CZARS OF THE CAFES IN EXILE & THE PRAYERS OF THE PEOPLE

STEVE ALLEN: JOKEMEISTER LYRICIST & SAGE
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I just happened to catch an interview of Steve Allen on CTV the other day & I was impressed by what he had to say on various subjects & especially religion. So here are a couple of quotes I came across...
At the website :Agnosticism / Atheism
From Austin Cline,Your Guide to Agnosticism / Atheism.
At http://atheism.about.com

“. ...And no philosophy, sadly, has all the answers. No matter how assured we may be about certain aspects of our belief, there are always painful inconsistencies, exceptions, and contradictions. This is true in religion as it is in politics, and is self-evident to all except fanatics and the naive. As for the fanatics, whose number is legion in our own time, we might be advised to leave them to heaven. They will not, unfortunately, do us the same courtesy. They attack us and each other, and whatever their protestations to peaceful intent, the bloody record of history makes clear that they are easily disposed to restore to the sword. My own belief in God, then, is just that -- a matter of belief, not knowledge. My respect for Jesus Christ arises from the fact that He seems to have been the most virtuous inhabitant of Planet Earth. But even well-educated Christians are frustrated in their thirst for certainty about the beloved figure of Jesus because of the undeniable ambiguity of the scriptural record. Such ambiguity is not apparent to children or fanatics, but every recognized Bible scholar is perfectly aware of it. Some Christians, alas, resort to formal lying to obscure such reality.” [Steve Allen tv host , composer & writer)

“ There are hundreds of millions who believe the Messiah has come. If he did, then it is unfortunately the case that his heroic sacrifice and death have had no effect whatsoever on the very problem his coming might have been expected to address, for history demonstrates, beyond question, that we Christians have been just as dangerous, singly and en masse, as non-Christians.” [Steve Allen, Steve Allen, on the Bible Religion & Morality]


“ The Bible has been interpreted to justify such evil practices as, for example, slavery, the slaughter of prisoners of war, the sadistic murders of women believed to be witches, capital punishment for hundreds of offenses, polygamy, and cruelty to animals. It has been used to encourage belief in the grossest superstition and to discourage the free teaching of scientific truths. We must never forget that both good and evil flow from the Bible. It is therefore not above criticism.” [Steve Allen, Steve Allen, on the Bible Religion & Morality]

also see: Steve Allen On Line
http://www.steveallen.com


So much for Steve Allen & now for a few verses I have written recently...

Exiled from Paradise or The Envy of Angels & the Czars of the Cafes in Exile
& The Prayer of the People


As fallen angels
they see themselves
gathering in smokey cafes
tossed out on their ears
those all too serious poets pedants
& philosophers the splitters of hairs
those Czars of the Cafes
arguing loudly late into the night
proving themselves out of existence
no smoking no politics no religion
ridding ourselves of them at last
& their constant quizzing
of matters beyond their station
as we take comfort knowing
all has been decreed from on high
& spelled out in our Holy Books -

Those self-styled fallen angels
rant & rave ridiculing our new cafes
well-lighted sparkling plastic & neon
free of that deadly smoke
free of all their nonsense
taking cheap shots at our religion
& other sacred things
free at last from all their jibes
& sermons on the rights of man
integrity & dignity & other nonsense
which never paid the bills
in the world of Mammon-

as the fallen angels meet
almost secretly except no one cares
ah the revolution they say just a little interlude
in a world where ignorance & tyranny rule
we should have known not to care
so they say forever lamenting losing their cafes
once their domain these Czars of the Cafes
for now they say it’s all just safe talk
spouting the latest words of wisdom
a thousand soulless ones
reading books to impress
dreaming of profits & riches
flipping condos & houses
adding college degrees
collecting college degrees
collecting profitable friends
discarding the misfits
discarding the misbegotten
collecting lovers
discarding lovers
ridiculing the selfless acts of fools
praising the selfish acts of the truly superiour
using the common man to suit their ends
all pawns in a meaningless world
caught in a world bathed in blood
red in tooth & claw so they say -

& we the people their underlings know our place
as we bow & scrape as they pass
tossing those upstarts & rabble rousers
those addled headed Czars of the cafes
into the darkest dungeons
who dare offend our aristocrats
born to be our betters
who deem to walk among us
sent by God as He sees fit
adding grace to our sullied lives
grateful to live in servitude
to those sent from on high -

Coda :

in a vision seeing them as they are
winged vampires
dressed for success
telling the poor they know what’s best -

so praise the new tyrants
keep them in your prayers
as they are god’s chosen ones
like the aristocrats of centuries passed -

GOOD NIGHT & GOOD LUCK,
GORD.

