Hipster Jesus

Hipster Jesus is cool man. Check out the Chucks! He's got long hair, likes obscure music, and is great fun at parties. Join up!

But what if you were never cool? Is Hipster Jesus a front runner?

I better get to a cool church and find out!

Bad Vibrations

Feeling like Turning On? Wondering if this Changing Scene is for you? Maybe you want to Cop Out? Don't. First read "The Jesus Generation" by Billy Graham.

Then Get It All Together.

Wrath of an Angry God

Wicked cool map. I've got a thing for maps. This one shows every tornado in the USA over the past 56 years. Two things I conclude: Mountains create tornadoes, and two, mountains prevent tornadoes. Look at you, Appalachian Range, keeping them evil bastards at bay!

However, ironically, the region known as the Bible Belt is just a jam packed with twisters. Like, where's Oklahoma? Scary, and with Global Warming, far more likely and more powerful (more heat in atmosphere creating more and bigger storms).

But hey, here's what known Super Christian Pat Robertson has to say about tornadoes and storms:

“If enough people were praying He would’ve intervened, you could pray, Jesus stilled the storm, you can still storms.”

So you see, Christians of the Bible Belt, you're not praying hard enough, and thus the giant tornadoes of death and destruction.

Pray harder!

Or! Just an alternative theory, but maybe tornadoes are features of weather in this case created by the Rockies, the Gulf of Mexico, and the relatively flat spaces of central USA.  Given that they are only going to increase in size and frequency, be prepared.

Or move. Check out all those liberal areas, suspiciously free of tornadoes.

Ghetto

Each dot represents 25 people, and each color represents a self identified race from the 2010 census. This is Chicago, and you can see how the main ethnicities are ghettoized. Not specific to Chicago, either, as all American cities and probably most world cities are set up the same way. Here's a few more:

Detroit

LA

Greater NYC.

As long as such ghettoization exists, then so too will racism. But much of it is self chosen, yeah?

Complicated subject!

Each dot equals 2K

There's no Las Vegas.

Literally

Infection did most of the work, and most of that was unintentional to be sure. So literally, it was a cold brought from the old world to the new that wiped out pretty much everyone on this map above. Genocide, it's called. The Americas are home to it.

A not obvious conclusion

Here's a huge, busy map attempting to diagram North American dialects and accents. Zoom in to your favorite area and see what you think. Check out the whole map too, and note what's missing.

Oh that's right, the "Indians"! No trace of their dialects persist, except of course on The Rez. Never forget this genocide is part and parcel of the founding and growth of this country. 

Still America

A life goal: Take anything and everything you are comfortable with and look at it from a completely different angle. Upside down, sideways, backwards, slanted, etc. Perspective is the most important lesson.

As far as I've read, there's some debate exactly when the Americas were founded by people. Remember that all people come from Africa, according to current theory, and thus traveled to Asia and on further to the Americas. Lots of walking! Perhaps boats were far better - two rival theories hold boat travel from Africa and Japan prior to land bridge via Alaska model. Who knows if we'll ever know for sure, but with better science and evidence, perhaps we'll get even closer to the truth.

In the meantime it doesn't matter as people will make up their own stories regardless. 

Free your mind

Norte Americana represent! We're all Americans over here, Adolf!

Joined in American unity. Amero's for all!

Bankers control the gay hammer smiths in communist America, yo.

This is Soviet agitprop, exploiting racial tensions in the 1930's American South - easy pickings!

But for Humanity's sake

Check this out in detail if you would. It's filled with amazing propaganda. Let it open your eyes to the seeming fact Republicans have been lying Imperialists since at least 1900. But it was not always so, right?

Honest Abe might be the only good Republican, ever. And he was basically the first. So, let's call it a fluke and accept the general evilness that is the Republican Party of these United State of America. And don't throw Teddy at me - he's in the poster above!

But so what, right? Both sides do it, and it's really the corporations and global elite who control both parties, and everything in this world.

Maybe? I do fear the MTV Goons from busting down my door. I'd be all like "NO! Why didn't you just keep playing music videos?! And video shows like 'Yo! MTV Raps'?!" As they bundled me off for Real World: Guantanamo.

America the Fantasy

Take a close look, behold the inner mind of a person living in multiple fantasies. Know that there are many people who think this is realistic art, depicting the founding of America. Christian America. White, but specifically, English. No Irish! Not sure about Scots. I assume they're OK. For who else to fight the English wars?

