And you can play, too, just like one out of every 92 households in the country did during 2006.

These members of Team Hate are the new conservative mouthpieces for a power structure that's selling us into a murky, dead world where people can no longer love, where God is money, where the earth is a commodity to be destroyed for profit, where people are but digits in a money machine, where the ideals of a Christian society are mocked so that greed is now its favored value, where the good Samaritan is a piteous fool and violence against our fellow creatures is celebrated in the name of Christ.

We have become a culture that is fed hate, that has grown to crave hate, a hate-addicted culture that, like any psychotic entity, can destroy itself absent treatment at the hands of those who still retain their ability to love and to forgive.

The argument here is that the new conservative hate culture in America is leading us resolutely and irretrievably to the Fourth Reich. And Team Hate provides the mouth-pieces that spew its dangerous propaganda.

Oh, I can already hear Wal-Mart groaning. A bill getting ready to sail will prohibit importation of things made in "sweatshops"....

If I had any lingering doubt whether the current government was 100% incompetent, or only 98.6% incompetent, this pretty much decided it for me: the Dept of Defense has apparently screwed up extensions of service in Afghanistan so badly that some soldiers landed in the U.S. only to be immediately told that they had to get on the next plane and return to Afghanistan.

Remember how often Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, the National Review crowd, et. al. have accused the sane portion of America of helping the terrorists by criticizing the war (and exposing secret government programs, and voting Democratic, and on and on)?

Okay, he really did make the health insurance tax deduction proposal in the state of the union.  Even though the White House leaked the idea early, and just about every sane analyst said it won't solve the problem, and pretty certainly will create another problem.

As Jim Webb noted in his rebuttal to the official State of the Union, it's almost like the Repubs & Dems get their economic news from two different universes. Compare these two statements from the State of the Union and the rebuttal:

Uh-oh! Guess what! Scooter ain't happy with how is trial be a goin'...

WTW reported on the indictment of three Ohio election workers for flouting Ohio law on conducting recounts during the 2004 elections.  That trial is now underway, and what appears to be the main defense is, frankly, insulting as hell.

I cannot make a case for capitalism or democracy from the Scriptures. God's obvious choice of political system is a kingdom with a king who understands that dominion is a regal state where the king cares for the subject and in turn is loved as a leader worthy to follow.

This is George Bush's war and let's be clear who is responsible for the ultimate outcome. His failed policy led to the current intolerable situation and nothing that he has proposed has worked. If the "surge" helps to somewhat stabilize Iraq, I'm willing to let Bush claim some credit, but he cannot undo the damage he has done to American foreign policy around the world or to the overall strength and readiness of our military.

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