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Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?

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Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« on: January 13, 2010, 10:07:30 PM »
So says Pat Robertson anyway (see link below).  This kind of backward, flat earth, ignorance is not helping anything especially Evangelical Christianity.  By the way, Rev., it was Napoleon Bonaparte as I recall not "the third", there's desperate, grinding poverty on the "right" side of the island of Hispaniola too, and, perhaps, if the Haitian government hadn't been so profoundly corrupt for the past century they may be just a little better off than they are now.  Nevertheless, what are you doing to help?

What was this guy thinking?

http://www.breitbart.tv/they-have-been-cursed-pat-robertson-says-haiti-swore-a-pact-to-the-devil/

(you may have to click on the video 'screen' to start it at Breitbart TV, it's less than a minute of inanity.)
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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #1 on: January 13, 2010, 10:13:10 PM »
I don't know about any of that, but I'd say 95% of the Haitians that I've dealt with are vulgar, ungrateful, and extremely aggressive assholes.  And those fuckers love to fight.
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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2010, 11:24:33 PM »
I don't know about any of that, but I'd say 95% of the Haitians that I've dealt with are vulgar, ungrateful, and extremely aggressive buttholes.  And those phukers love to fight.

So you're saying they are bammer fans?
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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2010, 11:38:21 PM »
So you're saying they are bammer fans?

That's a softball right down the middle, but because I don't want to break one of the few rules on this website, I'll take the strike. 
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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2010, 12:35:36 AM »
That's a softball right down the middle, but because I don't want to break one of the few rules on this website, I'll take the strike.  

You disappoint.  Had it been someone other than yourself, I would have kept the sucker punch to myself.


Tarheel: Pat Robertson = :facepalm:
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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #5 on: January 14, 2010, 12:40:15 AM »
The only good news to come out of it is that the majority of the corrupt officials responsible for the 82% poverty rate were most likely in those shoddily built government buildings that collapsed.  Maybe a literal clean slate is what they need.

But I doubt it will matter much.  Reports said the looting started before the aftershocks were finished.
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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #6 on: January 14, 2010, 09:57:05 AM »
But I doubt it will matter much.  Reports said the looting started before the aftershocks were finished.

Hmmm...  Like New Orleans after Katrina?  Or, like LA after the verdict? 

Well, I guess there aren't as many flatscreen TVs down there...
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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #7 on: January 14, 2010, 11:03:06 AM »
Hmmm...  Like New Orleans after Katrina?  Or, like LA after the verdict? 

Well, I guess there aren't as many flatscreen TVs down there...

Yes. And all have a common theme which we are not allowed to speak of. It seems poverty brings out the best in folks.
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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #8 on: January 14, 2010, 11:40:47 AM »
You disappoint.  Had it been someone other than yourself, I would have kept the sucker punch to myself.


Tarheel: Pat Robertson = :facepalm:

I couldn't agree with you more.  I'm sure he's a nice guy but indulging in a silly superstition about devil worship while trying to obtain money to help in the Earthquake recovery is self-defeating; I'd suggest that most people watching his show would be completely averse to giving any donations after that ridiculous, Dark-age comment. 
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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #9 on: January 14, 2010, 11:45:20 AM »
Yes. And all have a common theme which we are not allowed to speak of. It seems poverty brings out the best in folks.

I would say that moral-less subcultures are to blame.  Poverty may feed into it, but I wouldn't consider it to be the source of the issue.  I see poverty as more of a result of a situation or set of circumstances.  
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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #10 on: January 14, 2010, 11:46:44 AM »
Hmmm...  Like New Orleans after Katrina?  Or, like LA after the verdict? 

Well, I guess there aren't as many flatscreen TVs down there...

In a country where people literally eat dirt I'd reckon the only folk with flat screen TVs were the corrupt officials.
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The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
-Milton Friedman

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
-Ronald Reagan

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
-Thomas Jefferson

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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #11 on: January 14, 2010, 01:39:27 PM »
All freaking voodooists must freaking......


Uhh. We don't have any voodoo people on her do we?
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1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friends, is the beginning of the end of any nation.

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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #12 on: January 14, 2010, 03:06:26 PM »
All freaking voodooists must freaking......


Uhh. We don't have any voodoo people on her do we?

A curse on your entire tribe!
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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #13 on: January 14, 2010, 03:25:32 PM »
A curse on your entire tribe!

"Go do that voodoo that you do so well..."
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-Ayn Rand

The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.
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The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.
-Milton Friedman

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'
-Ronald Reagan

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.
-Thomas Jefferson

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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #14 on: January 14, 2010, 03:28:53 PM »
"Go do that voodoo that you do so well..."

Carrying the Salt 'n Pepa theme across sub-forums?  You sly dog.
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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #15 on: January 14, 2010, 08:58:56 PM »
Obama announced that he will send 100 million to the Haitians for rebuilding/clean up efforts. 

100 million.
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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #16 on: January 14, 2010, 09:03:24 PM »
Obama announced that he will send 100 million to the Haitians for rebuilding/clean up efforts. 

100 million.
Straw pennies?
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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2010, 09:04:38 PM »
Straw pennies?

Might as well be, because after his presidency, that's what the American dollar will be worth.
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Re: Earthquake in Haiti due to a Curse from God?
« Reply #18 on: January 15, 2010, 10:42:50 AM »
We have all been blasting Pat for his comment, but has anyone disproved the whole "pact with the devil" theory. According to librul tactics over the last 10 years, it is up to those offended to disprove the statement.

So until disproven, we must all believe that Haiti made a pact with the devil to free them of French rule and that is why every natural disaster that happens in that area gets sucked right into Haiti. It is the precedent set for us by our mighty librul leaders.

We should pray for Haiti, just a s Pat asked us to do.
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Five statements of WISDOM
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friends, is the beginning of the end of any nation.