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Tomorrow night, 60 Minutes will be doing a story on some of these strange, exotic creatures nobody knows anything about<\/a>. We can only hope and pray that they do not blaspheme the sacred state of Israel, immaculately conceived and preserved from all sin original and actual, which is the only thing that really matters there. For some reason, a community that has been there for 2000 years has, in the past 60 years, suddenly become whiny about oppression and begun to leave in droves. <\/a> Much like the Chaldean Church, which has also benefited from our just and wise Middle East policies so richly<\/a>, the clear lesson to be learned is that those foreign swarthy Christian types need to stop being so selfish and get out of the way as Western secularity marches toward its inevitable triumph. You have to break eggs to make that omelette of the democratic capitalist culture of death that will save us all.<\/p>\n

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