Skeptical Atheist

Posted by Anthony at December 11th, 2007

The blogosphere is currently abuzz with a case of Jamie Jones - a woman from Texas who was employed by Halliburton/KBR. She alleges she was gang-raped by her Halliburton co-workers, locked up without food or water for a day - and all of this just happened to be an active cover-up of Halliburton, and the U.S. Government that went on for 2 years.
While I cannot bring any expert knowledge to the details of the case and objectively judge the genuineness of her claims I found it quite amusing to read the responses of conservative bloggers. As you can guess, some of them are somewhat “dismissive” of her claims.

For instance “Jawa Report” calls her claims “Too perfect“. Really? Well of course, when according to them, “.. nearly every villain in the left’s panoply of villains is included in the story”. Interestingly enough, when the rape perpetrators are muslims “Jawa Report” didn’t display the same kind of incredulity - in fact they have a simple explanation ready (psst, it’s the evil feminists’/lesbians’ fault). Oh, that makes perfect sense.

Or take this fine gentleman pictured above who happens to be Ms Jamie Jones’ fellow Texan Chris Jones, a prominent conservative blogger for TheHotJoints and RedState. Here’s a direct quote from his blog:

“Immunity for “contractor on Iraqi” crime is one thing, but I never considered that immunity would extend to “contractor on contractor” crimes. Or more specifically “American on American” crimes. Shooting an Iraqi in a war zone is one thing, but American contractors gang-raping a 20-year old American woman is f*cking outrageous.”

So let me see if I understand. What Mr Jones is saying here is that killing, maiming and raping of Iraqi men/women/children when performed by American contractors is all fine and dandy, but if it’s done to a white woman we’ve gone too far. Outrageous, indeed.

The ultimate irony of this rather ugly situation is that the bloggers that seem to be displaying the most sympathy and compassion with regards to Miss Jones case are of the kind that she most likely despises the most. You know, tree hugging, godless, pinky, sandal-wearing hippies that kind.
Not that the leftist bloggers would ever be politically motivated…

Posted by Anthony at June 16th, 2006

Did you ever wonder what the Bible literacy rates are amongst the believers? Aside from anecdotal accounts, I couldn’t find too many studies on that. My gut feeling is - it’s not very high. It’s no surprise really: will every devoted Christian reading this who’ve read both Old and New Testament from the beginning to the end please stand up? I’d even venture to say that nowadays non-believers actually have more incentives to read the bible than the believers do.

Onto the main topic that brought this up: this oh-so-bright (as you are about to see) congressman Westmoreland from Georgia (wouldn’t you know it?) co-sponsored a bill to require the display of 10 Commandments in the House of Representatives. So, Stephen Colbert set up an interview and asked him non-chalantly what the 10 Commandments actually were. Since I’m posting this you can pretty much guess what the answer was:

Stephen Colbert Interviews congressman Westmoreland