On January 7, second-term Republican Rep. Paul Broun of Georgia and two friends prayed over a door. It was not just any door, but the entranceway beneath the Capitol that President-elect Barack Obama will pass through as he walks onto the inaugural stage to take the oath of office. "I hope and pray that as God stirs the heart of our new president that President Obama will listen and will heed God's direction," Broun proclaimed.

Standing beside Broun, Rev. Patrick Mahoney launched into a prayer originally delivered by Billy Graham at Richard Nixon's inauguration in 1969. "For too long we have neglected thy word and ignored thy laws," Mahoney preached. "...We have sowed to the wind and are now reaping a whirlwind of crime, division, and rebellion. And now with the wages of sin staring us in the face, we remember thy words." (Max Blumenthal, The Daily Beast)


Forget for the moment that Billy Graham was the man who told Nixon that although he had a lot of Jewish friends, Nixon should watch out because the Jews were having far to great an influence in Washington.

This article goes on to describe a few guards, one in particular, who were trying to figure out what the hell was going on, so to speak. Broun, who had an ancestor who could not spell, compared Obama to Hitler among other adored leaders during the campaign. He brought his two bible bangers with him in what looks to me to be an exorcism of some sort.

The three unwisemen were attempting to free Obama of his devils and bring him to Jesus.  Uh, Jesus the Hebrew Savior, or rather the Christian Savior of Hebrew extraction, whatever. Not the Hispanic Janitor who works the tunnel on week days.

It is not every day that you find men praying over a door or to a door or for a door. Kind of a 'threshhold' decision of some kind.

'Watch out what you are praying for', might be the warning to the three unmagi. If in fact our New President magically hears the words of the Lord heeds His direction, things might be tough for some of our more mortal friends.

William Cohan tells us that some victims of Bear Stearns ineptitude and or felonious conduct managed to get their money back.  Massachusetts just went after them and scared the proceeds right out of Morgan Chase which now owns BS. The Bear Stearns Lucky Bastards.

For a long time Bear Stearns as well as scores of other financial concerns along with hundreds, nay thousands of management's best,  have neglected the Word and ignored the law. Now we have a secret league of victims picking up a check for losses incurred including a bonus, to the exclusion of other similarly situated victims.  Secret.  Just between the Mass AG and the unprosecuted felons.

Asking during a wide-ranging exit interview with Jim Lehrer about mistakes he has made, Dick Cheney cited his underestimating "the extent of which the Iraqi population had been beaten down by Saddam Hussein" and their failure "to bounce back fairly quickly" after the U.S. invaded the country.(TPM)

You got to get this.  Dicky C is saying that it was Sadaam's fault that there was a six year civil war following our invasion of Iraq.  When in trouble, blame a dead guy..We have sowed to the wind and are now reaping a whirlwind of crime, division, and rebellion.

Bob Woodward just got Susan J. Crawford to admit that at least one fellow was tortured at Guantanamo Bay. Al Qahtani  suffered sustained isolation, sleep deprivation, sexual humiliation, and prolonged exposure to cold. Twice, he was hospitalized with bradycardia, a potentially deadly condition where the heart rate falls below 60 beats per minute. And now with the wages of sin staring us in the face, we remember thy words.

This all brings to mind my favorite quote from Pulp Fiction:

Jules: Well, there's this passage I've got memorized that sort of fits this occasion. Ezekiel 25:17. "The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of the evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and goodwill, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper, and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee!"[1] [Shoots Brett]