Reminds me of the trap for the caste system: re-incarnation. Your life sucks this time, but if you are a good slave, you will have a better life the next time around.
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Easter cookies will show the way to heaven!
http://www.cherbearsden.com/cookies.html

Isn’t that how they sold the idea of heaven to the serfs in the middle ages, and idea that wasn’t around in 32AD? When you’ve got a scam that always works, there’s not need to mess with success.

On Easter Sunday, upon the resurrection of Jesus, the* Christ, death was cast aside as a mere moment in the “marvelous whole” of eternity, and there we learned that days of bleakness and shadow are overcome.

See, dying in Iraq for Bush & Cheney isn’t so bad! It’s just a comma!

What a twit. Five years of constant, ignored invitations to “put up or shut up” have had no effect on Anchoress and her fellow idiots. Of course, with their role models’ stellar record of copping out on serving in Vietnam, surprise is unwarranted.

*I thought it was Jesus H. Christ, not Jesus T. Christ.

Didn’t this woman lose her mind over Schiavo? I’m amazed the Anchoress can dilate when lights are shined in her eyes. Forget looking in bird gall bladders, fortune cookies, tea leaves or star charts, the unhappier she is, the happier I am.

“It will take a while for the concept of liberty — and its concrete benefits — to take hold in the minds of the Iraqi people, and they begin to feel the thrust and power of the Democracy they have a chance to guide.”
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Yeah, we’ve been feeling the thrust of George Bush’s notion of democracy for the last 7 years, and it wasn’t in our minds.

Yes, Catstaff, that line struck me between the eyes, too.

It will take a while for the concept of liberty — and its concrete benefits — to take hold in the minds of the Iraqi people, and they begin to feel the thrust and power of the Democracy they have a chance to guide. We know that; increasingly we accept that our presence in Iraq must continue, but we are impatient for its end.

Aside from the nearly pornographic thrust and power, there’s the increasing acceptance thing. If that were the case, Dick Cheney wouldn’t have to be saying “Waaaaah, who gives a fuck what Americans think?”

Well hey, this is probably time to post the full lyrics of the Wobbly song you quoted upstairs, TBogg. My Dad’s best friend in the world was a Wobbly who sang this to us kids while swinging us on park swings in Jackman ME so many yrs. ago:

The Preacher & The Slave- written by Joe Hill in 1911

Long-haired preachers come out every night,
Try to tell you what’s wrong and what’s right;
But when asked how ’bout something to eat
They will answer in voices so sweet
(Chorus)You will eat, bye and bye,
In that glorious land above the sky;
Work and pray, live on hay,
You’ll get pie in the sky when you die
And the Starvation Army they play,
And they sing and they clap and they pray,
Till they get all your coin on the drum,
Then they tell you when you’re on the bum (chorus)
Holy Rollers and Jumpers come out
And they holler, they jump and they shout
Give your money to Jesus, they say,
He will cure all diseases today (chorus)
If you fight hard for children and wife-
Try to get something good in this life-
You’re a sinner and bad man, they tell,
When you die you will sure go to hell (chorus)
Workingmen of all countries, unite
Side by side we for freedom will fight
When the world and its wealth we have gained
To the grafters we’ll sing this refrain
You will eat, bye and bye,
When you’ve learned how to cook and how to fry;
Chop some wood, ’twill do you good
Then you’ll eat in the sweet bye and bye

“During Lent we marked the fifth year of our adventure in Iraq, an effort which even supporters of the war will admit was for too-long mismanaged.”

“ADVENTURE”? Like Iraq has been a damn white water rafting trip?

Also, I’d like a list of those supporters who have admitted the mismanagement. Would that be the Chimp, Darth, Rummy, Rove, Kristol? I missed those mea culpas.

GAH!
I’m getting a “404 not found” from the PJsMedia linky. Wha Hoppen?
FunnyD.

Thanks for the song, Marie. I only knew the “Pie in the Sky when you Die” part…from some former DFH college prof, probably!