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Yesterday evening, I was watching Cecil B. DeMille's masterpiece, "The Ten Commendments" on the new HDTV. Yes, I've seen it a bazillion times, but I wanted to see how the special effects held up -- and the answer is that you can kind of see how the magic is done. (One of the disadvantages of the close-up view, I suppose, is that sometimes the magic behind the curtain is a little too exposed.) Which is pretty much what Dahlia Lathwick does with this snippet from her op-ed this morning:
Monica Goodling had a problem. As senior counsel to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and Justice Department liaison to the White House, she no longer seemed to know what the truth was. She also must have been increasingly unclear about who her superiors were. This didn't used to be a problem for Goodling. Everything was once very certain: Her boss's truth was always the same as God's truth. Her boss was always either God or one of His staffers.......Her chief claim to professional fame appears to have been loyalty to the president and to the process of reshaping the Justice Department in his image (and, thus, His image). A former career official there told The Washington Post that Goodling "forced many very talented career people out of main Justice so she could replace them with junior people that were either loyal to the administration or would score her some points." And as she rose at Justice, a former classmate said, Goodling "developed a very positive reputation for people coming from Christian schools into Washington looking for employment in government, always ready to offer encouragement and be a sounding board."...
No, the real concern here is that Goodling and her ilk somehow began to conflate God's work with the president's. Probably not a lesson she learned in law school. The dream of Regent and its counterparts, such as Jerry Falwell's Liberty University, is to redress perceived wrongs to Christians, to reclaim the public square and reassert Christian political authority. And while that may have been a part of the Bush/Rove plan, it was only a small part. Their real zeal was for earthly power. And Goodling was left holding the earthly bag.
In the end, Goodling and the other young foot soldiers for God may simply have run afoul of the first rule of politics, codified in Psalm 146: "Put not your trust in princes, in mere mortals in whom there is no help." (emphasis mine)
Somehow, Machiavelli got to be an interchangeable text with The Bible in someone's mind, and a thirst for power replaced the hunger for working toward salvation. But, and this is a very big but, Machiavelli was meant as a cautionary tale, not a users' manual. Someone forgot to tell Goodling and her fellow Bushies that The Bible is not a text that was ever meant to be cherry-picked as a justification for being able to screw over whomever you please, or as an excuse to be able to do whatever you want, grasping for promotions and chits from the powerful along the way.
Perhaps a review of The Ten Commandments would have helped -- the first commandment reads: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." That includes Presidents who say they talk to God, as well as their political power broker minions, too, and not just golden calves -- and working hard to curry favor with any of the above is an act that worships power and what you can get from it. Nothing more, nothing less. Anyone who thinks securing earthly power, consolidating one's position and amassing a number of favors owed to you that you can call in when you need them is the point of existence is worshiping at the alter of Gordon Gekko.
Decency and ethics always has a place in public service. But simply slapping a "Christian" label on yourself is not an excuse for grasping, greedy behavior because you have some back-of-your-mind understanding that you can ask forgiveness for your piss poor behavior later. That's a post hoc ergo propter hoc justification, and it doesn't fly. God has not rewarded you with the promotion -- you earned it all on your own by stabbing a whole lot of people in the back and, thereby, appealing to the crowd of malignant political minions who were looking for just such a self-serving, grasping person to stab a few more people in the back. Congratulations, Monica, you've lived up to the very low standard of Karl Rove.
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Of State…And Church…and LIEberman: http://thinkprogress.org/2007/.....an-pelosi/
..the very low standard of Karl Rove. heh.
Another example of why “don’t use your reason, just have faith” religion is bad for a person.
It seems to me to be a logical inconsistancy to call oneself a Christian and vote for Bush. But what do I know. God does not talk to me. Happy Easter to everyone.
I want to know how a comments knows he/she is going to be first?
I want to know how a comments knows he/she is going to be first?
I mean commenter. (have a migraine)
George gave it to me.
One could wish that Monica would be the recipient of about 4000 copies of this post. Very well delivered spanking, Christy.
Ahn-drew is right. These people aren’t Christians, they are “Christianists.” Their so-called faith isn’t a belief system, it’s a toolkit. One would be tempted to call them Pharisees, but then one doubts that they know the Gospels well enough to realize that that’s not a compliment.
