(M. Moford) Can Bush be Purged?

[StrictlyRockers]

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/03/16/notes031607.DTL&nl=fix

===== Mark Morford's Notes & Errata =====
SFGate.com - Friday, March 16, 2007

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Can George W. Bush Be Purged?
Mayan priests purified their sacred land after Shrub scurried off. Can we do the same?
By Mark Morford

Sage is always good. Or maybe lavender. Pine is nice, too. Dried, bundled, tied with string, burned with hot, divine intent. Would it work? Do we have enough to go around? This is the question.

I speak, of course, of ritual. Purging and cleansing and purifying and, truly, burning a nicely dried, blessed smudge stick can be a terrific slice of personal magic, to rid a space (or perhaps even your own body) of negative juju or vicious spirits or just to make way for the new and the moist and the good. You can smudge a room. You can create a divine smoldering cloud and then move through the smoke, invoke change, purge the negative, invite hot licks of yes. It is a thing to do.

But here's the thing: Can you smudge an entire nation? Do we have enough lavender for 300 million? It is, all things considered, a big goddamn country. Windy. Rocky, in places. Could be tricky. Not to mention, you know, hazy. From all the smoke. Think of the potential traffic accidents. Coughing.

Important considerations, really, because it is becoming increasingly evident that a great national purifying ritual is just about exactly what we need. We are, after all, almost at that point. The Great Bleakness is nearing its end and you can veritably feel the swarm of uptight BushCo demons and malicious energies swirling around the country like happy karmic leeches, like a giant intellectual rash, like black raindrops of dank sweat from Karl Rove's evil mealy thighs. ...
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Moford rocks...again.

[Demeter]

1. We Not Only Can, We Must Purge the USA of BushCo

and RICO the BFEE out of their assets.

[silverweb]

2. I loved this column

Can you picture it if this idea catches on?

I can picture small and large purification rituals all across the country ...

ceremonial burning "bushes" of sage and lavender everywhere, as Morford suggests ...

gatherings and circles, large and small, to invoke banishment of the evil that has possessed this nation and celebrate a fresh beginning of "Liberty and Justice for all."

What a great idea!

[babylonsister]

3. Mark Morford: Can George W. Bush Be Purged?

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2007/03/16/notes031607.DTL&nl=fix

Can George W. Bush Be Purged?
Mayan priests purified their sacred land after Shrub scurried off. Can we do the same?

By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist


Sage is always good. Or maybe lavender. Pine is nice, too. Dried, bundled, tied with string, burned with hot, divine intent. Would it work? Do we have enough to go around? This is the question.

I speak, of course, of ritual. Purging and cleansing and purifying and, truly, burning a nicely dried, blessed smudge stick can be a terrific slice of personal magic, to rid a space (or perhaps even your own body) of negative juju or vicious spirits or just to make way for the new and the moist and the good. You can smudge a room. You can create a divine smoldering cloud and then move through the smoke, invoke change, purge the negative, invite hot licks of yes. It is a thing to do.

But here's the thing: Can you smudge an entire nation? Do we have enough lavender for 300 million? It is, all things considered, a big goddamn country. Windy. Rocky, in places. Could be tricky. Not to mention, you know, hazy. From all the smoke. Think of the potential traffic accidents. Coughing.

Important considerations, really, because it is becoming increasingly evident that a great national purifying ritual is just about exactly what we need. We are, after all, almost at that point. The Great Bleakness is nearing its end and you can veritably feel the swarm of uptight BushCo demons and malicious energies swirling around the country like happy karmic leeches, like a giant intellectual rash, like black raindrops of dank sweat from Karl Rove's evil mealy thighs.

To make matters worse, these dark energies, these base spirits were actually invited here by the Powers That Be, by those quivering, shivering, terrified armies of evangelical right-wing neocon bonk jobs and attorneys general and sour Supreme Court justices and scowling defense secretaries lo these past half-dozen years, and this means they shall not leave easily, despite how it is quickly coming time for them to be shoved back down into the bowels of fear and shrill egomania whence they came.

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[whistle]

4. Purged as in sent to Siberia? Vaporized? Shut * pie hole? Please explain

[babylonsister]

5. Did you read the article? nt

[whistle]

6. Always go to the end of an artical for the answer

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Here is what we can do: We shall burn a bush. Ten thousand bushes. Maybe a million. Bushes laced with sage, lavender, pine, incense, with eight years of warmongering and intolerance and those beady squinty vacant eyes. We shall gather in parks or street corners or fire pits at the beach sometime next year, and ignite.

We will burn bush. We will burn away Bush. We shall purify and rinse and cleanse the nation of this horrific and banal poison, once and for all, and it shall be Good. And those Mayan priests? Why, they'll simply look over and nod, smile knowingly. They understand completely.


Works with farts. So it is worth a try on Bush. That leaves Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, Richard Pearl, Paul Wolfovits and hundreds of other neocon fascists to deal with. Maybe Siberia is the better answer.

[crikkett]

7. Paul Wolfovits?

:eyes:
Paul Wolfowitz.

[whistle]

8. Thank you for correcting my spelling

[crikkett]

11. thanks for not getting upset about it!

:hi:


:hug:

[silverweb]

10. I loved this column!

Can you picture it if this idea catches on?

I can picture small and large purification rituals all across the country ...

ceremonial burning "bushes" of sage and lavender everywhere, as Morford suggests ...

gatherings and circles, large and small, to invoke banishment of the evil that has possessed this nation and celebrate a fresh beginning of "Liberty and Justice for all."

What a great idea!

[NV Whino]

9. Purged? OMG!

Is that what Jean Schmidt stepped in?

[ninkasi]

12. Thanks, Babylonsister

He's one of my favorites. I usually grow both sage and lavender, so will make a point of planting them soon. The only thing left in my flower beds right now is a very large rosemary bush. I guess almost anything could do in a pinch, but I'm partial to both lavender and sage.