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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Of all that statements attributed to Palin in the article, the one that should scare people the most is this one:
Munger also asked Palin if she truly believed in the End of Days, the doomsday scenario when the Messiah will return. "She looked in my eyes and said, 'Yes, I think I will see Jesus come back to earth in my lifetime.'"
And if she believes as many of her faith do, she will try to make it happen.
During the recent war of Israel with Lebanon ....
memory refresher here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Israel-Lebanon_conflict
... the minister of a so-called non-denominational church came to visit my mother while I was staying with her. This non-denominational church does not fall far from it's Assembly of God tree. Different name; same thing. This minister was most excited about this war. He was absolutely gleeful that Israel was lobbing bombs into Lebanon and killing innocent civilans for very little provocation. "The Rapture is near," he said. "This is all part of the fulfillment of God's Kingdom as described in Revelations." He proceeded to quote from the Bible with his eyes on fire with some sort of demented glow.
I believe that if McCain is elected that some religious nut or nuts will try take him out so that Palin -- one of their own -- can become president. So that, chapter and verse, those End Times can be fulfilled.
The idea of this woman having access to nukes should terrify all rational people.
Xanthro, whether Buss is some egomaniac who is callously exploiting his Mat-Su Valley residence to gain fame at Palin's expense or just a great source for the reporter, what he says is chilling.
Ordinarily, you'd think someone with a Downs baby, a pregnant underage daughter, three other kids and a full-time job would tell someone who suggests she spend the next two months criss-crossing the country (something she's apparently never done) to go take a flying leap.
But if you believe that electing McCain is part of a divine mission, then you're sort of like the people who stayed in Galveston thinking God would provide: you're on a mission from God and everything MUST turn out right.
It's a mindset that I suspect a lot of people who read Salon can barely fathom. I've spent a lot of time in Alaska, I've seen those storefront churches in Wasilla and Palmer and elsewhere, and although I can't say I understand these people, I can say the Reverend's description is quite accurate.
This 1996 article was published by the local Wasilla newspaper when the conversations of library book censorship arose. No book titles mentioned. But decide for yourself if questions were asked in "the context of professionalism." Is it coincidence that an elected official supported by local churches would immediately be asking a librarian after election about censorship of material? And remember, this was before the Web changed everything and pushed libraries near the bottom of any cultural battleground for free speech.
http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2008/09/10/breaking_news/doc48c1c8a60d6d9379155484.txt
The Prophetess who spoke in The Handmaid's Tale pre-ceived Serena Joy as a harder version of a televangelist. hmmm.
Blackwater and "Joel's Army" don't make me feel so good either.
Amen, Rev. Bess. Please keep telling the country the truth!
Sarah Palin is the Theocrat that the framers of the Constitution worked so hard to thwart. Let's not let them down by voting her into the VP office.
She is not a Protestant nor a regular Evangelical. She is a Pentecostal! She speaks in tongues and believes Armageddon will occur within her lifetime. Sounds like she's ready to get it started. Her pastor says Alaska will be a refuge state for hundreds of thousands of their type when the rest of the world is engulfed in flame.
If you love your children and you love living on this beautiful green planet, please vote for Barack Obama.
She speaks in unitelligible tongues -- all the Wasilla Pentecostals do as they believe that is the first sign of receiving the Holy Spirit.
But she didn't have a clue what The Bush Doctrine was. The "we can do anything to anyone at anytime that we think might be a threat to us" statement of arrogance from the most ignorant, autocratic administration we've had in the US, at least in modern times.
How could she not know the fundamental theme of the man her political career has been modeled after?
Does she not pay any attention to national politics whatsoever?
As mayor and governor, Mrs. Palin has shown ample evidence she will take W's arrogance, abuse of office, and prideful ignorance to new extremes.
Now that W. has laid the groundwork by coopting the power of the other two branches (by stacking the federal courts and the normally non-political attorney posts in the Justice Dept. with under-qualified ideological hacks, and by cowering the Congress, just like he's cowered the news media, all is ready for Sarah Palin to come in and implement her theocratic ideas cooked up in a complete vacuum of actual law.
Given how she wrested away the governor's chair from fellow Republican Frank Murkowski, I would like to make a market on how long it would take her to have John McCain declared unfit for office, if something like Alzheimer's crops up.
Sincerely,
The American Way '62
only hurts Obama.
From The Daily Howler:
http://www.dailyhowler.com/index.shtml
Good for Howard Bess! Keep fighting!
Also, there was a rally today against Palin, with almost 2000 people, in Wasilla, Alaska, after a Palin speech nearby, 'the biggest protest rally in Alaskan history'. Two women organized it and got harassed by a local fundamentalist radio station who announced their names and phone numbers; they have been getting threatening and harassing phone calls ever since. (Someone called the media anonymously and told them the rally had been cancelled.)
See DailyKos.com for pictures and article describing this rally. It seems full of bright, sane, good-looking women (and some men and children), most of whom have fun signs. (Vote for your favorite at the website.) See the comments; they are interesting and helpful. One says radio station KUDO, 'the progressive radio station in Alaska', lets you get to know the other side of Alaskans vis a vis Palin; she gets it streaming on line. (I can't get it).
This rally is Very Heartening.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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