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Which explains a lot, if you think about it.

I made a rough transcript of the amazing propaganda video from [cough] Christian Embassy. (You can see the whole thing at C&L.) Here is just one of the many juicy quotes:

2:02 Honorable Dan Cooper, Presidential Appointee “[attending Bible Study is] more important than doing the job. The job’s gonna be there whether I’m there or not.”

Dan Cooper, Dan Cooper… Well, Our Dan directs the Veterans Benefit Administration.

Veterans Benefit Administration… Hmm… Oh, yeah:

They’re the ones who lost 26.5 million veteran’s records from lost from a data analyst’s laptop:

The Veterans Affairs Department has ordered a security review of every laptop computer at the VA and has banned employees from connecting any employee-owned computers to the VA virtual private network (VPN), VA Secretary James Nicholson said in a hearing at the House Committee of Government Reform today.

Nicholson was called to testify in the wake of the theft of a laptop that contained VA records on 26.5 million veterans. The laptop was stolen from the home of a VA data analyst. Nicholson said he has suspended the practice of permitting employees in the Veterans Benefit Administration from removing claims files from office computers and working on them at home.

Of course, we’re all extremely confident that no confidential information was compromised in the theft, so free credit monitoring services for veterans was cancelled. That must be a relief for everyone.

Look, this happens over and over again with these guys. The job—the job I’m paying these guys to do—isn’t a major priority for them. Either they’re off doing Bible study, or they’re looting, or they’re doing whatever it is Republicans do when they’re bored. Like running their horse-racing business out of their office

And when you don’t care about the job, you fuck it up. QED.

UPDATE Check out former JAG Mikey Weinstein: The Christianists are trying to turn the Pentagon into a frickin’ faith-based initiative.