“When religion ruled the world…they called it ‘The DARK AGES’“
Charlton Heston. Good actor and self proclaimed great Christian. Excellent wingnut and hypocrite too.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 12
Good actor?
Great post CHS, I just finished the op-ed and it scares the be-jjebus ou tof me that these assclowns are running my country
At the risk of POing people, I’m reposting my EPUed comment on the last thread, which seems equally pertinent here:
Mark C @ 20, HotFlash @ 25 & coniptionfit @ 119:
While looking for something else in my “Pithy Quotes” file this morning I found this:
While the quote was in regard to the Republican-controlled Congress’ behavior during the impeachment debacle in Clinton’s second term, it is even more applicable to the administration and rubber-stamp Congress of the Dubya era.
Mark C, I don’t believe that this threat will be anywhere near over even if there is a return to a “semblance of democracy” in 2008. There’s no way the authoritarian elements in the GOP are going to skulk back into their “Think” Tank office chairs and church pews and not begin to scheme for their next takeover attempt, any more than the Bolsheviks threw in the towel after the 1905 uprising.
The “Long War” that the American people are in for is not against Islam, or even “Islamofascism”, whatever that is. It is against the revolutionary cabal that the Republican Party has become as a result of its takeover by Christian Dominionists, “unitary executive” apostles and neoconservative empire builders. The Republican Party has become a subversive organization, and it is now the greatest threat to the future of American democracy.
Mary, dear, it’s a crap shoot. You have to develope a certain zen feeling about it. And what are you doing on a computer with a migraine? Shouldn’t you be somewhere calmer? OOOHHHMMM…..
( Hope you feel better soon)
Amen. Allelulia. Boo Ya.
Great homily, Christy — happy Easter/Passover/holiday!
Stay warm — the Easter snap continues tonight, dagnabit — if you’ve got tender plants in pots, you might want to cover them or take them in.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 12
Actually, not that good and actor. Unless you like all your characters to be the same one.
conniptionfit @ 16
Yes, the light from the monitor is a monster. Shutting down now. Think I will take a day without info. Thanks.
Mary McCurnin @ 13
I realize I am being subjective on the issue of ‘good actor’. I do understand what you’re telling me though. ;0)
Minnesotachuck @ 15
Yes, we need to prepare now to respond to the inevitable swiftboating of our candidates, constant attempts to undermine the government of our next Democratic president, and defusing the time bombs that the Bushies have left all over the federal government. The ‘06 elections were just one step of many, and the even with further victories in ‘08, this will be far from over.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 20
So..that means you do like your actors to be one-paced?
I beg to differ. Niccolo was no ‘namby-pamby pablum puker’ looking to dissuade a guileless noble from the dark path, but a technocrat seeking a position within the hierarchy, offering practical theories of power acquisition and retention.
He was tortured by the existing power structure for his associations also, which adds a certain modern relevance.
Unlike the allegations of Camus dabbling, it is almost a certainty that The Prince is nowhere to be found on a White House night table.
“..a wise prince should establish himself on that which is his own control and not in that of others; he must endeavour to avoid hatred, as is noted.”
;>)
Christy, thanks for blessing us with so many gifts this Easter morning.
(and we don’t even have to hunt for them…)
Lou @ 11:
One of the more fascinating books I’ve read in the past couple of years was The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason, by Charles Freeman. It addresses how western civilization descended into the Dark Ages and as you suggest the manner in which Christianity developed in the 4th through 6th centuries was a central part of the story.
I always wonder how the Goodling sect of Christians squares their beliefs and actions with, um, what’s that pesky book again? Oh, yeah, the Bible!
When they can quote me where Jesus said blessed are the moneymakers, or hate your enemy and make his life a living hell, then maybe I’ll listen.
I go to church nearly every Sunday. Every week, we hear this.
The Christian Right likes to talk about the second coming, but as much as I can know something, I know that were he to show up tomorrow, Jesus wouldn’t be hanging with Pat “I can leg press a Honda” Robertson or Jerry “Feminists and gays caused 9/11″ Falwell. Their lives are an ongoing refutation of the Word they allegedly champion. And it’s so obvious it amazes me that no one calls them on it.
