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Subject: Silver Lining


Author:
Brent (Canada)
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Date Posted: 21:28:06 11/03/04 Wed
In reply to: Ed Harris (Venezia) 's message, "US Elections" on 15:23:13 11/02/04 Tue

Living in Canada, and being as exposed to US culture/media as any US citizen, I believe that the next 4 years will be of such a nature that even supporters in the UK and Australia will be revulsed by what may happen.

The Yanks are about to go hard-core - first the Presidency, then a clear majority in the Senate equals a stacking of the US Supreme Court.

There are people who support Bush who are nothing less than Christian versions of Saudi Wahhabi cultists - and I am not exaggerating!

The silver lining is that moderate conservatives in the Commonwealth who lose their lunch over some of the things that will happen between now and 2008 will seriously consider a counterbalance to these Xenophobic end-time cultists who only read the Bible and the latest volume of the "Left Behind" series!

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[> [> Subject: Yeah but...


Author:
Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 13:41:53 11/04/04 Thu

...even the Democrats are not immune from the Bible-Bashing Barminess. A friend of mine told me that a Democrat from Florida was on television saying that "Florida has been warned four times by the Almighty during this election campaign not to make the same mistake as last time"! I can only presume that he was refering to the hurricanes...

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[> [> Subject: I agree Brent and we should be ready to capitalize on it


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Bruce
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Date Posted: 17:49:17 11/04/04 Thu


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[> [> [> Subject: I'm more concerned by the Islamic fundamentalists than the Christian ones...


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Dave (UK)
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Date Posted: 20:46:19 11/04/04 Thu


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[> [> [> [> Subject: ...


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Ed Harris (Venezia)
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Date Posted: 23:00:08 11/04/04 Thu

Maybe you wouldn't say that if you were a moderate Arab instead of a moderate Christian!

But, joking aside, I think that you're right. To associate The United Alabama Church of the Cruciform Sword (which, like all Christian organisations, is dedicated to the distribution of orange squash and hobnobs to the Faithful) with the more barbaric excesses of the Iranian mullahs is somewhat overstating the issue. I doubt that even the most Bible-crazed nutter in Crudville, Ga., Popn. 38, goes around stoning adulterers, mutilating thieves and savagely oppressing women.

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[> [> [> [> Subject: The Xian fundamentalist has a finger on the nuclear trigger though


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Curnoack
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Date Posted: 18:28:13 11/05/04 Fri


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[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Put a nuclear weapon in the hands of Bin Laden and George Bush and…


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Dave (UK)
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Date Posted: 14:10:49 11/06/04 Sat

Who do you think is going to shoot first?

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[> [> [> [> Subject: Dave, no offense, but...


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Brent (Canada)
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Date Posted: 02:03:00 11/07/04 Sun

...it's a false choice. Of course, bin Laden is more likely to do it than Bush, but that is not the point.

That is tantamount to saying that all non-Americans must bend over and take it in the you-know-where, lest al Qaeda gets a hold of us.

How about a concerted global effort against al Qaeda without Bush acting like a conceited and arrogant a-hole?

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