A Sea of Delirium: Katherine Harris

One of GW's spiritual girlfriends headed for the "other" big white house:
from "Campaign Gone South"

Harris turns stony when she's asked what will happen if she doesn't win.

"Haven't even considered it," she says in a tone that suggests a follow-up question would be foolhardy.

Later in the evening, while talking about her love for Queen Esther, she runs to the passenger seat of her SUV and seizes a Bible.

"I'll give you one verse," she says. "On the day that the enemies of the Jews had hoped to overpower them, the opposite occurred, in that the Jews themselves overpowered those who hated them."

What does that have to do with this race?

"November 7th," she replies.

Can it Get More Ridiculous!

"In its assessment of Iraqi weaponry, the inspector general concluded that of the 505,093 weapons that have been given to the Ministries of Interior and Defense over the last several years, serial numbers for only 12,128 were properly recorded. The weapons include rocket-propelled grenade launchers, assault rifles, machine guns, shotguns, semiautomatic pistols and sniper rifles."
NY Times: "U.S. Is Said to Fail in Tracking Arms for Iraqis"

John Steward on N. Cavuto

Bhagdad

"However strong the wind," reads a new poster of a woman clutching her child, "it will pass."

"Faded and draped over a building scarred with craters from the invasion, it was an ad for the U.S.-funded Iraqi network, al-Iraqiya. In Arabic, its slogan reads, 'Prepare your eyes for more.'"

"No one can stop it but God," he said. "Only God has the power."
Bhagdad

Living in a Cartoon-Horror Movie:

Top US general says Rumsfeld is inspired by God [must be the Old Testiment god of War!!]

Here's something to think about. Cognitive Science tells us that the mind operates by metaphor. We literally live by-and -through the stories we tell. Symbols and metaphors animate those stories and root our consciousness in analogical experience...in other words, as Saint Paul says it...we see "through the glass darkly". But how dark is the metaphor through which Evangelical Fundamentalism and the Bushies "see" the world. As dark as it gets...a Horror movie. Imagine not the world of John Lennon, but living in the world of the book of "Revelations"...where the "evil-doers" battle the "sons of light." Imagine living in a world in which millions of infant "souls" are tortured and aborted by Nature (25% of all human pregnancies end in miscarriage) and millions more tortured and aborted by rational human beings who do not share in this horror-story movie. This horror-story is the world in which the Republican leaders of this country live. Is there any doubt why Rumsfeld and others saw the Bathists as the equivalent of the Nazis, and why they felt the need to "de-Bathify" Iraq. Is there any wonder why they have created a living hell in Iraq with policies logically derived from the worldview of the book of Revelations? Is there any wonder why they are creating a living hell for millions of Americans with poor schools and social services? Is there any wonder why American politics has become a surreal "war" where the opponent is demonized and sent to hell--de-humanized? Is there any wonder why Nativist Fundamentalists see the immigration of millions of poor Mexicans to America as an "invasion"--after all, most of them are Catholic...or "demons who can quote scripture."





Nostalgia...a President with real compassion and understanding...too bad he had a weakness for plump little co-eds.

"Iraq For Sale"

More propaganda from the commie-islamo-facist heartland !? Some things you should see (and think about) right before you vote.



Happy Habeas Corpus and Torture Day--See you in Git-Mo Day

Intellectual and Moral Integrity 101: Grover Norquist doesn't get it!

Read this interview with Grover Norquist, Jack Abramoff's buddy, and one of the founders of the "I hate government movement". Grover (I love this name...it reminds me of Grover on Sesame Street) compares the logic and morality of the Holocaust to the progressive redistribution of wealth in the "death tax." A revealing exchange with Terry Gross.
The Jack Abramoff-Grover Norquest connection


MORE ON "TEMPTING FAITH"...duping The Right...


Steven Colbert: Let the fools keep talking..

Neo-Con Compassion at Work: The Death of Habeus Corpus, 655,000 Iraqis, and the Republican Right

Olberman: The "Nuts" Fight Back: How Jesus George and Carl-the-Sleeze-Rove Exploit Their Christian Friends...oops...cat's out of the bag...


655,000 dead in Iraq since American Invasion & The Bushiter's/American Denial


Tax breaks for "the Nuts"
Tax cuts for the "Spiritual"--share the love

Olbermann: The Death of Habeus Corpus


Jon Stewart sums-it-up


Bernie Sanders--our only real socialist--may be headed for the Senate.

Hail to the "Cheer leader-in-Chief"...check out the trailer...what was not in the 911 Report...that should have been.

Question: Did we lose our "will" in Vietnam, or had we lost our mind. Hasn't history already decided this issue? Wasn't the fear and "domino" theory that justified the Vietnam war been proven wrong by history. Communism died of its own internal contradictions and it's inablity to compete on the world stage with the lusts of consumerism and capitalism. Reagon's "evil empire" produced Michael Gorbechov, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Isn't the mythic "war on terror" equally wrong headed? We were attacked by Al Queda. Why wasn't our effort focused on Al Queda and Bin Ladan? There is only one reasonable answer: Jesus George and his neo-cons were still fighting the first Gulf War with Saddam...informed by their ideological defeat in Vietnam...everything else has been fear, the folly of denial--Woodward nailed with the title--the delusions of power...and the politics of perpetuating power with fear and folly. Furthermore, please see the trailer on the pathos and reasoning behind the 911 hijackers and their hatred of America. Note: it was not because of our "freedom"--which they may have hated too--but because of our foreign policy in the Middle East...including our support for the Israelie hardliners...ironically dominated by Zionists who see all of Palestine as their religious birth right. Why is the dialogue about the Iraq war and our Middle East policy donimated by these zealots and hypocrites on both sides. Are these spiritual people? Because they pray to their gods of mamon and war?

