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WITHOUT A DOUBT, THE DENIZENS OF THE GROSS SUCKLING "KEY CLUB" DOWN BRANSON WAY, THAT BASTION OF CONSERVATIVE ARROGANCE AND HUBRIS in their acme and perfection of Amerikanischer Realkultur, must be drinking down their Stolichnaya in rejoicing @ the decease of Russian novelist and playwright Aleksandr Solzehnitsyn from a stroke @ the age of 89 years.

OK, maybe "rejoice" might be too weak a word here, considering where his novels One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Gulag Archipelago laid bare the excesses of the Stalinist-era penal camp system of the then-Soviet Union--so bare, in fact, that by 1974, the Brezhnev regime would have Solzhenitsyn declared a "traitor" and subject him to banishment, eventually resettling in Cavendish, Vermont until his return to post-Soviet Russia in 1994, eventually hosting a TV chat show and speaking out about the excesses of Western Moral Degeneracy.

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NEW DNA TESTING TECHNIQUES HAVE PLACED ONETIME BIOWEAPONS RESEARCHER BRUCE IVINS @ THE "SCENE OF THE CRIME" in connexion with a series of anthrax-laced mailings targeting Certain Infuential and Prominent Persons shortly after the Unfortunate Events of 9/11 (and said mailings bore that very date, in matter of fact).

And the prospect of his imminent arrest, with the likelihood of facing charges as could carry the death penalty, may have been too much for Mr. Ivins to stand--so much so, in fact, that he chose Death Before Dishonour, taking The Other Way Out on Tuesday last.

Which probably has Your Correspondent wondering if Mr. Ivins, given his connexions with His Fraudulency's Great Within, may have really been set up as a patsy for a super-secretive "false flag" terror campaign involving anthrax-laced correspondence on top of the terror attacks, and may have been expected to testify that he was "only following orders" which, if disobeyed, meant certain death or disgrace.

The Nuremburg Patsy, as it were.

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AS IF HURRICANE DOLLY WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH A SHOW OF DIVINE WRATH AND JUDGEMENT UPON TEXAS, LET ALONE RECORD HEAT IN THE DALLAS/FT. WORTH METROPLEX, along comes Hurricane Edouard preparing to make another assault upon the Texas Gulf Coast, with landfall expected within measurable distance between Galveston and Port O'Connor.

And knowing how the pseudoreligious will likely invoke Dolly and Edouard as shows of Divine Judgement and Contempt Upon America for Straying From His Divinely-Ordained Ways, Your Correspondent thinks said Divine Judgement upon Texas may be a way of His expressing disapproval for His Fraudulency.

Whether or not Crawford is in Edouard's likely path of destruction is up to the Fates.

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EVEN WITH JOBS GOING DOWN THE TUBES THANKS TO HIS FRAUDULENCY'S SOCIOECONOMIC MISADVENTURES KNOWN AS THE UR-RAHOWA AGAINST TERRORISM, in large measure, Your Correspondent has to wonder if some of workfare's biggest supporters--especially those expecting to see the "complete and final" elimination of State welfare through workfare--are actually rank and crude Zealots and True Believers in xenophobic nativism.

As in using that reechy-sounding singsong meme of "Illegal immigration! Illegal immigration!" (as per usual, in the key of "Ring around the collar!") to explain, howbeit without clear substantiation, why "real Americans" (as in the poor, undereducated or homeschooled and easily-led), let alone "welfare basket cases," can't find "real work." (As in unskilled, labour-intensive Ludditery as deliberately keeps costs all the lower in the name of "making American industry more competitive" in global markets.)

Not to mention expecting employers to cook up all manner of patsies for explaining the dismissal of workfare employees once the tax incentives lapse--patsies the Vocational Guidance Counsellors aren't expected to view as credible, instead steering such (or expecting same) towards highly-questionable "work-from-home" scams of a "make-work/fake-work" sort such as home mailing.

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WITH THE RELIGIOPOLITICAL RIGHT FOREVER WHINING ABOUT IMAGINED "CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION!" BEING AIDED AND ABETTED BY THE "LIBERAL MEDIA CONSPIRACY," and doing so, methinks, only to distract attention from The Bigger Picture, ConWebBlog brings up the story about how the Religiopolitical Right's propaganda machine may unwittingly be doing much the same thing in the wake of Jim Adkisson's near-massacree in Knoxville:

A July 28 WorldNetDaily article by Chelsea Schilling offers up the best possible free publicity an unknown band could ask for--denouncing one of its songs:

A punk band has released a music video featuring a "Christian" teenage suicide bomber and criticizing believers and homeschoolers for imposing their values on the nation.

Kill the Hippies, a rock group from Kent, Ohio, made a video called "Teenage Suicide Bomber" that features a mentally disturbed teenager who straps a bomb to his chest and slaughters children on a public school bus, dancers in a nightclub and a crowd of abortion protesters – all in the name of Christianity.

