The son of the founder of YWAM is evangelical-media mover and shaker David L. Cunningham (you can wiki that), whose TFI — the cleverly titled “The Film Institute” — is expressly designed to train Christian filmmakers and help place them in order to exert more Christian influence in mainstream media. Cunningham’s big coup? ABC’s “The Path to 9/11,” which was scripted by neocon writer Cyrus Nowrasteh and promoted by ABC exec Judith Tukich, another mover/shaker in Christian media; both of whom won the “Freedom of Expression” awards from David Horowitz’s media group, the effluvia of which are greedily inhaled by the same right-wing bloggers who read, lather, repeat at Powerline. So…. so nothing, but there you go.

Autopsy results reveal that the shooter took his own life.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/dec/11/coroner-murray-killed-himself/

Fundies and gun nuts trying to wrap their little heads around that nugget.

Colorado Springs (the location of the New Life Church, former home of our ol’ buddy Ted Haggard, where the church shooting took place) is hardly a Denver suburb, unless you think Denver is a 70-mile-long megalopolis.

But the distance looks so small on a map! (Overheard once while on the East Coast in reference to a person from Massachusetts visiting friends west of the Mississippi.)

Where is the love, bubba? I think you’ll be needing this gift from…

Underneath my Christmas Tree
compliments of Dr BLT copyright 2007 Frosty Rock Records
http://www.drblt.net/music/tree.mp3

http://www.startribune.com/local/12356581.html

You’ve never been to Colorado Springs, have you? Ah yes, that jewel of the Colorado Front Range, where Focus on the Family has such a large compound that they (1) have their own state-supplied highway sign for their turn off from I-25, and (2) their own zip code. The story is that FOTF and bunches and bunches of other winger Xtians decided to make Colorado Springs the new home-base after deciding that Orange County was too expensive. As I recall (too lazy to Gazoolgelelelel it), there are over 50 Xtian evangelical, missionary groups of various types headquartered in the Springs. I am hoping that we can all now see where all the insane anti-gay, anti-tax legislation originates in an otherwise pretty OK western state.

I’ve got pagan friends down there, they say that the one good thing about all these Xtian groups is it made the fractious pagan/athetist/hippies get organized and become a local political force, which is a tough thing to do in a town full of active and retired military, and always active Xtian whackjobs.

Yeah, because it would be totally irresponsible NOT to speculate that a guy with a thing for rather superannuated manwhores wasn’t also running a child-molestation ring.

I mean, really. WTF?

Here is snowy Colorado, the common wisdom is that this guy had been making threats for awhile against that Mission and this church. So, they’ve know about the threat for awhile before the shootings (hence the added security). Did they report the threats? Not that I’ve heard.

The “security guard” was in fact the head pastor’s personal bodyguard. Former cop–at the end of a three day fast so the story goes. She was weak, but Jesus was “beside her the whole time”.

I’m a bit out of touch with the church goer’s, but is fasting common place among these people? Is that so they can speak in tongues or have better visions?

Well, it says they “beefed up” security hours after the shootings the previous night. Seems like that was a good idea. Having armed security guards, that is, who have presumably trained and all that — not saying “oh yeah, due to some threats we’ve decided to ask all the congregants to bring their guns to church, okay?”

Most of the stories I’ve seen mention that the security guard was an off-duty cop, as well as a congregant. Not sure what training the new beefed-up guard will have, but at least in this aspect of things, New Life seems to have made a decent decision.

I’m not sure I understand why this wouldn’t qualify, at least colloquially, as a hate crime. My understanding is that hate-crimes legislation affects the sentencing for things that are already crimes, and clearly there won’t be any sentencing here, but I don’t have a problem with Hindy et al. describing this as a “hate crime”.

What I do have a problem with is the idea that just because Christians are the occasional targets of hate crimes, that excuses all the hate crimes committed by Christians (not to mention acts of outright terrorism). The Left doesn’t want people to redirect their hate at a particular target… we want there to be less hate, period. It’s kind of like how we think free speech is worth protecting, even when it means that folks like Hinderaker are allowed to participate in the public discourse.

Well, the Vatican has those fellas with halberds…

This AssReamer guy is supposed to be a lawyer, right? And he’s got no clue of how hate crimes legislation works. It sorta sounds like InstaCracker also has the same no clue on this legalese. Just sayin’…

And, it would be doubleplus good to see the Powertools pursue this in the courts of the great state of Minnesota. The comedic potential is off the scale.

Thanks for the early present. It’s nice to see the spirit of festivus shining through on this blog. I think an Invisible Sky Fairy’s Unseen Helper just got their wings. Well played!

There are some people who are just unbalanced,

I’d say Hindrocket is unbalanced because of a steady diet of Cheetos and too many news sources that can be traced back to the White House and conservative think tanks.

Oh. You were talking about the shooter. I’d say being surrounded by delusional people, who have no idea they are delusional because of constant affirmation by people like Hindrocket, probably has some effect.

By the way, when do we start “profiling” the most obvious terror threats, white males from puberty to, oh say, 25 or so, & then white males from about 35 to decrepitude, especially those of us w/o a job, or w/ crummy jobs we hate, or who’ve never been married, or who are trapped in marriages we hate, or…well, you know.