“Our priorities is our faith.”
-Bush in Greensboro, N.C., Oct. 10, 2000
About The Author
BooMan
Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
faith in the all-mighty dollar…
faith that the people will keep believing the lies
faith that they won’t get caught, in their own rapture
faith that is not religious, only greed.
What’s this? An old-fashioned open thread?
I love it. Yet now I find myself with nothing to say. I have a headache. Too much candy.
me too. Since I don’t celebrate Easter I would rather wish everyone Happy Chocolate Day(who’d thought that by my name, huh)and none of that cheapo awful Palmers chocolate or those other off brands. They give chocolate a bad name.
This poem popped into my atheistic head when I read the quotation. Imagine what would happen if Bush were to read this.
The Divine Image
William Blake
To Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
All pray in their distress:
And to these virtues of delight
Return their thankfulness.
For Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
Is God, our father dear:
And Mercy, Pity, Peace, and Love,
Is Man, his child and care.
For Mercy has a human heart,
Pity, a human face:
And Love, the human form divine,
And Peace, the human dress.
Then every man of every clime,
That prays in his distress,
Prays to the human form divine,
Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.
And all must love the human form,
In heathen, Turk, or Jew.
Where Mercy, Love, & Pity dwell,
There God is dwelling too.
A long-time favorite Blake verse from my mother (I don’t know a specific title or source)
To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour
are our faith?
Because it’s not an open thread unless someone pimps his or her blog.
because Deadwood is starting. But does it have to do with Vampires?
::sheepish:: sometimes
Is there really an Arkham? Isn’t that H.P. Lovecraft’s favorite setting?
It’s funny that this is the first time I’ve noticed your signature. Are you involved in the Cult of Chthulu? Do you read from the Necronomicon by the mad Arab what’s-his-name?
I generally battle the cult of Cthulhu (sometimes referred to as Republicans).
I only read the Necronomicon for the pictures.
Cool blog, Carnacki…I bookmarked it. That’s a fair bargain–throwing away your dignity in the hopes of gaining a reader or two in return for actually gaining one. Cha-ching!
P.S. Isn’t it possible that you’re responsible for your daughters’ interest in Mssr. Holmes? After all, you’ve raised them in a milieu of mysteries, detectives, vampires and ghosts. (Which, in my opinion, is the best way to raise ’em.)
Alas, I have no dignity to throw away. But I’m glad I picked up a reader. I might have played a small role in my children’s interests.
I hope Jenna and notJenna has a better relationship with their Grammar than he do.
…even with the grammar corrected, I can’t understand what the blithering idiot means.
well I think maybe if we could that might be kinda scary in itself. I always liked the word blithering and think it suits perfectly.
I say unto you: Is this an example of faith based grammer?
I know the human being and fish can coexist peacefully.”
-Bush in Saginaw, Mich., Sept. 29, 2000
I haven’t seen this story mentioned on any of my favorite blogs but is anyone else as surprised as I am to find out via Los Angeles Times that Tom Delay didn’t do anything to prevent his family from pulling the plug on his brain-damaged father?
And from New York Times:
Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader and leader of the Congressional effort to spare Terri Schiavo’s life, was confronted more than 16 years ago with his own agonizing end-of-life dilemma and agreed to withdraw life support from the patient, his father, according to a report Sunday in The Los Angeles Times.
The account said that Mr. DeLay had suffered multiple injuries, including kidney failure, and that his wife, Maxine, and their other children had made the initial decision to withhold kidney dialysis and other treatments when it became clear he could not recover. Representative DeLay, at the time in his third term in the House, did not object, the newspaper’s report said.
In a meeting before the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group, Mr. DeLay linked the Schiavo case to a broader attack on both him and the conservative movement in general. In press releases and statements on the House floor, he spoke of Ms. Schiavo in explicitly religious and moral terms.
“Congress has a legislative and moral duty to do what we can to protect her,” Mr. DeLay said on March 17, after the House passed a measure intended to prevent the withdrawal of Ms. Schiavo’s feeding tube. “Her life is being threatened, and we have it in our power to act on her behalf. Every human life deserves at least that much.”
More here Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader and leader of the Congressional effort to spare Terri Schiavo’s life, was confronted more than 16 years ago with his own agonizing end-of-life dilemma and agreed to withdraw life support from the patient, his father, according to a report Sunday in The Los Angeles Times.
The account said that Mr. DeLay had suffered multiple injuries, including kidney failure, and that his wife, Maxine, and their other children had made the initial decision to withhold kidney dialysis and other treatments when it became clear he could not recover. Representative DeLay, at the time in his third term in the House, did not object, the newspaper’s report said.
In a meeting before the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group, Mr. DeLay linked the Schiavo case to a broader attack on both him and the conservative movement in general. In press releases and statements on the House floor, he spoke of Ms. Schiavo in explicitly religious and moral terms.
“Congress has a legislative and moral duty to do what we can to protect her,” Mr. DeLay said on March 17, after the House passed a measure intended to prevent the withdrawal of Ms. Schiavo’s feeding tube. “Her life is being threatened, and we have it in our power to act on her behalf. Every human life deserves at least that much.”
Yes, I’ve read this also. Between bush’s bill that he signed as governor that hospitals could pull the plug on patients without their families consent or if they can’t pay and delay you have wonder how this hypocricy goes so undereported in the ‘news’.
I think I read also that after plug was pulled by delay he then got a fancy lawyer and sued someone..don’t know for sure who…I am trying to avoid most of this whole subject but that’s almost impossible.