Plus it's not 'macho' or very iconic 'Texan' to second think your macho posturing and admit that kicking the dog is wrong. It makes you look like a failure and a screaming joke. Although usually following through makes you look like a failure and a screaming joke with the blood on innocent people on your hands...

I've talked to a few 'religious' people who were (and perhaps maybe still are) pro-war.

When pointed out that their own bible that they hold to close as the word of 'god' points out that war isn't a good thing and that judgment is 'his', they thought about it and agreed. But I have a catholic friend who said that it is true that 'god' reserves the right to judge people but that happens after the person reaches those 'pearly gates' when it's decided which fork in the road they take. I thought that a very crass and unbelievable statement.

So 'god' does triage on the dead that these 'religious' psychopaths send to 'heaven'? How ignorant and just totally devoid of any 'religious construct' is a thought and statement like that? I still have a hard time thinking of meeting that person today. Obviously they feel that their vengeance over 9/11/2001 gives then Carte Blanche to wreck havoc across the planet and they feel that 'their god' is on their side. (Especially considering the degree that the loyal Bushies have cloaked the entire government in black over what happened before, during and after 9/11. To defend the party that is covering up their culpability in the largest attack on US soil is interesting to say the least. To think that John McCain has a chance at being the next president is astounding and horrifying)

How interesting that 'god' is always on the side of those that cause the most death and destruction. Not being here incarnate makes it easy to 'interpret' the will of this mean and vengeful 'god' entity. It kinds blurs the distinction between heaven and hell, doesn't it...

Who was it that said that 'religion is powerful' and the rich find it 'useful. A very smart man. Very smart man...

There is no need for a religion war today.

But 'religion' has become both third rail and truncheon in this America.

You are either part of it or it's used on you like a weapon. Almost like patriotism. Both tend to be tools of the oppressors and shields from the truth...

We live in interesting times... Ignorant, dark and troubling times...

She may not have to shot at being the nominee but she does have a shot at making Obama's chances a whole lot less...

I keep hearing about chronic under staffing at airports and ARTCC and wonder how much of this is

• the furious cutting of budgets to help offset the Iraq War graft and corruption
• trying to cut staffing to levels that are low but work to save money for Iraq graft and corruption
• cut staffing so much that an accident happens so that a 'loyal Bushie' corporation can swoop in and 'save the day' with user fees, government sponsored high tech and lower performance than we have now

You have to admit that after starting a war on a country that didn't have anything to do with 9/11 and didn't have WMD, killing a few plane loads of people would be small peanuts to grease the adoption of a privatized air traffic control system that would benefit a few already well paid and politically well connected corporations. Not to mention that said corporations tend to 'tithe' some of that money back to the party coffers.

What's ironic is that privatized healthcare like in Canada isn't in the cards but privatized air traffic control like in Canada is and has been a goal of the Bush administration. It's a pity that Halliburton, Bechtel or Kellogg, Brown and Root don't do healthcare...

The key is going to be when Bush does a speech about 'the hard working air traffic controllers in America'. The ax will fall within days, weeks tops.