James Lileks on Sudden Bush Hatred Fatigue Syndrome. Awesome.
[Bush is] a tool of big oil, small minds. He's a scarily devout Jesus-freak Christian AND the dupe of Saudi Wahhabist puppetmasters. He led the country to war on bizarre and fabricated assumptions -- sure, Clinton made Iraqi regime change standard American policy, but that was just a scarecrow to stick in the field. Plus, George W. Bush is Satan! Just look at the cover of Jim Hightower's book, where the author draws devil horns and scribbles a mustache and goatee on a Bush poster. Bush isn't just wrong. He's bad. Super-extra evil. Get it? GET IT?
You wander over to periodicals and flip open the current Esquire. There's a story on stem cell research. The author's subtitle: "How the president is trying to kill my daughter."
Yes, of course, you think. (How weary your inner voice sounds.) That's precisely what he is trying to do. That is the president's specific objective in life: Kill sick people. It makes him happy. Every night he puts his cloven hooves up on the desk and thinks of the people he's offed today. Ahh. Life is good.
Of course, not everyone hates Bush.
One can understand why Southerners like him, since they're all two-toothed crackers with gun racks and Klan sheets neatly folded in the trunk in case they drive by a good ol' fashioned flaming cross. Right?
It's harder to understand why putatively normal people like him. These creatures are frankly incomprehensible to any right-thinking person. Maybe they're just so full of Fox News and Rush Limbaugh they don't understand that their drinking water is now composed ENTIRELY of arsenic, or that we have completely squandered the goodwill of several hundred chain-smoking French intellectuals.
Via The Smallest Minority.
I was talking to a friend recently who was disparaging Bush's intelligence. I mentioned that I thought Bush was very smart, and she responded that "Bush is smart as long as he's plotting evil".
When people ask me something like "How can you prove that the Bible is the word of God?", my first response is usually to ask "What are your criteria for proof?"
In the nature of the case, should anything serve as an authority on which to rest support for the Bible's authority, that thing would therefore have greater authority than the Bible. Yet, as the Bible claims to be the word of God Himself, the Bible must be our ultimate authority.
Therefore, in the nature of the case, the Bible must serve as its own final authority.
(Of course, that's not to say that there can be no reasons for believing the Bible is the word of God, only that it is philosophically impossible to rest support for the Bible's authority on appeals to direct evidence.)
My weblog software is essentially finished. It's weird to say that after tweaking it for years and years. But, I'm happy with what I have now. I'll eventually clean up my category situation, but the one remaining thing I want to get in is "back and forward" links (and corresponding navigation meta tags) for my weblog entries, days, etc.
I might also put in addressing weblog entries by week. Update: Oh yeah, I need paging for searches and category pages.
Via LGF, The Washington Post: Edwards Says Kerry Plans to Confront Iran on Weapons. How are they going to "confront" Iran? They're going to give them nuclear fuel!!
A John F. Kerry administration would propose to Iran that the Islamic state be allowed to keep its nuclear power plants in exchange for giving up the right to retain the nuclear fuel that could be used for bomb-making, Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards said in an interview yesterday.
Kerry first outlined the idea of providing nuclear fuel to Iran in a speech in June -- a proposal favored by many Europeans -- but Edwards, who twice described the concept as a "bargain," was more explicit in suggesting the Kerry administration would actively try to reach an agreement with the Iranians.
If they don't accept our nuclear fuel, we'll levy "heavy sanctions" on them. I've mentioned this before.
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