Your Christianity WTF of the day.

How people can quote this book as historic, or use it as the foundation for their morality has always eluded me.

New BBC report details how MI6 and the CIA both knew in advance that Iraq did NOT have WMD's well before the invasion.

Courtesy of Raw Story:  

Fresh evidence is revealed today (Yesterday) about how MI6 and the CIA were told through secret channels by Saddam Hussein’s foreign minister and his head of intelligence that Iraq had no active weapons of mass destruction. 

Tony Blair told parliament before the war that intelligence showed Iraq’s nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons programme was “active”, “growing” and “up and running”. 

A special BBC Panorama programme tonight (Last night actually) will reveal how British and US intelligence agencies were informed by top sources months before the invasion that Iraq had no active WMD programme, and that the information was not passed to subsequent inquiries. 

It describes how Naji Sabri, Saddam’s foreign minister, told the CIA’s station chief in Paris at the time, Bill Murray, through an intermediary that Iraq had “virtually nothing” in terms of WMD. 

Sabri said in a statement that the Panorama story was “totally fabricated”. 

However, Panorama confirms that three months before the war an MI6 officer met Iraq’s head of intelligence, Tahir Habbush al-Tikriti, who also said that Saddam had no active WMD. The meeting in the Jordanian capital, Amman, took place days before the British government published its now widely discredited Iraqi weapons dossier in September 2002. 

Lord Butler, the former cabinet secretary who led an inquiry into the use of intelligence in the runup to the invasion of Iraq, tells the programme that he was not told about Sabri’s comments, and that he should have been. 

Butler says of the use of intelligence: “There were ways in which people were misled or misled themselves at all stages.” 

When it was suggested to him that the body that probably felt most misled of all was the British public, Butler replied: “Yes, I think they’re, they’re, they got every reason think that.”

This broadcast comes on the heels of Rachel Maddow's brilliant documentary "Hubris" which examined how we in the US were lied into believing that Saddam Hussein presented a threat as well.

With so much new information coming out, and the reexamination of that evidence with clear eyes, it is almost making me hopeful that we will finally see some accountability.

Not that I expect to see George W, Bush,. Dick Cheney, or Tony Blair taken away in handcuffs (Though a boy can dream can't he?), but perhaps something will happen that will prevent such an atrocity from EVER happening again.

After all I thought after the Vietnam War that we had learned our lesson about war, but such was not the case.

Yeah but Sarah Palin doesn't believe in Evolution!

This is from an article entitled "The Evolution of Sarah Palin."

Palin still lands big gigs: She’s billed as the closing speaker at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference, which starts Thursday. And she continues to create media dust-ups in a few simple words, as evidenced by her “Vote for Newt; annoy a liberal” comment on Fox News last month. 

But ever since she ended her flirtation with a presidential bid last October, signs have pointed to a long, slow descent into the political has-beens basement for Palin. Perhaps the most telling detail is her political action committee’s most recent fundraising numbers. 

SarahPAC raised roughly $756,000 in the second half of 2011, down from the consistent seven-figure reporting periods it had before then. 

It looks as though Palin might be morphing into less a political powerhouse and more a reality-television star. 

“ ‘Game Change’ will further [her] celebrity,” says Marie Wilson, founder and president emeritus of The White House Project, an organization that works to advance women in politics and business. The movie is scheduled for release next month. 

The more celebrity-like she becomes, the less likely it is that she will be able to reemerge as a serious candidate for public office, Wilson and other experts say. The result is a word just a year ago few people would have associated with her: irrelevance. 

“I actually don’t hear anybody talking about her,” Tea Party Patriots co-founder Mark Meckler says. 

While I agree that Palin has become virtually irrelevant, I disagree that she has evolved in any significant manner.  In fact the only thing that has evolved is the way that Palin is now perceived.

When she talked as if she was seriously thinking about running for the GOP nomination, even though, as her daughter Bristol let slip early on, she was never REALLY going to launch a campaign, people perceived her as a potential player in the political arena.

After she finally had to drop the tease and let people in on the fact that she was  NOT running, everybody did  a reality check and started seeing her for what she truly was. A grifter, using the perception that she was a viable candidate, to drain her supporters of their hard earned cash.

In other words, she was all sizzle and no steak.

That is a common theme running through Palin's history.

She makes a completely fabricated claims about her abilities, or intentions, and that becomes the prism through which people view her.

Her claim about being an "energy expert" is based almost exclusively on her 11 month tenure on the Oil and Gas Commission back in 2003. A job she received solely as a consolation prize after Frank Murkowski passed her over and give his Senate seat to his daughter, and a position she was only allowed to have because it was decided the board needed one civilian, with virtually NO experience in the field, to represent the average Alaskan. Apparently, according to this appointment, the average Alaskan is a dipshit.

Even Palin's athletic claims are based on hyperbole, when in fact she was a mediocre basketball player whose claim to fame was a foul shot she made during a winning game that was completely unnecessary since her team, the Wasilla Warriors, had already won by four points.

This holds true, as most of us here well know, when it comes to her claims concerning her Christian faith (She NEVER attends services), her mothering abilities (Every one of the kids has significant behavioral difficulties), and her self identified reputation as a fighter against corruption and "cronyism." (Palin famously filled her cabinet with loyal friends from high school and used her position as Governor to attack those who had dared stand up to her in the past , like ex-brother-in-law Mike Wooten.)

So has Sarah Palin "evolved?"

No.  She is essentially the same Sarah Palin that she has always been.  Except now there are a whole lot MORE people that see through her bullshit.