"It's called a covenant. Two, or three, agree? They can do anything. A covenant is... powerful. Can you think of anyone who made a covenant with his friends?"
We all knew the answer to this, having heard his name invoked numerous times in this context. Andrew from Australia, sitting beside Doug [Coe], cleared his throat: "Hitler."
"Yes," Doug said. "Yes, Hitler made a covenant. The Mafia makes a covenant. It is such a very powerful thing. Two, or three, agree." He took another bite from his plate, planted his fork on its tines. "Well, guys," he said, "I gotta go."
--Jesus plus nothing: Undercover among America's secret theocrats, Jeffrey Sharlet, Harper's Magazine, 2003
Hillary Clinton was in a little trouble. Seems she'd exaggerated a trip she'd made to Bosnia as First Lady. In a speech in Pennsylvania, Clinton told supporters, "I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base."
Yeah, it didn't so much happen. The BBC reports that a video of the landing and disembarkation showed "Mrs Clinton and Chelsea walking across the tarmac smiling and waving before stopping to shake hands with Bosnia's acting president and meet an eight-year-old girl." I don't know why, but it's the eight year-old girl part that cracks me up. Was she the sniper?
Anyway Clinton, caught in an obvious lie, tried to lie her way out of it. That never works. She says she misspoke. Now, if she'd confused Bosnia with Hungary, then I'd believe she'd misspoke. But you don't say "We just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles," when you mean to say, "We met a very nice little girl."...
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