Hear Our Prayer

    

Remember all those the world
     has forgotten,
  Those without family, or 
  Those on the streets,
  Those who are damaged by
    drugs, alcohol or
    their own minds.

Remember the unemployed,
  The widow, the orphan, and
  The prisoner.

God in your mercy,
    Hear our prayer.

You know, this makes as much sense as anything else we hear from inside the Beltway

From a comment thread at Available Light on G.W.'s recess appointment of Sam Fox as Ambassador to Belgium :

#14 ::: Paula Lieberman ::: (view all by) ::: April 05, 2007, 10:38 AM:
I figured it out, it's

Satanic Possession!

Yes, the body occupying the Presidency of the United States is possessed by Satan! Karl Rove is another case of demonic-possession, and so is Dick Cheney! Satan is running the US Government!

Melech Ha'Mauvetz is ruling the world, and co-opting people who think they are working in accordance with God's Plans--all those supposedly pious and humble (not...) ministers of Jesus who have open access to the White House from Colorado Springs and elsewhere, who preach intolerance and bigotry and demand conversion of those who are either not of their faith, or have lifestyles and values (including tolerance...) that fail to comply with the preachers' professed credo (Ted Haggerty fell but shall rise again born again and again and again... shades of the hypocritical confessions and soul-cleansings in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man). The demonically possessed subvert the populace of the USA, colluded to deliver thousands of souls into death on September 11, 2001 (refusing to accept any briefings about the threat posed by Al-Qaeda until after the start of September 2001, by the time the long-diverted and delayed briefing that finally got scheduled was scheduled for delivery, it was far to late to effective do anything to deter the murderers... complicity and collusion, and thousands of souls sent to death, and millions more sent into financial stress-- //snip//

There was the invasion of Afghanistan--bungled, and the administration of Afghanistan after the invasion bungled even worse. The lot of women in that country has not changed much, the schools that had been closed for years were briefly reopened to girls, and then closed again with atrocities of bombings and arson and massacres effected against those with the temerity to teaching reading and writing to girls, and against the schools the girls were going to, and against the girls who were learning to read and write. US-backed warlords with no different social policies that Taliban--lock the women in purdah and throw away the key, bludgeon all males into wearing full beards and behaving in accordance with rigid codes prohibiting alcohol, graven images, etc., destroy any art or literature considered religiously improper or impious or challenging....

There was the invasion of Iraq--"collateral damage" of more than half a million souls sent into death, more than a tenth of the population fled out of the country as refugees trying to avoid the fate of relatives murdered intentionally or as byproducts of homicidal mania masquerading as sectarianism or of homicidal mania manifesting as zeal for vengeance and revenge exacted for the deaths of friends and relatives....

"Blood and souls for Arioch!" called Elric as he wielded Stormbringer reaping its deadly harvest.. Stormbringer and Elric didn't cause the death and destruction of closing on a MILLION people, did they?

God knows that *I* can't find a rational analysis of why this administration does the things they do. And Voodoo would likely be a step up in the credibility process...

State of the Union -- 01/23/07

09:13

"Madam Speaker"

Well, George, of course you're the first prez to use "Madam Speaker," and she's there not at all by your choice, but partially your doing -- your policies made the electorate swing left or stay home.

9:16

"Spend the people's money wisely."
"make life better for our fellow Americans"

Not for the last 6 years, you haven't

"Not with more government, but with more enterprise."

Big business is not really the answer, george.

"Balance the federal budget"
"Don't raise taxes"

Well, we *had* a budget surplus until you trashed it.

Shall we look at the cost to the federal budget what your tax cuts for the rich have wrought?

"earmarks"

Funny, you didn't find earmarks quite so onerous when your republican buddies were running them

"social security & medicaid & medicare"

They don't need "fixing" as much as protection from you.

"No Child Left Behind"

It's to laugh when one of the biggest unfunded mandates that put huge financial burbens on school systems is touted as being "local choice." And NCLB has *not* helped schools, but guaranteed that those who cannot afford to move will see schools strippd of funds.

"Health Insurance"

This shuffling of tax benefits vs. a new taxable class strikes me as smoke and mirrors. (oh, that's right -- you forgot to mention trhe new tax class you were instyituting, on em[ployee-funding fo healtgh isuance premiums -- how could you forget?)

Where were the calls for innovative health insurance options for the last 6 years?

Again, the chimera of malpractice.

Malpractice costs are less than 5 percnt of health costs.

And malpractice insurance rates are not, by-and-large, based on physician experience, but on the performance of insurance company investments in the stock and bond markets.

Again, the call to beef up the profits for corporations (pharma & insurance) and shaft the small consumer with "reform"

"Immigration"

be honest, call it an amnesty and a new class of segregation -- they'll be good enough to provide work for extremely low wages, but not good enough to have a chance to stay.

9:25
"dependence on oil"

If you were so concerned with danger from terrorists, why have you insisted on creating more and more terrorists?

And lets push for more dollars for your friends in the energy companies with ethenal, eh?

Smoke and mirrors, smoke and mirrors.

9:33
"fair and impartial system of justice"
"terrorist"

George, stop lying -- the democrats have not been some great force blockingthe judicial nominations

The "Patriot Act" is still a bad law, and a bad idea. And if you would stop trying to breed more terrorists you would not have to worry so much about fighting them.

Again with the smoke and mirrors -- none of the cases cited have been proved. But they sound good. What, no yellowcake announcements? I'm sure you can find some -- I'm sure Karl can find it for you.

ANd keep on couching "the wa on terra" in religious terms.

ANd be caeful about invoking binLaden -- remember, he couldn't hide? Oh, wait, he done ran and went hid. Why hasn't he been brought to justice?

*He* was behind the 9-11 hijackings, not Hussein.


(these things would go faster if the audience could refrain from standing everytime GW takes a beath.)

9:45
"democratic Iraq"

By the time the US leaves, we will have lost thousands more of US troops, and tens or hundreds of thousands of civilian Iraq casulties.

ANd also by the time we leave Iraq will be seperate states -- Kurds, Shia and Sunni. And the people will be wishing they had Saddam back

And the "consequences will be grievious if the US leaves" -- sounds like VietNam. It's deja vu all over again.

More troops again.

And again.

9:50
"Civilian Reserve"
Sounds like a good idea, actually, as long as it's not a call to more mercanaries.

"nukes in Iran"

Why the *hell* didn't you go after the mid-east country that *really* wanted to build nukes, instead of Iraq?

"fight AIDS"

How about funding the plans already in place, instead of call for new ones?

and so on, and so on, and so on...