Come on, focus!

I don't know if WND has a bad case of ADD or what, but their latest columns are really all over the place.

Take this dreck by Les Kinsolving, which is so inflammatory you'd think it was made of rayon.

A 'gay' private with blood on this hands?

Oh, this should be good.

The Telegraph also featured photographs of Bradley Manning: "who could face more than 50 years in prison for treasonous conduct, holding up a sign with rainbow colors, demanding 'equality on the battlefield' and participating in a gay pride parade."

Ok... and the significance of this is?

The Telegraph also reported that Pfc. Manning is "not only a homosexual, but was considering a sex change. Manning was arrested at the end of May and is being detained by U.S. authorities."

Wait, what does any of this have to do with the story? You know, the one where he leaked thousands of documents?

Why, if "don't ask, don't tell" is still authoritative in our armed forces, was Pfc. Manning engaging in such public behavior?

Uh, maybe it has something to do with the same motivations that caused him to steal documents? Maybe he was mentally or emotionally unbalanced, maybe he was upset at a variety of army policies. I don't know. Are you really claiming this as a gay protest against the army?

If all of this very serious trouble can be caused by just one promiscuous homosexual private first class, what on earth would be the effect on the U.S. Army of sergeants and captains and colonels who, after the repeal of "dont ask, don't tell," could announce their homosexual orientation in the barracks?

Wait, wait, you lost. Me. Are you pretending like the part you're mad about is him holding up a rainbow sign, not the accusations of treason? Or are you trying to link being "a promiscuous homosexual" (evidence?) with being a national security threat?

This was only one private first class, who was a multiple-partnered homosexual activist who was able and willing to leak 90,000 secret U.S. military documents. If one private first class can cause such an enormously horrendous security violation, who can estimate the full potential of the Obama hope to open our armed forces to the sodomy lobby?

Wow. Just, wow. This is your go-to scare scenario? Not hot "troop movements" in the shower, not singing "YMCA" on parade, but anti-military spies? Don't you think you might moving the goalposts just a little? I mean, it's one thing to go after this one guy, but it's ballsy to claim that it's slippery slope from going to a Pride rally to stealing classified documents.

Question: why would gays volunteer for the military just to spy on it? Furthermore, why would being allowed to come out make a difference on whether they decided to spy or not? Wouldn't giving gays more rights make them less frustrated, less disgruntled, and less likely to act against the military? (You know, assuming that Manning constitutes any sort of trend, which of course you haven't demonstrated at all.)

It gets better. Resident Jew-hawk Aaron Klein manages to hijack his own story, ostensibly about a wacko Pentecostal church in Brazil building a life-sized model of the First Temple, and turns it into a rant about Muslim Palestinians. No, really.

It starts out predictably enough: super right-wing Jews are presented as mainstream and their loopier activities go unmentioned; and anything they dislike not only happens to be bad, but also part of a global evil entirely directed at bugging them.

"This planned church is a mockery which stands in diametric opposition to everything that the Holy Temple of Jerusalem represents," Rabbi Chaim Richman, director of the international department of the Temple Institute, stated in a press release.

"The Bible, bequeathed to the world by the Jewish people, emphasizes the preeminence of Jerusalem and its spiritual and prophetic role in the future of both Israel and all mankind," Richman said.

"We are witness today to the phenomenon of nations that seek to de-legitimize Israel's connection to Jerusalem. This planned megachurch represents the next logical step, the de-legitimization of the significance of Jerusalem altogether," he said.

Yeah, I'm sure that's exactly what this church was thinking. It couldn't be that they're just oblivious or self-centered, they've got to be doing it deliberately to undermine Israel!

Richman slammed the reported plans by the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God as a "cynical and manipulative attempt to morph the Bible's universal message into its own self-serving agenda."

According to the U.K. Guardian, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God will construct a church in Sao Paulo based on King Solomon's Temple, including a replica of the Ark of the Covenant at its center.

"We are preparing ourselves to build the temple, in the same mold as Solomon's," Bishop Edir Macedo, the church's leader and founder, was quoted as saying in the report.

"[Solomon's] Temple … used tons of gold, pure gold. ... We are not going to build a temple of gold, but we will spend tons of money, without a shadow of doubt," said Macedo.

Macedo told the British newspaper his church had signed an $8 million contract to import stones from Israel.

"We have signed the contract and commissioned the stones that will come from Jerusalem, just like the ones that were used to build the temple in Israel; stones that were witnesses to the powers of God, 2,000 years ago," he said. "It is going to be a knockout, it is going to be beautiful, beautiful, beautiful – the most beautiful of all. The outside will be exactly the same as that which was built in Jerusalem."

