BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

I read C.S. Lewis' THE SCREWTAPE LETTERS years ago. And loved it. Never has it been more true than it is right now, today: Screwtape (a pseudonym for an emissary of Satan) advises his young cousin on how to derail a Christian: Let him begin by treating patriotism…as a part of his religion. Then let him, under the influence of partisan spirit, come to regard it as the most important part. Then quietly and gradually nurse him on to the stage at which the religion becomes merely a part of the “cause,” in which Christianity is valued chiefly because of the excellent arguments it can produce… [O]nce he’s made the world an end, and faith a means, you have almost won your man, and it makes very little difference what kind of worldly end he is pursuing. ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Putting Faith Before Politics By DAVID KUO Op-Ed Contributor SINCE 1992, every national Republican electoral defeat has been accompanied by an obituary for the religious right. Every one of these obituaries has been prematur...

There's one thing I hate. Just one. I don't hate anyone outright... it takes too much energy (unless it's Bill O'Reilly or Rush Limbaugh. et al) but this covers that. I HATE LIARS. People who lie. People who twist history, time, the truth and manipulate the good hearts & minds of others. Liars. Liars who lie to cover up their misdeeds, lie to smear others and just lie for the hell of it. I HATE LIARS. REMEMBER, THEY ARE LIARS by William Rivers Pitt "No one is such a liar as the indignant man." - Friedrich Nietzsche George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleezza Rice, along with a slew of administration underlings and a revolving-door cavalcade of brass hats from the Pentagon, have been making claims regarding Iraq for many years now. They claimed Iraq was in possession of 26,000 liters of anthrax, "enough to kill several million people," according to a page on the White House web site titled Disarm Saddam Hussein....

Looks like the New York Slimes is more than an anti-semitic mouthpiece. It's a bully who runs from big guns like the Neocons and beats up on nice guys like Israel. NY Times Holds Stories Because They're Afraid of Conservatives By Cenk Uygur The John McCain-Vicki Iseman story is not the first article the New York Times has held back for political reasons. They have now done this on at least three occasions: 1. The original FISA story on how the Bush administration was not getting warrants for wiretaps inside the United States. 2. The original story in 2004 that showed Osama bin Laden was hiding in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. 3. The McCain-Iseman story. We had James Risen, the writer of the first two stories on our show [1] back in 2005 and he admitted that they held the Bin Laden story until after the 2004 election because the New York Times didn't want to "get caught up in the politics of it." [2] Another way of stating that is that they were afraid of being calle...

YOUR BRAIN - ON NEOCON PUNDITRY New Study of Talk Show Host Brains Calls For Compassion, Not Scorn by Steve Young "You Wouldn't Ridicule Someone With Parkinson's*, Then Why Mock Anyone With A Brain Disease," says a should be Nobel Prize winner A new study released by Bio-psychological Medicine (BM) Journal offers clear evidence that the brains of the radio/TV talk show host/pundit, thought to be synthetically influenced by environmental and partisan pressure, is fundamentally hardwired differently than the normal human brain due to in utero developmental malformation of the embryonic nervous system in the first three months of fetal development. (See: Rosemary Baby's brain) The study calls for a new category within the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) to cover the brain-behavioral syndrome (see map and legend below) with the oral and anal local ganglia, the term "Cephalinguanal Syndrome" (Ceph/Syn) is proposed by the research team due to d...

WHAT BUSH IS THIS? I am going to profusely apologize to my right wing friends before I start this post. I have a lot of respect for some of what they believe in and say and I will fight to the death their right to say it. You've taught me a lot. And my liberal friends, same with you - sorry I had to leave you all - you were just making me sick. But I am getting so tired of hearing "what happened to 'Bring it on, Bush' or ' What Happened to Dead or Alive Bush' . There's the mounting disenchanment with Bush's policies, his lack of honesty, his spinelessness. So many of my friends are disappointed. I tried to tell you in 2000. I tried to tell you again in 2002, 2003... ad naseum. That guy? was an ACT! a FARCE! Bush was the PNAC Puppetboy to put forward their world & oil domination agenda. His handlers told him how to act & what to say. Cheney had his hand up Bush's poopshute like he was Charlie McCarthy. Now the party is coming to an...

THE HANNITY INSANITY Even time I watch Hannity & Colmes I feel like I should take a very hot shower and scrub down with sandpaper. Only Bill O'Reilly makes me feel dirtier. Hannity is an assault on my intellect. Colmes is such a milquetoast, I want to find out if he's a eunuch or just missing an internal skeletal system. For any neocons out there who think Hannity is still sane or even operating on the same planet as the rest of us, read on... On October 31, 2007, Hannity got into a discussion with Colmes about Halloween. Hannity feels that Halloween is a "liberal holiday." Sean's reasoning for Halloween being a liberal holiday? Buckle up - this is gonna make you fall right off your chairs and take you keyboards with you! HANNITY: You know what? I totally agree. I've got two young kids, and I am the food police. And I'm constantly monitoring what they eat. GERALDO RIVERA (Fox News host): And but for your involvement, wouldn't they eat the wo...

The New Right-Wing Smear Machine by CHRISTOPHER HAYES On February 27, 2001, two members of the American Gold Star Mothers, an organization of women who've lost sons or daughters in combat, dropped by the temporary basement offices of the new junior senator from New York, Hillary Clinton. They didn't have an appointment, and the office, which had been up and running for barely a month, was a bit discombobulated. The two women wanted to talk to the senator about a bill pending in the Senate that would provide annuities for the parents of those killed, but they were told that Clinton wasn't in the office and that the relevant staff members were otherwise engaged. The organization later submitted a formal request in writing for a meeting, which Clinton granted, meeting and posing for pictures with four members of the group. But the story doesn't end there. In May of that year, the right-wing website NewsMax, a clearinghouse for innuendo and rumor, ran a short item with the ...

IF YOU CAN'T BEAT 'EM, BE SILENTLY COMPLICIT I have a personal philosophy about people. I have shared it with others, hoping they would argue with me and tell me I was incorrect. So far history, humanity and my friends have done neither. They all tell me I am right on. What is it? : You meet the 10 basic personality types you are ever going to meet by the time you graduate high school. You just keep meeting them over & over & over & over again. Sometimes they are older, a different sex, different race or religion... but at their core - its those same 10 idiots. Ad infinitum. There are those on both sides of the aisle who sweep ALL Republicans, ALL Democrats, ALL Liberals, etc into the same basket. Pundit-punching groups with a sweep of the keyboard. Intellectual midgets at work! When will the radical right wing give up with using the MSM to flip off the rest of us? Giving liberals the Bronx cheer with "the surge is working" mantra not far behind?...

STEPHEN F. HAYES - PUT DOWN THE KOOL-AID!! I got to watch REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER this week and saw the performance of writer Stephen F. Hayes, who was roundly laughed at by the audience and Maher. I was so disgusted I wanted to call and get him into some sort of a rehab program for the hopelessly delusional. Just who is this clown? Here's what Wikipedia says about Hayes: Hayes is well known for his writings postulating an operational relationship between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the al-Qaeda terrorist organization. (See Saddam Hussein and Al-Qaeda). He ended one of his articles by this sentence: "...there can no longer be any serious argument about whether Saddam Hussein's Iraq worked with Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda to plot against Americans." Hayes authored a book on this subject entitled: The Connection: How al Qaeda's Collaboration with Saddam Hussein has Endangered America [ISBN 0-06-074673-4]. A major source for the articles and book was a memo ...