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Political Potpourri -- we've got Rumsfeld, 36 countries, Ray Mummert and the inimitable John Hinderaker
Oh we've been collecting for some time now so here is yet another version of Political Potpourri.
Stanford's Hoover Institute - a retreat for the endlessly cranky, awfully wrong and woefully pretentious ideological terrorists:
Rumsfeld now fellow at Hoover InstitutionGo here for the rest.
September 7, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has joined the Hoover Institution at Stanford University as a visiting fellow and will serve on a task force focused on issues pertaining to ideology and terror, the California think tank said on Friday.
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Don't forget Fuckedupistan which supplied a set of pliars and the Kingdom of Make-Believe which contributed two sets of pasty white cheerleaders and Ahmed Chalabi:
36(ish) Countries in Iraq!Go here for the rest as the count dwindles.
Spencer Ackerman
www.tpmmuckraker.com
September 14, 2007
All right, we've got the official accounting about the "36 nations" cited last night by President Bush "who have troops on the ground in Iraq." And it still doesn't add up.
According to a National Security Council official, our tally of 34 was slightly off. We had been including the U.S. as a contributor to MNF-I, and we had forgotten the island nation of Tonga. Additionally, the White House relied on two other nations contributing forces to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq -- Canada and New Zealand -- in addition to the Figians. So there you have it: 26 in MNF-I; seven in the Nato non-combat force; and three guarding UNAMI. Thirty-six!
and
Lordy, it's worse than we thought. What gives as here is someone who ascribes mass backing to the verbiage of George Bush [who can ever forget the classic "Too many OB-GYNs aren't able to practice their love with women all across this country"] and then the guy ipso facto labels the Bushster as unintelligent and uneducated and yet speaking for him?
I learned something here -- it apparently takes the uneducated and unintelligent to understand intelligent design. Of course.
DOVER, United States (AFP) - The pastoral fields and white frame houses appear at peace, but this Pennsylvania farm town is deeply at war over teaching Darwin or Christian creationism in its schools.and
Since last year the school board voted to have high school biology teachers raise doubts about Darwin's 145-year-old theory and suggest an alternative Christian explanation for life. The city has since been deeply riven over the issue of separation of church and state...
...But pastor and parent Ray Mummert, 54, explained their point.
"If we continue to indoctrinate our young people with non-religious principles, we're headed for an internal destruction of this society," he said. "Evolution is just a theory and there are other theories," Mummert explained, smiling through his beard.
"There is such a complexity in life, and science wants to hang its hat on a belief that life somehow started -- they say there is no creator, no order ... I believe there is a creator," he said.
"Christians are a lot more bold under Bush's leadership, he speaks what a lot of us believe," said Mummert.
"We've been attacked by the intelligent, educated segment of the culture," he said...
Before this dumbing down -- does George Bush as president constitute dumbing up? -- mutates into a virus with no known antidote, let's close with history's stupidest statement. Really, there's nothing close.
According to the writeup offered at his blog Power Line blog, John Hinderaker "is a lawyer with a nationwide litigation practice" and "was recognized as Minnesota's Super Lawyer of the Year for 2005."
He wrote the following about President Bush:
"It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can't get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a reception that, when not bored, is hostile."Now in Lake Wobegone, MN "all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average." Hinderaker should have quit when he was ahead and refused to grow up. Come to think of it, maybe that's what he did.
It's also good to know -- and quite apparent -- that Hinderaker doesn't reside in the despicable intelligent, educated segment of the culture.
George Bush must be comforted knowng that he'll always have Laura, Barney and ... Hinderaker in the bunker alongside him.
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