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Middle of the week, Bu$hCo still lying up a storm (and using chemical weapons to boot) ... what's a member of the Fifth Column to read? Here you go:

Pusillanimous Wankers has a list of 237 lies told by the Bush Administration.

Majikthise links to the "best online quiz ever" at Feministe. And Commandante Agi has links to a few more quizzes of interest.

Raw Story links to a WaPo piece concluding that, oops, Cheney's energy task force got input from oil companies after all (despite industry denials as recently as last week).

At Shakespeare's Sister, you can add to somewaterytart's list of facts about Dick Cheney, and read about why Bob Woodward is a fuckwit. FireDogLake has its own analysis of Woodward.

The Dear Leader saber-rattled at our second-largest creditor after Japan, China, saying among other things that "the people of China want more freedom to express themselves to worship without state control and to print Bibles and other sacred texts without fear of punishment."

The U.S. denied using chemical weapons (white phosphorus) on civilians, even as Italian TV showed proof that it did, before it admitted using them, but then said on BBC 4 that white phosphorus, which liquifies your skin, isn't a chemical weapon and wasn't used against civilians. The Heretik has much more.

Ignorant Hussy lists French products you can buy now to irritate Bill O'Reilly.

thanks to Neil Shakespeare for graphic
tags: dick cheney george bush white phosphorus george bush bill o'reilly france

Comments

[comandante agi t. prop]

Reminds me of the "Thursday Review" I used to do. Nice set of links. That Humanist quiz says I'm a Hairshirt:

Excuse us, could you just put down that hammer for a minute and listen. You’re so busy getting things done you rarely take any time out just to relax. In fact, you’ve probably forgotten how to relax. That’s because you’re so anxious to prove that it’s possible to lead a good and moral life without religion that you have built a strict and forbidding creed all of your own.

The first paragraph is close to describing me, but I don't agree with the rest...

[Debra]

Nice list, it will give me something to do when I get back from my errands, I like to check out different opinions and make sure that I'm not following the herd like a lemming.

[blogenfreude]

Hairshirt. Guilty as charged.

[Scott]

Thanks for the link!

[GRUMPY OLD MAN]

And why should they not have lied? They have fucking well lied about everything else.

[Neil Shakespeare]

I have an 84 year old Aunt who smuggles Bibles into China. She's made many trips over the years. I think everybody in China must have one of my Aunt's Bible's by now.

[HelenWheels]

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You go out of your way to build bridges with people of different views and beliefs and have quite a few religious friends. You believe in the essential goodness of people , which means you’re always looking for common ground even if that entails compromises. You would defend Salman Rushdie’s right to criticise Islam but you’re sorry he attacked it so viciously, just as you feel uncomfortable with some of the more outspoken and unkind views of religion in the pages of this magazine.

You prefer the inclusive approach of writers like Zadie Smith or the radical Christian values of Edward Said. Don’t fall into the same trap as super–naïve Lib Dem MP Jenny Tonge who declared it was okay for clerics like Yusuf al–Qaradawi to justify their monstrous prejudices as a legitimate interpretation of the Koran: a perfect example of how the will to understand can mean the sacrifice of fundamental principles. Sometimes, you just have to hold out for what you know is right even if it hurts someone’s feelings.

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