Well, the Republicans sold it as an in and out and perhaps a Vietnam redemption, but I think the plan was to invade and stay. After all, we have bases in the middle of all that oil. Just let them try to turn off the taps!

...trying to figure out a way to make those DJs pay.

And I'm further guessing that she'll devote nothing to fingering what's missing in her that made her such easy prey for a prank. No, she won't even try to pray away the stupid.

...that we're supposed to cut and paste?

I'm assuming that Palin's crowd will hate the pranksters for expecting Palin to know something about heads of state beyond who has a hawt wife.

Ah, go back to stalking Ms. Havrilesky.

I think I love you.

As many Salon voters have noted in other threads, the Republican Party has played the evangelicals. They've had plenty of time and power to clobber abortion rights and gay citizens. They didn't because these issues have evangelicals voting red. And many of the evangelical pastors have played their congregations, using them to amass wealth, which is a God-damning sin in the Bible. Likewise, the evangelicals think they're playing Jesus, saying his name, but coveting wealth and voting for war.

We don't know enough about Ms. Palin. Was she a fornicator before she was married? Has she committed adultery of the flesh or adultery of the mind? You see, righties like you obsessed about Bill Clinton's crotch for years and since your side alleges a belief in Jesus, wondering about Ms. Palin's crotch and inner purity is only treating your political figures the way you want them to be treated, as suggested by your side's behavior.

Now, I have quite a few questions about John McCain's crotch. Does he realize that sharing one's body with someone biblically binds one to that person? By this divine mandate, he's married a lot of strippers? And therefore, how many times has he committed adultery? With whom? Where did his semen land? What were the colors of those dresses?

And there's so much more to probe about Palin. Where are those medical records? Why didn't she answer the questions in the VP debate? Why won't she meet the press?

And what else can you do to get people to buy your book?

I sadly agree. The Earth will warm. People who can migrate far enough south and north might survive, but they won't be living in McMansions. Billions of us will die. Sometimes I think it would be better if we all die. The Earth would reboot and the seas would fill with critters again and the remaining monkeys wouldn't be clever and stupid enough to set the Earth's thermostat to deep fat fry.

As HappyJack observed, Americans have damned America and likely the rest of the world. We're 3% of the world's population and we consume 25% of the world's resources. We're too fat, too lazy, too consuming, too indebted, and too willing to demonize. And your side wants more oil, more imperialism, more torture, more borrowing, and more bathrooms in your McMansions.

Norway hollowed a mountain and filled it with seeds.

We hollowed a mountain and filled it with people trained to obliterate life.

We don't need God to damn us.

We've damned us.

But continue to cluck about Rev. Wright, as if that's going to save your grandchildren.

Whereas there were Christian abolitionists, they were the Quaker/liberal variant of Christian. The fundamental Christians were the ones who plumbed the Bible for every precious passage about slavery. Of course, they used those passages to justify slavery. The need for dominance is fundamental in fundamental Christians. It's just that today it doesn't get to play out in slavery. So, they've found other whipping boys in gays and abortion and they attempt to dominate the lives of gay citizens and women's wombs. If gay citizens were to gain equal rights, the fundies would just target some other group's rights.

So many of them apply lipstick, covet wealth, vote for war and torture, color their hair to contest God's will for us to age, practice gluttony, flash flesh, gamble, commit adultery, and fornicate. This is why they need to attend to the motes in other people's affairs: because they don't want to consider the logjams in their eyes.

Again, if they could have slaves and that would be socially okay, they would.

They would.