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When purple things are pulsating on your mind, I'm the one whose clock you want to clean. Aiding is Sparky, the Astral Plane Zen Pup Dog from his mountain stronghold on the Northernmost Island of the Happy Ninja Island chain, this blog will also act as a journal to my wacky antics at an entertainment company and the progress of my self published comic book, The Deposit Man which only appears when I damn well feel like it. Real Soon Now.

Friday, October 14, 2005

SPARKY: ROVE RAGE REDUX (with odds); BUSH BOGUS BAGHDAD BOW BLOWN; SADDAM SANS SKIVVIES ON SCREEN?; BOND'S BACK

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Rove Testifies Again in CIA Leak Probe

“... The appearance, Rove's fourth since the investigation began in 2003, amounted to the last chance for the presidential confidant and architect of Bush's election wins to convince the jury that he did nothing wrong.

Prosecutors had warned Rove before his latest testimony that there was no guarantee he will not be indicted. The grand jury's term is due to expire Oct. 28.

After Rove's testimony, White House spokesman Scott McClellan was asked whether Rove still has the president's confidence. He would say only, ``Karl continues to do his duties.''

McClellan said he was declining to comment on all questions that touched on the grand jury matter. ``The president made it very clear, we're not going to comment on an ongoing investigation,'' he told reporters.

The White House has shifted from categorical denials two years ago that Rove or Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, were involved in the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity to ``no comment'' today.

McClellan on Friday rejected suggestions that the investigation of two key players was distracting the White House. ...”



UPI: Rove faces for more grand jury quizzing
US President George W. Bush walking with Senior Advisor Karl Rove (C) and Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy Claude Allen (L). EPA/SHAWN THEW
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- Karl Rove faces for more grand jury testimony, latest in the series of unwanted disruptions for President Bush`s second term.

The White House is said to be preparing for the possibility that Rove, deputy chief of staff and architect of Bush`s presidency, or other officials could be indicted in the next two weeks, The Washington Post said Friday.

Rove has been preoccupied with his legal troubles, a diversion that some say contributed to the troubled handling of Harriet Miers` nomination to the Supreme Court.

Bush`s main partners on Capitol Hill, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Tex., and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., likewise are spending time defending themselves as the president`s legislative initiatives founder.

Most of the scandals have little direct connection with one another, but their accumulation in a compressed period has challenged a White House already beset by political problems from the Iraq war, Hurricane Katrina and high gasoline prices, the Post said.

Copyright 2005


Americans betting Rove's White House days are numbered: Sportsbook.com offers updated odds on Karl Rove's future in the Bush Administration after final grand jury testimony

With Karl Rove's future as White House Deputy Chief of Staff in serious doubt, Sportsbook.com is the only online sportsbook to offer updated odds on the long-running scandal that continues to plague the Bush Administration. Current odds are 1-2 that Rove will have to leave the White House in the wake of an ongoing criminal investigation, and 3-2 that he will not.

Speculation on Rove's job security intensified when the indispensable Bush adviser was called to testify yesterday for the fourth time before a federal grand jury. At issue is whether Rove knowingly leaked the identity of a covert CIA operative to reporters in an effort to discredit an outspoken critic of the administration's war in Iraq. According to investigation insiders, prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is also trying to determine whether Rove lied after the fact to conceal his involvement in the leak.

The significant shift from the opening odds of 1-6 that Rove would not be dismissed or resign is a reflection of the grand jury's increased focus on Rove and of the growing consensus that he will not emerge unscathed. Recent testimony from jailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller may have given the grand jury reason to doubt previous statements made by Rove regarding the leak.

Even if Rove is not indicted, many political observers feel the president may nevertheless be forced to sac his top adviser to preserve the administration's credibility. Since updated odds were posted yesterday, betting trends indicate that Americans are leaning towards the view that Rove will leave the White House.

