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- Jeremy Scahill: Confronting Blackwater on its Killing of Iraqis
  Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from Huffington Post
  Last week, Jeremy spoke at a conference organized by NYU's Center on Law and Security called "Privatizing Defense: Blackwater, Contractors, and American Security." Also present at the conference were Blackwater Worldwide vice president Martin Strong and a lawyer for Blackwater, David Hammond. At the conference, I confronted Strong on Blackwater's killi...
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- Vultures (presidential and otherwise) descend on Pakistan’s chaos
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Scholarsandrogues
  Never one to pass up an opportunity to make himself look good using others’ deaths as the backdrop, Rudy Giuliani was quick to post a statement that the Terrorists ™ must be stopped from continuing their War On Us (caps are his, not mine). And he wasn’t the last...
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- American Madrassas, Religious Indoctrination, The Virus
  Posted by j1o2n3a4s5
  Saw a screening of a documentary called Jesus Camp. It focuses on a woman preacher (Becky Fischer) who indoctrinates children in a summer camp in North Dakota. Right wing political agendas and slogans are mixed with born again rituals that end with most of the kids in tears. Jesus CampTears of release and joy, they would claim — the children are not physically abused. The kids are around 9 or 10 years old, recruited from various churches, and are pliant willing receptacles.
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- Suffer little children
  Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from Guardian UK
  This image of God the father, for whom violence is an expression of tough love, is lodged deep in the evangelical imagination. And it twists a religion of forgiveness and compassion into something dark and cruel. Bush threatened to use his first veto while in office to prevent the Senate from banning torture. Likewise, many “Christians” greatly fear that the government might take away their “right” to beat their own children. What does it tell you about a group if their biggest fear is that they’ll be prevented from torturing the defenseless? Jesus did have it right on this one; “It would be better for them if a millstone was hanged about their neck, and that they were drowned in the depth of the sea.”
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- The Religious Right Is Un-American
  Posted by j1o2n3a4s5
  Many people associated with the Religious Right in America would have us believe that the United States was founded as a Christian nation. They foster this lie because they want to force their narrow-minded religious beliefs down our throats. They would like us to envision that Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and James Madison are standing with them shoulder to shoulder when they spout their distorted views on abortion, contraception, gay marriage, school prayer, evolution, etc. But to assert that the U.S. is a Christian nation is clearly un-American, if we define "American" as holding dear the precepts and values handed down to us in the Constitution by the Founding Fathers. The framers of the Constitution had no intention of defining our country as Christian. On the contrary, they were deeply concerned about preventing any kind of religious tyranny.
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- Why worry about the environment or the future when the Rapture is near?
  Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from Kurtnimmo
  "I have fulfilled my destiny," the president says manically. He has just entered the nuclear launch codes that will trigger World War III. Seconds later, he emerges from a bunker. The Secretary of State squeezes between two soldiers. "Mr. President!" he shouts. "We have a diplomatic solution!" He smiles. "It's too late," he replies. "The missiles are flying. Alleluia. Alleluia."
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- Truth Is for 'Liberals'
  Posted by j1o2n3a4s5 from The Nation
  Here we are, five and a half years into the Bush Administration, and the press corps still hasn't figured out how to handle the White House's primary tactic of media management: lying.
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She's never eaten anything in her life.... Maybe she had a pumpkin seed back in the '80's. But that's about it.
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she eats liberals. haha, i feel safe being post-left
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yehaw!
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Someone needs to feed her.
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