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Delay-ing Death

Zealot and Proud of It

Recently, someone using the alias of "Pickle" posted an anonymous opinion on my blog, Thomas Paine's Corner, at http://civillibertarian.blogspot.com/.     In response to my essay entitled Cauldron of Bigotry, in which I attacked the Christian conservatives and Evangelicals for their continued campaign of hatred and bigotry against gays, "Pickle" wrote:

  "I don't see how you're going to get anywhere, saying things in the way you've said them. You've accused others of being bigots, but you come across as being more of a bigot than many of your opponents."

  "Pickle", thank you for your commentary.   My blog is about the advancement of civil liberties and intellectual freedom, and I welcome virtually all opinions.     After pondering "Pickles"'s assertion briefly,  I decided to look up the definition of bigot.    Here is what I found at http://www.yourdictionary.com/ahd/b/b0242400.html:  

"One who is strongly partial to one's own group, religion, race, or politics and is intolerant of those who differ."

The Nuclear Option and A Dictatorship Proposition

Radicals in Congress want absolute power in the Senate to appoint justices that will favor corporate interests over the public good and eliminate American values like determining our future through compromise and negotiation.

To get absolute control and power, these radicals plan to use a parliamentary trick they call the "nuclear option" to overturn 200 years of bipartisan checks and balances that have kept the courts fair for centuries and democracy working by allowing the minority to influence the majority in power. Using the nuclear option is nothing less than instituting a dictatorship while eliminating democracy.

Last term Senate Democrats confirmed almost 95% of President Bush's judicial nominees. Eliminating the filibuster is not about overcoming "obstructionism", it’s about the desire for complete one-party control over all three branches of government. It eliminates all negotiation about any issue, including the budget, war, jobs, healthcare, etc. It gives corporations absolute control of all three branches of government.

Bush Lost Ohio?

The "Bush Doctrine" is working! Even the French and Germans admit that. You losers need to get a life.

By the way, have you noticed, African Americans and Hispanics are leaving the Democratic party in droves.

Little Reporting on Paranoia in High Places

Journalists often refer to the Bush administration’s foreign policy as “unilateral” and “preemptive.” Liberal pundits like to complain that a “go-it-alone” approach has isolated the United States from former allies. But the standard American media lexicon has steered clear of a word that would be an apt description of the Bush world view.

Paranoid.

Early symptoms met with tremendous media applause in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Skepticism from reporters and dissent from pundits were sparse while President Bush quickly declared that governments were either on the side of the USA or “the terrorists.” Since then, the paranoiac scope of the administration’s articulated outlook has broadened while media acceptance has normalized it -- to the point that a remarkable new document from the Pentagon is raising few media eyebrows.

Released on March 18 with a definitive title -- “The National Defense Strategy of the United States of America” -- the document spells out how the Bush administration sees the world. Consider this key statement: “Our strength as a nation state will continue to be challenged by those who

No Troops, No Wars

Since the beginning of the invasion of Iraq, 1,524 US soldiers have died (as of March 22, 2005), and 11,220 US soldiers have been wounded in action (as of February 26, 2005).1 Iraqi casualties are even larger. A study published in The Lancet last November estimated at least "100000 excess deaths" in Iraq since March 20, 2003.2

Who is killing Iraqis? The White House would have us believe, through the "Good News" propaganda planted in the media by the Pentagon and the State Department,3 that the US military is only protecting Iraqis and reconstructing Iraq. Nothing is further from the truth. According to the Iraqi Ministry of Health's statistics, "operations by U.S. and multinational forces and Iraqi police are killing twice as many Iraqis -- most of them civilians -- as attacks by insurgents."4 The Lancet study confirms the ministry's findings: "Violent deaths were widespread . . . and were mainly attributed to coalition forces. Most individuals reportedly killed by coalition forces were women and children."5

As Blackwell Says, Ohio’s in 2004 was a National Model

Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell finally testified – something he had refused to do in the Moss v. Bush Ohio election challenge before the State Supreme Court and refused to do in Washington, D.C. His testimony proved so contentious that at one point Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, D-OH, told him to “haul butt” if he was unwilling to answer questions about irregularities in the 2004 election.

Blackwell vigorously defended his role in last fall’s presidential election at a congressional hearing on Monday, March 21, at the Ohio Statehouse, claiming critics have smeared his state as if it were a “third world country” rather than the national model of election administration that Blackwell said it was. In December, Republican state senators blocked a similar Democrat-sponsored forum from using the Statehouse, forcing testimony to be taken at the Democrat-controlled Columbus City Council chambers. Meanwhile, hundreds of disenfranchised voters testified under oath in Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo and Warren concerning their voting day hardships.

Re: If Jesus returns, Karl Rove will kill him

Nice points ... too bad Jesus ain't comin' back! He learned the first time, for many of the reasons you point out, that it just ain't gonna be woith it! Especially with the lunatic Cecil B. De Mel Gibson giving everyone an extended training film on what is supposed to happen when Jesus returns, inuring them with images of blood and gore and suffering and the like ... even though they -- the Xtian faithful -- seem to want to decry and empathise with the "Saviour," the ONLY way they can regurgitate their ardour and amour through their belief systems is to have the poor fellow suffering and trudging under the weight of a couple big hunks of wood. This is something that has been ingrained in their minds for millennia, the image of their "Christ" having his hands and feet impaled on the the Cross, just hanging their in eternal suffering and pain. Again, the only way they can be inspired to mercy and love and all of that is by having their subject of devotion in the most distressing of situations.

The consistent theme -- especially with De Mel's flic -- is they will have to get their Jew over and over and over again for ever and ever and ever in

From Kennan to Schiavo: Realism and hypocrisy

Let's start with realism, stark and vicious. George Kennan departed this life at the age of 101, amid respectful eulogies in the press. In his advanced years his prime rostrum was the New York Review, where he advocated policies of genteel internationalism and detente markedly different from his ferocious Cold-War postures of earlier years, so crucial in setting the terms of the Cold War in the years following World War II.

If Jesus returns, Karl Rove will kill him

As we enter another Easter Season, it's become all too obvious that if Christ returns, those who hate in his name will slime him, then kill him.

Christ was a long-haired peace activist who would have been sickened to his soul by the war in Iraq.  "Blessed are the peacemakers"  Jesus said in his defining Sermon on the Mount.  "Turn the other cheek...Love thy neighbor."

Such hippie-radical ideals are the "Christian" right wing's worst nightmare.  The GOP would never tolerate an upstart like Jesus gathering a following in the face of their corporate-fundamentalist crusade.  These are self-proclaimed Christians who love power but would despise the actual Christ, just as they love a Zionist Israel but believe  actual Jews are doomed to Hell. 

In the wake of Jesus's inspiring life of non-violent rebellion, a perverse liturgy weighted by twenty centuries of intolerant bloodthirsty bigotry has erupted in his name.  Attacks on people of color, on nations with oil, on humans of the same gender who love each other, on youth who enjoy sex….all have become staples of a new fundamentalist crusade doing in Christ's name things that would have

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