Pact with the Devil? Bad news says Pat Robertson

[MMIX]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/sns-dc-robertson-haiti,0,1175550.story

how can Amurrica expect to be taken seriously as a world power when it demonstrates this level of moronic superstitious crap on a daily basis? I just want to keep banging my head against a wall until the pain goes away


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[Freeky]

I have only one thing to say.


PAT FUCKING ROBERTSON!

Except that the video is absolutely hilarious, what he says anyway. Too bad people take this guy seriously.

[NotPublished]

Hum ...

Its one thing to say it in humour, but another to rub it in on people who are already down...

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Robertson seemed to link the storm to abortion. About the same time, he called on the U.S. to assassinate Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

[Jasper]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/sns-dc-robertson-haiti,0,1175550.story

how can Amurrica expect to be taken seriously as a world power when it demonstrates this level of moronic superstitious crap on a daily basis? I just want to keep banging my head against a wall until the pain goes away


aaaaarrrrrrghh!!!





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The rest of the world takes us seriously because we are morons, and we are very dangerous.

[MMIX]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/sns-dc-robertson-haiti,0,1175550.story

how can Amurrica expect to be taken seriously as a world power when it demonstrates this level of moronic superstitious crap on a daily basis? I just want to keep banging my head against a wall until the pain goes away


aaaaarrrrrrghh!!!





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The rest of the world takes us seriously because we are morons, and we are very dangerous.

fuck . . . I'm gonna need a bigger wall. I think you have put your finger on it there Felix. Thinking about it what really disturbs me about this is the way that his softly spoken down home "niceness" and gosh darned reasonableness, his quiet caring mania just hangs in the air like the sword of Damocles . . . and Robertson is far from alone in his frootloopery you just know that behind him there are rank upon rank, battalion upon battalion of christ's soldiers just itching to get it on with the bad guys. And increasingly I feel like one of the bad guys because doesn't Luke 11:23 have Jeezus says: "He who is not with Me is against Me", and I'm sure as all hell not on the same side as Robertson.

[Freeky]

Speaking of wall headbanging, have you actually ever done that?

[MMIX]

not to excess . . . why do you ask?

[Freeky]

Don't really know. ;-_-

Nothing to see here, move along.

[MMIX]

Don't really know. ;-_-

Nothing to see here, move along.

yeah I guess the Devil must have made me do it . . . [/televangelist]

[NotPublished]

Don't really know. ;-_-

Nothing to see here, move along.

yeah I guess the Devil must have made me do it . . . [/televangelist]

That gave me a flashback 

[Jasper]

Did someone make an impact with the drywall, signed in blood?

[Freeky]

Fridge doors and countertops are harder than drywall.



Just sayin'.

[Jasper]

Wouldn't have worked with the joke though, because drywall rhymes with devil, kind of.

...Nevermind.  I make jokes at inappropriate moments. 

[MMIX]

Wouldn't have worked with the joke though, because drywall rhymes with devil, kind of.

...Nevermind.  I make jokes at inappropriate moments. 

dammit man you're a discordian . . .  you gave up your rights to inapproprateness when you picked up your pope card


MMIX can't stretch to another pun about pacts WTF is RWHN when we need him . . . ?

[Iason Ouabache]

http://www.buzznews.net/buzz-extra/general/9835-haitis-real-deal-with-the-devil

Pat Robertson thinks that Haiti is poverty stricken (and earthquake-stricken) because the country made a deal with Satan to help them overthrow the French.

Back in May, the Times Online provided some slightly better insight into Haiti's past. Beyond a vague assumption that Imperialism had probably screwed Haiti somehow, I didn't know much about the country's history. Reading this story has been nothing short of nauseating.

Summary: Haiti was forced to pay France for its freedom. When they couldn't afford the ransom, France (and other countries, including the United States) helpfully offered high-interest loans. By 1900, 80% of Haiti's annual budget went to paying off its "reparation" debt. They didn't make the last payment until 1947. Just 10 years later, dictator François Duvalier took over the country and promptly bankrupted it, taking out more high-interest loans to pay for his corrupt lifestyle. The Duvalier family, with the blind-eye financial assistance of Western countries, killed 10s of thousands of Haitians, until the Haitian people overthrew them in 1986. Today, Haiti is still paying off the debt of an oppressive dictator no one would help them get rid of for 30 years.

The rest of the world refuses to forgive this debt.

So, in a way, maybe Robertson is right. Haiti is caught in a deal with the devil, and the devil is us.