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Combat Magick - VP: Live Evil

19:53 / 04.10.04

Tuesday night (tomorrow 10/5) will be the first and only televised debate between Dick Cheney and John Edwards.

Here's another prime opportunity for us to work our mojo and inject a little LoveKaos into the political process. Cheney will have a hard time not looking totally evil, but maybe we can help him reveal his true form even more. He's quick to temper and has a weak ticker, but he's also far more intelligent and cunning than W.

After all, Cheney is the man behind the curtain. Any ideas? (Tread carefully on this snake, though...)

20:18 / 04.10.04

I think this one again lends itself easily towards helping Edwards. He's already pretty well-liked and a very charismatic guy. Why not just boost that even more? Have Edwards just radiating nice and love and good while standing next to Cheney, who can't help but look like an angry snake all the time. Cheney seems like the kinda guy who would get more pissed the calmer his opponent is, so we could even expose Cheney by helping Edwards.

Not that I'd be opposed to Cheney having a magick induced heartattack on-camera mind you, I'm just saying it may not be the best/safest of ideas.

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20:33 / 04.10.04

Yeah, but wouldn't Bush's vice president dying on camera possibly put some sympathy into voter's minds for the Bush campaign (despite the fact that a man like Cheany doesn't really elicit much in the way of sympathy. Still, with the American people, you never know).

21:30 / 04.10.04

Yeah, Edwards might be a lot more open to wam, radiant lovejelly than Big Dick. Either way, lend an astral hand!

trouser the trouserian

04:19 / 05.10.04

Why don't you get a bet down that the guy will shit himself live on tv (or do something equally humiliating or bizzare) - enchant for that - then if it works, not only can you mark one up on your scorecard for giving the free world a good laugh, but you'll be a few $ better off.

05:55 / 05.10.04

Maybe, on election day, we could just coordinate a global working where tens of thousands of pagan freaks simultaneously Om the brown note.

I hear if you do it right, the universe shits itself.

06:44 / 05.10.04

brown note

I love it

No I reckon Cheney losing it big time would be great. It might work in his favour with his traditional voters, who would see it as strength but in the swing voters, he would look like the evil bastard most of us know that he is

still , I will be doing my best to influence him shitting his pants....that would be so funny and karmically, if it comes to pass that I suffer the same fate, I don't care and it would be worth it

Oh joy...the thought of Cheney walking from the stage bow legged .....too good an image in my mind that one

Boy in a Suitcase

15:22 / 05.10.04

Has anybody else noticed how much CNN's Candy Crowley looks exactly like Al in drag? Kind of freaky doing a bit of magick on the treadmill while watching the CNN pre-debate coverage and hearing "and here's Candy Crowley on the debate..."

17:16 / 05.10.04

Tonight is going to be fantastic, hilarious AND magickal. Should truly be a wondrous spectacle. A starker contrast between dark and light there hasn't been in a looong time (and there hasn't been a starker contrast between personas since Lloyd Bentsen vs. Dan Quayle).

Even major mainstream media is referring to Cheney as having a "Prince of Darkness" image. Priceless.

17:43 / 05.10.04

During the debate, I will hum (in my head mostly) the Luke Skywalker/Jedi theme music every time Edwards talks. I would use the Darth Vader music for Cheney, but Vader's too cool.

I have some nice pictures of the death star from the original Star Wars exploding, which I'll use to symbolize Cheney.

May the force be with you!

18:23 / 05.10.04

Nice!

03:33 / 06.10.04

Edwards did a pretty nice job -- Cheney came off as cold and closed-minded, even though he had a few decent attacks on Edwards. I sat in my living room with incense burning and Chad's sigil on my lap. Several times I found myself laughing hysterically with either joy at something Edwards had said or laughing derisively at some nonsense Cheney put forward. Chad's sigil got a lot of charging tonight!

05:33 / 06.10.04

can you do something like causing a heart atack?