RAPTURE ,ENDTIMES, The BUSH REGIME & EVANGELICAL FUNDAMENTALISTS

RAPTUREREADYNEWS.COM & Rapture Index
The prophetic speedometer of end-time activity

"... In the United States, several million people have succumbed to an extraordinary delusion. In the 19th century, two immigrant preachers cobbled together a series of unrelated passages from the Bible to create what appears to be a consistent narrative: Jesus will return to Earth when certain preconditions have been met. The first of these was the establishment of a state of Israel. The next involves Israel's occupation of the rest of its "biblical lands" (most of the Middle East), and the rebuilding of the Third Temple on the site now occupied by the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosques. The legions of the antichrist will then be deployed against Israel, and their war will lead to a final showdown in the valley of Armageddon. The Jews will either burn or convert to Christianity, and the Messiah will return to Earth. �"
(FROM ARTICLE: Trying To Force The Rapture By Johnathan Richards http://www.rense.com/
9-12-5 )


BUSH & THE RAPTURE FROM SATIRICAL WEBSITE WWW.ALLHATNOCATTLE.COM


"God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, and then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East." —George W. Bush

Pat Robertson claimed on his TV show "The 700 Club," that Katrina was probably God's way of showing wrath for all the sexual promiscuity going on in New Orleans.



JACK-BOOTED CONDI : Condoleezza Rice stated in a church in Louisiana after Katrina hit, the hurricane was a good thing, "it meant Jesus was coming soon."

"The Lord is going to come on time - if we just wait"
Condoleeza Rice

"But I have no interest in diplomacy for the sake of returning Lebanon and Israel to the status quo ante. I think it would be a mistake. What we're seeing here, in a sense, is the growing -- the birth pangs of a new Middle East."
Condoleeza Rice July 21, 2006

And as a commentator on the Democratic Underground website & forum says:
– “ What a strange way to describe such extreme human suffering and violence. Then again, it turns out our Secretary of State isn't the only one to use "birth pangs" in such an interesting way. "Birth pangs" is a common term among End Timers to describe the turmoil that precedes the tribulation and rapture supposedly foretold by biblical prophecy:”

From article & discussion at Democratic Underground.Com
OMG! Condi Rice's "Birth Pangs" is a freakin' Rapture reference!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard

"God will destroy this earth that is so marred and cursed by Satan's evil."
REVEREND TIM LAHAYE

RON LUCE OF BATTLECRY.COM : SCARE MONGERING PROPAGANDIST FOR THE RADICAL RELIGIOUS RIGHT USING OVERT MILITANT RHETORIC

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Anyway here are a few items as food for thought as it were:

as Bill Moyers of PBS points out in his series of articles on the religious right:

“ I am not suggesting that fundamentalists are running the government, but they constitute a significant force in the coalition that now holds a monopoly of power in Washington under a Republican Party that for a generation has been moved steadily to the right by its more extreme variants even as it has become more and more beholden to the corporations that finance it. One is foolish to think that their bizarre ideas do not matter. I have no idea what President Bush thinks of the fundamentalists' fantastical theology, but he would not be president without them. He suffuses his language with images and metaphors they appreciate, and they were bound to say amen when Bob Woodward reported that the President "was casting his vision, and that of the country, in the grand vision of God's master plan."’

Welcome to Doomsday. Never!
Volume 52, Number 5 ? March 24, 2005
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17852
Welcome to Doomsday By Bill Moyers

And From: Today's Christian Sept. 2002
www.christianitytoday.com
Condoleezza Rice's Secret Weapon
How our National Security Adviser finds the strength to defend the free world.
by B. Denise Hawkins

At 47, she is the stern but cautious driver behind America's foreign policy, the first female and the second African American (after Colin Powell) to serve as national security adviser to the president, and a committed Christian who unabashedly talks about her dependence on God.

