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Blair... Catholic... Converted? WTF?

I'm confused. Blair has been openly Catholic for at least as long as he was Prime Minister over here. I'm pretty sure he was before too. Quite aside from the stupidity of him "wanting" to be king (now, Lord Protector there's an idea. I can quite warm to the idea of another Charles having his head snicked off...) why on earth does he need to convert? --Jeēv☭s^{Your signature uses all my CPU time...} 19:45, 22 December 2007 (EST)

He's been a closet Catholic for years, but he was actually formally still a member of the Church of England until yesterday. As an aside, it's pretty funny how Andy apparently has grasped that there were political reasons why Blair only converted after his resignation, but still manages to completely misunderstand what they are. --AKjeldsen^Godspeed! 19:52, 22 December 2007 (EST)

Well, if he was closeted, it was a closet with a big transparent acrylic door and a 5 foot high neon signage with a 1Hz flash saying "See the amazing closeted Catholic!" I was going to write something about how Blair was a decent model of a Governor whose decisions were informed but not lead by his religion, but apparently little did I know he wasn't a real catholic... feh. --Jeēv☭s^{Your signature uses all my CPU time...} 19:58, 22 December 2007 (EST)

Cool! What's the duty cycle on that flashing sign?--Bayes^update 20:03, 22 December 2007 (EST)

Something like that, yes. He even used to go to Catholic communion regularly, until the local bishop wrote to him and asked if he wouldn't please stop doing that as long as he hadn't converted yet. :D --AKjeldsen^Godspeed! 20:07, 22 December 2007 (EST)

I've seen Church attendances in this country, I'm surprised the church feel they have the luxury of that kind of Dogma. I'd more or less assumed if they can get a warm body under the age of 60 through the door, they'd be over the moon, let alone the prime minister. --Jeēv☭s^{Your signature uses all my CPU time...} 20:11, 22 December 2007 (EST)

Eh, Blair at least probably went through that door years ago. Besides, they'd probablly lose more people than they'd get if they started relaxing such core parts of their beliefs.

BTW, it's pretty funny to see Andy argue for looking at the "spirit, not the letter" of the law. That doesn't seem like his usual position. --AKjeldsen^Godspeed! 08:53, 23 December 2007 (EST)

This has to be one of the funniest CP edits on the home page. I mean, talk about jumping to the wrong conclusion! Ajkgordon 16:42, 23 December 2007 (EST)

Funny also that Andy's initial response was to explain that his writing wasn't meant to be taken literally. A news item is clearly NOT meant to be taken literally, whereas a thousands year old book explaining how the earth came to be MUST be taken literally. Righto, Andrew. Matt 18:23, 23 December 2007 (EST)

Christianity outlasted Communism

This one seems a bit weak - the context is pretty clearly the USSR, and it did, there. It is an article about Kruschev, and the quote they are commenting on is him talking about xtianity vanishing in the USSR. Right? human 18:20, 23 December 2007 (EST)

I thought it was stupid and amusing.-Shangrala 00:32, 24 December 2007 (EST)

PC

Since Andy couldn't get past the first page's liberal bias [1] to finish the test (and I do think they need to add a middle position, like "no opinion" or sumthin), I took it for him. Or for CP, I'm not sure which I was channelling, but it is his blog, after all. Results are here. Whodathunkit? He almost nailed the same hole in the target that our Beloved Leader of teh Free World made in a drunken rampage. human 19:08, 23 December 2007 (EST)

It never ceases to amaze me how much Andy really lives in his own little world. "...objectionable in a court of law, or at a political debate." Wait, what? --AKjeldsen^Godspeed! 19:16, 23 December 2007 (EST)

Andy's compliments to DanH

This got deleted as it accused Andy of being suspicious, which is false. But it is somewhat amusing due to another thing, Andy thing it's "impressive" to refuse to believe in something without substantial sources. NightFlare 22:02, 23 December 2007 (EST)

That and the fact that Schlafly was so drippingly condescending. PFoster 22:05, 23 December 2007 (EST)

That and the fact further checking proved DanH was right! If not, Andy would have turned on Dan in a heartbeat, as is his style. --TK_/MyTalk 22:25, 23 December 2007 (EST)

Something that's still puzzling me: Since it was a hoax, does this mean that a Good Conservative... used deceit? Or was it a Dirty Liberal who pretended to be a conservative who claimed to be beaten up by liberals? I was too lazy to dig for the hoax admission sources myself, so I honestly dunno. Anybody got more info? --Sid 08:55, 24 December 2007 (EST)

The former. First, he faked death threats from liberals to himself and others in his group. Then, he faked a beating by liberals.--WJThomas 13:24, 24 December 2007 (EST)

Winter Solstice

Hahahahaha: "God help him when the depression and anxiety and addiction and temptation hit.".-Shangrala 10:44, 24 December 2007 (EST)

Paraphrasing and throwing out the "ands" then switch a word here or there, then make the thing an acronym: DATA, anyone?CЯacke® 11:06, 24 December 2007 (EST)

Sweet! Depression > Anxiety > Temptation > Addiction! Teh ebil cycle of non-YECism! human 16:45, 24 December 2007 (EST)

Andy's gun control idiocy

Andy must be in some weird Christmas mood, because I find it unbelievable that even he would blame the Holocaust on gun control.-Shangrala 10:46, 24 December 2007 (EST)

That is the sickest thing I have ever read on Conservapedia. Bondurant 11:07, 24 December 2007 (EST)

Parody at its best! Now why didn't I think of that?

