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The Corpus Christi Caller-Times (which, by the way, is the only Texas paper to have a channel on AvantGo.com -- what's up with that, tech-savvy Austin American-Statesman?) has an interesting op-ed from Dr. Steve Hotze about Perry's executive order mandating that all 11 and 12-year old girls receive Merck's Gardasil vaccine. Allow me to summarize:

1. Merck's ox was in the ditch because of all the Vioxx litigation, on which it was losing its shirt;
2. Merck hit upon the idea of mandating Gardasil as a way of recouping its losses;
3. Merck formed a group called Women in Government as a front to promote its pro-Gardasil agenda. They have created the "Challenge to Eliminate Cervical Cancer Campaign," so named because of the discount on uppercase "C"s they received from their printer;
4. WiG's job was to pass friendly legislation in all the states, and Perry simultaneously jump-started and bypassed that effort with his executive order.

Hotze's conclusion? "This decision is not based on science but upon personal power, profit and politics."

Pretty standard paranoid delusion stuff, except that Steve Hotze is a right-wing nutjob who's spent much of the last decade supporting Rick Perry's career because Perry is a True Christian. Hotze, in fact, is a member of the Christian Reconstructionist sect that believes our nation should become a theocracy while we trigger Armageddon and wait for the Rapture. I guess water IS thicker than blood.