Bush's Apocalyptic prophecies and the Middle East

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Tuesday May 26, 2009 · 11:46 AM PDT

2009/05/26 · 11:46

I know this is likely to be lost in the storm of righteous anger over the Prop8 verdict, but I just came across this info, and I found it to be interesting and pretty damned scary.

In the context of the recently-revealed Biblical cover pages to Bush's daily briefings (as revealed at GQ), a more disturbing factoid has come to light, published in French in 2007.

From alternet:

In 2003 while lobbying leaders to put together the Coalition of the Willing, President Bush spoke to France's President Jacques Chirac. Bush wove a story about how the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East and how they must be defeated.
...
Bush believed the time had now come for that battle, telling Chirac:
"This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age begins".

Details and translations below the fold.

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Thursday April 23, 2009 · 7:41 AM PDT

2009/04/23 · 07:41

... by actor Charles Grodin.

Apparently, Grodin gave Hannity a pretty good tongue-lashing (details below the fold). But the meat of it is, from Huffington Post :

GRODIN: You're for torture.
HANNITY: I am for enhanced interrogation.
GRODIN: You don't believe it's torture. Have you ever been waterboarded?
HANNITY: No, but Ollie North has.
GRODIN: Would you consent to be waterboarded? We can waterboard you?
HANNITY: Sure.
GRODIN: Are you busy on Sunday?
HANNITY: I'll do it for charity. I'll let you do it. I'll do it for the troops' families.

There's a video at Huffingon Post, but I'm not all fancy-embeddy-like.

Sean Hannity, a man clearly in love with himself (as evidenced by his hannity.com website), just volunteered to be waterboarded. For charity.

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Should Hannity go through with it?

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Should Hannity go through with it?

Yes; there's some social benefit in seeing that this really is torture

73 votes

Yes; it's Hannity

50 votes

No; it's still torture, and it risks desensitization

19 votes

No; it'd just give him more attention

22 votes

Not sure / other

4 votes

Bring me your scariest

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Thursday April 16, 2009 · 3:46 PM PDT

2009/04/16 · 15:46

Yesterday, I had a conversation about politics that had a glimmer of hope of being productive. It was with somebody who's not my supervisor, but who's in a position of some power, but we were still able to share our ideas freely. He seemed like a good, well-reasoned guy - which is why I was so surprised to hear that he was pissed he was missing a tea party because of work, and hear him rattle off FoxRNCNews talking points when I asked him why.

So we got to talking, and I told him just how much Fox and their ilk scare me. He seemed intrigued but unconvinced. He wanted proof.

So he asked me to bring him clips of the most scary shit that the right's bloviators have spewed. I'm asking for your help in digging it up.

What's the funniest part of this?

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What's the funniest part of this?

A bear tried to mate with an archery target

11 votes

Sarah Palin officiated a wedding at a Wal-Mart

29 votes

The length which wingnuts will stretch to try to get any smear to stick

8 votes

The internet? In 2001? Hah! That was before YouTube AND Kos!

4 votes

TM response to Hillary's speech - now w/Poll & Fournier

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Tuesday August 26, 2008 · 8:46 PM PDT

2008/08/26 · 20:46

I watched Hillary Clinton's speech on c-span and was impressed as heck. She rallied her troops and told them in no uncertain terms that they'd be wrong to vote for anyone but Barack Obama. And she did it in inspirational fashion, as far as I can see.

Based on a conversation in another thread, I thought I'd gather some snippets of the Traditional Media analysis of HRC's speech.

It's all below the fold...

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What do you think of the Traditional Media response to HRC's speech?

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What do you think of the Traditional Media response to HRC's speech?

As good as I've come to expect

11 votes

As bad as I've come to expect

17 votes

A pleasant surprise - they've started to redeem themselves

14 votes

A disappointing surprise - what were they thinking?

0 votes

They liked the speech more than I did

9 votes

It was OK

15 votes

Speech? What speech?

0 votes

Traditional Media? What Traditional Media?

14 votes

1,000 miles (with poll)

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Tuesday August 05, 2008 · 12:03 AM PDT

2008/08/05 · 00:03

I'm driving 1,000 miles torrow, from Orlando to Columbus. You can be damn sure I'm properly inflating my tires before I do it.

Sure, Congress, open all the land you want to the oil companies, so it can lay fallow with the rest of their hoard. I'll be doing what I can to conserve, so by the time they're producing that oil, we don't need it so damn much.

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My tires will be properly inflated sometime this week

40 votes Vote Now!

My tires will be properly inflated sometime this week

Yes

35 votes

0 votes

Maybe

1 vote

I scoff at the idea of individual responsibility and replace my conscience with an irrational faith in the fairness of the world and the efficacy of an utterly unfettered market

4 votes

Red State Diaries - RedState.org's Crashing the Gates review

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Friday March 03, 2006 · 4:27 PM PST

2006/03/03 · 16:27

http://www.redstate.com/...
evidently from
http://www.spot-on.com/...

by Josh Trevino.

Yes, it's pretty much what you'd expect - selected quotes and thoughts below the fold. Read More

National Day of Reflection

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Wednesday March 01, 2006 · 1:42 PM PST

2006/03/01 · 13:42

There are a lot of otherwise rational Republicans out there making bad decisions. No matter what happens, they seem to find some way to justify it; they find ways to say torture is OK, being lied into war is OK, violating the constitution is OK. For a while, I wondered what it would take to get them to realize where that was leading us - just how far "their" party would have to go to get them to actually stand up.

Now I realize that, without our help, that will never happen.

The problem is the slippery slope, the foot in the door, the rabbit hole - whatever metaphor suits you fancy. The problem is the logical disconnect, the cognitive dissonance forcing them to stay the course, no matter how misguided it is. The problem is their clear distance from reality.

We can help them, though.
What we need is a National Day of Reflection.

Political Neuropathy

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Wednesday January 25, 2006 · 1:25 PM PST

2006/01/25 · 13:25

Which part of your brain do you vote with? Do you strive for reason or emotion? Planning or memory? Empathy or fear? Maybe you're not alone.

Our brains are beautiful things, even more complex than our convoluted political system. If you write a book about Bush's, you may end up on the no fly list. If you try to figure out your own, you may just improve yourself.

Here's a shocker: partisan thought is unconscious. A recent study (NYT article) shows particular regions of neural activation involved in that act of politico-cognitive dissonance.

One might even go out on a limb and hypothesize further about the role of cognition on politics... more below the fold. Read More

The good, the bad, and the first diaries

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Tuesday January 24, 2006 · 8:53 PM PST

2006/01/24 · 20:53

I felt the urge to post something today after having two very different but equally surprising conversations. One left me disappointed; the other gave me hope.

Bush's Apocalyptic prophecies and the Middle East

Hannity volunteers to be waterboarded (updated w/ poll)

Bring me your scariest

Conservatives for Obama - a letter to my mom, for her friends

Wasilla weddings, Palin smoked pot - Going way back with google, w/ poll

TM response to Hillary's speech - now w/Poll & Fournier

1,000 miles (with poll)

Red State Diaries - RedState.org's Crashing the Gates review

National Day of Reflection

Political Neuropathy

The good, the bad, and the first diaries