Daily Archives: September 6, 2006

religious persecution and the founding of America

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Gore Vidal's AmericaNot what you think.

Fortean Times is the go-to site on the Internet for all your Gore Vidal quotation needs, as all the literati know (particularly since the New Yorker went all Kato Kaelin/Beyonce/Roseanne Barr), and the On This Day entry for today is perhaps the finest example thereof.

6 September. The Pilgrim Fathers set sail from Plymouth on this day in 1620. Gore Vidal one remarked that they left England ‘not because they were persecuted for their religious beliefs, but because they were forbidden to persecute others for their beliefs.’

Well that would explain a great deal.

antiwar video: December Skies

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From the Cowboy Junkies and Jesus’ General.

and from the comments:

From an interview with the Cowboy Junkies’ Michael Timmons:
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“…It is a stark and brutal idea: the celebration of war, so endemic in our society, is akin to celebrating the killing of our children. So I wrote the song with that context in mind. After I wrote it, I realized that there were many more layers to the song and idea…
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The other layer was a bit more subtle. The title of the song refers to the rising of the Star of Bethlehem in the December sky. The Star of Bethlehem heralded the coming of Jesus and his message of peace and love and good will toward our fellow man (a message that seems to be completely lost in these times). But it also struck me that, according to Christians, Jesus was sent by his Father to die for our sins. Another father sending his child off to die for what he perceives is the greater good…”
L.G. Fucktard

Goering on leadership

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The man knows what he’s talking about. I shall make no comment about the fact that I found this while doing a Google Image search for the new Boris Johnson poster.

None whatsoever.

Goering on Leadership

 

Hail Election Day!

16 buildings blowed up, blowed up REAL good!

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from BoingBoing. This is the one and only time I’ll ever post Fox News video, fyi (unless I find something truly asinine to make fun of). But who doesn’t like to see shit get blown up?