Tag: Things Having Nothing to do with Anything

The Salvation Army

I’ve been involved in a discussion with a fellow from Denmark over on Facebook. The discussion itself is really irrelevant to this topic at hand except for providing an explanation to find what I found. I was looking for details between the United States and Denmark and came across the following information [warning it’s a PDF] published by the United States Census Bureau (see they produce something for all those millions of dollars the squander on sending out post cards reminding us of the census we’ll be receiving soon enough).

While digging through it I found some rather interesting information I didn’t know. The Salvation Army is a religion its own separate denomination of Christianity. Now I knew they were a religious organization but I never new they were an actual religion separate denomination. So I did a little more searching and found this article on the BBC:

The Salvation Army is a Protestant denomination of the Christian Church with over 1.6 million members in 109 countries.

In the UK there are over 800 Salvation Army parishes (known as corps), over 1,500 ordained ministers (known as officers) and 54,000 members (including senior soldiers, adherents and junior soldiers).

Salvation Army officers wear a military-style uniform, though some officers may wear a more informal uniform when undertaking certain duties. Members of the church often choose to wear a uniform, but are not required to do so.

Salvation Army halls are registered as places of worship. Salvation Army officers are ordained ministers of religion, and can conduct weddings and funerals.

So they are a Christian based religion denomination, their positions in the church reflect that of a military army, they wear military style uniforms, their facilities are registered places of worship, and their officers are ordained ministers. Hm… does that make them a Christian militia group?

Update 2010-04-27 13:29: Change the wording. Technically the Salvation Army is a denomination (such as Catholicism, Mormon, Lutheran, etc.) of Christianity which is the technical religion.

Need a Good Artist

I have one. This post is falling directly under the, “it’s my site and I can do whatever the Hell I want with it” category. Anyways I’m throwing up some free advertising for my sister, Rebecca, who happens to be in the art field and therefore starving. She’s an artist for hire who does good work (don’t tell her I said that, it’ll go to her head) and has an online portfolio located and this oddly named web site.

She’s pretty multi-talented and does everything from comic art to web design and implementation. So go check her stuff out. Also here’s her resume (in PDF format).

I’d throw up my standard required by law FCC disclaimer but I already disclosed she’s my sister and therefore you should know this post is pretty biased.

Book Bannings

I didn’t know we were still banning books but apparently some schools are. As a form of retaliation a kid has taken it upon himself to loan banned books from her locker. Interesting.

As an avid reader I always strikes me as idiotic to create a list of banned books. The first thing people are going to do is obtain those books and read them hoping form something good. This goes double for books banned by any church.

I Love Hypothetical Situations

The Firing Pin Journal brings us a new hypothetical situations which requires you to chose one rifle caliber to take with you:

You are heading off to a rural area where you will spend three weeks having to survive on your own. All of your food must be caught and to add excitement to the scenario, a group of 5 zombies are out there who are very bad zombies, part of a zombie drug ring. You are on their turf and must survive. If you can avoid contact that’s good but if they find you they will be upset with you.

Oh and you don’t get any spare parts and 200 rounds of ammunition (For five days that should be more than sufficient).

Zombies only go down with head shots so having a massive caliber in that regard isn’t necessary. On the other hand if you want to hunt something like deer you’ll want something of decent size. I’d opt for my M1A SOCOM 16. The 7.62x51mm is certainly large enough to drop a deer and can really reach out and touch somebody. The gun is reliable and not known for breaking anything. Head shots on zombies will be no problem at all. The only issue would be weight but it’s not that dreadfully heavy in all honesty. Also I know the rifle like the back of my hand which means in a fight with the drug gang zombies I’d have less problems involved with being unfamiliar with my rifle.

Damned drug gang zombies, they are the worst kind!

Quote of the Month

Just a funny thing that happened this weekend. It was one of my friend’s birthdays. This friend is also adamantly anti-gun. Of course the topic of guns briefly came about and eventually the following paraphrase was said:

Burg I’m not going to debate you. You argue with facts and I’d need to prepare for a debate with you.

That made me feel pretty good. Remember kids learning your facts is important because anti-gunners don’t know what to use to combat such terrible things. They need time to prepare for such frontal assaults.

Yes this is a pretty pointless post but hey it’s my site and I get to make pointless posts if I want to.

Bad Ass

Another article I found via The Firearm Blog. This story is about a man’s man who is obviously a bad ass and a good father:

“I shot him in the nuts with bird-shot because he was beating my daughter,” Kelly said.

That line alone allows me to overlook the fact the man was using a Taurus Judge. Seriously that one sentence extrudes bad ass. Anyways the daughter isn’t happy but you know what? I’m giving the father the benefit of the doubt since I wouldn’t react well to somebody beating my daughter (If I had one).

The Definition of Dumb Ass

Wow some people just don’t learn do they? Dip shit Peter Bethune of Sea Sheppard decided that the best way to avenge the loss of his organizations precious vessel was to board a Japanese whaling ship:

He had said he wanted to arrest the ship’s captain, Hiroyuki Komiya, for attempted murder, following a crash between the Shonan Maru 2 and Sea Shepherd’s Ady Gil speedboat in January.

The gods of irony did shine down upon thee though as the Japanese crew, not being complete dip shits, caught the guy and are holding him. Right now the Japanese government is decided whether to file criminal charges against the left-wing extremist terrorist individual. The best part is if he’s charged he get’s a ticket to Japan for trial. Just to clarify by ticket I mean free boat ride.