Ok, so the Jews are mad and the Christians are nuts. So far so... good? Here's where things take a turn for the confusing. Klein pretends like he's giving background information about the Temple and the Temple Institute.

While the Temple Institute criticized Macedo's plans, Richman's group, based in Jerusalem, focuses on preparation for the rebuilding of the Third Temple in its biblical location - the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The Institute has been preparing ritual objects suitable for Temple use. Many of the more than 90 ritual items to be used in the Temple have been remade to the highest standards the Temple Institute.

Yeah, compared with the "crazy" Pentecostals who want to build a Temple in Brazil, building one in Jerusalem (complete with all the stuff we need to re-start animal sacrifices once the Messiah shows up) sounds positively logical!

Now watch the birdie:

The First Temple was built by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C. It was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C. The Second Temple was rebuilt in 515 B.C. after Jerusalem was freed from Babylonian captivity. That temple was destroyed by the Roman Empire in A.D. 70. Each temple stood for a period of about four centuries.

The Temple was the center of religious worship for ancient Israelites. It housed the Holy of Holies, which contained the Ark of the Covenant and was said to be the area upon which God's presence dwelt. All biblical holidays centered on worship at the Temple. The Temples served as the primary location for the offering of sacrifices and were the main gathering place for Israelites.

According to the Talmud, the world was created from the foundation stone of the Temple Mount. It's believed to be the biblical Mount Moriah, the location where Abraham fulfilled God's test to see if he would be willing to sacrifice his son Isaac.

The Temple Mount has remained a focal point for Jewish services for thousands of years. Prayers for a return to Jerusalem and the rebuilding of the Temple have been uttered by Jews since the Second Temple was destroyed, according to Jewish tradition.

OK, fine.

Al-Aqsa Mosque was constructed in about A.D. 709 to serve as a shrine near another shrine, the Dome of the Rock, which was built by an Islamic caliph. Al-Aqsa was meant to mark what Muslims came to believe was the place at which Muhammad, the founder of Islam, ascended to heaven to receive revelations from Allah.

Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Quran. It is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible 656 times.

...According to research by Israeli author Shmuel Berkovits, Islam historically disregarded Jerusalem as being holy. Berkovits points out in his new book, "How Dreadful Is This Place!" that Muhammad was said to loathe Jerusalem and what it stood for. He wrote Muhammad made a point of eliminating pagan sites of worship and sanctifying only one place – the Kaaba in Mecca – to signify the unity of God.

As late as the 14th century, Islamic scholar Taqi al-Din Ibn Taymiyya, whose writings influenced the Wahhabi movement in Arabia, ruled that sacred Islamic sites are to be found only in the Arabian Peninsula and that "in Jerusalem, there is not a place one calls sacred, and the same holds true for the tombs of Hebron."

A guide to the Temple Mount by the Supreme Muslim Council in Jerusalem published in 1925 listed the Mount as Jewish and as the site of Solomon's Temple. The Temple Instituteacquired a copy of the official 1925 "Guide Book to Al-Haram Al-Sharif," which states on page 4, "Its identity with the site of Solomon's Temple is beyond dispute. This, too, is the spot, according to universal belief, on which 'David built there an altar unto the Lord.'"

Uh, what? Hang on, I thought we were talking about silly Pentecostals. Why are we talking about Al-Aqsa?

The Temple Mount was opened to the general public until September 2000, when the Palestinians started their intifada by throwing stones at Jewish worshipers after then-candidate for prime minister Ariel Sharon visited the area.

Following the onset of violence, the new Sharon government closed the Mount to non-Muslims, using checkpoints to control all pedestrian traffic for fear of further clashes with the Palestinians.

The Temple Mount was reopened to non-Muslims in August 2003. It still is open but only Sundays through Thursdays, 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., and not on any Christian, Jewish or Muslim holidays or other days considered "sensitive" by the Waqf.

During "open" days, Jews and Christians are allowed to ascend the Mount, usually through organized tours and only if they conform first to a strict set of guidelines, which includes demands that they not pray or bring any "holy objects" to the site. Visitors are banned from entering any of the mosques without direct Waqf permission. Rules are enforced by Waqf agents, who watch tours closely and alert nearby Israeli police to any breaking of their guidelines.

Those... totally non-sequiteur bastards!

I've got to give Klein credit. Either he's really dedicated to giving people super-detailed background information on his news pieces (in this case more than half of the article) or he's got a real knack for tying everything back together to the root issue of the day, which is of course that the Waqf is a bunch of jerks. I can't wait until WND moves him to sports.

I could go on, believe me I could, but I'm starting to feel a dull pain in my brain. So I'll just leave you with the title of a recent brainfart from Joe Farah:

Have Dems re-enslaved blacks?

Yea, gentle readers, I have set you on the path, now go forth and... cry.