I don't know why I'm sending this; it's appalling.

----- Original Message ----- From: H---------@aol.com To: d---------@houston.rr.com Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 2:30 AM Subject: Fwd: Fw: Neo-con Christianity The web address below contains a series of quotes from various proponents of the radical religious and political right. I suspect Kim may actually have had the same reason that I have in circulating these quotes. I genuinely fear that a great many Americans do not actually realize: 1) how radical and dangerous the thinking and intentions of the radical religious right are, 2) the extent to which Rove and Bush have gone and will go to satisfy this part of their political base, and/or 3) how many of both the Republicans who essentially vote their pocketbooks and the moderate Evangelicals who eschew the more radical dimensions of the radical religious have chosen for whatever reasons to ignore the dangers to the country of this unholy alliance between the radical political right and the radical religious right. It is undoubtedly not justifiable to hang a few of these more extreme quotes around Bush's neck, but taken as a whole the quotes give a frightening, nauseating, and pretty much on the mark sense of the flavor and direction Rove, Bush, Cheney, Frist, and DeLay are leading our country, and ignoring the reality of that is also not justifiable. -- Rhea Subject: Neo-con Christianity I don't know why I'm sending this; it's appalling. I guess it's fascinating in the same way a car crash is: http://www.reandev.com/taliban/ Kim An interesting curiosity is the site itself http://www.reandev.com/ particularly the C Panel. Now, if you really want to see where this goes try this thread from ReveloutinaryLeft.com This particular piece, Quotes from the American Taliban, from www.reandev.com has been linked all over the web. Just look at this Google search. It's difficult without a lot of time consuming sifting to find the seminal post of the original material, but here's the same material on different blog in somewhat better graphic style. This link is the last entry on the first page of the Google search. Here it is again from the 10th page of the Google search linked back again to the www.reandev.com site from another blog. There is some discussion of these postings on the Snopes message board. I'm not sure how to rank the search engine hits chronologically so as to uncover the oldest and supposedly first posting on the web without writing a search engine myself, but it would be very interesting to chase items like this to their source. The potential for spin for these postings as they become graphically more sophisticated is enormous. Eddie Bernays's head would spin at the possibilities, eh? If you're not familiar with Eddie Bernays you might try Larry Tye's biography of Edward L. Bernays it will put the web and blogs in a new light for you.

Something to Offend Everyone

From: don To: a--------@aol.com Date: Jun 29, 2005 3:01 PM Subject: Fw: Something to offend everyone An extract of a much longer email is shown below. Much more can be found at Chronicles of Hectia. What's the difference between a southern zoo and a northern zoo? A southern zoo has a description of the animal on the front of the cage along with... "a recipe". How do you get a sweet little 80-year-old lady to say the F word? Get another sweet little 80-year-old lady to yell BINGO! What's the difference between a northern fairytale and a southern fairytale? A northern fairytale begins "Once upon a time....." A southern fairytale begins "Y'all ain 't gonna believe this shit..." My, my, how times have changed. Years ago...When 100 white men chased one black man, we called it the Ku Klux Klan; today they call it the PGA TOUR.

I don't find this unusual

From: Bob To: mailto:@comcast.net Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 8:39 AM Subject: ONLY IN TEXAS. . . . .

This just keeps coming around

From: His-------@aol.com To: da-------@houston.rr.com Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2005 1:35 PM Subject: Fwd: Texas Drinking Rules Texas Drinking Rules A Mexican drinks his beer and suddenly throws his glass in the air, pulls out his pistol and shoots the glass to pieces. He says, "In Mexico our glass is so cheap we don't need to drink from the same glass twice." An Iraqi, obviously impressed by this, drinks his beer, throws his glass into the air, pulls out his AK-47 and shoots the glass to pieces. He says, "In Iraq we have so much sand to make glasses that we don't need to drink out of the same glass twice either. The Texas boy, cool as a cucumber, picks up his beer and drinks it, throws his glass into the air, pulls out his gun and shoots the Mexican and the Iraqi, and catches his glass. He says, "In America we have so many illegal Mexicans and Arabs that we don't have to drink with the same ones twice."

Encouragement

From: "Bob--------------etcom.com To: "Jo----------------m.com Subject: I love You!! Date: 16 June, 2005 13:24

A man escapes from a prison where he's been locked up for 15 years. He breaks into a house to look for money and guns. Inside, he finds a young couple in bed. He orders the guy out of bed and ties him to a chair. While tying the homeowner's wife to the bed, the convict gets on top of her, kisses her neck, then gets up and goes into the bathroom.

While he is in there, the husband whispers over to his wife: "Listen, this guy is an escaped convict. Look at his clothes! He has probably spent a lot of time in jail and hasn't seen a woman in years. I saw how he kissed your neck. If he wants sex, don't resist, don't complain...do whatever he tells you. Satisfy him no matter how much he nauseates you. This guy is obviously very dangerous. If he gets angry, he could kill us both. Be strong, honey. I love you!"

His wife responds: "He wasn't kissing my neck. He was whispering in my ear. He told me that he's gay, thinks you're cute, and asked if we had any Vaseline. I told him it was in the bathroom. Be strong honey. I love you, too!"

Whoa, dude...

----- Original Message ----- From: xxxxxxxxxxxx To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 7:11 PM Subject: Fwd: Oops! Imagine walking into the bathroom in a friend's high rise apartment, during a party, slightly buzzed, and seeing this painted floor.