05:33 / 06.10.04

can you do something like causing a heart attack?

11:49 / 06.10.04

"can you do something like causing a heart attack?"

ben: Yes.

And it would be murder, or at least attempted murder.

~L

13:30 / 06.10.04

The media is showing the debate as mostly going to Edwards, although it wasn't as dramatic a trouncing as the first Kerry/Bush debate. Good news...

15:11 / 06.10.04

I had a hard time getting a connection with Cheney. Might've just been my own headspace but he seemed to have like a reflective surface that I kept bouncing off of, if that makes any sense. All in all I found it very difficult to get into an appropriately magickal state. In retrospect I almost think it would've been better for me to watch the first 20 min of the debate to establish a good link, then to have turned off the telly and concentrated on the ritual.

There was one moment though when Cheney seemed to step out from behiind his mask and show himself. After Edwards offered his appreciation for Dick & Lynn and their support for their gay daughter, Cheney's response was a simple, sincere Thank You with no other comment (though there was certainly some subtext there, but I thought it was played very well and, ultimately, was a telling concession by Cheney). Perhaps the compassion rites are getting through...

I still think he's made some heavy deal's with the Archons though, and will gladly lead us all into stockades.

15:24 / 06.10.04

Maybe that reflective surface you're referring to was his shiny bald pate...

Yes, I was thinking and meditating on the "make friends with 'em til they beg for mercy" Grant Morrison statement on how to win over your enemies during the debate, and was working on injecting Cheney with more compassion than he seems to have now. At one point while Cheney was speaking, I visualized shaking hands warmly with Cheney repeatedly, trying to connect to the good, altruistic human soul that must be somewhere within.

On a lighter note, I'd love to see a VADER/PALPATINE '04 bumper sticker somehow parodying Bush & Cheney. I wouldn't be surprised if some Net-obsessed Star Wars fan with Photoshop has already made something similar by this point.

17:08 / 06.10.04

ooops!

Cheney Slip Sends Surfers to Wrong Site

By EMILY FREDRIX, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - All he wanted were the facts. But Dick Cheney ended up generating confusion_ and lots of it.

A slip of the tongue by the vice president during Tuesday night's debate with Sen. John Edwards led Web surfers to a site run by George Soros, a billionaire who makes no secret of his opposition to the Bush administration.

In answering a question about his involvement with Halliburton, Cheney meant to direct people to FactCheck.org, a nonpartisan site run by the University of Pennsylvania. He urged people watching the debate to go to the site for facts countering Edwards' statements about the corporation Cheney used to run.

But Cheney cited FactCheck.com, a for-profit advertising site based in the Cayman Islands.

The company decided to redirect traffic to the Soros site after it became inundated with hits — about 100 a second after the debate, John Berryhill, a Philadelphia lawyer for FactCheck.com, said Wednesday.

"This was to relieve stress on the service and to express a political point of view," said Berryhill, who spoke with the site's administrators shortly after the debate ended.

They picked Soros not only for his political views, Berryhill said, but because the billionaire could afford the costly deluge of hits the site would receive in the wake of the debate. Plus, the site administrators didn't want to point surfers to a candidate's site that was asking for money.

Web site operators typically pay fees to the companies that host their sites. The more hits a site receives, the more its operator pays.

Soros was not advised of the switch and did not know it had taken place until Wednesday, said a spokesman, Jeremy Ben-Ami.

18:15 / 06.10.04

Yahoo is now running a main story on their home page an article titled "Edwards and Cheney have met before", refuting Cheney's incorrect statement that the two had never met before last night's debate. YES!!! The facts of the article slam Cheney pretty bad. The Bush people say these 2 meetings of record were merely "inconsequential meetings."

Priceless!

13:56 / 07.10.04

And now all the major news media are carrying the "Cheney lied/told untruths multiple times in the VP debate" story, right as another major report comes out that says Iraq definitely had no WMDs. Nice hex!!!