It's funny. I am afraid, today, of the Republican Party for their Orwellian impulses to total control - domestic spying, trumped up wars used for political purposes, doublespeak, etc, all the while using a cult like religion as the binding material - you wouldn't want to burn in Hell, would you? And yet here, in this art, you see a Wingnut's take on Orwell - the Liberal Nanny state, bent on total control through liberal agendas like peace and safety. It's ludicrous, though there's a point, I suppose. Authoritarians come in all kinds of different flavors. But one thing's clear about gun nuts, which this artist obviously is (or seeks to inspire), and that is

Your typical gun nut is a loser, scared of the world, of himself, and so he buys guns and swims in fear and is ready for the first attack, or so he thinks. Swimming in fear makes you jumpy, and error prone.

To wit: Despite attempts to create alternate realities (white Christian America defended with guns against the scary foreign hordes come to take all your stuff), there is such a thing as a more objective reality. One that can be agreed upon by a majority of folks. Here's the facts:

1. America was not founded as a Christian nation, though indeed many of the founding dudes were Christians, or - GASP! - Theists.
2. While America was very English/Scottish for the first 100 years or so, it quickly assimilated many immigrant populations such that even the Irish were welcomed to the cool kid's table.
3. Guns can be used for needed work, and sport. Owning an arsenal is not needed, and the possession of one marks the person as a lunatic.

Questions?

The Future and The Past

Here it is! Every liberal gun grabber's nightmare: The printed gun. Open source, anyone can do it. That is, as long as you have access to a 3D printer and don't mind taking the risk that the first shot will blow up in your face. But those are just kinks, which will be worked out of the system. In short order, we'll all be able to print armories of guns, every day. Then, we shall truly know freedom, as taught to us from the past:

It was guns that allowed Washington to defeat the zombie British and found America!

It was a Mecha suit, with lots of guns, that allowed FDR to defeat the Axis and conquer the world!

And even so, it was guns that got Slick Willie a hummer.

So, as you can see, guns are the cause of all greatness, freedom, and awesomeness. Except when Obama holds one.

Thankfully, Dutch and Mac are there to cover for the gun grabber in chief.

Fetish as Totem

So many people have died because of this man. And yet he is still worshiped!

Because of the Fetish - on many levels. That's all the Authoritarians run on: Fetish worship. Meaning is irrelevant. Details are irrelevant. Facts are irrelevant. All that matters is the tribal message - and that is, for now, Guns are Good. So worship guns, and death.

Die for your country - what an honor!

Thanks Dad!

So this is a new thing too - politicians not only posing with guns, but with their kids and guns. Cuz Republican Jesus knows nothing says "Pro-Life" like having everyone in the family armed.

Not worth helmets or proper footwear though - cuz there's no Republican Fetish Lobby for helmets, is there?

Yep, it's right there in the Bible - the Holy man is an American with a handgun. Praise Republican Jesus!

Kids bearing

Obviously it's incumbent upon every decent Mother to get their child a firearm, be they 5 days or 25 years old - you're never too young or old for another gun! And if someone with a gun were to threaten you, then there's more guns - gun plus gun equals more guns.

The safest school - when everyone is armed, then there are no victims, no criminals, no crime, no war, no strife, and so on.

An armed society is a dead society.

In an other world

Once upon a time there was a strange place named Rhodesia, and they had a fabulous army.

Which was used of course to suppress the majority black population from thoughts of self rule. Brutally, as such things go, even with such slick 70's fashions and hairstyles.

Also too:

Apparently, babies with guns/grenades/etc is a thing on the Internet. Don't look it up unless you want to be further appalled by humanity.

A new normal

In what part of America would you feel safer by bringing a gun with you and your newborn baby?

What business owner would encourage armed customers to his store - giving them a discount for being armed?

In what mind would you not only attend a pro-gun rally, but make a sign proclaiming "Gun Free Zones Kill"?

The answer to all these questions, and many more, is insanity. A large percentage of Americans have gone insane. And they're heavily armed, and increasingly delusional. A fun recipe for fun! Don't worry though, their gun owning fetish is for white folks only.

Armed Palestinian baby ain't cool! In fact, it's TERROR.