Poodle, you are so right! Or left. something.
conniptionfit @ 18
I did like his performance in “A Touch of Evil”, among others. I try to separate his acting from his political views. As I do with John Wayne and some other ultra-right wingers or fascists, if you will. James Stewert is another name that comes to mind in this vein. ;0)
apropos of the ten commandments photo and the subject matter I refer you to this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1kqqMXWEFs
Wait. Mr Smith was a facist?
Mutant Poodle @ 26:
IIRC, it was either the Biblical scholar Bart Ehrman or the author Chris Hedges (who has a DD from Harvard Divinity School) who has written that there is no such thing as a 100% Biblical literalist. There can be only selective literalists because there are so many internal contradictions within the Judeo-Christian scriptures. Robertson, Falwell, and Dobson, et al, are selective literalists in spades.
Christy, I should have mentioned before this that you have been on a roll this morning. Great posts!
Sean Moyn @
29
Funniest thing, ever!
Gingrich talking about credibility. What a hoot.
AP - Joining a growing list of Republicans, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should consider resigning. The possible presidential candidate said the botched firing of U.S. attorneys has destroyed Gonzales’ credibility as the nation’s top law enforcer.
conniptionfit @ 27
One of our parishioners teaches at a nearby seminary, and he likes to challenge his more conservative students with this thought: there’s more evidence in the bible supporting slavery than there is condemning homosexuality. He says it to get them thinking, which is usually a good idea. But they don’t always appreciate it.
Which brings me back the Episcopalian mantra: we take the bible too seriously to take it literally.
Jimmy Stewert was very right wing in his politics, I believe. I am NOT talking about the politics of any actors roles.
Minnesotachuck @ 31
Absolutely - see my note above [#35]
Please don’t get me started on this administration and God. Just saw Pres. McFlightsuit on CNN talking about praying for the troops, etc.
After all the death and dismemberment he & Darth have sanctioned it’s amazing the pew he sits in doesn’t spontaneously combust as soon as he sits down.
Over 100,000 deaths directly attributable to him and him neocon buddies. Think about that. And as anyone who comes here regularly knows, that is a conservative number- the total could be six times higher.
Hopping back to the previous thread, that’s what makes the media’s role in this all the more despicable; they know all of this and Gregory still can serve as MC Turdblossom’s backup dancer.
Minnesotachuck @ 25
Churchill, writing in his “History of the English Speaking Peoples” talked about the decline of Roman influence over the periphery of Europe as being “Like the tide going out”. The imagery often occurs to me when I hear the nonsense these counter enlightenment fools spout. Churchill, of course, was also famous for the phrase “A new Dark Age”. They will take us there, if we let them.
Goodling is allowed to have her personal beliefs and hopefully, as in most of us, that tempers our decisions in life when it comes to our relationships with others. She appears to have let her beliefs overwhelm her judgement with what is proper. If she is coming out of colleges that preached that Christians should make all the decisions based on their interpertation then she was a mind that never explored outside her insular little world.
I doubt if the schools she attended tolerated much original thought. She was/is a believer waiting to be lead and so cocksure of the rightousness of her belief system she had no checks or balances in her professional life. She probably strongly believes she was correcting the false idea of separation of church and state.
Oh I LOVE The Ten Commandments! My late friend and colleague Richard Rouilard once performed a Passover service in drag (he called it “Crossover”) in which Jehovah’s name was replaced with “Anne Baxter” (as in “And Anne Baxter led the children of Israel out of Egypt.”)
Do you relaize that the only major cast member still alive is Nina Foch?
And she’s thriving, I’m happy to say. Saw her just a few months back at an Academy screening of Cleopatra and she looked marvelous!
She has my favorite line in the whole movie: “You dig your grave with your tongue, Memnet!”
Meanwhile for those violators of this culture’s most important commandment, “Thou Shalt Not Contradict the New York Times,” here’s my Latest FaBlog: Mr. Heckle and Dr. Jeckyl
Mary McCurnin @ 7
Sixth sense, I suppose.
Like “I see dead people.”
Only today, they are all risen.
:>)
I was hoping someone would do a take down of that piece.
Galatians 6-7
Monica Goodling is about to find this out. Backstabbing and manipulation to remove qualifed people so they can be replaced with unqualified loyalists is not Christian behavior.
Oklahoma kiddo @
12
You’d think he would wake up and see we are living the nightmare of the Planet of the Republickcans. Ms Good?ling is one of countless examples. He joined the orangutans and is eyes are not very bright anymore.
