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nwr Member Posts: 6410 From: Geneva, Illinois Joined: Member Rating: 5.3 |
Anyone know what the Organization of American States is?
Wow! I'm surprised that anyone would need to ask. OAS - Organization of American States: Democracy for peace, security, and development Have people stopped trying to keep up with international affairs?
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Tal Member (Idle past 5703 days) Posts: 1140 From: Fort Bragg, NC Joined: |
Interesting.
Never heard of it. "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - Albert Einstein
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randman  Suspended Member (Idle past 4925 days) Posts: 6367 Joined: |
Pat Robertson made a very stupid comment, especially considering his position, and the upshot of this is Jesse Jackson gets to be a statesman.
Amazing, and well worth the entertainment value, almost as much as the realization that Jesse brought his pregnant mistress to the White House with him when he came to "counsel" Clinton on his adultery and marriage. In all seriousness though, Jesse might do some good with Chavez.
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Phat Member Posts: 18335 From: Denver,Colorado USA Joined: Member Rating: 1.0 |
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link by Charles is interesting! Notice Hugo Chavez profile here. This populist leader, who never missed an opportunity to address the nation, once described oil executives as living in "luxury chalets where they perform orgies, drinking whisky". No wonder Pat hates him so much! Church leaders in this overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country fared no better. "They do not walk in... the path of Christ," said Mr Chavez at one stage. How many church leaders DO walk in the path of Christ? Interesting issue. This message has been edited by Phatboy, 08-31-2005 04:51 AM
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Yaro Member (Idle past 6522 days) Posts: 1797 Joined: |
Chavez kicks ass
That's why the US hates him. He will likely be deposed and replaced withs ome asshole dictator we will prop up for years. All in the name of keeping Latin america a loose knit bunch of bannana republics who barks on command.
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Nuggin Member (Idle past 2518 days) Posts: 2965 From: Los Angeles, CA USA Joined: |
Using his connections with the almighty and the unstoppable power of prayer, Pat Robertson has killed Chief Justice Rehnquist.
Is there no one who can stop this madman?
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DrJones* Member Posts: 2290 From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Joined: Member Rating: 6.9 |
Advocating the murder of the leader of a foreign nation, having a Supreme Court justice killed, Robertson sure sounds a like a danger. I fully expect the US administration to act swiftly to arrest this radical cleric and send him off to Gitmo.
If "elitist" just means "not the dumbest motherfucker in the room", I'll be an elitist! *not an actual doctor
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1431 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
heh, Robertson's prayers were answered.
Rehnquist, a conservative force who pushed the closely divided nine-member court to the right in his more than 30 years on the bench, died on Saturday at age 80 after a battle with thyroid cancer. And he was an activist judge too, bringing the court into the elections in 2000 to thwart the votes of the people. {abe} It will be interesting to see what Robertson has to say about this eh? Will he change his tune, say he never said, was misinterpreted, etc? This message has been edited by RAZD, 09*04*2005 07:29 AM we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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Chiroptera Inactive Member |
That's too bad. However conservative Rehnquist, he wasn't a totally crazy f*** like Scalia.
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1431 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
yeah, did Robertson have Rehnquist killed by secret ops so that scalia could be chief justice?
we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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Silent H Member (Idle past 5845 days) Posts: 7405 From: satellite of love Joined: |
I riffed on this in another thread. If Robertson and his minions prayed for God to strike down the wayward court members, and God's response was to make O'Connor retire and kill Rehnquist, shouldn't he be looking very closely at what that means.
Either God has very poor aim, or Robertson was wrong on who was wayward. In any case, for all those believing in the miraculous, including the power of prayer, it is time for them to come forward and charge Robertson and his followers with murder, or conspiracy to murder a federal official. holmes "...what a fool believes he sees, no wise man has the power to reason away.."(D. Bros)
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RAZD Member (Idle past 1431 days) Posts: 20714 From: the other end of the sidewalk Joined: |
Either God has very poor aim, or Robertson was wrong on who was wayward. It seems that after any world event that Robertson and his ilk (term used with ill concealed contempt connotations) will wrap their faith around it like Faith and the Katrina Hurricane Aftermath -- it is not the hurricane that was the problem but the lack of response, so he\she blames non-believers for the hurricane If the cat5 hurricane that his Cuba had killed as many they would have crowed about it's godless regime causing the disaster, and if New Orleans had been spared by good planning and full proper reaction, they would have said it was god's blessing that did it. It would be interesting to do a statistical study but the results would be ignored by those that need the info the most. we are limited in our ability to understand by our ability to understand RebelAAmerican.Zen[Deist
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crashfrog Member (Idle past 1493 days) Posts: 19762 From: Silver Spring, MD Joined: |
Max Blumenthal has a great article detailing how much money Pat Robertson, despite his calls for violence against democratically elected leaders and support of terrorist-sheltering dictators, stands to make through his charity Operation Blessing.
Yes, that's right. The same charity that Robertson used to bilk his followers out of millions so that he could move diamond mining equipment around and market a diet shake of his own invention is now prominently listed on FEMA's website of charitable organizations that are accepting donations.
FEMA.gov | Federal Emergency Management Agency - FEMA.gov is experiencing technical difficulties That brief aside brings us to this Robertson Watch update. What I had failed to uncover the first time around was that Robertson and the Christian Coalition he founded were successfully sued by a group of black employees for racist activities, including making the black employees enter the premises from a back entrance and segregating them during meals. The allegations were so damaging to the organization that Robertson was forced to resign. And now the Federal government is making sure that money from hard-working, generous Americans is flowing right into the pockets of this racist? I mean, let's get real. There's absolutely no guarantee that any donation to Operation Blessing is going to benefit any victim of Katrina.
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MangyTiger Member (Idle past 6379 days) Posts: 989 From: Leicester, UK Joined: |
We get an edited version of ABC World News Tonight on BBC News 24 over here.
There was an article on Friday night about Operation Blessing being listed on the FEMA site (they said it was second on the list but either they were wrong or it has since been demoted to fourth). I suppose I shouldn't be surprised but my jaw did drop with the revelation that:
According to its most recent filing with the Internal Revenue Service, Operation Blessing gave more than half of its yearly allocation of cash donations ” $885,000 ” to the Christian Broadcasting Network, or CBN, of which Robertson is also the chairman. I know Operation Blessing did have an explanation for this, but if it walks like a duck... I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then
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clpMINI Member (Idle past 5191 days) Posts: 116 From: Richmond, VA, USA Joined: |
From what I saw of the ABC story, first the director of Operation Blessing said that they never gave any money to CBN, but when confronted by the actually numbers, he said he wasn't going to talk about accounting practices.
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