WND asked lead vocalist Matt Trahan why the band decided to portray the suicide bomber as a Christian.

"The reason I used Christians, really, is because everyone around me that I know pretty much comes from a Christian background," he said. "When I look at Muslims, I see pretty much a minority in this country, and I don't really like picking on the little guy."

Trahan said the video is a satire about people who want the U.S. to be a theocracy.

Schilling notes that "While Trahan said the film is a parody, he insisted there is some truth to the idea that Christians can be terrorists," but she makes no mention of just how true that became two days ago, when Jim D. Adkisson opened fire in a Unitarian church in Ohio, killing two.

WND's article on the shooting spins Adkisson as someone who "apparently resented Christianity, disliked the Bible and even got angry over the fact a neighbor's daughter graduated from a Bible college." It's not until the 16th and final paragraph that WND alludes to Adkisson's main motive: that he had a "stated hatred of the liberal movement."

In fact, Adkisson's hatred of liberals goes much deeper than WND bothers to report:

An out-of-work truck driver accused of opening fire at a Unitarian church, killing two people, left behind a note suggesting that he targeted the congregation out of hatred for its liberal policies, including its acceptance of gays, authorities said Monday.

A four-page letter found in Jim D. Adkisson's small SUV indicated he intentionally targeted the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church because, the police chief said, "he hated the liberal movement" and was upset with "liberals in general as well as gays."

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Adkisson "stated that he had targeted the church because of its liberal teachings and his belief that all liberals should be killed because they were ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country's hands in the war on terror and they had ruined every institution in America with the aid of the major media outlets," Investigator Steve Still wrote. 

Sounds a bit like the kind of person who reads WND, no? 

Indeed, WND has endeavored to portray Unitarians negatively over the years:

• A July 26 article attacked an upcoming appearance by both Barack Obama and John McCain at the megachurch operated by frequent WND target Rick Warren as being "co-sponsored by a left-leaning group led by a Unitarian-Universalist minister who once headed her denomination's homosexual advocacy office."
• A July 21 column by Michael Ackley highlights an article describing Berkeley, California, as a place "where residents might head for a screening of a film on urban organic farming in Cuba at the local Unitarian Universalist congregation." 
• A May 6 column by John Lofton bashing the idea of a "Pluralism Sunday" cited the example of "Epiphany Community Unitarian Universalist Church of Fenton, Mich., has invited a Zen Buddhist 'with a Christian background' to be the preacher that day." 
• An October 2007 article cited Unitarians among the "Religious Left" who were planning a day of fasting to call for an end to the war in Iraq, along "with the support of an organization named as an unindicted co-conspirator in a Texas terror case and another lobbying for multiple sexual partners."
• A July 2007 article decried a flyer promoting a "Pagan Christmas ritual" at "a Unitarian Universalist congregation that also teaches 'Exploring Islam,' 'Women Weaving Wisdom,' 'Discovering the Healing Power of Dreams' and other religious subjects" that was being distributed at a school--allowed, ironically, because the conservative Christian legal group Liberty Counsel sued over a vacation Bible school flyer that was not distributed.
• Noting that Rep. Pete Stark is "a Unitarian who does not believe in a Supreme Being," Joseph Farah accused him in a March 2007 column of having "perverted beliefs."
• A November 2006 article noted that a woman "shared Unitarian Universalist church theologies with" a "Democrat community leader" who pleaded"guilty to extensive child pornography offenses involving children as young as six."
• A January 2005 article quoted a message purportedly sent by an "enemy" of anti-gay activist (and WND fave) Michael Marcavage: "As a member of the American Civil Liberties Union and a Unitarian-Universalist, I am committed to your suffering the maximum penalty the law will give you. And I will take particular delight knowing your families and loved ones will suffer, too."

One has to wonder if such negative spin on beliefs with which it disagrees (they're not fond of Catholics either, by the way) has an influence on people like Adkisson, especially when a steady diet of intolerance spews forth from websites like WND. We don't know if Adkisson read WND, but his actions would seem to be the logical extention of WND's ultra-orthodox reconstructionist Christianity.

Yet WND is trying to hide this--while getting all worked up over an obscure punk band singing about the same subject. 

UPDATE: The Knoxville News-Sentinel notes that inside Adkisson's house, "officers found 'Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder' [sic] by radio talk show host Michael Savage, 'Let Freedom Ring' by talk show host Sean Hannity, and 'The O'Reilly Factor,' by television talk show host Bill O'Reilly." Savage, of course, is a longtime WND fave, having published two of his books and hosting Savage's website.

So: Is this a sincere and genuine acknowledgement from the Religiopolitical Right that Low Church Christians could actually have terroristic sympathies, or was this a case of lapsus linguć @ the wrong time?