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    Could NOT believe it

    (Sorry folks; feeling lazy. Had the link but lost it.)

    Anyone see the colour pictures on the GQ website of George 'Where's my colouring book?' W Bush's daily briefings as prepared by Donald Rumsfeld?

    Tom Lehrer said that after Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize, satire would be forever beside the point.

    This news has probably had a similar effect on political stand up. Nothing funnier will ever happen. I'd love to hear what Lewis Black makes of it.

    They used to say that Gerald Ford couldn't walk and chew gum at the same time. GW couldn't watch TV and chew a pretzel.

    I wonder if there will be anybody to look back - in 2000 years time - as we do at, say, the 'divinity' of Roman Emperors, and laugh.

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    Re: Could NOT believe it

    I'm sure they will (is the US the new Roman Empire?)

    ...but for all his pro religious speeches, ability to read childrens books while his country is under attack and inability to be coherant in public, he comes across as dim rather than outright mad - unlike this president

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    I'm sure they will (is the US the new Roman Empire?)

    ...but for all his pro religious speeches, ability to read childrens books while his country is under attack and inability to be coherant in public, he comes across as dim
    well he was an alcoholic in the past and it's supposed to kill off a lot of brain cells. The other thing is that it was nepotism in action. There's no way he would have been president without his father's influence.
    rather than outright mad - unlike this president
    More like a boy who never grew up and wanted to play star wars.

    A lot like some men on the forum with their T A R D I S

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    ...but for all his pro religious speeches, ability to read childrens books while his country is under attack and inability to be coherant in public, he comes across as dim rather than outright mad

    I dunno. Pretty much a definition of madness is claiming God talked to him surely ?

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    Re: Could NOT believe it

    Quote Originally Posted by Barry Shnikov View Post
    (Sorry folks; feeling lazy. Had the link but lost it.)
    http://men.style.com/gq/features/lan...d=content_9217

    and http://men.style.com/gq/features/topsecret

    perhaps?

    For once, I think you've understated the situation. If George and Donald were really planning the Iraq campaign based on biblical scripture, in a country largely founded on the separation of church and state, that's real "holy s***f**k" territory.

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    Yeah, David, the second one was the pictures I was looking at.

    Separation of church and state in the US? Not currently a practical reality, more of an aspiration. You have members of the Supreme Court publicly endorsing churches, the President babbling about speaking to god, previous presidents sucking up like porn starlets to complete arsholes like Pat Buchanan, Jerry Falwell and so forth, religious presiding over ceremonies like the Inauguration of the President, In god we trust on the currency, pledging the flag every morning in school "one nation, under god, with blah blah blah and justice for all...", sessions of Congress beginning with a prayer...et-setterah, et-setterah.

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    Re: Could NOT believe it

    Henry VIII broke with Rome, but the present British Monarch is Head Of the Church of England.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Astro View Post
    Henry VIII broke with Rome, but the present British Monarch is Head Of the Church of England.
    sometimes you're like a naked person running into the room, shouting "boo" and running out again

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dreadful Scathe View Post
    sometimes you're like a naked person running into the room, shouting "boo" and running out again
    Boo

    You know, all armies take their priests with them, not just the USA.

    (The reason Bush was so openly religious was because he was on the 12 steps AA program).

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    Re: Could NOT believe it

    Quote Originally Posted by Astro View Post
    Boo

    You know, all armies take their priests with them, not just the USA.

    (The reason Bush was so openly religious was because he was on the 12 steps AA program).
    The reason you take priests with you is they make death a little more tollerable

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    Re: Could NOT believe it

    Quote Originally Posted by NickC View Post
    The reason you take priests with you is they make death a little more tollerable
    they do? death is not something anyone has ever told me is tolerable

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    Re: Could NOT believe it

    Quote Originally Posted by NickC View Post
    The reason you take priests with you is they make death a little more tollerable
    I did write several rejections of this, but in the end I decided not to, because I think you did not actually say what you meant.

    I think what you meant was that priests, etc, enable the troops to cope with the terror and anxiety better than otherwise.

    So, I think, did the lack of speedy and accurate information from battlefields make war easier to deal with for 'the folks back home'. The US found that out in Vietnam, the first war in which TV cameras put the fighting in American living rooms.

    The US had a real, serious, deep-down fright with the WTC bombing, and they forgot for a while how much they didin't want to be a nation at war. I think they are now remembering that again, and another terrorist incident won't have the same effect.

    I think we too are getting sick of reading about more soldiers dying in Afghanistan and wondering what exactly this is all achieving. Especially when the smegma-faced puppet president allows horribly prejudiced policies to become law in order to propitiate ugly religious people with ghastly social principles.

    If stopping priests from going to the frontline will make soldiers more likely to go home or not to go there in the first place, maybe that would be a good thing.

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    Re: Could NOT believe it

    Priests as human placebos?

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