Cowboy Confessional

The Pope, in an academic discussion, quotes a Byzantine emperor who has been dead for a few hundred years.  Emperor Manual II Paleologos’ view of Islam way back then was that some Muslims used physical violence to encourage people to convert.  The Pope never said he agreed with this theory, nor did he indite Islam as a religion that nandates such violence.

And some Muslims responded by killing people.

Islam needs to cleanse itself of its radicals, those few individuals who would use the sword to coerce conversion.  Islam needs to perform this cleansing quickly.  The world is quite willing to accept Muslims as our friends, neighbors, and equals, and recognizes that the violent zealots are a tiny minority.  But when people fear being killed in the name of religious expansion (much as what happened during the Crusades and the Inquisitions), they will soon abandon this distinction and defend themselves broadly.

Islam needs to cleanse itself of violent radicals before the world does.

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What is it about Montreal that makes the natives want to shoot up their schools?

Last week a distinctly disturbed individual with a hatred of … well … everything, went people hunting Montreal’s Dawson College, before thankfully auto-cleansing himself from the gene pool.

What caught my attention, besides how Canada’s gun registry did nothing to prevent this particular form of madness, was that Montreal seems to be particularly afflicted by maniacs, and they love to level institutes of higher education.

Canada’s worst mass shooting took place in Montreal when gunman Marc Lepine killed 14 at the Ecole Polytechnic on Dec. 6, 1989.  Another shooting occurred in Montreal in 1992 when a Concordia University professor killed four colleagues.

To my Canadian friends I say send your kids to school in Toronto, or even down here in the U.S.  Anyplace but Montreal as no school appears to be safe there.

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Op-ed writers from the seat of capitalism (the Wall Street Journal) to the seat of insanity (the San Francisco Chronicle) are titillated by a biological phenomenon. 

But aren’t we all?

In this case, writers salivate over a statistical sociological scoop concerning how liberalism may be curing itself through Darwinist deselection.  Specifically these ecstatic essayists are pointing to an obscure detail in the 2004 General Social Survey, which is considered by some to be the ongoing sociological roadmap of America. 

Buried in these 67 megabytes of detailed dope is the odd fact that conservatives are boinking more than liberals.  Well, maybe they are not hitting the sheets more often, but they are certainly spending that time more reproductively.  41% more reproductively than their left-of-center lay abouts. 

Editorialists have mixed speculation why white-bread women are whelping wantonly.  Some blame the influx of southern immigrants, who are by-and-large conservative and reputed by comedian Carlos Mencia to be amply fertile.  Others refrain to 1988 mega predictions of how America’s population would age, migrate south, become more suburban … more conservative.

My speculation has to do with hope.  Conservatives appear to feel fewer threats, even in the most threatening of times.  Those who believe the world will become progressively better (which is not to say more “progressive”), or at least not get any worse, do not fear baking more broods.  In short, they are breeding more than just optimism.  One only has to read Al Gore’s (inaccurate) population projections in “Earth in the Balance” to discover both the inverse of the theorem, and the not-so-subtle mindset that bringing children into an allegedly decaying world is a moral mistake.

What should really be bothering the infecund left is that four out of five people who have a preference in political parties pursue their parent’s.  Culling to the obvious, this generally means Republican’s are creating 41% more Republicans every day than Democrats are creating Democrats.  Over a couple of generations of compounded carnal interest, the philosophical right will simple out muscle the less ardent left.

A left-wing friend of mine (a functional necessity here in San Francisco) complained about this very issue, until I suggested that one of the cures required somebody having sex with Michael Moore, and would she be kind enough to volunteer?  By her expression, I’m guessing not.

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Religion fails from the start, by trying to conceive of God, who by definition is inconceivable.

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I have before confessed to a previous life as a technocrat.  This life of sin led me to deep and disturbing understanding of two related evils in our universe:  computer software and how easily systems are hacked.  Truth be told I started climbing the techie career path by hacking a NASA computer while slaving away for McDonnell Douglas at Kennedy Space Center.

So when politicians and alleged journalist mused melodramatically about the glories of electronic voting, I started hollering heatedly about how votes would soon be stolen … without detection.  A relatively unsophisticated hack would simply decided in advance who should win, and by what percentage so the theft was not immediately obvious or worthy of detailed investigation.  The only place this would not occur would be Chicago as their elections are already fixed in using old fashioned means.

Princeton University has now validated my claim. In the video they demonstrate not only the vote stealing process, but how little time it takes to install the malware.

The danger herein is not some external miscreant breaking and entering a polling equipment depot, but a determined local elections official with a political bias and agenda.  If your county uses Diebold voting equipment and the election results do not match pre-election polling … it may be time to invest in tar and feathers.

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