{"id":678,"date":"2004-10-27T10:55:44","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T14:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/wordpress\/?p=678"},"modified":"2004-10-27T10:55:44","modified_gmt":"2004-10-27T14:55:44","slug":"the-bush-crusades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=678","title":{"rendered":"The Bush Crusades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Go to heaven, go to hell.  While you&#8217;re on this planet keep your religion out of our politics.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lewrockwell.com\/manion\/manion55.html\">Christopher Manion<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lewrockwell.com\/lewrw\/archives\/006362.html\">Norman Singleton<\/a> comment on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertyforum.org\/showflat.php?Cat=&#038;Board=issues_politics&#038;Number=293040664\">this<\/a> Liberty Forum post that links to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freerepublic.com\/focus\/f-news\/1250511\/posts\">freeper-produced<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/pages.sbcglobal.net\/bommer\/When_The_Man_Comes_Around.html\">video<\/a> which hails George as the Messiah by using Johnny Cash&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cowboylyrics.com\/lyrics\/cash-johnny\/the-man-comes-around-2253.html\">The Man Comes Around<\/a> and carefully selected pictures that leave nothing to the imagination.  <\/p>\n<p>You can hear Johnny Cash&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hit-country-music-lyrics.com\/johnnycashlyrics-mancomesaround.html\">original version here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some parts edited out by the plagiarising hack:<\/p>\n<p>And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder:<br \/>\nOne of the four beasts saying: &#8220;Come and see.&#8221;<br \/>\nAnd I saw. And behold, a white horse.  <\/p>\n<p>The hairs on your arm will stand up<br \/>\nAt the terror in each sip and in each sup<br \/>\nWill you partake of that last offered cup<br \/>\nOr disappear into the potter&#8217;s ground<br \/>\nWhen the man comes around<\/p>\n<p>Till Armageddon no shalam no shalom<\/p>\n<p>Then the father hen will call his chicken&#8217;s home<br \/>\nThe wise men will bow down before the throne<br \/>\nAnd at his feet will cast their golden crowns<br \/>\nWhen the man comes around<\/p>\n<p>Close (Spoken part)<br \/>\nAnd I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts<br \/>\nAnd I looked and behold, a pale horse<br \/>\nAnd it&#8217;s name it said on him was Death<br \/>\nAnd Hell followed with him.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what contingency plans Sharon or <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;ncid=721&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/nm\/20041027\/wl_nm\/mideast_dc\">Netanyahu<\/a> will implement when they are told to cast golden crowns at the feet of George the Messiah and welcome evangelical proselytisers into the settlements or be sent to the burning fires of hell.<\/p>\n<p>Converting the Jews seems to be on the lord&#8217;s agenda:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A454-2004Oct26_2.html\"><strong>Getting New Terms<\/strong><\/a> (<em>via<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericumansky.com\">Eric Umansky<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Keeping up with well-known area folks getting recent appointments . . . President Bush over the summer named Madeleine C. Will, former assistant secretary of education for special education and rehabilitative services and former spouse of columnist George Will, to another term as chairman of the President&#8217;s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities. Bush reappointed to that committee the Rev. Lon N. Solomon, senior pastor of the McLean Bible Church, which has planned an $18.5 million center for disabled children. Solomon also serves as chairman of the board of the executive committee of Jews for Jesus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewsforjesus.org\/\">Jews for Jesus<\/a> has a lively presentation for those of you wondering why the religious need to bother at all with politics.  Because, you silly fools, we need a theocracy!  &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewsforjesus.org\/gallery\/flash\/politics\/whoneedspolitics.swf\">Now that&#8217;s a system that can&#8217;t be beat<\/a>!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go to heaven, go to hell. While you&#8217;re on this planet keep your religion out of our politics. 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