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Thursday edition - December 6, 2007

Instead of impeaching Bush, how about a quick lobotomy?

When W.’s history is written, he will be seen as the rebellious teenager crashing the family station wagon into his father’s three most cherished spots — diplomacy, intelligence and the Gulf. - Maureen Dowd, NYT

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The-World-Is-A-Safer-Place-Without-Saddam News

• US Military Deaths in Iraq at 3886 The Associated Press

• www.iraqbodycount.org

• Bomb kills 18 in quiet Baghdad district AP

• 15-Month Tours of Iraq Likely for Awhile The Associated Press

• Iraqis turn to US for municipal services AP

• No shift of Marines to Afghan war AP

• US: Iran still poses missile threat AP

Osama?

Rumors are flying that filmmaker Morgan Spurlock of "Super Size Me" fame may have done what the United States government has failed to do for the last six years — find Osama bin Laden.

Disturbing News

• Deadly rampage at the mall Los Angeles Times 

• Mexican city exhumes thousands of bodies AP

Now They Believe in Separation of Church and State!

One of six Christian ministries under investigation by a Senate committee is rebuffing inquiries into its spending, challenging the panel's watchdog role over religious groups, The Associated Press has learned.

Evel Knievel's funeral in Montana will begin Sunday night with a spectacular fireworks show. He was the greatest daredevil ever. The difference between Evel Knievel and President Bush is Evel Knievel gave a little thought about where he was going to land. - Argus Hamilton
 

Republican Shenanigans

• Lobbying pays off for top Bush aide AP

• POLL: No Huckaboom in NH as Romney Holds Tough ABC News 

• Recalling Iranian Hostage Crisis, Giuliani Invokes Reagan as a Model New York Times

Uh Oh, Bush Wants to Fix the Mortgage Crisis

On a day when the Mortgage Bankers Association reported that home foreclosures hit an all time high, President Bush is scheduled to announce a plan to freeze interest rates for five years for thousands of strapped homeowners whose mortgages were scheduled to rise in the coming months.

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Rock-The-Voter News

• Richardson avoids candidate infighting Nashua Telegraph, NH 

• Edwards Decides To Play Good Cop CBS News

• Obama camp: Hillary's pillories won't fly in Iowa Chicago Sun-Times

• Wes Clark hits airwaves for Hillary MSNBC 

• Man in Clinton office hostage case wanted to be shot Boston Herald

Email;

Subject: Re: Scarborough wonders if Catholics are a cult

Lisa, et al!

I mean no disrespect, and at the risk of starting a flame-war about Christianity and other religions...

ALL religions are cults:
cult (noun) - a particular system of religious worship, esp. with reference to its rites and ceremonies.

The Catholic church is *big* into rites and ceremonies. They've got something for every occasion. Even exorcism.

The above definition is the primary definition listed at:
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cult

An alternate definition from the same source: a religion or sect considered to be false, unorthodox, or extremist, with members often living outside of conventional society under the direction of a charismatic leader. In other words, anyone who believes something different from what you believe. I am religious; YOU are a cultist.

Religious beliefs exist (among other reasons) to help explain things that people are unable, or unwilling to try, to understand. Religions exist to control those people through fear. Sort of like Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld, Rice and Wolfowitz.

Franklin Roosevelt once told us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. We forgot that little ditty.

re: "The Catholics are the only Christian religion not to change or edit the Bible."
Not true. The Bible is in two pieces, the old and new testaments. The Christians/Catholics edited the old Jewish Bible by adding the new testament. And Constantine (and others) made the editing decisions regarding what the Christians/Catholics would see as "the word of God". Emperors know best, right? Muslims wrote their own book, as did the Mormons. Can't have a religion without a book to beat people with. The less sense it makes, the more powerfully it works as a cudgel.

Myself? I'm a Pastafarian: http://www.venganza.org/  ;-)

I do not contend that Joe Scarborough is not an idiot. On that point, I agree with the previous writer.

Now all y'all get out there and keep killing each other over who has the best invisible friend in the sky.

Again, I apologize if I've offended anyone. But religious opinions are 100% subjective; no objectivity involved. They are therefore best kept to one's self.

Keep up the good work, Lisa!

--Skip

PS - People! Send this woman some MONEY! If she goes off the air, all we'll have is idiots like Scarborough, Hannity, O'Reilly and Coulter. And that's what we'll deserve.

Dear Skip,

Pastafarian, lol.

Thanks for your input, Skip! You didn't offend me, btw.

It seems to me, if God wanted us to understand the Bible, New Or Old Testament, he would have made it understandable and not the gobbledygook it has become, delivered by televangelists with a bouffant comb over to hide their lobotomies.

I think the emailer Al, in yesterday's edition, was speaking of the New Testament and the cult/offshoot "editing" the words of the NT to validate themselves. And I think he was saying that the Vatican preserved the physical illustrated NT manuscripts, for either posterity or prosperity's sake. ;-)

Strange aside: Two young Muslim Turks I met years ago told me many Muslims believe there is a glowing orb of power in the basement of St. Peter's. Oy vey!

I love this quote:

Religion was created in the days of yore by the rich people to keep the poor people from murdering them in their sleep.- Anon.


Thanks for your PS! Big hug.

__________________________

Subject: Speaking in tongues

Lisa, I'm Southern Baptist, never handled snakes, never spoke in tongues, never drank strychnine. Also I never voted for anyone named Bush .....Thanks, keep up the good work.. Doug

I'm Catholic and I have never had an exorcism.

Biz-Tech News

• Oil Falls a Third Day on Concern US Demand Growth Will Slow Bloomberg

• China plans subsidies for oil companies AP

• Third term for Putin would not faze most Russians Reuters

• Housing to slump thru 2009, prices to fall 30 pct: Moodys.com Reuters

• High risk of runway collision plagues US AP

• Striking writers sound upbeat note on latest talks Reuters

• CBS to air annual Victoria's Secret fashion show Tuesday night CNN International

• House ups penalties on Internet porn AP

• Experts Warn of Online Coupon Scams AP

“Prince Charles has ordered a number -- a large number of staff to start commuting to the castle by bicycle to help fight global warming. He says he himself will make a number of changes. He said -- as an example, is what he said, he said, he will now use the royal helicopter less, and the royal train more. Which I think is a great example for all of us. If we all used our royal train more and our royal helicopter less…” - Jay Leno

Bush-Prison-Torture News

• Limits proposed on CIA interrogators AP

• 1st Witnesses to Testify at Guantanamo The Associated Press

• Guantanamo inmate cut throat with fingernail - official Reuters India

The National Intelligence Estimate on Iran was finally released Monday showing that Tehran has no nuclear weapons program. It turns out Dick Cheney sat on this report for a year. So he didn't have a heart procedure last week, it was a colonoscopy. - Argus Hamilton

Go-F***-Yourself News

• Cheney on Iran intel: 'Was Important to put it out' Baltimore Sun

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