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I hope you 144,000 are ready

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Hey Rob! I was right! He is trying to jumpstart the Apocalypse.

t was an e-mail we weren’t meant to see. Not for our eyes were the notes that showed White House staffers taking two-hour meetings with Christian fundamentalists, where they passed off bogus social science on gay marriage as if it were holy writ and issued fiery warnings that “the Presidents [sic] Administration and current Government is engaged in cultural, economical, and social struggle on every level”葉his to a group whose representative in Israel believed herself to have been attacked by witchcraft unleashed by proximity to a volume of Harry Potter. Most of all, apparently, we’re not supposed to know the National Security Council’s top Middle East aide consults with apocalyptic Christians eager to ensure American policy on Israel conforms with their sectarian doomsday scenarios.

But now we know.

(Via Atrios. Like you need a link to find Atrios.)

Random thoughts

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On a rainy day, at home with the kids because I can’t find my damn car and house keys anywhere:

  • Since The Passion of the Christ can be abbreviated to POTC, can we call it The Passion of the Christ: Curse of the Black Pearl?
  • My friend Rob suggests: The Last Action Savior.
  • I also liked the guy who does reviews on Slate and “Fresh Air”: the Jesus Chainsaw Massacre.
  • But my question is: will this be Mel’s Battlefield: Jesus?
  • In case you can’t tell, I have no plans to see POTC. Darin stayed home yesterday (mental health day) and I told him to tell everyone at the office that he stayed home in order to be first in line at the movie.
  • TBOGG is running a Bush/Cheney slogan contest.
  • Best Bush/Cheney slogan I’ve heard so far (on the Well, I think): “Don’t change horsemen mid-Apocalypse!”
  • In case you can’t tell, I have no plans to vote for Bush.
  • I told my sister that things have changed so much that for the first time I’m thinking of donating money to a presidential candidate. “Which one?” she asked. “It doesn’t matter,” I said. I’m pretty sure she knew that I was not, in fact, open to donating to Bush/Cheney.
  • I have yet to read one reasonable defense of keeping marriage heterosexual. Which is really kind of amazing, given that most people seem to be against it. You’d think someone would be able to state why they’re so desperately opposed. Well, at least, be able to state why that doesn’t rely on religious reasons. Or on a call to “tradition,” which is as…um…ignorant a path as you can go down and still have autonomic functions.
  • I have, as of yet, no plans to marry gay.

Where the hell are my keys????