Oh my God, that’s exactly what I was thinking!!

BTW – Where the hell is this Fox affiliate? I hope I never have to pull off the road for gas in that neighborhood.

Anyway, in regard to those two, to vote for them is +1, to vote for Barr or Nader or McKinney, et. al. or write in Paul or not to vote at all is 0, and to vote for Obama is -1. That’s a range of two.

No guarantees what -1 will bring, after Paul Craig Roberts, but if you can possibly bear Duopolymint, you can double your fun.

http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=338

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081004/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_enforcing_modesty

Israeli Bestseller Breaks National Taboo

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cook.php?articleid=13569

When is a Holocaust Not a Holocaust?

http://www.counterpunch.org/blum10032008.html

Israel’s Breeding Ground for Terrorism

http://www.antiwar.com/orig/cook.php?articleid=13530

“I would also pray, Lord, that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their god — whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons…And Lord, I pray that you would guard your own reputation, because they’re going to think that their god is bigger than you, if that happens. So I pray that you will step forward and honor your own name with all that happens between now and Election Day….”

In the all too long and turgid history of Western religions–indeed, in any history East or West–I cannot remember running into anything like this, to wit, a prayer from an adherent requesting a supposedly omnipotent divinty not to sell itself short, and tarnish its “reputation”.

That the reputation is to be tarnished by losing an election is all the more striking.

Colloquially, this may be an expansion of a theology in which phrases like “God failed us” are possible, but in this case said by a putative adherent.

This is almost seems rooted in the Tribal and Henotheist concept of “God” in the early parts of the Old Testament, and akin to the other ancient religions which Nietzsche talks of, according to which success in war or the world was the sign of divine power.

It is exactly the subtilty of the later Old Testament, however, to have to a large extent transcended this simplicity, by having the tribe “fail God”, rather than the reverse.

In fact, some theologians have argued that it is exactly the tribe’s failure that allows the possibility of an abstract monotheism.

Not that there is a huge distinction between Low Deutsch and Dutch. Low Deutsch is sea level German, which is also Dutch, who, with their dikes, go the Germans one better in the matter of “low”.

And you do now add “weird”, it is true.

Still, Calvin had his weirdness among the Dutch as well, though they were, it is admitted, much more practiced and pragmatic in their hypocrisy, including mastering the fine art of the “hex”, as often seen in the exterior of their houses.