Being a "deeply religious person" has helped Rice rise to the challenge of serving a nation that has been shaken to its foundations by terrorism and international conflict. And that has meant turning frequently to prayer—and not the kind laced with a "laundry lists of requests." When she needs "guidance and strength of conviction," says Rice, she often reads Romans 5, "which essentially says, Glory also in tribulation, because tribulation breeds perseverance and perseverance patience, and with patience comes hope. And hope is never disappointed, because of faith in the glory of God."

"When I'm concerned about something, I figure out a plan of action, and then I give it to God," she told Essence magazine earlier this year. "I just ask to be carried through it. God's never failed me yet."

And there is further evidence that the Bush Regime seeks out advice from Fundamentalist Evangelical Christians on various domestic issues & international affairs:
As reported in an article in The Village Voice in May of 2004 by Rick Perlstein
“The Jesus Landing Pad ”
that the "Bush White House checked with rapture Christians before latest Israel move "
by Rick Perlstein
May 18th, 2004
http://www.villagevoice.com/

...“that there is hard evidence of "White House staffers taking two-hour meetings with Christian fundamentalists, where they passed off bogus social science on gay marriage as if it were holy writ and issued fiery warnings that "the Presidents [sic] Administration and current Government is engaged in cultural, economical, and social struggle on every level" ...the National Security Council's top Middle East aide consults with apocalyptic Christians eager to ensure American policy on Israel conforms with their sectarian doomsday scenarios.”

Canadian theologian & journalist Tom Harpur in an article " Rapture Awaits in the Florida Panhandle " describes a trip he took to Florida in 2005 where he attended a conference of Evangelical Fundamentalists :

As Tom Harpur comments :

“ At first impression, the religious scene in this Bible Belt terrain is upbeat, vigorous, prospering in numbers, properties, and outspoken leadership. There is an agenda both spiritual and political as well as the people and money to make it happen. But, when you pay close attention to the message being driven home by every possible technical medium and skill, you meet some deeply disturbing, even frightening realities.

The theme of the day was Left Behind: A Conference on Biblical Prophecy about End Times, and it featured three of the leading voices in the U.S religious right today: Tim LaHaye, Gary Frazier, and Ed Hindson.

And as he continues-

“ I have never heard so much venom and dangerous ignorance spouted before an utterly unquestioning, otherwise normal-looking crowd in my life.... There were stunning statements about humans having been only 6,000 years on Earth and other denials of contemporary geology and biology. And we learned that the Rapture, which could happen any second now, but certainly within the next 40 years, will instantly sweep all the "saved" Americans (perhaps one-half the population) to heaven....

But these fantasies were harmless compared with the hatred against Islam that followed. Here are some direct quotes: "Islam is an intolerant religion-and it's clear whose side we should be on in the Middle East." Applause greeted these words: "Allah and Jehovah are not the same God.... Islam is a Satanic religion.... They're going to attack Israel for certain...." Gary Frazier shouted at the top of his lungs: "Wake Up! Wake Up!" And roughly eight hundred heads (at $25.00 per) nodded approval as he added that the left-wing, anti-Israel media-"for example, CNN"-will never tell the world the truth about Islam. According to these three, and the millions of Americans they lead, Muslims intend ultimately "to impose their religion on us all."


( Published on Saturday, February 12, 2005 by the Toronto Star
Rapture Awaits in the Florida Panhandle
by Tom Harpur & can be found at website
Common Dreams NewsCenter
http://www.commondreams.org)

The sort of fervor & rhetoric & deeply held belief that we are living in the End Times as Prophesied according to them in The Book Of Revelations & those gleaned from other parts of the Bible helps explain how the Bush Regime can resort to the use & invention of a term like “ Islamo-Fascism” & how they could justify invading Iraq & promote Israel’s War on Lebanon & its on-going human rights abuses of Palestinians in the occupied territories & throughout Israel.


check out article :
US Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush's Middle East policy
by George Monbiot, Tuesday April 20, 2004
The Guardian

also check out Tom Harpur's official website:
http://www.tomharpur.com/

see defcon website:
http://www.defconamerica.org


GOOD NIGHT & GOOD LUCK,
GORD.

