Tuesday, July 12, 2005

The News These Days

If you were on the planet last week, you probably heard there were bombings in London, and then heard again, and then again. Speeches were made, short and impromptu at first, but becoming more consistent with practice. London has a history of being tough and isn't likely to go soft.

What else? We learned that among the traitors in the White House, the unelected oft-wedgied Karl Rove was the boss behind retaliation against Ambassador Wilson's downright public attempts to pull the wool off our eyes. I'm sure he'll get tough love. But then again, the Bush Justice Department let Eric Rudolph off with just a lifetime of free meals and cable TV. And the chance to get a law degree and publish, preach, lead. They should cut both their heads off- ROve and Rudolph. To let them walk after killing indiscriminately and disclosing national security secrets sends a tacit message to the extremists that it's okay. Bush is complicit. Haven't seen Cheney in a while...

Other stuff? Well, Reagan appointee Justice O'Connor surprised us all with a retirement. And the Christian Fun-go-mentalist movement is going apeshit. They hate God for creating us with Free Will, even denying it. They demand the government take our rights away so we can't sin. And they want the Bush appointee for the O'Connor slot to promise to help.

Far from uplifting the human condition, they want to deny it. They lie, they cheat, they move from Virginia to become professional Senators (Santorum) in other people's states, they imagine and promulgate a history with radical cultural figments. And they probably simply don't know the science behind germ theory or natural selection. I'm sure one of the DC landmarks they want to destroy is the Smithsonian Institution's Natural History Museum, with all those satanic dinosaur props.

Everything they do is wrong. God damn them.

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