Did you notice the Evangelical code words in W's speech yesterday? "Calling of our time" and "Fire of freedom" and "Day of fire" and "A fire in the minds of men" and so on. Faithfully reported by the media, to make sure that the word spreads throughout the land that Bush is the national martyr and to establish the media safely in the arms of the neoconservative faction.

His assassination would have the worst outcome possible, so I hope the heavily armored limosine and the concrete barriers and the suppression of civil liberties do their job of protecting the president and insulating him from any possible contact with the people he governs.

God gave Noah the rainbow sign;
No more water but fire next time.