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Bush teleconference with Iraqi troopers criticized as rehearsed

For the novel and the 1954 television episode, see Casino Royale. For the 1967 film spoof, see Casino Royale (1967 film)
Daniel Craig as James Bond 007
James Bond Daniel Craig
Written by Ian Fleming
Screenplay by Neal Purvis
Robert Wade
Paul Haggis
Director Martin Campbell
Music by David Arnold
Theme performed by To be announced
Distributor MGM/Sony
Release date November 17, 2006
Runtime
Preceded by: Die Another Day

Casino Royale, previously known by its working title Bond 21, will be the 21st James Bond film produced by EON Productions. Based on the 1953 novel Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, it will be the first Bond film to take its title from an Ian Fleming novel or short story since 1987's The Living Daylights. Currently the film is in pre-production, and is set for release on November 17, 2006. Included in the press release for the announcement of the film title, EON Productions also announced that Martin Campbell, director of the 1995 Bond film, GoldenEye, is attached to direct.

Even though production is not expected to begin until January 2006, the film has generated considerable media interest due to the fact that EON Productions had gone over a year without an actor signed to play James Bond, and had refrained from commenting on the search. An official announcement was made during a news conference in London on Friday October 14, 2005 announcing Daniel Craig as James Bond.

This film marks the third screen-adaptation of Ian Fleming's novel Casino Royale, which was previously a 1954 television episode and a 1967 film spoof; however, the 2006 release will be the only official adaptation of Fleming's novel.



Pardon that we give you beefcake instead of cheesecake tonight. - Sparks

SPARKY: OPERATION GIG 4 THE GURU! STAGE ONE — The Resume:


CARY WILLIAM SHANNON COATNEY
P.O. BOX 10368
BURBANK, CA 91510-0368


OBJECTIVE: Motivated, career conscious individual anxious to secure employment in the entertainment industry by any means necessary.

EMPLOYMENT:

2003- 2005: Warner Bros Theatrical Entertainment - SENIOR DATA ENTRY OPERATOR: Continuation of duties performed from Spherion assignment with additional duties of learning and performing to transcribe and transfer movie and television scripts to the company's intranet services utilizing their Telescope software.

2001-2003 - Spherion Corp - SENIOR DATA ENTRY OPERATOR: Applying data entry and clerical skills to Warner Bros MIS operations by utilizing WYSE software and creating Excel spreadsheets.

2001 www.independent-comics.com / www.actionfigures.net - LEAD WRITER: Internet business based in Sherman Oaks that combined a toy collecting service and a comic book internet publishing company. Served as writer and editor for submissions and cut and pasted articles online.

1997-2001 CORESTAFF - DATA ENTRY OPERATOR: Internet, Excel, and office support for clients such as California Federal Bank, CarsDirect.com, and Mission Community Hospital.

1993-2000 KRAUSE PUBLICATIONS - WRITER: Freelance article and essay contributor to weekly collector/hobbyist newspaper, The Comics Buyer's Guide.

1997-1998 COMIC CON INTERNATIONAL - MARKETING COORDINATOR/RECRUITER: Coordinated and scouted talent for winter and summer seasonal trade conventions in both San Jose and San Diego. Extensive Excel usage in keeping track of billing for exhibitor tables and booths.

1993-1998 ROOKIES & ALLSTARS - PUBLIC RELATIONS/INVENTORY MANAGER: Acted as manager and public relations for small comic book and baseball card enterprise. Assist store owner additional duties at a Farmer's Insurance office during morning business hours.

1990-1992 INDEPENDENCE BANK/FI-SERV - SUPERVISOR: Managed mailroom and warehouse.

EDUCATION:
  • Parsippany High School, 1982 Parsippany, NJ
  • Recording Workshop, Sound Engineering, 1984 Chillocothe, OH
  • Mira Costa College, 1987 Oceanside, CA


SKILLS:

Operate PCs ( Word 98, Word Perfect, Excel, Outlook, Photoshop, and Frontpage). Professional writing in public relations, reviews, and essays; Operate sound boards, execute synthesizer programming with ease. Customer service in retail, consulting, and purchasing.



