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"Actually, I'm pretty much Christian right. Pretty much."

Your middle name isn't, say, Kelly, is it? Kristin? Karen? Just checking.

Actually, I'm pretty much Christian right. Pretty much.

K

Hey, no. Many thanks for not attaching your name to ours.

G

And yet here you are.

Communism may have fallen in Cuba, but Cuba is now a dictatorship. Only a year or two ago it rounded up 20-30 journalists and threw them all in jail for no particular reason. I don't recommend Bookninja to people anymore because lately it has been occupied by such ignorant leftism as can be found in Kathryn's post.

Edited by author 01-12-2006 12:11 PM
It's my democracy and you can't have it

White House won't allow author, William Blum attend a book fair in Cuba. Ironically, his book is called Killing Hope.

Killing Hope, translated into Spanish and published by Editorial Oriente, is a detailed account of the involvement of the Pentagon, the US State Department and the CIA in diverse parts of the world spanning from the end of the Second World War until the mid-1990s.

It's weird, you know; the US government is rarely so short-sighted in these matters. Here's what you do, Mr Blum. You buy a ticket to Toronto and then fly to Cuba from here. You can even stop over and have dinner at my place; meet the kids, see my photos of Havana (nice town, btw, though a little run down what with all the sanctionsand the fall of communism).

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Regarding Kennedy's children's book...

Maybe "Splash" will teach children how to get a drowning woman out of the back-seat of a Senator's car.


(Splash is a Portuguese Water Dog and Kennedy's co-protagonist in "My Senator and Me: A Dogs-Eye View of Washington, D.C.")

I'm betting the dog won't talk about the five hamburgers, the quick stop at the intern's desk, and the briefcase full of non-sequential, unmarked bills...

I kid. Kid, because I love. I love my decadent Democrats. Ted Kennedy has "written" a children's book about a dog that follows his senator around for a day.


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Vote for him? I wouldn't spit on him if he were on fire! (Or maybe I would feel compelled to, because I'm one of the Devil's party, committed to massive redistributive programs...)

Edited by author 01-05-2006 07:51 PM
Don't you go voting for him now, Susan, just cause he tickled your nostalgia bone...

I got the joke (I assume your post was a kind way of pointing the joke out for me), but I still think that everything behind it is creepy and illustrative of a radical religious right perspective. Don't forget, there WOULD be prayer in school if he got his way. And you can bet your arse none of it would be done wearing yarmulkes or facing Mecca.

All of what he said in that old speech is still under there, it's just now got a PR team applying makeup before (and quite often after) every photo op. Frightening.

I would like to reemphasize one passage, in bold: "including some that would just horrify you, putting universal Medicare in our constitution, and feminist rights, and a whole bunch of other things." [emphasis mine]

Allow me to take Christianity back out of his oily paws for just a second. JESUS H. CHRIST! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?! I feel like throwing holy water on him and yelling, "The Power of Christ compels you!"

G

Edited by author 01-05-2006 04:23 PM
"As long as there are exams, there will always be prayer in schools," Harper declares. This is perhaps the only part of his speech that shows compassion and insight into the needs of his fellow Canadians. Indeed, I remember praying many times during exams: "Please don't let me fail, please don't let me fail, please don't let me fail."

P.S. Janine!!! Glad you're still out there.

Amen.

G

Not that I distrust Bookninja, of course - I was refering to the *other* blog. Bookninja = 'word of god' to me :-)