OT 4 must reads to understand BushCo.
 

One: Vanity Fair's profile of the astoundingly unlikable Karl Rove,
BushCo's master architect and one of the dirtiest, nastiest, most
evasive, least ethical, most difficult to pin down Evil Geniuses in
political history, which is why the GOP adores him like Lynne Cheney
adores lesbians but which is also why he is deeply feared on both sides
of the aisle. Karl has no friends. He is geeky and ungainly and women
shun him like cats shun hydrochloric acid. He is the thick sweaty
uber-geek from high school, now getting his revenge on all of America,
deep and nasty and chortling. And he is almost single-handedly
responsible for keeping Bush in office, shockingly impeachment-free,
all these painful, regressive years.


Two: Hanna Rosin's New Yorker piece on the ultra-creepy,
meta-saccharine Patrick Henry College in Virginia, the tiny Christian
feeder college for the GOP which basically "trains" (read: washes their
brains spotlessly clean and replaces all those nasty "thoughts" with
happy political sycophantism) young, sweet, sex-free, home-schooled
Christian zealot kids to go work like slaves on the Hill and blithely
follow the above-mentioned Evil Genius Rove to the bathroom so they may
wash his feet and coo.

More mandatory articles after the jump...


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Three: a two-parter in Harper's. Soldiers of Christ, Part One: Jeff
Sharlet's deeply disturbing look at the world's most powerful
megachurch, Colorado Springs' New Life Church, founded and headed by
Islam-hatin', war-lovin' Pastor Ted Haggard, the man who has the ear of
our bumblin' war-happy president on a weekly basis and who oversees a
huge and madly growing flock of rabid evangelical Christians in a
sprawling megaplex of glimmering buildings, tents, sanctuaries and
temples on a hill. Pastor Ted also presides over the National
Association of Evangelicals, 45,000 churches and 30 million followers
strong and in nasty possession one of the most powerful religious
lobbies in Washington. He, along with Dr. James Dobson (see below) are
directly responsible for much of the homophobia, religious intolerance,
and general seething hate toward liberals, gays, women and alternative
religions in America today.

Four: Also from Harper's: Soldiers of Christ, Part Two: Feeling the
Hate with the National Religious Broadcasters. Focusing on Dominionist
ubergod Dr. James Dobson (among others) the powerful, deeply
homophobic, hatemongering firebrand founder of nipple-hating,
FCC-whipping Focus on the Family, whose radio programs (according to
Sharlet's piece above), are the most extensive in the world, and whose
videos, magazines and books reach more than 200 million people
worldwide. Also in this piece (which is by Chris Hedges): Dobson's
creepy son, Ryan. Bush as herald of the Second Coming of the Messiah.
Violence as a means to serve God. Militant Christianity. Radical
Christianity. Bashing Islam. Stomping out "deviants," sexual and
otherwise, by whatever means necessary. Hate speech on the radio.
Comparing Dobson and his ilk of violent Christian Right wing
hatemongers, quite justifiably, to Hitler

On 1 Jul 2005 , wrote:

Awe.....how cute. Was you jacking off about it, Jim?

Was that posted by an adult?

--
John H.
On the 'PocoLoco' out of Deale, MD

"John H." wrote in message
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On 1 Jul 2005 , wrote:

Awe.....how cute. Was you jacking off about it, Jim?

Was that posted by an adult?



Based on the inability of Kevin to know when to you the word "were" instead
of "was", I would say no.

Who is this Jim he is responding to?

*JimH* wrote:
"John H." wrote in message
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On 1 Jul 2005 , wrote:

Awe.....how cute. Was you jacking off about it, Jim?

Was that posted by an adult?



Based on the inability of Kevin to know when to you the word "were" instead
of "was", I would say no.

Who is this Jim he is responding to?


I give up. How does one "you" a word? :-)

Even if the blogger could type in a ledgible manner, ,the content would
still remind me of Mrs. Lenin's paper ISKRA from the '20's