Oklahoma kiddo @ 34
Father Newt whipping a little moral pronouncementarin’ on the congregation for his Easter sermon, The Little Toad and the Hot, Hot Pan…
Next week: Serially Coveting Thy Neighbor’s Wife Ain’t No Sin If Your Politics Is Right.
;>)
LOL! Further down in Dahlia’s article is a quote from an alum in the Regent law school newsletter: “Your resume is Gods instrument” (that will be used to fuck up our government) Parentheses mine.
Happy Easter Bunny! Congratulations, Balrog.
Oklahoma kiddo @
12
Good Actor?
Uh, he reached his peak in Soylent Green.
Bush just like his dad both belong to the skull and bones, witch also belives in devil worship think about it.
AZ Matt
Just finished Wolfowitz article in New Yorker. Did you read it? Short version: turning WB into arm of U.S. foreign policy (favored countries annoited by U.S. & punishing W’s enemies), doing nation buidling (including Baghdad office) that he couldn’t do in DOD. Staff leaving. Just about what I expected to read. Thanks again.
One wonders at what point it will be necessary for all publications to refer to the Department of “Justice”?
Lou Costello @ 11
Precisely. Which is why whenever Teh Professional Faithful wring their hands about western Europeans turning their back on the church I always think: Why yes. They’ve experienced several hundred years of tearing themselves apart over small distinctions between the same religion and decided they’ve had quite enough of it.
conniptionfit @ 52
I read somewhere that it’s name had been changed to Department of Jokes.
Unfortunately the early colonization of the United States was due to the immigration of religious groups (fanatics)to avoid “persecution” for their religious beliefs.
So you have descendants of what once was considered deviant cults; Pilgrims,Puritans, Quakers, Lutherans, Catholics, Amish, Shakers, as well as homegrown Latter Day Saints, current Opus Dei, Moonies, etc… who believed then and still do that they have been singled out and suffer for God’s work. Antipsychotics and a glass of water should be substituted for communion and wine.
AZ Matt: “She appears to have let her beliefs overwhelm her judgement with what is proper.”
Don’t turn yourself inside out respecting her religious beliefs. That is a given.
When someone’s faith in religion is matched by an equally strong committment of faith to an authority that has put her in a position to execute an unethical and potentially criminal policy, you can dispense with the compassionate understanding of the poor woman’s plight. Consider that she was chosen precisely because of these attributes.
She can own this. She should own this. And if she is held accountable for her own handiwork, then we’ll have some chance of reclaiming a nation of laws with integrity in its Department of Justice.
Christy -
In the preceding thread, Blank Kludge posted a comment (number 150 at 9:57 am) from which I quote the following:
Now let us look at a relevant excerpt from Article VI of the Constitution:
RockPaperScizzors @ 55
Here, here!
The Christian Right likes to talk about the second coming, but as much as I can know something, I know that were he to show up tomorrow, Jesus wouldn’t be hanging with Pat “I can leg press a Honda” Robertson or Jerry “Feminists and gays caused 9/11″ Falwell. Their lives are an ongoing refutation of the Word they allegedly champion. And it’s so obvious it amazes me that no one calls them on it.
I saw a bumper sticker that did just that:
JESUS IS COMING
AND BOY IS HE PISSED
Moses, planet of the apes, soylent green, NRA: Oh the Irony
You realize, of course, that by invoking Demille’s Ten Commandments, you risk re-awakening Heston?
Is that something you want to do?
Oklahoma kiddo @
12
Also Alzheimer’s patient (guess he caught it from Ronnie Ray-guns).
eCAHNomics @ 50
I found the comment that he is thinker, not a doer, interesting. He also lacked the guts to express his dismay at the implementation of the Iraq rebuilding effort. He is in over his head. The part of hiring folks from other countries don’t mean crap if his own people are the ones in actual control.
RockPaperScizzors @ 54
Unfortunately sociopathy is a personality disorder (Axis II) and the meds don’t work on them
Kalliope @ 59
They would have a different interpretation of who he is pissed at.
Mutant Poodle @
26
The Christian Right likes to talk about the second coming, but as much as I can know something, I know that were he to show up tomorrow, Jesus wouldn’t be hanging with Pat “I can leg press a Honda” Robertson or Jerry “Feminists and gays caused 9/11″ Falwell. Their lives are an ongoing refutation of the Word they allegedly champion. And it’s so obvious it amazes me that no one calls them on it.