--- Email our boy a job offer! - Sparky

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Sparky: WAKE UP AND GET ANGRY PEOPLE! ARE WE CLEAR AS TO WHO DESERVES OUR RAGE AND WHO EARNED PRAISE?


IMO - Judy Miller is up there with Novak as an American Traitor. The Plame affair was payback for Wilson revealing her as a lying ratbag warmonger. Pictures follow:



Judy Miller conspired with "Scooter" Libby to add the start of an illegal war because her biased reporting wasn't getting the job done. Worse - the duo - using a Cheney memo [for his eyes only] starting to go after Joe Wilson in retaliation for his New York Times article: What I didn't find in Africa - reprint from the Common Dreams News Center

The other unindicted co-conspirators — Vice President Dick Cheney, right, and senior White House staff members, from left to right: Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove; Counselor to the President Dan Bartlett; Chief of Staff to the Vice President Scooter Libby; Deputy Chief of Staff Harriet Miers; listen to President Bush in the Rose Garden of the White House Friday, July 1, 2005 in Washington. New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released Thursday Sept. 29, 2005 after agreeing to testify in the investigation into the disclosure of the identity of a covert CIA officer, after securing an unconditional release from Libby, to testify about any discussions they had involving Valerie Plame. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) ——— we cite fair use
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The faces of Evil surrounded by minions ...

Cheney and “Scooter”
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Patrick Fitzgerald needs a Pointdexter to make it all work - the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. On December 31, 2003, he made national headlines when he was appointed to continue the investigation into the Plame affair CIA leak. Fitzgerald was named by Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey after then Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself from the case due to potential conflicts of interest.

Sparky: The Plame Affair & Why you should care

The GOP Elites lied manipulating the media to make Iraq's Saddam and the Ba'athists the replacement "Evil Empire!"

I don't mind Saddam's removal - would have preferred to see an UN-backed InterPol Force and a whole shit load of troops go in and arrest the bastard and his cronies ...

Different kind of Police Action for your average "Land war in Asia" Vietnam flashback - eh?

Plame affair



Valerie Plame with her husband Joseph C. Wilson, photographed after her CIA identity became public knowledge.


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The Plame Affair (aka. CIA leak scandal, Plame scandal, or Plamegate1) is the common term for an ongoing United States political scandal which has origins in the Iraq disarmament crisis of late 2002, and concerned the identification of Valerie Plame, wife of retired ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, as a CIA "operative on weapons of mass destruction" in a July 2003 column by conservative punditRobert Novak. Novak's column was published only eight days after the publication of a New York Times op-ed written by Wilson, which was highly critical of the Bush administration's use of "unreliable" "yellowcake" documents as part of its rationale for the Iraq War.

Wilson claims that Novak had conspired with Bush administration sources to expose his wife's identity as political retribution for his earlier criticism. Divulging the identity of an undercover CIA agent is, in some circumstances, a federal crime in the United States.

The Plame Affair includes the subsequent Independent Council investigation by special appointee Patrick Fitzgerald into the actions of Bush administration officials —including Karl Rove, Scooter Libby, Ari Fleischer, and unknown others— regarding their knowledge of the leak of Plame's identity. In addition to Novak, six other journalists are reported to have known Plame's identity before the Novak column was published, including NBC's Tim Russert, and Judith Miller of The New York Times, who spent 85 days in jail for failing to divulge the identity of her confidential administration source to a grand jury.

Media commentary

Judith Miller has drawn support from some journalists, and in particular the editorial page of the New York Times, for the right to keep her sources a secret and for what she has consistently maintained is a principled defense of the First Amendment.