Add that if Native Americans had (more) guns... Auld Nick 11:35, 24 December 2007 (EST)

The above put me in mind of this for some odd reason. CЯacke®

I can't believe there's a Far Side cartoon I've never seen. Made my day.PFoster 11:45, 24 December 2007 (EST)

I particularly liked this edit... "I already know I'm right about gun control, I just need someone to find the statistics to prove it" Uchiha^KATON! 12:16, 24 December 2007 (EST)

I just love the way Andy likes to use the phrase "improved substantially" in his edit comments. Someone give the boy a barnstar! human 16:48, 24 December 2007 (EST)

It's just overkill! Anything Andy touches is "substantially improved", as opposed to anyone else making the same edits, which would be minor contributions, doesn't everyone know that? --TK_/MyTalk 16:50, 24 December 2007 (EST)

Ooh, yeah, I forgetted that... human 16:53, 24 December 2007 (EST)

Re: Uchiha's ref, here's the salient part for those too tired to dig it out:

" ...law-abiding uses of guns outnumber criminal uses by at least a factor of 100 to 1,<ref>(Fill in cite here about percentage of guns used for unlawful purposes.)</ref> "

Which is almost bound to be true - think of the number of bullets fired in target practice, skeet shooting, military and police practice, and hunting. Of course, even if the ratio were 10,000 to 1, it's the actual amount of criminal shooting that matters. Imagine if someone said the same thing about rape and consensual sex... human 16:52, 24 December 2007 (EST)

PS, when I mention hunting, I live in NH, where we have probably a handful of gun crimes per year, maybe a few dozen (and about 1 murder every few years), but zillions of deer and birdies get deaded every year. human 16:55, 24 December 2007 (EST)

PPS, I bet even ole' Dickless Cheney shot a hundred rounds at legitimate targets before shooting his buddy. human 16:55, 24 December 2007 (EST)

Gay veterans not wanted here: where's your charity & forgiveness now?

Was it that BudAndMiles was an "all American" queer that so incensed Karajou that he had to banhammmer him on Christmas day with instructions that only Aschlafly could overrule it? 193.113.235.167 06:06, 25 December 2007 (EST)

(I fixed your link, hope you don't mind.) Well, the last part is easy enough: Pretty much all of Karajou's bans come with the "Only Andy can overrule/unban" tag. The reason? Last time I checked, Karajou was one of the idiot sysops who hadn't enabled the "Others can send mails to me" checkbox (on purpose), so it's not like anybody can contact him (other than through socks, which is forbidden). Karajou simply doesn't want to take on any responsibility. He bans, and that's that. There is no way to discuss with him, no way to ask him, no way to tell him how he made a mistake, and that's how he loves it. Fair trial is a very liberal concept, I guess.

But it gets worse: Did you ever try to mail Andy with an unban request? Or with anything else, for that matter? I did. Fairly often, even. And guess what, it pretty much never works. If you even get a reply, it'll usually be the default "I trust my sysops. They most likely had good reason to do what they did. Think about what you did and try not to bother them." reply. --Sid 07:37, 25 December 2007 (EST)

Conservapedia is so fucking stupid. --65.185.175.69 15:48, 25 December 2007 (EST)

I think that Karajou is such a bigot. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH BEING GAY ANYWAY?!?! --65.185.175.69 15:53, 25 December 2007 (EST)

I'm sure if you asked him he'd be happy to tell you. Or you can consult the many fair and balanced articles dealing with the issue found here. --BillOhannity^godvelocity. 20:19, 25 December 2007 (EST)

Tell me I'm wrong

But is PJR really advocating using charity in disasters and personal tragedy as a way to get your foot in the door and sell them Christianity? Because that's pretty sickening. --Kels 00:54, 26 December 2007 (EST)

Actually, I think he's saying that although it's unfortunate that people die from not having clean water, we can console ourselves by knowing that the True Believers (TM) among them end up with God. My problem with that is that it's a short step from there to "we shouldn't worry about providing clean drinking water at all." I very nearly posted something to this effect, but an edit conflict prevented my longest running sock from getting banhammered. Thank you, Santa. Stile4aly 00:58, 26 December 2007 (EST)

It's bread and butter for the Salvation Army, victims of house fires get shelter, firemen get coffee and doughnuts (with holes, of course because "doughnuts w/o holes aren't doughnuts they're just pastries) those willing to listen to the spiel get that too. CЯacke® 01:00, 26 December 2007 (EST)