PREPARING AMERICAN & CANADIAN YOUTH FOR HOLY WAR

BATTLECRYPHILLY 5 - CHILLING IMAGE OR JUST MORE " SOUND & FURY SIGNIFYING NOTHING "


25,000 TEENAGERS ATTENDING BATTLE CRY ROCK CONCERT OF PYROTECHNICS , BIBLE THUMPING BLOOD CURDLING SERMONS & HUMMERS, NAVY SEALS & MILITARY STYLE RHETORIC OR A CALL TO ARMS FOR CHRISTIANS TO RISE UP AGAINST THEIR OPPRESSORS ???


LOGO FOR CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALIST ORGANIZATION WHICH AIMS TO RESCUE THE YOUTH OF AMERICA & MAKE THEM INTO WARRIORS FOR CHRIST WILLING TO DEDICATE THEIR LIVES TO GOD & IF NECESSARY DIE FOR THE WORD OF GOD




NEXT STAGE IN THE CHRISTIAN EVANGELICAL FUNDAMENTALISTS WAR AGAINST THEIR ARCH-ENEMY " SECULAR HUMANISM " WHICH THEY SEE AS ANTI-GOD , ANTI-CHRISTIAN & ANTI-AMERICAN & ANTI-TRADITIONAL FAMILY etc.

BATTLE CRY : A CHRISTIAN EVANGELICAL FUNDAMENTALIST' YOUTH OUTREACH PROGRAM & PROPAGANDA MACHINE PREPARING THE YOUTH OF AMERICA & CANADA FOR THE COMING POLITICAL BATTLE AGAINST LIBERALISM SECULARISM FEMINISM & PLURALISM & OLD FASHIONED HUMANISM & PEACENIKS & WHIMPY CHRISTIANS WHO MISREPRESENT THE MESSAGE OF THE BIBLE BY OVER EMPHASIZING TOLERANCE , COMPASSION, UNDERSTANDING, FORGIVENESS & LAST OF ALL LOVE : THE GREAT FAILINGS OF OUR AGE

FOR SOMETHING REALLY SCARRY CHECKOUT THEIR WEBSITE:
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BattlecryForAGeneration
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GOOD NIGHT & GOOD LUCK ,
GORD.

CONDOLEEZA RICE GUILTY OF CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY HIDES BEHIND LEGALESE & HER CLAIMS THAT GOD MADE HER DO IT

TORTURER & KIDNAPPER CONDOLEEZA RICE DEMANDS CANADIAN COMPLIANCE OR ELSE?

VICTIMS OF HURRICANE KATRINA & INEPT OR UNCARING BUSH REGIME
MEANWHILE CONDOLEEZA RICE WENT SHOPPING FOR SHOES !!!
( AN AMERICAN VERSION OF IMELDA MARCOS )

And here is an article which helps to explain Condoleeza Rice's cavalier & Machiavellian attitude since as she says that people should just be patient & eventually everything will be ok once Jesus returns to reward the faithful & punish the unbelievers.

Trying To Force The Rapture
By Johnathan Richards
http://www.rense.com/
9-12-5

Recently the US Secretary of State, Condi Rice stated -

"The Lord is going to come on time - if we just wait"

... the US Secretary of State has publically acknowledged the US governments allegiance to a higher power, which is supposed to be the accepted excuse for government ineptitude and incompetence.

The neocon junta in the White House wholeheartedly subscribes to the literal viewpoint that Jesus is indeed coming - and very soon, which is the tendered reason (and widely supported) for their attrocious behavior and gross mediocrity. In other words, worry not about governmental malfeasence, lying, torture, murder, environmental destruction, the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, or even government sponsored terrorism, the Lord of Lords and King of Kings is soon to come. Jesus will fix everything. The great tragedy of this belief system is that it is nothing more then a modern myth, steeped in fiery indigination and gross interpretation and a deliberate and malicious ignorance of facts and history.

Subscribing to this belief is the architects of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) which includes Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearle, and Governor Jeb Bush, among others. And of course, the Commander in Chief, George Bush and the US Secretary of State, Condoleeza Rice.



