The Liberal Avenger: Jesus Has a Posse

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The sordid tale of Michelle Malkin and her puppeteer husband Jesse - two voices, acting as one, wrapped up in a pretty package. Easy-to-digest racism for the masses.

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"At times, conservatives have even trod into arguing in favor of a war ethos (see, for instance the popular bumper sticker: "War Has Never Solved Anything, Except for Ending Slavery, Fascism, Nazism and Communism"); at other times -- as in all the talk about "shock and awe" in the Iraq invasion -- they have even suggested there is a kind of beauty to violence, especially in the service of the imposition of American will. "

"Let's do the sign of the cross. It'll make us feel real boss."

- Skafish

"Look, can we all at least agree on one thing -- if the 'I didn't do it' administration is re-coronated, that come November 3, EVERYTHING IS THEIR FUCKING FAULT."

"Arbolist... Look up the word. I don't now, maybe I made it up. Anyway, it's an arbo-tree-ist, somebody who knows about trees."

- George W. Bush, USA Today, 08/21/2001

"There are no mirrors in Bush's church."

- Tim Appelo, Seattle Weekly, 12/08/2004

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends."

- Maya Angelou

"To those who consider the war a mistake but still fear the consequences of military withdrawal, we ask these questions: when will enough be enough? If not now, when?"

- An Appeal to Global Conscience (via j a c k *)

"How much productivity has been wasted, not reducing our dependence on oil, but to entice us to buy more that is made with, and which consumes for its continuance - oil. It would be as if a man who had been poisoned, rather than reaching for the emetic, reaches for another dose of the poison."

- Stirling Newberry, So We Want a Revolution, 03/18/2005


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Tuesday, April 26, 2005

Jesus Has a Posse

It feels as if religious extremism and attempts by the extremists to wield political power in our country is at an all-time high (or at least a Post-War high). We have a president who's "personal hero" is Christ. The leadership of the US Senate has just launched an attack on the Democrats based on their imagined lack of faith. Some of the most obnoxious people ever to appear in the public eye (Tom DeLay and Jerry Falwell, for example) seem to be able to get away with anything amongst their constituencies as long as they maintain the illusion of being on Team Jesus.

For a non-religious, non-conservative this apparent trend is very troubling. We are moving towards a society under the thumb of thought-police at best and an outright theocracy at worst.

Or are we?

My question to you is whether or not these are indeed unique times as far as religious conservatism in American society is concerned or are things really just the same as they have always been, with perhaps a media fetish over extremism amplifying the noise of the holy rollers to a degree where the Jesus freaks' influence appears all pervasive.

Is Jesus' posse in charge or do they just think they are?

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