After being told that our major financial institutions and banks were so nearly insolvent that only massive amounts of taxpayer funded infusions could save life as we knew it, we now have the major banks of the country boasting huge quarterly profits-in some cases, record profits.
Either Obama's economic policies (built on the back of the Bush recovery plan) are as close to a miracle as it comes or something smells rather rotten. If you ask me, its time to put on a gas mask.
Lest we forget that the second deadliest terrorist attack on the U.S. Mainland… the only one that involved the bombing of a day care center and murder of babies… was carried out by right wing militia nut job Christians who were born in the USA and served in the U.S. Army.
And can we also forget that a recent triple murder of police in Pittsburgh, PA was triggered by right wing nut job Fox Noise common tater Glenn Beck, who had urged Americans to take up their guns because Obama was going to take them away.
Twelve per cent of those killed by suicide bombings, mainly the tool of militant Sunni groups, were children and 16 per cent were females. One in five (21 per cent) of those killed by car bombs, used by both Shia and Sunni fighters, was a child; one in four (28 per cent) was a woman.
http://blondesense.blogspot.com/2009/04/better-angels.html
Both, frankly, are deeply self-serving pieces of shit. The first one ends with this corker:
What we must do is make it absolutely clear to the American people that our ethos is to act legally, in as transparent a manner as we can, and in a way that they would be proud if we could tell them the full story.
I say to that: Bullshit. You will explain, sooner or later, why your people engaged in acts of torture and murder by torture. You can justify yourselves to us, now, or you can justify yourselves to a skeptical war crimes tribunal down the road. But you will give a full explanation.
The second statement basically restates the first one and additionally sidesteps the allegations that the NSA was grossly overbroad in its eavesdropping.
Both statements reiterate the whiny-ass excuse of "we were told to do this and the lawyers working for those who told us to do it said it was legal." Which is a fancy way of restating the old German excuse of "befehl ist befehl", or "orders are orders."
That excuse didn't play very well in the Nuremberg Tribunals. I doubt if it will play very well now.
ROBERTSON: It shows somebody down in the bowels of that organization is either a convinced left winger or somebody whose sexual orientation is somewhat in question. But it's that kind of thing, somebody who doesn't think that we should have abortion on demand, is labeled a terrorist! It's outrageous!
Crooks and Liars also points out that Robertson urged his viewers to "jam up" the homeland security phone lines by calling in to complain. Watch it:
Note that Robertson, the man who is criticizing the notion that there are right-wing extremists, once called for the assassination of Venezuela's Hugo Chavez.
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