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Raised Catholic. His bit on the 72 virgins was pretty funny. As we all know, he is proud to have GWB as his president. See my review of this DVD, under my Amazon nick, "HolyOlio".

Raw Feed by Dennis Miller

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reprised from a couple of FR topics -- from "The True Believer":

Hatred is the most accessible and comprehensive of all unifying agents. It pulls and whirls the individual away from his own self, makes him oblivious of his weal and future, frees him of jealousies and self-seeking. He becomes an anonymous particle with a craving to fuse and coalesce with his like into one flaming mass... Mass movements can rise and spread without belief in a God, but never without belief in a devil... Common hatred unites the most heterogeneous elements. To share a common hatred, with an enemy even, is to infect him with a feeling of kinship, and thus sap his powers of resistance... We have it from Hitler... that the genius of a great leader consists oin concentrating all hatred on a single foe. [pp 85-87]

remind anyone else of a certain election campaign? ;')

George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent

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Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein by Andrew Cockburn Patrick Cockburn

The Clinton administration had left the Bush approach (apart from an offhand remark by the President-elect, hurriedly renounced, to the effect that normal relations with Saddam were possible). Sanctions were maintained as rigorously as ever. In 1993, Vice President Al Gore announced plans to seek a United Nations investigation of war crimes by the Iraqi regime, though nothing further was ever heard of the idea. When details emerged of a scheme by elements of the Iraqi security service, in association with a gang of whisky smugglers, to assassinate ex-president George Bush during a visit to Kuwait in 1993, Clinton fired off twenty-three cruise missiles at Iraqi intelligence headquarters in Baghdad, one of which went astray and killed Leilah Attar, Iraq's leading female artist. In secret, Clinton reaffirmed Bush's directive to the CIA to unseat Saddam. [ p 165 ]]

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Unfounded Loyalty: An In-Depth Look into the Love Affair Between Blacks and Democrats by Wayne Perryman reviewed

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