Lenski redux... or Andy Writes Another Letter

Still bathed in the glow of his Conservative Bible Project, Andrew Schlafly is now taking on the more esteemed translators of the Bible. Nevermind the fact that Andy's "translation" is a lukewarm abortion of a project, which involved several parodists changing words such as "thee" to "you" and "wine" to "grape juice". Oh yes, and the removal of the whole 'let he who is without sin cast the first stone' liberal garbage - because Andy's Jesus is all about hellfire, baby.

At no point did they revert back to the original Greek (or should that be Aramaic?) documents, even though Terry Hurlbut tried gamely for a bit, armed with an English / Greek pocket dictionary and Google Translate, but even he fell away. Despite all this, and the legion flaws contained in Andy's "translation" he went forth to proclaim the Good News. Well, he appeared on the Colbert Report, and didn't quite get the fact that he was the butt of their joke. Hint: Andy, people are laughing AT you, not with you. Still, now he's going after his detractors... hopefully not one at a time, because I think the universe will end before he gets done. First on his list is Prof. Douglas Moo, who is currently involved in a new translation of the NIV and TNIV, who dared call Andy's project "silly."

Just a quickie

Terry Koeckritz's favourite trick to to take any conversation, where he has more control and can pass edited highlights of the discussion on to Andy. However, he's not above making stupid comments in the edit line, then sulking and bitching about "taking it off-line" when queried on it.

A good example, is on the "Atomic bomb" article,  where the slimy one reverts an editor's correct edition - albeit with a broken like, using the comment "adding working citation, that is correct, not revisionist." Of course the minute, his revisionist claim is queried, he starts to backtrack, whining that, "The reason I prefer email between Admins is to save embarrassment, Jessica. Revert and try your link. It didn't work, went to a deleted or blank page. In the future try counting to ten, asking or checking before you publicly comment to me, please!"

So, commenting publicly about Terry's work is a no-no, but the malicious scumbag can make all the comments he likes. Oh, I should also mention that he deleted the talk page, but luckily it was restored by Roger Schlafly.

Terry Koeckritz - grade one arsehole, malignant scumbag and possessor of zero machismo. (Which, actually, once you check the definition of 'machismo' is a compliment. Now if only somebody could tell Ken DeMyer that...)

Crying Foul

By now we all know that Andrew Schlafly - whilst hating anybody else's claim to expertise - is a true master of all knowledge. We also know that he is equally capable of perverting anything to suit his own everything-is-black-or-white worldview. So it should come as no surprise when he turns his jaundiced eye on the World Cup. The football world cup (i.e. "soccer", not that bastardized version of rugby the Yanks play. Stick any linebacker in a good old scrum without his padding and the moffie would last 30 seconds. Max.) , you know, the one where the whole world takes part, unlike the *ahem* "world series".

The Fine Art of Backstabbing

Actually, another title might be “A Lesson in Hypocrisy.” Either way, what follows below is a prime example of creepy “Uncle” Ed Poor at his best. Or should that be worst? However, before we embark on this sordid little tale, a little bit of background info is required methinks.

Amongst the chosen few who act as “administrators” - please forgive the “”, it’s just that the one thing these goons don’t do is any actual administration. Probably due to a lack of machismo – it’s fairly safe to say that paranoia runs rampant among them. Well, except for Rob Smith and Ken DeMyer that is… they only suffer from paranoid delusions. This paranoia manifests mostly itself in off-line discussions about anything CP related, lest they dare show a divided front to the three non-clickbots that actually visit their site. The attempts by Terry Koeckritz and Brian Macdonald to block every IP-address outside the USA are clearly another symptom. Then again, Terry does a great job of fuelling the collective paranoia with his frequent references to “vandal sites” – none of which can be named, but nevertheless, does send a steady stream of members to RationalWiki. Which is just what Terry wants, of course.

Happy Birthday Me

Yup, WCMTU turned one sometime this month.

Been an interesting year too, during which Conservapedia's sysops tried to shut me down; Terry Koeckritz ran rampant over the few remaining editors; RationalWiki became a bigger site than Conservapedia - a victory in a very real sense of the word; Andrew Schlafly made the Bible more conservative; two parodists were promoted to sysop, where they help Terry undermine CP; and Andy made a fool of himself in front of the New Jersey Supreme Court.

About the only thing that hasn't happened is the demise of CP, but given the downward spiral it's enjoyed over the past 12 months, that day must be drawing close. After all, even the Fab Five, or Super Six super nutty admins can't keep an encyclopaedia running.

Oops... my bad. It's not an encyclopaedia... it's Andrew Schlafly's little soap box.

Macho Ken DeMyer

Sadly, I must confess to having long ignored one of Conservapedia's more notorious administrators - user:Conservative (aka Ken DeMyer, Ruy Lopez, Peter Moore, David Jensen or any one of the many aliases this international man of moron-ity adopts in his efforts to boost his pet articles up Google's rankings via search engine optimisation - SEO). By now, anybody vaguely familiar with CP should be aware that his "pets" are Atheism, Homosexuality, Evolution and Richard Dawkins... although not necessarily in that order. Forgive me if I don't link to those articles myself, but I have no desire to assist in his frantic attempts to have his drivel appear in Google's Top 10. To this end, Ken sees himself as a bit of an alpha male, and must stake out his territory by scattering his droppings all over CP's main page and mostly Andy's talk page.

"Drivel?" I hear you say. "On the Trustworthy Encyclopaedia? Surely not." Well, you're welcome to read them yourself, but I'm sure you'll find them a turgid mess of quote mines, terrible English (Ken deserves an award for the use of the word "regarding" virtually every sentence he types), repetition (again with the SEO thing) and bad facts. An apt comment when describing Ken's stuff (which was originally applied to the Conservative Bible Project, I believe) is that "it reads about as well as shitting barbed wire feels good.") Of course, these articles are also protected, so only Ken, or the other admins, can actually edit them. However, given that CP happily displays this garbage on their front page, clearly means that the Trustworthy Encyclopaedia is proud of this un-encyclopaedic rubbish... even if all the other admins studiously avoid touching Ken's output. They're probably scared his stupidity is catching.

Making Karajou Funny

Conservapedia administrator Karajou – who would appear to be immune from their “use your real first name and initial” block reason (after all, there’s no possible permutation of ‘Brian MacDonald’ that gives you ‘Karajou’) – fancies himself as a bit of a cartoonist. However, before we go into that, it’s probably best to have a quick refresher course on what we know about the man behind the myth.

Karajou is CP’s resident navy veteran, something he confirms on his user page. Where he tells us which countries he visited, what courses he took, but is strangely silent on his rank achieved after 20 years’ service. Then again, given his passive-aggressive anger issues, hair-trigger temper and generally grumpy temperament, it’s likely he kept getting  busted down to seaman, for punching out his OC. Probably because the latter wasn’t conservative enough. Personally, I’ve always pictured him as a weird hybrid between Capt. Haddock’s bushy beard and pipe, Capt. Sobel’s (from Band of Brothers) people skills… and Colonel Kaddafi’s eyes. This is best displayed by his reaction to a (probably false) letter from a mother of a gay son - blocking her whilst calling her a bigot.