It's no joke: IU study finds The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to be as substantive as network news



Jon Stewart body-slams Bill Bennett on Gay Marriage

Secret Letter from Iraq

"A Marine's letter home, with its frank description of life in 'Dante's inferno,' has been circulating through generals' in-boxes." (CNN)

"...Most Profound Man in Iraq — an unidentified farmer in a fairly remote area who, after being asked by Reconnaissance Marines if he had seen any foreign fighters in the area replied 'Yes, you...'

Coolest Insurgent Act — Stealing almost $7 million from the main bank in Ramadi in broad daylight, then, upon exiting, waving to the Marines in the combat outpost right next to the bank, who had no clue of what was going on. The Marines waved back. Too cool..."

Biggest Hassle — High-ranking visitors. More disruptive to work than a rocket attack. VIPs demand briefs and "battlefield" tours (we take them to quiet sections of Fallujah, which is plenty scary for them). Our briefs and commentary seem to have no effect on their preconceived notions of what's going on in Iraq. Their trips allow them to say that they've been to Fallujah, which gives them an unfortunate degree of credibility in perpetuating their fantasies about the insurgency here..."

Biggest Outrage — Practically anything said by talking heads on TV about the war in Iraq, not that I get to watch much TV. Their thoughts are consistently both grossly simplistic and politically slanted. Biggest Offender: Bill O'Reilly..."

"Most Common Thought — Home. Always thinking of home, of my great wife and the kids. Wondering how everyone else is getting along. Regretting that I don't write more. Yep, always thinking of home..."


READ ENTIRE LETTER HERE--MUST READ.

TIME TO BRING THESE BOYS HOME...SCREW THE BIBLE THUMPING-HORROR FILM ADDICTS AND MORALISTS.

Olbermann Goes OFF on Jesus George

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"Capitcal Crimes"

Bill Moyer's "Capital Crimes" on PBS...that left wing-communist organization staring Big Bird and Elmo is up to it again slandering our great Christian saints on The Hill...the jew-for-jesus Abramoff, and the Christian warriors Tom DeLay, Bob Ney, and Ralph Reed.

More words of wisdom from the deluded Jesus George...in the Washington Post

"As he heads out on the campaign trail, haunted by an unpopular war, President Bush has begun reassuring audiences that this traumatic period in Iraq will be seen as "just a comma" in the history books."

The phrase comes from "Never put a period where God has put a comma..."

"...He is constantly littering his speeches with code words and phrases meant for the religious right. Other people don't hear them, but they do, and most of the time it allows Bush both to say what those who aren't evangelical or born again want to hear, while still reassuring the religious right [what it] wants to hear....But it turns out that the phrase "never put a period" originated not with a Christian conservative figure or biblical passage but with Gracie Allen, the comedienne wife of George Burns. And the phrase is a favorite not of the religious right but of the religious left. The United Church of Christ, which is devoted to fighting for what it calls social justice and opposes the war, adopted the phrase in January 2002."

...spinning Foley into a liberal democrat

...more evidence of intellectual-moral integrity deficit disorder from the Right. The il-logic of getting from pedophilia to gay bashing. A beautiful example of the politics of bait and switch:

Fox spins Foley into a Democrat:

Foley's Folley...the Best of Jon Stewart and the Newt

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...more stupidity from Right:

"Why do Sunni's kill Shi'ites? How do they tell the difference? They all look the same to me."
Trent Lott following a closed-door meeting with President Bush and other Republicans at the Capital

...more insights from Woodward and "State of Denial"

A good discussion of the pre-911, Rice cover-up is here

Cheney's Fever
"Colin Powell, the secretary of state, saw this in Cheney to such an extent, he, Powell, told colleagues that ‘Cheney has a fever. It is an absolute fever. It’s almost as if nothing else exists,’”

OIL POWER/ELECTION MANIPULATION:

"Prince Bandar enjoys easy access to the Oval Office. His family and the Bush family are close. And Woodward told 60 Minutes that Bandar has promised the president that Saudi Arabia will lower oil prices in the months before the election - to ensure the U.S. economy is strong on election day."

"Woodward says that Bandar understood that economic conditions were key before a presidential election: “They’re [oil prices] high. And they could go down very quickly. That's the Saudi pledge. Certainly over the summer, or as we get closer to the election, they could increase production several million barrels a day and the price would drop significantly.”"

BUSH'S KOOL-AID

"Did Mr. Bush ask his father for any advice? “I asked the president about this. And President Bush said, ‘Well, no,’ and then he got defensive about it,” says Woodward. “Then he said something that really struck me. He said of his father, ‘He is the wrong father to appeal to for advice. The wrong father to go to, to appeal to in terms of strength.’ And then he said, ‘There's a higher Father that I appeal to.’"

Today, while most doubt that Saddam still possessed any weapons of mass destruction, the president told Woodward he has no doubts at all about going to war.

The president still believes with some conviction, that this was absolutely the right thing, that he has the duty to free people, to liberate people. And this was his moment, says Woodward.

But who gave President Bush the duty to free people around the world? “That's a really good question. The Constitution doesn't say that's part of the commander in chief's duties,” says Woodward. “That’s his stated purpose. It is far-reaching, and ambitious, and I think will cause many people to tremble.”

AMERICAN ANTI-INTELLECTUALISM

How deep a man is President George W. Bush? “He’s not an intellectual. He is not what I guess would be called a deep thinker,” says Woodward. “He chastised me at one point because I said people were concerned about the failure to find weapons of mass destruction. And he said, ‘Well you travel in elite circles.’ I think he feels there is an intellectual world and he's indicated he's not a part of it … the fancy pants intellectual world. What he calls the elite.”