Miller has also been characterized by some (notably syndicated columnist and blogger Arianna Huffington) as a possible co-conspirator with the Bush Administration in the attempt to discredit former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, who openly questioned the intelligence used to justify the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.[1][2] Columnist Margaret Kimberly wrote "[Miller] isn’t protecting a whistle blower. She is protecting someone who retaliated against a whistle blower."[3] Predicting in an August 8, 2005 interview with radio host Don Imus that other employees of the New York Times would soon be subpoenaed by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, James Carville speculated "[i]t's going to be very interesting to see whether [Miller's] problem is a First Amendment [problem] — i.e., I want to protect a source — or a Fifth Amendment [problem] — I was out spreading this stuff, too."[4]

In the days since Miller's release from prison and her wavier from a promise of confidentiality from her source, media observers have criticized Miller and the New York Times for not publishing Miller's role in the Plame-Wilson leak, not even to explain why the full story can not now be revealed. The lawyer for Scooter Libby told the media that Miller was advised over a year ago that she could testify about her conversations with Libby.One columnist has reported that Miller has a pending million dollar book deal on the Plame leak story.[5] [6] [7][8]

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My thoughts are dark. - Sparks

Sparky: CIA Leak

Quantity is Quality - more in the series of smaller blurts ...

This interview with Ambassador Wilson.
“My understanding is that shortly thereafter, a meeting was held - sometime in March of 2003 - in the offices of the Vice President at which it was decided to do a “work up” on me. A work up means to run an intel op to glean all the information you can about “me.” My understanding is that at a minimum, [Cheney's chief of staff] Scooter Libby was at this meeting.

But in retrospect looking at this, the natural group [of people] who would meet to discuss something like this would be the White House Iraq Group (WHIG).


Raw Story: Right, and the group includes Karl Rove as part of that main group of six.

Wilson: Yes, that would include Rove. I believe it is Rove, Karen Hughes, Libby, and others.

Raw Story: Also: Andrew Card, Mary Matlin and James Wilkinson as well as others who advised then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and her deputy Stephen Hadley.

Wilson: That would be the natural group because they were constituted to spin the war, so they would be naturally the ones to try to deflect criticism. Now, some of those people would have very high security clearances. ...”



Newsweek: Michael Isikoff: CIA Leak: Karl Rove and the Case of the Missing E-mail

Oct. 17, 2005 issue

She should have stayed in jail - she has aided evil and must answer to the maimed and slain American Troops she has a shared responsibility for.
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The White House's handling of a potentially crucial e-mail sent by senior aide Karl Rove two years ago set off a chain of events that has led special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to summon Rove for a fourth grand jury appearance this week. His return has created heightened concern among White House officials and their allies that Fitzgerald may be preparing to bring indictments when a federal grand jury that has been investigating the leak of a CIA agent's identity expires at the end of October. Robert Luskin, Rove's lawyer, tells NEWSWEEK that, in his last conversations with Fitzgerald, the prosecutor assured Luskin "he has not made any decisions."
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But lawyers close to the case, who asked not to be identified because it's ongoing, say Fitzgerald appears to be focusing in part on discrepancies in testimony between Rove and Time reporter Matt Cooper about their conversation of July 11, 2003. In Cooper's account, Rove told him the wife of White House critic Joseph Wilson worked at the "agency" on WMD issues and was responsible for sending Wilson on a trip to Niger to check out claims that Iraq was trying to buy uranium. But Rove did not disclose this conversation to the FBI when he was first interviewed by agents in the fall of 2003—nor did he mention it during his first grand jury appearance, says one of the lawyers familiar with Rove's account. (He did not tell President George W. Bush about it either, assuring him that fall only that he was not part of any "scheme" to discredit Wilson by outing his wife, the lawyer says.) But after he testified, Luskin discovered an e-mail Rove had sent that same day—July 11—alerting deputy national-security adviser Stephen Hadley that he had just talked to Cooper, the lawyer says. In the e-mail, Rove said Cooper pushed him on whether the president was being hurt by the Niger controversy. "I didn't take the bait," Rove wrote Hadley, adding that he warned Cooper not to get "far out in front on this." After reviewing the e-mail, Rove then returned to the grand jury last year and reported the Cooper conversation. He testified that the talk was initially about "welfare reform"—a topic mentioned in the e-mail—and that Cooper then changed the subject. Cooper has written that he doesn't recall a discussion of welfare reform.


