Linked here, because it won’t post.

You can download and print out a transcript of The Jesus Factor from this page of the site. (It generally takes about a week following the initial broadcast for the transcript to be edited and formatted.) This is the only place where you can access a transcript of this report. It is not available anywhere else.

In lieu of the transcript to the show, please enjoy Bushianity…

And the lyrics to the final Great Johnny Cash song:

And I heard, as it were, the noise of thunder:
One of the four beasts saying: “Come and see.”
And I saw.
And behold, a white horse.

And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts,
And I looked and behold: a pale horse.
And his name, that sat on him, was Death.
And Hell follwed with him.

This line of thinking… the Skull and Bones Defense, if you will… It is festering. (Apparently, this quote is echoed from Wonkette…

……..
LIMBAUGH: Exactly. Exactly my point! This is no different than what happens at the skull and bones initiation and we’re going to ruin people’s lives over it and we’re going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I’m talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You of heard of need to blow some steam off?
………

The number: 25… We’ll see…

Courtesy Billmon, I’ve got this statement, from Lebanese journalist Hisham Melhem:

The irony that these abuses were taking place in Abu Ghraib, the most notorious prison during Saddam’s regime, a facility that should have been razed to the ground and in its place built a shrine or memorial to its many victims. These abuses were taking place in that most notorious jail.

The Liberation Express Bogs Down. It has ran out of gas.

Update: We know how Bush translates into English. How does he translate into Arabic?

Nothing… good… can… come… from… this.

You never want to be coddled,
You never want to be kissed,
You’re just an old ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISMIST!
When I come close when we’re dancing,
I get a slap on the wrist,
Don’t be an old ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISMIST!
You’ve got no use for moonlight,
You’d turn your back on a star!
Your heart is bent and you’re against The state of things as they are!
When you’re a hundred years older,
maybe you’ll want what you’ve missed,
Don’t be an old ANTIDISESTABLISHMENTARIANISMIST!

Thank you, Duke Ellington.
Rearrange the word, though, and you get:
“antidisestablishmentterrorist.”

… A sign of the coming artistic clap-down if there ever was one.
Fahrenheit 451 Revisisted, indeedy!

Taken from David Brock’s new site:

ROBINSON: Well, one thing that needs to be understood, is that there’s also an impact on the torturer. … Now, I use the word torture, but that’s not what’s happening in these pictures.

ROBINSON: I’ve seen — I’ve seen worse than this at — frat hazing is worse than this.

Saddam’s Rape Rooms… the post-Saddam Rape Rooms…

Forget the debate as to which rape room is better or is worse…

You see… the abuse that Bush and Kerry had in their initiation rites back in Yale was even worse!!

Which, I suppose, once again brings us back to the thesis of what’s wrong with the world…

There’s something wrong with the world today
I don’t know what it is
Something’s wrong with our eyes

Livin’ on the edge
You can’t help yourself from fallin’
You can’t help yourself at all
Livin’ on the edge
You can’t stop yourself from fallin’
Livin’ on the edge
You can’t help yourself
You can’t help yourself
Livin’ on the edge
You can’t help yourself at all
You can’t help yourself
Livin’ on the edge
You can’t stop yourself from fallin’
Livin’ on the edge

Vice President Cheney endorsed the Fox News Channel during a conference call last night with tens of thousands of Republicans who were gathered across the country to celebrate a National Party for the President Day organized by the Bush-Cheney campaign.

“It’s easy to complain about the press — I’ve been doing it for a good part of my career,” Cheney said. “It’s part of what goes with a free society. What I do is try to focus upon those elements of the press that I think do an effective job and try to be accurate in their portrayal of events. For example, I end up spending a lot of time watching Fox News, because they’re more accurate in my experience, in those events that I’m personally involved in*, than many of the other outlets.”

[…]

Cheers could be heard erupting behind an insurance representative from Johnson County, Iowa, as she began asking Cheney her question. She complained about “the inconsistencies that we see in the media” and asked him to “clarify some of the things that are happening in Iraq that really are good but just never get through the media.”

Cheney told the questioner he has “experienced the same kind of frustration you have.”

“The fact is that we spend a lot of time talking to a broad range of people out there to make sure we’ve got a good fix on what’s going on,” Cheney said. “You can’t simply rely just upon the press coverage. The situation today is clearly — we’ve made enormous progress when you think about where we came from a little over a year ago. Saddam Hussein was in power. Tonight, he’s in jail. His sons are dead. The government is gone. It’s been taken down. The extent to which you had a regime there that hosted terrorists over the years and also pursued and used weapons of mass destruction — that’s all been dramatically changed.”

………………

Saddam Hussein was a big fan of Iraqi Satellite Television…

(*) they report the news we give them… just the way we give it to them…

THIS is good.

JIM ANGLE: One person tells us that 99 percent of the questions went to President Bush himself, with just a few going to Vice-President Cheney…

That means… Cheney answered 1 percent (or 15 to 20 percent, if you go by non-Fox News reporting) of the questions?

Or rather… almost roughly none of the questions.

well there are 2 theories here at work.
1 Vote For the man and administration I feel needs to be publicly shot for treason. Bush who will lead us down the merry path of Armageddon as quickly as possible and have the thought police on line the soonest.
By voting for Bush the society will reach a critical mass sooner and maybe something Correct will be done to correct the mistake . seeing that I don’t trust the mental wellbeing of My ugly American brothers ..

Vote Kerry. he will put the brakes on the impending Armageddon and stave it off a few years. hopefully allowing me to get my ducks in a row.
Do I feel should Kerry be publicly shot? well… No . Not of as yet.
Just flogged.

A little self-serving cynicism.
Fashionable in certain corners. These corners I’m gradually finding tiresome, in a way. How… uber-rebellious “outside the Matrix” cool.

Disaffection… catch it. And then be on constant guard against the mere idea of being affected.

Nay, I sayeth. Be weary of this.

Chris Elliott has a blog. Not the Chris Elliott, though. Still, this Chris Elliott is an interesting read… so I shall “link” it.

I found that blog via this blog, via the stats page which showed that Will Brady linked to this page…

A few weeks ago, controversy raged in the blogosphere over an Atrios blog post about Iraq-stationed contractors / mercenaries… The rightward blogs and comments-feed thought he was being callous. Kos has recovered from the scandal, it seems.

The upshot of the little bloggy scandal: A congressional candidate pulled his advertisement, and pulled the dailykos blog from his list of blogs… as did John Kerry.

Read that “BOP” article, and the eternal blog navel gazing question arises: What does it mean “to link”?

If I were to link to John Kerry‘s site… what am I endorsing? Can I still maintain a beleagured air of “meh”ity toward the candidate?

What if I were to link to the blog of a Seattle-area Democratic Activist?

Come to think of it, I oughta delink Pat Buchannan’s magazine. It’s Pat Buchannan!!!

Place your bets. Joseph Wilson’s new book.

Lewis “Scooter” Libby
Elliott Abrams
Karl Rove

Ex-CIA official Larry Johnson all but named Libby as the source on the belated chattering-class program Buchannan and Press.
Joseph Wilson said that karl Rove ought to be frog-marched away, but later back-peddled.

(Note: this better be a focus of the next news-cycle, because otherwise…)