I think there are going to be a large number of fundies exceedingly unhappy should their vaunted rapture occur.
Living up to the low standard of Turd Blossom is truly scraping bottom.
AZ Matt @ 63
Yes to all of yours, but none of that is new. In fact, today’s book on Rummy sez much the same about Wolfie, including the part about being in over his head. Thought the article did a nice job of presenting the Wolfie side, then debunking it.
Oklahoma kiddo @
36
He was a retired AF Reserve Colonel or Brigadier General iirc.
start_beating_around_the_bush @ 65
But would Jesus care about anyone’s interpretation. There’s that.
Minnesotachuck @ 15
You are correct. It is going to be a long war. Too many elements in the Republican party do not put country first.
Neil @ 55
She does own it but doesn’t want to. She wanted to be led around. She did have a choice and she made a bad choice. And with the examples of leadership from above, her enablers, she thought there would never be consequences.
In fact, off to finish Rummy book.
The golden calf continues to be the god of many.
We need to remember that humans wrote the Bible and it is not infallible. It is a history book and we know how history books have been written and re-written to suit the writers of that history.
The Bible is indeed a “pesky” book. One to be seriously questioned.
Lou @ 11: Excellent book, that: Closing of the Western Mind….by Charles Freeman. Request it from your local library.
dakine01 @ 62
Speaking of which, let’s not (on today of all days) forget John McCain’s crack about Alzheimer’s patients being able to hide their own Easter eggs.
That one line is a window into his soul.
Or lack thereof.
eCAHNomics @ 72
Gardening is calling me!
1,480 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Citizen Hardin Smith and the Firepup Patriots:
First of all sister Hardin Smith, I am every day amazed at your fecund mind and your elegant and unforced prose. A thanx here from an old man who is no longer worried about the new generation that has inherited the mess we have made of the world.
With regard to the topic at hand and Dalhia Lathwick’s wonderful dissection of the christianist assembly line of willing soldiers, Digby has been offering a brilliant series called “Blog Against Theocracy…” which is emerging as a political and intellectual history of the christainst movement and the structure of ideas underneath the radical religious element of the neo fascist machine we are now confronting. I’m sure you have read every word that old man Digby has written on the subject but I think it might behove the rest a the Firepups ta bury their heads in his work.
Thanks again for offering hope to and old man on this day that is supposed to be a day of hope for the masses and…
KEEP THE FAITH, ALL THEY GOT IS OUR MONEY!!!
Prior to the invasion of Iraq I was shocked at how many “Christians” (gold crosses around their necks, would say things like “go kill them all”, or how about “drop the A-Bomb”.
I clearly knew at that point why so many people around the world fear our nation.
It took Orson Welles’ brilliance to get Heston that good in Touch of Evil. That movie surpasses Kane, imho.
And, its theme is corruption of justice, border/immigration/language issues , war on drugs…etc
Plus Marlene Deitrich’s last appearance onscreen, iirc.
AZ Matt @ 72
Some just have to learn the hard way.
The real tragedy, however, is what her infantile morality did to this coutry.
Haven’t read it since I was an undergrad, but for some reason pulled “Elmer Gantry” off the back shelf today :)
Think I’ll read it in tandem w/Joe Conason’s “It Can Happen Here”…
“SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!!”
The last time I saw Charlton Heston in person was at the Academy’s William Wyler tribute several years back. He sat in the audience and was obviously too unwell to take the stage. The formal announcement of his Alzheimer’s shortly followed.
In the years prior to that I saw him a lot one event or another and we were both interviewed (separately) for a cable show about Hollywood. He was quite pleasant and gracious. A great career and a sad life.
“But would Jesus care about anyone’s interpretation. There’s that.”
Let me recommend Letting Go of God by Julia Sweeney. Funny, insightful, and not threatening to believers.
dakine01 @ 69
I don’t know about his personal politics, but, already a movie star. Stewart volunteered for duty in the Army Air Force and flew many bombing missions over Europe.
While St. Ronnie was tomcatting in the Hollywood Hills.