FROM ORIGINALDO.COM - CONDOLEEZA RICE & HER WAR-MONGERING FANTASIES AS SHE PREPARES FOR THE RAPTURE & THE SECOND COMING

"LEST WE FORGET " ABU GHRAIB & THE WONDERFUL NEW WORLD ORDER OF CONDOLEEZA RICE
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ABU GHRAIB : THIS IS NOT TORTURE SAYS CONDOLEEZA RICE OR IT COULD BE BUT HE"S JUST AN ARAB & A MUSLIM NOT AN AMERICAN OR A CHRISTIAN - ANYWAY OUR GOD IS BETTER !!!

IS THE INVASION OF LEBANON A SIGN OF THE SECOND COMING : THE MORE CHAOS THE SOONER JESUS WILL RETURN ... IS THIS WHAT CONDOLEEZA RICE & PRESIDENT BUSH ARE WORKING HARD TO BRING ABOUT--
THEIR GOD IS NOT A GOD OF PEACE AS FOUND IN JESUS' SERMON ON THE MOUNT BUT RATHER IS A GOD OF REVENGE & WRATH & HATE WHO LOVES "VICTORY " ABOVE ALL ELSE !!!

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Anyway Condoleeza Rice is in Canada to shore up support for America's planned invasion of Iran based upon more dubious Intelligence or ,at least Intel as good as that used prior to invasion of Iraq . Canada is now complicit in America's Crimes Against Humanity i.e. unprovoked invasion , mass murder of over 100, 000 Iraqis, imprisoning tens of thousands around the globe , torture of thousands & atrocities committed by American soldiers as they let off a little steam. I have not heard a word from Prime Minister Harper chastising The Bush Regime for these war crimes . But then again Harper is a Neocon who just wants to be on what he considers to be the winning side.

God save us from the self-righteous militant Fundamentalist Evangelical Christians who think they are acting according to the will of God . Is this not the same claim that the Islamic terrorists use to kill innocent civilians ???

So here are a couple of news items regarding Condoleeza Rice for your further entertainment if you will:

Rice says Canada and U.S. are 'best of friends'
Updated Mon. Sep. 11 2006
CTV.ca News Staff

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice thanked Canadians for providing a port in the storm for thousands of stranded Americans and other passengers on Sept. 11, 2001.

"It's a day, of course, to know and remember that there is indeed evil in the world, and we saw its awful face on that horrible day," Rice said at a brief ceremony at Halifax International Airport.

"But it's also a day to recognize that very often when the worst in human behaviour and human nature exhibits itself, so does the best in human nature and human behaviour -- and that is what we saw here."

MS. Rice to some of us does not sound very sincere, in fact, it sounds a lot like BS big-time as she has defended the on-going lies & propaganda & the abuse of political power to further the Neo-Conservative & Radical Christian Rights agendas. She will & has defended the administration no matter how outrageous its actions has been. She sees nothing wrong with Kidnapping aka " Renditions " taking prisoners to secret locations around the globe or sending them to countries where Condi & her handlers know these prisoners will be tortured or just murdered & she & the Bush regime have implemented what is known as the El Salvador stategy to countries like Iraq where American backed death squads roam the streets & do as they please .

No matter what American soldiers do in Iraq or elsewhere no matter what crimes they commit from treating all Iraqi citizens as terrorists to disappearing people they do not like to raping some fourteen year old girl & murdering her family is just a few American GIs stressed out & letting off a bit of steam like a bunch of college frat boys. What is the Bush regimes response to such actions such Crimes against humanity ; their view is that the media shouldn't be allowed to report such things as it may hurt the moral of the American war -machine. And the punishment for such crimes is either aquital or a few months in jail & a few thousand dollars in fines ; so who is it that does not respect human life or sees life as cheap ?

Besides anyone imprisoned or shot at by American forces must be guilty of something even two or three olds might be evil terrorists & are therefore enemies or potential enemies of America , Christianity & the West. Talk about your conspiraciy theories the Bush Regime can out-do any crack-pot around as they see terrorists & supporters of terrorists everywhere.

