As I continue to see news stories of Americans and America outpouring prayers, money and physical aid into heart-wrenching Haiti, I continue to seethe over Pat Robertson’s blaming the Haitian earthquake on a pact he says some Haitian slaves made with the Devil back during the reign of Napoleon, for the riddance from Haiti of their French slave masters.
Pat Robertson is an ignorant, stupid, bigot. He represents everything that can go wrong with religion. In his own way, he is no different from Osama bin Laden. That sounds wacko? Well, do you really think in God’s eyes there is any real difference between a Moslem who orders a bloody jihad against unarmed people and a Christian who blames a poor nation’s people for what some of their African slave ancestors allegedly did close to 200 years ago to get out of slavery?
I suppose I could be kind and say Pat Robertson is not an ignorant stupid bigot. I suppose I could be kind and say he is not possessed by the Devil. I suppose I could be kind and say he simply is psychotic. But I’d be lying. And, no psychiatrist in America would agree Pat Robertson is psychotic, because he doesn’t match any of their parameters for psychosis.
While I’m on this rant today, I suppose I should bring in the five u.s. supreme court justices (I use small case most intentionally) who recently decreed, as if they were God breathing life into Adam and Eve, that corporations have the right to spend whatever amount they like to try to get candidates elected to public office.
My goodness! Even American citizens have to abide by campaign contribution limits, but corporations now do not. So through corporations wealthy Americans (and even foreign investors in American companies and foreign-owned corporations apparently) now can skirt U.S. campaign contribution limit laws and, by force of money, control one nation not under God.
How intriguing. How fucking Republican. Make no mistake, this is a Republican attempt — Pat Robertson loves it – to take over America not all unlike Napoleon took over France and Hitler later took over Germany.
Although there were heated post-war Congressional hearings over it, few Americans today know that during World War II German investors and corporations owned controlling interests in major American corporations and covertly hindered those corporations from providing crucial products to the American military.
Alas, in the recent supreme court corporate-god decision there actually is karma involved.
Karma Senator Obama created by pledging during his campaign that he would only rely on federal campaign funding, then, after private donations came rolling in, and rolling in, after he was promised even more money if he beat Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, he opted out of the federal campaign fund and accepted a great deal more money from private contributions.
Karma Senator Obama created by pledging his administration would not use lobbyists, then he got elected and used lobbyists.
Karma Senator Obama created by promising hope and change, and after being sworn in he adopted as his own and pursued the wars of his predecessor Bush. Then, incredibly, he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.
Senator Obama’s duplicity reminds me of the first President Bush saying on national television, “Read my lips, no new taxes,” which got him elected. Then he raised taxes and said he should not be held responsible for a mere campaign promise, which got him unelected.
Now President Obama wonders why his own domestic agendas are going SNAFU? He wonders why the u.s. supreme court turned America over to corporations to run?
President Obama wonders, because he does not appreciate the law of cause and effect, the consequences of his own actions. He does not understand a nation’s leader can create karma, good and bad, for his entire country and its people. He does not understand that instead of blasting the u.s. supreme court in his state of the union message, he should have blasted himself.
Liars, liars, pants on fire, the whole bush-obama-judicial lot of them.
Maybe the stupid ignorant bigot mentioned to start this rant should apply his karma theories a little closer to home. Maybe starting with his own stupid ignorant bigoted Devil-worshipping white self. Then maybe his political party.
Maybe the next time Pat Robertson or other stupid ignorant American bigots bash France, they should be sent to Devil’s Island to study American history for the rest of their natural lives.
Maybe in their studies, maybe, I would not hold my breath waiting, they will discover the French fleet enabled George Washington to corner and defeat the British at Yorktown, ending the Revolutionary War.
Maybe they also will discover, again, I’m not holding my breath, the French government and people then gave America the Statue of Liberty, which was for people, not corporations.
Maybe they also will realize, again no breath holding, but for France the United States of America might very well be the United States of Canada.
Maybe Americans should be praying that some day they or their children or grandchildren aren’t hoping Haiti and France (and Mexico) will send them prayers, money and physical aid.
Maybe Americans should praying that some day they or their children or grandchildren aren’t applying to the Haitian and French (and Mexican) governments for asylum from an America gone berserk.
Maybe Americans should be praying that some day they or their children or grandchildren have a president who does the will of God, instead of the will of the Devil.
Sloan Bashinsky, ex- lawyer, ex-American president (guess which one?)
Comic P.S. relief:
According to a local curmudgeon, who told me yesterday that he unofficially used to write one-liners for Johnny Carson, the Key West Marathon, held yesterday morning, is the only marathon race in the world where ten percent of the runners smoke cigarettes, some even while they are running the marathon.