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Wednesday, December 29, 2010

January 11, 2004 by s.z.


A debate over Mel Gibson’s film "The Passion of Christ" has involved a heated clash between Vatican liberals and conservatives, exposing an alleged power struggle between intimates of Pope John Paul II and those who resent conservative influence on the Holy Father, a top Jewish publication says.
The Forward, the nation's leading Jewish weekly, reports that Vatican liberals question claims that when the pope saw the film he commented, "It is as it was."
The paper also said that conservative Vatican officials around John Paul II are using the pope's statement to quash criticism of the film.
Look at all the trouble this movie is causing -- no wonder God kept striking Mel's Jesus actor with lightening!  Personally, I wouldn't blame the Pope if he declared Mel anathema.  And that's just based on The Patriot.

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More Scary Stuff

From the Time story on The Price of Loyalty:
According to the book, ideology and electoral politics so dominated the domestic-policy process during his tenure that it was often impossible to have a rational exchange of ideas. The incurious President was so opaque on some important issues that top Cabinet officials were left guessing his mind even after face-to-face meetings. Cheney is portrayed as an unstoppable force, unbowed by inconvenient facts as he drives Administration policy toward his goals.
[snip]
"The biggest difference between then and now," O'Neill tells Suskind about his two previous tours in Washington, "is that our group was mostly about evidence and analysis, and Karl (Rove), Dick (Cheney), Karen (Hughes) and the gang seemed to be mostly about politics. It's a huge distinction."
A White House that seems to pick an outcome it wants and then marshal the facts to meet it seems very much like one that might decide to remove Saddam Hussein and then tickle the facts to meet its objective. That's the inescapable conclusion one draws from O'Neill's description of how Saddam was viewed from Day One. Though O'Neill is careful to compliment the cia for always citing the caveats in its findings, he describes a White House poised to overinterpret intelligence. "From the start, we were building the case against Hussein and looking at how we could take him out and change Iraq into a new country," he tells Suskind. "And, if we did that, it would solve everything. It was about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The President saying, 'Fine. Go find me a way to do this.
Weren't we promised that although Bush knows nothing about foreign affairs, economics, etc. that he would surround himself with SMART, GROWNUP people who would give him the advice he needed?  Well, it seems that he's actually insulated from anyone who could tell him the truth, and gets all of his information from those to whom politics is the principal lens through which things are viewed, and underlings are told to make the politically advantageous slant on things the reality.  And so not only is intelligence politicized, but everything else is too.

Some people like Bush's moral clarity, the way he seems to say, "No need to worry that the world is complex and colored in shades of gray, 'cause it's all about RIGHT AND WRONG, with our side always being right."  But since this moral clarity seems based on no actual contact with the outside world, it's time to be afraid.  Be very afraid. 

P.S.  I just saw Suskind on "60 Minutes" saying that, per the notes of a staff meeting he was given, Bush was concerned about his second tax cut benefiting rich people again, and said he thought they should do something different this time.  He was told that the rich are "entrepeneurs," and they that are the ones who will grow the enconomy.   But Bush came back to it later, and asked if they shouldn't help the middle-class this go around.  Karl Rove reportedly said, "Stick to principle, stick to principle, stick to principle," and Bush eventually went along with the tax cut plan. 

So, we have Bush as the boy ruler, Rove as his unctuous, wily controller, and Cheney as the father figure who is actually the shadow emperor.  This all reminds me of a story from The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire, but I'm not sure which one.  Or maybe it's a movie plot.  In any case, in a sane world it shouldn't be the backstory of our presidency.

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And Speaking of Paranoid Conspiracy Theories . . .

If you visit RushLimbaugh.com today, you'll see that the top item is:
The Network War Against Rush Don't miss this great column...HumanEvents>
And since we do everything Rush tells us to, we visited that great column.  It's by Sherry and Steven Eros.  Sherry is a neuropsychiatrist and Steven is a philosopher -- so, it's one of those wacky "Dharma and Greg" or Jessica Simpson/Tucker Carlson marriages.  But somehow their combined specialities give them expert creds to address the media.

Anyway, here's the gist of their article:
The Rush Limbaugh timeline below exposes the elite media's political effort to demonize and discredit Rush Limbaugh, giving a false impression of criminal activity in the absence of any evidence. Taken together with the other media and political attacks on the conservative broadcasting superstar, these comments signify nothing less than an all-out "War Against Rush Limbaugh" jointly being waged by the elite media and Democratic Party politicians.

