Anyone interested in some interesting background on globalization and a lot of crap that has led up to the current situation should read "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" by Greg Palast. Amazon link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0452283914/qid=1050691814/sr=8 -1/ref=sr_8_1/104-5769470-7614327?v=glance&s=books&n=507846 very enlightening, upsetting and frustrating. John W -----Original Message----- From: orb-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:orb-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Alan Sent: Friday, April 18, 2003 11:11 AM To: Orb@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [Orb] Re: OUTRAGE OVER PALESTINIAN SITUATION Invade Israel and rid them of weapons of mass destruction! This is, after all, the main desire and plan of the Shrub Whitehouse: Bring on Armageddon. If you'll do a little research into the thought processes of the far right Christian Coalition it is their duty to hasten the Second Coming by any means possible. One important, nay, essential element of this is a world war in the Middle East. Now they've got all four horsemen thundering around. Stupid superstitious fucks. The worst part is that when they die there is no way for them to know they were fucking wrong and they're just dead and they've left a more fucked up world for the rest of us. It takes a little while to dig this stuff out of the CCA site and Pat Robertson's site (as well as their pamphlets and speech transcriptions) but these people are nuts and they're running the country. What's that? You have doubts? A little tidbit: The keynote speaker at the Texas CCA convention was Dick Cheney. The convention was attended by fellow members John Ashcroft and Donald Rumsfeld as well as a sizeable number of Congressmen. They are evil and insane fundamentalists that think Hitler was a great man. A side story: Years ago a preacher made the mistake of driving up the hill to my grandma's house to try to convert her. She was fairly polite to him but firm that she didn't go to church and didn't plan on changing. He then asked her if she wasn't afraid of going to hell. She laughed and said, "No, I don't believe in hell but if I do die and go there I just hope they give me the job of shoveling coals on all the people like you." Needless to say, he turned on his heel and left. And while I'm busy spitting on Christians, when I lived in New Orleans the Jehovah's Witnesses decided they needed to save me and started coming to my house... at seven FUCKING o'clock on Sunday morning. The third time they showed up my dogs were in the yard so they were barking, I'd only gotten to sleep a little while before and they were beating on the porch railing with an empty can rather than going away. So I got up, put a dab of ketchup on the corner of my mouth, tousled my hair up really big (I had lots of hair) and stormed out onto the porch naked and, with my most evil grin, said, "WELCOME TO THE HOUSE OF SATAN! COME RIGHT IN, THE SACRIFICES HAVE JUST BEGUN!!!" I then begged them to come back as they ran in both directions down the street. Ahhhhhh. From what I gather they will have reported that house as a cursed place which they are never to enter. www.psychicreform.com Who let that monkey in here!?! Dada is dead. Watch your overcoat. "Dissent is what rescues democracy from a slow death behind closed doors." -Lewis H. Lapham _______________________________________________ Orb mailing list Orb@mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/orb