Perhaps God had to repeat the message a few times, so Bush could hear it above the whirrr of his treadmill.

Perhaps God had to repeat the message a few times, so Bush could hear it above the whirrr of his treadmill.

snide and contemptuous? absolutely...
and rightly so. This 'God called me' is really frightening, cuz if the Chimp had a complete train of thought, it'd be the shortest trip on record. Smirk is such a sock puppet of Rove, Cheney, Wolfowitz and the rest that he's incapable of thinking for himself. I'm all for anyone's belief in their own faith, but this old world, vengeful "God told me to strike" is nonsense. apparently, Smirk ain't ever read the new testament. It's a pretty shallow concept of Christianity, and it's pornographic to use The Almighty to justify the death of thousands of innocents.

God called Dean to strike the heathen unbeliever, and Dean smote him.

Burning Bush

Thought you might get a kick out of this

I can't at the moment remember who it was who said

"It's OK to talk to God, but if God talks back, see a psychiatrist."

I call it "Bizarro Christianity." Do you remember the Superman villain Bizarro? He was an imperfect clone of Superman who looked like a damaged version of the hero, and who spoke in negatives and did the opposite of what Superman would do. Hey, if the shoe fits...

As for the God talking back bit, another blogger (I'm afraid that I forget who) cited Lily Tomlin as saying that (quoting from memory) "Talking to God is called prayer. God talking back is called schizophrenia."

that boy needs help.

I wonder what God had to say about pretzels. He's discussed cheese with me, but he never answers me about the pretzels.

Maybe he prefers chips.

"Is God telling Bush not to support a UN resolution calling for more troops in the Congo?"

The Congo has large diamond reserves. Isn't it possible that if we were to attempt to restore peace, that there would be accusations that we want to take those resources?

"Isn't it possible that if we were to attempt to restore peace, that there would be accusations that we want to take those resources?"

Not by anybody sane. And, really, if that is the best argument you can make for why saving Iraqis is Goids work but saving Africans isn't ....

hmmmm

yea, yea, exploit africa! lets go to it. :)

Doesn't it seem strange that the nineteen hijackers of 9/11 fame were also told by Allah (God?)to sacrifice themselves for him. So, is Bush any better than they or is the religious understanding of both of them a little skewed?

The hijackers chose to use God in that context, but the issue of Iraq does not concern them. The Iraqi people will be better in the long run.

If Bush wanted to make money for himself and his friends off his position, there are much less obvious and much more profitable ways of doing so than going to war. A handful of small contracts won't mean much to huge companies like Halliburton.

By the way, what's so different about grabbing diamond reserves? Several African nations are already fighting over it and using the diamonds to fund their little wars, so it must be worth something. Diamonds don't require refineries or huge infrastructure either, and the workers and mines are already there. All we'd have to do is seize it on the auspices of a peacekeeping mission.

God told McKinley to annex the Philippines too and look at what happened. Four years of guerilla warfare against a people who wanted their independence after the Spanish-American War.

Why is it that when anyone calls upon God, all those who act in less than Godly ways stand up and cheer. Do they really believe that person is Godly, or a I suspect, do they just recognize a kindred spirit?

God told me to Google for pretzels+sock puppet. A truly merciful god would have made Lean Left the first link, rather than the seventh.

REDSUMAC: Please read this. You think Halliburton is being given a handful of small contracts??

Halliburton's Iraq costs $2 bln so far and rising

Costs incurred by U.S. oil services contractor Halliburton Co. in Iraq have climbed to about $2 billion and are rising, Army spokesmen said Friday, citing the effect of looting and sabotage to the nation's energy infrastructure.

Kellogg Brown & Root, a unit of Houston-based Halliburton, currently holds two contracts, for oilfield repairs and for logistics support services, from which it earns a small percentage as income. As U.S. involvement in Iraq grows longer and more expensive, Halliburton stands to reap bigger profits.

In March, Halliburton was granted, without competition, a contract by the Army Corps of Engineers to repair and restore Iraq's oil fields. As of Sept. 8, the total cost of that contract to taxpayers was just under $948 million, Corps spokesman Scott Saunders said.

That's about $200 million higher than projected just last month, mostly because the U.S. has been forced to import oil and fuels into Iraq, which has the world's second-largest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia. Importing oil, gasoline, diesel and propane costs the United States about $6 million per day. ---

Those small contracts in Iraq for Bush cronies...and then the list, well only a partial list. Note too the desire to privatize the Army andGovt. offices and etc...who do you think is too to get those contracts...and as far as the economy, check out the defense industry and its contracts...no, there is a great deal of money made in war and reconstruction and then too, the matter of "footprint" in the region...a heavy footprint, needed and necessitated for many reasonings, resources being a major. (btw, the diamonds in Congo, if so accessed too easily causes the market to lose value so is controlled for economic reasonings)

'Of course' is cyanide of the mind.

While reading this post I remembered Beethhoven music... What do you think about it???