In the end Condoleeza Rice & other members of the Bush administration have as much blood on their hands as the torturers who work for them or the soldiers in Iraq who kill anything that moves who go from house to house killing innocent people to avenge the death of one of their own . And those at the top are guilty of War Crimes who order the obliteration of towns & cities like Fallujah using out-lawed incinderary chemical bombs " cluster bombs "on a civilian population , refusing to allow the Red Cross to give aid to civilians where needed & to deliberately attack hospitals & medical personnel & ambulances ; to prevent the timely delivery of food & water & other necessities to those in need and the list goes on & on...


So anyway Good Night & Good Luck,
GORD.

TO CHANCELLOR BUSH FROM KEIH OLBERMAN " HAVE YOU NO SENSE OF DECENCY, SIR "

PHOTO FROM " V FOR VENDETTA "










Keith Olberman/ Countdown , MSNBC
Olbermann’s Latest Special Comment Targets Bush:
"Have you no sense of decency, sir?"
September 5, 2006











"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear-kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor-with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it."--General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964), Supreme Allied Commander, 1957

• "We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we ... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular." --Edward R. Murrow (1908-65), American news anchor, broadcast journalist

• "America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand." --Harry S. Truman (1884-1972), 33rd US President


Anyway here it is the anniversary of 9/11 : The Great American Tragedy which the Bush Regime has used to push forward its own agenda of The New World Order & which the Christian Religious Right has co-opted claiming to be a sign of The Last Days as prophesized in The Book Of Revelations of The Bible as they interpret it.

President Bush made a speech last week again attacking any who dare to criticize the policies of his Regime & calls such critics unAmerican & Pro-Terrorists .

The remarks by Keith Olberman are even more telling after the release of the latest report of The Senate Panel on Iraq Intelligence prior to Iraq war on Friday Septemper 8 , which concludes that there was no connection between Al Qaeda & Saddam Hussein .
To some this is a revelation yet those in the know knew this within days after 9/11.

Here is the text of the comments made by Olberman in response to President Bush's speech.

It is to our deep national shame—and ultimately it will be to the President’s deep personal regret—that he has followed his Secretary of Defense down the path of trying to tie those loyal Americans who disagree with his policies—or even question their effectiveness or execution—to the Nazis of the past, and the al Qaeda of the present.

Today, in the same subtle terms in which Mr. Bush and his colleagues muddied the clear line separating Iraq and 9/11 — without ever actually saying so—the President quoted a purported Osama Bin Laden letter that spoke of launching, "a media campaign to create a wedge between the American people and their government."

Make no mistake here—the intent of that is to get us to confuse the psychotic scheming of an international terrorist, with that familiar bogeyman of the right, the "media."

The President and the Vice President and others have often attacked freedom of speech, and freedom of dissent, and freedom of the press.
Now, Mr. Bush has signaled that his unparalleled and unprincipled attack on reporting has a new and venomous side angle:
The attempt to link, by the simple expediency of one word—"media"—the honest, patriotic, and indeed vital questions and questioning from American reporters, with the evil of Al-Qaeda propaganda.

That linkage is more than just indefensible. It is un-American.

Mr. Bush and his colleagues have led us before to such waters.

We will not drink again.

And the President’s re-writing and sanitizing of history, so it fits the expediencies of domestic politics, is just as false, and just as scurrilous.
"In the 1920’s a failed Austrian painter published a book in which he explained his intention to build an Aryan super-state in Germany and take revenge on Europe and eradicate the Jews," President Bush said today, "the world ignored Hitler’s words, and paid a terrible price."
Whatever the true nature of al Qaeda and other international terrorist threats, to ceaselessly compare them to the Nazi State of Germany serves only to embolden them.

More over, Mr. Bush, you are accomplishing in part what Osama Bin Laden and others seek—a fearful American populace, easily manipulated, and willing to throw away any measure of restraint, any loyalty to our own ideals and freedoms, for the comforting illusion of safety.
It thus becomes necessary to remind the President that his administration’s recent Nazi "kick" is an awful and cynical thing.
And it becomes necessary to reach back into our history, for yet another quote, from yet another time and to ask it of Mr. Bush:

"Have you no sense of decency, sir?"
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Unfortunately many Americans about 43% against all evidence to the contrary still believe Saddam Hussein was behind the terrorists attack on 9/11. It appears the propaganda war of the Bush Regime & their friends in the media like Glenn Beck , Ann Coulter & Rush Limbaugh have blinded people to the truth.

