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As they bound his hands and feet, before he shuffled off to his neck breaking ceremony (which sadly lasted less than 1/10th of a second), Hussein was asked if he was afraid.
“I am not afraid,” he according to news reports replied. “I have chosen this path.”
Well, at least he got that right.
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John Edwards flung his fedora into the coming president maelstrom. Evidentially his hair is too perfect to actually risk wearing the hat.
Regardless of Edwards’ sartorial fears, we all should fear his priorities which have brought renewed hope to the formaldehyde soaked heart of Lenin, and have even given Castro a new lease on life.
We can ignore his baseless populist message about “changing America”, a country that people seem basically happy with and to which millions attempt to emigrate each year. His top priorities are unabashed attempts to move the socialist football forward while the country by-and-large is running for the opposite goal. From his web site wee see agenda items such as:
“Economic equality”: Redistribution of wealth in kinder, gentler marketing spin.
“Universal health care”: Bringing the compassion of the IRS, the accuracy of the post office, and the efficiency of Amtrak to speed your dying process.
“Rebuilding America’s middle class”: Last time I checked the American middle class was doing quite fine with new SUV’s in three car garages, near-zero unemployment, fresh real estate wealth, and fattening 401Ks. Hard to rebuild a structure that is standing on it’s own unless you first tear it down (which he must in order to redistribute their wealth to others).
“Eliminate poverty”: Sorry Johnny, LBJ started that project in 1964, and given that poor people in America have roofs over their heads, three squares a day, a car in the driveway, and a color TV … seems it may well have been eliminated.
The short story here is that Edwards will attempt to resurrect the age old class warfare bias to correct inequities and problems that simply do not exist. And more than a few gullible voters will buy into his collectivist claptrap with nary a question. But pitting the haves and the have-mores against one another is a tactic used by politicians since voting was first invented, so Edwards simply takes the well worn path of least resistance, and displays a mind not worthy of the planet’s top job.
And Johny will be eaten alive by cagier critters like Hillary, Barack, or anyone flipping burgers at McDonald’s, who have aggregate IQ’s twice Edwards’. It has been a while since the American Political Circus Maximus has conducted a human sacrifice, so we should be grateful that Edwards has voluntarily placed his throat on the block.
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Gerald Ford simply did not want to live in a word without James Brown. Can’t blame him.
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A catechism is a formalized, documented, structured review of Christian teachings. This is the ultimate extension of the principle that even the simplest concept can be expounded upon to create perfect misunderstanding.
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Theocracy is and should be a frightening term. History and current events clearly demonstrate that the autocratic and unilateral application of religious dogma is a most efficient method of bloodletting. It can be argued that the Inquisition would have been as effective as Al Qaeda if they had modern machinery and were not so found of slow torture.
Government gets an equally strong rap given how systematically some have isolated and destroyed people in genocidal campaigns. Government is a more efficient killing machine than Al Qaeda due to the nearly unlimited financial resources available (Al Qaeda only has ideology and hatred for raw materials).
Indeed, the last time mankind whelped the unholy union of church and state, Crusades and Inquisitions were the units of production. It is for this and more philosophic reasons that modern republics and democracies erect iron barriers between faith and governance. The dangers of such a pairing are real, predictable, and if left unchecked can only be resolved through warfare.
This logical separation of church and state does not exist in Iran, and is dangerously close to reality in other heavily Islamic countries. As the Church before, this combined power now exists for the primary mission of subjugating the heathen/infidel masses to an alleged supreme authority (though how the henchmen atop Iran were appointed to this position of delegated dominion is unclear).
If Al Qaeda is more effective than the Inquisition thanks to the tools of modern mayhem, we must shudder at the inevitable outcome of a true theocracy — Iran — with the ultimate in lethal weaponry — the nuclear bomb. Unrestrained by conventional wisdom or humanity, Iran with the bomb will at some future date choose to use it. Their target is irrelevant, and could as easily be Jersey as Jerusalem.
The equally inevitable result is a radioactive Iran. Retaliation would be swift, complete, and numbing in scope.
There is but one path to prevention, which entails Islam cleansing itself of theocratic members and mindset — the revelation that Islam does not speak for Allah any more than Jerry Falwell speaks for Jesus. For Islam, the cancer of egotistical creed has yet to metastasized, but the body-Islam is clearly infected and ready for surgery.
Like communism and fascism before it, theocratic Islam is the failed notion that one people with one set of ideals has the authority to dominate others. And like communism and fascism, those who are more enlightened and crave freedom will reluctantly hoist their swords and march unblinkingly into battle.
