Comments on: Obama’s Faith-Based Makeover

By: evie

evie — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:18:16 +0000

well boz,
I guess i took that question one of the other many ways. My gramma used to say men are walking penises from age 8 to 80, but will up that to 96.

By: hp

hp — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:37:22 +0000

I laughed.

By: bozhidar balkas

bozhidar balkas — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:31:56 +0000

evie,
it’s a joke. and most jokes contain some truth. i’m glad u answered. yes, i wanted to buy u. like one wd buy the dog in the window that patti page sung ab.
but since every woman (now don’t go into a shock) is potentially a whore, i had also other ideas.
but hold it! every man is also potentially a whore as well. it is a matter of how much money a woman wants to pay.
in any case i use this joke on women; not on men! most laugh. others r not annoeyed at all. some say, Well, i don’t know. or i dont know what to say.
anyhow evie, it seems to me u haven’t tied self up in knots when u read my message. i lied, evie; i’m under 96. thank u

By: evie

evie — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:47:49 +0000

boz
I do not know with certainty what your question pertains to. Am I for sale or on sale?

I would answer in the negative as I have never been nor am I now for sale. However, no one has ever made me an offer that I couldn’t refuse.

I am under 96. I am under 86, under 76, under 66.

By: bozhidar balkas

bozhidar balkas — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:24:10 +0000

evie, some questions for u?
r u for sale or on sale? i hope ur under 96. i’m 96
now, the question may be taken many ways. what do u think i meant?
thank u

By: evie

evie — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 13:32:51 +0000

Not pertinent to the article but this past weekend my 3 Latina daughters-in-law told me that the word “Hispanic” to describe them was a no-no. “His-panic” they laughed. They prefer Latina or Latino.

Also not pertinent, but the term “faith-based” reminds me of an older B movie titled “Rising Storm” about a godly futuristic US run by Rev. Jimmy Joe. In one scene a dissident asks the jackbooted troopers arresting him “what about my rights?” and the trooper says “f*ck your rights, praise the lord.” There was also a class of people known as Knotheads.

By: Deadbeat

Deadbeat — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:18:48 +0000

Behind the Myth of War for Oil

The widely-shared but erroneous view that recent U.S. wars of choice are driven by oil concerns is partly due to precedence: the fact that for a long time military force was key to colonial or imperialist control and exploitation of foreign markets and resources, including oil. It is also partly due to perception: the exaggerated notion that both President Bush and Vice President Cheney were “oil men” before coming to the White House. But, as noted earlier, George W. Bush was never more than an ineffective minor oil prospector and Dick Cheney was never really an oil man; he headed the notorious Halliburton company that sold (and still sells) services to oil companies and the Pentagon.

But the major reason for the persistence of this pervasive myth seems to stem from certain deliberate efforts that are designed to perpetuate the legend in order to camouflage some real economic and geopolitical special interests that drive U.S. military adventures in the Middle East. There is evidence that both the military-industrial complex and hard-line Zionist proponents of “greater Israel” disingenuously use oil (as an issue of national interest) in order to disguise their own nefarious special interests and objectives: justification of continued expansion of military spending, extension of sales markets for military hardware, and recasting the geopolitical map of the Middle East in favor of Israel.

Counterpunch

By: John Hatch

John Hatch — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:36:59 +0000

I recommend Esther Kaplan’s ‘With God on Their Side’ ((The New Press).
The subtitle is ‘How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science, Policy, and Democracy in George W. Bush’s White House’.

A scary read, and now Mr. Obama wants to make matters worse. I’m glad I live in Canada. For the health care, too.

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:58:03 +0000

meanwhile back on earth…..

Nicely stated, Bill.

By: hp

hp — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:05:18 +0000

As evidenced by Obama’s “anomalous” airplane incident recently, he ain’t POTUS yet.
The pile of dead bodies relating to the Clintons and their illustrous careers is impressive in its varieties.