[snip]
Why the involvement of the Democratic Party presidential candidates? Why the inflammatory rhetoric of the network news anchors? Why the politically motivated raids on Limbaugh's doctors' offices? Simply viewing the Rush Limbaugh timeline makes the answers quite obvious here, now, today, without having to wait for Limbaugh's own explanation 
Well, the first item on the timeline is "Limbaugh criticizes McNabb on ESPN."  So, yes, the answers ARE obvious: the Democratic Party and the elite media are out to frame Rush for various crimes because they're in the pay of Donovan McNabb!  The media WERE very desirous of having a black quarterback do well, but not out of some "liberal guilt," but because McNabb is probably the most powerful man in America.  Dis him and bad things happen. 

But I do want to address that idea that the media is "giving a false impression of criminal activity in the absence of any evidence."  Because I think it's pretty clear that there IS evidence of wrongdoing.  Personally, I think the pharmacy records (from just one pharmacy, mind you) showing that Rush got prescriptions from four different doctors for the same type of medication within a one-month period, is pretty compelling evidence that some wrongdoing was going on (by Rush, the doctors, or some of both).  Rush said he paid Wilma Cline large sums of money because she was blackmailing him -- evidence of a guilty conscience, at a minimum.  Plus, Rush ADMITTED to violating federal banking regulations -- that's pretty good evidence too.  So, while Rush is LEGALLY innocent until proven guilty, I don't think that the media is required to not give impressions until the verdit is announced.  The fact that Rush looks bad now doesn't mean there's a Democratic Party/Elite Media conspiracy against him anymore than the fact that Michael Jackson looks creepy proves that the media is biased against him because he's black.

So, I advise Rush to team up with Jen Shroder, because maybe together they will have a better chance of fighting the evil machinations of the Democratic Party, the IAEA, and Donovan.

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Just a 'Simple Mom,' But What Adventures She Has!

Okay, as promised, here are the stories which Jen Shroder mentioned in the bio of her American Daily piece.  (Her article also appeared in Mich News, but without the bio; Mich News is another fun wingnut columnist site, featuring weekly columns by old friends like Judson Cox, Kathleen Parker, and Jan Ireland, so we might have to visit it again sometime.) 

But first, a little about WWW.BlessedCause.com: it's BIG.  Jen says it contains over 400 pages, and I have no reason to doubt her.  You could spend days there (it contains that much goofy material), but don't, because after a couple of hours your head will start to hurt.  And Jen updates and changes some of her stories over the course of several pages, so just take some of my individual links as approximations of where to start reading.

Now, on to. . .

1.  How Jen Started the California Recall, Was HackedThen Framed For Terrorism by the Forces of Evil:
Recently I found out that the Democratic party has named BlessedCause as behind the Davis recall as part of an alleged "right wing conspiracy."
Well, actually it wasn't the whole party, or even the DNC Chairman, but just the Chair of the 64th Assembly District Committee, California Democratic Party.  And all he did was write an article for the local paper claiming that the people behind the recall were on the far right.  He then listed some groups, such as the California Pro-Life Council, some guns groups, and Blessed Cause, to prove his point.  While Jen claims (several times) that she only mentioned the recall once on her 400 page site (implying that the evil Democrats must have been watching her very closely), she does let it slip that the did sign the recall petition.  I'm guessing that she and her organization were well known locally.  Heck, maybe the petition actually had a place to list credentials, and Jen mentioned that she was BlessedCauses's founder and only member.  So, the fact that she was mentioned in connection with the recall might not be as sinister as she thinks.  Or maybe it's MORE sinister. . . 

