While I’m at it with the venting of my disgust with the Bush men, here’s a couple of archived , not-published posts that I had been saving from last week, not sure that I wanted to go down that road, for fear that I’d ’tilt’ again and drain energy from my exploration/reflection on what the church IS rather than what it is NOT), nevertheless, SOMETIMES such things are best allowed to vent, so:

I’m so amazed (not really) at how easily the public swallows the continued falsehoods and deceptions of this evil regime. Yes, EVIL. Destructive, murderous, and self-rigtheous. Things like this just raise up the outrage over and over again. When will the nation’s eyes be opened to the extent that the scales wil be tipped, and enough people get mad as hell and won’t take it anymore? There’s “business as usual” (also with its usual amounts of corruption and greed and the usual vestiges of liberal democracy— conservative political versions included— and then there’s the Bush administration, whcih has taken it all to a new level, heightened and aided by media enhanced corporate interests that are blindly racing toward the neocon dream.

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In 2003, Vice President Cheney asserted, “Since I left Halliburton to become George Bush’s vice president, I’ve severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interest. I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven’t had, now, for over three years.” That wasn’t true in 2003, and it’s not true now. In 2003, Cheney still received deferred compensation from the contracting behemoth and possessed more than 433,000 stock options. Those options were worth $241,498 a year ago; they now are worth more than $8 million. With Cheney in office, Halliburton has received more than $10 billion for work in Iraq and received one of the first no-bid contracts for work in the Gulf Coast.