So here for example is a bit from the New York Times about the Senate Intelligence Report:

Senate Panel Releases Report on Iraq Intelligence
The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com

By MARK MAZZETTI
Published: September 8, 2006

WASHINGTON, Sept. 8 — The Central Intelligence Agency last fall repudiated the idea that there were pre-war ties between Saddam Hussein’s government and the Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, according to a report issued on Friday by the Senate intelligence committee.

The disclosure undercuts continuing claims by the Bush administration that such ties existed, and that they provided evidence of links between Iraq and Al Qaeda. The Republican-controlled committee also sharply criticized the administration for its reliance on the Iraqi National Congress during the run-up to the war in Iraq.

The findings, in two new reports, are part of an ongoing inquiry by the Senate committee into pre-war intelligence about Iraq. The conclusions went beyond the committee’s earlier findings, issued in the summer of 2004, by including criticism not just of American intelligence agencies but also the administration.

The reports did not address the politically divisive question of whether Bush administration had exaggerated or misused intelligence in its effort to win support for the invasion of Iraq. But they did serve to undercut the administration’s assertions, made before the war and since, that ties between Mr. Zarqawi and Mr. Hussein’s government provided evidence of a close relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda.

As recently as two weeks ago, President Bush said at a news conference that Mr. Hussein “had relations with Zarqawi.’’ But a C.I.A. report completed in October 2005 t concluded instead that Sadddam Hussein’s regime “did not have a relationship, harbor, or even turn a blind eye toward Mr. Zarqawi and his associates,” according to the new Senate findings.

The C.I.A. report also directly contradicted claims made in February 2003 by Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who mentioned Mr. Zarqawi by name no fewer than 20 times during a speech to the United Nations Security Council that made the administration’s case to go to war. In that speech, Mr. Powell said that Iraq “today harbors a deadly terrorist network’’ headed by Mr. Zarqawi, and dismissed as “not credible’’ assertions by the Iraqi government that it had no knowledge of Mr. Zarqawi’s whereabouts.

In fact, the Senate investigation concluded that Mr. Hussein regarded Al Qaeda as a threat rather as a potential ally, and that the Iraqi intelligence service “actively attempted to locate and capture al-Zarqawi without success.’’


And so Good Night & Good Luck,
GORD.

RENEWING THE CRUSADES : PREPARING FOR THE APOCALYPSE

CHRISTMAS IN IRAQ 2005
AMERICAN MILITARY OFFICERS
Major Daniel Jones
Chaplain Larry DaBeck




THE OFFICIAL CHRISTIAN FLAG























THE NEW PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE FOR THE COMING " THEOCRACY "


EAGLE SCOUTS PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE
TO CHRISTIAN FLAG &
A CHRISTIANIZED AMERICA








New York Times
Memphis Journal
Lady Liberty Trades In Some Trappings
By SHAILA DEWAN
Published: July 5, 2006
MEMPHIS, July 4 — On Independence Day, Lady Liberty was born again.
At a megachurch in Memphis, the Statue of Liberation Through Christ was consecrated Tuesday. The statue, says the church's pastor, is a way of "letting people know that God is the foundation of our nation."

As the congregation of the World Overcomers Outreach Ministries Church looked on and its pastor, Apostle Alton R. Williams, presided, a brown shroud much like a burqa was pulled away to reveal a giant statue of the Lady, but with the Ten Commandments under one arm and "Jehovah" inscribed on her crown.
The Statue of Liberation Through Christ, as she is called, stands 72 feet tall from the base of her pedestal to the tip of her cross. She was the idea of Mr. Williams, a very successful pastor whose church, World Overcomers, qualifies as mega: it has a school, a bowling alley, a roller rink, a bookstore and, he said, 12,000 members.
The pastor is not shy. His church has bought full-page advertisements in The Commercial Appeal, the Memphis daily, condemning homosexuality.

( THESE ARE CHILLING IMAGES
AS THE CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS
BEGINS IN EARNEST & AMERICA
LEADS THE WEST INTO ANOTHER
SERIES OF CRUSADES TO HASTEN
THE APOCALYPSE???
GOOD NIGHT & GOOD LUCK,
GORD. )