Is It Real or Just an Incredible Simulation?

Our pal Don at Article 19 directs us toward a new Republican Jesus cartoon from General JC Christian, Patriot. The general runs a delightfully satirical blog, Jesus' General, that I should check more often than I do.

The general does more than just blogging, though. A while back he joined a group called Protest Warriors that claims to fight terrorism not by actually fighting terrorists (in Afghanistan, Iraq, or anywhere else for that matter) but by disrupting protests against the Iraq war (you can google them if you want to see, but I've got no interest in linking to their site). After the general suggested they all put their money where their mouths were and sign up for military duty, he was found out and, in the words of the Austin American-Statesman, "excommunicated." The general posted his side of the story last month.

He's also the prime mover behind Operation Yellow Elephant, which started out as an effort to shame College Republicans and Young Republicans at their respective annual conventions into joining the military (it didn't work--who'da thunk it?--but it did manage to inspire a number of defensive justifications about why it's just as important to fight the good fight on the home front). Now that those conventions are past, it's shifting its focus toward diminishing the influence College Republicans wield on campus. OYE maintains a group blog with the slogan, "It's their war. Why aren't they fighting it?"

Although he posted it on the OYE blog rather than his own, this statement could easily serve as the general's Prime Directive: "Above all, remember the power of ridicule. Laughter is our ultimate weapon. It destroys their credibility as an organization, and God knows, they deserve it." Words to live by.