifle shell.  it stands to reason that a very large portion of the heat energy produced by the small charge of powder is being consumed by the task of pushing the bullet, and that by the time the bullet leaves the barrel only small amounts of residual heat and pressure exist as they exit the bore behind the bullet.

so far, so good.

i am entirely satisfied at this point that the loads as concocted are entirely safe from a pressure standpoint, and that all rounds to be shot will exit the bore.  hey, this isn't a small matter.  a bullet left in the bore would in all likelihood cause significant damage to the barrel if another round were fired behind it, without detecting the condition: it could easily cause a bulged barrel, not conducive to anything good, or, perhaps even a split barrel, entirely conducive to bad things, like missing fingers and eyebrows in extreme cases.

and, it is evident from my little experiment tonight that a good suppressor on the end of the barrel will very greatly attenuate any noise and flame signature.  remember, these rounds were fired out the end of a bare barrel, without even a flash hider attached to it.  now, i have been around suppressed weapons, and even witnessed a member of my local sheriff's department fire a fully suppressed hk automatic weapon (provided by the hk vendor looking for sales) in 9mm parabellum, shooting a heavier bullet from a shorter barrel with a larger powder charge, ... , and, friends, although it wasn't noiseless, it really didn't make all that much noise, either.  the machinery of the firearm cycling made more noise than the report of the suppressed muzzle blast.

so, now all i have to do is to develop a load that is accurate at the velocity levels i think i have pretty much obtained.

so, in the next few months, i will put a separate sight on the rifle, dedicated to developing an accurate load out to about 150 yards of so, perhaps a little more.  remember how the round was conceived, ... , it was not intended to deliver massive energies surreptitiously in daylight battle to take out targets 1,000 to 1,500 meters away, ... ,  rather, ... , to be able to hit targets at around 150 yards away in conditions of very little ambient light, using enhanced night vision optics, the range limited by facial recognition of targets in such light.

even given the very best of passive night sights with the current technology, even in conditions of plentiful ambient light, say as in a full moon, facial recognition without bathing the target in infrared illumination is limited to about 250 yards of so.

as conceived, the use of such a round given such relatively intimate distances, suggests that a prudent user of such devices and rounds under such conditions do everything mechanically possible to eliminate things that would cause his detection upon firing even a "whisper" round.  that means to eliminate, as nearly as possible, anything that would evidence discharge of a firearm, such as muzzle flash or muzzle report/boom.

i think that i am pretty close to that.

the "only" task remaining is to develop an accurate round given the velocity parameters discussed in previous articles, that being holding muzzle velocities below 1050 fps, to be on the safe side.

i will keep you posted.

john jay @ 12.16.2010

not an "update," just unvarnished opinion, call it "rank speculation":  i do not know this as fact.  in fact, it is "rank speculation."  but, i would imagine that the ruger 556 ar, in 6.8mm spc, would probably cycle most of my imr "trailboss" loads discussed above, with the gas setting "wide open" and equipped with a can.   i say this because i can hear the action cycle a ways on my ar-15 upper, a rock river arms with an e.r. shaw 20" barrel on it, but when i check the arm, the spent casing is found in the rifle chamber.

this means the bolt has unlocked, and the bot & bolt carrier assembly has come back part way in its cycle against the recoil spring, and then the spent cartridge is once again carried forward along with the carrier group, & chambered.

now, if just a little more gas came into the system, ... , say as would be the case in the ruger 556 were the gas regulator wide open, ... , well, then, we would have a "whisper" cartridge that would cycle the action of an ar-15.  and, since the ruger barrel is, what, 16.02" inches long, with the can in place and the gas regulator opened up, i think there would be enough "oomph" to just run the thing, quite satisfactorily.

i don't know this.  but, i would put a little on it, were i able to get my hands on a 6.8mm spc in a ruger 556 equipped with a can?   anybody out there tried one of my loads, with the ruger?  anybody talking?  hey, how about you russians who've been translating some of the blog entries here?  end, "rank speculation 'update'".  but, no end, just yet, to the laughing.