The article by the District Chairman appeared on 20 August, 2003.  
But then on August 28th, while at work, someone  hacked my computer and sent out a virus called "wicked" to [long numerical address at hmco.com]  The subject line read, "thanks". This was discovered only because the email was undeliverable and "returned" to me.
I called the FBI and the IFCC. With computer viruses creating so much havoc in our nation, this seemed serious. But the FBI was not too concerned, they said "it happens all the time" and they have real terrorists to pursue. Still, the FBI was able to help me, they checked out that my computer had been hacked and  helped me with security so it wouldn't happen again.
And then, out of curiosity, I checked out the website of who this virus was sent to. My jaw dropped. www.hmco.com  is HOUGHTON MIFFLIN, the textbook publisher my website is dedicated to expose! Their textbook is full of Islam induction and maligns Christianity for which I've given California's  Dept. of Education so much grief about . My cause was never the Davis Recall, it was Houghton Mifflin and our school system (Just how involved is Gov. Davis with the Dept. of Education?)
No wonder no one from my email list had received this virus, this wasn't a typical hack, I was being framed!
[snip]
Memories come to mind of the recent hyped media coverage of the kid arrested for sending out viruses, and the newscaster talking about how serious a crime this is... How easy would it be for the democratic party to insure my arrest for these viruses I supposedly sent, synchronized with the liberal media to blow it up to unbelievable proportions, portraying me as a villainous  extremist who started the recall of poor victimized Gov. Davis and the democratic party? Once Houghton Mifflin and whoever else strategically filed a complaint, it would take about a phone call.
What a diabolical plot to discredit the recall and anger Californians against this "right wing conspiracy," by framing a "member" and sending her to prison, a mom whose biggest crime is attempting to protect her children's faith from the liberal agenda taught to our children in school. They would have paraded me up and down as an intolerant hateful Christian, just like they describe us in the textbooks. All this to gain sympathy and support for Davis and discredit the recall. How many years in prison was I about to receive...our nation happens to be outraged right now about these virus attacks...would it be possible to label me a terrorist? Don't be surprised, I've already heard that accusation before and this alleged "right-wing conspiracy" accusation is breaking the ground for it.
And they would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for that meddling Mailer Daemon! 
Anyway, more suspicious stuff happens (a weird referrer link), but the FBI won't help, even though you'd think they'd care that the Democratic Party is framing innocent mothers in order to derail the California recall movement. 
I'm already looking at imprisonment, because whoever is framing me will just find another way. I clearly have some powerful enemies, myself a simple mom who, because I object to our children lured to dancing to other gods and the liberal agenda, continue to receive death threats of being cut into pieces from these same liberals who call me intolerant, and at the same time naming Christianity a religion of hate in our children's textbooks.To the liberals, Democrats, terrorists, homosexual militants, ACLU, even liberal Supreme Court Judges, I will not fear you. . . .Rather YOU need to fear the Great I AM. You can frame me , you can imprison me, you can kill me, but you cannot escape what is yet to come. 
She finally writes a plea to the Bureau, which concludes:
If you can't help me, would you please tell me who to report this to? There has to be some kind of agency that can help when someone is being framed. Thank you very much. Jen (alias) Shroder (I've changed my name legally, I have a family to protect).
Presumably, they refer her to the Federal Department of Being Framed, and that was the end of that.

2.  How Jen Saved the Life of John Walker Lindh
Days before John Walker Lindh's trial, on Monday, July 8th I called the offices of James J. Brosnahan, John Walker Lindh’s attorney.  (yes I can prove it).   I directed them to this website, where they would find dozens of pages of direct textbook quotes leading students (including Walker) to Islam.   
[snip]
Suddenly, the prosecution initiated the negotiation with John Walker's lawyers, within days of John Walker's lawyer receiving direct quotes from the textbook leading students to Islam.  John Walker did a great job "assuming he was a Muslim soldier" as the textbook taught him.
Yes, about the time when Lindh might have been in middle school, California started using the social studies text book which invited kids to "assume you're a Muslim solider" during the time of the Crusades.  Obviously, this is what caused Lindh to join the Taliban.  And once Jen brought it to the attention of the defense, the prosecution suggested a plea deal, and Lindh's life was spared, because the D.A. knew that it was actually Clinton's fault that Lindh became a terrorist, and he didn't want this coming out in open court (I'm just guessing on that last bit).
But it does leads us to . . .

