Monthly Archive: July 2012

Jul 31 2012

Fort Meade wants your input about evangelical marriage seminar

The Fort Meade official facebook page has kindly invited all of you to weigh in on this matter. They are asking concerned citizens to fill out an I.C.E. comment card. Please do so! Check below the fold for what I wrote in the comment section, using a modified chunk of the original post. Feel free …

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Jul 30 2012

Christian puppeteer / cannibal’s revolting facebook page

Ronald Brown creepy ventriloquism

I suspect this will be taken down soon. For the moment, Ronald Brown’s creepy public facebook profile is quite accessible. Ronald Brown is a puppeteer from Florida. He featured on the Christian Television Network’s Joy Junction - inexplicably still on the air. This was Brown’s last post before being arrested for conspiracy to eat children. Wow. Here …

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Jul 30 2012

Puppeteer’s TV show still on the air despite plot to eat children

Christian Television Network has a media crisis on it’s hands now that one of it’s children’s entertainers has been arrested. Ronald Brown, a puppeteer on the network’s long-running Joy Junction has been charged with conspiracy to kidnap and eat children. CTN completely fails at crisis management. According to The Tampa Bay Times: Brown worked for …

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Jul 30 2012

Christian TV puppeteer arrested for plot to eat children

Ronald Brown arrested

Ronald Brown, 57, was arrested in Largo, FL. He is accused of some really gruesome stuff, including plots to cook and eat a boy in his Sunday school class. I recognized him immediately from flipping through the channels, pausing to gawk at shows like his – Joy Junction – on the Christian Television Network. Here’s …

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Jul 30 2012

Tampons and size 20 panties in the Marine Corps

Military Field Dressing

Have you been the victim of the “Size 20 panties Marine Corps” copypasta? Well, one of the service members in the American Atheists Military facebook group has an amazing reply. The premise is that some male Marine opened a care package down-range. It was packed with feminine objects. He joked around with his fellow Marines using …

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Jul 29 2012

Air Force chaplain quits Southern Baptist Convention over gay wedding

Mel Evans / AP

On Friday, The Associated Press ran a story chronicling the fallout over the first gay wedding on a military base, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst. Chaplain Col. Timothy Wagoner has abruptly left the Southern Baptist Convention, even though he didn’t conduct the ceremony. A few days before the wedding, Col. Wagoner decided to attend as a …

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Jul 29 2012

Removing Christian privilege from “God’s Army”

Allah's Army, not god's army

I made this in the hopes that it can be useful for removing that smug Christian privilege we occasionally see in the military. Usage: “You’re so right. There are no atheists in foxholes. There are only good little Muslims.” It’s not ‘islamophobic’. Rather, it plays off the target’s standard xenophobia. The same xenophobia that causes them …

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Jul 28 2012

Another military base hires civilians to proselytize to children

Jesus Camp - Bragg

Chris Rodda has a great post about what is going on at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska (a base that has been on MRFF’s radar for quite a while) is really ramping up the fundamentalist activities this fall, heavily pushing the “convert everybody” meme. The article on the Elmendorf-Richardson website begins: When Jesus gave …

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Jul 28 2012

Military funds marriage seminar by Pentecostal fans of Newt Gingrich

Fort George G Meade marriage seminar by Pentecostal Christians who endorse Newt

Fort George G. Meade, Maryland is a high-tech media-savvy military base. It’s home to NSA, the new United States Cyber Command, and the largest joint Public Affairs training academy – Defense Information School (DINFOS). Fort Meade is a little brainier than most bases… So, how the hell did this happen? *If you want to see the original advertisement, …

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Jul 24 2012

Why the US Military’s suicide statistics are dead wrong

dod suicide rates by service 2001 2008

I’ve seen way too many people regurgitate flawed stats regarding suicide rates in the US Military. It seems that the DoD and / or defense-policy think-tanks have created some palatable ‘synthetic data’. Going back to the 2001-2008 time period, this study seems to be a typical example. It’s from RAND, a large think-tank currently funded by the …

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