Why didn't the Rove e-mail surface earlier? The lawyer says it's because an electronic search conducted by the White House missed it because the right "search words" weren't used. (The White House and Fitzgerald both declined to comment.) But the e-mail isn't the only belatedly discovered document in the case. Fitzgerald has also summoned New York Times reporter Judith Miller back for questioning this week: a notebook was discovered in the paper's Washington bureau, reflecting a late June 2003 conversation with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, about Wilson and his trip to Africa, says one of the lawyers. The notebook may also be significant because Wilson's identity was not yet public. A lawyer for the Times declined to comment.


washingtonpost.com: For GOP, Election Anxiety Mounts - Candidates Need Convincing for '06

Rep. Katherine Harris has fans among hard-core conservatives.
The Prime Mover behind the stolen 2000 Presidential Election (and that dirty trick's designated Pointdexter) - Rep. Katherine Harris has fans among hard-core conservatives.
“Karl Rove Isn't Convincing GOP To Run In 2006”

“Candidates “Aren't Stupid,”

“They See The Political Landscape” ... ”

Get this - Harris pretended to have an affair with JEB so he could continue his affair with a cheerleader. And the rumor is she did a "Monica" or two to help relieve the pressures of office for other Bush boy. And they think they're elite. And that Black and Brown Democrats are stupid. Let's metaphorically hang them by their own hubris, - Sparky

PS If I called blow jobs “Jennifer Fitzgeralds” instead of “Monicas” would you get it?

Sparky: Claims of end of days

Pat Robertson makes me want to lump all his ilk together and do something really mean.
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WorldNetDaily: Joe Kovacs: Arch High Xtian Ultimate Social Fucktard US Evangelist Pat Robertson: Could this be the end? Recent natural disasters point to return of Jesus Christ! WTF!
Ignoring that there was never an historical “Jesus Christ” - Prime loon Pat Robertson shares his ‘bad’ craziness with all ...

Showing the whole damn world his solipistic POV - American Taliban Iman Pat Robertson once more make moronic claims of “end of days” -

As WND reported last month, Robertson suggested the assassination of Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez.

"We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability," he said, though he later backed away from the suggestion of assassination, stating he was taken out of context.

On October 10, 2005 Robertson claimed recent natural disasters (Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita Hurricane Stan and the Kashmir Earthquake) around the globe point to the end of the world and the imminent return of Jesus Christ.

Robertson claimed that "It's possible. I don't have any special revelation to say it is but the Bible does indicate such a time will happen in the end of time. And could this be it? It might be." [1]
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When asked where he got the information about cash going from Chavez to bin Laden, Robertson said it was from "sources," though WND has previously reported on the connection.

“... Robertson revisited his concerns about Chavez today, telling CNN, "The truth is, this man is setting up a Marxist-type dictatorship in Venezuela, he's trying to spread Marxism throughout South America, he's negotiating with the Iranians to get nuclear material and he also sent 1.2 million dollars in cash to Osama bin Laden right after 9-11."

"I've written him. I apologized and I said I will be praying for him, but one day we will be staring at nuclear weapons and it won't be [Hurricane] Katrina facing New Orleans, it's going to be a Venezuelan nuke," Robertson said.

When asked where he got the information about cash going from Chavez to bin Laden, Robertson said it was from "sources," though WND has previously reported on the connection.

"That's what I was told," Robertson said. "And I know he sent a warm, congratulatory letter to Carlos the Jackal. He's a friend of Moammar Gadhafi. He's made common cause with these people who are considered terrorists." ...”

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Venezuela Calls 'Absurd' Robertson's Chavez-Bin Laden Link

“The government of Venezuela rejected accusations by Virginia Beach-based religious broadcaster Pat Robertson that President Hugo Chavez once sent money to al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, calling the claim totally baseless.

