Two things.

First: I don't bother calling the media the Mainstream Media, because that seems kinda redundant; everything I've seen get accused of being the Mainstream Media has turned out to be the news, in contrast to some dickweed with a website and a conspiracy hunch.

Second: I kinda hate the media, since it itself is trying to become a conspiratarded website.

This isn't a new thing. In fact, I think it became the most obvious when no one on the planet but the media gave a damn at all about OctoMom. Remember that? Every damned channel became the OctoMom Network, some going so far as to lie to us directly: 'Well, you asked for it; here's more news on OctoMom!' No. We didn't. We don't care.

This time, it's about the damned mosque. Which should be better, since it's going kinda Fair&Balanced, in a weird, useless way. Here's what I've been seeing, up to and including a matter of minutes ago....

On one side, you've got the basic conspiratards. Sorta. Historically, I've caught the basic conspiratards being mostly democrats, so this is a bit of a switch. This time it's the republicans, and, if the news is to be believed [bad idea, apparently], every republican on the planet is outraged that they're building an islamic superdome in the footprint of the twintowers.

I shouldn't have to explain the idiocy in that assumption. But I suppose I could. Or, I could fold it into the other side, which is actually almost more perplexing, to me.

On the other side, you've got primarily the democrats, who get that the superdome is in point of fact something of an islamic YMCA being built into an abandoned Burlington Coat Factory farther away from GroundZero than the actual mosque which has been next door to the twintowers since 1970. And, if that were all they seemed to get, I'd be thrilled to agree with them. But then it gets weird.

For years, over in the chatroom, and in UseNet before that, I've seen relatively random accusations that atheists are merely antichristians, attacking christworshippers specifically and exclusively. That being a nonsequitur, I always denied it; I for one make no particular distinction between christworshippers and allahworshippers and goddess&hornyoneworshippers [whatever the wiccans are, apart from children trying to irk their christworshipping parents by pretending to worship something distasteful...ler] and whatever else might exist: they're all intellectually lazy lunatics...though, in some direct sense, the allahworshippers are more perfectly lunatics, Al'lah having been a lunar deity. But that's just etymological.

So, here's what's bugging me, as of 2010. A vast number—possibly a majority—of atheists I've seen talking about this, after getting that this whole outrage is essentially about a YMMA, defend it all to hell against the christworshipping right as something of a duty within the freedom of religion. Like, if this nadamosque isn't built, we as atheists lose because they as christworshippers win.

Seriously?

I don't disagree that, based on basic civics, the YMMA has as much right as a YMCA to exist; that's a given. Technically, an islamic superdome has the same right to exist as a christine megachurch. I'm not debating that at all, unless someone out there wants to disagree with that.

What I don't get is this atheistic muslim dicksucking, presumably to irk the christworshippers. Did we forget to learn from history that the enemy of our enemy is our enemy? That the christworshippers hate/lament/fear atheists and allahworshippers somewhat equally doesn't actually make the two of us equal. Okay? If the allahworshippers are going after one through five, and we're going for six through ten, that the christworshippers shooting at eleven through fifteen doesn't put the allahworshippers on our team; optimally, we sink five balls and they both lose; it's right there in the rules.

Sure: so long as the allahworshppers are delaying a christine theocracy, we kinda benefit. But, since all we're really doing is reminding people how this country works, at least on paper, maybe instead we could just point out that theocracies are prohibited with or without paratheistic activity centres.

I don't like muslims. I don't hate them. In a perfect world, I'd never even hear about them. That whatever percentage might want me dead for lacking a belief in their imaginary friend [the same reason, in a burst of irony, that they want the christworshippers dead] is...actually, it's mostly just amusing, to me; it's really just kinda adorable. True Story: A week or two ago, I was on the RazorScooter and I coasted past a couple kids—maybe eight years old; one of them had a tiny little pocketknife, and actually tried to scooterjack me—'Gi'me the scooter or I'll cut ya!' Just precious.

I've still got the Razor: I outsmarted it by smirking and outcoasting the little 'tard. Which to date has been approximately my strategy in preventing allahworshippers from killing me. These psychotic morons have to stop and pray to a rock five times a day; just keep ahead of them, and, eventually, they'll have to time out to faceplant. Not a big deal.

Whether that's just a scant percentage, or all allahworshippers, or, as Hitler was representative of TrueChristians^®, the allahworshippers working on your death are the ones correctly following the quran...who cares. Should all 1.3billion of them be nuked into extinction? No opinion. Honestly, I wouldn't particularly care if you nuked a couple billion atheists...particularly if I were one of them...unless, unaccountably, it turned out to be possible to care about something after being vapourised. Curiously, I've got some doubts.

Being not vapourised, I'm withholding permission to nuke me. It's a notdead thing.

I guess what bugs me the most...well, no; what bugs me the most is that it's September and yet this is still somehow in the damned news. But, second to that, what bugs me nearly the most is the hypocrisy. On both sides. The right hypocritically getting uppity about anything resembling a church being built in the US, where I strongly suspect that, if a YMCA were replacing the Burlington Coat Factory, we might hear about it at a ribboncutting [do churches have those; are there scissors in the bible?] once it was finished. And the left hypocritically championing for anything resembling a church being built in the US when pretty much every democrat I know is atheistic. So, I don't get it.

Or, sadly, I might. It might be true what the christards have been claiming all along: that, in the majority, selfproclaimed atheists are simply christbashers. I don't want that to be true but, being for example atheistic, I tend to follow the evidence well outside the realm of emotarded comfiness. And the evidence is kinda suggesting that most atheists are essentially just wiccans again, possibly with better clothes, striking out against christworship for its own sake. I suppose another hint is that they tend to use that goofy, meaningless god name, usually meaning Jehovah, though Al'lah is just Arabic and Zeus is just Greek for the same conceptual word.

Someone reminded me about that the other day. From seriously ancient Greek, Zeus was originally Zdeus. That split up into Zeus and Deus. Deus evolved into the Latin Dei and Zeus was appended with pater [like paternal], leading to the Roman Deital Dad, Zeupater, known today as Lucifer Jupiter.

I keep forgetting that Clarke didn't perfectly predict the events of 2010.

So, I dunno. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something. I hope I'm misunderstanding something. I don't think I'm misunderstanding the christards; they actually seem to think that a megamosque is replacing the twintowers and, since they can't read, I can't help them with that. But, on the other side, am I wrong in grokking that atheists, who by definition are without theism, are cheerleading for what's technically the largest single theistic sect on the planet? Knock out the cathollics, which every known protestant would like to do, and christworship has 300million less people than allahworship. So, atheists in the US are trying to help them? Why.

You know what: nevermind; don't tell me. Don't tell me anything. Just stop talking about this meaningless zoning issue. Both of you. Before OctoMom shows up with an opinion.

More later....