God Wants You To Vote For Al Franken

How do I know God wants you to vote for Al Franken? I don’t. However, I figure I know just about as much about what God is thinking as anybody else does. Sometimes I just want to be trendy. (I’m lying through my teeth here, I never like to be trendy.) Like I was saying before I interrupted myself, sometimes I just want to be trendy, and since the latest trend seems to be outrageousness, I thought I might give it a go. Hence, God wants you and everyone else to vote for Al Franken. He also tells me that it doesn’t matter what state you live in, you must vote for Al Franken or he will send you to hell. He plans on doing this on election day, even if you are still alive. So, you better vote for Al Franken. He said to ignore the fact that both Al Franken and Al Qaeda have the same first name, unless you don’t want to ignore it. It doesn’t matter, as long as you vote for Al Franken and not Al Qaeda.

What could be worse than Barack Obama in the White House? Why, Al Franken as a United States Senator! Watch out!

From St. Paul’s Going to Go for This? by Kathryn Jean Lopez:

Of course, the question of his skills as a comedian is a matter of taste — a subjective thing and irrelevant to qualifications for Congress. Presumably someone bought his books for more than utter hatred of the Right. But the author of Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot is not only a crude, mean comic, but he’s within shooting distance of possibly unseating Republican senator Norm Coleman. Yes, that’s right: While the rest of us are getting used to the possibility of an Obama-Pelosi-Reid Washington, there’s more to the worst-case scenario. There could be a Senator Al Franken in the United States Senate.

Yes, let’s piss all over Al Franken and ignore the obvious. God told me to point out that Rush Limbaugh is not only a big fat idiot, but he (not Al Franken) is crude and mean, and not at all funny.

One of Franken’s high-minded contributions to American literature begins:

God chose me to write this book.

God chose Al Franken to write it, now he wants you to buy it. Don’t forget to vote. God wants you to, and so do I.

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Religious Duty

When praying isn’t enough for your god, try acquiring a few nukes to appease and glorify him. He'll love it.

From CIA: Bin Laden doesn't oversee day-to-day al Qaeda operations:

Osama bin Laden is no longer believed to be the head of al Qaeda's day-to-day operations, but the United States' capturing or killing him would still have a powerful effect on the organization, CIA Director Michael Hayden said Tuesday.

"Bin Laden said repeatedly that he considers acquisition of nuclear weapons a religious duty, and we know that al Qaeda remains determined to attack our country in ways that inflict maximum death and destruction," he said.

Oh, The Insanity!

Yesterday I asked a simple question. If the United States could invade Iraq with no concern for the consequences, then why can’t we just leave Iraq with no concern for the consequences?

I would like to take this opportunity to add some thoughts to what I wrote yesterday.

From War Without End by Helen Thomas:

Congress should wake up before it’s too late and listen to retired Army Lt. Gen. William Odom, former director of the National Security Agency.

NSA is the nation’s largest intelligence agency, which monitors messages from all over the world.

Odom testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week and urged an immediate withdrawal from Iraq. He claimed the troop surge (escalation) has prolonged instability in Iraq and that the only “sensible strategy” is “rapid withdrawal.”

In a separate speech last week, the outspoken general said, “We are certainly to blame for the chaos in Iraq” but “we do not have the physical means to prevent it.”

From GAO Slams Bush on Terrorism - says Al Qaeda attack likely and we have no plan by Max Bergmann:

Here is the title of a report from the Government Accountability Office on combating terrorism released today:

The United States Lacks a Comprehensive Plan to Destroy the Terrorist Threat and Close the Safe Haven in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas.

That is not some line buried in the report. That is the title. Wow.

This GAO report may be the most damning condemnation of the Bush administration's counter-terrorism efforts. The report goes on to say that the Bush administration has failed to develop any plan to address the Al Qaeda threat. Worse, the report finds that Al Qaeda is now able to attack the United States and represents the "most serious" threat to this country.

The report's opinion of the Bush administration efforts speaks for itself:

The United States has not met its national security goals to destroy the terrorist threat and close the safe haven in Pakistan…

Not only have we not met our goals but we have no plan to meet our goals:

No comprehensive plan for meeting U.S. national security goals in the FATA has been developed, as stipulated by the National Strategy for Combating Terrorism (2003), called for by an independent commission (2004), and mandated by congressional legislation (2007). Furthermore, Congress created the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) in 2004 specifically to develop comprehensive plans to combat terrorism. However, neither the National Security Council (NSC), NCTC, nor other executive branch departments have developed a comprehensive plan that includes all elements of national power—diplomatic, military, intelligence, development assistance, economic, and law enforcement support—called for by the various national security strategies and Congress.

Insanity!!! The right wing war machine has gone insane! We have an insane man running our country!

Wouldn’t the practical, logical, sane course of action be to leave Iraq and direct at least some of our currently misdirected vast resources toward doing something/anything about Al Qaeda?

Why hasn’t Bush been impeached? He is not only incompetent and criminal. He is insane!