Pat Robertson, former Republican Presidential candidate, Czar of the 700 Cult of Virginia Beach, Va., and the self anointed American mouthpiece for the Magi, is among the most outspoken of right wing vilifiers of those he believes inadherant to his version of morality and who deserve God's wrath for conflicting with His word, as he claims to hear it. Yet he has been mysteriously mute of late, while acts--indisputably of God--twist, tear, and flippantly flood through our country's heartland.
In the past year, Robertson has:
- called for the American counterintelligence community to assassinate--for no clear reason other than Robertson does not like his rhetoric--Hugo Chavez, the duly elected President of Venezuela. Robertson ignores the fact that this nation, addicted to oil, imports 10% of it's go juice from Venezuela annually. He is adamantly ignorant of the fact that most of his constituents, being, shall we say, frugal? purchase gasoline at the most discounted price available, oftentimes at the local Citgo convenience store, that very vendor being a Venezuelan national corporation; and in all likelihood, when his chauffeur tops off the tank of his estimated 14 MPG, monstrous Mercedes monkmobile, he does the same;
- declared Arial Sharon, venerable leader of our most trusted ally, Israel, to have been personally smitten by the Almighty with a stroke, leaving him comatose since, for consorting with Palestinians to restore a homeland to peoples who have lived there since long before Moses and the Hebrews wandered for forty years in the wilderness of the Sinai, and before Joshua fit the battle of Jericho, massacring every Arabic man, woman and child occupant, a campaign and venial practice which lasted two hundred years until David slew Goliath;
- advised the residents of the small town of Dover, Pennsylvania, that should disaster befall their community they will have no hope turning to God, since they legally elected a school board that replaced eight religious allies of Robertson who were insistent upon embedding the 21st Century mythology of Intelligent Design within the town's public school science curriculum.
One hundred fatalities have been reported as a result of these acts of God in as many days. Of all the reports I have read or seen, and interviews with victims surviving destruction, not one has been documented as being: unsupportive of our troops, unchristian, an illegal alien, in a same sex relationship, a feminist, a supporter of Hillary Clinton, or a visiting resident from a so-called Blue state.
According to NOAA (a pun, no less), between January 1, 2006, and April 10, 2006, there have been 466 tornadoes recorded compared to 127 tornadoes recorded during the same time period in 2005, in the area of the country referred to as "Tornado Alley." This area, when drawn on a map of the US, spreads from the Dakotas to Indiana, Western Kentucky and Tennessee, and from Oklahoma and Northwestern Texas to Iowa, Eastern Nebraska and Kansas.
If one were to overlay maps of the Bible Belt and Red states atop that of Tornado Alley--well, the reader can assume their own convictions.
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JR Ford
UP (Unsubstantiated Press)
St. Petersburg, Fl.
sixtimeseven@aol.com
forty-two
14 Apr 2006
"I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?" -- Barry Goldwater, 1964.