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I’ve a nasty suspicion that this is only a taste of what’s barreling toward us…

So I was headed west down I-40 from a day trip to Raleigh (which I’ll be posting about tomorrow) this afternoon and around Burlington, I started flicking through radio stations.

And as I was going across the AM dial just after 5 p.m. I happened to catch some pastor preaching with all due exuberance and conviction that Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama is “the Antichrist”. This pastor also added that just as the Antichrist does not have “a single Christian ounce in his body” that Obama is going to Hell.

I checked the frequency. It was 880 AM. Which means it was a broadcast of WPIP, a radio ministry out of Berean Baptist Church in Winston-Salem.

Not that this really surprises me.

Apart from sporadic music, from sunrise to sunset WPIP’s broadcasting is pretty ...

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In case I haven’t articulated it already: I think that people who support George W. Bush’s “Surge” in Iraq are, for the most part, idiots.

So for the past year and more we’ve been hearing “The Surge is working! The Surge is working!” I’m reminded of how some passengers on the Titanic actually believed beyond all rational thought that the ship was coming back up to the surface just before it took its final plunge into the Atlantic.

Those who believe in “The Surge” (sounds like a Michael Bay movie) don’t care about the reality of what’s going on in Iraq. If they did, they might be outraged to know that whatever success “The Surge” has boasted doesn’t come from an increased U.S. military presence nearly as much as the fact that the U.S. government has been BRIBING Sunni militants to “switch sides” and not shoot at American forces....

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This war is five years old this week. That’s a longer conflict in one small country than the United States was involved across the globe in World War II. Very nearly four thousand U.S. personnel have died… but that’s only officially counting those who die within Iraq, not those who are wounded and airlifted to Germany or wherever and die elsewhere. That says nothing of the long-term emotional trauma that many of these men and women will be suffering for years to come.

And so far as the innocent population of Iraq goes, there’s no telling what they’ve had to endure. It’s already a far worse country for Christians to live in than it was under Saddam Hussein. Under him there was no persecution of Christians: now most of them have had to flee the country.

Al-Quaeda was not welcome in Iraq during the Saddam years. Today, because of this ...

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Or to quote Scatman Crothers’s character in The Shining: “Just between you and me, we got a very serious problem with the people taking care of the place. They turned out to be completely unreliable assholes.”

To wit:

– Oil today hit $111 per barrel.

– $200 per barrel is possible, says Goldman Sachs.

– The value of the dollar is plummeting.

– We are now in a recession, according to most economists.

– Some are now saying that there is a “perfect storm” brewing for another full-blown depression.

– Next week will be the five-year anniversary of the beginning of the Iraq War, with no end in sight. We have now been engaged in military operations in one small Mid-East country for far longer, with no clearly defined end-goal or even rationale for our presence there, than the United States fought in World

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Actually, as of the most recent report it’s $107.44 to be accurate. And there’s little doubt it will be up quite a bit again by the end of the week.

Average gas price right now around here in north-central North Carolina is $3.19 per gallon.

Why is the cost of gas and everything else skyrocketing? It’s not that there’s a dwindling supply as many people will argue. No, right now it’s more because of the depleting value of the U.S. dollar. With diminished buying power comes high prices across the board.

And lowering the interest rates combined with pumping more Federal Reserve notes into the system is not going to do a damned thing to help matters. In fact, they will make things considerably worse by further driving down the dollar’s value.

Nor will this “stimulus package” pushed on us by George W. Bush and Congress do anything. “Stimulate the ...

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I finally heard the answer to that a few days ago, from a friend who left a church where it sounds like this was almost official policy.

George W. Bush, most Christians at this church earnestly believed, is going to be used by God to start off the End Times.

My friend was absolutely serious about that.

When we were told that, my jaw came almost completely unhinged from the roof of my mouth.

It does make sense though: a lot of Christians who have become deluded about how they think the Apocalypse must happen, would be foolish enough to do whatever they thought was “necessary” to “help” God bring it on.

It makes sense. It makes absolutely perfect sense. All these years of trying to warn my fellow believers about this evil man in the White House and all the harm that he’s done this country. And when you ...

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George W. Bush will deliver his final State of the Union speech as President tonight.

As always, he won’t dare speak the truth about the condition of this country to the American people. Too much “legacy” is at stake to do anything other than to BS people as he’s done throughout his term.

So it falls to me to go where most politicians, the mainstream press, the partisan sycophants, and the useful idiots fear to tread, and lay down the real smack on the true state of the union…

– You will hear Bush tonight repeat that “America is strong” or that “our union is strong”. This is a damned lie. The truth of the matter is, America is not only not strong, America is dying. In fact, America may be dead and beyond resuscitation already.

– We have precious little industrial infrastructure left. Bush and his buddies have ...

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So says U.S. Solicitor General Paul D. Clement, speaking on behalf of the Bush White House, which is supporting the District of Columbia’s ban on personal ownership of handguns.

Clement also claims that the Second Amendment supports “reasonable regulation” on gun ownership.

They do all of this in the name of the “public”.

But let’s get real here…

Anytime the government takes more power unto itself, it will always excuse it by saying it’s “for the good of the people”. But it always, always, does it for itself.

American government long ago ceased being something of the people, by the people, and for the people.

Government in America… and I believe that the Bush Administration and the current Congress have exemplified this more so than at any other time in this nation’s history… has long been about raw, naked, unforgiving power for sake of power. Government in America ...

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The United States Army will continue its program of “stop loss” to keep personnel close to retirement or re-enlistment from leaving, so as to keep up President Bush’s “surge” in Iraq.

Which only indicates to me that Bush has no understanding or sense of respect at all for the lives of our soldiers.

These men and women have lost enough already for Bush’s private little war. Too many of them have already lost their homes back in the states, many have lost spouses. A few have even committed suicide.

And yet, the damaged little boy in the White House continues to play with their lives as if they were so many G.I. Joe dolls.

Y’know, for all the “God bless our troops” that I’ve seen over the past six years, I have to wonder how much not just this President, but a lot of Americans seriously value the men ...

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