tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085926.post2601628559902879337..comments2024-03-28T02:44:22.875-04:00Comments on Hecate: Again With The Capitalization ProblemsHecatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09291488568404382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085926.post-7471777009755660942010-02-05T17:57:00.060-05:002010-02-05T17:57:00.060-05:00Hecate, I fully agree about the crap writing. But ...Hecate, I fully agree about the crap writing. But I can't help but be heartened by the fact that the stone circle exists, especially since I have a daughter applying to the AF Academy. Not that she's a Pagan. At this point she is agnosticish so no worries for her.<br /><br />And I thought the chapel was a spaceship.Wizardesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05417641318966097802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085926.post-65242507836610050952010-02-05T02:51:51.648-05:002010-02-05T02:51:51.648-05:00The standard of literacy in the Newsbusters articl...The standard of literacy in the Newsbusters article is about the same as that displayed on the signs that are so proudly carried at rallies by the teabaggers--or should that be Teabaggers? Anyway, it makes sense once you realize that Graham's intended audience--people who read Newsbusters for information (or what passes for information) rather than for amusement--doesn't care if his writing is literate, or even if it makes sense. All they want is something that will spoon-feed them back their own prejudices and hatreds. And that is what he gives them.<br /><br />All told, he's not exactly the best possible advertisement for his <i>Alma Mater</i>, Bemidji State University.Makarioshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08392249532355639518noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085926.post-70388269329164438442010-02-04T23:18:57.583-05:002010-02-04T23:18:57.583-05:00Just look at that picture of the academy chapel, H...Just look at that picture of the academy chapel, Hecate. Just look at it! All those shiny aluminum beams, stringers, bulkheads, braces, and panels. Look at all those round holes down the middle, both port and starboard. Those round thingies are called "lightening holes" by aviation engineers, although we lay persons would be more likely to call them Buick holes. Somewhere a large zeppelin is missing a lot of parts, perhaps its entire midships gallery. That's why it is sacred to its congregation: they hold sacred the machine of war in all its manifestations. Of course they would never admit this innermost sentiment, but that's the way they roll. Of course they intend to serve their god first. Serving the citizens of the United States is at most an after thought. The proof of that is their intolerance to fellow citizens who see things differently. (I seriously doubt that any of the minority non-xian religions listed above make much use of that aluminum chapel.) The xian cadets' god is a god of force (as in airforce) and domination, reliant on large powerful machines, piloted of course by them after they graduate and go forth. This congregation will never stop to think that an omnipotent deity would have need of neither their services nor their machines. Perhaps they think that they are the wrath of god. If so, they are mistaken. Perhaps the famous RAF pilot and poet was right that with an aircraft you can reach out to "...touch the face of God," but likely very few succeed. <br /><br />Anonymous CowardAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com