BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: CarolC
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 08:37 PM

It's an an amazing departure from the "turn the other cheek" concept of Christianity, isn't it?

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: robomatic
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 08:48 PM

Cluinn, Donuel comments re: what a nutjob Robertson is and being a case for "Unintelligent Design" are well taken.

(...although Hakman you should not start any sentence in Mudcat with the words: "Believe me...")

Pat Robertson is a frootloop, and Jerry Foulwell is right in the chorus line with 'im.

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 08:52 PM

So kidnapping a democratically elected Head of State is ok then. Hang on to yer britches, Georgie Boy...

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 24 Aug 05 - 10:23 PM

Don, I read Dante's Inferno in its entirety, and as best I remember, the lowest level of Hell was for traitors, Brutus, Judas, and I think a third one, all frozen in ice.

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: Tannywheeler
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 10:55 AM

Right, CarolC. I heard the sound clip of the "assassination" phrases, too, and was APPALLED. I have tried to excuse him this way:

There are times when what you are about to say stops before it comes out because you realize, "Oops! REEEEly STOOPID." You rethink, and say something different and feel you've thrown the REEEEly STOOPID thingy in the mind's trash. But the mind has no trashcan. What it has is an expandable, dark, back corner. That corner stretches beyond capacity and--uh-oh--you open your mouth one day and ALL that REEEEly STOOPID junk explodes out of it. One of those I-wish-the-earth-would-open-up-and-swallow-me-whole moments.

Is this possibly what happened to Pat R.????    Tw

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: PoppaGator
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 12:32 PM

"So kidnapping a democratically elected Head of State is ok then. Hang on to yer britches, Georgie Boy..."

That's making a big assumption, that W was "democratically elected." Way I see it, he stole one election and (with the help of his contributors at Diebold, Inc.) rigged another...

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: CarolC
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 02:03 PM

I don't know, Tannywheeler, but this seems to be a chronic problem for him, so maybe he's in the wrong line of work. I'm sure he's financially secure enough to retire. Maybe this incident should get him to thinking about how nice it would be to spend the rest of his golden years playing with his grandchildren instead being a hotshot television personality and hobnobbing around with heads of state.

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: Wesley S
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 04:55 PM

Here's a link to his "retraction"

http://www.patrobertson.com/pressreleases/hugochavez.asp

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 08:16 PM

"Way I see it, he stole one election and ..."

Ah! then it can't be a crime or even a sin surely!

Tannywheeler

his mantal refuse bin must be mighty small, cause he does that all the time...

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: akenaton
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 08:35 PM

It seems obvious that Mr Robertson is more severely deranged than the average "christian", and as such hardly worthy of the comment he has received on this thread.

A more interesting character is the intended victim Mr Chavez, who is attempting to unite all of Latin America in a socialist revolution, funded by rising oil revenues.
I would be interested to hear some views by US mudcatters on Mr Cavez and his policies...Ake

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: CarolC
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 08:50 PM

Maybe Mr. Robertson needs to spend some time hanging out with this guy.

Chavez... he is a democratically elected president of a sovereign nation. He seems to be a very popular president, with the support of the majority of the people of Venezuela. I think that's pretty much all we need to know about him. Although I also find him to be an interesting character.

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: dianavan
Date: 25 Aug 05 - 10:51 PM

True enough, Carol but it seems that most people would rather rely on others to tell them the difference between right and wrong. People like Robertson make alot of money by telling people what to do. Its easier to follow the dictates of Robertson than to listen to God within yourself.

Quiet reflection, meditation and/or prayer is soooooooo much work. Besides that, it feels so righteous to belong to a group that justifies your beliefs. Organized religion gives you a sense of belonging and the more people that belong, the more power you have to be wrong.

Good article. Its time for more people to get it straight from the source and stop listening to false prophets.

Subject: RE: BS: Hmmm.... Noted Without Comment
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 26 Aug 05 - 03:40 AM

Of course Mr Chavez causes conniptions for some Right Wing Capitalists in the USA. Seems he has this Left Wing Robin Hood idea of taking away some land form the rich and giving it to the poor - since about 95% of the land is owned by 5% of the population, or rather numbers of people, since many people like Lord Vesty (the old absentee landlords game which the British have played before!) own large chunks of farmland.


Remember Animal Farm?