Nasty Stuff...Cheney's Acorn

I don't know if other admins worked this way the brewhaha over Bolton is revealing some nasty details about Bagman Cheney and his methods….

This blog is exclusively about the Bolton nomination.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/

Seems now that Bolton pulled the names of NSA intercepts, intercepts of conversations Powell and his associates were having.

IOWs, Bolton was spying on Powell for Cheney and the neocons.

I guess the NSA records everything everyone says, but are not allowed to spy on the US so names are withheld from those recordings.

But you can get the names under certain circumstances. Bolton apparently did this for Powell and others. What's not being said is that Bolton was/is a neocon spy at State, dogging Powell at every turn.

And now, Bush/Cheney want him to be a neocon spy at the UN.

Wow. These guys are…dangerous.

Mind-boggling, really

I can't tell if the GOP is using the Christian right or has become the Christian right or both. I like that line, "Party of Theocracy." Very true.

The attack on evolution is really an attack on science and the scientific method as a way of establishing knowledge. If you control knowledge, you control most people.

Religion had a lock on knowledge for 1500 years until the Enlightenment. Seems the GOP is trying to get it back by attacking science at every level - evolution, stem cells, liberal college faculty, global warming.

You can believe whatever you want: earth is flat, bearded man in the sky, 6 days to create the world, fluffy place in the sky where you go after death, bad guy dressed in red with horns, but who tells you this stuff? Religious institutions interested in control and power.

Along comes science that says, "say what you want, but you have to prove it, and it has to be repeatable..." Suddenly you can't just say stuff. The Church's power is gone.

Science is a rigorous system designed to turn ideas into fact but only if they pass the test. Religion is candy for little children.

I'm always curious about religious fundamentalism's attacks on anything that undermines their take on the world. Are they so insecure they can't live with an alternate idea or two? I guess the answer is, yes, they are.

Even the Catholic church acknowledges evolution, but not the fundies. These people have an abiding emotional need for a narrow, tightly structured world view where all the answers come from a 2000 year old book about Jewish life. Some coping mechanism. I prefer alcohol myself.

I envision some 19 year old fundy stomping his foot in biology 101, red-faced as the professor chats about DNA and evolution. Dude, there are universities that cater to your taste in knowledge.

And now fundies have tremendous political power and are after the last branch, judges. This is basically an attack on that other institution called the law. More on that later.

The pendulum continues it's rightward arch...