Some more choice God-related items to go with Bush’s apparent schizophrenia:
Bush believes he was called by Go
a close friend who talks with Bush every day.
d to lead the nation at this time, says Commerce Secretary Don Evans,
Attorney General Ashcroft ritually anoints himself daily with “holy” Crisco-brand cooking oil because the “ancient kings of Israel, David and Saul” had done so.
Earlier here.
Gimme some sugar, baby! It’s like Army of Darkness, for real. Albertsons supermarket bagboy goes postal, hacks several astonished shoppers to death with broadsword.
A man wielding a samurai-style sword killed two people and wounded three others at an Irvine supermarket … Wearing a green beret and a long, dark coat, the Santa Ana man pulled out a sword with a 3-foot blade and calmly attacked in silence, almost beheading one of his victims. As he roamed the store, employees armed with barbecue utensils, mayonnaise jars and trashcan lids tried to corner him.
Whatever you do, don’t use the Q Word. After the first couple of weeks of annihilation and disintegration of the Iraqi army by the invading forces, I had deranged pro-war fan boys emails me “NO QUAGMIRE!” crap. I think the whole point is that you can’t tell much of anything after two weeks. In any case, current events do not bode well for a swift or painless US disengagement from Iraq. Current US strategy seems to depend on maintaining the unsuccessful, zero-Iraqi involvement occupation regime for as long as possible, in order to prevent the Iran-oriented Shia political factions from assuming control. In Chalabi, the neocons in the Bush Gang thought they had a suitable powerful leader to create a pro-US puppet regime, but it appears that his power base is too small. Probably some of the neocons are hoping that they can partition Iraq – ala Vietnam – and create a defensible, pro-US oil-rich Statelet, as long as they can find some obedient Diem/Thieu dictators to assume control. Imperial Powers often use this partition strategy and sometimes it works (Ireland, India/Pakistan, Iraq/Kuwait) and sometimes it doesn’t (Vietnam, Germany, China).
the few Iraqis who have joined the Coalition Provisional Authority under Mr Bremer – which operates out of Saddam Hussein’s heavily fortified Republican Palace in the center of the capital – describe the American officials administering Iraq as “living in an air-conditioned fantasy world” … The obvious solution for the US is to set up an Iraqi provisional administration, operating under ultimate American control. But attractive though this might be, it would also mean ceding some power to Iraqis, something Mr Bremer is loath to do … The main reason why Washington does not want to give up any power is the fear that this would ultimately open the way for a takeover by Iraq’s Shia Muslims, who account for at least 55 per cent of the population and would probably win any free elections.
One guy’s trip into North Korea. These scenes of some mega-flag waving festival are scary, they are so clean and bright and cheery that’s it’s like The WIzard Of Oz meets Godzilla. Not to mention the absurdity of borders.
Nothing says you’re eating dog like having little hairs poking out of the fatty parts of the meat.
Earlier here.
It’s the Emoticon -> RealLife? Conversion Manual.