3.  How the IAEA Covertly Linked to Jen's Site, and Why This Indicates That Our Children Were Sold To the Muslims
Because I've been hacked, I've been watching my webstats carefully. I find that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), an organization of the UN, has linked and sent traffic to my website, specifically my review on the 6th grade textbook.
What possible interest could they have over my 6th grade textbook review?
I didn't pay it too much mind, their website looked so technologically over my head it was (to be honest) boring, and I had noticed they sent traffic to our site before, but I just saw on FOX news that the IAEA is described as the "United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency" and that "Mohammad el-Baradei, speaking at the start of an assembly of the IAEA's 135 member nations, demanded that Iran must explain recent evidence that it possesses highly enriched uranium." 
Why does the United Nations' nuclear watchdog direct traffic to my 6th grade textbook review? ...and that explains how all these countries find BlessedCause...
I can't help but start to think...was all this propaganda in our public schools...was the education of our youth part of a package deal during CLINTON'S administration? Was the agreement to insist Islam is to be embraced and incorporated in our textbooks used as a bargaining chip? I honestly believe our education programs were used as a bargaining chip during Clinton's administration. Why else would all these middle east nations watch BlessedCause? Think about it, the glut of propaganda exploded onto the educational scene suddenly while Clinton was able to smile, give America a song and dance as he dallied on the side with an intern, in office.  [snip]
Did Clinton strike a deal behind closed doors? Was Islam given the go-ahead to saturate our schools, universities and textbooks? Why else would all these international organizations including the United Nations take interest in my website, a small voice opposing these practices?
Why else indeed?  And why would this site, called World O'Crap, take an interest in Jen's website unless I am part of the secret world-wide plan to offer our children to the space aliens for food?  It's no coincidence that I linked to BlessedCause just days after President Bush announced his plan to build a manned station on the moon.  One can't help but think that Bush made a behind-closed-doors deal with the moon men to force our schools to indoctrinate the tender minds of our children into thinking that space was "cool": then they will want to visit the moon, and get eaten.  In return, Bush was promised a week in a time-share condo on Mars where space babes will knock on his door and ask to have sex with him.  The fact that I got spam today from several companies who want to sell me painkillers and penis enlargers proves it.

But let's hear Jen's summary of the above stories:
Here I am, a no-nothing mom, credited as the cause of the Davis Recall, targeted by sophisticated hackers to be framed, flooded at times with traffic from the Arab world, evidently impacted the John Walker Lindh trial and over $500 million loss by Vivendi/Havas/Houghton Mifflin, the textbook publisher.
Yes, indeed.  God does work in mysterious ways. Jen may SEEM like a "no-nothing" mother, but she has more imaginary adventures before noon than most people do all day. 

However, being a martyr isn't all fun and games:
BlessedCause threatened and watched by various groups.
Even though BlessedCause is linked by WorldNetDaily, GOPUSA, HistoryNewsNetwork, and SierraTimes, Google stats show that "SamSpade" appears as receiving the most traffic regarding us. SamSpade is a site used to find the personal address of web owners. So it appears I'm being hunted, and these people do not want to deliver flowers. Thanks for coming to this website while I'm still alive!
The following contain links to Arabian sites, including United Arab Emirates. Yet in spite of all this negative attention, the threat I take far more seriously comes from the Militant Gay movement. That group is far more violent, powerful and organized than anybody realizes. 
Wow, a bigger threat than the IAEA?  More dangerous than the text book manufacturer cabala?  Even deadlier than the Democratic Party?  These cats are bad m...[shut yo' mouth!]  Hey, just talkin' about the Militant Gays. 

But why are they after Jen?  After all, some of her best friends are homosexuals.  Really!
Simultaneous to the religion objections, I object to teaching impressionable children the lifestyle of homosexuals as an option.  I have no problem with homosexuals, some of my best friends are homosexuals, but I vehemently oppose teaching it to IMPRESSIONABLE CHILDREN.  People can do what they want in the privacy of their own home but don't push it on my kids.  Unbelievably, they can and are.  Oh we can opt out, but who wants their son in a high school gym shower with a bunch of boys being taught about the glory homosexuality?  SHEESH.  That's another lawsuit waiting to happen, hopefully not to anyone I know.  You can teach TOLERANCE without inducing people into it! 
Because nobody would think about being gay unless they learned about it at school. 

Anyway, Jen's site is chock full of goofiness like this.  There's the story about how when she worked as a waitress at a ski resort frequented by Arnold in the '80s, it was the women who were groping him!  (He was always a perfect gentleman to Jen, even though she never had any actual contact with him.)  And there are all the examples proving that the San Luis Coastal Unified School District is infected by the "spirit of the antichrist" (her child had to learn an Indian legend about the rainbow bridge -- that proves it right there).  And, of course, there's Jen's School Board Candidate bio, but that's not at her site. 

So, Jen offers hours of entertainment to the hardy, but I don't think I should share any more with you, because I might get framed as a terrorist.

4:42:13 AM

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