Vice President Jose Vicente Rangel called the charge "absurd," saying it appeared aimed at tainting Chavez's image.

Robertson, who caused an uproar in August by suggesting Chavez should be killed, said on CNN's "Late Edition" Sunday that the Venezuelan leader sent "either $1 million or $1.2 million in cash" to bin Laden after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

"He's crazy, at the very least," said Rangel, adding that Robertson's comment should be analyzed by "a team of psychologists ... because it is so irrational."

When asked where he got his information, Robertson replied: "Well, sources that came to me. That's what I was told."

Chavez has said his government may ask the United States to extradite Robertson for suggesting in August that American agents should kill him. ... ”


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That's it for now, and to my Xtian readers - if I have any - I apologise that “Baby Jesus” never was -
Sparky

Sunday, October 09, 2005

Sparky: I'll take Rove Rage for a thousand Alex


Rove failed to tell grand jury information
A discrepancy between the grand jury testimony of Karl Rove and Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper is the reason Rove will testify again.

Newsweek reports investigators have found an e-mail confirming a meeting between Cooper and Rove, President Bush's top political adviser.

Rove failed to disclose the meeting both during a 2003 FBI interview and during his first appearance before a federal grand jury investigating the leak to the press of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame.

Rove will testify before the grand jury for a fourth time this week.

Cooper told the grand jury Rove disclosed the name of Plame and that she was the wife of former ambassador Joe Wilson -- who had recently written an op-ed in the New York Times challenging the White House claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger to make nuclear weapons.

The National Journal reported Friday Rove assured President Bush two years ago he did not leak the Plame's name.
Copyright 2005 by United Press International.
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Chicago Sun-Times: JOHN SOLOMON: Rove told Bush he didn't out covert CIA agent, sources say

WASHINGTON -- White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove told President Bush and others that he never engaged in an effort to disclose a CIA operative's identity to discredit her husband's criticism of the administration's Iraq policy, according to people with knowledge of Rove's account in the investigation.

They said Rove's denial to Bush occurred in fall 2003, a few months after media reports revealed that former Ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, worked as a covert CIA operative.

Those with knowledge of evidence gathered in the criminal investigation spoke on condition of anonymity because of grand-jury secrecy.

Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is wrapping up an investigation into whether Rove; Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, or other White House aides divulged Plame's identity in violation of federal law.

The probe also is examining whether Bush aides mishandled classified information, made false statements or obstructed justice.

Saturday, the New York Times and the Washington Post reported that Fitzgerald will meet Tuesday with freed Times reporter Judith Miller, who has compiled notes on a conversation she had with Libby. The conversation of June 25, 2003, is in addition to two others previously disclosed.

Rove is to testify before the grand jury for a fourth time -- without assurance he will avoid indictment.

The discussion with Bush did not get into specifics concerning Rove's contacts with Time magazine's Matthew Cooper and Chicago Sun-Times syndicated columnist Robert Novak, who wrote stories identifying Plame, the people familiar with Rove's account said.

newsKerala.com Mayank Chhaya: The US president as an instrument of god's will
“The deconstruction of President George W. Bush has been dizzyingly rapid in recent weeks. He would have been a tragic figure were he not so powerful.

There is now proof, if proof was ever needed, that Bush does everything under direct and explicit instruction from god. Going by that proof it is also quite clear that god is a micromanager whose sole task is to manage the US president.

The revelations by Palestinian negotiator Nabil Shaath on a BBC TV series about what Bush had said during the Israeli-Palestinian summit in June 2003 at Sharm al-Sheikh would have been discommoding had they not been in line with what one has come to expect of the world's most powerful man.

At a philosophical level one can understand that god, the universe's most powerful figure, would want to deal with the most powerful figure of an unspeakably small part of a mediocre galaxy. What is not understandable is that god would be so detailed and so explicit. ...”
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I do want to see Karl go on trial along with Judy Miller and Scooter ... You should too - Sparks