I just wanted to point out that a person who has been much maligned here was the only one (other than on the blogs) I’ve seen to bring out that Pelosi’s trip was not the first trip to an unfriendly country by a Speaker of the House. Donna Brazile used Newt Gingrich’s trip to China to berate China about Taiwan, thereby attempting to run a dual foreign policy contrary to Clinton’s official policy, and Denny Hastert’s attempt to undermine Clinton in Columbia in her effort to defend Pelosi’s trip against the attacks of several of the other journalists present and absent. To me, it just goes to show that we should think twice before we go backbiting our own. Instead, it might be a good idea to recognise an ally’s weaknesses and sometimes failures, and help them work out their inequities to our mutual advantage rather than backbiting and alienating, which we really seem to have a tendency to do.
Regarding Goodling, shouldn’t the questions for Alberto on 4/17 go something like this:
“What crimes did she commit?”
“What inquiry did you make into whether she committed crimes once you heard she was invoking the Fifth Amendment?”
“Who in the DOJ shall we interview next who would have first-hand knowledge of what crimes she may have committed?”
and
“If you don’t think she committed any crimes, what should be done if she is improperly invoking the Fifth Amendment to impede a Congressional investigation?”
Hey from Russia. I was sitting at the window looking at two white horses and a carriage in the light April snow, enjoying my beef stroganoff and wifi, when the wifi went poof. I suppose all dreams must end at some point. But the horses are really cool.
We work tomorrow. Hope you guys had/are having a glorious Easter. Christianity is under assault not least from wingers that have a very odd interpretation of love your neighbor. Am trying to do the peacemaker thingie and it’s tough going. I feel I was called by God at an early age to do this work, and trust that He knows what He is doing.
The beauty of being mentally ill [not the phrase you hear every day] is that when regular life is difficult, you might as well do something really hard, because it’s not much different.
Something I’ve long wondered: When Goodling, Bush, Robertson, Falwell, Dobson and their ilk hear a sermon about hypocrites and Pharisees, who exactly do THEY think are the modern-day equivalents?
I’m surprised no one has brought up Ms. Goodling and the Ninth Commandment: you shall not bear false witness. Ninth Commandment, Fifth Amendment, Ninth Commandment, Fifth Amendment? Hmmm. In a pinch, Goodling appears to be a securalist after all.
Christy,
WoW. Just when I think you have reached your max quality, well, you go beyond it..
You are one hell of a writer.
Thanks!
gerbear @ 89
The cognative dissonance must be excruciating…
What on earth is the language inscribed on the tablets in that picture?? Those commandments look a little truncated to me….just not sure…
allan_in_upstate @ 76
Charlton Heston came to West Virginia and southern Ohio in Oct of 2000. His visit in support of the NRA and the Presidential candidate Bush was well publicized and very effective with the “God, Guns and anti-Gay crowd”. This was one of Roves focus groups.
Roves strategy did not work in 2006! Too many of the young men in these areas who grow up hunting are now in Iraq
I just read American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America by Chris Hedges–I must read after reading about Goodling. Chris Hedges talks about dominionists wanting to create a Christian State.
I would love to give Chris Hedges a voice here on the Lake to talk about his book. Not sure who to suggest this to?
Foo @ 93
Behold these fifteen…ooops, TEN commandments!
Foo @ 93
I’m guessing Hebrew filtered through Cecil B. DeMille…
Mmmmmmm, love the Latin, love the logic. The fallacy of causality is not the only logical gaff this administration excels at. They have great talent with Denying the Antecedent and Affirming the Consequent.
And here’s a lovely Latin list of looser logic: they use them all to great effect. It makes one wish to retaliate with argument Ad Baculum, but that would only be fighting fire with fire. A truly logical argument should be above that.
Mary McCurnin @
13
Wonderful President of the NRA. Great Presence!
Hugh @ 89
Savage’s Globe piece ends with this lil nuggett:
mu bold..I take it to mean “We’re going to school on her failure to properly stonewall, shred and delete.”
Or is that too harsh?
1,480 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Citizen Jooj and the Firepup Patriots:
If you haven’t read Digby’s series “Blog Against Theocracy” please go read it…he has part five up right now. Also go to the Digby archives and find the first four, it’s the best contemporary political-intellectual history of the current christofascist movement.
KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, WE GOTTA KEEP THE CHILDREN SAFE FROM THE PRIESTS AND MINISTERS!!