Refered to many as “fooled by the atheism that they carry inside of them..."

He went on to add, "Fooled out of knowing the simple truth: a homophobe entity before there were ever entities removed his baton from its magic case, dipped it in universe sauce, and created everything in a week. Then he just invented the "week" right there. There weren't numbers yet, but seven was the best one, so he moved on and picked that. Then the homophobe totally got bored! Never mind he had always been alone without comparison. He had to do something, so he made one human. Just like himself. Except nothing like himself, you know. He named him Adam, so when nothing called it knew what to say. Then Adam totally got bored too! By then the homophobe entity was freaked Adam would start liking him too much anyway, so he made Eve. Out of Adams rib, that's how. Come on pay attention. Nope, neither one of them had belly buttons. But they had sex, and we all came from them. Six and a half billion in a few thousand years. Well, actually, 180 billion if you count the dead. But they're not really dead so they don't count. See, when you die you actually live forever. You can find all this in a science book don't worry. But when the snake ruined everything the magic tree grew fruit and they ate it! Only one thing could result; clothes! No, the homophobe entity didn't care about nakedness, he's invisible remember. I never said that? Well he is. Oh, you never know when he's at work either. Or why he works exactly. Or where. Or for who. Or what his plan is. But we do know this, his plan will never change. So pray to him, he might change it your way. This is all his nature. No wait, he made nature, so wait, no no, yeah, I was right, it's his nature. We know because thousands of years ago, before standards were invented and kings routinely changed written history to suite the social norms of their age, he had people write everything he said down. Not a word has been changed or exaggerated. Today he only talks to me, the pope. You know what, I don't really know why? Huh.... I'm infallable by the way. I wasn't always, but some fallables got to together and voted me perfect. Don't worry it'll all make sense when you die. No I'm exhausted, and besides, I already told you where he is. He's everywhere, except when he's nowhere. That parts always been obvious. Have a good day everyone, mass at seven."

G Bara

Molly Ivins: "Austin, Texas -- I can't get over this feeling of unreality, that I am actually sitting here writing about our country having a gulag of secret prisons in which it tortures people. I have loved America all my life, even though I have often disagreed with the government. But this seems to me so preposterous, so monstrous. My mind is a little bent and my heart is a little broken this morning.
Maybe I should try to get a grip -- after all, it's just this one administration that I had more cause than most to realize was full of inadequate people going in. And even at that, it seems to be mostly Vice President Cheney. And after all, we were badly frightened by 9-11, which was a horrible event. 'Only' nine senators voted against the prohibition of 'cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment of persons under custody or control the United States.' Nine out of 100. Should we be proud? Should we cry?
'We do not torture,' said our pitifully inarticulate president, straining through emphasis and repetition to erase the obvious.
A string of prisons in Eastern Europe in which suspects are held and tortured indefinitely, without trial, without lawyers, without the right to confront their accusers, without knowing the evidence or the charges against them, if any. Forever. It's 'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich.' Another secret prison in the midst of a military camp on an island run by an infamous dictator. Prisoner without a name, cell without a number."

New York Times: "To the Editor:
On July 6 I chose to go to jail to defend my right as a journalist to protect a confidential source, the same right that enables lawyers to grant confidentiality to their clients, clergy to their parishioners, and physicians and psychotherapists to their patients. Though 49 states have extended this privilege to journalists as well, for without such protection a free press cannot exist, there is no comparable federal law. I chose to go to jail not only to honor my pledge of confidentiality, but also to dramatize the need for such a federal law.
After 85 days, more than twice as long as any other American journalist has ever spent in jail for this cause, I agreed to testify before the special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald's grand jury about my conversations with my source, I. Lewis Libby Jr. I did so only after my two conditions were met: first, that Mr. Libby voluntarily relieve me in writing and by phone of my promise to protect our conversations; and second, that the special prosecutor limit his questions only to those germane to the Valerie Plame Wilson case. Contrary to inaccurate reports, these two agreements could not have been reached before I went to jail. Without them, I would still be in jail, perhaps, my lawyers warned, charged with obstruction of justice, a felony. Though some colleagues disagreed with my decision to testify, for me to have stayed in jail after achieving my conditions would have seemed self-aggrandizing martyrdom or worse, a deliberate effort to obstruct the prosecutor's inquiry into serious crimes."

Nov. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The current U.S. president and his
immediate predecessor are an odder couple than the one on
Broadway.
George W. Bush links with, and delinks from, Bill Clinton
at will. While he often uses him as a benchmark for what a
president shouldn't be, Bush also pulls Clinton out of the
closet to clean up messes, sometimes in the company of his
father, Bush I. Recently, Bush sent presidents 41 and 42 off to
deal with the aftermath of Katrina.
Bush's latest and most curious use of Clinton is to cite
his words as proof of the administration's reasonableness in
going to war. This comes just as the Senate is being forced into
hearings on the possible unreasonableness of the intelligence
Bush relied on for doing so.
The White House puts out talking points citing Clinton's
conviction that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction and
that he was a menace in the region. If Clinton believed it, why
shouldn't the Bush administration?
The Difference
It's a hard charge to answer because Clinton did say what
Bush says he said. But the argument misses one big fact: Clinton
signed off on a speech, not on a war; he agreed on the problem,
not the solution.
Clinton was a president who demanded every available fact
before proposing as much as uniforms in public schools. The
certainty about the danger from Saddam that made it necessary
for Clinton to rattle his saber at the dictator, as he did many
times, is different from the certainty required to invade a
sovereign country.
Clinton had many flaws, but he wouldn't have ginned up
intelligence to support a preconceived notion, nor suppress
intelligence that didn't. In the Bush administration there was a
cabal just for that."

"I was in a hotel room in Portugal this weekend when I happened upon my first ever Steven Segal movie, and what a revelation it proved to be. Titled "Above the Law" and dating back to 1988 (as I managed to identify by cars, hairdos and ultimately content) it is a violent tale of one cop's battle against corruption. This raging battle for truth goes all the way up to "the highest levels" and in the end, despite obstacles too numerous to repeat here, the hero saves the head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from assassination and exposes savage corruption in the CIA. In his closing words the hero, one Nico Toscani, speaks passionately about what can go wrong when officials are allowed to act "above the law" and, among other sins, control the media. Who knew that Steven Segal (credited as writer and producer) had created a work that not only reflected prevailing views of the CIA after the Iran Contra scandal, but was also prophetic and would have meaning down the ages.

As this administration battles its internal and external demons what is different is that there has been no house cleaning as there was in Reagan's administration. The same movie today would not have such a euphoric ending, it couldn't, because nothing in the world of politics and corruption at the highest levels is being so simply resolved. As the Kenneth Tomlinson investigation unfolds we can only hope that if there was indeed control of the media at the highest levels in truth as well as in fiction, some fearless cop with a 21st century haircut will emerge to rid this country of such an evil.

Here's looking for a real Nico Toscani! "